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The Sunset Strip rebels will go out in a blaze of glory on their final tour. Molson Amphitheatre. Doors 6 pm, all ages. $25-$125. LN. pEnELopE STEWArT The artist’s new sensory architecture – on an apian theme – is at Koffler Gallery (Artscape Youngplace) to Aug 31. Free. kofflerarts.org

directs Diego Matamoros and the Soulpepper company in Molière’s comic masterpiece. Final preview before tomorrow’s opening. 7:30 pm. To Sep 20 at the Young Centre. $5$89. 416-866-8666.

veteran English post-punks return. Danforth Music Hall. Doors 7 pm. $37.50-$45. LN. AS you LiKE iT Canadian Stage’s outdoor production of Shakespeare’s comedy continues at the High Park Amphitheatre. 8 pm. To Aug 30. Pwyc ($20-$25 sugg). canadianstage.com QuiETLy inTo DiSASTEr Green 13 film series and discussion with Ontario Clean Air Alliance anti-nuke activist Angela Bischoff. 7 pm. Free. Swansea Town Hall. green13toronto.org

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ALvvAyS With their new debut album getting rave reviews, the dream pop band will likely get a hero’s welcome at the Horseshoe. Doors 8:30 pm. $11.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. younG DronES: A GrAphiC novEL roCK opErA The Bi-

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You may be eligible to participate if you are/have: • Between the ages of 18-65 years • A primary diagnosis of Social Anxiety Disorder • Currently experiencing clinically significant social anxiety symptoms • Free of significant physical illness • Not currently on any medications, or on stable medications for at least 8 weeks prior to starting yoga

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Re Breaking Ford Nation’s Colour Code, by Desmond Cole (NOW, July 31August 6). Is Rob Ford a racist or does he just have a familiarity with blacks, [so] he uses certain words the same way the black kids he grew up with use them? You don’t find too many racists who can speak in a per fect patois. Frankly, I’m much more concerned about Olivia Chow’s apparent support for land speculation on Eglinton West. How many black tenants and small businesses are going to be displaced now that socalled planners have been loosed on the strip? Is “revitaliz ation” racist? See what you can dig up on that, Desmond. Bob Murphy Toronto

Rob Ford: black like me

I’m left with the sense that writer Des mond Cole is projecting too much of his own agenda/beliefs on the Ford supporters he interviewed for Break ing Ford Nation’s Colour Code. Why, exactly, should the teacher

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find too many racists who can speak in a perfect patois. ” with wife and kids be so woebegone, according to Cole’s characterization? There are many examples of success ful African/Caribbean Canadians. It’s this precise type of condescension that turns Ford Nation off from the chatty liberal analysts. People who like Ford are entitled to do so and free to check his voting rec ord (all public info), visit City Hall, read pieces and watch news about him. Trying to make it seem as though they are blind and controlled into lik ing Ford is belittling, no matter how frustrating or insane it may seem to nonFord supporters. Helen Stratigos From nowtoronto.com

Many of us have probably experi enced that sense of power and awe that comes with throwing our full hearted support behind a charisma tic leader onto whom we’ve project all of our most strongly held values. Doing so often means suppress ing any doubts that these leaders are not all they’re cracked up to be. How many of us on the left allowed our selves to romanticize the qualities of Jack Layton in 2011? In doing so, his victories became our victories. Now think about the power of a charismatic leader among margin alized people who are faced with a sense of powerlessness on an every day basis. How much greater that sense of power and awe must be. Matt Patterson From nowtoronto.com

Gentrification’s the city’s big plan

Re New Rent Monster (NOW, July 31August 6). Building more afford able housing is council’s policy. How ever, it pays little heed to it. If the city were an honest broker for such things, it would insist, for ex ample, that the Eglinton Connects plan adhere to city policy. But, no where in it is there any mention of af fordable housing. The city’s Planning Department has only been interested in smoothing the way for private de veloper profits, even to the point of giving free air rights to build.

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It has no interest in helping the less fortunate residents of Toronto (165,000 currently on the affordable housing waiting list) secure or re tain affordable rents. Patrick Smyth From nowtoronto.com

You Hamas dupes!

Re Bringing Gaza Home (NOW, July 2430). I’m waiting for your mea culpa regarding your efforts to break the so called Israeli blockade of Gaza. Clearly, Hamas has been using construction materials not to help the residents

I want to hear it, you Hamas dupes! You can dish it out. Can you now show some hint of contrition? Mike Freeman Toronto

No food, but rockets for Gaza?

Desmond Cole (right) breaking Ford Nation’s colour code at Ford Fest on July 25.

of Gaza but to construct an elabor ate, expensive underground city through which it could infiltrate Is rael and inflict the maximum suf fering possible. How about a comment regarding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, whose employees help the oppressed Palestinians study in depth how to vilify Jews from cradle to grave? Oh, and would you mind storing these weapons in your nice internationally funded schools? Thanks so much.

Thanks for the onepage fact sheet on Gaza. I’m one of the Jewish women (well, we’re not all women and we’re not all Jewish) who hold a vigil every Friday in front of the Israeli Consul ate. It’s amazing how many people don’t know the first thing about the IsraelPalestinian conflict. I have a question: how do the rockets, or their components, get into Gaza? It used to be through the tunnels from Egypt, but not any more. I wonder if the Israelis have the power to stop them getting into Gaza but choose not to. After all, they can, and do, prevent food from going in. Why not rockets? Well, if there were no rockets, there would be no excuse for what’s going on. Elizabeth Block Toronto

Moralizing on sex work

I want to second Naomi Sayers’s arti cle (NOW, July 2430) on her experi ence as a sex worker: many prostitutes engaged in independent sex work are not being trafficked. Everyone else in society is jumping from bed to bed for free, committing adultery, and we’re picking on sex

workers for dealing with a guy re spectfully? To me, Christians and society are more immoral. Does the government want to kill us by taking away our right to practise safely? Sabrina C. Toronto

Christian girls prefer anal sex

I’d like to respond to Kenn Smith’s let ter, Perverting Pride (NOW, July 24 30). Wow. I wouldn’t want to let my dad tell me what would be pleasurable or even possible in a sexual relationship. Smith must have had a great and open relationship with the man. (The sar casm ends here). However, Smith’s father seems to have misled him. It isn’t only gay men who indulge in anal sex. Many wo men find it pleasurable, and it was even touted as a – get ready for it – birth control method in the 1500s in Italy and other places in Europe and Asia. Also, it must be noted that some Christian girls in the United States are succumbing to the pleasure of this type of sex instead of giving their vir ginity before they get married. Okay, the sarcasm didn’t really end, did it? S. Rawley 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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Members of Grassy Narrows First Nation and hundreds of supporters marched on Queen’s Park in the annual River Run on Thursday (July 31) demanding that Kathleen Wynne’s government address the worsening impacts of mercury contamination in the Wabigoon River. A recent Supreme Court decision may open the way for clear-cut logging on traditional Grassy Narrows territory, which would only exacerbate contamination of the Wabigoon-English River since clear-cutting is known to disrupt watersheds and release mercury naturally stored by trees. Video of the march at nowtoronto.com.

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CITYSCAPE Add Canada’s number-one male tennis player, Milos Raonic, to the list of Goose People, those “everyday heroes who strive for excellence,” according to Canada Goose, the clothier that’s angered animal rights activists for using coyote fur on its coats. Vancouver-based Fur Bearer Defenders calls the Raonic announcement a sellout. “Raonic is being used to pimp and promote a product of terrible cruelty to animals for U.S.-owned Canada Goose. There is nothing Canadian about that.” A majority stake in the company was sold to Bain Capital last year.

What The Canal District in a reimagined Ontario Place. When Part of a revitalization plan announced for the former waterfront park by Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport Michael Coteau on Thursday, July 31. Work on phase one of the project, an urban park and waterfront trail, is to be completed in 2015. Why To make good on the Liberals’ election promise to keep the land in public hands, despite a recommendation to the government in 2012 to turn a good chunk of the 63 hectares over to residential development.

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Number of passengers who flew out of the Island Airport in 2013, an increase of 7,320 passengers, or a 1 per cent increase over 2012, according to the Toronto Port Authority Management's Discussions And Analysis document. Airport opponents CommunityAir suggest in a July 30 press release that the flatlining growth figures may explain why Porter, the main airline operating out of the airport, stopped publishing its passenger load numbers in April 2013. According to the TPA, airport revenue was up in 2013, to $39.5 million, an increase of $814,000 over 2011.

Sadaf Foroughi, an Iranian expat filmmaker and Montreal-based permanent resident of Canada, is not the first artist who’s tangled with customs bureaucrats. But she is one of the few who can say she triumphed in the end. On July 30, after CBC Radio’s As It Happens and a change.org petition publicized her plight, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird ordered the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) to release her work on Friday, August 1. Foroughi received a $12,000 Canada Council grant in 2012 and spent two years researching shahre farang, traditional Iranian multi-person photo viewers. Ornately constructed from sheet metal to resemble fanciful buildings, the apparatuses were often used in the era before cinema to show photos of foreign lands to children. Unable to complete her research and build such a peep box in Canada, she returned to Iran to assemble one, which she intended to equip with her own videos. The artist had been advised that she could bring it in, since it’s a personal creation. Personal effects are exempted under the Special Economic Measures Act prohibiting trade with Iran. But it was confiscated by customs as commercial goods when it arrived from Iran on June 30. According to Foroughi, a rude customs agent yelled at her, “You are an Iranian and I don’t care if you are an artist or not.” Despite a letter of support from the Canada Council vouching that this was an independent artwork and would not be offered for sale, a condition of the Canada Council grant, CBSA wrote in a statement to the CBC that it considered it commercial goods because it was “imported into Canada for professional purposes” and because it’s “destined for institutional and professional use. A grant, government or private, does not change the commercial status of a work of art.” Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development spokesperson John Babcock adds in an email to NOW, “Whether or not a specific item counts as an exemption to our sanctions is subject to legal interpretation. If the art is stopped at the bor-

der due to sanctions imposed under the Special Economic Measures Act, the importer can apply to the Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Permit Authorization Order for an exception.” Even though art created by expat Iranians is likely to be critical of their homeland’s current government, Babcock states: “Canada will not apologize for standing up for the Iranian people who deserve the freedom and prosperity that they have been denied for too long by this caustic regime. We will continue to work with our allies and international partners and be forceful with Iran until it complies with its international human rights obligations. Canada will continue to hold the regime accountable.” Mahrokh Ahankhah, a specialist in Iranian art and director of Toronto’s Queen Gallery, the local venue for Foroughi’s upcoming show, says she’s brought in artworks from Iran without problems before, some of which are offered for sale. She says she hasn’t had to apply for any special exemptions. CBSA put Foroughi’s shahre farang into storage and scheduled it to be destroyed after 30 days. Facing the prospect of losing years of work, the artist has understandably been under intense stress. “I felt hopeless and helpless. I couldn’t work. I had headaches,” she says by phone from Montreal. The work was slated to be exhibited in Montreal in September and at Queen Gallery in October, but those shows may have to be postponed. Foroughi doesn’t yet know what damage her delicate creation has suffered. She hasn’t been allowed to inspect it, and the cargo storage facility lacks humidity control appropriate for artworks. In addition to incurring legal expenses, she must pay $3,500 in storage fees to the customs agency’s cargo facility before she can pick up the artwork, money she says she doesn’t have. In a letter to Baird, she writes, “I am an independent artist and I have very limited resources. The storage cost is increasing day by day, and my artwork is in danger.” She hasn’t received an apology from CBSA, but she says she’s not seeking one. Instead, she asked customs officers “to go to museums and read books about culture to understand that artists don’t have a lot of money. I want them to understand cultural activities.” She invites everyone to visit her exhibit, and thanks her supporters, saying, “I’m happy to be living in a beautiful country where people care about art and culture.” 3 frans@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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BRINGING GAZA HOME

Putting on the pressure for peace

Prominent figures support the movement, but is boycotting Israel really the key to ending the crisis in Gaza? By JACOB SCHEIER 12

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Israel supporters have been among those advocating peace at recent Toronto demonstrations condemning violence in Gaza.

n the past two weeks, I’ve been to

three protests, a march and two vigils in Toronto condemning Israel’s military operations in Gaza. I’ve been inspired by people of Arab, Jewish and many other backgrounds banding together – in the rain on July 19, and the thousands who came to Queen’s Park July 26 and Dundas Square July 30. Although the July 26 protest was characterized by some as a “pro-Hamas rally” (a reference to the militant group in Gaza firing rockets into Israel), many of them were peace activists. Among them was a daughter of Holocaust survivors who told me the lesson her parents taught her was “Never again… for anyone.” What is happening in Gaza has become all too familiar. In late 2008, when Israel launched a similar military assault, Operation Cast Lead, I went to protests in New York, where I lived at the time. The violence seemed so excessive that, as a Jew, I felt a need to publicly condemn it. And yet, when I arrived at the first of the more recent protests, I felt a sinking feeling: another bloody war in Gaza, another futile shaking of fists at an Israeli Consulate. What was the point, really? At each of the demos, leaflets outlining the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against Israel were being handed out.

The BDS movement proposes boycotting Israeli by whether it is actually having an economic effect.” products, the severing of ties to Israeli institutions Alan Sears, a Ryerson professor of sociology speand sanctions. It calls on universities, unions and relicializing in social justice movements and a member gious organizations around the world to withdraw of Faculty for Palestine, a network of Canadian acatheir investments in Israeli companies and institudemics who support student-led Palestinian rights actions. tivism on campus, reminds naysayers that it was Pal“We’re not going to achieve justice and peace just estinian organizations that first called for BDS. by demonstrating every time there’s a bombing,” says “I don’t think it is the role of international solidarAidan Macdonald, an organizer with the Toronto ity to tell Palestinians to settle for less than what they chapter of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid. themselves define as fundamental rights,” he says. A particular point of contention is the campaign’s BDS is gaining more momentum, especially lately, accusation that Israel practises apartheid. than Schneeweiss may want to recognize. Its growth Palestinian activist and Coalition Against Israeli in the last few months is undeniable. The Bill and Apartheid co-founder Rafeef Ziadah is unequivocal Melinda Gates Foundation sold its shares in G4S, a on this point. International law, she says, “defines the British security company providing security services crime of apartheid as ‘inhuman acts committed for and equipment to Israel. Both the Presbyterian and the purpose of establishing and maintaining dominathe Methodist Church in the U.S. have divested from tion by one racial group of persons over any other racompanies that sell equipment used to facilitate Iscial group of persons… systematically oppressing rael’s settlement expansion in the West Bank. them.’” Closer to home, the United Church of Canada reNot surprisingly, Israel vehemently opposes the cently voted to endorse a boycott of products made in apartheid label. D.J. Schneeweiss, Israel’s consul genthe West Bank. eral in Toronto, calls it The Coalition Against “complete BS. The apartIsraeli Apartheid has heid slur is about scoring held regular informapoints in a propaganda tion pickets outside the war against Israel,” he downtown Bed Bath & says. Beyond store to inform Schneeweiss also charcustomers about Israelacterizes BDS as a radical based carbonated drink and ineffective fringe maker SodaStream. movement. That company made D.J. SCHNEEWEISS, Israel’s consul general in Toronto “I’m not aware it’s getheadlines earlier this ting any kind of traction year when its celebrity beyond those closed echo-chambers,” he says. spokesperson, Scarlett Johansson, refused to stop enDespite the support of a number of prominent figdorsing the product despite pressure from the global ures, including Toronto’s Naomi Klein, questions are aid and development organization Oxfam, for whom now being asked by other high-profile pro-Palestinian she served as an ambassador. The dispute caused her figures about the campaign’s demands. Is the effort, to step down from that role. now in its 10th year, helping the Palestinian cause? Bed Bath & Beyond offers no information about whether the campaign is affecting its sales of , who articulated SodaStream products. I contacted several other local some reservations about the BDS movement retailers of SodaStream products, including Staples, and tactics in an article in the July 21-28 issue Walmart and Canadian Tire, to ask if they’ve observed of the Nation, observes that it is incapable of making a a drop in sales. Only Canadian Tire offered a comsignificant impact on Israel economically and politicment, but it would not divulge sale figures. ally, in part because “sanctions, or state actions In a carefully worded email, the company’s com[against Israel] are not on the horizon.” munications adviser, Jessica Culp, says the company is BDS advocates then criticized Chomsky, who clari“committed” to “ethical business practices.” fied in an online response on the Nation’s website SodaStream Canada ignored repeated requests for that he supports consumer boycotts and divestment comment about BDS. campaigns in principle. But he argues that BDS’s un, Ottawa’s realistic demands – specifically allowing Palestinian terra20, has pulled SodaStream products refugees to return to the homes they were forced to from its shelves. leave in Israel’s wars – distracts attention from the Pamela Tourigny, the retailer’s communications current plight of Palestinians. manager, tells me, “SodaStream gained worldwide atChomsky reiterated in an email exchange with me tention in recent months, causing terra20 to become that sanctions are key and that “far more energy aware of concerns held by a number of individuals should be devoted to developing public support for and groups with regards to SodaStream operating a the most significant sanctions, for which a basis has production facility in a West Bank settlement, a dislong existed, as I’ve discussed: an arms embargo.” puted territory.” Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the WashMeanwhile, Hudson’s Bay Company which sells ington, DC-based Jerusalem Fund and its education products from the Israeli cosmetics company Ahava, program, the Palestine Center, agrees with Chomsky which are made using resources manufactured in the to an extent. But he thinks the philosopher-activist is West Bank, withdrew the products from shelves in overlooking the importance of the conversations BDS 2011 but now sells them again. is igniting in Europe – for example, the EU directive Since 2013, the Ryerson Students’ Union, the York against partnerships with Israeli businesses in the Federation of Students and University of Toronto’s West Bank. Scarborough Student Union have all passed motions “These, I think, get closer to the ‘S’ [sanctions] that endorsing BDS, including an academic boycott of IsChomsky wants to focus on,” Munayyer says. raeli universities. For others in the movement, whether BDS can imRyerson University says it “does not support the pose actual economic hardship on Israel is beside the motion and it has no standing with the university. We point. are a scholarly community whose academic mission “It’s an awareness-raising exercise,” says Nadia is for ideas. This mission cannot be carried out withAbu-Zahra, a professor at the University of Ottawa’s out unequivocal support for the underlying values of School of International Development and Global academic freedom and freedom of speech.” Studies. “Success or failure should not be measured

“It’s complete BS. The apartheid slur is about scoring points in a propaganda war against Israel.”

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BDS:

A PRIMER ON THE BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS MOVEMENT TARGETING ISRAEL

2005 The year the movement was launched by Palestinian civil society groups. 170 Number of Palestinian organizations, including trade unions and political groups, involved in the movement. Inspiration The tactics that many credit with helping end apartheid in South Africa. Demands Ending the occupation of Palestinian land occupied in June 1967; dismantling of the “apartheid wall” around the West Bank; full equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel; the right of return for Palestinian refugees who lost their homes in Israel’s wars. Successes 2011 Closure of Israeli cosmetics company Ahava’s flagship London, UK, store; University of Johannesburg severs ties with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University. 2012 Caterpillar in the U.S. is removed from MSCI-ESG’s ethical investment index for its work in the West Bank; SodaStream closes EcoStream store in Brighton, UK, which has been regularly picketed. 2014 Turkey announces plan to suspend military relations with Israel. Artists who’ve boycotted Israel Bono, Snoop Dogg, the Pixies, Elvis Costello, Cat Power and filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. Compiled by Jacob Scheier

University of Toronto Scarborough offered a similar statement in defence of academic freedom, while York offered that it “uses best practices in developing its policy on investments... built on advice from major investment consulting firms.” Israel clearly takes the threat of BDS seriously. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year assigned responsibility for fighting BDS to his Strategic Affairs Ministry, and the Knesset passed a law, now before the Israel High Court, making promotion of a boycott of Israeli products within the country illegal. Max Blumenthal, a fellow at the Nation Institute, notes in his investigative book, Goliath: Life And Loathing In Greater Israel, that Israel has invested copious funds and time in counter-BDS PR campaigns, or hasbara, (“explanation” in Hebrew), as many refer to it, organizing conferences and utilizing think tanks to paint BDS as anti-Semitic. The Liberal and NDP leadership’s repetition of Israel’s “right to defend itself” talking point while the Harper-supported assault on Gaza and its rising civilian death toll continues shows the effectiveness of Israeli hasbara. Some 500 Canadian academics, lawyers and community leaders published an open letter in the Globe and Mail on July 24 criticizing all three party leaders for their “partisan position” on the conflict.

srael’s overall approach

seems to be on the one hand to call BDS irrelevant, and on the other to call it a dangerous, anti-Semitic movement. Schneeweiss wants to assure me that BDS has been “a failure. It’s been around for 10 years and yet Israel’s economy and Israel’s acceptance in the world and Israel’s involvement in key international organizations and institutions continues to intensify.” Yet he also warns me that BDS is “a front for a deeper, darker agenda,” which is to “eradicate the state of Israel.” To him, the aspect of BDS that reveals that hidden agenda is the movement’s third demand: the right of return for Palestinian refugees. The right of return, which is recognized by international law, just might be the most contentious issue when it comes to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Even those who are vocally critical of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and aggressive military campaigns against Gaza are divided on it. I observe to Blumenthal that among Palestinian rights activists/intellectuals I’ve spoken to, the divide over BDS seems to fall along generational lines. For example, he and Canadian journalist/activist Klein, who were born in the 70s, fully support it, and Chomsky and others who are decades older are opposed to varying degrees. “There’s a total generational shift among diaspora Palestinians and among Jews in the West,” says Blumenthal. “We saw the first invasion of Lebanon when we were kids. We saw the inception of the peace process and the first Intifada [uprising]. We saw the peace process become a recipe for deepening the occupation. [Israel’s] Operation Cast Lead (the Gaza war of 2008-09) was the breaking point for many of my generation.” Munayyer shares the sense that “there are discourse changes that haven’t been translated into policy changes yet.” But when I ask Blumenthal if he feels optimistic about BDS forcing Israel to significantly change its policies in, say, the next couple of decades, he’s pretty frank. “No. But I don’t say I’m pessimistic. There’s no excuse not to do the right thing, even if you don’t know the outcome.” What’s clear is that BDS is getting people talking, and it has Israel’s attention, and that’s more progress than we’ve had for a long time. 3 news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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real reasons Bill Blair was canned

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From open warfare with his political masters to a rank and file deeply divided over his leadership, the factors behind the chief’s dismissal are more complicated – and personal – than a ballooning cop budget By ENZO DiMATTEO

The biggest reason the Police Services Board decided not to renew the police chief’s contract: it was personal. Officially, the decision was about timing. Blair has been at the helm for 10 years, and it’s time for a change at the top. In that vein, the statement issued by the board on Wednesday, July 30, offered that there had been “considerable discussion related to the Toronto Police Service’s continuing need for organizational renewal.” Subsequent news media reports gave different spins. The most popular was that the chief was reluctant to rein in the police budget. The truth is there’s no one reason, but there is a common denominator in all the narratives: board chair Alok Mukherjee. Clearly the chief’s frayed relationship with Mukherjee shifted the precarious hold Blair had on the board’s support. Without Mukherjee in his corner, Blair no longer had the fourth vote he needed. Tension between the two began over the G20. The board-commissioned report into that fiasco painted an unflattering portrait of Blair as a bystander. There was a rumoured confrontation between them when Mukherjee showed up unannounced at the command centre after the shit hit the fan on the streets. But what happened on the ground that weekend in June 2010 was part of Blair’s larger problem: he had little, if any, control over rank-and-file officers. The G20 was just the beginning of Blair’s problems with Mukherjee. The practice of “carding” young black men was the other flashpoint, and not just because it opened the force to accusations of racial profiling. The larger issue was that Blair had been hired to change police culture and

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implement community policing. But the minority hiring for which he’s rightly lauded didn’t have the desired effect overall. Racialized communities are still being targeted and overpoliced.

wasn’t so keen on Blair’s minority-hiring binge anyway. “Too much too fast” was the TPA’s view; the argument was that recruitment was pushing out more experienced officers.

The police investigation into Ford’s crack video hastened Blair’s departure. Long before Blair’s handling (some say mishandling) of the police probe sparked by the crack video came under scrutiny, the chief was aware of the mayor’s activities. Ford’s rep preceded him. So why have there been no charges? Maybe Blair believed he had more political leverage if he didn’t bring him down. Whatever the reason, it appeared at times that the investigation was being sabotaged from within. It seems there were vying allegiances, a few among the rank and file more loyal to Ford than to Blair. That’s never good news for a chief. The day after the board announced it would not extend Blair’s contract, news leaked that the mayor would be subpoenaed to testify at the trial of his alleged drug dealer, Alexander “Sandro” Lisi. He’s the piece of work charged with extortion in his effort to retrieve the crack tape. Doug Ford blamed the chief for the leak. He called it “payback” for the board’s decision to let him go, but he backtracked when Blair threatened to sue. But now that Blair has been let go, there’s nothing stopping him from sticking it to Ford once and for all, is there?

Rob Ford had more to do with Blair’s demise than people think. It would be naive to believe that the mayor’s very public differences with the chief over the police budget, not to mention the force’s investigation into Ford’s crack video escapades, had nothing to do with Blair’s termination. It was practically open warfare between Blair and Ford’s frontman on the board, vice-chair Michael Thompson. Animosity was thick from the getgo; Ford set Blair up for failure, first by stating publicly that he would reinstate Blair’s predecessor, Julian Fantino, if he could. Talk about a slap in the face. Blair was hired precisely because he was the antithesis of the media-spotlight-hogging, politically driven Fantino. He would be a calming, mature influence on the force. Then he was handcuffed by Ford when the mayor made his first order of business signing off on a lucrative pay increase in the contract with the rank and file that he knew would box the chief in financially and make it impossible for him to stickhandle the 10 per cent cut in the bottom line mandated by council. The hiring freezes that resulted had two other consequences for Blair that aren’t much talked about. They put a stop to the diversity hiring that Blair had been encouraged to pursue under David Miller. But more importantly, they pitted Blair against the Toronto Police Association, which

Blair’s is a tainted legacy. Bill Blair presided over the longest sustained decline in major crime the city has ever seen.

He deserves credit for that. But the G20 has cast a dark shadow. Even worse were his denials and excuses for police brutality on the street, which would end up costing the force millions in legal costs. Also on Blair’s watch were two very public mass shootings, first at the Eaton Centre, then on Danzig Street in Scarborough. The blame for those can’t be laid entirely at Blair’s feet. But some police-watchers ventured that the force’s inability – some say unwillingness – to tackle open gang warfare festering in Alexandra Park, the Scarborough housing projects and northern parts of the city is what led to the violence spilling out into the public. Arguably, the public’s loss of confidence in Blair had as much to do with the Danzig and Eaton Centre shootings as it did with the G20. The Sammy Yatim shooting on a Dundas streetcar last year was the last straw. The chief responded quickly to the public outrage, commissioning an independent review of police encounters with people in crisis – except it looked like a set-up. The person he first chose to undertake the review worked for a law firm that had defended Toronto police in past shootings. Blair eventually settled on Frank Iacobucci, a retired Supreme Court justice, who delivered his recommendations the Thursday before the board’s decision to let Blair go. At that press conference, the chief made a show of pledging that this report wouldn’t go the way of all the others. But it felt like a PR exercise. James Forcillo, the officer charged with shooting Yatim, may now have been put in position for a plea deal. On the day Iacobucci’s document was released, came reports the Crown had

decided to add a charge of attempted murder to the second-degree murder charge already facing him.

Progressives turned on Blair. If not Blair, then who? That question scares the crap out of police reformers. Blair has his shortcomings. But it’s unlikely that whoever succeeds him will be concerned with anything but the bottom line. The die has been cast by the board. “Modernize” is the new buzzword – except it’s the old buzzword. When Blair was the next best thing, modernizing meant diversifying the force’s makeup. But now “modernize” means costcutting, for police-watchers both left and right. Mukherjee says it’s time for outside-the-box thinking on deployment and other issues. It’s déjà vu all over again – we seem to have the same conversation every time a new chief is hired. There’s talk again of bringing in someone from outside, but don’t hold your breath. If the TPA has anything to say about it – and it usually does – the new chief will be someone from inside the force. Deputy Chief Peter Sloly, the highest-ranking black officer, has been talked about among progressives as a possible replacement. He’s risen quickly through the ranks but has looked not ready for prime time. More importantly, the TPA is not keen on him, given some of Sloly’s comments in the past about racial profiling by officers. Blair’s term doesn’t end until next spring. A new council and mayor will be in place by then. Could a new contract be offered to Blair at that point? Stranger things have happened. 3

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daily events meetings • benefits

Festivals

Daily events appear by date, then alphabetically by the name of the event. r indicates kid-friendly events indicates queer-friendly events

this week

rKultura Filipino arts Festival Live per-

How to place a listing

formances, an interactive art exhibition, Filipino marketplace, culinary competition and more. Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie), Kapisanan Centre (167 Augusta) and other venues. kapisanancentre.com/ kultura. Aug 7 to 10

All listings are free. Send to: events@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1168 or mail to DailyEvents,NOWMagazine,189 Church,TorontoM5B1Y7. Include a brief description of the event, date, time, price, venue name and address and a contact phone number, e-mail or website address for the event. Listings may be edited for length. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. If your free listing requires a correction, send info to: fixevents@nowtoronto.com.

Mosaic international south asian FilM Festival Independent, diverse, conscien-

tious cinema in long and short form, fiction and documentary. $10-$20. Landmark Cinemas, Cineplex Coliseum and the Living Arts Centre (Mississauga). misaff.com. Aug 7 to 10

suMMerworKs perForMance Festival

Thursday, August 7 creating toronto: the story oF the city in ten stops Heritage Toronto boutique walking

Dance and theatre shows, performance art, concerts, public conversations and more. $15, passes $40-$120, some free events. Various venues. summerworks.ca. Aug 7 to 17

rFung loy KoK taoist tai chi international awareness day Tai chi demos, a dragon

5toronto Queer arts and culture Festival Queer poetry, film screenings,

Events

tour. 6:30 pm. $20. Location given on registration. Pre-register heritagetoronto.org.

African Jazz Ensemble and many others perform. Free. Albert Campbell Square, 150 Borough. scarboroughtownjazzfestival.com. Aug 8 to 10 rtaste oF the danForth Festival of Greek culture with Mediterranean food, live music and dance, interactive activities and more. Free. Danforth from Broadview to Jones. tasteofthedanforth.com. Aug 8 to 10 zine dreaM 7 Art fair opening (Aug 8), panel (Aug 9) small press fair with self-published books, comics, zines, handmade crafts, prints and more (Aug 10) and closing party with DJs (Aug 10 at the Garrison). Pwyc. Tranzac, Art Metropole and other venues. zinedream.com. Aug 8 to 10 rJerKFest Festival with live music, dance, a kids’ zone, So You Think You Can Jerk cooking competition and more. Free. Centennial Park, Renforth and Rathburn. jerkfestival.ca. Aug 9 to 10 rpan aMerican Food Festival Fun food competitions, chefs, demos, art exhibit,

cabaret, dance and music performances, and more. Various prices, some events free. Various venues. 416-8797954,

dance, drumming, a parade and more. 9 am2:30 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. gardens oF song Outdoor concerts by an eclectic roster of popular artists in the garden. Rain or shine. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340.

scottish country dancing in the parK

stop Motion aniMation For Beginners

Learn how to shoot and edit a simple animation. 6:30 pm. Free. Maria A Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. 416-394-1000.

suMMer open liFe drawing & painting

Drop in to work on observation skills and technique. Bring your own supplies. Mon & Thu, 6-9 pm. $15, 5-sessions $60. Toronto School of Art, 980 Dufferin, 2nd floor. tsa-art.ca. sunnyside Beach cleanup Blue Flag Canada cleanup. Gloves and garbage bags provided. Bring sunscreen and water bottle. 5-7 pm. Sunnyside Beach, 1755 Lake Shore W. blueflag.ca/savethebeach. tasty thursdays Live world music and food from the grill every Thu through the summer. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. toronto.ca/special_events.

rtoronto Botanical garden’s organic FarMers’ MarKet Local produce, bread,

meat, cheese honey, master gardeners advice clinic and more. Year-round Thursdays 2-7 pm (indoors in winter). Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340.

5toronto Queer arts and culture Festi-

val launch party The festival kicks off with a party with three DJs. 9 pm. No cover. Bar with No Name, 1602 Dundas W. 416-8797954, artsfestival.queerwest.org. yiddish vinKl Slide presentation by Bill Glad-

CHEOL JOON BAEK

haunted Kensington, chinatown & the grange tour Ghost walk with multicultural

Dancing to live music by Scotch Mist. 7 pmdusk. Free. Edwards Gardens, SW corner Lawrence and Leslie. rscdstoronto.org. six degrees oF social innovation Meet with others across the city’s social change sector to connect and celebrate. 6-8 pm. Free. Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst. Pre-register socialinnovation.ca/six.

Live music Theatre Comedy

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Dance Readings Art galleries

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Movie reviews Movie times Rep cinemas

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festivals • expos • sports etc.

