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54 Dance previews Two Room Apartment and Ce n’est pas la fin du monde 55 Theatre reviews Once; The Sound Of Cracking Bones; Cannibal! The Musical; Dance listings 56 Theatre and comedy listings

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30 Christopher Lee Sauvé Canadian designer’s pop-culture-inspired T-shirts are getting fashion’s cool kids talking; plus, 5 Canuck streetwear stars you should know

58 BOOKS

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7 Heritage lost Preservation facade 12 Motel strip How Kingston Road 9 News briefs Sex ed jerk-offs; St. became home to T.O.’s dispossessed Lawrence Market expels vendors 14 Eco threat RCMP says there’s a vast 10 Crash test How ready is Island airport enviro conspiracy to kill tar sands for a disaster?

16 Q&A NDP leader Thomas Mulcair

18 DAILY EVENTS 20 SUITE LIFE

20 Condo culture Glen Baxter’s double whammy, where to find that rooftop pool, and more

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29 Astrology 35 Ecoholic The long john list, Q&A with photographer Louis Helbig, creator of Beautiful Destruction, and more

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“Who among us hasn’t built and then abandoned a 33-foot-long, 6-foot-four-high, two-foot-wide reinforced tunnel at a university?” @BRUCE_ARTHUR on the mysterious tunnel found at York University.

“Bad news, Academy. There’s a red carpet on the way to the afterlife, and Joan Rivers will show you even less mercy than usual. #Oscars” @PETERHARTLAUB on leaving the late

Joan Rivers out of the In Memoriam portion of the Academy Awards.

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1. The Kingston Road strip Scarborough’s once-bustling Highway 2, peppered with aging motels, now shelters Toronto’s homeless.

2. Bike lane speed bumps Bloor Street bike lanes have been delayed again.

Why? Transportation staff say they’re busy with other tasks, including the Adelaide-Richmond lanes.

3. Tunnel visions Is it a bunker built by York engineering students or a possible headquarters for Pan Am terrorists? So far, no one knows who built the tunnel found near the Rexall Centre.

4. Fear of the unknown Support is stronger than ever for indigenous land defence, but a leaked report shows the RCMP are surveilling activists.

5. Paying the price A new report reveals just how much the city will pay to not build the Scarborough LRT: a whopping $74.8 million.

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We are education workers at the University of Toronto and York University. In a matter of days, we could be on strike.

We have been bargaining for many months, but now face the prospect of striking to defend the quality of education in Ontario. Over 135,000 students could be affected if our respective employers fail to negotiate fair contracts for our members.

Our working conditions are students’ learning conditions.

U of T and York have a combined operating budget of $3 billion. The significant majority of it comes from tuition fees and provincial grants. In short, students, parents and the public foot the bill for undergraduate education in Ontario.

Since 2006, tuition fees have increased by an average of 38% for domestic students, and 71% for international students. At the same time, class sizes continue to grow and there is less face-to-face contact between students and teachers. Something doesn’t add up.

At U of T, contract faculty and teaching assistants perform 60% of undergraduate teaching, but represent just 3.5% of the total operating budget. At York, contract faculty and teaching assistants do 64% of undergraduate teaching, but make up only 8% of the budget.

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Our members support accessible, high quality education, but we can’t achieve that goal without good working conditions, basic job security and decent wages.

Help us avoid a strike by supporting the bargaining process and by telling our administrations to negotiate fair contracts for our members.

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Kaki King The guitarist’s guitarist plays an intimate Geary Lane show in support of her The Neck Is A Bridge To The Body album. 8 pm. $10-$25. ticketscene.ca.

Shelter benefit Crooked House Road, Jane’s Party and others play a concert to benefit women in poverty and the Redwood Women’s Shelter. 9 pm. Pwyc. 3030 Dundas West. 3030dundaswest.com.

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Rap N’ Roll Young Paris, Bonjay, Phoenix Pagliacci, Junia T and others take part in this Afro Alternative Music Showcase at the Rivoli. Doors 9 pm. $10. rivoli.ca.

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Sexapalooza Dungeon, body painting, an alley of fantasy – what else do you need to know? Until March 1. $25-$30. International Centre. sexapalooza.com.

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Two Room Apartment Catch the final matinee of Israel’s Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor’s duet, reconceptualized from a 1987 work. 3 pm. $20-$25. Dancemakers. dancemakers.org.

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Aqua Alta Jenn Grant’s new dream-pop

side project makes its Toronto debut at the Drake Underground. 8 pm. $15 at the door.

Next week March 5–11

Pajama Men: Pterodactyl Nights The hilarious sketch duo perform four shows at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. $30. Theatre Centre. 647505-1050. torontosketchfest.com.

March 5 to 7.

Douglas Coupland Cultural commentator uses art to make a point at MOCCA (416-395-0067) to April 19 and at the ROM (416- 586-8000, $9$16) to April 26. Review on page 59.

Kim Echlin Giller short-lister presents her new novel, Under The Visible Life, in the Reference Library’s Eh! Series.

7 pm. Free. March 5.

Islam In The Mirror Of The West Lecture by UC Irvine professor Touraj Daryaee. 7 pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre. noorculturalcentre.ca. March 5.

Ariana Grande The four-octave mini-Mimi brings her first headlining tour to the ACC. Doors 6:30 pm. $29.50-$69.50. ticketmaster.ca.

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Travis Scott and Young Thug Recent Drake collaborator coheadlines with tripped-out Atlanta MC at the Danforth Music Hall. 7 pm. $28.50-$32. March 10.

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Metz The hard-working Toronto trio is back with a second LP, due May 5, and a two-night stand at Lee’s Palace. With Protomartyr. Doors 9 pm. $16. rotate. com, soundscapesmusic.com, ticketfly.com. May 1 and 2.

Spoon Last seen at NXNE, the Texan indie rockers return to play the Phoenix. Doors 8 pm. $26. rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com, ticketfly.com. June 23 and 24.

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email letters@now toronto.com No grey area outside bedroom in 50 Shades

Although I’m glad that Susan G. Cole took some time to write about the Fifty Shades Of Grey uproar (NOW, February 19-25), she completely missed the point concerning why so many feminists are angry. Even if the movie is a very poor portrayal of BDSM lifestyles, that’s a completely

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What makes the film and novel problematic is what happens outside the bedroom.

Christian Grey imposes himself on every aspect of this woman’s life. He decides what she eats, who she speaks to, what she wears, etc. Not to mention the fact that he berates her for planning a trip to visit her mother. This film romanticizes the control he’s taking over her life, wrapping up abuse like a fun Valentine’s Day treat.

Julia Greco Toronto

BDSM: it’s primal

Susan G. Cole’s article presumes all violence or sexual perversion is linked to some childhood or social issue. I doubt that every person who likes BDSM or domination has root desires from his or her childhood. Cole forgets one important thing: we are animals. We have retained our deeprooted primal nature. We are complicated and often bizarre creatures, not all of which can be explained so easily. Proof is how many women love these books/movie.

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Really, Sun News Network was a hate machine against Muslims (NOW, February 19-25)? Is that why they had respected people from the Muslim community, people like Raheel Raza, Tarek Fatah, Salim Mansur, Athar Khan and others as guests quite often?

SNN cleared up the BS that mainstream media was reporting with proof of facts. Was SNN perfect? No, of course not, but neither is NOW Magazine, the CBC, the Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star.

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Poverty disease is killing the economy

Bernie Farber writes movingly of the plight of the homeless on the cold streets of our city (NOW, February 1925). I, too, have volunteered and worked for drop-ins and programs that supported our low-income citizens. Compassion for the poor alleviates some of their suffering, but more is likely to ensue. We must turn to accounting for our answer.

Poverty costs the Canadian public billions of dollars a year, mostly in health costs. Administration of social assistance programs adds another few billion.

Simply put, we cannot afford poverty. We need to develop a poverty eradication program. Instead of a safety net (which has lots of holes), we ought to have a safety floor – a guaranteed annual income.

Poverty is a disease of our economic distribution system. And the best way to deal with a disease is to prevent its occurrence.

Moses Shuldiner Toronto

Tricks for homeless on how to score change

As a frequent visitor to Brazil, I often wonder about the paucity of imagination demonstrated by street people in Toronto, whose choices for panhandling seem to be limited to sitting on their butts with their hands out and squeegeeing.

Driving around São Paulo, you see street people performing all kinds of imaginative, entertaining and helpful activities in an effort to convince privileged people to part with their pocket change.

While there are certainly squeegee kids, there are also musicians, jugglers, clowns and vendors of snacks and bottled water on particularly hot days when you’re trapped in another interminable traffic jam. I’ve seen people who clean your tires and hubcaps.

It would be great if Toronto’s street people would realize that we really don’t need our windshields washed at every intersection we pass through driving in the city.

Michael Irvine Port Stanley

Another U-turn on Bloor bike lanes

It is painful to watch the contortions City Hall makes to justify its inaction on Bloor bike lanes yet again (NOW, February 20).

So now a “preliminary feasibility study” is being proposed, despite the

fact that a “feasibility study” was already done several years ago. The bogus requirement for an environmental assessment is trotted out from time to time.

Too bad City Hall continues to put off a cheap, timely and effective way to test bike lanes on Bloor through a pilot project, which is precisely what six residents’ associations along Bloor have been calling for.