How to find a listing

ghost stories. Meet at red pole w/ black cat. 6:30-9 pm. $25, srs/stu $20, child $15. 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813. 5KicK ass Booty party Bootblacking, prizes and more. 10 pm. Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219. rlive Music laBs Join musicians in interactive workshops exploring the relationship between science and music. Tue & Thu at noon & 2 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. MarKet 707 FarMers MarKet Local produce, veggies, meats, cheese and more. Thursdays from 3-7 pm. Free. Scadding Court, 707 Dundas W. scaddingcourt.org/farmers_market. rogers cup tennis Pros from the men’s tour compete for the championship. To Aug 10. $20 and up. Rexall Centre at York U, 1 Shoreham. rogerscup.com.

listings index

artsfestival.queerwest.org. Aug 7 to 16 rexpressions oF Brazil Festival of arts, culture and culinary events. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Aug 8 to 10 parKdale FilM + video showcase Short film, video and media installations that contemplate issues from the streets of Parkdale. Filmmakers include John Kamevaar, John Greyson, Allyson Mitchell and others. Free/pwyc. Various venues. parkdaleshowcase.ca. Aug 8 to 10 scarBorough town Jazz Festival Jazz musicians including Michael Shand, Kalabash, Coldjack, Liberty Silver, Waleed Kush stone highlighting the content of two new books about the Jewish community in Toronto. Noon. $20 (includes buffet lunch). Free Times Café, 320 College. yiddishvinkl.com. yoga Outdoor classes for all levels. 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

Friday, August 8

Benefits

red door gala (Red Door Family Shelter) Live music by Bella Meurta, Donald Quan, Meghan Morrison and Vivia Kay plus wine and cheese and an auction. 7-10 pm. $25. Musideum, 401 Richmond W. Pre-register 416-599-7323, thereddoorgala.weebly.com.

Events

5alterna Queer Music Fest Performances by Elek Smilla, Jamieson Eakin, Ted Scarf, Anna Gutmanis and Amy Campbell. 8 pm-midnight. Free. Sister, 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570, artsfestival.queerwest.org.

eMotional healing, Birth and the stars

Slide show on astrological archetypes in the human psyche and more. 6-8 pm. Free. Origo Books, 49 Lower Jarvis. 416-703-3535. 5Full Fetish party Celebrate your fetish and sport your gear as part of Toronto Leather Pride weekend. 11 pm. Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. torontoleatherpride.ca. ghosts, greasepaint and gallows Walking tour of jails, public hanging squares and vaudeville theatres. 6:30-9 pm. $15-$25 (incl snacks). Meet at St Lawrence Market, 93 Front E, middle door. Pre-register 416-923-6813. a gloBal Meditation For peace Largest

ducers, plus gourmet food trucks and performances by indie bands. Noon-7 pm. $25, adv $20 (benefits Toronto Rail Heritage Museum). Steam Whistle Brewing, 255 Bremner. craftbeerfest.ca. Aug 9 to 10

continuing dusK dances Dance performances in the

park feature choreographies by Sylvie Bouchard, Peter Chin, Julia Aplin and others. 7 pm. Pwyc. Withrow Park, 725 Logan, south of Danforth. duskdances.ca. To Aug 10 eco-art-Fest Outdoor art, heritage and cultural festival, with sustainable architecture and animal habitat workshops, watercolour painting, art tours, an exhibit and more. Wed to Sun. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. no9.ca. To Sep 21 open rooF Festival Live music by indie bands followed by a film screening at sundown every Thursday evening. $15. 99 Sudbury. openrooffestival.com. To Aug 14 sound travels Festival of sound art with a soundwalk, indoor and outdoor performances, installations, workshops, a symposium and more. Concerts pwyc-$15, symposium $40/$70, intensive $175, youth camp $75. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. soundtravels.ca. To Aug 23

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wine and spirits salon and more. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. panam-foodfest. com. Aug 9 to 10

roundhouse craFt Beer Festival Ales,

lagers and seasonal and experimental beers from local pro-

meditation gathering in history with Deepak Chopra, Gabrielle Bernstein, India Arie and others. 11:30 am. $49-$79. Westin Harbour Castle, 1 Harbour Sq. eventbrite.ca.

rgrange Festival environMental Fair

Family event w/ magicians, a farmers’ market, games, performance by Pollutia and more. Noon-4 pm. Free. Grange Park, behind AGO. universitysettlement.ca. haunted toronto scavenger hunt Scavenger hunt through the city’s most haunted places. 8-10:30 pm. $30. Meet in front of the Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. urbancapers.com.

Saturday, August 9

Events

rthe Bradley MuseuMs and Benares historic house Drop-in guided tours Sat and

Sun 1-4 pm. Today and tomorrow. $6, stu $4.80, family $15. Benares Historic House, 1507 Clarkson N. mississauga.ca. rBy the light oF the Moon Full moon walk by the Humber River. Kids must be accompanied by an adult. 9 pm. Free. Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas W. lambtonhouse.org. etsy roadtrip Handmade treasures, local music, food and pop-up shops. 11 am-7 pm. Distillery District, 55 Mill, Trinity Square. etsyroadtrip.tumblr.com. rgower parK place coMMunity Fair Kids’ activities, a yard sale, barbecue and more. Rain or shine. 9 am-2 pm. Free. GPP Courtyard, 10 Gower. 416-288-8140. lost First chinatown Food tour Trace the origins of the city’s original Chinatown. Today

International classical music festival with performances by Beatrice Rana, the Emerson String Quartet, Orion String Quartet, Sondra Radvanosky and many others plus master classes. $10$590. See website for venues and schedule. torontosummermusic.com. To Aug 12

Dancetroupe Levendia-Xperform atTasteOfThe Danforth. and tomorrow 10 am-1 pm. $35-$50 (includes food). Meet at Old City Hall, 60 Queen W. Preregister 416-923-6813.

Mount pleasant ceMetery: where soldiers rest in peace Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm.

Free/pwyc. Cemetery front gates, Yonge N of St Clair. heritagetoronto.org. rMuay thai exhiBition Family friendly event with athletes and Thai dinner. 6 pm. $15, dinner $5. New Energy Muay Thai and Fitness, 1480 Kingston. newenergymuaythai. ca.

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Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour. 10 am. $20. Location provided on registration. Pre-register heritagetoronto.org. 5Queer west FilM Festival Screenings as part of the Toronto Queer Arts Festival. 6-10 pm. $5/pwyc. Buddies In Bad Times, 12 Alexander. artsfestival.queerwest.org.

red cross BaBysitting course For teens

Learn about diapering, feeding, household safety and basic first aid. Certificate upon completion. 9 am-5 pm. $50. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. Pre-register 416-395-5120. reiKi healing Talk and healing class. 1-2:30 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. thehealingteam.org. repair caFe Get broken household items, clothing, furniture and computers repaired and learn how to do it yourself. 10 am-2 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. repaircafetoronto.ca. saturday liFe drawing session Live models every Saturday. All skill levels. 9:30 am-noon. $12. Rebellion Gallery & Art Academy, 914 Eastern. 416-469-1777.

rsKateBoard Festival Festival to celebrate Scarborough’s first indoor seasonal skateboard facility with competitions, BBQ, live art, demos and more. Noon-5 pm. Free. Malvern Community Rec Centre, 30 Sewells. mfrc.org. toronto salsa practice No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30-5 pm, 5:30-8 pm. $5. Trinity-St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com. tree identiFication tour Learn tree identification tips and explore the site. 11 am-noon. Pwyc. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. yourleaf.org. writing vs art: where do coMics Begin?

Zine Dream panel discussion with Kat Verhoeven, Patrick Kyle, Jason Bradshaw and E Howey. 3 pm. Free. Xpace, 303 Lansdowne. zinedream.com.

Sunday, August 10

Events

and we Knew how to dance: woMen in world war i Screening of the NFB documen-

tary about 12 Canadian women and their entry into a male world of munitions factories and farm labour. 2 pm. Free. Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas. admin@lambtonhouse.org. rchessFest Games and programs on the history of chess for all ages and levels. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. distillery sunday MarKet Juried art market. Every Sun rain or shine. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. thedistillerydistrict.com. downton aBBey tea Learn about the upstairs and downstairs stories of the Harris and Sayers families and their staff. 3-5 pm. $15. Benares Historic House, 1507 Clarkson N (Mississauga). bit.ly/1g5BK5p. rexporing selF-portraiture Summer photography camp for girls. To Aug 15. 9 am-4 pm. $297, adv $247. Kiwanis Boys and Girls Club, 101 Spruce. Pre-register eventbrite.ca.

high parK restoration site Maintenance

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

iMMigration stories: MaKing a hoMe in old toronto Heritage Toronto walk. 11 am.

Free/pwyc. Location provided on registration. Pre-register heritagetoronto.org. the Journey oF creative writing Patricia McCully speaks about the pleasures and pitfalls of writing and reads excerpts from her work. 2 pm. Free. Knox College, 59 St George. 416-410-1892, ulyssean.on.ca.

rKain Kalye: Filipino street eats coMpetition Top chefs go head-to-head with their

interpretations of regional Philippine roadside cuisine. Noon-7 pm. Free. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. kultura.ca. Kensington culinary adventure Uncover history, folklore, graffiti and street foods. 11 am-2:30 pm. $25. Kensington Market. Preregister urbancapers.com. leslieville FarMers’ MarKet Meats, baked goods, dairy, fruits & veg offered by local producers Sundays to Oct 26. 9 am-2 pm. Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward (between Queen & Eastern). leslievillemarket.com. liBerty village FarMers MarKet Sundays through the fall. 9 am-2 pm. Green P parking lot, Liberty and Atlantic. my-market.ca. MetalworKs institute open house Info on art classes and campus tours. 1-4 pm. Free. Metalworks Institute, 3611 Mavis (Mississauga). 905-279-4000. rMusic & technology FunlaBs Learn the science of modern music-making. 12:30 & 3 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

nature & FeMinine wellness worKshop

Women gather to support each other and learn techniques to create balance in life and experience nature as a form of self-nourishment. 1-4 pm. $25. Rouge Valley Nature Reserve. Pre-register 905-626-1773, poramor.ca. nature’s Beauty show Toronto Japanese Garden Club presents ikebana displays, bonsai demos and a flower show. Noon-4:30 pm. $5, children free. Momiji Seniors Centre, 3555 Kingston. 416-444-3702. sacred stones & steeples Guided ROM walk of religious buildings along Church, with continued on page 16 œ

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snacks. 2 pm. $30. Pre-register 416-586-5799. Sunday SerenadeS Dance to swing, jazz and big band music. To Aug 17. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. toronto.ca. The TreeS Of Queen’S Park Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. NE corner College and University. heritagetoronto.org. ukulele SundayS Intro class. 12:30-1 pm. Free. Toronto Institute for the Enjoyment of Music, 821 Queen W. 416-504-5444.

Monday, August 11

Events

CiTizenShiP MenTOring CirCle Study the Dis-

cover Canada guide with trained volunteers in a group setting. Mondays to Oct 27. 6-8 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Pre-register 416-588-6288 ext 220. farM CiTy farMerS MarkeT Fruit and veg, homemade spices and more. Mondays 4-8 pm. SE corner of Bathurst and Niagara. 416392-0335. a healThy aging Brain Emily Nalder talks about contributing factors to a healthy brain such as diet, sleep and exercise habits. 1 pm. Free. Reference Library Beeton Auditorium, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577. 5Making a STage fOr Our STOrieS Dance conference and showcase celebrating LGBTTIQQ2S experiences in dance and movement. To Aug 16. Pwyc. 519 Church Community Centre. Pre-register illnana-dcdc.com/ dance-conference-2014. rSuMMer danCe SerieS COBA-Collective of Black Artists presents family friendly Acro summer dance classes outdoors. 5-6:30 pm. Free. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. info@ cobainc.com.

Tuesday, August 12

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hOgTOwn Trivia (Heritage Toronto) Evening of Toronto-themed trivia games. $5. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Events

argOnauTS fOOTBall The Argos play the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. 7:30 pm. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. argonauts.ca. arT On The BallOT: reverSe MayOral deBaTe

Leaders in the arts and design community respond to questions previously submitted by mayoral candidates as they debate the function and value of the arts. 2 pm. Free. Theatre

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funny femmes in film with an outdoor screening hosted by NOW Magazine film critic Norm Wilner. Dusk (9 pm). Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. freSh wedneSdayS Live music and a farmers’ market 10 am-2 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. toronto.ca. leSlie lOg hOuSe TOur Drop-in guided tours of the original home. 1-4 pm. $6, stu, $4.80, family $15. Leslie Log House, 4415 Mississauga (Mississauga). bit.ly/1s3X6Kc.

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SOCialize fOr Change

Just who are the folks making a difference in social change movements across the city? Here’s your chance to find out and connect with the movers and shakers of good causes and big ideas from all corners of the metropolis. Six Degrees Of Social Innovation happens Thursday (August 7), 6-8 pm, at (where else?) the Centre For Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst. Free. Pre-register at socialinnovation.ca/six.

arT On The BallOT

Call it political role reversal. SummerWorks and ArtsVote Toronto offer a twist on your runof-the-mill debate with a reverse debate for candidates on Tuesday (August 12). Only it’s a panel of Centre, 1115 Queen W. artsvote.ca.

Build winning BuSineSS weBSiTeS Work-

shop. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Agincourt Library, 155 Bonis. Pre-register 416-396-8943.

haunTed yOrkville, u Of T & Queen’S Park

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

hOrrOr & MySTery wriTing wOrkShOP fOr TeenS Creative writing with author Joel Suth-

erland. 2 pm. Free. Palmerston Library, 560 Palmerston. 416-393-7680. irOn Chef fOr TeenS Teens age 12-19 compete to create food masterpieces. 4-5 pm. Free. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. Pre-register 416395-5710, torontopubliclibrary.ca. kiCkOff & kiCkSTarT yOur BuSineSS Network and hear experts discuss financing and legal options for start-ups. Event includes pre-game field tour and tickets to the Argos game. 5:30 pm. $33. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. Preregister kickoffkickstart.eventbrite.ca. 5lgBT SalSa ClaSSeS Salsa and bachata class-

leaders from the arts and design communities, including Joe Lobko, Sarah Garton Stanley, Shannon Litzenberger, Dalton Higgins and Yasmin Parodi, debating policy and answering questions posed by actual candidates including David Soknacki. 2 pm. Free. Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen West. artsvote.ca

PhanTOMS, PlayerS and PundiTS walk

Haunted walk of the Financial and Entertainment districts. 6:30-9 pm. $25, srs/stu $20, child $15. Old City Hall, 60 Queen W. Preregister 416-923-6813.

Play The ParkS lunCh TiMe COnCerT SerieS & fiTneSS ClaSSeS Cardio dance and live music.

rOuge Park walk

The Rouge is on its way to becoming Canada’s first urban national park, but there’s still work to do when it comes to protecting this urban wilderness. Join Local Enhancement & Appreciation of Forests on Wednesday (August 13) for a guided tree tour focusing on biodiversity, invasive species and climate change. 9:30-11:30 am. Pwyc. 1749 Meadowvale. Preregister at yourleaf.org.

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Join a biodiversity tree tour of Rouge Park on August 13.

es for queer and trans people and their allies. 6:30-9:30 pm. 7-week session $70, stu $35. $15 drop-in. Multifaith Centre, 569 Spadina. Pre-register lgbtdance.club@utoronto.ca. rMake yOur Own COMiC Workshop for ages six to 12. 2 pm. Free. Armour Heights Library, 2140 Avenue Rd. 416-395-5430.

Talladega nighTS: The Ballad Of riCky BOBBy Outdoor film screening. 8:30 pm. Free.

Play The ParkS lunCh TiMe COnCerT SerieS & fiTneSS ClaSSeS Zumba fitness classes and

underSTanding whaT’S in yOur BeauTy PrOduCTS Louis Hinder talks about which

live music. Noon to 12:50 pm. Free. Trinity Square Park, 10 Trinity Sq. downtownyonge. com/playtheparks. PrinTMaking Learn how to create and apply your own design to a book bag/eco-bag. 1:30 pm. Free. Sanderson Library, 327 Bathurst. Pre-register 416-393-7653. QuieTly inTO diSaSTer Green 13 film screening and discussion with Angela Bischoff of Clean Air Alliance. Free. Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia. green13toronto.org. Tai Chi Outdoor classes. 6-7 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

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TranSfOrMing negaTive eMOTiOnS A teaching by Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche. 3-5 pm and 7-9 pm. $25-$50. St John’s Polish Catholic Cathedral, 186 Cowan. 416-653-5371. products work and which are harmful. 6:30 pm. Free. Brentwood Library, 36 Brentwood N. 416-394-5240.

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raiser for Rank and file Education Workers Together and humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. 9 pm. $10. Duke Of Gloucester, 649 Yonge. 416-786-4179.

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BiOdiverSiTy in rOuge Park LEAF-led tour/

hike looking at forest issues such as invasive species and climate change. 9:30-11 am. Pwyc. Rouge Park, 1749 Meadowvale. Preregister yourleaf.org.

The BlaCk MuSeuM: SChOOl Of ShOCk-Pain and PleaSure in The ClaSSrOOM SafeTy filM Film lecture presentation on notorious

educational films from the 40-year golden age of social hygiene, TV PSAs, British Public Info Films and Aussie drunk-driving spots. 9 pm. $15, adv $12. Royal Cinema, 608 College. theblackmuseum.com. diy Bug SPray Learn about the health risks of conventional sprays and explore natural alternatives to create your own 120ml bottle. 7 pm. $10 sugg donation. Karma Food Co-op, 739 Palmerston. Pre-register manager@ karmacoop.org.

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STruCTiOn aT la real, Peru Find out why people bundled their dead into mummies – then ripped them apart – 1,400 years ago. 6:30 pm. $15. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. Pre-register 416-599-5321. yOga MediTaTiOn Kundalini class. 6 pm. Free. Assembly Hall, 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park. 416-201-7649, freemeditation.ca. 5zanele MuhOli: faCeS and PhaSeS Tour of an exhibition of photos representing black lesbian and queer identity. 6 pm. Free. Ryerson Image Centre, 33 Gould. ryerson.ca/ric.

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Noon. Free. College Park Courtyard, 444 Yonge. downtownyonge.com/playtheparks. ryerSOn’S farMerS MarkeT Fresh local produce, food trucks and music. Every Wed 11 am-3 pm. Free admission. Gould E of Yonge. food.ryerson.ca. Sidewalk Chalk ParTy Drop-in art event for ages 6 to 18. 2-3 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. 416-395-5120. SuMMer neTwOrking BaSh Network with more than 1,300 business owners and professionals. 12:30-9 pm. $45-$60. Atlantis, 955 Lake Shore W. summernetworkingbash.com. Then and nOw Guided ROM walk around the museum to celebrate its centennial. 6 pm. Free. In front of the ROM, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca. under The STarS Outdoor film screening at dusk. Free. Outside Daniels Spectrum (585 Dundas E). regentparkfilmfestival.com.

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fOOd fOrward TurnS fOur! (Food Forward) Food and drink, announcing the winners of the 2014 FoodIdol Awards and more. 6:30-9 pm. $5. Food Action Hub, 2 Homewood. pushfoodforward.com.

Events

The MarkeT DOC Institute’s Community Connections presents a screening of the film by Rama Rau about the global trade in human organs, followed by discussion and Q&A. 6 pm. Free. Reference Library, Elizabeth Beeton Auditorium, 789 Yonge. docinstitute.com. reading nuTriTiOn laBelS Seminar. 6-7 pm. Free. Living City Health, 120 Eglinton E. livingcityhealth.com. rSail-in CineMa Toronto Port Authority outdoor film festival with two-sided floating movie screen set atop a barge in Toronto Harbour to be viewed by land or boat. To Aug 16. Free. Sugar Beach, 25 Dockside. sailincinema.com. 3

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Spectacles at Nervosa Would you let a stranger try on your glasses at a resto? By MAGGIE CASSELLA I own a cabaret bar and restaurant. I have so many stories about said cabaret bar and restaurant that I could write a book – or 10. Eateries are very funny places. And by funny I don’t mean the old “Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup” kind of funny. I mean the “people do the darndest things” kind of funny. Most of the time (except for the occasional “You know what you should do?” patron giving me advice I didn’t ask for that, if taken, would probably run me somewhere in the tens of thousands of dollars) I love our place. I love being there. I love my business partner, I love my chef and staff and,

most importantly, I love our patrons. But sometimes you just want to go where nobody knows your name. One chilly night after a particular ly hilarious and super-jam-packed Dina Martina show at our Flying Beaver Pubaret. Dina, Lea DeLaria, Lea’s girl Chelsea, her cousin Stephen, Scott Thompson, my wife, Josée, and I wanted to have fun and spend some time just paying attention to one another. Enter Trattoria Nervosa (75 Yorkville, 416-961-4642, eat nervosa.com). We still call it by its old name, Café Nervosa. If you’ve never been there, you should know first and foremost that you can’t make a rezzo for after 6

pm. That’s right, I said after 6 pm. Seems ass backwards, no? But the fact is the place is so busy, they don’t need your stinky reservation. They also have homemade pasta that makes me want to touch myself in ways you should not touch yourself in a resto, but this isn’t a food review, so you’ll just have to take my word on that. So the seven of us trundle in, and somehow we manage to get seated almost instantly on the main floor. To clarify, there are two lovely floors (and a wicked patio) at Café Nervosa, but I have some kind of weird un-

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glasses of the guy sitting next to me. That could be one of their tag lines “Trattoria “I like your glasses,” I say. Nervosa: Great food and a great place to start a Then, from across the table, I hear, “Try them rumour about your ex.” on Magster, those would look good on you.” We’re going to have a private little dinner, to I look at the guy; he looks at me. Then – bam – catch up. Scott is just back from Russia, provoca- I’m wearing his glasses. I’m pretty sure he’s tively wearing his Russian Olympics hat, still on wearing mine, too, which, fact or not, apparently a high fresh off his reporting gig as Buddy Cole instantly makes him a hiho. for The Colbert Report. Now, normally it would stop there. But Dina is coming off a run of clearly, this is not a normal group sold-out shows, and Lea, well, and probably not a normal ever heard of a little show Yorkville eatery. And now called Orange Is The New we are on a roll. Black? Everyone has a lot “Oh, Mags, look at that to tell everyone else. woman’s glasses. Those Which is why, I’m not would look good on you, sure how, before dinner is too,” Lea says, pointing across over not only are we not just paythe room at a glasses-wearing ing attention to each other, Trattoria Nervosa’s house-made pastas stranger. always satisfy Maggie Cassella. but I am voluntold by Ms. De“Excuse me, can my friend Laria to try on every pair of try on your glasses”? prescription glasses anyone in the restaurant is I don’t even think the lady answers. She just wearing. takes her glasses off and holds them out to me. I I don’t know why. I have nice glasses. I get a lot get up, I try them on, people comment. And so it of compliments on my glasses. Often in restau- goes. rants. In fact, one night I was at one of ProvinceI think I try on three or four pairs before the town’s finest restaurants and these two hihos Italian in me starts to worry about getting a stye (high-end homos) were staring at me. or pink eye or any of myriad other possible eye “They must have just seen my show,” I goopy things. thought. Yes, it’s a little weird. As if, Maggie. I could not have been more But what’s weirder is that everyone we ask – wrong about that. But I was right about the star- yes, everyone in that wee, crammed I-can-hearing, because one of them finally piped up and everything-you’re-saying-like-I-can-see-theasked, “Are those Anne & Valentine’s?” and I’m package-of-a-gay-guy-in-skinny-jeans – lets me like, “No they’re mine.” (That is not a joke; I really try on their glasses. said that – ergo, I am clearly a loho). My point is, I Pictures are taken, hands are shaken, pasta is have nice glasses. eaten. And everybody pays attention to everyBut I guess Lea has decided I could have nicer body. 3 ones. Maggie Cassella is a comic, writer, producer and co-owner of the I’m not even sure how the trying on thing gets Flying Beaver Pubaret (488 Parliament, 647-347-6567, started. Maybe it’s because I’m admiring the www.pubaret.com).

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Get outside while you can AgAve y AguAcAte 35 Baldwin, at Henry, 647-748-6448, ñ agave-y-aguacate.com

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

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They used to say that if you didn’t want to stand in line for a table at downtown’s trendiest taqueria, you could show up for a late lunch and waltz right in. Not any more! These days, GE’s just as busy – and as loud! – by the light of day as it is after dark, even more so once its partially covered 40-seat backyard patio is in session. There, it seems as if le tout Parkdale shout at each other over a curated playlist of 60s gut-bucket soul (management’s moved on from 90s hip-hop) as they scarf down designer tacos topped with the likes of pork belly al pastor and deep-fried scrapple while knocking back $4 shots of the bourbon du jour. Sunday to Thursday noon to midnight, Wednesday to Saturday noon to 1 am. Bar till

close. Closed some holidays. No reservations on patio. Licensed. Rating: NNNNN ✺

leslie JoNes

1182 Queen E, at Rushbrooke, 416-4635663, lesliejones.ca Since opening in 2006, one-time Couillard sous George Wensley’s low-key Leslieville bistro has consistently flown under the foodie radar, it’s only “serious” review in a certain alternative weekly. His devoted regulars wouldn’t have it any other way. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to show up unannounced on a balmy Tuesday evening and score a four-top on the drop-dead gorgeous backyard deck. Or actually hear each other’s conversations, the only other sound the rustle of the wind in the trees. Such moderately priced starters as meatballs in Gorgonzola cream sauce and mains like thin-crusted pizzas dressed with lemony chèvre, roasted leeks and zucchini, followed by flourless chocolate torte for dessert, guarantee first-timers fall in love with Jones from the get-go. Tuesday to Saturday 5 to 10 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Rating: NNN ✺

PizzeriA viA MercANti oN elM 87 Elm, at Elizabeth, 416-901-1899, ñ pizzeriaviamercanti.ca

When NOW recently set out to find Toronto’s ultimate pizza, it wasn’t established heavyweights like Terroni and Queen Margherita that came out on top. Instead, we gave the title to Romolo Salvati’s somewhat obscure Kensington Market pizzeria. His are not the floppy minimalist affairs of the competition. Mercanti’s signature pizza is actually two – a thin-crusted wonder dressed with prosciutto crudo, hot soppressata salami, mushrooms and ricotta on the bottom, a second artfully appointed Margherita on the top. We called it the pizza de résistance. Since winning the top spot, Mercanti has opened a second much larger outpost closer to the downtown core. Show up early – like 9 am – if you plan to score a table on its 60-seat patio during this year’s World Cup tournament, especially at lunch, when you can get a mini version of that classic Margherita and a properly ripped romaine side salad for all of $10. We predict pandemonium.

Don’t tell anyone, but watch for a third Mercanti to launch on the east side later this fall at the corner of Coxwell and Gerrard. Monday to Thursday 11 am to 10 pm, Friday 11 am to 11 pm, Saturday noon to 11 pm, Sunday noon to 10 pm. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Rating: NNNNN ✺

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red sAuce

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

Menu items and prices may have changed. Call restaurant for details.

Need some advice?

Find out what’s written in the stars, page 22. Rob Brezsny’s Free Will

Astrology

Critics’ Pick NNNNN Rare perfection NNNN Outstanding, almost flawless NNN Recommended, worthy of repeat visits NN Adequate N You’d do better with a TV dinner

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drinkup

By SARAH PARNIAK drinks@nowtoronto.com | @s_parns

WHERE TO DRINK RIGHT NOW!

W.L. Weller 12-year-old bourbon

IN PRAISE OF THE LOCAL

WHAT WE’RE DRINKING TONIGHT

Get stoked, bourbon fans. Weller doesn’t make an appearance every day. Sometimes described as the poor man’s Pappy, this elegant wheated bourbon uses the same mash bill as the cultish line of Pappy Van Winkles. It’s a fine summer bourbon, with whiffs of melon, apricot, herbs, light vanilla and toffee. A silky mouth feel makes me meditate on vanilla-chocolate milkshakes, maybe with a cherry on top. Price 750 ml/$44.95 Availability Vintages 288886

Locals, with their broken-in bar stools, dusty knickknacks, timeless tunes and playful banter, are the heart and soul of neighbourhoods. Always open till last call and never lacking in kitsch to ogle or people to chat up, T.O.’s best locals are unique and welcoming. Reasonably priced booze, original atmosphere and quirky, charming service – what more do you need on a nightly basis?

Spain on the brain Beronia Reserva ñ Tempranillo

THE GEM

1159 Davenport, 416- 654-1182 There’s a lot in a name. The Gem, around since 1984, has been watering the neighbourhood for almost three decades. Stuffed with mysterious remnants from years past – Godzilla rescuing Barbie from the beer fridge, a mannequin styled as a 50s housewife standing sentinel at the old-school jukebox – the Gem’s like a curious time capsule that serves beer. It’s the kind of bar that nurtures repartee between friends and randoms and where the bartender’s always at attention, ready to pour you another whiskey while cracking wise. Oh, and there’s one more magical feature to take note of: the patio. Hours 5 pm to 2 am Monday to Saturday, noon to 2 am Sunday Access One step at door, washrooms in basement

Rating NNNN Why This timeless Rioja, sleek and structured, is made for meat. Aged for 18 months in American and French oak barrels, it expresses dark fruit, sweet spices and a hint of mineral. Price 750 ml/$19.95 Availability LCBO 50203

Freixenet Cordon Rosado

Rating NNN Why Bubbles, particularly of the pink variety, are the alcoholic equivalent of the golden retriever – poised, peppy and really hard to hate. This modestly priced and widely available sparkler balances berries and toasty notes with a long, sweet ’n’ sour finish. Price 750 ml/$13.95 Availability LCBO 217059

Marques de Riscal White

Rating NNN Why Made from 100 per cent Verdejo, this is a fresh, supple vino for sipping solo or pouring with dinner. (Start plotting a Spanish feast now). Aromatic, full-bodied and fruity, with a satisfying finish. Price 750 ml/$12.70 Availability LCBO 36822

and bottles of Asahi black lager flanked by zippy wasabi peas while the old-school jukebox strikes a vintage chord. Like I said, heaven. Hours Nightly 8 pm to 2 am Access One step at door, washrooms in basement

SAUCE

Black Dice Cafe

1574 Dundas West, blackdicecafe.com The Black Dice is my happy place. Sometimes it’s heaven in a bar. The sharp elbows of a shitty day soften with every dollar play of the Surf Champ pinball table, and troubles melt away as you sip Japanese whisky, neat, in the weird and wonderful greenish glow unique to the Dice. It’s inspired by 1950s café racer culture (motorcycle enthusiasts take note, but leave your bike at home if you’re planning to explore the bottles of Nikka on the backbar), with a distinct Japanese twist. (Owner Hideki Saito is from Japan.) There’s usually a ton-up boy behind the bar serving sake

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1376 Danforth, 647-748-1376, sauceondanforth.com Just down the way from Danforth standbys the Wren and the Only is a little joint called Sauce. The cozy room, self-described as “Victorian goth bordello chic,” is hard to label without arriving at the word “miscellany.” Its stained glass facade, kitschy glassware and red walls hung with classical art suggest an eccentric vixen aunt’s boudoir. There’s even a vintage piano jammed in a corner for atmospheric weekly piano series. No other bar in T.O. is quite like Sauce, which is refreshing in a city depressingly adept at uninspired carbon-copy interior design. Libations include cocktails and wine, but the real drink draw is the selection of craft beers. With 17 taps, plus cans and bottles, Sauce should be on the east-side beer nut’s regular circuit and a mandatory stop for the thirsty wanderer who happens to find herself on the Danforth. Hours Monday to Thursday 4 pm to 2 am, Friday 3 pm to 2 am, Saturday and Sunday 2 pm to 2 am Access One step at door, washrooms in basement

TASTING NOTES

Roundhouse Craft Beer Festival

What’s summer for? Drinking beer in the sun, obviously. Don’t miss the third annual Roundhouse Craft Beer Festival running Saturday and Sunday (August 9 and 10). Sample suds from over 20 Ontario breweries including Steam Whistle, Big Rig, Side Launch, Left Field and Amsterdam, and feast from food

trucks like Fidel Gastro and Gorilla Cheese. Grab tix online for $20, or $25 at the gate. craftbeerfest.ca.

Craft Beer Passport

Speaking of beer, drink your way around town with the Craft Beer Passport. For $20, it gives you access to a list of $2 local beers at 20 participating venues, including 3030, Get Well, the Victory Café and the Wren. craftbeerpassport.

= Critics’ Pick NNNNN = Ambrosial NNNN = Dangerously drinkable NNN = Palate pleaser NN = Sensory snooze N = Tongue trauma

life&style

Old-school

We scoured local vintage shops for fabulous designer finds from years past

Helena Barbieri silk and velvet cocktail dress ($442.69, Violet Crown Vintage, etsy.com/ ca/shop/violetcrownvintage)

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Avenue Skin Care

wewant… Viora Reaction

Dries Van Noten patterned dress ($349, I Miss You Vintage, 63 Ossington, 416-9167021, facebook. com/imissyouvintage)

Vintage Cazal 854 sunglasses ($420, Opticianado, 2919 Dundas West, 416-604-2020, opticianado.com)

Moschino Couture aqua palazzo pants ($195, Lab Consignment,, lab-consignment.myshopify.com)

Manolo Blahnik ankle-strap sandals ($395, Haute Classics, 1454 Yonge, 416-922-7900, hauteclassics.com)

stylenotes The week’s news, views and sales Going offline

While most traditional storefronts are moving online these days, popular online menswear brand Indochino is doing the reverse. It’s May pop-up shop in Toronto turned out to be its most successful yet. The brand returns this

week with a permanent flagship showroom at 425 King West. Men can meet with Indochino’s style guides to view the 2014 fall collection, commission one-of-a-kind garments and get tailoring and fit advice once their suits have arrived. Book one-on-one appointments at indochino.com/toronto.

Get packing Who wants to spend insane amounts of money on luggage when you could spend those dollars on actual vacations? Stop by Samsonite’s annual warehouse sale at 753 Ontario (Stratford, 519-271-5040) until Sunday (Au-

gust 10) for big savings on luggage, business cases, backpacks, wallets, purses and more. Monday to Saturday 9 am to 6 pm, Sunday 10 am to 4 pm.

Bundle up Waiting until fall to buy a coat is one of the silliest things you could do. Save

We don’t subscribe to the idea that everyone needs to be a size 6 or free of cellulite, but sometimes – just sometimes – it’s nice to have a little help when it comes to looking and feeling the way you want. After all, there’s more to life than slaving away at the gym for hours. For those seeking a bit of a boost in a safe and effective way, Viora Reaction is a great little secret to have in your back pocket. Viora is a lunchtime treatment with zero recovery time that uses radio-frequency technology and vacuum therapy (think someone holding a heated vacuum over your skin) to subtly tighten skin, improve texture and contour the body. The go-to place for Viora in Toronto is Yorkville’s Avenue Skin Care. The boutique spa looks swanky but is pretension-free and full of friendly, approachable staff who know their stuff. ($250800 per treatment, 110 Cumberland, suite 200, 416-9620001, avenueskincare.com)

big on outerwear during the summer months when premium brands like local favourite Sentaler slash prices on their collections. Visit sentaler.com to get up to 50 per cent off last season’s signature baby alpaca and merino wool blend coats.

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astrology freewill

by Rob Brezsny Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Don’t just be smart and ar-

ticulate, Aries. Dare to be wildly wise and prone to unruly observations. Don’t merely be kind and well behaved. Explore the mysteries of healing through benevolent mischief. Don’t buy into the all-too-serious trances. Break up the monotony with your unpredictable play and funny curiosity. Don’t simply go along with the stories everyone seems to believe in as if they were the Truth and the Way. Question every assumption; rebel against every foregone conclusion; propose amusing plot twists that send the narratives off on interesting tangents.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 “Breve orazione pene-

tra” is an old Italian idiom. Its literal translation is “short prayers pierce” or “concise prayers penetrate.” You can extrapolate from that to come up with the meaning that “God listens best to brief prayers.” In the coming week, I invite you to apply this idea whenever you ask for anything, whether you are seeking the favours of the Divine Wow or the help of human beings. Know exactly what you want and express it with nononsense succinctness.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Every February, you go

ETHAN EISENBErG

through a phase when it’s easier to see the big picture of your life. If you take advantage of this invitation, your experience is like being on a mountaintop and gazing into the vastness. Every August, on the other hand, you are more likely to see the details you have been missing. Transformations that have been too small and subtle to notice may become visible to you. If you capitalize on this opportunity, the experience is like peering through a microscope. Here’s a third variation, Gemini: around the full moons of both February and August, you may be able to alternately peer into the microscope and simulate the view from a mountaintop. I think that’s about to happen.

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store of the week A LEG UP PET SERVICES

756 Bathurst, 416-538-3800, alegup.ca So you’re off to some exotic locale or forced family vacation in the middle of nowhere. What to do with your pets? Pawning them off on friends always leaves you a little anxious – they’ll never let you forget it if Fido empties his bladder on their pristine white carpet/bed sheets/walls. This is where professionals come in. But who to trust? A Leg Up Pet Services has been in the biz for over 70 dog years, has cared for just about every breed of dog and cat, and is fully bonded and insured. Staff are police checked and receive ongoing training, and there are enough of them so your pet won’t be stranded in case of bad weather or illness. They also check in with you via email or journal to let you know how your furry friend is faring, and have a sense of humour. (My cat’s last report card said he was as friendly “as an ostrich

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Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Every 12 years, the planet Ju-

with his head in the ground.”) For canines, A Leg Up offers three “un-kennel” options for when you’re away: homestay (a staff member comes to your home), homestyle (your dog stays in a staff member’s home) and a Leg Up North (your dog stays on scenic rolling acreage in the Hockley Valley). For cats, they offer half-hour cat visits to your home, where they’re also happy to water plants, bring in the mail or rotate lights. A Leg Up picks You don’t have to leave town to take advantage of A Leg Up’s pet care. The team says puppy visits are one of their most popular services. “For pups under 16 weeks, we’ll go to a client’s home, take the pup out, encourage bathroom breaks, tire him or her out and support basic training.” Look for For those who have long days at work, doggy daycare comes in handy. It’s especially great in the summer, because dogs get socialization and exercise with the benefit of air conditioning at A Leg Up’s 4,000-square-foot location. They play games designed by an Animal Behavioural College-accredited trainer, like Tic-Tac-Paw.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 You wouldn’t sip dirty water from a golden chalice. Am I right? Nor would you swig delicious poison from a fine crystal wine glass or 10-year-old vinegar from a queen’s goblet. I’m sure you will agree that you’d much rather drink a magical elixir from a paper cup or a rejuvenating tonic from a chipped coffee mug or tasty medicine out of a kids’ plastic soup bowl you bought at the thrift store. Don’t you dare lie to yourself about what’s best for you.

piter spends about a year cruising through the sign of Leo. It’s there with you now and will be with you through early August 2015. What can you expect? EXPANSION! That’s great, right? Yes and no. You might love to have some parts of your life expand; others not so much. So I suggest you write down your intentions. Say something like this: “I want Jupiter to help me expand my faith in myself, my power to do what I love and my ability to draw on the resources and allies I need. Meanwhile, I will prune my desires for things I don’t really need and cut back on my involvement with things that don’t inspire me. I don’t want those to expand.”

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 TV comedian Stephen

Colbert confesses that his safe word is “pumpkin patch.” Does that mean he participates in actual BDSM rituals? Is it the code word he utters when he doesn’t want the intensity to rise any further, when he doesn’t want his next boundary crossed? I don’t know. Perhaps he’s simply joking or speaking metaphorically. Whether or not you engage in literal BDSM, Virgo, there’s an aspect of your life right now that has metaphorical resemblances to it. And I suggest that you do the equivalent of using your safe word very soon. Nothing more can be gained from remaining embroiled in your predicament. Even if the ordeal has been interesting or educational up until now, it won’t be for much longer. Escape your bondage.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 If you’re planning to hurl a thunderbolt, make sure you are all warmed up and at full strength before you actually unleash

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it. It would be sad if you flung a half-assed thunderbolt that looked like a few fireflies and sounded like a cooing dove. And please don’t interpret my wise-guy tone here as a sign that I’m just kidding around. No, Libra. This is serious stuff. Life is offering you opportunities to make a major impression, and I want you to be as big and forceful and wild as you need to be. Don’t tamp down your energy out of fear of hurting people’s feelings. Access your inner sky god or sky goddess and have too much fun expressing your raw power.

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 In your dreams you

may travel to Stockholm, Sweden, to accept the Nobel Prize or to Hollywood to pick up your Oscar. There’s a decent chance that in your sleepytime adventures you will finally score with the hot babe who rejected you back in high school or return to the scene of your biggest mistake and do things right this time. I wouldn’t be surprised if in one dream you find yourself riding in a gold chariot during a parade held in your honour. I’m afraid, however, that you will have to settle for less hoopla and glamour in your waking life. You will merely be doing a fantastic job at tasks you usually perform competently. You will be well appreciated, well treated, and well rewarded. That’s not so bad, right?

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Lake Superior

State University issues a “Unicorn Questing Privilege” to those people who are interested in hunting for unicorns. Are you one of them? I wouldn’t be surprised if you felt an urge like that in the coming weeks. Unusual yearnings will be welling up in you. Exotic fantasies may replace your habitual daydreams. Certain possibilities you have considered to be unthinkable or unattainable may begin to seem feasible. Questions you have been too timid to ask could become crucial for you to entertain. (You can get your Unicorn Questing License here: tinyurl.com/ unicornlicense.)

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Your ethical code may soon be tested. What will you do if you see a chance to get away with a minor sin or petty crime that no one will ever find out about? What if you are tempted to lie or cheat or deceive in ways that advance your good intentions and only hurt other people a little bit or not at all? I’m not here to tell you what to do, but rather to suggest that you be honest with yourself about what’s really at stake. Even if you escape punishment for a lapse, you might nevertheless inflict a wound on your integrity that would taint your relationship with your own creativity. Contemplate the pleasures of purity and righteousness, and use them to enhance your power. AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 “The thorn arms the

roses,” says an old Latin motto. The astrological omens suggest you’ll be wise to muse on that advice in the coming weeks. How should you interpret it? I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions, of course, but here are a few hints. It may be that beauty needs protection, or at least buffering. It’s possible that you can’t simply depend on your sincerity and good intentions, but also need to infuse some ferocity into your efforts. In order for soft, fragile, lovely things to do what they do best, they may require the assistance of tough, strong, hearty allies.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 If you go to an American

doctor to be treated for an ailment, odds are that he or she will interrupt you no more than 14 seconds into your description of what’s wrong. But you must not tolerate this kind of disrespect in the coming days, Pisces – not from doctors, not from anyone. You simply must request or, if necessary, demand the receptivity you deserve. If and when it’s given, I urge you to speak your truth in its entirety. Express what has been hidden and suppressed. And this is very important: take responsibility for your own role in any problems you discuss.

Homework: Tell what techniques you’ve discovered about feeding honey to crocodiles. Truthrooster@gmail.com

ecoholic

When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL

PAINT BY NUMBERS:

the guide to greening your art supplies

HOW TO LET YOUR INNER COLOURS FLY WITHOUT MAKING TOO MUCH OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL MESS.

OILS

ACRYLICS

Art history is full of rich, luminous oil paintings, but for artists oil paints can quite literally be a headache to work with. While they’re more natural than plastic acrylics, containing plantbased oils like linseed and safflower, they’re traditionally thinned with intensely air-polluting solvents like turpentine. Even odourless mineral spirits are environmental hazards. (Never dump them down the drain.) You can green up by cleaning your brushes with straight linseed oil or opt for water-mixable oil paints (Windsor & Newton makes some). Be aware that some hues still come from brain-damaging heavy metals (e.g., chromium and cobalt), but safe alternatives are easy to find. Bring paint waste to a hazardous disposal depot. SCORE: NN

I’ve been crushing on abstract expressionists – and impersonating their acrylics on canvas – since I was a teen. Acrylics can be healthier than oils since they clean up with water, sparing you the VOC fumes from solvents, but they’re still essentially made from plastic (like latex house paint). Certain brands are greener than others. Golden makes professional-grade acrylics manufactured using 100 per cent wind power, and recycles two-thirds of its wastewater. Check the company’s handy chart for colours that don’t contain metals of concern like cadmium (goldenpaints.com/justpaint/BluesChart.pdf). While most artists flush acrylics down the drain, our lakes and groundwater can’t handle more plastic. Bring paint waste to hazardous depot. SCORE: NN

WATERCOLOURS/ GOUACHE These water-soluble relatives generally use gum arabic (from the sap of acacia trees) as a base, though the more opaque gouache is more pigment-rich. Note: acrylic-based gouache is pretty popular, though less natural. Like regular acrylic paint, it’s petroleum-based. Both products are sold in artist-grade and kid-friendly versions. The latter is always inevitably safer, avoiding the more toxic, heavymetal-laced pigments. On all artists’ paints, the AP seal means they’re certified nontoxic by the Art & Creative Materials Institute. And CL stands for “cautionary labelling.” SCORE: NNNN

nature note TAKEOUT TROUBLE: CANCER, CHEMICALS AND FOOD CONTAINERS What’s that you’re eating? Most of our food comes wrapped in something or other over the course of its lifespan. Researchers are now questioning just how safe that packing is. According to a new study published in the journal Food Additives And Contaminants, at least 175 chemicals with hazardous properties are legally allowed in food packaging in the U.S. and the EU. The researchers fingered BPA, phthlates, parabens and styrene as some of the chemicals of concern. Speaking of styrene, just last week the U.S. National Research Council an-

nounced it was standing firm on listing styrene (found in foamstyle and rigid polystyrene cups, lids, containers, etc) as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.” The committee behind the report concluded there’s more than “sufficient” evidence that styrene causes cancer in animals, and “limited but credible” evidence that it

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TEMPERA

VEGETABLE PAINTS

Back in the olden days, tempera was literally just egg yolks, vinegar and, well, toxic heavy metal pigments as well as natural ones. Thankfully, the worst of the heavy metals are gone. These days, tempera is mostly used by aspiring artists (the pre-school ones). However, Botticelli painted with this stuff, and contemporary egg tempera artists often work with heavierduty mineral pigments. Wanna try? Mix an egg yolk, a dash of boiled linseed oil, a drop of vinegar and water with powdered pigment. (Just be cautious about pigment choice.) If you’re getting crafty with the kids, Funstuff offers Canadian-made, kid-safe tempera powder and liquid paints (though they make no claim to use vegetable pigments). SCORE: NNNN

I told my friends I was considering a natural dyeing workshop and they looked aghast. No, no, that’s “dyeing” with an “e,” I clarified, “textile dyeing.” I’ve been itching to experiment with plant pigments. Chatting with one experienced textile dyer inspired me to fingerpaint on paper with random flowers from my backyard. Okay, so my first attempt looked like my two-year-old niece did it. Nonetheless, I’m moving on to beets, onion skins and turmeric next. If you want to try pre-made veggie-based paints, check out GlobItOn.com. SCORE: NNNNN

triggers cancer in humans. Styrene has been found to leach from food containers, particularly into hot foods and beverages. I know when I had my body tested for chemicals in 2012, I’d ordered a bowl of hot and sour soup in styrofoam the night before I peed on a stick. Lo and behold, I tested positive for styrene. Industry has been insisting that styrene is perfectly safe, devoting websites to arguing that synthetic styrene leached from coffee cups is safer than the styrene naturally present in cinnamon or coffee beans. Indeed, Health Canada

(NB: This week’s scores focus on greenness, not performance, and vary within each category depending ecoholic pick on ingredients.)

and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agree with industry that polystyrene food packaging is perfectly safe for consumer use. But while many of the chemicals of concern in food containers are restricted in toys and electronics, the authors of the Journal Of Food Additives And Contaminants study say they’re largely under-regulated when it comes to food. Says the study’s author from the Food Packaging Forum, “From a con-

green

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BACKYARD SCIENCE DISCOVERY BOX There’s only one month left until school starts, and kids everywhere are trying to suck the marrow out of what’s left of the summer. Actually, a lot of them are bored out of their minds and keeping their parents abreast of that boredom on an hourly basis. Breathe some life into their urban staycation with this backyard science kit. It encourages them to see oft-overlooked specimens with what sages call “beginners mind” and use them to, say, create a leaf pendant, make a sunprint and unearth backyard pigments to decorate their collection bag. I might buy one for myself. Grassrootsstore.com, $29.99.

sumer perspective, it is certainly unexpected and undesirable to find [chemicals of concern] being intentionally used in [food packaging].” ecoholic@nowtoronto.com | @ecoholicnation

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music

Nic Pouliot

the scene

Outkast

Molson Amphitheatre, August 3

Shows that rocked Toronto last week

JACK WHITE at the Air Canada Centre, Thursday, July 31.

Rating: NNN Bathed in spectral blue light that ini tially made it appear as though he and his fivepiece band were wearing white makeup, Jack White kicked off his ACC show in support of second album lazaretto with High Ball Step per. its sparse, repetitive hook and huge, wailing Jimi Hendrixchannelling solos set the unpredictable bluesrock tone for the night. White’sperformanceseemedlargelyspontaneous:nosetlist,off-the-cuff banterthatnoddedtoStompin’Tom andGeddyLee(whowasapparentlyin thehouse),Whitemovingaroundthe stagelikequicksilver.Itwasequalparts disorientingandexhilarating,leaving hisbandinconstantreactionmode. Yetthestadiumcrowdgamelysang alongwhenevertheyhadahookto hangonto,whichwasoften. ThenumerousWhiteStripesselectionsweremorestraightforwardand memorablethanthenewmaterial,but thelatterhelditsown.Whitewent deeperintobluesandrootsevenashe rockedbigger,borrowingfromBlind WillieMcTellandHowlin’Wolf.Lillie Mae Risch’sviolin-playingandsinging

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wereprominentonmellowduetTemporaryGround,andgiventheeerie lighting,AloneInMyHome,withits lyricsaboutbecomingaghost,wasan Sarah Greene aptsongchoice.

NICK CAVE AND THE

ñBAD SEEDS at the Sony Centre, Thursday, July 31.

Rating: NNNNN Nick Cave seems to have aged in re verse in the 16 months since he and his six Bad Seeds last ignited a toronto stage. Back then, the 56yearold Aus tralian musician called upon the assis tance of a children’s choir and string section to fill out songs from his atmo spheric Push the Sky Away album at Massey Hall. UpsizedtothecushySony Centre andminusthekiddies,hebroughthis signatureferocitydirectlytothe peoplebyclimbingseveralrowsdeep intothecrowdtospitfolkloricviolence ateyelevelduringmenacinghitsTupeloandStaggerLee.Cavewaded throughwavesofoutstretchedarms thatresembledeitheraGandhi-esque crowdsceneorazombieapocalypse, dependingonthecadenceofhis boomingbaritone. Eitherwayhesoundedthrilling,as didtheSeedsastheyalternatedbe-

tweenthunderouslivestaplesThe MercySeatandFromHerToEternity, slow-burningcutsfromPushTheSky Awayandpianoballads,includingGod IsInTheHouse,asatireaboutsuburbanparanoiathathetailoredtoToronto:“Wehaveaprettylittlesquare/ Wehaveacrackheadforamayor.” Easilyoneoftheyear’sbestshows. Kevin ritchie

OUTKAST at the Molson

Amphitheatre, Sunday, ñ August 3.

Rating: NNNN Day one of OVO Fest was short on sur prises but heavy on nostalgia. Atlanta hiphop duo Outkast arrived in toron to four months after their reunion tour got off to a shaky start at coachella. Since then, the southern rap impre sarios and their tight sevenpiece band have locked into a nice groove. After the opening assault of drum ’n’ bass led B.o.B., the pair continued spitting their fluid, tonguetwisting rhymes over a string of classics – Gasoline Dreams, Skew it on the BarB and Rosa Parks – while the band played each song with the nonstop energy of a funk revue. the duo’s diverging tastes were most apparent during their solo mini sets. Big Boi scored a big crowd re

sponse with southern rap jams Kryp tonite and Ghetto Musick, while dollarstoreplatinumwigged Andre was more selfconscious, telling the heads to be patient as he crooned She lives in My lap and Prototype for “the lovers.” the night’s lone surprise guest was a choice one: Bun B appeared for an uplifting rendition of uGK’s inter national Player’s Anthem toward the Kr set’s end.

DRAKE with LAURYN

HILL, USHER, 50 CENT ñ and many others at the Molson Amphitheatre, Monday, August 4.

Rating: NNNN After joining surprise opener Lauryn Hill onstage for his song Draft Day, Drake started the second night of his fifth annual OVO Fest in earn est. to cap off the in dulgent So Far Gone portion of the evening (supersweet for longtime fans), Trey Songz joined him for their

prophetic duet Successful. the rest of the show continued chronologically, interspersing favour ites from Drake’s studio albums with appearances by his famous friends: J. Cole, who also played oVo 4; Drake protege PARTYNEXTDOOR, who did an effective but too long fivesong mini set; ofthemoment compton rapper YG, who donned a retro Raps jersey. Usher was the most memorable, revel ling in the crowd love for old faves confessions and You Don’t Have to call. overall, the little things – not the bold names – and Drake’s evolu tion as a showman made oVo Fest V great: the understated but com pelling gigundo screen projections matching each song’s mood; the video of the art ist’s courtside lint rolling for all to see; and Drake’s for ay above the crowd on a flying tbar, where he joked, “it’s like me and one Direction who would do julia leconte some shit like this.”

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August 8 –17

T.O. Music NOTes PARKDALE BLUES

The Track Toronto interactive project collects and maps songs about Toronto, enabling listeners to walk through the city while hearing tunes related to specific places. Leonard Cohen’s Closing Time, say, about the Matador Club at 466 Dovercourt. Signs with QR code lyrics on them dot various neighbourhoods; use your smartphone to hear the accompanying song. It’s a cool idea, but not uncontroversial. Jazz musician Elizabeth Shepherd’s song Parkdale was chosen by the trio behind Track Toronto, but when its lyric “Chalk hearts on broken streets, smoking sweet relief” appeared at Elm Grove and King, a complaint sent to Councillor Gord Perks’s office caused it to be taken down a day later. Shepherd, ELIZABETH SHEPHERD

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who wrote the song about Parkdale resident/political candidate/folk hero Kevin Clarke, is disappointed. “What exactly was it that people found so offensive in a couple of lines of a lyric?” she says in an email to NOW. “Was the reaction one of a neighbourhood that wants to rewrite its own history? Seeing as that song is rooted in my actual experience as a long-time Parkdalian, is it reality, then, that is offensive?” Ohbijou’s To Rest In Peace On Righteous Tides, about a daydream about being shot at the Parkdale Dollarmart, also didn’t last long. Others have fared better, including Tony Dekker’s Parkdale Blues. Learn more about the project at listentotrack.ca.

Co-curated by Silent Shout

Brendan Canning / Brendan Healy Friday, August 8, 9:00 PM

Army Girls / Cara Spooner Saturday, August 9, 9:00 PM

Weaves / Allison Cummings Sunday, August 10, 9:00 PM

Lido Pimienta / Natasha Greenblatt

EYES ON THE PRIZE There’s never any certainty about who’ll take home the $30,000 Polaris Music Prize each year, but it’s a sure bet that the gala will be entertaining. This year’s short list boasts a lot of marquee names who may or may not perform – Arcade Fire, Drake – as well as beguiling lesserknown ones like Tanya Tagaq and Jessy Lanza, who hopefully will. And with actor/comedian Jay Baruchel hosting the September 22 event at the Carlu, expect greater than average yuks (though Kathleen Edwards was pretty hilar last year). Tickets ($50) have just gone on sale to the public at polarismusicprize.ca. Act fast – there are only 120 of ’em.

Wednesday, August 13, 9:00 PM

The Bicycles / Maggie MacDonald / Amy Seigel August 14, 15, 16, 9:00 PM + August 17 4:00 PM

Light Fires / Adam Lazarus August 14, 15, 16, 10:00 PM

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TONIGHT! PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE DOOR 7PM SHOW 8PM • RT, SS • ALL AGES

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THU AUG 21 & FRI AUG 22 MOLSON CANADIAN AMPHITHEATRE • SHOW 7PM

with special guests

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TONIGHT! SHOW 6:30PM

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APOCALYPTICA Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne), Thursday (August 7) Cello metal from Helsinki. FKA TWIGS Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Friday (August 8) See preview, page 28. TORI AMOS, TREVOR MOSS, HANNAH-LOU Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Friday

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METRONOMY

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AUG 16 :: DANFORTH MUSIC HALL

SEP 10 :: THE HOXTON

SEP 21 :: DANFORTH MUSIC HALL

THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALL SEP 13

CHET FAKER

SEP 15

CLEAN BANDIT W/ LIZZO

OCT 02/03 CONSTANTINES OCT 04

54-40 & GRAPES OF WRATH

OCT 09

AIRBOURNE

OCT 10

TRUST

OCT 16 / 17 OCT 21

BIG WRECK

FLYING LOTUS

NOV 06 MAC DEMARCO NOV 07 A TRIBE CALLED RED NOV 11 PETER HOOK AND THE LIGHT

FEATURED SHOWS AUG 09

WAVE RACER w/ HARRISON

STUDIO BAR

NOV 19 LONDON GRAMMAR

FORT YORK

(August 8) Dramatic singer/ songwriter pianist.

GREYS, HSY, WTCHS, MARRIAGE S.H.I.B.G.B.’s (225 Geary), Friday (August 8) Ambitious local punk rock.

COUSINS, BELIEFS, HANDS & TEETH Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Friday (August 8) See preview, page 32. BRENDAN CANNING, BRENDAN HEALY Theatre Centre (1115 Queen West), Friday (August 8) Psych soundscapes and video. KETAMINES, JAY ARNER, JAY

Thee Silver MT. Zion

It’s been a couple of years since Thee Silver Mt. Zion, which includes Godspeed You! Black Emperor members Efrim Menuck, Thierry Amar and Sophie Trudeau, graced a Toronto stage, and with an excellent new album in tow, this Lee’s Palace show is sure to bring out fans in droves. The arty, punk-minded five-piece’s latest, Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything (Constellation), came out in January and marks a move away from minimal slow songs toward noisy, coiled post-metal. In other words, this gig is gonna rip. Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Friday (August 8), doors 9 pm. $15. HS, RT, SS, TF.

Just Announced 8OZ SOUL, THE HOWLL, CITY AND THE SEA, JUNIA, READY THE PRINCE

ZEUS Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $17.50. September 27.

MXPX, ZEBRAHEAD, ALLISTER Lee’s Palace doors 7:30 pm, $24.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. October 7.

OCT 31 / NOV 1 SBTRKT

Horseshoe 9 pm, $7. August 9.

THE HOXTON

AUG 20

MR SCRUFF (4 HR SET!)

AUG 22

SWEAR & SHAKE

AUG 08 AUG 10

SAMO SOUND BOY & DAMN KIDS DIZZY WRIGHT

FIVER, WYRD VISIONS, TASSEOMANCY, BLACK WALLS Feast In The East

AUG 14 AUG 22 AUG 29 SEP 05 SEP 12 SEP 25 SEP 26 SEP 28 OCT 03 OCT 04 OCT 10 OCT 17 OCT 23

BASSJACKERS W/ JOE GHOST KILL PARIS W/ Dr. OZI & HYDEE MOUNT KIMBIE TCHAMI & HUNTER SIEGEL KLANGKARUSSELL HILLTOP HOODS FT. SIMS YACHT & WHITE FANG MO w/ HOLYCHILD RUSKO w/ PUSHER & HYDEE VICETONE CHARLI XCX KAYTRANADA DIGITALISM (LIVE)

WRONGBAR DRAKE HOTEL

HTO PARK

AUG 23 WATERFRONT BEACH FESTIVAL

CHRISTIAN SMITH, JAY LUMEN MIGUEL CAMPBELL

SEP 06

FOOL’S GOLD DAY OFF

SEP 07

DIRTYBIRD BBQ

SEP 12

THE CHAINSMOKERS

SEP 13

SUNDANCE BEACH FESTIVAL

SHERBOURNE COMMON

A-TRAK, DANNY BROWN SHERBOURNE COMMON

CLAUDE VON STROKE MAISON MERCER

HTO PARK

AUDIEN, JORN VAN DEYNHOVEN SEP 16

moe.

OCT 22

GBH W/ CHOSEN ONES & CLASS ASSASINS

OCT 06

WOMAN’S HOUR

DRAKE HOTEL

CODA

OCT 09

TOKIMONSTA

DRAKE HOTEL

AUG 16

BLOND:ISH

OCT 11

THE ORWELLS W/ SKATERS

THE MOD CLUB

AUG 22

STEVE LAWLER

SEP 18

COM TRUISE w/ SURVIVE

THE MOD CLUB HARD LUCK BAR

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ARMY GIRLS, CARA SPOONER Scotiabank Studio Theatre (6 Noble), Saturday (August 9) Blues-dance two-piece. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Tuesday (August 12) English post-punk vets. KISS, DEF LEPPARD Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Tuesday (August 12) Classic hard rock outdoors. LIDO PIMIENTA, NATASHA GREENBLATT Lower Ossington Theatre Mainspace (100A Ossington), Wednesday (August 13) Electronic pop experimenter.

EXPERIMENTAL

ZEDS DEAD, DIPLO, FLOSSTRADAMUS

AUG 15 MAD DECENT BLOCK PARTY:

HOLY, VILLAGE Cavern Bar (76 Church), Saturday (August 9) Indie pop and weirdo punk.

40 Jam Factory Co 9 pm, all ages, $8. CB, FB, GR, SS. August 14.

HIGH ON FIRE, BLACKEST Adelaide Hall doors 8 pm, $tba. NT. August 14.

MR. SCRUFF Wrongbar August 20. 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER Rock Out With

Your Socks Out Tour Molson Amphitheatre $tba. LN. August 25.

JOSEPH ARTHUR Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $23.50. RT, SS, TF. September 6.

OPERATORS Horseshoe doors 8 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TF. September 7. RUSSIAN CIRCLES, ATLAS MOTH Lee’s Palace doors 7:30 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. September 15.

DIANE CLUCK, JORDAAN MASON

Music Gallery 8 pm, $10-$15. September 16.

Operators Horseshoe, September 7

OUGHT Hard Luck Bar doors 8 pm, $12. RT, SS, TF. September 19. CATEY SHAW Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $13.50. LN, TW. September 19.

INTO IT. OVER IT. Sneaky Dee’s doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $15.50. RT, SS, TF. October 7.

DELTA SPIRIT, PETER MATTHEW BAUER Lee’s Palace October 9. BATTLECROSS, MACHINE HEAD, CHILDREN OF BODOM, EPICA Sound Academy. October 14.

THE WOODEN SKY Lee’s Palace doors 9

pm, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. October 17 and 18.

LESS THAN JAKE, BIG D & THE KIDS TABLE Opera House doors 8 pm, all ages,

$23. RT, SS, TF. October 18.

ICEAGE, FATHER MURPHY Horseshoe doors 8 pm, $14.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. October 19. MEATBODIES, PURLING HISS Silver Dol-

lar doors 9 pm, $10 adv. RT, SS, TF. October 25.

EX HEX, SPEEDY ORTIZ Horseshoe doors 8 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. October 27.

CAPITAL CITIES, CHERUB, NIGHT TERRORS The Danforth Music Hall doors 7

pm, all ages, $24.50-$34.50. RT, SS, TM. November 4. 3

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Thursday, August 7 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Daniella Watters. BAr rAdio Heroes for Hire (rock) 9 pm. BAssline Music BAr Subtle Blend Nyiam, CY,

Stillmonk, Anzola, Math Rosen (electronic beats/experimental bass) 9 pm. BoAt Kuato, Billie Dre & the Poor Boy 10 pm. See album review, page 33. cAMeron House BAck rooM Luke Bill. college PArk courtyArd Play The Parks Lunch Time Concert Series & Fitness Classes Stacey Renee (pop/rock/R&B) noon. ecHo BeAcH At Molson AMPHitHeAtre Summer Nationals Tour The Offspring, Bad Religion, Pennywise, the Vandals doors 5:30 pm. tHe gArrison Bardos, Janitors, Aircraft doors 9 pm. HorsesHoe The Invasions, the Oooh Baby Gimme Mores, the Auras, Gen Gorman. See OBGMs preview, page 30. kensington lodge Jam Derek Mok 7 pm. lee’s PAlAce Boris, the Atlas Moth, Subrosa doors 8:30 pm. 99 sudBury Open Roof Festival: Outdoor concert & film screening series Tomi Swick doors 7:30 pm. PAuPer’s PuB Jam Mike Barnes (rock) 10 pm. PHoenix concert tHeAtre Apocalyptica doors 7 pm, all ages. rivoli The Fiscals, Little Ghost, HLF TRTHS, Windfall Foundation doors 8:30 pm. silver dollAr The Burning Hell, By Divine Right, Nick Ferrio 9 pm. sneAky dee’s United Nations doors 8:30 pm. soutHside JoHnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. virgin MoBile Mod cluB Rixton, T Mills doors 6 pm, all ages.

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AsPettA cAffe Open Mic El Faron 8 pm. Betty’s Steve Poltz (folk singer/song-

writer/) 8 pm. ñ cAMeron House The Rucksack Willies 10 pm. free tiMes cAfe Dana Beeler, Mountain & the Trees (folk/songwriters) 8:30 pm. ñ grossMAn’s Rootdown Trio Blues 10 pm.