The sad truth is we will never solve the congestion problem in Toronto as long as bike lanes are treated as impediments to “traffic,” or we waste $1 billion on a subway in Scarborough to keep transit out of the way of cars.

Albert Koehl Bells on Bloor

Who paid off Chretien?

No one.

Patricia Starr’s letter Harper Bias And Innuendo (NOW, February 1218) claims that “Canadians know who paid off Jean Chretien.” This is false. Canadians do not know because there has been no hint that Chretien received any payoffs in a 40-year career. She is entitled to disagree with his policies but not to invent malfeasance.

Deanne Taylor 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.

Please Join Us! We are sharing our initial concepts for Bloor & Bathurst (Mirvish Village).

This is Westbank’s second Open House and your ideas have already been an important part of our process. On March 3, we will share our first plans for this important site and look forward to your participation and feedback.

For more information, please contact Benjamin Hoff, Urban Strategies t. 416.340.9004 x 297 e. info@bloorandbathurst.com

Open House Details: Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm 6:30pm - Presentation Place: Park Hyatt, Main Floor 4 Avenue Road, Toronto (Queens Park Ballroom)

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Heritage Toronto released its State of Heritage report on Tuesday, February 24, outlining recent accomplishments in the area of preservation but also noting on­ going challenges involved in protecting architecture from rampant redevelop­ ment. on the plus side, the report gives the city top marks for strengthening herit­ age provisions in its official Plan. But more needs to be done, it says, to expand the definition of heritage beyond “tra­ ditional pioneer history.” The report also takes aim at Toronto’s apparent fetish for facade­ism: preserving the front of his­ toric buildings while gutting their inter­ iors to make way for new, oversized struc­ tures. The facade of the royal Canadian Military Club on University, now incorpor­ ated into a high­rise condo, is cited as a particularly bad example.

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In like a lion Cheol Joon Baek

Chinese New Year celebrations marking the Year of the Sheep begin with a traditional lion dance at Market Village in Markham Saturday, February 21.

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On Monday, February 23, the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee recommended the removal of the pedestrian scramble at Bay and Bloor. The transportation staff report makes a decent case that this particular scramble has offered minimal benefit to pedestrians and has had a significant negative effect on motorists. Yet the city’s own polling shows that the scramble is popular, especially with parents at nearby Jesse Ketchum School. One more bit of bad news for Bloor this week: another backpedal on plans for bike lanes on the east-west route.

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Former NDP MP and mayoral candidate Olivia Chow at Environmental Defence’s 30th anniversary gala on February 18 at Daniels Spectrum. It was announced this week that she is joining Ryerson University as a visiting professor in the faculty of arts, where she will teach community organizing and activism.

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The Campaign Life Coalition rallied at Queen’s Park on Tuesday, February 24, against the new provincial sex education curriculum. The event was MCed by famously anti-gay former TDSB trustee Sam Sotiropoulos, who implored the media not to portray the 200 or so people gathered “as religious fanatics [and] social conservatives who ought to be dismissed,” before adding, “These are parents of the very children that this education is intended to pervert.”

Then Jack Fonseca of Campaign Life pumped up the crowd by asking, “Do you feel more comfortable that the Liberal government enlisted the help of a child pornographer to develop the new sex ed curriculum?” to which the crowd responded, “We say NO!” Full story with quotes from some of the more, um, colourful participants at nowtoronto.com.

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How much the city is on the hook for “sunk costs” for cancelling the Scarborough LRT.

$3.1 million

PAN AM GAMES: IT TAKES A VILLAGE

What New George Brown College student residence, part of Pan Am/ Parapan Am Games Athletes’ Village Where Cherry and Front Why Construction was completed last week. The village will house 7,100 athletes and team officials during this summer’s Games. Some 353 units, about 10 per cent of the total, will be set aside for affordable housing after the Games.

TERROR FEARS IN CASE OF MYSTERY TUNNEL

“There’s no criminal offence for digging a hole.” Toronto Deputy Chief Mark Saunders admits police don’t know what to make of a tunnel in a wooded area near the York University campus at Jane and Steeles unearthed by a conservation officer. A generator, wheelbarrow, rosary and Remembrance Day poppy nailed to the wall were among the objects found in the 10-metre-long, metre-wide, 2-metrehigh tunnel. Its location near this summer’s Pan Am/Parapan Am Games tennis venue has sparked speculation that it may have been part of a terror plot.

Saunders says the tunnel has been filled in because it posed a safety hazard, which raised questions among media about why the cops didn’t wait until the person or persons behind the construction turned up. Saunders didn’t exactly answer that question.

What the city spent on efficiency studies during the Ford years.

$16.1 million How much the city auditor says was saved as a result.

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Vendors in the St. Lawrence Market’s cart program have launched a petition asking the city to reconsider evicting them on April 1. According to the city, the program is just an unfortunate casualty of redevelopment of the north building at Front and Jarvis, which necessitates using Market Lane as a construction staging area. In a letter sent to vendors in December, Market manager Nick Simos details the space constraints caused by the redevelopment that mean the small wooden carts surrounding the perimeter of both the north and south buildings will need to be freed up to accommodate farmers come summer. More on this story at nowtoronto.com.

TAR SANDS HIT BY DOUBLE WHAMMY

Two critical blows for tar sands producers this week. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama vetoed Senate and Congressional approval of TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline. On Monday, Shell announced it is halting development of its 200,000-barrel-a-day Pierre River Mine project in northern Alberta.

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FIRE CHIEF SAYS THE CITY IS WELL EQUIPPED, BUT A 20-YEAR-OLD REPORT OBTAINED BY ISLAND AIRPORT EXPANSION FOES IS RAISING RED FLAGS ABOUT EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AT THE AIRFIELD By BEN SPURR

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he stakes have been raised once again in the ongoing debate over Island airport expansion.

At issue this time is a question that hasn’t received much public attention in the recent debate about Billy Bishop: how prepared are the city’s emergency services to respond to an accident at the airport?

Local activist Brian Iler, chair of CommunityAIR, has unearthed a 1993 report on Island airport emergency preparedness through an Access to Information request. It’s proof, he says, that the airport has been operating unsafely for over two decades and should never have been allowed to expand to its current size – let alone be enlarged to accommodate jets.

Authored by a committee of city, provincial and federal officials, the 58-page Intergovernmental Staff Committee Study Of Alternative Access Options To The Island Airport For Emergency Response Services raised serious concerns about the ability of first responders to reach the airport in the unlikely event of a major disaster like a plane crash or fire.

The report estimated that a crash involving a 50-passenger plane

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would require a response by 64 emergency vehicles from fire, police and ambulance services, and about 200 personnel. “The current ferry service would be incapable of transporting the emergency vehicles across the Western Channel as they arrive,” it said, predicting it would take up to two hours for all the vehicles to cross.

The delay would waste precious minutes.

In order to provide more reliable access, the authors of the report recommended that steps be taken “immediately” to construct a bridge to the airport.

Lisa Raitt, then CEO of the Toronto Port Authority, which owns and operates the airport, advised at the time that a bridge was crucial to move equipment to the airport in the event of a catastrophe.

The bridge, of course, was never built. In 2003, amid public push-back against increasing activity at the airport, newly elected mayor David Miller killed the project.

Nevertheless, the airport was allowed to expand, and Porter Airlines began commercial flights in 2006.

Activity at the facility has increased dramatically in the last two decades – from 215,000 passengers in 1992 to 2.3 million in 2012. Porter’s plan to fly jets out of the airport could double that number.

“If anything, the situation’s worse,” Iler says. The city is still studying Porter’s proposal, but Iler argues, “If we are concerned about safety, this airport shouldn’t be operating, and certainly shouldn’t be expanding.”

The 1993 report set out potential scenarios. The first crews to respond to a crash or fire would be those stationed at the airport. Additional help could be provided from Toronto Fire’s Ward’s Island station, eight minutes away. But according to the report, “Backup firefighting and ambulance services [would be] required immediately” to tackle a blaze and treat a potentially large number of casualties.

Within four minutes of an emergency being declared, the first emergency vehicles from the mainland would arrive at the ferry dock, according to the report, and within 30 minutes all of the required vehicles would be on the shore. But the ferries in service in 1993, which have since been replaced, could carry only four of these vehicles at a time. Further complicating matters would be the need to transport victims to the mainland in the opposite direction.

In addition to their capacity, the report raised several more red flags about the ferries’ reliability. Low water levels could make it difficult for emergency vehicles to board.

“The solution is very clear – you don’t have a busy airport in the sanctuary of a park and island.”

Councillor Pam McConnell High winds could prevent them from docking at their usual location and carrying vehicles. In the event of mechanical failure, it could take “30 minutes to several hours” for a backup ferry to be put in service, and it could take up to two hours to start up the ferry if an emergency occurred after airport operating hours.

PortsToronto (formerly the Toronto Port Authority) has rejected Iler’s contentions, describing the 22-yearold report as outdated.

In an open letter, the agency’s executive vice-president, Gene Cabral, dismissed Iler as an “unqualified critic and known detractor” of the airport. According to the letter, all of the airport’s emergency protocols “meet or exceed Transport Canada regulatory requirements. The federal

agency confirmed to NOW that it approved the airport’s emergency response plan in 2013.