HArBourfront centre BoulevArd tent

Dancing On The Pier Luis Obegoso’s Moda Eterna (70 & 80s salsa) 7 to 10 pm. HugH’s rooM World Music Festival: Tribute To Miriam Makeba Lorraine Klaasen (South African township music) 8:30 pm. MélAnge Blues Night Johnny Cox 9 pm. MonArcHs PuB Jerome Godboo, Shawn Kellerman, Eric Schenkman, Al Cross. MusideuM Natasha Roldan & Jorge Gil (world music) 8 pm. PAPerMill tHeAtre The Joy Dunlop Band

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relish Bar & Grill Liane Fainsinger 7 pm. rePosado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). The rex Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm, Brian

Charette (organ trio) 8:30 pm. roy ThoMson hall TSO Brass Quintet 5 to 8 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE (contemporary Scottish Gaelic music) 7 to 9:30 pm. ToronTo Music Garden Summer Music In The Garden: Songs Of Wandering Bombadils (Celtic/bluegrass from Montreal) 7 pm. Tranzac souThern cross Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm, Songs We Write, Covers We Love 10 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

BlakBird Terry Logan Quartet 8 pm. de soTos Jam Anthony Abbatangeli (jazz/ blues) 8 pm.

edward Johnson BuildinG walTer hall

Toronto Summer Music Festival: Spotlight On The TSO Jonathan Crow, Etsuko Kimura, Eric Nowlin, David Hetherington, Yao Guang Zhai, Peter McGillivray, David Louie 7:30 pm. eMMeT ray Bar John Wayne Swingtet (jazz/ gypsy/swing) 9 pm. The Jazz BisTro Myriad3 (jazz) 8 pm. kaMa Thursdays At Five Canadian Jazz Quartet w/ Chase Sanborn (trumpet, flugelhorn) 5 to 8 pm. The local Fred Spek’s CaMp CoMbO (swing polka cabaret) 9:30 pm.

Black eaGle Kick Ass Boot Party 10 pm.5 caBal lounGe Resident Sessions Jeff Button,

Rafwat & Chorniy, Cosmic JD, Graham Plant 8 pm.

clinTon’s Throwback Thursdays (90s hip-hop

& pop) doors 10 pm. cluB 120 T-Girl Party DJ Todd Klinck.5 The ossinGTon Fat Laces DJ Big Jimmy Mills (old school hip-hop). rivoli Pool lounGe DJ Bunitall (R&B/hiphop) 9 pm. wayla Bar Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (disco/yacht rock/new wave/ 70s & 80s) 10 pm.

Friday, August 8 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

alleycaTz Lady Kane. The BalleT Del Hartley (R&B/soul) doors 9 pm. Bovine sex cluB Nashville Pussy, Fifth on the Floor 8 pm, all ages.

danforTh ave Broadview showcase sTaGe Taste Of The Danforth Sheldon Holder 10 pm, Luke Austin Band 9 pm, Elana Harte & Stiletto Flats 7:45 pm, Sheldon Dixon 7 pm. The danforTh Music hall FKA twigs doors 7:30 pm. See preview, this page.

dora keoGh Grier Coppins & Taxi Chain

(Celtic rock).

holy oak cafe Planet Syncatron Warp 11

boyBITCH, Devan Boomen, Zords, Deeper Arcades 9:30 pm. horseshoe Album release show Devin Cuddy Band, Callan Furlong, Kirty. JuncTion ciTy Music hall The Pow Wows, the Salt Lick Kids, the Green Rays (rock/garage/surf). lee’s Palace Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra doors 9 pm. Massey hall Tori Amos, Trevor Moss, Hannah-Lou 8 pm, all ages. Molson aMPhiTheaTre John Legend doors 6:30 pm, all ages. Monarchs PuB Classic Rock Fridays The Danny Marks Trio. relish Bar & Grill Unplugged The Danger Bees (indie/pop) 9 pm. rePosado Tara Hazelton. rivoli Hot Tea, Shakedown doors 9 pm. The rockPile easT Onyx, Lazeus, Jesse James, Dre Specz, Geamz, Will Blankz, Intoxicated Prophets, Tapla, KRC and others doors 8 pm, all ages. s.h.i.B.G.B’s LP release Greys, HSY, WTCHS, Marriage 8 pm. silver dollar Cousins, Beliefs, Hands & Teeth doors 9 pm. See preview, page 32. TaTToo Aukland, Gold Complex , Xprime, Dan Daly doors 9 pm.

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FKA Twigs ELECTRONIC R&B

Don’t call her a control freak By BENJAMIN BOLES fka TwiGs at the Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Friday (August 8), doors 7:30 pm. $22.50-$25. RT, SS, TM.

The mountain of buzz was just starting to build around FKA twigs’ first EP of ethereal R&B last year when the British artist was forced to add the “FKA” to her long-time nickname. Turns out there’s an American pop duo called the Twigs, and they complained. Given how much explaining her moniker takes, you have to wonder why she didn’t just revert to her birth name, Tahliah Barnett. “It just seems like a very ‘singer’ name, and I don’t really consider myself a singer in that way,” she explains from her London apartment. “FKA twigs suits the project more because it’s short, it’s to the point, it’s got loads of consonants in it. FKA twigs could be a boy, could be a girl, could be a pet. I could be a panther, a lion in a zoo, a monkey. It could be a nightclub or a café.” The tone of her voice moves from glamorously bored to a subtly poetic singsong rhythm as she rattles off the possibilities. The irony is that for all its menacing electronic

textures, the focal point of her experimental pop is very much her airy falsetto, sparkling with reverb and dancing above the clattering percussion and sub-bass rumbles. Her upcoming debut full-length, LP1 (XL/Beggars), easily lives up to the promise of her first two EPs, although it includes none of the songs from those earlier releases. She was too excited about taking more control of the production on her newest batch of songs, and eager to get them out. But even as she throws herself more into recording and touring, she’s also still directing and conceptualizing her videos, and gives the impression that she’s a bit of a control freak – a characterization that makes her bristle. “What’s the opposite of a control freak? Someone who doesn’t write their own songs? Who doesn’t produce their own music? Who doesn’t direct their own videos? What is that person? I think I’m just an artist who likes to work really hard and be the best that I can be.” 3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com | @benjaminboles

TUE AUG 12 • No Cover BOOKIE’S NEW MUSIC NIGHT

BASEMENTS CZARS THE HISTRIONICS

THU AUG 7 • $20.00 Adv

BORIS THE ATLAS MOTH MT ZION

FRI AUG 8 • $20.00 Adv WED FROM MONTREAL AUG 13

THEE SILVER

$11.50 Adv

NOTHING

MORE SLEEPWAVE

THU AUG 14 • $6.00 @Door

$10.00 @Door

SLOWCOASTER QUALIFIER

(CAPE BRETON, NS) WITH OKAPI SUN

SUN AUG 10 & MON AUG 11 • $20.50 Adv

THU AUG 21 • $13.50 Adv @ CAVE SAT AUG 30 FUJIYA

STEVE ARRINGTON JULIAN TAYLOR

& MIYAGI

$15.50 Adv ZORCH

BAND

JUNIA

SHOELESS MONDAYS

HOWLL DEVIN CUDDY THE CITY & THE SEA

G.GREEN No Cover

CALLAN FURLONG READY THE PRINCE KIRTY 80Z SOUL

THE OBGMS

ALVVAYS J. FERNANDEZ

WED AUG 13 • $6.00 @Door FRI AUG 15 • $12.00 Adv SAT AUG 16 • $13.00 Adv MON AUG 18 • $12.50 Adv JAMES GRAY MEMORIAL

DLV

SOUND AS PEOPLE

CREEKSIDE STRAY

THE LUNES

PROPAGANDHI RVIVR • WAR ON WOMEN ALTERNATIVE PEOPLE’S CD RELEASE!

THE AURAS GEN GORMAN

SAT AUG 9 • $7.00 @Door THU AUG 14 • $11.50 Adv

CD RELEASE SHOW

FRI AUG 15 • $7.00 @Door

TUE AUG 19 • No Cover

THU AUG 21 • $13.50 Adv

BROWNE WITH DEVIN AND SAM CUDDY

& THE BANGIN’ RACKETTES JULIE BLUE RODEO MEMBERS +MORE THE GNARLY ONES

NURSERY

DOIRON

AUSTRALIA DISCO FUNK SOUL

THU AUG 28 • $12.50 Adv TUE SEP 9 • $25.50 Adv

BARBAROSA & WOODEN STARS LIBRARY

SAT AUG 16 • $X.XX @Door

LEE VOICES THE BLASTERS TIM MOXAM FIELDS

WWWY

CHOICE AWARDS

THU AUG 7 • SNEAKY DEE’S • $11.50 ADV

UNITED

‘60’S SOUTHERN SOUL

EVENING HYMNS • JOSE CONTRERAS

SAT

‘80’S SO-CAL ‘MARIE MARIE’ ROCKABILLY

$24.50 Adv

GAS HOUSE GORILLAS • GINGER ST. JAMES TAYLOR KNOX BAND & THE EXPRESSIONS

SEP 6

MISS PINUP CANADA

• LEE’S PALACE • • VIRGIN MOD CLUB •

BOB LOG III CLAIRY JIM CUDDY

BOOKIE’S NEW MUSIC NIGHT

CHASING SHADOWS

WINNIPEG HARDCORE PUNK ROCK

$7.00 @Door

FRI AUG 8 • $8.00 @Door

LESS THAN THREE

SOCIAL STRIFE

T.O. REGIONAL

THE INVASIONS

SAN MARINA MON PET SUN AUG 11

SUBROSA BIG BRAVE SPOKE SHAVE SAT AUG 9

THU AUG 7

FRI AUG 8 • DANFORTH MH • $22.50-$25.00 ADV

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The beer giant selected the Toronto four-piece (Ooohh Baby Gimme Mores in full; they got tired of spelling out three o’s and two h’s) for its Epic Concert campaign, which sends them to Philadelphia later this month for the Jay Z-curated Made In America fest (featuring Kanye West, Steve Aoki, Pharrell Williams and Kings of Leon). Bud is also funding their debut album, out September 12 with a show at the Rivoli. It may sound like an overnight success story, but it isn’t. On day four of recording at Dream House Studios, guitarist and lead singer Densil McFarlane explains that he and drummer Colanthony [Cola] Humphrey started the band as a hip-hop reduction duo in 2007/2008 after meeting through their sisters, who both went to York Memorial High School, as did Humphrey. The duo’s 2009 EP, Intercourse, was born of frustration. “It was an experiment between Colanthony and me, because we were playing in a bunch of bands and it

wasn’t working,” says McFarlane. Says Humphrey, “We went through 15 or 20 people before we came to [bassist] Joe [Brosnan] and [synth player] Jemuel [Roberts].” McFarlane and Humphrey poached Roberts from another group at a battle of the bands and found Brosnan at board game café Snakes & Lattes, where he was working and teaching their table of 12 “a pretty gangster game” called Ca$h ’n Gun$. “We were playing the most rambunctious of party games,” says Brosnan, “and I worked my way into their conversation. “When Cola wrote down his band name, I flipped cuz one of my best friends had been telling me he was a huge fan of the Ooohh Baby Gimme Mores, even as a two-piece. He instantly got jealous after I succeeded in my audition.” Last year the band released a video for electro-punk song Beat Up Kidz (directed by animator Ryan Enn Hughes), which will be “dusted off” for the album. 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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Five years ago, Aaron Mangle graduated from art school and decided to work on his Halifax garage rock band, Cousins, in a more focused way. He and drummer Leigh Dotey hit the road, and have only come off it for brief intervals to make records. They released their third, The Halls Of Wickwire (Hand Drawn Dracula), in May, and it made this year’s Polaris Prize long list. “The way we’ve found any success and got people interested in working with us has been by playing all the time,” says Mangle while loading up a washing machine at a Halifax laundromat. “So we have a reputation for being hardworking. We set a precedent for ourselves – people know we will tour. We don’t have any hits. We don’t have any albums that sell really well. But we have a reputation for doing a good show.” Besides the Polaris nod, recognition has come in other forms lately: the band secured a respected booking agent as well as a record deal with Toronto’s Hand Drawn Dracula, which allowed them to record Wickwire with Holy Fuck’s Graham Walsh and engineer Josh Korody at Candle Recording. The result is a raucous but soulful and cohesive effort. Already they’re on to album four, at Jay Crocker’s studio

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back in Nova Scotia. Yet despite this progress, notes of disillusionment creep into the conversation. Mangle says touring can take a toll on the band’s relationships, health and finances. He’s wary of festivals that don’t properly pay performers. And he feels like granting body FACTOR is a way for the federal government to prop up the music industry by filtering money through artists who don’t get to keep it but still have to claim it on their taxes. “We’re getting more recognition and paid better at shows, but we still don’t have any money. We’re working harder, and more money is coming in, but Leigh and I aren’t able to pay ourselves. Other people working for us are getting wages and salaries, but I don’t have any money to pay rent next month.” But is playing music still meaningful to him? “Playing music and having people respond to it, engaging with other artists and engaging the world as an artist, and living in a way that you design for yourself – that’s really valuable to me. The problem is trying to figure out how to do that within an industry that’s corrupt and doesn’t care about artists at all. I don’t feel like a victim – I’m extremely grateful for the opportunities and success we’ve been enjoying. But I don’t really like the industry.”

3 carlag@nowtoronto.com | @carlagillis

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bLaCk bear Pub Jam SNAFU 3:30 to 7:30 pm. brigadoon resTauranT Open Jam Murphy’s

Law (rock/top 40) 4 to 8 pm. The Cage 292 Jam Phil Hood 10 pm. dakoTa Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 10 am-2 pm. disTiLLery disTriCT TriniTy square Summer Sunday Music Series Claire Morrison (folk) 3 pm. dora keogh Traditional Irish Music Session Patrick Ourceau 5 to 8 pm. The fLying beaver PubareT Under The Full Moon: Night Music Jamieson Montgomery (folk/jazz/world) 8 pm. free Times Cafe Casey Bolles, Calla & Alison, Rum Cuillin, Gunk (folk/pop/punk/rock) 8 pm. grossman’s Open Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm. Linsmore Tavern Sam Taylor & the East End Love (blues/rock) 5 to 9 pm. The LoCaL Los Caballeros del Son (Cuban) 9 pm, Chris Coole (old-time/country) 5 pm. mCgradies TaP and griLL Open Jam Dan Walek (R&B) 6 to 10 pm. reLish bar & griLL Cadre (roots/blues) 5 pm, Stir It Up Open Mic (9 pm). suPermarkeT Freefall Sunday Open Mic 8 pm. TranzaC More sONGS & pOEMS Max Layton, Bob Cohen, Fraser & Girard 6 to 8 pm.

Expressions Of Brazil Henrique Cazes Choro Canadioca 5 to 6 pm. The Jazz bisTro Solo Piano Sunday Brunch Series Florian Hoefner (solo piano) 12:30 pm, Dorothy Stone & Ori Dagan 7 pm. The LoCaL gesT Sunday Jazz Steve Koven Trio 4:30 pm. meL LasTman square Sunday Serenades Metro Big Band 7 to 9:30 pm. musideum Duos Dylan Bell, Suba Sankaran (jazz/pop) 8 pm. Paradise bar & biLLiards Jazz Jam The Unit 4 to 8 pm. The rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon, Red Hot Ramble 3:30 pm. ToronTo musiC garden Summer Music In The Garden: All Things Brass And Beautiful Trillium Brass Quintet 4 pm. TranzaC souThern Cross The Lina Allemano Four (jazz) 10 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

The garrison Zine Dream 7 Closing Party DJ U.S. Girls, DJ Ding Dong 9 pm.

Monday, August 11 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

grossman’s No Band Required 10 pm. hugh’s room Unmodified: A benefit for Kids

Right To Know Club Jen Chapin, Julian Taylor, Chris Birkett (prog folk/rock) 8:30 pm. kiTCh Hypnotic Lounge Series Luke Vajsar (solo bass). The PisTon The Backhomes, Bad River, Fuct Tape 9 pm. sauCe on The danforTh The Out of Towners (soul/jazz/funk) 9 pm. sneaky dee’s Crimson Shadows, Battlecross, Nekrogoblikon, Swashbuckle doors 6 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

Expressions Of Brazil: Brazilian Sarau Jam Session 2:30 to 4:30 pm.

harbourfronT CenTre redPaTh sTage

Expressions Of Brazil Ana Aune 4 to 5 pm, Que é isso? 2 to 3 pm.

royaL ConservaTory of musiC koerner haLL Toronto Summer Music Festival Toronto Symphony Orchestra 7 pm.

TranzaC souThern Cross Stop Time (jazz)

10 pm, Aurochs (jazz) 7:30 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

aLLeyCaTz Bachata Night DJ Frank Bischun

8:30 pm.

Wednesday, August 13 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

bLaCk swan Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 9:30 pm.

The Loaded dog Tommy Rocker (classic rock)

8:30 pm.

Speziale 7:30 pm. The LoCaL Hamstrung String Band (bluegrass/ country) 9 pm. musideum James Bruce Moore (folk/songwriter) 8 pm. reLish bar & griLL Music Of The Mediterranean Stars (blues) 8 pm. TranzaC souThern Cross Open Mic 9 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

by The way Cafe Patio Jazz ADRIANNSE/ STANLEY DUO 8 to 10 pm. The CenTraL DVD release Michael Kleniec (jazz guitar) 7 to 10 pm. ChurCh of The hoLy TriniTy Music Monday: CBC Music Young Artist Of 2014 Bryan Cheng, Sylvie Cheng (cello, piano) 12:15 pm. emmeT ray bar Florian Hoefner Quartet (jazz) 9 pm, Ethan Ardelli (jazz) 7 pm. The rex Marika Galea & Blue 9:30 pm, Jake Koffman Quartet 6:30 pm. TranzaC souThern Cross Transcombobulation Jonathan Adjemain 7:30 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

aLLeyCaTz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm. The Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon (retro

70s/80s) 10 pm. rePosado DJ Ellis Dean.

Tuesday, August 12 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

danforTh musiC haLL Echo & the Bunnymen doors 7 pm. ñThe moLson amPhiTheaTre KISS, Def Leppard, Kobra and the Lotus doors 6 ñ pm, all ages. monarChs Pub Showcase Tuesdays Les Garant. orbiT room The Sattalites (reggae) 10 pm. The PisTon Ginger Ale & the Monowhales, Mercy Flight, the Marwills 9 pm.

rePosado Gord C Alien Radio. rivoLi Indie Night John Boom & Jelly Fish, the

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

harbourfronT CenTre Lakeside TerraCe

nik, Dominique Banoun, Aisha Sasha John, Chris Adriaanse, Ben Bennett and others (avant/improvised) 8 pm. bLakbird Nightbird Vocal Jazz Jam The Kalya Ramu Quintet 8:30 to 11:30 pm. The Jazz bisTro Michele Mele, Cynthia Tauro (jazz/pop) 8 pm. PaLais royaLe Waterfront Tuesdays Dinner & Dance Vivianna & Her Jelly Bean Jazz Band, Glenn Chipkar doors 6 pm. The rex Danjam Big Band 9:30 pm, Julia Cleveland Quintet 6:30 pm.

free Times Cafe Open Stage Mondays Jessica

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

array sPaCe Audiopollination 21 Neil Wier-

bLakbird Robin Banks Soul & Blues Trio 8 pm. Lee’s PaLaCe Nothing More, Soundwave

gaTe 403 Joe Sheridan & Mark Kieswetter (trad jazz/swing) 5 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

drake hoTeL Strand of Oaks (indie folk) doors

Liquor Store, the House of Haunt doors 8 pm. suPermarkeT Album launch Keram doors 8 pm. virgin mobiLe mod CLub Live Forever Tour Paradise Fears, Against the Current, William Beckett doors 6 pm, all ages.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

gage Park Inspirational Music In The Park (gospel/folk/classical) 7 to 9 pm. grossman’s Ms Debbie & the Don Valley Stompers 9:30 pm. hugh’s room Kruger Brothers (bluegrass) 8:30 pm. izakaya sushi house Drummers In Exile 8:30 pm. The LoCaL Joe Charron (folk/roots) 9 pm. Lou dawg’s Tangled Up In The Blues Chris Caddell, Cassius, Periera, Kenny Neal Jr 8 pm. musideum Ever-Lovin’ Jug Band (folk/roots) 8 pm. reLish bar & griLL Clela 7:30 pm.

axis gaLLery & griLL The Junction Jam Derek Downham 10 pm. C’esT whaT Patrick Ballantyne doors 8:30 pm. The duke Live.Com Open Jam Frank Wilks 8:30 pm. free Times Cafe Matthew Ballantyne & the Range Runners (folk/songwriter) 8:30 pm.

doors 8 pm.

9 pm.

Lower ossingTon TheaTre mainsPaCe Summerworks Music Series: The Secret ñ Garden Of Lido Pimienta Lido Pimienta,

Natasha Greenblatt 9 pm. orbiT room LMT Connection (funk/R&B) 10 pm. The PisTon The Wildheart Socials, St. Stella, Sean Pinchin 9 pm. rePosado Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy. rivoLi Marcus & the Mountain, Holy Toledo, Rublez N Pence doors 9 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

Cameron house Tim Bradford (country/

roots) 10 pm.

Cameron house The Moanin After 8 pm, Emma-Lee 6 pm.

emmeT ray bar Peter Boyd & his Mutant

Mariachis (blues/country/folk/roots) 9 pm.

grossman’s Bruce Domoney 9:30 pm. hugh’s room CD release T Nile, Kira May, Maiko Watson 8:30 pm.

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

The LoCaL Whitebrow (spooky folk) 9 pm. Lou dawg’s ryerson Live Blues/Soul/Funk

Night 9 pm.

mississauga CeLebraTion square Summer Open Mic 8 to 10 pm. The roCkPiLe easT Open Jam Juggernaut Jam Band 8 pm to midnight. TranzaC Tiki room Comhaltas Irish Slow Session 6 pm. TranzaC souThern Cross Local 164 (old time music) 10 pm, John Ainsworth 7:30 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

aLLeyCaTz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/ jazz) 8:30 pm. Casa Loma Symphony In The Gardens Toronto Concert Orchestra 7 to 10 pm. ChaLkers Pub Girls Night Out: Lisa Particelli’s GNOJAZZ Jam Session Lisa Particelli, Peter Hill, Ross MacIntyre 8 pm to midnight. The Jazz bisTro Ewen Farncombe & Nick Arseneau 8 pm. monarChs Pub Jazz Wednesdays The Vipers. reLish bar & griLL The BTB’s (fusion jazz) 7:30 pm. The rex Danjam Big Band 9:30 pm, Ernesto Cervini Trio 6:30 pm. wyChwood TheaTre NAISA Sound Travels: Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium Concerts 8 pm.

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The ossingTon Soul Train (deep grooves).

album reviews Wildest Dreams is a psychedelic rock album in the vein of such classic British acts as Cream and Pink Floyd, but tuned for a hallucinatory road trip along southern California freeways. One track is named after an interstate – 405 – and the cover sleeve nods to Randy California’s 1972 psych obscurity Kapt. Kopter And The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds. The album alternates between punchy songs with summery subject matter (Rollerskates, She Loves Me Not) that he belts like a 60s pop heartthrob and beautifully realized instrumentals (Last Ride, Pleasure Swell) that pay tribute to the Doors’ swaying keyboard solos and groovy diversions. It works as an homage but also as a reminder that specific eras, places, styles and sounds can live on as a state of mind. Top track: Pleasure Swell KEVIN RITCHIE

album of the week TRE MISSION Stigmata

(Big Dada) Rating: NNNN Tre Mission’s 2013 mixtape Malmaison proved a Toronto kid could be an absolute natural in the UK grime world. He’s followed up with a fleshed-out, mostly self-produced debut album of all-new material that blends the genre with a distinctly 416 sound and a touch of southern hip-hop. Both the pulsating electronic production and Tre’s throaty staccato flow are unrelenting. Yet the result isn’t abrasive, but balanced by subtle instrumentals and light-touch hooks care of fellow Canucks like k-os and up-and-coming R&B singer Andreena. Stigmata is cohesive but dabbles in styles: Rally is a short, sweet dip into dubstep. Jack Pot’s stuttery experi-

mentalism recalls Shabazz Palaces. On Road intros with light piano and pattering drum ’n’ bass percussion before becoming the album’s most infectious earworm. The only play for radio friendliness, Money Make (Her), and the bigger-name collabs – Get Doe with Saukrates – are still brooding and uneasy, and Tre’s storytelling is on point, whether he’s telling his own tale or someone else’s. The freshest features, which come from a handful of much older, established English grime stars (JME, Wiley, Skepta, Merky Ace), see Tre paying homage to the London scene that initially embraced him. One of the best Canadian rap albums of 2014. Top track: On Road JULIA LECONTE

ing Crows, Jason Mraz, Beck and the Shins. It’s a great balance. Mostly, though, this is pure Spoon. Britt Daniel’s voice is soulful, tuneful and rough, helping his heartbreak-focused lyrics hit hard, especially on Do You. Bass and drum grooves propel the robust tunes, and a few of the best they save for last, like the meticulously crafted Let Me Be Mine, with cinematic sonic surprises that continue in closer New York Kiss. Top track: Let Me Be Mine CARLA GILLIS

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The Great Upheaval (Acadian Embassy) Rating: NNNN Seven post-rock instrumentals make up Kuato’s debut full-length, which comes after a handful of digital EPs. The Halifax five-piece excel at moody drama, inventing sonic landscapes that wax and wane, surge and settle. Apparently, the Acadian expulsion from Nova Scotia in the 18th century inspired the compositions, and an overwhelming sense of gloomy defiance and angsty sadness pervades them. Moments of beauty peek through – small respites amidst the destruction. The album works well as one long set piece, as several songs run straight into one another. But arresting moments break things up and prevent The Great Upheaval from becoming background listening. Groundwork features stunning, bombastic drumming, while the title track gets deliciously heavy in a violent, sludgy, satisfying way. Top track: The Great Upheaval Kuato play the Boat on Thursday (August 7). CG

glam rock and current indie rock. For a band known to play the occasional spontaneous set of Motown covers, the soul influences aren’t particularly upfront, but you can hear their traces in the wildly infectious choruses and in lead singer Max Kerman’s approach to vocals. Top track: Dirty Blonde BENJAMIN BOLES

SINÉAD O’CONNOR I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss (Nettwerk) Rating: NNN Sinéad O’Connor has cited Chicago blues as an influence on her 10th studio album – a collection of songs about love sung from the POV of imagined characters. Mostly the blues manifests itself in the loud, aggressive quality of the guitar-playing, like on The Voice Of My Doctor and Harbour, two furious songs that give the polarizing Irish singer/songwriter a chance to snarl and wail with the emotional fury that deepens with each successive release. O’Connor’s impassioned delivery elevates the most middling melodies and predictable rhymes. Produced by John Reynolds, the music is a familiar and glossy mix of jaunty singalongs, searing rock riffs, big, multi-tracked choruses and a smattering of dancey rhythms that contrast with her raw, restless singing. Closing ballad Streetcars finally gives the vocals some breathing room and focus – a reminder that O’Connor is equally compelling with little to compete with. Top track: Streetcars Sinéad O’Connor plays Massey Hall October 24. KR

R&B FKA TWIGS LP1 (XL/Beggars)

Rating: NNN As FKA twigs, British musician Tahliah Barnett turns R&B into a cerebral soundscape of ever-shifting rhythms and noise. Her debut LP is similar to recent albums by Björk and the Knife in that she messes around with time signatures, phrasing and sonic oddities in search of a unique song structure. Whereas those artists’ playful metaphors or political lyrics mirrored their nontraditionalism, twigs is more direct. She sings about love in the first person, often addressing an unnamed partner – on Lights On and Hours, for example – as part of an erotically charged tug-of-war between self-confidence and self-doubt. The music follows the whims of her

vocals, which are as unpredictable and impressively produced as the rest. Her soft, breathy and sometimes effected voice erupts in bursts of staccato, lapses into falsetto and dissipates into choral ecstasy. It’s a rigorous production that could benefit from some humanizing imperfections. After a while, the microscopic detail underscoring each turn of phrase, delivered with such delicate poise and precise drama, is suffocating. Top track: Pendulum FKA twigs plays the Danforth Music Hall Friday (August 8). KR

Electronic NNNN ñHYPERDUB

10.2 (Hyperdub) Rating: In certain dance music circles, UK label Hyperdub is seen as one of the most influential outlets of the last decade. Once central to the early days of dubstep and grime, it’s now just as well known for spreading the sound of Chicago footwork and providing a home for off-kilter soul. Those latter R&B influences are the focus of Hyperdub 10.2, the second of four planned compilations celebrating the label’s 10th anniversary. For a label on the experimental side of the dance floor, it’s sometimes surprising how overtly poppy many of these songs are. Then again, even mainstream R&B can get pretty weird, so maybe that’s not so strange. Burial and the late DJ Rashad’s contributions are predictably strong, and Jessy Lanza’s two appearances stand out for successfully combining traditional songcraft with forward-thinking sonic exploration. Ikonika and Dam-Funk’s 80s boogie jam I Know (That U Are The 1) is just ridiculously fun. Top track: You And Me by Jessy Lanza BB

Pop/Rock

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They Want My Soul (Universal) Rating: NNNN Doubts about Spoon’s vibrancy crept in during their recent Yonge-Dundas Square set at NXNE, which was as solid as we’ve come to expect from the stately Austin indie rockers but didn’t offer much in the way of surprises or excitement. But while their eighth album doesn’t take any major left turns, it brims with life, ideas and energy. The minimalist five-piece brought Dave Fridmann aboard for production duties, he of Flaming Lips albums and Mercury Rev experimental weirdness, and he must be behind the dissonant background textures on the excellent Knock Knock Knock. But they also employed super-pro Joe Chiccarelli, known for his work with the Count-

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(Smalltown Supersound) Rating: English musician Harvey Bassett (aka DJ Harvey) has earned a rep as the DJ world’s answer to Keith Richards. Whatever the genre – punk, Balearic, weirdo disco, house – he serves it up with an aura of greasily mustachioed sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll hedonism.

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

High Noon (Universal/Dine Alone) Rating: NNNN Hamilton indie rockers Arkells brought in producer Tony Hoffer (Phoenix, M83) to help give their third album more contemporary tones and textures. But while you can definitely hear his touch here and there, thankfully the band hasn’t messed much with the classic pop feel that’s already won them two Junos. The songs just have a bit more sonic depth and shine, and the new orchestral embellishments are so unobtrusive you barely notice them. Listening to the album is like riding in a car while someone skips through the radio stations, bouncing from warm 70s piano pop to 80s new wave, with nods to classic NOW AUGUST 7-13 2014

summerw Stage Special

SUMMERWORKS PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL at the Theatre Centre (1115 Queen West), Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson), Lower Ossington Theatre (100A Ossington), Pia Bouman School for Ballet (6 Noble), Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen West) and various other venues. Opens Thursday (August 7) and runs to August 17, various times. $15, musical works in concert $20, live art shows free$20, passes (either atthe-door or advance) $40-$120, not valid for music series or musical works in concert. Tickets available at the venue one hour before performance; 25 per cent reserved for at-the-door sales. Advance tickets available up to three hours before showtime at summerworks.ca, in person at the Theatre Centre or by phone at 416-907-0468. See complete listings at nowtoronto.com/ summerworks or summerworks.ca.

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2. Guy Sprung WhAT Adaptor/director of Kafka’s Ape, in which an ape gives a lecture on how he evolved from an animal to a hard-working, hard-drinking mercenary soldier. Why Sprung, who ran Toronto Free Theatre in the 1980s and was later co-head of Canadian Stage, is currently artistic director of Montreal’s Infinithéâtre. The company remounts this version of Kafka’s A Report To An Academy; the praise for the Quebec staging suggests that Sprung hasn’t lost the vibrant, textually incisive qualities he brought to some of his Toronto productions years ago.

to watch There’s no lack of talent at this year’s fest. Keep your eye on these folks, who will be SummerWorkin’ it to the bone. By JON KAPLAN and GLENN SUMI

1. Sabrina Reeves WhAT Performer in Blindsided, about a woman who flashes back to her childhood after being hit by a car while riding her bike to work. Why One of the founding members of the site-specific collective bluemouth inc. (veterans of several SummerWorks shows), Reeves is a focused, physical performer who adds an electric spark to any performance. This is a solo show with her Montreal company Fée Fatale, but expect lots of multimedia excitement, including large-scale film projections that blur the line between past and present.

3. Cole Alvis WhAT Director of ROW, about an aboriginal “kept boy” who’s been sequentially cared for by a number of men and, though no longer young, is looking for his next daddy. Why A queer Metis actor/director/ administrator who’s worked with Native Earth, the Indigenous Performing Arts Alliance and lemonTree creations, Alvis brings a sharp sense of theatricality to his work, which is simple and goes straight to the heart. In ROW, written by frequent Fringe playwright T. Berto, he collaborates with a trio of native performers (Dillan Chiblow, Billy Merasty and Garret C. Smith) who embody the main character at different ages. Expect the result to be insightful and moving.

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4. Lili Francks WHAT Actor in Chicken Grease Is Nasty Business, a comedy in which a mother who fries the best chicken in the South concocts a plan to lure her sons back home. WHY Francks, who’s appeared in The Adventures Of A Black Girl In Search Of God, The Golden Dragon and Goodness, always scores with simple, non-nonsense performances that resonate long after the curtain falls. In playwright Michael Miller’s Chicken Grease – the two previously worked together in El Paso – she’s surrounded by a great cast, including Karen Glave, Danny Waugh, Christian Lloyd, Dian Marie Bridge and Sedina Fiati, with Kim Blackwell directing.

Daniela Vlaskalic

5. Jennifer Walls WHAT Performer in Recurring John, Kevin Wong’s musical look at one man through the eyes of those around him, part of the always sold-out Musical Works in Concert series. WHY The multi-talented Walls runs the Monday night musical theatre open mic show at Statler’s and has wowed theatre audiences as Liza Minnelli in her Fringe hit Liza Live! and the two-hander Liza & Barbra (with pal Gabi Epstein). Last month she stood out in the Fringe hit Hugh & I – playing in drag, no less. So look for her and a terrific cast that includes Paula Wolfson, Chris Tsujiuchi and Arlene Duncan in Wong’s show, which, judging from video clips, has the feel of a song cycle like Elegies or Songs For The New World.