The airport is equipped with an emergency response centre with five staff, two trucks and a mid-size pumper. The airport’s crew conduct regular training exercises in conjunction with Toronto Fire, Toronto Police Services and Toronto Paramedic Services, including “full-scale” emergency simulations every two years (the most recent in November) that “ensure that our airport is ready to respond to any situation,” according to Cabral.

Asked about the 1993 report’s concerns about ferry reliability, PortsToronto spokesperson Erin Mikaluk wrote in an email that both of the two new ferries “can reliably access the airport in any conditions.” She pointed out that high winds have affected ferry service only once in the past two years.

According to Mikaluk, the airport’s primary ferry, the Marilyn Bell, can carry up to 15 cars. She couldn’t say how many emergency vehicles the ferry can hold or how long it would take to get all the necessary vehicles to the airport following a disaster.

But fire Chief Jim Sales says the number of vehicles his department can deploy during an emergency is not as important as the number of personnel. In that sense, Sales says, the city is well equipped – the police service has a fleet of boats, and the fire department has an icebreaking vessel that can be pressed into service year round. A pedestrian tunnel to the airport is expected to open next summer, further improving access.

“We might be sending trucks at a later moment, but really the initial [goal] would be to get more people there,” Sales says. “And we’ve got the ability to move people obviously a lot quicker than those big trucks.”

Sales says there is enough firefighting equipment on the Island to handle an initial response. “I’m confident that we have the ability to mitigate an incident there.”

Toronto Paramedic Services spokesperson Kim McKinnon says her department also has no qualms about its ability to respond to any kind of incident.

Still, these assurances are not enough to convince some of the airport’s opponents.

In addition to the potential for a disaster at the airport itself, Councillor Pam McConnell is worried about the possibility of a situation like the one that occurred in Taipei, Taiwan, earlier this month, when a plane crashed into a bridge shortly after takeoff and at least 31 people were killed.

“I don’t know what it’s going to take for people to wake up to the reality of what the safety issue is and the unsafe conditions,” she says. “The solution is very clear. You don’t have a busy airport in the sanctuary of a park and an island. It makes absolutely no common sense.”

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The rise and fall of the Kingston Road motel strip

Scarborough’s storied and once-bustling thoroughfare today shelters Toronto’s homeless

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Aerial view of Kingston Road (above) in the 1950s. The Andrews Motel (below) was one of the popular stops for motorists along the route.

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he large white sign by the driveway of the East Side Motel near Kingston Road and Mason looks as if it’s lit by a 60watt bulb, its tantalizing offer of “LOW, LOW DAILY WEEKLY RATES” barely illuminated.

The long, one-storey L-shaped building looks as if basic standards of upkeep have long been abandoned.

But at the bottom of the sloping driveway are unexpected signs of life: a broken-down car jacked up for repairs, BBQs, lawn chairs and tables and potted plants. Religious symbols mark the motel’s doors and windows.

Through the open blinds of one unit we see what appears to be a hospital bed in the middle of the living room. It’s as if we’ve stumbled upon the Company headquarters from John Frankenheimer’s Seconds. We learn later that it belonged to a terminally ill woman whose husband cared for her until she died.

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It’s clear that people have been living here for extended stretches of time. Our mild curiosity about an unknown stretch of road leads to many subsequent visits and a full-fledged history lesson on the rise and fall of a storied neighbourhood – and some troubling insight into the current state of Toronto’s shelter system.

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ingston Road, also known as Highway 2, has been integral to the Scarborough area since it was established in 1817, its name signalling that it was the sole route connecting Toronto and Kingston. Like Route 66 in the U.S., Kingston Road was defined by the 50s and 60s heyday of motor hotels. Cars were relatively inexpensive, easier to drive and safer than ever before. The newly introduced options of air conditioning and power steering made the prospect of a road trip more appealing for young couples and families looking for a little adventure. Coming from points east, you could cruise through Pickering and then have a refreshing cocktail in the grassy courtyard of the Lido Motel, enjoy the soda fountain and in-room television at the Avon, grab a mediumrare hamburger in the spacious dining room of the Andrews Motel or take a dip in the outdoor pool at the Roycroft.

But completion of Highway 401 changed the way Canadians travelled by car. And while Kingston Road still stretches to Pickering, the motels that lined the street became more redundant with each passing decade as chain hotels and service stations popped up along the former superhighway. The amorality of development means that the prosperity of one area may force another to flounder, and by the 80s the Kingston strip had noticeably decayed.

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orty-six years after the final stretch of the 401 opened in 1968, we’re standing in the Roycroft’s parking lot exactly where the swimming pool used to be. It’s June 2014, and we’re fishing for a lighter to join Jennifer in a cigarette.

Jennifer isn’t a tourist. She’s a former law clerk who’s suffered a series of personal misfortunes and, at the time of our conversation, calls the

Like Route 66 in the U.S., Kingston Road was defined by the 50s heyday of motor hotels.

Now renters are outnumbered by the dispossessed.

Roycroft home. She and several others at this location, and hundreds along Kingston Road, are clients of Toronto’s Hostel Services program, which uses such motels for temporary shelter.

Toronto began contracting motels for social services in the late 80s as an emergency solution to growing demand. Between 1988 and 1999, the number of homeless children grew by 130 per cent, changing the model of motels-as-shelters from provisional to ongoing.

At the peak of this period, Kingston Road motels were supplying 700 beds for the homeless, with an additional 200 provided by the Torontooperated Family Residence shelter at Kingston and Galloway. By 2000, an overwhelmed shelter system coupled with a rapid rise in illicit activity caused the city’s to adopt a threeyear proposal to reduce the total number of motel beds to an ideal range of 150 to 200, depending on municipal and provincial financial participation.

At the time of that report, the principal motels used for shelter were the Guild Inn and the Lido Motel. Since then, the former is being converted into a banquet hall, while a drive through the parking lot of the latter confirms that the Lido is still home to the transient class of the homeless and refugees awaiting permanent shelter.

Back at the Roycroft, Jennifer says she and her husband have been living at the motel for the better part of three months. Behind us, kids nine or 10 years old play hide-and-seek between three open doors on the motel’s second level. Jennifer can be moved at any time, depending on demand.

About two weeks later, we get a call

from an irate Jennifer, who’s been packed up and moved to another room across the parking lot. She claims the new space is unlivable, with broken appliances and bed sheets that appear never to have been washed.

Most residents share her frustration with conditions on Kingston Road. Refugees and other homeless people who rely on Toronto Hostel Services want adequate living conditions for their families, accessibility to schools for their children and the chance to live within a community where they can remain once they’ve achieved economic sustainability.

Then there are the area’s long-term residents, whose comfortable homes contrast sharply with the run-down strip motels. The 2000 report mentions an effort to kick-start development to revitalize Kingston Road with condos and new businesses. Haven on the Bluffs, a 250-unit condo project overlooking Lake Ontario

that’s currently under construction in the Cliffside neighbourhood, includes the Andrews Motel, which was sold in 2012 to VHL Developments.

Some owners of the more dilapidated motels further east on Kingston that aren’t involved in housing the homeless are likely hoping for a similar rescue. One we spoke with who declined to go on the record complained that falling property values have forced her to keep her motel’s nightly rates low, which in turn attracts prostitution, drug dealing and a steady police presence.

Would-be room renters at the HavA-Nap, for example, are greeted by a thick plane of bulletproof glass and closed-circuit surveillance. Not exactly the most reassuring welcome for a newcomer.

In January, Mayor John Tory announced the opening of an additional 90 beds at motels along the strip to free up space in the city’s shelter sys-

tem. So while plans for condo development in the near future remain unclear, what’s certain is that 25 years later, motels on Kingston Road continue to be the backup plan for Toronto’s overwhelmed shelter system.

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Don the maintenance man moved into the East Side Motel three years ago. Watch the video of his story at nowtoronto.com.

t’s a sunny Saturday afternoon when we make our way back to the East Side. In daylight it makes a much different impression. Beat up, yes. Eerie? Not at all.

Of three women sitting on plastic chairs, one says she’s been here three months, another four, the last six.

None of them expects to be here much longer. Asked if they know anyone who’s had to live at the East Side for an extended period, they point to a unit five rooms down. We walk over and knock, and 30 seconds later the door opens.

That’s when we meet Donald Gillis.

Gillis is a 76-year-old plumber who

moved into the East Side three years ago. He’d been the motel’s maintenance man for many years, and was tired of living alone and commuting to work every day. His children are grown up, his two wives had died, and he was glad to spend his time around those who depend on him.

He grew up in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, and joined the many postwar Maritimers who migrated to Toronto looking for work. He tells us about hitchhiking across eastern Canada and jail-keepers kindly putting him and his buddy up for the night.

At 17, he arrived on Kingston Road in the summer of 1956, during the period when the area was arguably at its best. Gillis and the street have slowly grown older together. He’s emblematic of Kingston Road: resilient, blue-collar and with a rich history.

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The Unist’ot’en Camp’s resistance to pipeline development in northern BC is among the actions listed as threats to national security in a recently leaked RCMP report.

WHY IS THE RCMP SO AFRAID OF ACTIVISTS? The real threat to the oil and gas industry is not an “anti-Canadian petroleum movement,” but growing public support for indigenous land defence across the country By SAKURA SAUNDERS An RCMP report leaked by Green­ peace last week linking “violent en­ vironmental extremists” to a per­ ceived terrorist threat to the oil and gas industry is alarming, but far from surprising.

The RCMP has been providing un­ named oil and gas industry sources with intelligence reports on their surveillance of activists, particularly in indigenous communities, since at least 2007.

Since that time, public support for communities most affected by oil

and gas exploration has spread across the country. This is the real “threat” to industry, not a “violent” or “ex­ tremist” environmental movement, as the report suggests.

There’s a growing understanding throughout Canada of First Nations’ right to protect their land and health.

The Supreme Court has declared as much in a number of decisions. And the public is taking up the cause in solidarity with native groups from Unist’ot’en territory in northern BC to Aamjiwnaang First Nation near

Sarnia. That’s the RCMP’s – and fed­ eral government’s – real fear.

Near that southern Ontario city, 63 petrochemical refineries sur­ round the Aamjiwnaang First Nation reservation. The World Health Organ­ ization considers the area one of the most polluted in North America: 40 per cent of band members require an inhaler to breath, 39 per cent of wo­ men have suffered at least one still­ birth or miscarriage.

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Appearing before a judge, Sarnia police Chief Phil Nelson defended his decision not to forcibly remove the protesters. “I worry about people, have compassion for them,” he said, “and have never in my career been through a situation where the pres­ sure to resolve something peacefully is so great, because the other option is scary.”

The other option he was referring to was a repeat of the killing of Dud­ ley George, an Anishnabek activist who was shot by the Ontario Provin­ cial Police during a 1995 land rights protest at nearby Ipperwash Provin­ cial Park. A public inquiry into George’s death laid the blame at the feet of the OPP and the government of former Ontario premier Mike Har­ ris, leading to reform of OPP engage­ ment policies with First Nations.

These policies were not adopted by the RCMP, however, who on October 17, 2013, showed up with guns, tasers and dogs to break up a widely sup­ ported First Nations­led anti­frack­ ing blockade in Rexton, New Bruns­ wick. Officers attacked protesters with rubber bullets and mace.

Some protesters retaliated by burning several RCMP vehicles. This incident is one of several cited in the leaked RCMP report. It suggests that U.S. funders with “deep pockets” are bankrolling “violent environmental extremists” as part of a so­called “anti­petroleum movement.”

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tar­sands column in the Sun, among other sources – to make the unfound­ ed claim that people concerned about climate change pose a threat to na­ tional security.

It calls the New Brunswick action “the most violent of the national anti­petroleum protests to date,” even though it was the RCMP who were aggressors against what had been a non­violent blockade. The re­ port does admit, however, that in re­ action to this “most violent” of “ex­ tremist” actions, “numerous protests in support of the New Brunswick anti­shale gas protesters occurred across the country.”

Similarly, then, we can expect pro­ tests across Canada should the RCMP attempt to remove land defenders from the Unist’ot’en camp, where Wet’suwet’en are peacefully reoccu­ pying their traditional lands along the route of the proposed Pacific Trails and Northern Gateway pipe­ lines in northern BC. They’re also listed as a threat in the RCMP report, although, according to the protest­ ers, the occupation is an “enforce­ ment of Wet’suwet’en law over the il­ legal incursions of the oil and gas companies.”

The report’s highly charged lan­ guage has raised fears that environ­ mentalists will face increased police surveillance under new anti­terror legislation, which refers to “activity that undermines the security of Ca­ nada.”

The RCMP’s framing is meant to scare would­be environmental activ­ ists and divert more funding toward monitoring the activities of environ­ mental groups, infiltrating them and harassing individuals who are vocal in their opposition to the oil and pipeline industry.

Growing public awareness of these issues has made economically dis­ ruptive activities against the indus­ try socially legitimate.

Like an army convincing its sol­ diers of the savageness of their en­ emy, the RCMP is using this report as an internal propaganda tool, prepar­ ing for war against front­line people defending the land who now have more support than ever from people across the country.

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Mulcair, who was on a tour of the GTA, was grilled by the Grade 7 and 8 students on some weighty issues, including his party’s stance on the Keystone XL pipeline, First Nations, poverty, marijuana laws and promoting peace while fighting terrorism. Later Mulcair sat down for a one-on-one interview with NOW to talk about his jobs plan for the middle class and the upcoming election.

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You mentioned to the kids that this generation will be the first to earn less than their parents. What does this mean to you?

It raises the question of how we got here. We’ve got the largest household debt in history, and middle-class values are being killed off. Stephen Harper’s solution is to take money from the middle class – billions of dollars – and give it to the richest 15 per cent.

What’s your plan for tackling income inequality?

A lot of people don’t realize that right now across Canada a couple with two kids working full-time at minimum wage are living below the poverty line.

I don’t accept that as inevitable. Government has a role in fixing that [by] raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour immediately. We are going to make it a priority.

Some polls are showing the NDP losing ground to the Liberals. What are your thoughts on this?

Campaigns count for a lot. People will be looking at the NDP differently than they ever have. We are the Official Opposition. We are the ones who can defeat the Conservatives, and we are the ones with a clear difference.

What about the “Trudeau factor”?

When Conservative MP [Eve Adams] switched sides and joined the Liberals, I think Mr. Trudeau thought he was pulling a really smart move. But if you think about it for a second, [Adams] is somebody who has faithfully supported every single thing that Harper has done for the past nine years,

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and yet Mr. Trudeau sees an opportunity and just welcomes her in. What he’s communicating is that there isn’t much of a difference between the Liberal and the Conservative agenda.

Why would you make a better prime minister than the other candidates?

We have a clear plan and we are putting ideas on the table, whether it’s moving the retirement age back from 67 to 65 or helping the middle class by creating the next generation of wellpaid jobs.

People know my track record on sustainable development and the environment. They also know we are not going to say one thing and do another.

Will the NDP continue advocating for proportional representation?

We are the only ones talking about it.

We’re proposing something that actually would have reduced our seats in the last election and would have brought, for example, the Green party up. But that’s what a position of principle is, right?

When I spoke with environmentalist Bill McKibben at the People’s Climate March in New York City last September, he called Harper’s Canada “a rogue nation” in relation to climate policy. Do you agree?

It’s a fair statement. Mr. Harper once said that the Kyoto Protocol was a socialist plot to suck money from rich countries. His government is proud of the fact that Canada is the only country to withdraw from Kyoto.

Why have we seen so many cutbacks and closures of programs that monitor things like water quality, food inspections, oil spills and climate change?

Unfortunately, Mr. Harper practises decision-based fact-making. There’s a method to their madness. It’s [all about] dismantling the state’s ability to provide services.

Why should young people get involved in politics?

It was a big concern to everybody who watched the 2011 election that twothirds of young people 18 to 25 stayed home. They’re not convinced that what’s happening in Queen’s Park, Ottawa or Quebec City is of great concern to them. One of the things I’m most proud of is that we now have many young people working with the NDP. They are a message that you can get involved and be a part of producing positive change.

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Feb 28 to Mar 1 new Creations FestivaL The Toronto Symphony Orchestra presents full concerts and performance excerpts, talks and a composers’ symposium. $20/concert, some free events. At Roy Thomson Hall (60 Simcoe) and other venues, see website for details. newcreationsfestival.com.

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Thursday, February 26

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Crooked house road, tayLor & bryn, Jane’s Party Benefit concert for the Redwood Women’s Shelter. 9 pm. Pwyc. 3030 Dundas West, 3030 Dundas W. theredwood.com.

threads oF hoPe For aFriCan grandmothers Textile art exhibit to honour African

grandmothers who are raising orphaned children. To Mar 9. Free. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. grandmotherscampaign.org. under the PortaL Music by Gavin Gardiner and Edwin Huizinga, readings by Palla Malla and Marianne Apostolides. Doors 7:30 pm. $12, adv $10 (Story Planet’s arts and writing programs for teens and kids). Story Planet, 1165 Bloor W. eventbrite.ca/e/15701120474.

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Free. Burrows Hall Library, 1081 Progress. 416588-6288 ext 231, culturelink.ca/citizenship.

the abC’s oF Choosing heaLthy bodyCare ProduCts Learn about the basics of body care

CLimate Change and heaLth vuLnerabiLity assessment study School of the Environment

products and how to take the mystery out of label reading. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Rm 212. The Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. thebigcarrot.ca.

seminar with professor Peter Berry. 4:10 pm.

Free. Room 179. University College, 15 King’s College Circle. environment.utoronto.ca.

CLimate vegan teaCh-in Talk on the science and the meat and dairy connection plus the presentation of an action plan. 7-10 pm. Free.

Room B024. Bahen Centre, 40 St George. facebook.com/events/775373219198790.

Community QuiLt grouP Learning and sharing get-together. 6-8 pm. All welcome. Free.

Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432.

battLe oF aLgiers: baCkdroP to CharLie hebdo Screening the film The Battle Of Algiers

followed by discussion on racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France. 7-10 pm. $5.

Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. bbeat box 101 Workshop for teens with poet Eddy Daoriginalone on how to make music without instruments. 5 pm. Free. Jane/Sheppard Library, 1906 Sheppard W. tpl.ca. bird CoLLisions Discussion with Paloma Plant on bird collisions with tall buildings. Noon-1 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. tpl.ca.

duFFerin grove organiC Farmers’ market

Honey, greenhouse sprouts and more with tastings of locally grown winter foods. 3-7 pm.