7. Ronald Pederson

and Daniela Vlaskalic WHAT Performers in The Bull, The Moon And The Coronet Of Stars, a sexy, comic and romantic spinoff on the Minotaur myth that involves heartbreak and redemption. WHY Delightful performers individually – Pederson was a member of the National Theatre of the World, and Vlaskalic co-wrote and -performed national hit The Drowning Girls – the pair collaborate as the Theatre Department, which has presented The Exquisite Hour and Pith! Working with director Vikki Anderson and choreographer Monica Dottor, they’re sure to bring laughs and tenderness to a play that promises wine, museum artifacts and an orgy of cupcakes.

6. Daniele Bartolini

WHAT Director and creator (with others) of The Stranger, a two-part mystery “serial” that begins with a walkabout, participatory jaunt through the Queen and Bathurst area and concludes with narrative loose ends being tied up at the Theatre Centre. WHY Along with his collaborators, including Danya Buonastella and Rory de Brouwer, Bartolini entranced audience with the outdoor Midway Along The Journey Of Our Life in SummerWorks 2013 and The Last Seven Steps Of Bartholomew S. at the Bata Shoe Museum. He’s again creating a one-on-one theatrical experiment in The Stranger that’s certain to put the viewer through an unconventional, dreamlike experience. Can’t wait to go down this rabbit hole.

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I knew about the Gould doc [The Idea Of North], but suddenly I engaged with it in a different way. What’s missing in his piece are any aboriginal or indigenous northern voices.

8. Evalyn Parry

Queer pioneer does double duty at fest, nurturing new talent and critiquing two Canadian male icons on their idea of North By GLENN SUMI

TO LIVE IN THE AGE OF MELTING: THE IDEA OF NORTH 2.0 written and performed by Evalyn Parry and Elysha Poirier, with remote contributions by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory. Presented by OutSpoke Productions and SummerWorks at Studio C, Pia Bouman School for Creative Movement. Installation and interviews (free) Aug 11 to 17, 5 to 8 pm. Performances Aug 15-17 at 9 pm.

GRACEFUL REBELLIONS written and performed by Shaista Latif, directed by Evalyn Parry. Presented by Lapis Productions and SummerWorks at Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace. Aug 7 at 9:30 pm, Aug 8 at 5:30 pm, Aug 9 at 4:30 pm, Aug 10 at 2:30 pm, Aug 11 at 7 pm, Aug 13 at 7:30 pm, Aug 15 at 5 pm, Aug 16 at 9 pm.

It’s the height of summer, but these days Evalyn Parry is feeling the cold. For her latest SummerWorks project, she’s immersed herself in some northern exposure. And she wants you to feel the chill as well, by sharing your stories about the north. Parkas are optional. The genesis of her two-part installation/performance piece, To Live In The Age Of Melting: The Idea Of North 2.0, goes back a couple of years. Commissioned to write a new work for a poetry festival, Parry decided to deconstruct Stan Rogers’s famous folk song Northwest Passage, interweaving issues of Arctic sovereignty, climate change, the Harper government and the role of women into the piece. Then, after returning from a two-week stint as artist-in-residence on a student research boat from Baffin Island’s Iqaluit to Greenland, she came up with the idea of remaking Glenn Gould’s classic CBC Radio documentary The Idea Of North. Taking on two of Canada’s most cherished male artists in one show? Yup, that sounds like Parry, the queer singer/songwriter, spoken word artist, director, playwright and actor who, in the spirit of John Franklin and other explorers, has been forging her own path – a feminist one in her case – for over a decade and a half. Since both of her parents were folk musicians, she and her brother, Richard Reed Parry (of Arcade Fire and Belle Orchestre), grew up immersed in the folk canon, the CBC constantly on and summer weekends spent at music festivals. So revisiting certain passages in Rogers’s haunting song about the doomed Northwest Passage was eye-opening. “In the chorus there’s this line, ‘through a land so wide and savage,’” says Parry in the parkette outside Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. “A bunch of white people standing around singing that. How can we say that without thinking about it?

Maybe it’s time to reconsider that.” Parry also dug up information about Franklin’s wife, Lady Jane. “She’s a fascinating and super-complex character,” she says. “She put that story on the map, the story that captured the public imagination. She is, in a way, its author. After he disappeared, she kept the search for him alive for 20 years through her power, influence and money.” As for Gould’s radio documentary about the Great White North, it was indeed pretty white. “I knew about the Gould doc but suddenly I engaged with it in a whole different way,” she says. “I realized that one of the things missing in his piece are any aboriginal or indigenous northern voices.” For her part, Parry has collaborated with Inuit artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, whom she met on that two-week boat trip. Williamson Bathory is collecting stories by people in the North about their ideas of the (Canadian) South. And in the first few days of SummerWorks, Parry and installation artist Elysha Poirier will interview people about their ideas of the North. (This part is free, and you’re encouraged to bring something – a physical object, an image, song or story.) A final weekend of performances will include audio and video from both sets of interviews, as well as the Northwest Passage piece. “I can’t predict what will happen, because so much depends on what people contribute,” says Parry, who with Poirier is also releasing a film about the North in the fall. “But that’s what makes this exciting.” Her northern project fits in nicely with Parry’s ongoing attempt to insert women’s stories into fields dominated by men. Her song-filled show SPIN, which returns to Buddies this fall after a national tour, looks at the history of women and cycling and includes a story about Annie Londonderry, the first woman to bicycle around the world. (That piece has changed since the last Toronto version in 2011, after Londonderry’s granddaughter contacted Parry. An account of that interaction is now part of the show.) Before SPIN, with Independent Aunties’s Anna Chatteron and Karin Randoja, Parry helped create everything from an Edward Gorey-like cautionary tale about girls, Clean Irene And Dirty Maxine, to Breakfast, a disturbing spin on Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Marnie. The first time I saw Parry and Chatterton was in a piece they collaborated on fresh out of Concordia University, The Former Republic Of Poetry, a vivid, imaginative take on poems by Margaret Atwood and Bronwyn Wallace. The two are currently developing another work inspired by literary women, this one about early 20th century queer icons Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.

“What’s been more inspiring even than reading Stein’s work is getting to understand her as a character in history,” she says, clearly excited. “They were these female renegade experimental outsiders. They were these queer, out artists in the 1920s, which seems mind-boggling. So their example has been a guiding inspiration for us.” Parry herself has clearly become an inspiration to a whole new generation of queer artists. As the director of Buddies’ Young Creators Unit, she’s worked with artists as diverse as Mark Shyzer, Waawaate Fobister and Tawiah M’carthy, directing the latter two to Dora Awards when their plays Agokwe and Obaaberima were picked up and mounted by Buddies. One of her latest proteges, Shaista Latif, is at SummerWorks with Graceful Rebellions, which Parry helped develop and is directing. It’s a solo show about three queer Afghan women – perspectives, like those of the aboriginal Fobister and the Ghana-born M’carthy, that aren’t regularly seen on any stage. “Those are the stories and perspectives that interest me, and they’ve been key in terms of the projects I’ve chosen,” says Parry, who grew up near Kensington Market and admits that coming out to her own liberal, socially conscious parents “was a pretty soft landing... but there was an adjustment and a learning curve and a new culture to be introduced.” Latif, says Parry, is a first-generation Canadian who grew up trying to sort out her Afghan-Canadian identity as a kid, and then recognized her queer identity. “It was a pretty challenging, difficult bunch of identities to navigate in her family of origin,” she says. One of the characters is an Afghan woman who passes and lives as a man fighting in Afghanistan. Working with young artists, especially ones from diverse backgrounds, obviously requires patience and trust – on both sides. “One of my big jobs as director is listening, on multiple levels,” she says. “I have to think about what the story is, how best to push and challenge a writer and make them go to places they don’t necessarily want to go at first. [Shaista] and I have had some emotional meetings that took a while to get there. “Her background is more as a writer and director than as a performer,” says Parry. “The acting part is nerve-racking for her even though she’s totally commanding. It took her a while to step into that role. So she’s excited but nervous about SummerWorks. “It’s fun for me. She’s a great writer. Her stories live on the page. And it’s great to see someone come into their own.” 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com | @glennsumi

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Janet Lo takes on the role of a woman who was both hated and feared

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9. Sascha Cole WHAT Actor in Antigonick, poet Anne Carson’s adaptation of the Antigone story, and guest narrator in Erin Fleck’s Unintentionally Depressing Children’s Tales, a collection of sad/humorous stories that blend shadow puppetry, stop-motion action and storytelling. WHY A SummerWorks regular (Dutchman and Post Eden), Cole’s also proven her talent outside the festival in The Diary Of Anne Frank, Shakespeare’s Nigga and New Jerusalem. She’ll bring a lyrical quality to the title figure in Antigonick, who’s fatally caught between public and private demands, while we can imagine a playful, tongue-in-cheek quality to her work as Fleck’s narrator.

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WHAT Creator/performer in Fathers & Sons: Kamino Family, a six-hour experiment involving the artist, his brother and their dad. WHY The lean and expressive Dancemakers hoofer is one of the most adventurous artists around. His SummerWorks 2013 piece, How Can I Forget?, with Sook-Yin Lee, was undisciplined but fascinatingly messy and raw, playing with the idea of memory and reality. Now he’s venturing further into the avant-garde in this piece where he’ll be dancing continuously, interrupted by his dad, Timothy, with contributions by mural/tattoo artist brother Alexander. Audiences can enter and leave at any time, but since Kamino is so watchable, you might want to stay for it all.

MADAM MAO by Paul Thompson, Janet Lo, Samantha Wan and Severn Thompson, directed by Severn Thompson, with Lo and Wan. Presented by Azure River and SummerWorks at the Theatre Centre Incubator. Aug 7 at 7:30 pm, Aug 9 at 9:30 pm, Aug 11 at 7 pm, Aug 13 at 8 pm, Aug 14 at 4:30 pm, Aug 16 at 3:30 pm, Aug 17 at 2:30 pm.

Janet Lo understands that a lot of people have a visceral reaction to the name Jiang Qing, wife of Chairman Mao. The head of the Gang of Four, she was a hated figure whose promotion of China’s Cultural Revolution led to the persecution and deaths of thousands. But Lo is fascinated with the woman, and the result is Madam Mao, a play she’s collaborating on with Paul Thompson, Samantha Wan and director Severn Thompson. A controversial figure who died in 1991 after years of imprisonment, Madam Mao, says Lo, was a protofeminist, born into poverty, who rose to become the most powerful and possibly the most feared woman in the world. “I want to explore how that arc happened, what shaped her life,” says Lo. “We focus on the cultural aspect, including the eight model plays she created during the Cultural Revolution to emphasize Communist ideas and victories.” Lo has been using improv and tales from Chinese legend to develop the script, which was initially a solo show featuring Lo as Jiang Qing. In the process, she and Paul Thompson added a second figure, played by Wan, a Communist sergeant who questions the defiant former leader in prison. Wan’s background means that martial arts and dance are now part of the production. “In her youth Madam Mao was an idealistic actor – she played Nora in A Doll’s House – who found camaraderie in Communism, a group in which she could belong and find hope. When she met Mao, the party didn’t approve of the relationship and in fact insisted that he not acknowledge his marriage to her for 20 years. When he stood in Tiananmen Square in 1949 to proclaim the foundation of the People’s Republic of China, Jiang Qing was in Moscow.

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TRAGEDY: A TRAGEDY by Will Eno, directed by Stewart Arnott, with Don Allison, Benjamin Clost, Miranda Edwards, Cyrus Lane and Christopher Stanton. Presented by Nightfall Theatrics and SummerWorks at the Lower Ossington Theatre. Aug 7 at 8:30 pm, Aug 8 at 6 pm, Aug 9 at 10 pm, Aug 11 at 4:30 pm, Aug 12 at 7 pm, Aug 15 at 7 pm, Aug 16 at 1:30 pm.

“But once a person gains power, as she did, she’ll do anything she can to keep it.” Wan’s young soldier functions as a counterpart to the always bold, unrepentant Madam Mao, a young woman who might follow the same path as the older character. “In fact, you could argue that the sergeant wouldn’t be there if Madam Mao hadn’t followed her own path. The imprisoned character even asks her captor, ‘What would you do if you were in my position?’”

How would the media treat the end of the world? In American playwright Will Eno’s Tragedy: a tragedy, the reporting and personal reflections start light and then turn darker, appropriate since what humankind is dealing with is a sunset that isn’t followed by a sunrise. Everlasting blackness prevails around the world. “What I love about Eno’s work is his obsession with and intense focus on the English language – its beauty but also its inadequacy as a vessel to carry deep, authentic, intimate thoughts and ideas,” says director Stewart Arnott. “All of his characters struggle with the limitation and beauty of what words can and can’t do for us.” In Tragedy, a series of news people – a field reporter, a paternal studio anchor, a woman who delivers human interest stories, a political analyst – offer their professional and later personal takes on what’s going on. At one level, they’re a dysfunctional family. There’s also an eyewitness to the event who has his own thoughts about the darkness.

“At first the journalists rely on style and vocabulary over substance to spin the facts and sensationalize in order to make ‘good news.’ But though they start out relatively competent in how they do it, their work starts to fall apart. As the importance of the catastrophe sinks in, they realize they can’t talk their way out of it. The darkness deepens personally; language can’t pull them out of the trouble they’re in.” One of the things Arnott loves about Eno’s plays, which include Thom Pain (based on nothing) and The Realistic Joneses, is that “he’s not afraid to mix genres. This play begins as a comedy – it’s more than a satire on American media – and then starts to turn. But there’s always a deep empathy, even if blackly funny, and a caring for humanity at the dead centre of his work. “His style is what I’d call existential stand-up, the humour wonderful and unexpected, in this case coming out of the characters’ realizations about what they’re saying and the meaninglessness of their words.”

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Duffy tackles Tartuffe Actor finds layers of contemporary resonance in Molière’s 350-year-old comedy By JON KAPLAN

Raquel Duffy says she’s now comfortable putting her ideas on the table with other Soulpepper artists.

TARTUFFE by Molière, directed by László Marton, translated by Richard Wilbur, with Diego Matamoros, Oliver Dennis, Raquel Duffy, Gregory Prest, William Webster, Oyin Oladejo and Kat Gauthier. Presented by Soulpepper at the Young Centre (50 Tank House). Previews from Thursday (August 7), opens Tuesday (August 12) and runs to September 20. See soulpepper.ca for schedule. $29-$89, rush $5-$23. 416-866-8666.

Though Molière’s great comedy Tartuffe is 350 years old, its plot involving sanctimonious deception and underhanded seduction is still fresh. At its centre is the title character, a mock-religious figure who tricks the well-off Orgon with his heavenly talk. It doesn’t matter that most of Orgon’s family try to warn him about Tar-

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tuffe, who covets not only Orgon’s wife and daughter but also his fortune. As actor Raquel Duffy rehearses for Soulpepper’s staging of the play, directed by returning guest artist László Marton, she recalls how her take on it has changed since she first read it in university. “Then it was simply a comedy, and our academic look at the script emphasized that its 1664 premiere was problematic because it was thought to be sending up the Church. “But now that I’m performing it, I see all the levels that make it so contemporary. The family is modern, with Orgon and his young second wife, Elmire, along with his two children, trying to sort out their lives under the influence of an outsider who uses religion for his own purposes.” Duffy plays Elmire, the object of Tartuffe’s lust, but her character

handles his unwanted advances coolly. “As one of Molière’s strong female characters, Elmire intrigues me,” admits Duffy. “If I were in Elmire’s situation, I’d handle it totally differently. She aims for grace and clarity of thought, using her power in a subtle fashion.” Rather than go screaming to Orgon that his best friend is coming on to her, Elmire “lets her husband go on a journey to discover the truth. She waits before acting, stepping in only when she has to and even then

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in a kind and reasoned manner. Unfortunately, her plan backfires.” That plan is a memorable part of the play, arguably the most surefire comic scene in classical theatre. Elmire has Orgon hide under a table and listen while Tartuffe seduces her. “The levels of what’s happening are really exciting, and we’re digging around to find out how far we can go to keep both the humour and the potential nastiness.” It helps that she’s working with two of Soulpepper’s ablest performers, Diego Matamoros as Tartuffe and Oliver Dennis as Orgon. Coincidentally, Duffy played the scene with Matamoros a few years ago, but not in a production of Tartuffe. It was in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Royal Comedians, a biographical play directed by Marton in which Matamoros played Molière and Duffy was a member of his theatre troupe. “That was so different; we approached it as it would have been done in the 17th century rather than the contemporary staging for this version of Tartuffe. But it was after doing that production that László knew he had to direct the whole play. “Working on it now, Diego and I are figuring out where we can take the relationships while still being true to the text.” Tackling the scene in quite different contexts gives Duffy, who first worked with Soulpepper as part of its second training Academy and is now a resident artist, a chance to reflect on how the company has helped her grow. This year alone she’s in five productions, including a beautiful turn as a fake White Russian noblewoman in Idiot’s Delight and a return performance as a powerful celestial visitor in Angels In America. “I don’t mean to sound pretentious, but in the early years I felt like an actor, and now I feel like an artist. What I mean is that I’ve become comfortable putting my ideas on the table with the others in the company. Earlier, I felt like a pawn in a chess game; now I know that my voice counts for something.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto. com

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Opening THE BICYCLE OPERA PROJECT (The Bicycle Opera Project). Bicycle-commuting singers perform contemporary opera. Opens Aug 7 and runs to Aug 10: Thu-Fri 5 pm. Pwyc. Heliconian Hall (35 Hazelton); Sat 2 pm. $20. St. Andrew by-the-Lake Church (102 Lakeshore, Ward’s Island); Sun 2 pm. Pwyc. Evergreen Brick Works (550 Bayview). bicycleopera.ca. BOEING BOEING by Marc Camoletti (Drayton Entertainment). A man juggles three fiancées in this comedy. Opens Aug 13 and runs to Aug 31, see website for schedule. $25-$42. Dunfield Theatre Cambridge, 46 Grand S, Cambridge. draytonentertainment.com. CITY OF ANGELS by Cy Coleman, Larry Gelbart and David Zippel (Theatre by the Bay). The stories of a crime novelist and his protagonist intertwine in this musical comedy. Opens Aug 7 and runs to Aug 30, see website for schedule. $25, stu/srs $23. Mady Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Dunlop W, Barrie. 705-7394228, theatrebythebay.com. THE GHOST SHIP by Claire Wynveen (Sundown Theatre). Two young girls conduct a beach stakeout after rumours of ghost ships and pirates send their rural Ontario community into a frenzy. Previews Aug 12 (pwyc). Opens Aug 13 and runs to Aug 24, see website for schedule. $15-$20. Dunsmoor Park, Durham at Saugeen, Kincardine. sundowntheatre.ca. LITTLE WOMEN adaptation by Jason Howland (No Strings Theatre). The musical theatre program for youth performs a play based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Aug 7-10, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30, srs/stu $22.50, chil-

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dren $15. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. nostringstheatre.com. Peter Pan, a traditional British Panto by Simon Aylin and Trudy Moffatt (Drayton Entertainment). The classic tale is presented with musical numbers, slapstick comedy and audience participation. Opens Aug 7 and runs to Aug 30, see website for schedule. $25-$42. Playhouse II, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888372-9866, draytonentertainment.com. st anne’s reel by Gil Garratt (Blyth Festival). A man returns to a small town for his mother’s funeral and locks horns with his father. Previews to Aug 7. Opens Aug 8 and runs to Aug 30, see website for schedule. $22-$34, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. 1-877-862-5984, blythfestival.com.

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Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story.

summerWorks Performance festival (SummerWorks). The annual juried festiñ val returns with works by Theatre Lab, Zeesy

Powers, the Chimera Project, T Berto, Jacob Niedzwiecki and others, plus live music and more. See cover story package, from page 34. Reviews available online at nowtoronto.com/ summerworks. Opens Aug 7 and runs to Aug 17, see website for schedule. $15-$20, passes $40-$120, some free events. Various venues. summerworks.ca. tartuffe by Molière (Soulpepper Theatre). A crafty vagrant feigns virtue while trying to seduce his host’s wife and gain an inheritance (see story, page 40). Previews Aug 7-11. Opens Aug 12 and runs to Sep 20, see website for schedule. $29-$89, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. the three munschketeers adapted by Debbie Patterson (Theatre by the Bay). This familyfriendly show is based on the stories of Robert Munsch. Opens Aug 11 and runs to Aug 30, see website for schedule. $8. Mady Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Dunlop W, Barrie. 705739-4228, theatrebythebay.com. tWist and shout: the British invasion by Alex Mustakas (Drayton Entertainment). This musical tribute celebrates the tunes of the Beatles, Herman’s Hermits, the Kinks and others. Opens Aug 7 and runs to Aug 30, see website for schedule. $25-$42. King’s Wharf Theatre, 97 Jury, Penetanguishene. 1-888372-9866, draytonentertainment.com.

Previewing antony and cleoPatra by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Passion ñ engulfs the Egyptian queen and the Roman

ruler in this classic tragedy. Previews to Aug 13. Opens Aug 14 and runs in rep to Sep 28. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. the Beaux’ stratagem by George Farquhar (Stratford Festival). Two men try to restore their ruined fortunes by pursuing wealthy women. Previews to Aug 14. Opens Aug 15 and runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. christina, the girl king by Michel Marc Bouchard (Stratford Festival). The Swedish queen battles conservative forces that oppose her lifestyle and her plans to modernize the country. Previews to Aug 13. Opens Aug 14 and runs in rep to Sep 21. $40-$90. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. cymBeline’s reign by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare in the Ruff). A princess who married against her father’s wishes risks everything for love. Previews Aug 12-13.

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Opens Aug 14 and runs to Aug 31, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm (pre-show live music from 7 pm). Pwyc ($15 sugg). Withrow Park, 725 Logan. shakespeareintheruff.com.

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NAKED GIRLS READING: SCI-F! (Red Herring

Burlesque). Sci fi-themed readings by Bianca Boom Boom, Lisbon Maginot and others. Aug 10 at 8 pm. $20. Round Venue, 152A Augusta. ngrtoaug.eventbrite.ca.

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ADVENTURES IN SLUMBERLAND (Frolick). This all-ages show about a young boy’s dream world features puppets, music, masques and more. Runs to Sep 1, Wed-Sat 11:11 am, 12:12, 1:11 and 2:22 pm (weather permitting). Pwyc. Olympic Island Lagoon Theatre, near Centre Island ferry dock, over the bridge. frolick.ca. ANIMAL NATURE by David Anderson, Tamara Romanchk, Anna Sapershteyn, Maria Woszinska (Clay & Paper Theatre). Creature characters and giant puppets search for the way home on a journey to the edges of the earth. Runs to Aug 17, Wed-Sun 7:30 pm. Pwyc, $10 suggested. Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. clayandpapertheatre.org. HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH by John Cameron Mitchell (Lower Ossington Theatre). An East German transgender rocker moves to America to start a band and find love. Runs to Aug 9, see website for schedule. $20-$50. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com. HORSECAPADES (Canadian National Exhibition). Riders and horses perform barrel racing, trick riding and hip-hop dressage, plus an interactive program with the horses. Runs to Aug 14, daily from 11 am to 2 pm. Free. CNE Horse Palace, Exhibition Place, 15 Nova Scotia. theex.com. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde (Guild Festival Theatre). Two bachelors’ lies catch up with them in this comedy. Runs to Aug 10, Wed-Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sun 2 pm.

$25, srs $20, kids under 12 free. Guild Park, 201 Guildwood Pkwy, Greek Theatre. 416915-6750, guildfestivaltheatre.ca. INTO THE WOODS by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim (Randolph Academy). Characters from fairy tales reunite in a musical about wishes and consequences. Runs to Aug 9, ThuSat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $22. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. randolphacademy.com. THE LITTLE MERMAID JR. (Lower Ossington Theatre). The Disney Broadway production is adapted for younger audiences. Runs to Aug 31, see website for schedule. From $30. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com. MACBETH by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare in the Square). Ambition leads to murder and mayhem in this outdoor performance. Runs to Aug 21, Tue-Thu 7 pm. Free. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Garden Square, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca.

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(Canadian Stage/York University Dept of Theatre). The comedic, family-oriented offering at this year’s Shakespeare in High Park finds two courtly cousins fleeing to the forest under false identities. This vibrant treatment is filled with original acoustic folk songs, and with strong performances from the ensemble, is entertaining and accessible to all ages. Runs to Aug 30, Thu, Sat and Tue 8 pm. Pwyc ($20 sugg). High Park Amphitheatre, 1873 Bloor W. canadianstage.com. NNN (Jordan Bimm)

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ANDRONICUS (Canadian Stage/York University Dept of Theatre). The “tragedy” instalment in Canadian Stage’s summer Shakespeare slate, this revenge thriller follows the disintegrating life of Titus, a veteran Roman general at odds with the Goth queen, Tamora. Drawing on aesthetics from ancient Rome and imperial Japan, director Keira Loughran offers a delightfully unsettling take on the Bard’s bloodiest play. Runs to Aug 31, Fri, Sun and Wed 8 pm. Pwyc ($20 sugg). High Park Amphitheatre, 1873 Bloor W. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) SLEUTH by Anthony Shaffer (Rose Theatre). A mystery writer calculates revenge against his wife’s younger lover. Runs to Aug 9, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $32. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca.

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Thursday, August 7 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Olivia Arrington, Wes Zaharuk and host Andrew Chapman. To Aug 10, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

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

musical that takes a new look at a fairy-tale character. To Aug 29, Wed-Thu 1 pm. $14, family 4-pack $45. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com.

DOING IT! WITH MONIQUEA MARION Comedy Bar presents

the comedian doing characters, solo sketch, music, and solo improv. 8 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W, Cabaret Space. comedybar.ca. SAY WHA?! Sara Bynoe Entertainment presents readings of some of the worst writing ever published w/ Erin Rodgers, Anders Yates, Sara Bynoe and others. 8 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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SOLT 2014 OPERA WORKSHOP (Summer Opera

Lyric Theatre). The opera training program presents workshop productions of Vanessa (S Barber & G Menotti), The Magic Flute (WA Mozart) and Madame Butterfly (JL Long & D Belasco). Runs to Aug 10, see website for times. $28, stu/srs $22 per show. Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College. 416-366-7723, solt.ca. SPAMALOT by Eric Idle, John Du Prez and Neil Innes (Lower Ossington Theatre). The Monty Python-based musical retells the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Runs to Sep 21, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59. 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

Out of Town ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS adapted by James Reaney (Stratford ñ Festival/Canada’s National Arts Centre).

Alice enters a world of wonders through her living-room mirror in this adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s book. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. ARMS AND THE MAN by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A woman is caught between two men on opposite sides of the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. Runs in rep to Oct 18. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. BARD’S BUS TOUR: THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare (Driftwood Theatre Group). The classic play is presented outdoors. Some performances include workshops, chats and other events, and some include the Food Of Love a cappella concert series. Runs to Aug 17. Pwyc. Southern Ontario, various cities. 416703-2773, driftwoodtheatre.com. BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR by John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson (Blyth Festival). The famous WWI fighter pilot looks back on his life in this musical. Runs to Aug 15, see website for schedule. $22-$34, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. 1-877-8625984, blythfestival.com. CABARET by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Shaw Festival). Director Peter Hinton’s take on the classic musical is

suburban split in surprising and inventive ways. Director Chris Earle has a great ear and sharp sense of drama and he knows how to get the best from his stellar cast, who shine – especially in two contrasting sketches about young dudes (played by the women) and middle-aged women (played by the men). Don’t miss it. To Aug 10, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $25-$29, stu $16-$18. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. NNNNN (GS) YUK YUK’S presents Mike Rita. To Aug 10, Wed-Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm (plus Sat 10:30 pm), Fri 9 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, August 8 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 7. SIXTEEN SCANDALS See Thu 7. THE TRAVELLING GOON RIVER IMPROV SHOW

The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents an improvised long-format monlogue show w/ Ryna Schickler, Shannon McDonough, Paul Bellini, Courtney Lions and Jen Frankel. 7 pm. Pwyc. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. YUK YUK’S See Thu 7.

Saturday, August 9 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 7. BITS & PIECES The Flying Beaver Pubaret pre-

sents stand-up and storytelling w/ Diane Flacks and Katie Ford. 7 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. COMEDY AT THE RED ROCKET Joel West hosts a weekly show w/ guest comics. 8 pm. Free. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. 416-406-0880. THE 404S: HUNGRY GAMES The Social Capital presents improv comedy. 8 pm. $8. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. IMPROV DROP-IN The Social Capital presents a weekly class and show. 6 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. blackswancomedy.com. PETE ZEDLACHER Comedy Bar presents headliner Zedlacher, stand-up comic James Hartnett, improv by Bonspiel and host Michael Palascak. 8 & 10 pm. $10-$12. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. SIXTEEN SCANDALS See Thu 7.

THE SUPERSTARS OF COMEDY Comedy Bar presents Pat ñ MacDonald, Danny Polishchuk, headliner K Trevor Wilson and host Dylan Gott. 8:30 pm. $10.

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Thesilly Spamalot continuesits trekatthe Lower Ossington Theatreuntil Sep21. darker than many, with fine performances by Deborah Hay, Gray Powell and Juan Chioran in key roles. The set, a revolving tower that simulates a wheel of fortune – no sooner do you rise to the summit than you fall – is a great metaphor for this journey to hell in 30s Berlin. Don’t miss it. Runs in rep to Oct 26. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK)

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

(Shaw Festival). A crusading do-gooder and her daughter invite social misfits to their country home. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $35$113, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE by Dean Regan (Drayton Entertainment). This musical revue looks at the tumultuous life and untimely death of the country star. Runs to Dec 21, see website for schedule. $25-$42. Schoolhouse Theatre, 11 Albert, St Jacobs. 1-888372-9866, draytonentertainment.com. CRAZY FOR YOU by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Ken Ludwig (Stratford Festival). A banker’s son dreams of being a Broadway star in this musical set in the 1930s. Runs in 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. YUK YUK’S See Thu 7.

Sunday, August 10 ABSOLUTE COMEDY Second City Training Cen-

tre presents the Stand-Up 101 Grad Show featuring new comics. 12:30 & 3 pm. $5. Evening show, see Thu 7. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. COMEDY @ THE WELL presents a weekly show w/ hosts Dred Lee & Jag Ghankas and others. 8:30 pm. Free. The Well, 121 Ossington. thewellbarcafe.ca. HAPPY HOUR COMEDY: GIVE ME MY SPOT EinStein presents Hoad HP, John McKie, Andy Fruman, Alex Hughes, Charles Fernandes, host Justin Laite and others. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca. SIXTEEN SCANDALS See Thu 7. SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. YUK YUK’S See Thu 7.

Monday, August 11 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents James Hartnett, Bryan O’Gorman, Pat Burtscher, Garret Jamieson, Craig Brown, Kyle Bottom, Marito Lopez, MC Andrew Johnston and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic and original sketch and improvisation. 8 pm. $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. BLIND DATE SEMI-FORMAL Bad Dog Theatre Co presents 40 improvisers who will be randomly assigned numbers and called to the stage in pairs. Part of Launch Week for Bad Dog’s new venue. 9:30 pm. $10-$12, or Launch Week pass. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com. CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416815-7562. HARD DAY COMEDY The Office Pub presents a weekly all-female comedy show w/ hosts Cassandra Sansosti & Eesha Brown, booked acts and 3 lotto spots. 8:30 pm. Free. 117 John, 2nd floor. 416-977-1900. MICETRO Bad Dog Theatre Co presents Keith Johnstone’s Survivor-style elimination contest. Part of Launch Week for Bad Dog’s new

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rep to Oct 19. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. HAY FEVER by Noël Coward (Stratford Festival). An eccentric family and their house guests spend a weekend together in this comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. HOLLYWOOD SINGS by David Rogers (Drayton Entertainment). This revue celebrates the greatest musical moments in film. Runs to Aug 23, see website for schedule. $25-$42. Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington S, Drayton. draytonentertainment.com. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde (Thousand Islands Playhouse). Two bachelors lead double lives until their lies catch up with them. Runs to Aug 23, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2:30 pm. $16-$32. Springer Theatre, 690 Charles S, Gananoque. 1000islandsplayhouse.com. JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK by Sean O’Casey (Shaw Festival). Political and financial ups and downs afflict a family in 1920s Dublin. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. venue. 7 pm. $10-$12, or Launch Week pass. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com. 200% VODKA The Social Capital presents a weekly show by the Black Swan Comedy Rep Company. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. blackswancomedy.com.