Free. 875 Dufferin. dufferinpark.ca.

Canadian JournaLists & Coverage oF the gaza war Reporter Andrew Mitrovica looks

even it uP: a Conversation on the ineQuaLity Crisis Entertainment, a silent auction and

at how the war was covered. 7-8 pm. Free.

Yorkville Library, 22 Yorkville. 416-393-7661.

Chakra heaLth Intro workshop to learn about the seven chakras. 6:30 pm. $20. Innate Wellness, 5 Quebec. Pre-register 416-760-9424.

speakers. 7-9 pm. $25, stu $10. Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst. Pre-register picatic.com/evenitup_oxfamuoft.

bFather Figure: exPLoring aLternate notions oF bLaCk Fatherhood Photography

CitizenshiP eduCation mentoring CirCLe

Weekly meetup for newcomers to study for the test, practice English and more. 6-8:30 pm.

and visual storytelling by Zun Lee. To Apr 2.

Free. BAND Gallery, 1 Lansdowne. zunlee.com.

Sensible Drug Policy conference for youth, researchers, service providers, people who use drugs and allies to exchange knowledge and share ideas. $75, stu $35. Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George. eventbrite.ca/e/14424779905. bbasQuiat idea bar: JustiCe Presentation on issues of race and social justice with Noa Mendelsohn Aviv and projects by the AGO Youth Council. 6-8 pm. Included w/ admission.

Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net.

CuLture taLks: sheraz khan The artist talks about his latest works, which explore Berlin’s streetscape. 5 pm. Free. Goethe-Institut, 100 University, North tower. goethe.de/toronto. bthe ethniC heritage ensembLe Avant/ roots trio from Chicago perform, 9 pm. $20$25. Blakbird, 812b Bloor W. theblakbird.com.

exerCise & FaLL Prevention For seniors 65+

The​Deceit​screens​at​the​Toronto​​ Mapuche​Solidarity​Film​Fest. into nature with demonstrations, wagon rides, entertainment, pancakes with maple syrup and more. $6.50-$10.

Kortright Centre for Conservation, 9550 Pine Valley. 416-667-6295, maplesyrupfest.com.

Feb 28 to Apr 6

toronto maPuChe soLidarity FiLm

FestivaL Films that pay tribute to indigenous peoples and activists who have been repressed by the state and big business. All foreign films with subtitles.

Screenings from 6 pm Fri; 4 pm Sat. $10 or pwyc. OISE, 252 Bloor W, room 5160. #Firsttime home buying series Seminar with Romana King, hosted by Matt Baram. 6-8 pm. Free (RSVP). Pearl King, 291 King W. zoocasafirsttimeevents.eventbrite.ca.

Littering: more than meets the eye Conservation Council of Ontario presentation to learn how everyone can contribute to litter reduction strategies. 6 pm. $5, stu/srs $2. Preregister. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. 416-533-1635, weconserve.ca. bLorraine kLaasen South African traditional folk songs. 8:30 pm. $32.50-$35. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. hughsroom.com.

5outwrites Writing group for the LGBTQ community. 8 pm. Free. 519 Church Street Community Centre. outwrites.wordpress.com.

PersonaL FinanCes For oLder women Talk by financial planner Bernardine Perreira.

7-8:30 pm. Free. 2nd floor. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. 416-394-5120. revisiting musLims in the mirror oF the CLash oF CiviLizations Lecture by professor

Mojtaba Mahdavi. 7 pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca. waLk For heaLth & weLL-being Outdoor walk, bring good shoes and a bottle of water.

1:30-2:30 pm. Free. Deer Park Library, 40 St Clair E. stevensjason0926@yahoo.com.

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Feb 27 to 28

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al improvisers and troupes celebrate this growing comedic form. Performances by Gavin Crawford, Reid Janisse, Kevin Matviw, Notorious and many others. To Feb 28, Wed-Sat 8 pm, plus Thu-Fri 10 pm, Sat 10:30 pm. $8-$10, pass $40. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. torontomusicalimprovfestival.com.

To Feb 28

Weekly class. Bring indoor shoes & OHIP card.

3-4 pm. (Also Tue 1-2 pm at 188 Carlton). Free.

Dixon Hall, 58 Sumach. 416-847-2765. heart heaLth Talk on diseases, treatment and care. 1-2:30 pm. Free. Toronto Western Hospital, 399 Bathurst. Pre-register 416-603-6475. b 5Queering bLaCk history month Panel talk, art and performances to honour queer and trans African, black and Caribbean people.

5-8 pm. From 8-8:30 pm a bus takes attendees to the 519 Church Centre for a sunset service.

Ryerson Student Centre, 55 Gould, SCC115. facebook.com/events/346700962169125.

5ruPauL’s drag raCe: battLe oF the seasons 2015 Congratulations Tour with host

dancing. Feb 26 and 27, 7:30 pm. $20. Paintlounge West, 784 College. paintlounge.ca.

Michelle Visage. 8 pm. $32-$100. Danforth Music Hall, 147 Danforth. ticketmaster.ca. sexaPaLooza Seminars, product demos, a dungeon, videos, body painting, sex museum, alley of fantasy and more. To Mar 1. Weekend pass $30, $25 at the door. International Centre, 6900 Airport Rd. sexxapalooza.com.

Friday, February 27

Saturday, February 28

the deCLine and FaLL oF investigative JournaLism Panel talk on downsized newsrooms

knitting month workshoPs Experienced

winter Paint Party Painting, drinking and

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and falling revenues with Mark Bourrie, Kathy English, Lindnen MacIntyre and moderator Jesse Brown. 7-9 pm. $15 (PEN Canada). Reference Library, 789 Yonge. pencanada.ca. games night! a bike raLLy Fundraiser A night of board games and Wii on the projection screen supports the PWA Bike Rally. 8 pm. $10. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Cabaret, 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com. rouge GenNext fundraiser with a silent auction, hors d’oeuvres, “Best in Red” contest (wear something red) and more. 8 pm. $50 (benefits the United Way). Arcadian Court, 401 Bay, 8th fl. unitedwaytoronto.com/rouge. twiLight gaLa Twilight Rotary club fundraiser for Covenant House includes a silent auction, food and music by Myles Castello and DJ Andrew Burton. 7:30 pm $75, adv $65. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. twilightgala.com.

Benefits

docents and knitters give advice, plus tea and a museum tour. 11:30 am, 1 and 2:30 pm. $15 (benefits the Community History Project). Preregister. Tollkeeper’s Cottage Museum, 750 Davenport. tollkeeperscottage@gmail.com.

PeaCe oF minds yogathon Benefit for the Schizophrenia Society of Ontario. 8 am-4 pm. $20/class, $100/full day. The Lab, 483 Queen W. Pre-register peaceofmindsyogathon.ca. the toronto Cantata Chorus Concert and silent auction. 6 pm. $40 (Jamaican Epilepsy Association). Bishop Strachan School, 298 Lonsdale. jaepilepsy.concert@yahoo.ca.

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baFraFranto Music Africa Concert Series features music from Ghana. 9 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. afrofest.ca. art oF bumbLe bee watChing Illustrated talk

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HELP AT-RISK KIDS LEARN MUSIC

Music has universal appeal – too bad not everyone can afford to play. The Shine! (Jim Fay) Bursary tackles that by helping marginalized kids to buy instruments and take lessons.

The Shine! benefit at Lula Lounge, bBlack History MontH @ Mackenzie House Make a personalized copy of The Prov-

incial Freeman, the first newspaper published by a woman of colour in Canada. Sat-Sun, noon-5 pm. $3-$7. 82 Bond. 416-392-6915. rFrosty Fairies – FaMily nature Walk 1:303 pm. $2. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com.

latin aMerican education netWork conFerence: FroM dialogue to action Com-

munity members look to improve the learning experiences of Latin American youth. 9:30 am3:30 pm. Free. St Mary’s Catholic School, 66 Dufferin Park. Pre-register 647-849-8147.

Meet tHe stars @ Fanzone Canadian Screen Awards present stars of TV and film in person.

2-4 pm. Free. Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge. fanzone.academy.ca. no dreaM is too Big or too sMall Workshop to turn dreams into reality. 9 am-5:30 pm. $25. Metro Central YMCA, 20 Grosvenor. eventbrite.ca/e/15070816217.

none is too Many: israeli inciteMent to racist Violence Talk on how Israeli political

and religious leaders encourage racist violence towards Palestinians, Africans and other nonJews plus information about changes to the Canadian immigration system and anti-Roma racism in Canada. 7 pm. $10 or pwyc. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

b100tH anniVersary oF tHe aMerican occupation oF Haiti Marking the

5th anniversary of the earthquake, 50th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination and the 100th anniversary of the American occupation of Haiti.

1585 Dundas West, on Sunday (March 1), 7 pm, features a solid lineup: Big Tobacco and the Pickers, Andrew Cash, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar and more. $25. shineconcert.ca.

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TRANSIT IN THE TORY ERA

The Free and Accessible Transit Public forum with Norman Otis Richmond, Nydia Dauphin and Kevin Edmonds. 7-10 pm.

Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W, Room 5-250. panafricansolidarity@gmail.com. a political ForuM on cuBa and tHe u.s. Talk on Cuba-U.S. relations with Keith Ellis, Arnold August and others. 2-5 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. torontoforumoncuba.com.

broger giBBs island in tHe sun: BarBados in song Barbadian folk songs and calypsos. 2 pm. Free. Maria A Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. salsa social Lesson and social dancing. 8:30 pm. Free. The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 3, 150 8th St. latinenergy.ca. toronto salsa practice No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30-5:30 pm or 5:30-8 pm. $5. Trinity St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com. btoronto urBan Book expo Celebration of urban fiction and Black History Month book fair. Noon-4 pm. Free. Malvern Library, 30 Sewells. kyapublishing.com. bVusi MaHlasela & HugH Masekela 20 Years Of Freedom concert by two of South Africa’s freedom fighters. 8 pm. $40-$85. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor W. performance.rcmusic.ca.

WWe liVe road to WrestleMania Pro wrestling event with Randy Orton, Chris Jericho, the Divas and others. 7:30 pm. $20-$110. Ricoh Coliseum, 100 Princes’ Blvd. ticketmaster.ca.

Sunday, March 1

Benefits

paul griFFitHs Lecture with British critic, lyri-

cist and author, food and a silent auction. 8 pm. $100-$150 (New Music concerts). Gallery 345, 345 Sorauren. 416-961-9594. sHine! BeneFit concert Big Tobacco & The Pickers, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, Andrew Cash and New Country Rehab perform. 7 pm. $25 (Shine!/Jim Fay Music bursary). Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. shineconcert.ca.

Smith Hall, 100 St George. eventbrite. ca/e/15627856339.

Campaign of the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly and transit advocacy group TTCRiders take stock of public transit as we head into the John Tory era at City Hall. Increasing fares, the dropping of plans for two-hour transfers and lack of clarity on the future of LRT lines in the inner suburbs are among the areas of discussion Sunday (March 1), 1 pm, at Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. Free. beitzatoun.org.

ontario’s enVironMental Bill oF rigHts WorksHop Workshop for NGOs. 1-4 pm. $25.

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Tuesday, March 3

PRE-ELECTION ENVIRONMENT TOWN HALL

Climate Impact Network hosts a climate change talk at U of T’s Fitzgerald Building with NDP MP Matthew Kellway, Green party leader Elizabeth May and Liberal environment critic John McKay on Monday (March 2), 6 pm. A question-and-answer session follows. Free. 150 College, room 103. eventbrite.ca.

Federal pre-election toWn Hall on cliMate

cHange Climate Impact Network event with Matthew Kellway, Elizabeth May. Liberal Party Environmental Critic John McKay will speak and answer questions. 6 pm. Free. Room 103.

Fitzgerald Building, U of T, 150 College. facebook.com/events/1543663182548525.

Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. Preregister sustainabilitynetwork.ca. tools For inner peace Guided meditation session. Mondays, 8 pm. $10. Ankh Yoga, 2017 Danforth Ave. 647-223-3662, ankhyoga.com. toronto sWing dance society West Coast swing dance lessons. 7:30 pm. $70 for series.

Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. torontoswingdancesociety.ca.

aniMal rigHts acadeMy lecture Paul York

talks about the Climate Vegan Movement. 7-9 pm. Free. University College, 15 King’s College Circle, room 256. animalrightsacademy.org. art creates cHange: deVora neuMark Public talk by the artist. 7 pm. Free. Central Hall (rm 230). OCAD U, 100 McCaul. ocadu.ca.

Born in gaza Cinema Politica screening of the 2014 documentary, followed by discussion. 6 pm. Pwyc. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. cinemapolitica.org/bloor. coMposers in conVersation Symposium with composers as part of the New Creations Festival. 6-7 pm. Free. Canadian Music Centre, 20 St Joseph. tso.ca.

discussing diVision: tHe dark side oF connectiVity Panel on the current state of urban

Events

an encHanted eVening Group meditation, live music & vegetarian meal. 6-8 pm. Free, pwyc for meal. Trinity St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. meditationtoronto.com. don roadWay east: Bike, Walk Historical portlands trail Lost rivers walk. 11 am. Free.

Queen East and Carroll. 416-593-2656.

5lgBt dance classes Queer and trans salsa classes. To Mar 29, 3-5 pm. $15 drop-in. Multifaith Centre, 569 Spadina. lgbtdance.com. study and go aBroad Fair Learn about admission requirements, scholarships and more.

Noon-5 pm. Free. Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front W. studyandgoabroad.com.

tHe tory era & tHe cHallenge oF inner suBurBan transit TTCriders forum on challenges for the public transit movement. 1-4 pm. Free.

Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

WHat tHe *#&! is a BioBlitz? Lecture. 2:30 pm. Free. Northrop Frye Hall, 73 Queen’s Park Cres, Rm 003. torontofieldnaturalists.org.

Monday, March 2

Benefits

giVins-sHaW coMedy Fundraiser Stand-up

with Elvira Kurt, Pat Thornton and others. 7 pm. $50 (The Children’s Breakfast Club). Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

Events

adVanced Harry potter triVia 2 Teams of

infrastructure and the challenges of designing for connectedness. 7 pm. Free. George Brown School of Design, 230 Richmond E. RSVP eventbrite.ca/e/15821911764.

Fundraising For grassroots organizations Talk for volunteer-run organizations.

6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Canadian Management Centre, 150 York. Pre-register 416-961-6888 ext 224, volunteertoronto.site-ym.com. occupy econoMics WorksHop Topic: Greece, a people against the gnomes of Frankfurt.

6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. info@occupyeconomics.ca.

Writing For cHildren & youtH Talk by author Richard Scrimger. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Maria A Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. 416-3941000.

Wednesday, March 4

Benefits

Bedazzled BasH Entertainer Melissa DiMarco hosts DJ Tudor, silent auction and dinner. 6 pm. $100 (Schizophrenia Society of Ontario).

Riviera Parque Banquet and Convention Centre, 2800 York Regional Road 7. bedazzled.co.

tHe executiVe Brain – liFe lessons FroM sMart WoMen Jeanne Beker, Dr Vivien

Brown and others discuss overcoming obstacles in this breakfast talk. 8-10:30 am. $95 (Women’s Brain Health Initiative).

TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W.

smartwomento.eventbrite.ca.

ItHe red panty diaries Comedy benefit to help girls in developing countries go to school with Natalie Norman, Jess Beaulieu and others. 8 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. eventbrite.ca/e/15405645701.

Events

tHe BeautiFul Brain: HoW do We see tHe World? Lecture. 7-8 pm. Free. North York

Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5535. collecting canadian art in toronto Panel discussion. 7-8:30 pm. Free. U of T Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle. 416-946-7089.

gloBal action, local iMpact: Mercury contaMination in arctic ecosysteMs Lecture by Igor Lehnherr. 4:10 pm. Free. Room 149 (basement). U of T Earth Sciences Bldg, 33 Willcocks. environment.utoronto.ca. liVing Meditation Weekly class. 7-8:30 pm.

Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-392-6810. louise arBour The former UN High Commissioner and Supreme Court justice speaks with Marc Lalonde. 7 pm. Free (pre-register). Reference Library, 789 Yonge. tpl.ca/appelsalon.

tHis nuclear age: nuclear poWer & peaceFul nuclear tecHnology Lecture with Jeremy Whitlock. 4-6 pm. Free. University College, 15 King’s College Circle, Room 179. scienceforpeace.ca.

WHy sHould i care? liMitations on FreedoM oF speecH The Toronto Star’s Kathy Eng-

lish, and Katie Gibbs of Evidence for Democracy discuss the challenges of protecting free speech and some current related conflicts. 7-9 pm. Free. The Rose and Crown, 2335 Yonge. whyshouldicare.ca.

Winter FarMers Market Indoor market with local farmers. 2-6 pm. Free. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113.

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Thursday, March 5

Benefits

spellBound toronto Indoor street fair with

refreshments, busker-style cirque performances and more to raise funds in support of childhood arthritis. 6 pm. $100-$150 (benefits the Arthritis Society). Church on Church, 504 Church. arthritis.ca/spellboundTO.

ItHe Vagina Monolgues Meets tHe F Word Jennifer Phillips combines Eve Ensler’s

Vagina Monologues with excerpts from her play in this stage show. Mar 5-15, see website for times. $16-$26 (benefits the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, U of T & Nellie’s Shelter). Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com.

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First tHursdays Installations, music and art

talks inspired by the Art Spielgelman exhibit.

7-11:30 pm. $12-$15. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/firstthursdays. islaM in tHe Mirror oF tHe West Lecture. 7 pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford.

416-444-7148, noorculturalcentre.ca.

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max 4 people, prizes. Costumes encouraged.

7 pm. $2/person. Beaver, 1192 Queen W. facebook.com/ events/844466998932477.

diVersity and representation @ city Hall: a panel Discussion on the

representation of minorities on city council with Councillor Kristyn-Wong Tam, former Councillor Ceta Ramkhalawansingh and candidate Idil Burale. 6-8 pm. Free (pre-register). Sidney

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A CREATIVE APPROACH TO CONDO SHOPPING AND DESIGN BY SABRINA MADDEAUX

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what to do when your view of the city is about to be blocked by a new condo across the street? if you’re Glen Baxter, Tv host and fashion journalist, you pack up and move into that new condo to get your view back.