Tuesday, August 12 BAD DOG THEATRE LAUNCH WEEK BDT presents Micetro (7 pm); Sunday Service & Tony Ho (8 pm); General Fools & Uncalled For (9:30 pm). $10-$12, double bill $15-$18, or Launch Week pass. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com. FLAT TIRE COMEDY Amsterdam Bicycle Club presents weekly stand-up w/ host Chrissie Cunningham & others. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 the Esplanade. facebook.com/FlatTireComedy. THE SKIN OF MY NUTS presents a weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. Free. Sonic Espresso Bar, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/ skinofmynuts. SOCAP REP PROGRAM PLAYER NIGHT The Social Capital presents players of the Social Capital Repertory Program coached by Jan Caruana, Jerry Schaefer and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. blackswancomedy.com. YUK YUK’S TUESDAYS The Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every Tue. $4/show. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, August 13 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

headliner Brian Stollery, Amish Patel, Jaime Villeneuve, Dylan Beeson, JP Hodgkinson, Matt Gass, Shireen Khimani and host Andrew Ivimey. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca. BAD DOG THEATRE LAUNCH WEEK Bad Dog Theatre Co presents Micetro (7 pm); BDRP Throwdown (8 pm); Sunday Service & the Sufferettes (9:30 pm). $10-$12, double bill $15$18, or Launch Week pass. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

BIG BAD WOLF (VS LORD UNDERWEARFACE VON SCHTINKER) See Thu 7. COMEDY NIGHT AT MUSIDEUM presents bi-

weekly stand-up, improv and sketch. 8 pm. $5. Musideum, 401 Richmond W. 416-5997323, musideum.com. THE GIMMICK The Social Capital presents improv inspired by mystery boxes w/ David

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dance listings

Continuing DUSK DANCES presents outdoor dance featuring choreographies by Peter Chin, ñ Sylvie Bouchard, Milan Gervais, Sis Robin Hib-

bert, Kate Franklin & Meredith Thompson and Julia Aplin. Runs to Aug 10, daily at 7:30 pm, mat Thu and Sun at 2 pm (live music starts 30 mins before show). Pwyc ($10 sugg). Withrow Park, 725 Logan (south of Danforth). 416-504-6429, duskdances.ca. 3

THE TEMPEST/THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

by William Shakespeare (St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival). The classic plays are presented outdoors. Runs to Aug 16, see website for schedule. $28-$30, Wed mat $20, under 14 free. Kinsmen Amphitheatre, 1 Water W, Prescott. stlawrenceshakespeare.ca. TEST DRIVE by Dave Carley (Festival Players of Prince Edward County). A family man goes on an extraordinary test drive once a decade in this play that spans 50 years. Runs to Aug 24, Tue-Sun 6:30 pm, mat Fri 1:30 pm. $15-$30. Rosehall Run Vineyard, 1243 Greer, Wellington. 1-866-584-1991, festivalplayers.ca. WHEN WE ARE MARRIED by JB Priestly (Shaw Festival). A big secret is revealed when three couples gather to celebrate their silver anniversaries. Runs in rep to Oct 26. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. 3

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Competition brings out the best in us, we’ve been taught, but does it really? A Bigger Prize refutes what many business and government leaders believe is the trophy worth grasping: being the best. Author Margaret Heffernan, who also wrote the brilliant Willful Blindness, exhaustively interviews dozens of competitors in fields ranging from sports to economics to relationships. She dissects the ugly side of dating sites, which pressure users to stand out from the thousands of other

scrollable thumbnails. We learn how Olympic striving led not only to the rise of performance-enhancing drugs, but to deep corruption in the management of the Games. The most engaging chapters debunk the norms we’ve come to accept. A country’s GDP shouldn’t be the game score we value, Heffernan writes. What if we looked at other statistical markers to drive our economy? Perhaps we should adopt an index that tabulates the growth that improves the well-being of all citizens instead of benefiting the few. Alternatives to our hyper-competitive mindset have always been in

front of us, but they aren’t as sexy as climbing to the top rung. Cooperation should be encouraged in schools, offices and City Hall, the book argues. Don’t focus solely on boosting your company’s share price. Learn how to be successful without ditching your morals for the sake of winning. A Bigger Prize is recommended reading if you’ve ever wondered how competition steered our attention to the wrong goals. Winning isn’t everything, we were also taught. At some point, a trophy DAVID SILVERBERG life is an empty life. books@nowtoronto.com

READINGS THIS WEEK

JEFF LEMIRE/RAY FAWKES

Lemire reads from Sweet Tooth and Fawkes reads from The Spectral Engine. 7 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. 416-393-7746.

Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-3123865, torontopoetryslam.com.

5 indicates queer-friendly events Thursday, August 7 5QUEER CONFESSIONS LGBTQ memoir reading with Angelina Love, Heart Lavender and others. 8 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. queerconfessions.com.

STEEL BANANAS COLLECTIVE PUBLICATION LAUNCH Readings by Adam Abbas, Anna

Veprinski and Dave Hurlow, performance by Strands and DJs at this launch for six new poetry, fiction and art books. 8 pm. Free. 3030, 3030 Dundas W. 416-769-5736.

Sunday, August 10 TORONTO POETRY SLAM Spoken word competition with guest poet Rusty Priske. 8 pm. $5.

Tuesday, August 12 BEN MACINTYRE Dinner and conversation with the author. 6:30 pm. $100. Grano, 2035 Yonge. Pre-register 416-361-0032. JACK DRURY The author and others act out passages from Bad Blood. 7 pm. Free. Flatiron & Firkin, 49 Wellington E. 416-362-3444.

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Chow down with Ben Macintyre August 12.

Wednesday, August 13 GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE Fresh

Wednesdays farmers’ market presents Toronto’s poet laureate. 10 am-2 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square,

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queer content, including sexy, robust performances by Evan Buliung and Jonathan Festival). The English king defends his throne Goad, who alternate as Oberon and Titania. against the rival claim of his nephew. Runs in But the emphasis on slapstick doesn’t allow rep to Sep 27. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom the play’s poetry to shine as it should. Runs in Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Fes1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. tival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567KING LEAR by William Shakespeare 1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNN (JK) (Stratford Festival). In director Antoni A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM: A Cimolino’s intelligent production, Colm Feore CHAMBER PLAY by William Shakespeare makes a human figure – a king who’s easy to (Stratford Festival). Pared down to four actors relate to. Most of the cast surrounding him is by director Peter Sellars, this take on the play, just as strong, which helps the audience feel in which the characters are caught in a limbo that we go on an eventful and harrowing of unrequited desire, is intense, dark and aljourney with the characters. Despite some most entirely lacking in laughs. The cast is flaws, the show’s power is undeniable. Runs powerful, but you may not get much from the in rep to Oct 18. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. production if you don’t know the play well. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800Runs in rep to Sep 20. $70-$90. Masonic Con567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) cert Hall, 15 Church, Stratford. 1-800-567KITCHEN RADIO by Marion de Vries and David 1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) Archibald (Blyth Festival). A lonely wife lives MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN by through the female country stars she Bertolt Brecht (Stratford Festival). A listens to in this musical comedy. woman sells goods to soldiers Runs to Aug 9, see website for across 17th-century war-torn schedule. $15-$34. Blyth SEE NOW’S Europe (see review online at ( Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, nowtoronto.com/stage). nowtoronto.com/stage Blyth. blythfestival.com. SUMMERWORKS Runs in rep to Sep 27. $50A LOVELY SUNDAY FOR CREVE $135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom COEUR by Tennessee Williams COVERAGE, Patterson Theatre, 111 Lake(Shaw Festival). Four women side, Stratford. 1-800-567STARTING ON ponder their future on a warm 1600, stratfordfestival.ca. June day in this Lunchtime onePAGE 34 NNN (GS) act production. Runs in rep to THE MOUNTAINTOP by Katori Hall Oct 11. $35-$113, stu mats $24. (Shaw Festival/Obsidian Theatre). Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr opens up to a Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. young woman working at the Lorraine Motel MAN OF LA MANCHA by Dale Wasserman, Joe on the eve of his murder. Runs in rep to Sep 7. Darion and Mitch Leigh (Stratford Festival). $50-$60. Studio Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, This 1960s musical about Don Quixote author Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. Cervantes has one legitimate hit, The ImposTHE PHILADELPHIA STORY by Philip Barry (Shaw sible Dream, but a weak book and middling Festival). A wealthy socialite’s wedding plans production don’t help sell it to today’s audiare complicated by her ex-husband and a nosy ences. Still, Tom Rooney is terrific as Cervanreporter. Runs in rep to Oct 25. $35-$113, stu tes/Quixote, as is the winning Steve Ross as mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, his servant in the play’s real and fictional Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. worlds. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/ srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, StratTHE PHILANDERER by Bernard Shaw ford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NN (Shaw Festival). In this early Shaw com(Susan G Cole) edy, the title character is caught between two women, one cool and calculating, the other A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William passionate and unpredictable. The actors in Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Director this triangle – Gord Rand, Marla McLean and Chris Abraham’s take on the Dream is full of Moya O’Connell – are scintillating, and director Lisa Peterson’s decision to use Shaw’s oriPhalp and guest players. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. Black ginal ending gives the production a surprising Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903seriousness. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $35-$113, 5388, blackswancomedy.com. stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s THE JULIEN DIONNE COMEDY HOUR C’est What Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511presents stand-up by Dionne and music by 7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) Garage Baby. 9 pm. $10. 67 Front E. 416-867RHINESTONE COWGIRL by Leisa Way (Globus 9499, ticketfly.com. Theatre). This musical tribute salutes the A LAUGH A MINUTE Club 120 presents standsongs and sayings of Dolly Parton. Runs to up, sketch & improv w/ transsexual comedAug 16, see website for schedule. $28.50, stu ian Mandy Goodhandy and others and a live $20. Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, DJ. 9 pm. Free. Club 120 Diner, 120 Church. Bobcaygeon. globustheatre.com. club120.ca. THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW by Richard O’Brien MAGGIE CASSELLA: BECAUSE I SAID SO The (Something-Something Productions). A Flying Beaver Pubaret presents Cassella couple stumble upon a freaky castle in this and her panelists dissecting hot, fun and obrock musical. Runs to Oct 11, Sat 8 pm. $30. scure topics. 7:30 pm. Pwyc. 488 Parliament. Corks’ Theatre, 19 Queen, Niagara-on-the647-347-6567, pubaret.com. Lake. somethingsomethingproductions.ca. MAGIC OVEN COMEDY presents weekly standTHE SEA by Edward Bond (Shaw Festival). A up. 8 pm. Free. Magic Oven, 347 Keele. 4161900s English village reacts to one of its own 604-0202, facebook.com/MagicOvenKeele. being lost at sea in this mix of politics and comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $35-$113, stu SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, stand-up w/ host Ben Stager and headliner Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. Alex Smith. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. STAG AND DOE by Mark Crawford (Blyth Festival). Two engaged couples want to use the TRIPLE DUO! Hello Fake Show presents three same venue on the same day in this comedy. duos doing long form improv sets w/ Jude the Runs to Sep 6, see website for schedule. $22Absurd, Kidz and Filthy & Squalor. 8 pm. $5. $34, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. Blyth. 1-877-862-5984, blythfestival.com. YUK YUK’S presents Patrick Coppolino. To Aug SUNDAY SERIES (Festival Players of Prince Ed17, Wed-Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm (plus Sat 10:30 ward County). This weekly performance pm), Fri 9 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3 showcase includes theatre, comedy, storytelling and more. Runs to Aug 24, see website for times and program details. $15-$30. Huff Estates & Winery, 2274 County 1 Rd, Bloomfield. 1-866-584-1991, festivalplayers.ca.

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Sahmat inspires Indian activism gets the spotlight By FRAN SCHECHTER THE SAHMAT COLLECTIVE: ART AND ACTIVISM IN INDIA SINCE 1989 at

the Art Gallery of Mississauga (300 City Centre), to October 19. 905-896-5088. Rating: NNNN

Organized by the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum, this exhibit profiles an inspiring Delhi-based collective who use the arts to fight sectarianism (or communalism, as it’s called in India). Sahmat is an acronym for the Safdar Hashmi Memorial

Trust, formed in 1989 after activist actor and writer Hashmi was killed by thugs who attacked his street theatre troupe. Drawing on a long Indian tradition of cooperation between Hindu and Muslim artists, Sahmat embraces a wide range of artistic expression: an annual commemoration of Hashmi, street theatre and music festivals (represented by short videos); children’s books, travelling exhibits, poster and postcard editions, taxicab and pushcart interventions (selec-

The performance tent at The Sahmat Collective exhibit reﬂects the show’s vibrancy.

tions on display in the gallery). Info accompanying some of the projects provides an informative primer for Westerners on violent outbreaks of intolerance like the 1992 destruction of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya and the 2002 Gujarat riots. There’s also the fascinating story of “India’s

Picasso” M.F. Husain; an installation allows you pose with a life-sized cutout of the charismatic painter, who was driven into exile by Hindu fundamentalists five years before his death in 2011. Artifacts like a rickshaw emblazoned with its driver’s words from

THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA The Sahmat Collective: Art And Activism In India ñ Since 1989, to Oct 19, Rashid Rana talk 7 pm

Aug 13. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905896-5088. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Fan The Flames: Queer Positions In Photography, to Sep 7. Matthew Barney, to Sep 28. Scott McFarland, to Aug 10. Geoffrey Farmer, to Sep 7. Before And After The Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists Of The Great Lakes, to Nov 25. Art As Therapy, to Apr 26, 2015. Manasie Akpaliapik, to Jun 30, 2015. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. DESIGN EXCHANGE Tapas: Spanish Design For Food, to Aug 10. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416363-6121. GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Léopold Foulem, Paul Mathieu and Richard Milette, to Sep 1. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111

Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Rebecca Belmore, to

Aug 9, performance 1-6 pm Aug 9 (Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands) . 7 Hart House. 416978-8398.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION

Charles Edenshaw, to Sep 21. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121. MOCCA Over The Rainbow: Seduction And Identity; Par Amour/Paramour, to Aug 17. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. OAKVILLE GALLERIES You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me, to Aug 30. Gairloch (1306 Lakeshore E), Centennial (120 Navy) (Oakville). 905-8444402. THE POWER PLANT Pedro Reyes, Vasco Araújo and Akram Zaatari, to Sep 1. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM The Forbidden City: Inside The Court Of China’s Emperors, to Sep 1 ($27, stu/srs $24.50). Michael Awad, to Sep

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1992 project Slogans For Communal Harmony and an artist’s pushcart from 2001’s Art On The Move can only hint at the vibrancy of Sahmat events. Audiences depicted in videos indicate a massive following. A selection of artworks can only give a brief taste, as well, of contemporary talent: Arunkumar H.G.’s alternative coins comment on history and economics; Rummana Hussain’s photo series conflates images of a screaming woman’s mouth, a seeded mango and a Muslim arch; Inder Salim photographs himself as a Muslim and a Hindu. These and other artists all merit further investigation. With Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government in power, religious violence and repression of secular culture will probably continue, so it’s hopeful news that Sahmat is still active after 25 years. The AGM deserves praise for engaging the GTA’s South Asian community with this celebration of the progressive arts group. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

28. Paul Kane, to Jan 24, 2015. Fashion Follows Form: Designs For Sitting; Cairo Under Wraps: Early Islamic Textiles, to Jan 25, 2015. $16, stu/srs $14.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $10, stu/ srs $9. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE What It Means To Be Seen: Photograph And Queer Visibility; Zanele Muholi, Judy Ruzylo and Wynne Neilly, to Aug 24, curator tour 6 pm Aug 13. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA To See And Be Seen: T-shirts From The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Ying Gao; Telling Stories, to Sep 1. The Eternity Code: Archaeology, Textiles And Preservation, to Sep 21. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. VARLEY ART GALLERY The Story Of Canadian Art: As Told By The Hart House Art Collection, to Sep 1. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905-477-9511. 3

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MUST-SEE SHOWS ANGELL Video/photo installation: Jason Trucco, to Aug 16. 12 Ossington. 416-530-0444. BAU-XI PHOTO Summer Focus group show, to Aug 31. 324 Dundas W. 416-977-0400. BIRCH CONTEMPORARY Softening The Corners group show, to Aug 30, artist talk 6-7 pm Aug 7. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003. CENTRE SPACE Luminescences MTL-TO group show, to Aug 23. 65 George. 416323-1373. COOPER COLE GALLERY As A Body group show, Aug 7-Sep 6, reception 6-9 pm Aug 7. 1161 Dundas W. 647-347-3316. DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Neil Campbell and Nicole Ondre, to Aug 23. 100 Niagara. 416361-2972. GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS Suzy Lake, Divya Mehra, afallenhorse and Tommy Kha, to Aug 16. 133 Tecumseth. 416-5544112. HASHTAG GALLERY Painting: Kevin Columbus and Michael Denesyk, to Aug 17. 801 Dundas W. 416-861-1866. INDEXG GALLERY Art Brownie 2014: Happiness, Aug 9-31. 50 Gladstone. 416-5356957. JAPAN FOUNDATION Japanese Design Today/100, to Oct 30. 131 Bloor W. 416-9661600. JULIE M. GALLERY Summer Landscapes group show, to Aug 31. 15 Mill, bldg 37. 416-603-2626.

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group show, to Aug 23. 1445 Dundas W. 647435-7682. NARWHAL PROJECTS Matthew Feyld, Alvaro Ilizarbe and Paul Wackers, to Aug 16. 2104 Dundas W. 647-346-5317. NO FOUNDATION Painting: Kieran Brennan Hinton, to Aug 15. 1082 Queen W. 416-9936510.

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to Aug 17. 350 King W. 416-599-8433. TODMORDEN MILLS No. 9 Eco-Art-Fest, to Sep 21 (no9.ca/ecoartfest). 67 Pottery. 416396-2819. UNPACK STUDIO jä be jä, to Aug 9. 11 Willison Sq. 416-346-9250.

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Have faith CALVARY (John Michael McDonagh). 101 minutes. Opens Friday (August 8). For venues and times, see Movies, page 50. Rating: NNNN

Robert Altman’s highs could be stratospheric.

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ALTMAN’S A-LIST New series screens the absolute best of Robert Altman By NORMAN WILNER COMPANY MAN: THE BEST OF ROBERT ALTMAN at

TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King West) from Thursday (August 7) to August 31. See Indie & Rep Film, page 55. tiff.net/altman. Rating: NNNNN

The best thing about a curated retrospective of Robert Altman’s filmography is that it leaves out the dross. And Company Man, a travelling series of the late director’s best work that arrives at the Lightbox this week and stays through the end of the month, is all killer, no filler. You won’t be bothered with any of the director’s more problematic pictures from the 80s, 90s or 00s – no Quintet, Popeye, Beyond Therapy, Cookie’s Fortune, Kansas City or Gingerbread Man. This is a series that comes to praise Altman, not to bury him; the only one of his “difficult” pictures included is Brewster McCloud, which remains awfully divisive but is unquestionably the work of someone who cared deeply about it. Altman was a filmmaker of highs and lows, but those highs could be stratospheric. In 1970, the chaotic, shambolic assemblage of M*A*S*H – with its barely veiled criticism of America’s involvement in the still escalating Vietnam war – must have landed the same way A Hard Day’s Night had just six years earlier. Both movies radically re-

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invent cinema without giving much of a shit if the audience gets it or not. Altman knew they’d come around. He reconfigured genre after genre to his own design. McCabe & Mrs. Miller became a languid consideration of masculinity and melancholy in the Old West (with the magnificent pairing of Warren Beatty and Julie Christie to lure in an audience), The Long Goodbye

a drowsy subversion of film noir tropes, with Elliott Gould as a Philip Marlowe who seems barely interested in the mystery he’s supposed to be unravelling. Thieves Like Us similarly punctures the nobility of the Depression-era drama, with Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall as low-rent knockoffs of Bonnie and Clyde. California Split is a gambling movie that barely cares who’s holding the high cards as long as George Segal and Elliott Gould can kibitz in the frame. And then there’s Nashville, Altman’s first great epic, clarifying his “many people, many stories” aesthetic in a three-hour study of country music, regional politics and the American South’s absolute terror of a progressive future. That’s just the first few years of the 70s. Altman would make many more great movies, and all of them are here – 3 Women; Come Back To The Five And Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; Vincent & Theo; The Player; Short Cuts; and his final triumph, A Prairie Home Companion. Most are presented in archival prints. All are essential, except maybe Gosford Park. Friday’s (August 8) screening of McCabe & Mrs. Miller is introduced by cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond. You won’t want to miss that. 3 normw@nowtoronto.com | @normwilner

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Father James is a priest in an Irish seaside village. One Sunday morning, he sits in the confessional and hears a promise of future sin: he’ll be murdered in a week’s time, payback for the Church’s enabling of abusive priests over the decades. John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary follows Father James – played by Brendan Gleeson, who starred in McDonagh’s brilliant 2011 debut, The Guard – as he spends the ensuing days ministering to his parish while trying to figure out who’s behind the threat and whether it is even real. This synopsis makes Calvary sound like a mystery, but that’s not where McDonagh’s interest lies. Instead, he explores the social fabric of the village, unpacking the domestic issues and financial struggles of locals played by the likes of Isaach de Bankolé, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran and Chris O’Dowd. Slowly, Calvary expands beyond the priest’s quandary to become an inquiry into the whole village’s crisis of faith – and by extension, Ireland’s. Capitalism is failing, love fades, lives end, the Church is rotten through. What’s the point of any of it? In Father James’s actions, and in Gleeson’s remarkable performance, we get the glimmer of an answer. Whether it means anything is entirely up to you. NORMAN WILNER

Calvary raises some burning issues. NOW AUGUST 7-13 2014

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Dam-busters Dakota Fanning and Jessie Eisenberg make you give a damn.

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Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt). 113 minutes. Opens Friday (August 8). For venues and times, see Movies, page 50. Rating: NNNN

MATT WALSH Actor, Into The Storm

Seeing Matt Walsh’s name on the credit block of Into The Storm (which opens August 8), I expected he’d be playing a comic-relief role – much as he has for most of the last decade. The co-founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade sketch troupe has played correspondent on The Daily Show and eventually become a valued supporting player in movies like Ted and shows like Veep. Instead, Walsh plays it straight as a struggling weather researcher whose insistence on documenting the biggest storm the world has ever seen leads him and his team into the scariest day of their lives. It’s a tricky role, and Walsh is surprisingly convincing. Well, maybe not surprisingly; as he explains from his car, it’s still just following through on a premise. Your character is usually the villain in this sort of movie – the driven researcher who wants his precious data at any cost. But you give him some depth. He’s an obsessed sort of fellow; he’s gonna lose his funding, so he just gets a little myopic. I don’t think he’s a dick. He’s just under duress. This is the first time you’ve worked with extensive digital effects. How did that go?

In the early days we were just pointing at things in the sky that we knew weren’t there, visualizing funnel clouds and things like that. But there were days when I was just looking at, like, two interns in raincoats with a broomstick, and on the edge of the broomstick was a tennis ball, and they’d sort of run back and forth like a basketball drill. That was very challenging, but [at least] there was a learning curve to it, the way the schedule allowed us to do smaller things first. That was nice. Would you say that your sketch and improv background helped you with that sort of thing? A lot of what comedians do is play absurdity as realistically as possible – they don’t wink at the audience, they just pretend. “Oh, this is real: I have an ass for a face.” That applies here. There’s this absurd force of nature; it’s incomprehensible, but you play it as realistically as possible. [It’s] the premise of the sketch, this giant tornado that you can’t comprehend. You borrow from your fellow actors, and just sort of commit to this absurdity and play it as realistically as possible. I wonder whether the constant air of crisis on Veep might have prepared you for something like this. Perfect training for a tornado movie? [laughing] Well, Veep is composed of much smaller NorMaN WilNer moments.

INTO THE STORM (Steven Quale) Rating: NNN The posters do not lie: Into The Storm is a found-footage riff on Twister, presented as a documentary about that time a team of weather researchers and a few civilians were thrown together – and wrenched apart, and thrown together again – by a massive superstorm. The bare-bones approach compensates for a lot of the disaster genre’s usual shortcomings, like minimal plotting and superficial characterization. Putting cameras in the hands of the characters means we can’t help but spend a little more time with them than the formula usually allows. Sarah Wayne Callies and The Hobbit’s Richard Armitage make the right faces of grim determination, Matt Walsh puts a little humanity into the antagonistic role of a pissy authority figure, and Enlisted’s Kyle Davis provides reliable comic relief as an amateur storm chaser who’s modelled his entire scientific approach on a couple of episodes of Jackass. NW It’s all surprisingly not bad. And the CG is very convincing. august 7-13 2014 NOW

Helen Mirren: great actor, so-so French accent.

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Is a good cause worth fighting for if it requires you to do terrible things? And past a certain point, can you be sure you’re doing any good at all? Those are the unsolvable questions at the heart of Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves, a lowkey, high-stakes thriller about three activists

(Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard) who come together to blow up a dam in the Pacific Northwest, and what happens in the aftermath of that operation. After the finely tuned panic of Wendy And Lucy, there’s no question that Reichardt can handle tension, but in Night Moves she layers that tension with social insight, dense character detail and an artful way of downplaying the requisite genre elements while still honouring their intentions within the action. It’s like micro-Michael Mann, and her ensemble (which also includes Alia Shawkat in a small but key role) is uniformly terrific. NorMaN WilNer

Foodie fun the huNdred-foot JourNey (Lasse Hallström). 115 minutes. Opens Friday (August 8). For venues and times, see Movies, page 50. Rating: NNN Foodies will go nuts for Lasse Hallström’s adaptation of Richard C. Morais’s bestseller about duelling restos in an idyllic French village. When sectarian violence leads to the destruction of his family’s restaurant in Mumbai – and the death of his wife – the patriarch (Om Puri) packs his family off to Europe. Their car breaks down in front of a restaurant for sale, and he decides to buy the place and settles his family into the tiny, perfect town. Problem is, he’s bought across the road from a Michelin-approved French restaurant run by Ma-

dame Mallory (Helen Mirren, with a so-so French accent) who’s not impressed with the boisterous Bollywood-style competition. Worse, chef Hassan (Manish Dayal) is a singular talent, and one of her employees, Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), is secretly giving Hassan French cooking tips, making him even more of a threat. Screenwriter Steven Knight has dropped Hassan’s coming-of-age plot line in London and Hassan’s first encounter with Western fare in the UK in favour of budding romantic entanglements in France, making the film a lot slighter than the book. There are no surprises but lots of pleasures: Puri and Mirren are obviously having a gas, and it’s literally a feast for the eyes. The food is gorgeous. Prepare to want to eat afterwards. susaN g. Cole

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✤ FRENCH BATIFOLE 744 Gerrard E, at Howland, 416-4629965, batifole.ca Though this unconventional bistro bills itself as the best French restaurant in Chinatown East, owner/chef Pascal Geffroy’s modish south Riverdale room – pale taupe walls with a large, sweeping bar down one side, Carla Bruni on the CD player – is easily one of the best bistros in town. Bonus: all starters are priced at $10, mains $22 and à la carte sides $6! Deep wine cellar, too. Best: from a regularly changing card, to begin, escargot fricassee from a secret family recipe; white bean cassoulet with duck confit, sausage and crispy pork belly; hand-chopped beef sirloin tartare; on the side, chunky pommes frites with tarragon mayo; simple green salads; to finish, crème brûlée; tarte tatin. Complete dinners for $50 per person, including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $22. Open for dinner Saturday 6 to 10:30 pm. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: one step at door, was hrooms in basement. ✤ JULES BISTRO 147 Spadina, at Queen W, 416-3488886, julesbistrocafe.com Now in its 12th year, Eric and Mahasti Strippoli’s laid-back brick-lined bistro is always a zoo at lunch. But come back at dinner and find a relaxed room lit by chandeliers that makes a great backdrop for a first date, especially when the three-course prix fixe – French onion soup, Caesar or chèvre salad followed by seared 8-ounce flank strip peppered with herbes de Provence, chicken sauté or salmon sided with sea-salted fries, house-made mayo, and traditional desserts of crème brûlée or chocolate mousse – goes for $24.95. Best: traditional thin-crusted quiche with Swiss cheese, bacon ‘n’ broccoli or eggplant ratatouille and chèvre; sandwiches, like Le Parisien with Black Forest ham, Swiss cheese and tart cornichons, or creamy Brie with tomato and greens, all with mesclun or fries; for dessert, housebaked tarte tatin. Complete dinners for $40 per person (lunches $25), including

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all taxes, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $18/$12. Open for dinner Saturday 4 to 9 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. ✤ LE PAPILLON ON THE PARK 1001 Eastern, at Woodfield, 416-6491001, lepapillonpark.com Other than Boardwalk Place – né the Boardwalk Pub – the Beach has no patios remotely near the water. The exception: this tree-veiled deck atop the roof of a relocated French creperie on the edge of Woodbine Park. Best: crèpes banane royale, steak au poivres, steak frites, french onion soup. Open for lunch Wednesday to Friday noon to 3 pm, dinner Wednesday to Sunday 5 pm to close. Weekend brunch noon to 3 pm. Closed Monday, Tuesday, holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free ✤ LE SÉLECT 432 Wellington W, at Spadina, 416596-6405, leselect.com After nearly three decades on Queen West, JeanJacques Quinsac and Frederic Geisweller’s intimate French bistro relocates to more spacious digs four blocks south. Almost every detail, from the original’s art nouveau facade to the welcoming zinc bar and the posters plastered to its pale faux-nicotine-stained walls, has been duplicated. Best: to begin, puff pastry vol-au-vents with escargots; mains like the house bavette – an aged 8-ounce flatiron – topped with shallots and sided with

fabulously skinny house frites; braised white bean cassoulet with lamb, pork belly, Toulouse sausage and duck confit; daily specials like oxtail ravioli with salsify, sweetbreads braised in Madeira, or marrow bone in risotto; mussels steamed in Quebec Maudite ale with smoked pork belly and frites; gently beer-braised Tripes à la Tripelle; twocourse steak frites prix fixe – after 10pm (only some nights). Complete prix fixe dinners for $35 per person (à la carte $55/lunches or brunches $30), including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Open for dinner Saturday 5 pm to midnight. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. ✤

✤ INDIAN DHABA 309 King W, at John, 416-740-6622 Despite its location on King West’s tacky turista row, chef P.K. Ahluwalia’s posh north Indian dining room – dig that sleek Brenda Bent-designed decor – could be T-Dot’s most creative Subcontinental kitchen. Considerably more expensive at dinner, when pricey tasting menus predominate, Dhaba can be experienced on the cheap at lunch, when its all-you-caneat spread goes for as little as $11.95. Best salad bar around? Best: from the 70-item ghee-free lunch buffet, standard-setting butter chicken in nutty tomato cream; moist ’n’ meaty tandoorfired chicken; cubed lamb slow-cooked

in puréed spinach; veggie sabzis like eggplant masala, aloo gohbi and lentil dahl tadka; from the salad bar, shrimp in hollowed-out pineapples; sliced paneer with pistachio-and-coriander chutney; spinach dressed with yogurt, raisins and papri crackers; cumin-kissed coleslaw; made-to-order naan; at weekend brunch, DIY omelette and dosa stations; to finish, house-made mango smoothie; soothing rice pudding. Complete lunches for $23 (dinners $65), including tax, tip and a half-price lassi. Open for $12.95 brunch buffet Sunday 11 am to 3 pm. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: 20 steps at door, washrooms on same floor. ✤ LAHORE TIKKA HOUSE 1365 Gerrard E, at Highfield, 416-4061668, lahoretikkahouse.com, @lahoretikka The rabbit warren of trailers where diners used to eat has been replaced by a chaotic open-air dining room furnished with picnic tables that spills onto a 400-seat patio tented in billowing sari fabric and lit by fairy lights, weather permitting. Best: slashed whole red snapper tikka, smoky from the charcoalfuelled tandoor, potato and tomato; aromatic minced lamb kebabs; lemonscented aloo gobi rich with al dente cauliflower; yellow lentils and pulverized spinach palak dahl; vegetable biryani with chickpeas, lentils, cauliflower spinach mixed with rice; butter-brushed naan tossed with sesame seeds; housemade almond kulfi ice cream; squeezedto-order sugar cane juice. Complete meals for $20 per person, including tax, tip and a glass of freshly squeezed sugar cane juice. Average main $9. Open Sunday noon to 1 am. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free. ✤

TRIMURTI 265 Queen W, at Duncan, 416-6450286, trimurti.ca Although there are four Subcontinental buffets on this busy downtown block, this charming storefront serves the best spread of the lot. Owned by long-time Nataraj server Danny Chin and his partners Sidney Long and chef Pradeep Jagtap, who also did time at the popular Annex institution, Trimurti duplicates – and substantially improves on – much of that Bloor eatery’s menu. Bonus: attentive service and no mob scene. Best: from the buffet, amazing made-to-order naan blistered from the oven and crackerthin; tandoori chicken, moist, pink and delicately charred around the edges; hellishly hot coriander chutney with the head rush of horseradish; à la carte, phool gobi tandoor, a flaming-red cauliflower marinated in yogurt and spices, then fired in the tandoor, the results resembling electric brains; chilly paneer, Indian cheese with major chilies and onion; lamb vindaloo with potatoes and spices. Complete meals for $30 per person ($18 at lunch), including tax, tip and an imported beer. Average main $12 (à la carte). Open for $11.95 AYCE lunch buffet Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, Saturday and Sunday 11:30 am to 3 pm; à la carte dinner Monday to Thursday 5 to 11 pm, Saturday and Sunday 3 to 11 pm. Delivery nightly 5 to 10:30 pm. Closed holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. ✤ GANDHI 554 Queen W, at Bathurst, 416-5048155, gandhicuisine.ca Call it East Indian meets West Indies. Starting with rotis it makes to order on a pizza press, Avtar Singh’s insanely popular takeaway then fills them with north-Indianstyle curries that range from mild to omigod. Also: Mother India, 1456 Queen W, at Lansdowne, 416-5884634. Best: the legendary – and pricey! – boneless butter chicken in sweet tomato curry; tender lamb with spicy potato and chickpea chana; boneless chicken jalfrezi with cauliflower and green peas; saag paneer with puréed spinach and tofu-like cheese; plump veggie samosas with sweet tamarind dip. Complete meals for $16 per person, including tax, tip and a bottle of juice. Average main $12. Open Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 10 pm. Closed Saturday, Sunday, holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free, no washrooms. ✤

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Mutant mess TeenaGe mUTanT ninJa TUrTLeS (Jonathan Liebesman). 101 minutes. Opens Friday (August 8). For venues and times, see Movies, page 50. Rating: nn Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a thin joke at best, even in its original one-shot comic book form. Take three 80s comics clichés – teens, mutants and ninjas – and warp the concept by making them turtles. But the fans loved it. The comics ran for more than 25 years and spawned four TV series, four features and a ton of merchandise. The present incarnation dials back the humour to make way for actionmovie bombast that only occasionally succeeds but too often descends into visual incoherence. What little comedy

remains got only a few weak chuckles in the kid-heavy preview audience, and the action drew not much wow response till the extended climax. The flick’s most notable features are the orgy of in-your-face 3D, ably enhanced by dozens of dizzying overhead shots and an oppressive score that strives mightily to lend weight to every moment. Sadly, leaden sound does much to crush whatever humour remains. The off-the-shelf plot and characters are so tissue-thin they make the Turtles’ 1990 outing look like Hamlet: four turtles and a rat mutate and develop martial arts skills to battle the evil Foot Clan and its plan to dominate New York City. Not much is gained from the addition of Megan Fox as a plucky reporter and Will Arnett as her love-struck camandreW doWLer era operator. Leonardo and pals are dead in the water in pointless remake.

Magician James Randi went on to debunk psychics and faith healers.

It’s a pleasure to watch Paul Eenhoorn (left) and Earl Lynn Nelson muck around for 90 minutes.

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Quiet Land Land Ho! (Aaron Katz, Martha

Stephens). 95 minutes. Opens Friday (Aug 8). For venues and times, see Movies, page 50. Rating: nnnn

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Chillingly bad aboUT aLex (Jesse Zwick). 98 minutes. Opens Friday (August 8). For venues and times, see Movies, page 50. Rating: nn I’m not sure whether it takes massive balls or a complete lack of self-awareness to remake The Big Chill and not have Kevin Costner’s character kill himself. Lawrence Kasdan’s 1983 boomer classic explored the failure of 60s liberalism as former radicals face middle age and the slow erosion of their principles; the suicide of Costner’s Alex forces everyone else to confront their failures. Jesse Zwick’s About Alex lets Alex (Jason Ritter) survive his wrist-slashing. Conceptually that’s intriguing for maybe three minutes. But writer/director Zwick (son of Ed,

whose production company made this) is just doodling in the margins of better material. His characters also throw Jeff Goldblum’s name around and talk about “those 80s movies where everyone gets together,” just so you know he’s seen Kasdan’s film. But Zwick didn’t learn a thing from it. About Alex is packed full of young actors I really like – Ritter, Aubrey Plaza, Nate Parker, Max Greenfield, Jane Levy, Maggie Grace and Max Minghella – but it gives them nothing to do besides snark at one another, eat pasta and look awkward whenever Ritter walks into the room. Ritter and Levy manage to wrench some emotion out of the material, but the effort is obvious. norman WiLner

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Emerging from the burble of the American mumblecore movement, Land Ho! is a lovely little movie about two men in their 60s reconnecting with each other, and themselves, on an awkward tour of Iceland. Will Colin (Paul Eenhoorn, of This Is Martin Bonner) rouse himself from a funk? Will Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson) reveal the details of his recent retirement? The stakes are low, but that’s why it works so well. Rather than push the story toward some life-altering plot point, co-directors Aaron Katz (Quiet City, Cold Weather) and Martha Stephens (Nelson’s cousin, who directed him in Passenger Pigeons and Pilgrim Song) are content to hang back and observe the interactions of their leads over the course of a few days. The men talk, argue, hang out with some younger people, go out for a late-night stroll and find that glowsticks make shitty flashlights. That’s pretty much everything. The film is gentle and upbeat and lifeaffirming in a way that some might find saccharine, but I had no such reaction. It’s just utterly pleasurable to watch these guys muck around for an hour and a half, learning nothing they don’t absolutely have to. norman WiLner

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Randi rivets an HoneST Liar (Justin Weinstein, Tyler Measom). 91 minutes. Opens Friday (August 8) at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. See Times, page 53. Rating: nnnn

A Toronto-born magician and escape artist who reinvented himself as the world’s premier debunker of psychics and faith healers – most famously by helping Johnny Carson discredit Uri Geller on The Tonight Show in 1973 – the Amazing Randi still maintains a public life at age 85, shuttling from his home in Florida to any number of appearances. But there are a few things about James Randi you may not know. To that end, documentarians Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom apply

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norman WiLner Norman Wilner conducts a Q&A with James Randi after the Friday (August 8) 6:30 pm screening.

Jake Johnson (left) and Damon Wayans Jr. cop to it.

also opening Step Up All In

(D: Trish Sie, 112 min) What would the summer be without a dance battle movie? Ryan Guzman, Briana Evigan and scene stealer Adam G. Sevani join other kids from the Step Up franchise in this Vegas-set film about dance, following your dreams and being young and hot.

The Anonymous People Max Greenfield and Aubrey Plaza get to do nothing except snark.

the same relentless scrutiny to their subject that Randi brings to bear on the phonies he exposes. What they find isn’t damning in the least. Randi’s decency comes through loud and clear. But it does offer a more complicated consideration of the man than you might expect, delving into his past to explore the contradictions and secrets that have driven him most of his life. An Honest Liar ends up proving its subject’s point: the more light shed on something, the more we understand it – for good or ill. In Randi’s case, “good” is the operative word; the more we understand about him, the more we admire him for being the person he is.

(D: Greg D. Williams, 88 min) This documentary about people in recovery from addiction looks at ways to

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view, page 48 and Q&A with actor Jason Ritter at nowtoronto.com/movies. NN (NW) Opens Aug 8 at Carlton Cinema

numbers, the rest of the film hits too many unbearably false notes. 104 min. NN (RS) Canada Square, Rainbow Market Square, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

BELLE (Amma Asante) spins the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, daughter of an 18th century British naval officer and an African slave, into a historical biopic that aspires to more complexity than its lavish costume-drama packaging will allow. 104 min. NNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

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(Richard Linklater) is the best American movie I’ve seen in years – and one of the very best movies about America ever made, capturing the maturation of Texas kid Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from first grade through leaving for college. If I see another movie more ambitious, more honest or more illuminating this year, I’ll be stunned. 164 min. NNNNN (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Queensway, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

BREASTMILK (Dana Ben-Ari) features a lot of boobs but isn’t all that titillating. New mothers navigate the choices around breastfeeding, while experts weigh in on ALIVE INSIDE (Michael Rossato-Bennett) is our fraught relationship with the topic. more an infomercial than a movie, followThe doc sags under the all information; it’s ing the efforts of social at its best when the director worker Dan Scott’s playfully puts lactating Music And Memory breasts front and centre, EXPANDED REVIEWS project to give elderchallenging taboos by nowtoronto.com ly sufferers of debringing them out into the mentia some comopen. 85 min. NN (Kiva fort through their Reardon) favourite songs. Oliver Sacks discusses the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema theory behind the treatment, but the CALVARY (John Michael McDonagh) sight of these people reviving says every101 min. See review, page 45. NNNN thing much more simply. 73 min. NNN (NW) (NW) Opens Aug 8 at Varsity Bloor Hot Docs Cinema CHEF (Jon Favreau) is 20 minutes too AND SO IT GOES (Rob Reiner) is a pleasant long and a hair too manipulative, but diversion designed for mature audiences. writer/director/star Favreau is intent on Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton play delivering such a pleasurable little movie neighbours who band together when he’s that it almost seems unfair to hold his exput in charge of a granddaughter he never cesses against him – and you wouldn’t knew existed. Douglas relishes the role, want him to cut the cameos from his Marand Keaton is winning as a wannabe vel buddies. 115 min. NNNN (NW) lounge singer who can’t get through a

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single song without recalling her recently deceased husband and breaking into tears. 94 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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Anita Hill, whose testimony about being sexually harassed by Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas forms the film’s main body. Hill became a soughtafter leader and lecturer on harassment, but the material about those later events, unfortunately, isn’t nearly as compelling as reliving those hearings. 84 min. NNNN (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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BEGIN AGAIN (John Carney) is Once writer/director John Carney’s return to the feature-length music video gimmick. Just call it Twice. This time around the tunes drown out a lacklustre drama. Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley are remarkable as a washed-up music exec and the talent he discovers, respectively. Their chemistry makes shared scenes truly sing. But while Carney manages a few rousing musical

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ñDAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

(Matt Reeves) is the real reboot of the Apes franchise, harvesting the useful plot points of 2011’s clumsy Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes in its first three minutes and never looking back. Where the last one paid lip service to ape/human ethics and rushed through its character development to get to what it thought audiences wanted, Dawn is willing to put in the work, with complex characters on both the human and primate sides. Some subtitles. 130 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas,

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is a souped-up reworking of The Exorcist starring Eric Bana as Bronx cop Ralph Sarchie, a combination of Father Karras and Lt. Kinderman who comes to believe a demonic force is responsible for a string of domestic incidents. It’ll make millions. Some subtitles. 115 min. NN (NW) ScotiabankTheatre

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indebted to the collected works of Franz Kafka, Terry Gilliam and Roman Polanski as it is to the Dostoevsky story about a meek office drone (Jesse Eisenberg) unhinged by the arrival of a successful, articulate man who looks exactly like him. It’s arch, weird and very, very funny – like watching an entire Bulgarian film festival in a single sitting. 93 min. NNNN (NW) KingswayTheatre

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some together without paying a male third party? 98 min. NN (SGC) CarltonCinema

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(Josh Boone) is a faithful and heartwrenching adaptation of John Green’s bestseller about the star-crossed romance between teen cancer survivors Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Augustus (Ansel Elgort). Director Boone paces the film beautifully and gets inspired performances. Elgort sells the idealized Gus with a magnetic charm and soulful vulnerability, and Woodley never tries to make Hazel lovable or even attractive, which of course makes her both. Bring kleenex. 125 min. NNNN (GS) Yonge&Dundas24

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(John Maloof, Charlie Siskel) sifts through some of the 100,000 photographs shot by nanny and compulsive hoarder Vivian Maier, constructing a compelling portrait of a mysterious artist who refused to be seen. 83 min. NNNN (RS) KingswayTheatre

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is a surprisingly playful mashup of Groundhog Day and Aliens – an epic-ish SF actioner that’s also refreshingly selfaware, using its rewind-repeat narrative to layer in subtle character beats, clever plot twists and at least one brilliant running gag. And Emily Blunt is great. 113 min. NNNN (NW) CarltonCinema,EglintonTownCentre, ScotiabankTheatre

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

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provocateur LaBruce’s latest, a coming-ofager that revolves around a young man named Lake’s thing for seniors. If his romance with 81-year-old Mr. Peabody initially seems like an attempt to needle conservatives, LaBruce surprises with a warmth and tenderness that carries the central relationship beyond fetishism. 82 min. NNN (RS) KingswayTheatre

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HERCULES (Brett Ratner) brings the Rush Hour trilogy and X-Men: The Final Stand director’s signature mediocrity to the sword-and-sandal genre. It’s sluggish and bland; the only sequence that stands out has Hercules and the Thracian army battling a few hundred bald, bearded, body-painted maniacs. 98 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rain-

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

INTO THE STORM (Steven Quale) 89 min. See Q&A and review, page 46. NNN (NW) Opens Aug 13 at 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 LAND HO! ñ NNNN

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(Steve James) explores Roger Ebert’s life and legacy with tremendous affection. But it doesn’t shy away from the ugliness of Ebert’s death, which gives James’s documentary its real power. Like the man himself, it’s unfailingly honest and profoundly insightful. 120 min. NNNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

LUCY (Luc Besson) marks Besson’s return to directing fierce females in kick-ass action films. The film doesn’t make a ton of sense, but it’s fun and silly enough to pass the time. Scarlett Johansson plays an American student-turned-unsuspectingdrug-mule who finds herself with a superbrain. The action scenes are the real star, including one jaw-dropping car chase sequence through Paris. 89 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Ritesh Batra) is built around the fanciful conceit of a mistaken lunch delivery that paves the way for two strangers to exchange handwritten letters via their meals. The film paints an assured, affecting picture of loneliness and longing amidst modern Mumbai’s hustle and bustle. 105 min. NNNN (RS) Mt Pleasant

MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (Woody Allen)

is lazy. Allen’s 1920s-set story about magician Stanley (Colin Firth), who revels in debunking spiritualists, isn’t funny or full of ideas. Normally I’d grumble about a storyline that forces me to root for the mid-50s Firth to get it on with the 20-something Emma Stone’s spiritualist, but I was too bored to care. 98 min. NN (SGC) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Queensway, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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has a bland new cast who play everyday folks scrambling to survive the annual event that legalizes murder for 12 hours, an insidious way for the rich to eradicate the poor. The budding franchise’s halfbaked, insincere critique of class warfare and the second amendment is a highminded justification for its real function: to get audiences giddy watching people mutilate each other as blood washes down the popcorn. 104 min. nn (RS) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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ical fruit smoothie that won’t stop spinning in the blender. The 3D animated sequel about a pack of blue macaws dancing their way from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon jungle presents a relentless rush of bright colours impeccably choreographed to samba, R&B and show tunes. But the busy plot and characters are lost amidst the flash. 101 min. nn (RS) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(Robert Stromberg) applies the Wicked formula to the Sleeping Beauty story, with Angelina Jolie as Maleficent, the sprite-turned-avenger who lays a curse on the princess in the neighbouring kingdom. It’s spectacular to look and puts a glorious twist on the kiss, but kids may find it too scary. Big fun, but definitely for grown-ups. 97 min. nnnn (SGC) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Jonathan Demme) is an film of Wallace Shawn’s recent translation and adaptation of the Ibsen play, shot largely in close-ups with small digital cameras pressing in on the struggles playing out on the faces of the actors (among them Shawn, Andre Gregory, Julie Hagerty and Lisa Joyce). It’s a work any theatre fan needs to see. 127 min. nnnn (NW) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre

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(Anton Corbijn) plays out John le Carré’s tangled tale of surveillance and counter-intelligence with elegance and grace. In a final, masterful lead performance, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a German intelligence officer tracking a Chechen Muslim (Grigory Dobrygin) through Hamburg. Some subtitles. 121 min. nnnn (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Queensway, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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yanks the 2D, hand-drawn time-travelling cartoon from the 60s into the new era of 3D animation. The genius dog and his adopted son visit textbook figures like Marie Antoinette, King Tut and Leonardo Da Vinci while giving history a zany spin. 92 min. nnn (RS) Kingsway Theatre

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night train to lisBon (Bille August) is a dreary Euro-pudding that wastes several very talented actors in two stories separ-

ated by four decades. Jeremy Irons has a few nice scenes with Martina Gedeck as an optometrist with whom his character becomes friendly, but that’s hardly a reason to endure the rest of it. 111 min. nn (NW) Kingsway Theatre

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(Gillian Robespierre) is a sharply observed character study built around a knockout performance by Jenny Slate as a Brooklyn stand-up comic mining her life for material even as her world falls apart. Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann, Richard Kind and Polly Draper contribute fine supporting performances, but this is Slate’s movie from beginning to end. 85 min. nnnn (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

Palo alto (Gia Coppola) is for the most part a gentle, thoughtful study of California teenagers (Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer) struggling to define themselves by figuring out what they will and won’t do. Points off for Nat Wolff’s caricatured, obnoxious turn as the hero’s best friend, though. 100 min. nnn (NW) Kingsway Theatre Planes: fire & rescue 3d (Roberts Gannaway) is an economy flight as far as animated movies go but one that will elicit few complaints. There’s little in the way of bells and whistles in the workmanlike story, characters and visual design, yet the result is a satisfactory kids’ toon about Dusty the cropduster’s transition from racer to firefighter that does a fine job saluting the real people on the job. 84 min. nnn (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 the Privileged (Leah Walker) is an uninspired psychological thriller starring Joshua Close (late of the Fargo TV series) as a young lawyer drawn into a power game with his boss (True Blood’s Sam Trammell) at a cottage. Competently made, but no surprises whatsoever. 79 min. nn (NW) Kingsway Theatre

Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

ñ22 juMP street

(Phil Lord, Christopher Miller) is basically just a toy box full of wonderful things, a sequel to Lord and Miller’s self-aware TV adaptation that levels up accordingly, with terrific chases and fights that stay grounded in the contrast between Channing Tatum’s gung-ho energy and Jonah Hill’s nervous hesitation. Stay for the credits. 112 min. nnnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

Walking the caMino: six Ways to santiago (Lydia Smith) is a spectacular

snore, tracking a dozen pilgrims making their way along Spain’s historic trail to Santiago de Campostela, delivering more bromides than a 19th-century apothecary. It is good to look at, but go watch a travelogue if that’s what you’re after. Some subtitles. 84 min. nn (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

Wish i Was here (Zach Braff) feels like

the pandering calling card of a rookie writer/director showing off all his evident style and talent by throwing everything he’s got at the screen. This dramedy about

an unemployed actor struggling to be a responsible dad is actually a Zach Braff movie; he already showcased his cloying humour and appetite for pretty (and pretty meaningless) images in 2004’s Garden State. In the 10 years since, his filmmaking hasn’t matured. 110 min. nn (RS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema

Words and Pictures (Fred Schepisi) finds prep-school teachers Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche arguing whether words or pictures are the most powerful communication tool humans have evolved. The stars dive into their repugnant characters with everything they’ve got, apparently confident no one will ever see the finished product. Well, there’s always hope. 115 min. n (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

ñx-Men: days of future Past

(Bryan Singer) is really just an excuse to let the all-star casts of the original XMen trilogy and 2011’s sprightly X-Men: First Class share the same feature while the effects crew comes up with nifty new gags and suitably spectacular set pieces. And Michael Fassbender is once again an even more charismatic Magneto than Ian McKellen. Some subtitles. 131 min. nnnn (NW) Scotiabank Theatre 3

couple Annie and Jay (Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel), who try to spice up their stale sex life by making a sex tape, which somehow gets forwarded to the tablets of a small group of friends, including Annie’s prospective employer (Rob Lowe). It’s an okay time-waster with a few big laughs, more small ones and a lot of unfunny scenes of people yelling in panic. 95 min. nnn (AD) Canada Square, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñsnoWPiercer

(Bong Joon-ho) takes a supremely ridiculous premise – 17 years after an attempt to curb global warming freezes the planet, the only life left on Earth is jammed aboard a constantly speeding train where a few dozen people living in steerage plot to overthrow their upper-class masters a dozen cars ahead – and turns it into a gripping, thrilling and utterly credible adventure. See it with a crowd. Some subtitles. 126 min. nnnnn (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

steP uP: all in 3d (Trish Sie) 112 min. See Also Opening, page 48. Opens Aug 8 at Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 taMMy (Ben Falcone) is co-written and produced by star Melissa McCarthy (Identity Thief), who once again plays a trashy, foul-mouthed terrorist against civility. But here she drops those luxurious f-bombs opposite Susan Sarandon in a road movie that tries to be a sensitively wrought dramedy. You have to admire McCarthy for the gamble, even if it isn’t entirely successful. 97 min. nnn (RS) Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24 teenage Mutant ninja turtles (Jona-

than Liebesman) 101 min. See review, page 48. nn (AD) Opens Aug 8 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

transforMers: age of extinction

(Michael Bay) is a gargantuan screech of white noise and spinning metal. The action sequences overwhelm the narrative and obliterate the senses. Some subtitles. 166 min. n (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, NOW august 7-13 2014

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ALIVE INSIDE (G) Thu 4:15 ANITA (PG) Thu 6:30 THE ANONYMOUS PEOPLE Sat 3:30 Sun 1:00 Tue 8:45 BREASTMILK Thu 8:45 ELENA (14A) Fri 9:00 Sun 6:00 Mon 6:30 AN HONEST LIAR Fri 4:00, 6:30 Sat 1:00, 6:00 Sun 3:30, 8:30 Mon 8:45 Tue 6:30 Wed 4:00, 8:45

CARLTON CINEMA (I) 20 CARLTON, 416-494-9371

4 MINUTE MILE Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:20 ABOUT ALEX (14A) Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 AND SO IT GOES (PG) Fri-Wed 1:25, 6:40 CHEF (14A) Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG) Thu 4:05, 9:25 FADING GIGOLO (14A) Thu 1:40, 7:10 GET ON UP (14A) Thu 1:55, 6:10, 9:05 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Thu-Sun, Tue 1:30, 6:40 Mon 1:30 HERCULES (PG) Thu 12:35 3:55 6:55 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:35, 3:55, 6:55, 9:15 Tue-Wed 11:20 late INTO THE STORM (PG) 1:30, 4:00, 7:05, 9:20 Tue 11:20 late LET’S BE COPS (14A) Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:35 LUCY (14A) 1:45, 3:50, 6:45, 9:00 Tue-Wed 11:25 late OBVIOUS CHILD (14A) Thu 1:50, 7:05 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (14A) Thu 4:10, 9:30 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) 1:35, 3:50, 6:55, 9:15 Tue 11:15 late TORONTO FILM SOCIETY Mon 7:00 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 4:00, 9:35 Fri-Sun, Tue 4:10, 9:35 Mon 4:10 WALKING THE CAMINO: SIX WAYS TO SANTIAGO (G) Thu 2:00, 7:00 WISH I WAS HERE (14A) Thu 1:25, 3:45, 6:50, 9:15 Fri-Wed 3:45, 9:00

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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Fri-Sun 9:00 HERCULES (PG) Fri-Sun 10:55 INTO THE STORM (PG) Fri-Sun 11:10 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Fri-Sun 9:05

AUGUST 7-13 2014 NOW

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BEGIN AGAIN (14A) Thu 3:45, 9:25 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 12:35 3:35 6:45 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:35, 6:45, 9:30 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Thu 12:45, 6:55 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:50, 9:30 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:35 Sat, Tue-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:35, 11:05 HERCULES (PG) Thu 2:45, 4:00, 4:55, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-Tue 12:25, 4:50, 7:00 INTO THE STORM (PG) 12:40, 2:45, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25 Sat, Tue-Wed 11:15 late LET’S BE COPS (14A) Wed 12:25, 2:35, 4:50, 7:00, 9:20 LUCY (14A) 12:20, 2:30, 4:45, 7:05, 9:15 SEX TAPE (14A) Thu 12:25, 2:35, 4:50 Fri-Tue 2:35, 9:20 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:40 Sat, Tue-Wed 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:40, 11:10

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DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:45 Fri-Wed 1:35 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Fri-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 DELIVER US FROM EVIL (14A) Thu 9:50 EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:50 Fri-Sun 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Mon 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:20 Tue-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 7:45, 10:20 EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D (PG) Thu 7:30, 10:10 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:10, 9:00 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 1:40, 2:40, 2:50, 4:40, 5:35, 6:05, 7:35, 8:30, 9:00, 10:30 Fri-Sat 2:00, 2:50, 3:20, 4:55, 5:45, 6:20, 7:50, 8:45, 9:15, 10:50 Sun 2:00, 2:50, 3:20, 4:55, 5:45, 6:20, 7:45, 8:45, 9:15, 10:40 Mon 1:10, 2:20, 2:50, 3:50, 5:10, 5:40, 8:00, 8:30, 9:30 Tue-Wed 1:10, 2:20, 2:50, 3:50, 5:10, 5:40, 6:40, 8:00, 8:30, 9:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:20 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 MonWed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 HERCULES (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 HERCULES 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 INTO THE STORM (PG) Thu 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:15, 2:20, 3:30, 4:40, 5:55, 7:10, 8:20, 9:50, 10:40 Mon-Wed 1:20, 2:20, 3:30, 4:40, 5:55, 7:10, 8:15, 9:40, 10:30 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:35, 9:20 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:15, 6:55, 9:25 Mon-Tue 1:50, 4:15, 6:55, 9:20 Wed 1:30, 4:00, 9:40 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:50, 10:20 Fri-Sun 3:00, 6:35, 10:10 Mon-Wed 2:40, 6:20, 9:50 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:35, 5:20, 8:10, 10:50 Mon 1:10, 3:40, 6:40, 10:10 TueWed 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50 Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:45, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00

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SNOWPIERCER (14A) Thu, Sun 12:30, 3:15, 6:20, 9:15 Fri 12:30, 2:15, 4:30, 9:45 Sat 12:30, 3:15, 6:45, 10:00 Mon 6:20, 9:15 Tue 12:30, 2:35, 4:30, 9:00 Wed 12:30, 3:15, 6:20, 9:45

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YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-977-9262

AND SO IT GOES (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 APOLLO 13 Fri 1:00, 7:00 Sat 7:00, 10:05 Sun 4:00, 9:30 Mon 1:00, 7:30 Tue 4:30, 10:00 Wed 12:30, 3:45 BEGIN AGAIN (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Fri, MonTue 3:40, 10:05 Sat-Sun 3:15, 10:05 CHEF (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:15 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:15, 9:30 DRAGON BALL Z: BATTLE OF GODS Thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri 4:15, 10:00 Sat 12:55, 4:45 Sun 7:15 Mon 10:30 Tue 7:45 Wed 10:15 ENTERTAINMENT Fri-Wed 2:40, 6:20, 10:00 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:25 Fri, Tue 3:25, 6:20, 9:20 Sat-Sun 11:55, 3:25, 6:20, 9:20 Mon 3:25, 10:20 Wed 3:25, 9:20 GET ON UP (14A) Thu 12:55, 4:05, 5:45, 7:15, 9:15, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:25, 3:20, 6:10, 7:20, 9:30, 10:35 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:25, 3:45, 6:10, 7:05, 9:30, 10:25 GIRLS (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:25, 7:35, 10:30 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 3:05, 6:05, 9:00 Sun 12:10, 3:05, 6:05, 9:00 GODZILLA (PG) Thu 9:45 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 4:30 7:45 10:45 Fri-Wed 4:50, 7:50, 10:45 Sat-Sun 1:45 mat HENRY IV PART 2 – ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LIVE Sat 12:30 HERCULES 3D (PG) Thu 5:15, 8:00, 10:30 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:50 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:50 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D (PG) Thu 5:55, 8:20, 10:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:15 Sat-Sun 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Fri, Mon-Tue 1:15, 3:30, 4:15, 6:30, 7:15, 9:20, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:30, 1:15, 3:30, 4:15, 6:30, 7:15, 9:20, 10:15 Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 INTO THE STORM (PG) 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat KICK (PG) Thu 2:30, 6:10, 9:35 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:10, 5:00, 9:05 Sat-Sun 1:00, 5:00, 9:05 LET’S BE COPS (14A) Wed 12:55, 3:40, 7:20, 10:10 LUCY (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 4:50, 6:50, 7:20, 9:30, 10:10 Fri 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 LUCY: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu 3:00 5:15 7:45 10:45 Fri-Wed 3:00, 6:00, 8:15, 10:45 Sat-Sun 12:15 mat

MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Thu 12:55, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:20, 7:40, 10:40 MALEFICENT (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:20, 7:50, 10:35 Fri, MonWed 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 3:10, 6:15, 9:10 A MOST WANTED MAN (14A) 3:55, 6:50, 9:55 Thu 1:05 mat Sat-Sun 12:45 mat PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (G) Thu 2:05, 4:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:05 Sat-Sun 12:55 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE 3D (G) Thu 7:15 SEX TAPE (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Mon, Wed 2:15, 6:45, 10:20 THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (18A) Sun 12:55 Mon 4:15 Tue 1:00 Wed 7:00 STEP UP: ALL IN 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:55, 4:00, 6:55, 9:40 TAMMY (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:35 Fri, Tue 12:55, 7:05 Sat-Sun 12:40, 7:05 Mon 12:55 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30

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7:00, 9:55 INTO THE STORM (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 LET’S BE COPS (14A) Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:20 LUCY (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:45, 10:20 Fri-Tue 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 Wed 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (14A) Thu 9:20 THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (18A) Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 STEP UP: ALL IN 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Fri-Sun 12:30 Mon-Wed 1:50 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:40, 8:00, 10:30 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:20

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675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Fri 9:15 Sat 9:20 Sun, Wed 7:00 THE LUNCHBOX (PG) Thu-Fri, Tue 7:00 Sat 4:30, 7:00 Sun 4:30

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

2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

BEGIN AGAIN (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:45 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:00, 7:20, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:50 Mon-Wed 1:00 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 4:00 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 4:00, 7:20, 10:30 Sun 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 Wed 4:00, 10:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu 3:25, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 1:45, 4:10, 4:40, 7:10, 7:35, 10:10, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:40 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 HERCULES (PG) Fri-Tue 3:50, 6:45, 9:20 HERCULES 3D (PG) Thu 2:10, 5:00, 7:30, 10:25 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) 1:00 Thu 3:50 mat HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D (PG) Thu 6:20 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:05,

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 AND SO IT GOES (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:55, 6:25, 8:55 BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 12:45, 4:15, 4:20, 8:00, 8:05 Fri 2:20, 6:20, 10:00 Sat 11:05, 2:35, 6:20, 10:00 Sun 1:15, 4:50, 8:30 Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:50, 8:30 Wed 1:20, 4:50, 8:30 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 12:55 Fri 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Sat 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Sun-Tue 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Wed 12:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 DRAGON BALL Z: BATTLE OF GODS Thu 12:30 Sat 12:55 GET ON UP (14A) Thu 12:55, 4:10, 7:25, 10:35 Fri 12:25, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Sun 12:10, 3:25, 6:30, 9:40 Mon-Wed 12:20, 3:25, 6:30, 9:40 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:00, 3:40, 6:00, 6:35, 9:15 Fri 12:50, 3:00, 3:50, 6:00, 6:50, 9:10 Sat 12:00, 12:50, 3:00, 3:50, 6:00, 6:50, 9:10 Sun 12:00, 12:40, 3:00, 3:40, 6:00, 6:40, 9:10 Mon-Tue 12:40, 3:00, 3:40, 6:00, 6:40, 9:10 Wed 3:00, 3:40, 6:30, 6:40, 10:45 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 3:45, 4:40, 7:00, 7:35, 9:25, 10:15, 10:30 Fri 2:00, 4:00, 4:50, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:10, 10:45 Sat 11:10, 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 4:50, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:10, 10:45 Sun 1:00, 1:50, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 9:35, 10:10, 10:35 Mon-Tue 1:50, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 9:35, 10:10, 10:35 Wed 1:50, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 9:35, 10:00, 10:35 HERCULES 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:55, 4:45, 5:25, 7:30, 7:55, 10:15, 10:20 Fri 12:15, 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 Sun 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Tue 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Wed 4:30, 10:10 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:10 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00 Sun 12:20, 3:00 Mon-Wed 12:30 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Fri 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:40, 9:55 Sat 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:40, 9:55 Sun 12:30, 1:10, 3:30, 4:10, 6:30, 7:10, 9:40, 10:00 Mon-Tue 1:10, 3:30, 4:10, 6:30, 7:10, 9:40, 10:00 Wed 1:10, 3:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00

Step up: aLL In 3d (PG) Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 teenage mutant nInja turtLeS (PG) Fri, Sun-Wed 2:15 Sat 12:30 teenage mutant nInja turtLeS 3d (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30

Diane Keaton hits all the right notes in And So It Goes.