Baxter was so set on that plan, he didn’t even look at any other properties before buying into the new building at 75 Portland pre-construction. “I was only interested in moving across the street. It was fun to watch the construction from my window,” he says.

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age: “I ended up buying two adjacent units and converting them into one.” Baxter and interior designer Bryan Chartier (formerly with the building’s architectural firm, Core, and now with Diamond Schmitt) drew up a custom floor plan from scratch.

His favourite feature? A 70-foot balcony that wraps into a 350-square-foot terrace facing the city. “The terrace, with its unobstructed views of the city skyline, is spectacular,” says Baxter. continued on page 22 œ

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WISH LIST “More square footage than the condo I was residing in, and regaining my city view.”

WHAT HE GOT A 1,700-square-foot corner unit that includes a laundry room, two bedrooms and two bathrooms in the Philippe Starck building. According to condos.ca, units here typically go for about $630 per square foot.

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY “My place is open, simple and sparse. I’ve never wanted a dining room table, so the kitchen island is everything. I entertain a lot, and friends end up gathering around the island.”

Baxter tore down the unit’s original island and built a new one with Croma Design: “It’s 12 feet long, with a built-in wine fridge and dishwasher, and features a dramatic, masculine Caesarstone countertop.”

SPECIAL MENTIONS “I love the 6-foot-long freestanding tub by Philippe Starck zin the open en-suite washroom.

I had a dozen pot lights installed throughout.” He also added extra storage space to the laundry room, which sometimes doubles as a pantry.

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“I’ve never owned a car, so I love the fact that everything I need is a short walk from my door. In the daytime there’s a real sense of community. Everybody knows each other. You live or work in the area, or both.”

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FLOOR PLAN FIX: RIVER CITY PHASE 3 ONE BEDROOM+DEN

653 SQ.FT. BALCONY 94 SQ.FT. A 653-SQUARE-FOOT ONE BEDROOM PLUS DEN WITH A 94-SQUARE-FOOT BALCONY

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River City Phase 3 (RC3) by Urban Capital is no wallflower in a city of look-alike glass monstrosities. Bold Montreal-based architects Saucier + Perrotte create a textured facade of black and white blocks that looks somewhat like a cutting-edge interpretation of Tetris.

At 29 storeys, it’s among the first condo developments built in the West Don Lands and is conveniently located across from Corktown Common.

The building offers some innovative and useful amenities that go beyond the typical yoga room you never get around to using: extended office space for those who work from home, a playroom for kids, a pet cleaning station and a product library where you can rent things you sometimes need but don’t use often enough to actually buy.

Here are some of this one-bedroom-plus-den apartment’s design positives and some creative ways to deal with a few tricky spaces. The unit starts at $373,900.

Almost every space in this suite has a view of the balcony, so make it pretty with some faux greenery that will last all year.

Chances are you’re going to be a lit308, 406, 407,tle 510squeezed for space in the kitchdropped ceiling zone

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Lately your life reminds me

of the action film Speed, starring Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves. In that story, a criminal has rigged a passenger bus to explode if its speed drops below 50 miles per hour. In your story, you seem to be acting as if you, too, will self-destruct if you stop moving at a frantic pace. I’m here to tell you that nothing bad will happen if you slow down. Just the opposite, in fact. As you clear your schedule of its excessive things-to-do, as you leisurely explore the wonders of doing nothing in particular, I bet you will experience a soothing flood of healing pleasure.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 One of the most dazzling moves a ballet dancer can do is the fouetté en tournant. The term is French for “whipped turning.” As she executes a 360-degree turn, the dancer spins around on the tip of one foot. Meanwhile, her other foot thrusts outward and then bends in, bringing her toes to touch the knee of her supporting leg. Can you imagine a dancer doing this 32 consecutive times? That’s what the best do.

It takes extensive practice and requires a high degree of concentration and discipline. Paradoxically, it expresses breathtaking freedom and exuberance. You may not be a prima ballerina, Taurus, but in your own field there must be an equivalent to the fouetté en tournant. Now is an excellent time for you to take a vow and make plans to master that skill. What will you need to do?

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 If you’re a martial artist and you want to inject extra energy into an aggressive move, you might utter a percussive shout that sounds like “eee-yah!” or “hyaah!” or “aiyah!”

The Japanese term for this sound is kiai. The sonic boost is most effective if it originates deep in your diaphragm rather than from your throat. Even if you’re not a martial artist, Gemini, I suggest that in the coming weeks you have fun trying out this boisterous style of yelling. It may help you summon the extra power and confidence you’ll need to successfully wrestle with all the interesting challenges ahead of you.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 The prolific and popular

French novelist Aurore Dupin was better known by her pseudonym George Sand. Few 19th-century women matched her rowdy behaviour. She wore men’s clothes, smoked cigars, was a staunch feminist and frequented social venues where only men were normally allowed. Yet she was also a doting mother to her two children and loved to garden, make jam and do needlework. Among her numerous lovers were the writers Alfred de Musset, Jules Sandeau and Prosper Mérimée, as well as composer Frederic Chopin and actress Marie Dorval. Her preferred work schedule was midnight to 6 am, and she often slept until 3 pm. “What a brave man she was,” said Russian author Ivan Turgenev, “and what a good woman.” Her astrological sign? The same as you and me. She’s feisty proof that not all of us Crabs are conventional fuddyduddies. In the coming weeks, she’s our inspirational role model.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 It seems you’ve slipped into a

time warp. Is that bad? I don’t think so. Your adventures there may twist and tweak a warped part of your psyche in such a way that it gets healed. At the very least, I bet your visit to the time warp will reverse the effects of an old folly and correct a problem caused by your past sins. (By the way, when I use the word “sin,” I mean “being lax about following your dreams.”) There’s only one potential problem that could come out of all this: some people in your life could misinterpret what’s happening. To prevent that, communicate crisply every step of the way.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 In English and French versions of the word game Scrabble, the letter z is worth 10 points. In Italian, it’s eight points. But in the Polish variant of Scrabble, you score just one point by using z. That letter is rarely used in the other three languages but is common in Polish.

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Keep this general principle in mind as you assess the value of the things you have to offer. You will be able to make more headway and have greater impact in situations where your particular beauty and power and skills are in short supply.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 “Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have to make them all your yourself.” So said Alfred Sheinwold in his book about the card game known as bridge. I think this is excellent advice for the game of life, as well.

And it should be extra pertinent for you in the coming weeks, because people in your vicinity will be making gaffes and wrong turns that are useful for you to study. In the future, you’ll be wise to avoid perpetrating similar messes yourself. sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 “Love her but leave her

wild,” advised a graffiti artist who published his thoughts on a wall next to the mirror in a public restroom I visited. Another guerrilla philosopher had added a comment below: “That’s a nice sentiment, but how can anyone retain wildness in a society that puts so many demands on us in exchange for money to live?” Since I happened to have a felttip pen with me, I scrawled a response to the question posed in the second comment: “Be in nature every day. Move your body a lot. Remember and work with your dreams. Be playful. Have good sex.

Infuse any little thing you do with a creative twist.

Hang out with animals. Eat with your fingers. Sing regularly.” And that’s also my message for you, Scorpio, during this phase when it’s so crucial for you to nurture your wildness.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 “Don’t worry, even if

things get heavy, we’ll all float on.” So sings Modest Mouse vocalist Isaac Brock on the band’s song Float On. I recommend you try that approach yourself, Sagittarius. Things will no doubt get heavy in the coming days. But if you float on, the heaviness will be a good, rich, soulful heaviness. It’ll be a purifying heaviness that purges any glib or shallow influences that are in your vicinity. It’ll be a healing heaviness that gives you just the kind of graceful gravitas you will need.

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The more he’ll come up with surprising takes on ideas and things and situations.” What about you, Capricorn? What are the qualities in a friend that help you thrive? Now is a perfect time to take an inventory. I sense that although there are potential new allies wandering in your vicinity, they will actually become part of your life only if you adjust and update your attitudes about the influences you value most.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 At the turn of the 19th

century, Russian labourers constructed thousands of miles of railroad tracks from the western part of the country eastward to Siberia. The hardest part of the job was blasting tunnels through the mountains that were in the way. I reckon you’re at a comparable point in your work, Aquarius. It’s time to smash gaping holes through obstacles. Don’t scrimp or apologize. Clear the way for the future.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 The British rock band the Animals released their gritty, growly song The House Of The Rising Sun in 1964. It reached the top of the pop music charts in the U.S., Canada, UK and Australia, and was a hit with critics. Rolling Stone magazine ultimately ranked it as the 122nd greatest song of all time. And yet it took the Animals just 15 minutes to record. They did it in one take. That’s the kind of beginner’s luck and spontaneous flow I foresee you having in the coming weeks, Pisces.

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Usually, it’s the faux-est of faux pas to be caught wearing the same thing as someone else at a fashion party. But tonight there’s a uniform of sorts, a pack mentality.

The cool kids aren’t showing off this season’s “It” bag or repping Pantone’s colour of the year. They’re decked out in Mickey Mouse ear hats, plush mouse gloves and Ts that depict the world’s most famous rodent flipping the bird.

The DJ drops Macho Man and the ears go wild, bouncing up and down to the music as servers carrying champagne bottles lit with sparklers dance by in a single-file line. Flickers of flame descend on the dance floor like Tinkerbell’s pixie dust, while Sacco watches the Mickey-Mouse-Club-meetsCaligula’s-Palace scene through a one-way mirror from a narrow lock-and-key VIP room that overlooks the club.