Scarborough 401 & MoRningSide (Ce) 785 MilneR ave, SCaRboRough, 416-281-2226

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ColiSeuM SCaRboRough (Ce) SCaRboRough ToWn CenTRe, 416-290-5217

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eglinTon ToWn CenTRe (Ce) 1901 eglinTon ave e, 416-752-4494

Into the Storm (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri 12:40, 3:10, 5:00, 6:00, 7:45, 8:20, 10:10, 10:50 Sat 12:40, 2:15, 3:10, 5:00, 6:00, 7:45, 8:20, 10:10, 10:50 Sun 1:00, 2:15, 3:20, 5:00, 5:50, 7:45, 8:10, 10:10, 10:30 Mon 12:55, 3:00, 3:20, 5:00, 5:50, 7:45, 8:10, 10:10, 10:30 Tue 12:55, 3:00, 3:20, 5:50, 7:45, 8:10, 10:30 Wed 1:40, 3:20, 5:00, 5:50, 7:45, 8:10, 10:30 Let’S Be CopS (14A) Wed 12:05, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 LuCy (14A) Thu 1:35, 2:30, 3:30, 4:50, 5:50, 6:30, 7:15, 8:15, 9:00, 9:40, 10:35 Fri 1:10, 3:00, 3:40, 6:00, 6:10, 8:30, 8:40, 10:55 Sat 12:00, 1:10, 3:00, 3:40, 6:00, 6:10, 8:30, 8:40, 10:55 Sun 12:00, 12:45, 3:00, 3:10, 5:40, 6:00, 8:00, 8:40, 10:25 Mon-Tue 12:45, 3:10, 5:40, 6:00, 8:00, 8:40, 10:25 Wed 3:00, 3:10, 5:40, 6:00, 8:00, 8:40, 10:20 magIC In the moonLIght (PG) Fri 12:10, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 2:25, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15 Sun-Tue 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Wed 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 a moSt Wanted man (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Fri 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Sat 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Wed 12:35, 3:30, 6:50, 9:45 pLaneS: FIre & reSCue (G) Thu 2:10, 4:30 Fri 1:05, 3:20 Sat 11:00, 1:05, 3:20 Sun-Tue 1:20, 3:50 pLaneS: FIre & reSCue 3d (G) Fri-Sat 5:50, 8:10 Sun-Tue 6:00, 8:20 the purge: anarChy (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 Fri-Sat 10:20 Sun-Tue 10:35 rIo 2 (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:15 Sex tape (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Sat 5:40, 8:40, 11:00 Sun 6:20, 8:45 Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:20, 8:45 the ShaWShank redemptIon (18A) Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 Step up: aLL In 3d (PG) Thu 7:05, 9:50 Fri 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:10, 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sun-Tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:10 Wed 1:15, 3:50, 6:25, 9:10 teenage mutant nInja turtLeS (PG) Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:25 Sun 12:00, 1:30, 4:20 Mon-Tue 12:25, 1:30, 4:20 Wed 12:45, 1:30, 4:20 teenage mutant nInja turtLeS 3d (PG) Thu 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Sat 8:00, 10:35 Sun-Wed 7:20, 9:50 tranSFormerS: age oF extInCtIon (PG) Thu 5:40 22 jump Street (14A) Thu 5:00

RainboW Woodbine (i)

Woodbine CenTRe, 500 Rexdale blvd, 416-213-1998 daWn oF the pLanet oF the apeS (PG) 6:40, 9:40 Thu 12:45, 3:45 mat get on up (14A) Thu 12:50 3:55 7:15 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 7:15 guardIanS oF the gaLaxy (PG) Thu 1:00 3:50 6:45 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 herCuLeS (PG) Thu 12:55 4:00 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:55, 4:05, 7:05, 9:45 hoW to traIn your dragon 2 (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:15 Into the Storm (PG) Thu 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 6:55, 9:25 Let’S Be CopS (14A) Wed 12:55, 4:05, 7:05, 9:45 LuCy (14A) Thu 1:05 4:05 6:50 9:25 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:55, 6:50, 9:20 pLaneS: FIre & reSCue (G) 1:15, 4:10 Thu 6:55 teenage mutant nInja turtLeS (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:30

east end beaCh CineMaS (aa) 1651 Queen ST e, 416-699-1327

daWn oF the pLanet oF the apeS (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30,

6:40, 9:30 Fri, Mon, Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 Sat-Sun, Tue 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 guardIanS oF the gaLaxy (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 guardIanS oF the gaLaxy 3d (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45, 10:15 Fri, Mon, Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50, 10:15 Sat-Sun, Tue 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 herCuLeS 3d (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 hoW to traIn your dragon 2 (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:30 the hundred-Foot journey (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 LuCy (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:30 teenage mutant nInja turtLeS (PG) Fri, Mon, Wed 1:15 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:00 teenage mutant nInja turtLeS 3d (PG) Fri, Mon, Wed 4:15, 6:50, 10:00 Sat-Sun, Tue 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15

north York Cineplex CineMaS eMpReSS Walk (Ce) 5095 Yonge ST., 416-847-0087

and So It goeS (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Boyhood (14A) Thu 2:50, 6:30, 10:10 Fri-Wed 2:30, 6:10, 9:50 CheF (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:45 daWn oF the pLanet oF the apeS (PG) Thu 1:25 FriWed 1:00 daWn oF the pLanet oF the apeS 3d (PG) Thu 4:20 Fri-Wed 3:55, 7:00, 10:10 the dIvIne move (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:25 guardIanS oF the gaLaxy (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 Mon, Wed 1:25, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 guardIanS oF the gaLaxy 3d (PG) Thu 9:55 guardIanS oF the gaLaxy: an Imax 3d experIenCe (PG) Thu 1:30 4:30 7:30 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30 henry Iv part 2 – royaL ShakeSpeare Company LIve Sat 12:30 herCuLeS 3d (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:50 the hundred-Foot journey (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Mon, Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Into the Storm (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:30, 7:50, 10:15 LuCy (14A) Thu 2:25, 4:50, 7:25, 9:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:40, 5:00, 7:15, 9:40 Sat 7:15, 9:40 magIC In the moonLIght (PG) Fri-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 a moSt Wanted man (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Mon, Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 the purge: anarChy (14A) Thu 9:35 teenage mutant nInja turtLeS (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 3:00 Sat-Sun 12:30 teenage mutant nInja turtLeS 3d (PG) Thu 7:35, 10:20 Fri, Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sat-Sun 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30

SilveRCiTY FaiRvieW (Ce)

FaiRvieW Mall, 1800 SheppaRd ave e, 416-644-7746 daWn oF the pLanet oF the apeS (PG) Thu-Sun, Tue

1:00 Wed 1:05 daWn oF the pLanet oF the apeS 3d (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 Mon 7:10, 10:05 dragon BaLL Z: BattLe oF godS Thu 12:30 Sat 12:55 guardIanS oF the gaLaxy (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Mon 6:50, 9:40 Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 guardIanS oF the gaLaxy 3d (PG) Thu 12:50, 1:50, 3:40, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Sat 10:55, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 herCuLeS 3d (PG) Thu 12:35, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 FriSat 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55 Sun 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 Mon 9:55 Tue 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 Wed 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 9:45 Into the Storm (PG) Thu 9:45 Fri 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Sat 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Sun-Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 Let’S Be CopS (14A) Wed 1:20, 4:05, 7:00, 9:45 LuCy (14A) Thu 12:40, 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:15, 6:50, 7:45, 9:10, 10:05 Fri 3:00, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 Sat 12:35, 3:00, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 Sun-Tue 2:00, 4:25, 6:55, 9:30 Wed 2:00, 4:25, 9:30 pLaneS: FIre & reSCue (G) Thu 12:35, 2:40 Fri 2:40, 5:00 Sat 12:20, 2:40, 5:00 Sun, Tue 2:10, 4:35 pLaneS: FIre & reSCue 3d (G) Thu 4:50 rIo 2 (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:15 Sex tape (14A) Thu 2:35, 4:55, 7:20 Fri-Sat 7:15, 9:45 Sun, Tue 7:00, 9:25 Mon 9:25 the ShaWShank redemptIon (18A) Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 Step up: aLL In 3d (PG) 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 10:50 mat teenage mutant nInja turtLeS (PG) Fri 2:50 Sat 12:15, 2:50 Sun-Wed 1:50 teenage mutant nInja turtLeS 3d (PG) Thu 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sat 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Sun-Wed 4:40, 7:25, 10:00

SilveRCiTY YoRkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFeRin ST, 416-787-2052

daWn oF the pLanet oF the apeS (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:00 Sat 12:40 daWn oF the pLanet oF the apeS 3d (PG) Thu, SunWed 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Fri 4:25, 7:35, 10:45 Sat 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 get on up (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:35 Fri 1:00, 4:10, 7:20 Sat 12:25, 3:40, 7:10 Sun-Tue 1:00, 4:05, 7:15 guardIanS oF the gaLaxy (PG) Thu, Sat-Wed 1:00, 3:55, 6:50 Fri 1:15, 4:10, 7:05 guardIanS oF the gaLaxy 3d (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 9:50, 10:30 Fri 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:00, 10:45 Sat 11:05, 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 9:55, 10:45 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 9:45, 10:30 herCuLeS 3d (PG) Thu-Tue 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Wed 2:40, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 hoW to traIn your dragon 2 (PG) Thu 1:10 Into the Storm (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Let’S Be CopS (14A) Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:10 LuCy (14A) Thu 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:55, 7:55, 9:20, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Tue 2:05, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 Sat 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:15, 10:40 Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 9:40 pLaneS: FIre & reSCue (G) Thu 2:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50 Sat 11:30, 1:50 pLaneS: FIre & reSCue 3d (G) Thu 5:00, 7:20 the purge: anarChy (14A) Thu 3:45, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sat 10:30 Sun-Tue 10:25 rIo 2 (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:30 Sex tape (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:25 Fri-Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:15

and So It goeS (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Fri, Tue 2:15, 4:40, 7:05 Sat 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05 Sun 4:10, 6:35 Mon 1:40, 4:10, 6:35 Wed 4:10 daWn oF the pLanet oF the apeS (PG) Thu 1:00 Fri 1:25 Sat, Tue 1:40 Sun 12:30 Wed 12:40 daWn oF the pLanet oF the apeS 3d (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Fri 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Sat, Tue 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 Sun-Mon, Wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 edge oF tomorroW (PG) Thu 9:50 entertaInment Fri 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Sat-Sun, Tue 1:05, 4:15, 7:15, 10:20 Mon, Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:20 get on up (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:25, 9:35 Fri 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:40 Sat, Tue 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Sun, Wed 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:10 Mon 3:45, 6:50, 10:05 guardIanS oF the gaLaxy (PG) Thu 3:25, 6:30, 9:25 Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:25 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:25, 3:25, 6:30, 9:25 Mon, Wed 3:20, 6:15, 9:10 guardIanS oF the gaLaxy 3d (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 5:30, 7:35, 8:30, 10:30 Fri, Tue 1:10, 2:05, 4:05, 5:00, 7:10, 7:50, 10:05, 10:50 Sat 11:15, 1:10, 2:05, 4:05, 5:00, 7:10, 7:50, 10:05, 10:50 Sun 1:10, 1:45, 4:05, 4:40, 7:00, 7:35, 10:00, 10:35 Mon 1:10, 1:45, 4:00, 4:40, 6:55, 7:35, 9:55, 10:35 Wed 1:10, 1:45, 4:00, 4:40, 6:55, 7:35, 9:55, 10:25 herCuLeS (PG) Fri 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 3:05, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Mon, Wed 2:50, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Tue 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 herCuLeS 3d (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:25, 10:00 hoW to traIn your dragon 2 (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:20 Fri, Tue 2:20, 4:55 Sat 11:45, 2:20, 4:55 Sun-Mon 1:55, 4:30 the hundred-Foot journey (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Into the Storm (PG) Thu 9:45 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Sun 12:40, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 Mon 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 Wed 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 kICk (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:55, 10:25 Fri 3:35, 7:05, 10:35 Sat 12:10, 3:35, 7:00, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Mon 3:10, 6:40, 10:00 Tue 12:15, 3:35, 7:00, 10:30 Wed 3:10, 6:35, 10:00 Let’S Be CopS (14A) Wed 1:30, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 LuCy (14A) Thu 1:55, 2:35, 4:15, 4:55, 6:40, 7:20, 9:45, 10:20 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 maLeFICent (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:30 Fri, Mon 1:05 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:45 Wed 12:20 pLaneS: FIre & reSCue (G) Thu 2:40, 5:00 the purge: anarChy (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:05, 7:40 Fri-Sat, Tue 9:30 Sun-Mon 9:05 Wed 9:55 rIo 2 (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:15 Sex tape (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Fri-Sat, Tue 7:45, 10:10 Sun-Mon 7:05, 9:30 the ShaWShank redemptIon (18A) Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 Step up: aLL In 3d (PG) Thu 7:15, 9:55 Fri, Tue 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Sun-Mon, Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 teenage mutant nInja turtLeS (PG) Fri 12:55 Sat 11:10, 12:30 Sun, Tue-Wed 12:30 Mon 1:00 teenage mutant nInja turtLeS 3d (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sat, Tue 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Sun-Mon, Wed 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 tranSFormerS: age oF extInCtIon (PG) Fri 3:40 SatSun, Tue 3:15 Mon 4:00 Wed 2:50 tranSFormerS: age oF extInCtIon 3d (PG) Thu 2:15, 6:00, 9:40 Fri 7:15, 10:50 Sat-Sun, Tue 6:50, 10:25 Mon 8:30 Wed 6:25, 10:00

WoodSide CineMaS (i) 1571 SandhuRST CiRCle, 416-299-3456

entertaInment Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 jIgarthanda 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Thu 1:00 mat thIrumanam enum nIkkah (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:00 veLaIyILLa pattatharI (PG) 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15

GTA Regions north

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(2014) D: Dean DeBlois. 2 pm. Chef. 4 & 7 pm. Edge Of Tomorrow 3D. 9:15 pm. mON 11 – Edge Of Tomorrow 3D. 7 pm. Words And Pictures (2013) D: Fred Schepisi. 9:15 pm. TuE 12 – Words And Pictures. 7 pm. The Railway Man (2013) D: Jonathan Teplitzky. 9:15 pm. WED 13 – The Railway Man. 7 pm. Chef. 9:15 pm.

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festivals mosaic international south asian film festival

cineplex cinemas, 309 rathburn (cc); landmark cinemas, 100 city centre (lc); living arts centre, 4141 living arts (la), mississauga. misaff.com

Thu 7-SuN 10 – South Asian independent

cinema in long and short form, fiction and documentary. $10, opening or closing night $20, festival pass $50, some free screenings. Thu 7 – Opening night: Ankhon Dekhi D: Rajat Kapoor. 7 pm (CC). fRi 8 – When I Walk D: Jason, and short film Arivu. 1 pm (LA). Conflicted Samaritan D: Cyrus Sundar Singh, and short Handicapped Colony. 3 pm (LA). Blood Relative D: Nimisha Mukerji. 5 pm (LA). Gangs Of Tooting Broadway D: Devanand Shanmungam. 5:15 pm (LC). Vara D: Khyentse Norbu. 7:15 pm (LC). Tomorrow We Disappear D: Adam Weber, and short Mehendiwala. 7 pm (LA). Omar D: Hany Abu-Assad. 9 pm (LC). SaT 9 – Heer Ranjha D: Karim ul Islam. Noon (LA). Shorts including 6 Cup Chai, Baysabro, Aisa Hota Hai, and others. 3 pm (LA). Hank And Asha D: James E Duff, and short Tamaash D: Devanshi Singh. 3 pm (LC). NOOR D: Cagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti, and short Musafirkhana D: Mohammad Anwerzada. 5 pm (LC). Writers – Sulemani Keeda D: Amit V Masurkar, and short Nous Avions. 7 pm (LC). ID, and short Stuff D: Sofian Khan. 5 pm (LA). Lakshmi D: Nagesh Kukunoor. 7:10 pm (LA). Anima State D: Hammad Khan, and short Dho Dala D: Iram Parveen Bilal. 9:15 pm (LC). SuN 10 – Secret Trial 5 D: Amar Wala. 12:30 pm. Closing night: Meet The Patels (2014) D: Geeta and Ravi Patel, and short film One Night Stand D: Ryan Logan. 3 pm. All screenings at LC.

parkdale film & video showcase

the rhino, 1249 Queen w (rh); albert crosland parkette, 14 fuller (ac). parkdaleshowcase.ca

fRi 8-SuN 10 – Parkdale Film & Video Show-

case presents video and media art that happen in the village of Parkdale. Free/pwyc. fRi 8 – Pop-Up Cinema. ReNarrate short film program exploring text, language, art-making and internet porn, including Echo D: John Kamevaar, Prison Arabic In 50 Days (2013) D: John Greyson, Array3 (2014) D: Jim Olson, Adam Tindale and Katherine Fraser. G.I.R.L. (2012) D: Mark Pellegrino, Experiments In Visual Stimulation #37 (2013) D: Damian Lebiedzinski, Fag Feminist Art Gallery Video D: Allyson Mitchell, Deirdre Logue & FAG Feminist Art Gallery, The Japantown Mural (2014) D: Ken Galloway, Lecciones En Proceso (2012) D: Phillip Hoffman. 8 pm (RH). SaT 9 – ReClaim short film program exploring personal journeys and intimate relationships, including The Big Step, Old Friend, Endless Love, My Brother Teddy, Seven Persons, Wakening and Movement Perpétuel. Live musical accompaniment by Jason Doell. Sundown (approximately 9 pm (AC). SuN 10 – ReAct short film program examining the ambiguous line between recreational and destructive substance consumption, including Fear, Irony And Curating In The 90’s D: Evan Tyler, Infinite Debt D: Jennifer

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Layered, lyrical Elena ELENA (Petra Costa) Rating: NNNN An impressionistic memoir of loss and self-actualization, Elena traces the eerily parallel lives of two sisters. Elena and Petra Costa were born 13 years apart, but seeing their faces and knowing their stories, you’d think they were twins. Precariously single-minded, Elena knew she wanted to be an artist from the age of four. While still in her teens, she became a working dancer and actor in her native Brazil, then moved to New York City with dreams of a film career. When those dreams failed to materialize, she succumbed to depression and drugs and perished at 20.

Chan, Crack Smoking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Caught On Tape! D: Taiwanese Animators, Field Of Memes D: Brad Tinmouth, Being Fucked Up D: Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Aberrant Motion #4 (Face Story, Stagger Stories) D: Cathy Sisler, Eastvan John D: Paul Wong, A Place In Her Own Direction D: Kevin d’Souza, Monsoon St ‘77 D: Minda Martin, Warchild, Tashina And Kwoni D: Caroline Monnet, and Leaving The Poison Behind D: Iris Paabo. 7 pm (RH).

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506 bloor w. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

Thu 7 – Alive Inside (2014) D: Michael Rossato. 4:15 pm. Anita (2013) D: Freida Lee Mock. 6:30 pm. Breastmilk (2014) D: Dana Ben-Ari. 8:45 pm. fRi 8 – An Honest Liar (2014) D: Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein. 4 & 6:30 pm. Elena (2013) D: Petra Costa. 9 pm. SaT 9 – An Honest Liar. 1 & 6 pm. The Anonymous People (2013) D: Greg D Williams. 3:30 pm. Gimme Shelter (1970) D: Albert and David Maysles. 9:30 pm. SuN 10 – The Anonymous People. 1 pm. An Honest Liar. 3:30 & 8:30 pm. Elena. 6 pm. mON 11 – Elena. 6:30 pm. An Honest Liar. 8:45 pm. TuE 12 – An Honest Liar. 6:30 pm. The Anonymous People. 8:45 pm. WED 13 – An Honest Liar. 4 & 8:45 pm. Munch: 150 (2013) D: Ben Harding and Phil Grabsky. 6:30 pm.

As though under a spell, Petra did everything precisely as Elena did – except die. She’s now in her 30s and has lived to make this haunting film, a lyrical tapestry of home movies, disembodied voices, interviews with family and friends, and gorgeous images of women drifting in water, face up, a school of Ophelias, their dresses billowing like jellyfish. Water is the key motif in Elena, and the film’s greatest strength is its woozy fluidity. Costa has found something universal in the exploration of a personal trauma. Elena reveals an artist coming to terms with her inconsolable loss while knowing there’s no such thing as closure. Opens Friday (August 8) at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. JOSÉ TEODORO

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6:30 pm. The Godfather Part II (1974) D: Francis Ford Coppola. 7 pm. fRi 8 – Robert Altman: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971). Introduction by Vilmos Zsigmond. 6:15 pm. The Godfather Part II. 7 pm. The Godfather (1972) D: Francis Ford Coppola. 9:30 pm. SaT 9 – The Best Of Robert Altman: That Cold Day In The Park (1969). 1:30 pm. The Films Of Satyajit Ray: Distant Thunder (1973). 4:15 pm. Jim Jarmusch: Dead Man (1995). 7 pm. The Godfather Part II. 7 pm. Sequels: The Evil Dead (1981) D: Sam Raimi. 9:45 pm. SuN 10 – Robert Altman: Brewster McCloud (1970). 1:30 pm. The Films Of Satyajit Ray: An Enemy Of The People (1989). 4 pm. Jim Jarmusch: Broken Flowers (2005). 6:30 pm. The Godfather Part II. 7 pm. mON 11 – The Godfather Part II. 7 pm. TuE 12 – The Films Of Satyajit Ray: The Coward And The Holy Man (1965). 6 pm. The Godfather Part II. 7 pm. Jim Jarmusch: Year Of The Horse (1997). 9:15 pm. WED 13 – The Godfather Part II. 7 pm. TIFF In The Park presents free outdoor screenings: A Star Is Born (1976) D: Frank Pierson. 9 pm (David Pecaut Square, 55 John, one block from the Lightbox).

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Thu 7 – The Lunchbox (2013) D: Ritesh Batra.

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SaT 9 – The Goonies (1985) D: Richard Donner.

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7 pm. Begin Again (2013) D: John Carney. 9:15 pm. fRi 8 – Chef (2013) D: Jon Favreau. 7 pm. Edge Of Tomorrow 3D (2014) D: Doug Liman. 9:15 pm.

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

Thu 7-WED 13 – Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free. Thu 7-fRi 8 & mON 11-WED 13 – Highlights of current programming.

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Thu 7-fRi 8 – Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar.

11 am, 2 & 4 pm. Great White Shark. Noon. Jerusalem. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm. Rolling Stones At The Max. 7 pm (Thu only). SaT 9-SuN 10 – Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar. 11 am, 2 & 4 pm. Great White Shark. Noon. Jerusalem. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm. Rolling Stones At The Max. 7 pm (Sat only). mON 11-WED 13 – Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar. 11 am, 2 & 4 pm. Great White Shark. Noon. Jerusalem. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm.

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SaT 9 – What I Learned From Mae West: talk and screening of She Done Him Wrong (1933) D: Lowell Sherman. 7 pm. SuN 10 – The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) D: Rupert Julian and Lon Chaney. 5 pm. The Goddess (1934) D: Yonggang Wu. 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau w/ soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer. 9 pm. mON 11 – What I Learned From Bugs Bunny: talk and screening. 7 pm. TuE 12 – Celine And Julie Go Boating (1974) D: Jacques Rivette. 7 pm. WED 13 – Gummo (1997) D: Harmony Korine. 7 pm. Pixote (1981) D: Hector Babenco. 8:30 pm.

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

Thu 7 – Fading Gigolo (2013) D: John Turturro. 7 pm. Trash Palace presents The Fool Killer (1965) D: Servando González. 9:30 pm. trashpalace.ca fRi 8 – Chef (2013) D: Jon Favreau. 7 pm. Edge Of Tomorrow 3D (2014) D: Doug Liman. 9:15 pm. SaT 9-SuN 10 – E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) D: Steven Spielberg. 2 pm. Chef. 4:15 & 7 pm. Edge Of Tomorrow 3D. 9:15 pm. mON 11 – Chef. 7 pm. Edge Of Tomorrow 3D. 9:15 pm. TuE 12 – Edge Of Tomorrow 3D. 7 pm. Chef. 9:15 pm. WED 13 – The Grand Seduction (2013) D: Don McKellar. Chef. 9:15 pm.

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Thu 7 – The Immigrant (2013) D: James Gray. 7 pm. The Zero Theorem (2013) D: ñ Terry Gilliam. 9:30 pm. fRi 8 – The Zero Theorem. 7 pm. Edge Of Tomorrow (2014) D: Doug Liman. 9:15 pm. SaT 9 – Edge Of Tomorrow. 4 pm. SuN 10 – The Zero Theorem. 4 & 7 pm. Edge Of Tomorrow. 9:15 pm. mON 11-TuE 12 – The Zero Theorem. 7 pm. Edge Of Tomorrow. 9:15 pm. WED 13 – The Zero Theorem. 6:45 pm. The Black Museum lecture series presents School of Shock: Pain And Pleasure In The Classroom Safety Film. 9 pm. $15, adv $12. theblackmuseum.com.

other films Thu 7-WED 13 –

The CN Tower presents Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-9 pm. 301 Front W. cntower.ca. Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am-4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. The Hockey Hall of Fame presents Stanley’s Game Seven 3D, a film of Stanley Cup history. Plays daily at the top and half past each hour. Mon-Sat 9:30 am-6 pm, Sun 10 am-6 pm. Included w/ admission. Brookfield Place, 30 Yonge. hhof.com. Thu 7 – Open Roof Festival outdoor screening and live music performance presents Grand Seduction (2013) D: Don McKellar, and live music by Tomi Swick Doors 7:30 pm. $15. 99 Sudbury. openrooffestival.com. fRi 8 – Maria A Shchuka Library presents The Way Way Back (2013) D: Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. 6 pm. Free. 1745 Eglinton W. 416-394-1051. Toronto Palestine Film Festival presents an outdoor screening of Laila’s Birthday (2008) D: Rashid Masharawi. 8:30 pm. Free. Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor W. tpff.ca. fRi 8-SuN 10 – Harbourfront Centre’s Expressions Of Brazil Festival presents film screenings from BRAFFTV. Free. Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. Fri: Grey City, and short film Linear. 6:30 pm. The Last Stop. 8:30 pm. Sat: The Liberdade and short film The Tuner. 2 pm. Bollywood Dream. 5 pm. Offsite. 8 pm. Sun: Short films including Boys And Girls, Gertrudes And Her Man, Half Of The Orange and others. 3 to 4 pm. SaT 9 – Queer West Film Festival presents Foreign Relations D: Reid Waterer, Ana Gutmanis – Another Way Out D: Simone Marie Stock, Candy Cravings (2013) D: Sebastian Bertoli, Desnudos (Naked) D: Jose Antonio Cortes Amunárriz, and Performing Masculinity D: Andrew Randall. 6 pm. Je Suis Lesbienne Montréal (2013) D: Tina Fichter, Waiting D: Rhoda N Wainwright, Narcissist D: Eric Casaccio, Bending The Lens D: Mary J Daniel, and Buying A Dildo D: Eeva Putro. Live panel discussion about making the film Both/And: The Lee Hicks Story to follow at 9:15 pm. $5/pwyc. Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-879-7954, artsfestival.queerwest.org. SuN 10 – Christie Pits Film Festival’s Days of Summer outdoor screenings presents Moonrise Kingdom (2012) D: Wes Anderson, and short films Record, and Echo Beach. At sunset (approx 9 pm). Free/pwyc. Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor W. christiepitsff.com. Sunday Cinema on the Island presents Spirit Of The Beehive (1973) D: Victor Erice. 9 pm. $5-pwyc. The Frolick Theatre (aka Lagoon Theatre), Olympic Island, Toronto Islands. facebook.com/groups/kinoclimateco. Heritage York presents the NFB documentary And We Knew How to Dance: Women In World War I (1994) D: Maureen Judge. 2 pm. Free. Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas. lambtonhouse.org. TuE 12 – City Cinema outdoor film screenings presents Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (2006) D: Adam McKay. 9 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. Summer Cinema @ Fort York presents an outdoor screening of The Breakfast Club (1985) D: John Hughes . Free. At sunset. 100 Garrison. scotiabank.com/outdoormovies. Green 13 presents the documentary concerning nuclear fission Quietly Into Disaster. Discussion with Ontario Clean Air Alliance’s Angela Bischoff to follow. 7 pm. Free. Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia, 2nd fl. 416-392-1954, green13toronto.org. WED 13 – Harbourfront Centre’s Free Flicks Film Series presents an outdoor screening of In A World... (2013) D: Lake Bell. 9 pm. Free. WestJet Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. Regent Park Film Festival & Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival present an outdoor screening of Mooz-Lum (2010) D: Qasim Basir. 9 pm. Free. Park next to Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. regentparkfilmfestival.com. 3

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Hubby shames me I am a 38-year-old marrIed woman. My husband of 18 years is 22 years my senior. I credit my husband for giving me a good life and helping me pursue goals. But my husband is a type A professional, and that has played out in the bedroom. He has always been disinterested in my pleasure. When our kids were little, I did not want sex as often as he did (“only” twice a week). I suggested that he masturbate in the shower if he wanted a morning quickie. His answer: A married man “should not have to pleasure himself.” That attitude about my wifely duties also translates into myriad other household tasks that fall into my lap. Hubby, by the way, does not fall into my lap. If I ask for oral, he tells me to “clean it really, really well,” then he’ll “think about doing that.” This makes me feel disgusting. I have tried to spice up our sex life. For years, it has been penis in the vagina, missionary position or doggy style. It can feel pretty “rapey” a lot of the time, as he typically comes at me rounding third base and then – bam – it’s over in five minutes. If I initiate or get on top, he loses his erection because I am “attacking him.” A few months ago, I told a friend that I had never once received “enthusiastic oral.” She said it made sense that my husband didn’t enjoy doing it because it was a “domination thing” that mostly submissive men enjoy. A little information can be a dangerous thing. I started visiting online domination forums. I hinted about these interests to my husband and got shot down (of course). This is a huge contrast to my new “online friends,” who would love to meet and orally service me. Two of these “sub males” want me to “own” them. This is heady stuff. I have spoken to each of them on the phone and exchanged hundreds of emails. (Meeting strangers sounds scary, I know, but I have kept my identity secret and have insisted on knowing these gents’ real and verifiable info.) I want to take this into “real life.” This is the happiest I have been in my entire life, and I want to act on these desires. My husband is my only concern. He is my best friend, and I don’t want to lose that. I feel like I can’t even tell him about the online stuff. He is so rigid. I am stuck. How do I deal with this? Don’t Offend My Man Ever On the one hand… a man who demands “rapey” sex on his schedule for 18 years, makes his wife feel bad about her genitals, and isn’t open to trying new things is begging to be cheated on. So go ahead and get some enthusiastic oral from those sub males, DOMME, you more than deserve it. On the other hand… you say your rapey, pussy-disparaging, sex-shaming husband is your best friend (baffling!) and you don’t want to lose him (equally baffling!). And without a doubt, a guy with his retrograde attitudes about sex, gender roles and “wifely duties” would divorce you if he found out you cheated on him – and some days it feels like most people who cheat wind up getting caught – so you probably shouldn’t take this into “real life,” as it could wind up nuking your marriage. But on the other other hand… your husband sounds like the type of guy who

would regard your secret online life as cheating – the hundreds of emails, the phone calls, the hours lurking on domination websites – and divorce you just the same if he found out. So you might as well go ahead and fuck those subs, DOMME, because if you get caught – and you probably will – you’ll be in the same trouble whether or not you got some enthusiastic oral from a sub male in “real life.”

Yes, you can be rewired I’m a 25-year-old woman who can only get off lying facedown and rubbing my clit against a pillow. The orgasms are great, but it limits the ways I can get off with my husband. For instance, the only way I can orgasm during sex is being on top and rocking back and forth on him in a similar manner. I’ve never climaxed during oral or hand stimulation, or in any other position. All of that feels nice, but I never climax. My husband has been very understanding and is fine with all of this (he even finds the way I masturbate “hot,” though I hid it for years out of shame), but I really want to be able to do more. I’m also concerned about this being bad for me in the long run, like how the “death grip” is for guys. How can I teach myself to masturbate correctly? I’ve been reading up online and hearing conflicting suggestions – and most of them are for men. I’m currently abstaining from

masturbating for a week in order to become more sensitive and then trying to get off only with my hands while on my back. Some say to take a month off of sex, too? It’s all very stressful, and I’m terrified of never being able to get off the conventional way since I’ve been doing this since childhood. Can’t Really Use Direction Forgive me in advance for the mixed messages I’m about to send you, CRUD, although I promise they won’t be nearly as mixed as what I just sent DOMME. I’ve advised guys with Death Grip Syndrome – aka Traumatic Masturbatory Syndrome – to keep masturbating but to use a lighter touch and a lot of lube. (Not all of these guys are clenching their dicks too hard; some are rubbing up against pillows like you, CRUD, or even – my personal favourite – sliding their dicks between mattresses and box springs.) But here’s the difficult part: If they can’t come with the lighter touch and more lube, they don’t get to come. No reverting to a tightly clenched fist (or a pillow or a crusty mattress set) after 20 minutes of “trying.” Allow the pressure and frustration to build long enough, and a dick will adapt. A new groove will be carved – but they may have to keep at it for months, plural, not a month, singular. And go ahead and have sex but, again, no death grip, no pillow, no mattress. My advice for you, CRUD, is the same as

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my advice for the boys: If you want to learn how to get off in other ways, masturbate regularly – constantly – but without the pillow. If you don’t come, you don’t come. Focus on the pleasure you are able to achieve, and give it at least three months. It’s a very good sign that you aren’t entirely dependent on a pillow – you can get off with/on your partner. Most people with TMS aren’t so lucky. And it’s a lot less awkward to grind on your partner pillow-style when you want to come than it is for a guy to shift from penis-in-vagina sex (PIV) to penisin-between-mattress-and-box-spring sex (PIBMABS) when he wants to come. That said, some people with DGS/TMS simply aren’t able to retrain their junk. But you don’t have to live without orgasms for the rest of your life or view yourself as damaged. After giving your junk a chance to adapt, CRUD, you may have to accept that this is how you get off – this is how your junk works, this is how your orgasms happen – and let go of the shame. Enjoy the fingering, enjoy the oral and enjoy the fucking, and then, when you want to get off, manoeuvreyour husband into a position that works for you and shamelessly grind away. On the Lovecast, hear how rich girls slutshame poor girls on college campuses: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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