But it isn’t Mickey’s fan club that’s taken over No. 8. It’s the cult of Canadian designer Christopher Lee Sauvé, and these are his Mausketeers.

Vancouver-born Sauvé created a pop culture subculture of sorts with his signature graphic MadMaus Ts that reinterpret icons like Madonna, Karl Lagerfeld, David Bowie and Andy Warhol as mice – or “Mauses.” Tonight is Sacco’s turn: the event celebrates a special-edition T that gives her the Maus treatment alongside the designer himself and other fashion superstars.

The MadMaus line explores the commercialization of celebrity. The idea is that we no longer see celebs as people, but as the sum of parts packaged and sold to us.

“For example, you can take Marilyn Monroe and simplify her abstractly into lips, a mole, a curl of hair and an eyelash, or Bowie and his zigzag,” Sauvé explains.

He combines these features with the mouse ears because Mickey is the most recognized character in the world, the ultimate personal brand.

The designs are oddly sincere and subversive at once, kind of like a Comedy Central roast on a shirt. Perhaps that’s why they’re so popular – they capture our increasingly complicated lovehate relationship with big celebrity. Sauvé has both Mickey and Felix the Cat tattooed on his forearms and credits his fascination with pop

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it was my favourite thing to do.”

As a teenager, he says he had no idea what he wanted from life. “I was kind of a punk at the time, just doing a lot of crazy shit.”

He studied design at a community college for a year before transferring to Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

“When I finished school, I didn’t have a job, and Vancouver just wasn’t my scene. I’d apply for jobs and they’d look at me like I had four heads,” recounts Sauvé. “My work was a bit too crazy for condo brochures and stuff.”

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Like the celebrities whose images he uses, Sauvé exudes a certain je ne sais quoi that attracts opportunities and followers en masse.

One of his biggest inspirations, Andy Warhol, had a similar magnetism and became famous, in part, for his reflections on fame. The parallels between the two pop artists don’t end there.

Sauvé’s big break – an “accident,” he says – occurred in 2008, when he was about to leave an art direction job at Diane von Furstenburg.

In the middle of the recession, amidst plummeting magazine ad dollars and Anna Wintour retirement rumours, he drew a sketch of the Vogue editor with the caption “SAVE ANNA.” “I sent the picture to top creative directors in hopes of getting a job, but then all these bloggers like Perez Hilton started sharing it and it turned into a movement,” he tells me over a salade niçoise and kale smoothie at The Park in Chelsea, a venue that once blacklisted him after a wild night out.

“I have Irish blood, so I love to party. I mean, I looove to party,” Sauvé says. “I’ll go out for days and miss things, but I can’t do that now. I have responsibilities, shoots and things I can’t miss.”

Hence the green smoothie. In fact, I haven’t seen him take a sip of alcohol since I arrived two days ago. Was there any particular incident that inspired him to clean up his act?

“There have been lots, but they’ve all been fucking awesome,” he laughs.

Someone asked him to turn SAVE ANNA into a shirt, and the rest is history. He emailed Seven New York, a popular high-end boutique at the time, and asked if they’d carry his line. They agreed and put his name on the store’s window beside the likes of Jeremy Scott, Gareth Pugh and Raf Simons.

Other sought-after retailers like Patricia Field soon followed, partly because of Sauvé’s daring designs and because Sauvé knows how to hustle.

“He stalked me,” laughs the flame-haired Field at her birthday party during NYFW. Ambitious as he is, Sauvé won’t sell just anywhere. He walked away from Urban Outfitters when the company wanted to sell his shirts at a price that would’ve required him to manufacture overseas.

“T-shirts are one of the only garments that get better the more you wash them and wear them.

They develop stories,” he explains. “But in order to last, the material has to be high-quality.”

He’s determined to keep production local and ethical, so his Ts are hand-screened at Kingsland Printing in Brooklyn. When he sold a large order to Hudson’s Bay, he had the shirts screened in Toronto.

Sauvé grew up in Maple Ridge, a small town about 45 minutes outside Vancouver. His father was a painter and photographer, and Sauvé would spend hours working with him in his studio, learning tricks of the trade. Tragically, his father battled depression and committed suicide when Sauvé was just 11.

“It was devastating,” he remembers. “I was very close with him.”

His family was poor and couldn’t afford cable, so they’d draw a lot.

“We’d take a sketch pad, my mom would draw a squiggle and pass it to me, then I’d add something, then my stepdad would add something, and so on,” says Sauvé. “It sounds really boring now that there’s all this technology, but

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for two years, then jetted off to NYC, where a string of art direction jobs eventually led him to Diane von Fürstenburg.

“I had no idea who she was – I didn’t really know anything about fashion,” Sauvé laughs, confessing that he thought she was a romance novelist in the vein of Danielle Steel. She loved his work and hired him despite his naïveté.

While many designers stage their first fashion show before they’ve even graduated – an expensive endeavour with questionable return on investment – Sauvé only showed at New York Fashion Week for the first time last fall.

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His way seems to be working, because PR powerhouse Kelly Cutrone (of The Hills, The City and Kell On Earth fame) took notice. To Sauvé’s surprise, she attended his show and emailed him afterward to set up a meeting. It turns out she’s a fan of his designs and wanted to sign him as a client. “She’s like my earth mother,” he gushes.

With Cutrone’s guidance, Sauvé is working toward his second show this fall: “I’m thinking

of going a little darker, which Kelly’s going to hate.”

Having spent the last few years with icons and heroes, he’s ready to explore his more villainous side. “you should write a horrible article, say I spent all my time behind this pane of glass with Amy Sacco sneering at all the MadMaus fans and plotting to build an empire with Republicans,” he laughs. “you should totally do that. It’d be so Warholy.”

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TheLegendsLeague

(thelegendsleague.com) Shop locally: Capsule (69 Yorkville, 647-748-1169), Livestock (116 Spadina, 416-360-5383)

A creative agency/clothing company hybrid, TheLegendsLeague is a Toronto-based company with serious attitude.

Founded by Bryan Espiritu in 2007, the brand began as a blog where Espiritu shared his tumultuous life experiences, including dealing with domestic violence and suicide. His writing and artwork grew a following of people who supported him when he launched a clothing line in 2009, originally called IDEALL, which stood for “inspirationdriven esthetic apparel by TheLegendsLeague” (as well as “I’ll die enormous and live lavish”). Clearly, the guy has a creative streak.

In 2012, IDEALL and TheLegendsLeague merged to become one. LL uses graphics to express opinions and provoke people to feel and think differently. It’s definitely a brand of the street, but also includes pieces that young professionals and the not-so-radical can add to their everyday wardrobes.

LL’s current collection, called FTP, is an inyour-face condemnation of the police state.

Shirts read “more bad news,” “die cold,” “please do not feed the pigs,” with images of police brutality. More lighthearted offerings include a Toronto-made LLegends shirt that pays tribute to the Maple Leafs.

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Sully Wong

(shop.sullywong.com) Shop locally: Gotstyle (62 Bathurst, 416-260-9696, and other), Model Citizen (279 Augusta, 416-553-6632), Community 54

Designers George Sully and Henry Wong, local kings of too-cool-for-school shoes and accessories, have made a neat little empire for themselves by forgoing traditional retail in favour of e-commerce and social media strategies. Of course, once buyers saw the crazy demand for their wares, retail support followed.

Sully Wong’s premium leather kicks are in demand for collaborations, and past partners have included Karim Rashid, Amanda Lew Kee, King Of The Dot and ONEXONE. The brand has a stamp of approval from Complex magazine and a showroom in NYC, with distribution as far as Japan and South Korea, and is carried by Little Burgundy across Canada. Yoko Ono has worn their shoes.

They’re growing at a fast rate, but the designers haven’t given an inch when it comes to quality or ethics. They personally visit all factories that manufacture their products to make sure there’s no shady business.

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Raised by Wolves

(raisedbywolves.ca) Shop locally: Adrift (116 Spadina, 416-515-0550), Capsule

Raised by Wolves began with one product, colour-blocked five-panel caps, but has since expanded into a full line of clothing that’s still steadfastly produced in North America to retain high quality and minimize the brand’s ecological footprint.

The Montreal-based label takes inspiration from folk tales about children raised by wolves, who often exhibited great strength, morals and intellect (think Mowgli) and combines this with a love for all things Canada.

Hoodies and sweats in the current collection are printed with images of buffalo, moose and trappers, while Ts pay homage to the 1983 Canadian teen sex comedy Screwballs. Raised by Wolves still stays true to its roots with quirky bucket and five-panel hat offerings.

Like what you see? Act fast, because Raised by Wolves limits its products to a single run, making them all de facto limited editions.

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Benji WZW (benjiwzw.com) Shop locally: Hopefully soon

He’s the new kid on the block, but recent grad Benji Wong is hard to ignore. Lady Gaga proved a fan when she wore one of his signature jackets in an eTalk interview.

His debut collection showed at FAT (Fashion Art Toronto) for fall/winter 2014 and took inspiration from the Japanese biker gang subculture. It mixed the precise tailoring of a high-fashion collection with the prints, graphics and attitude of streetwear.

Wong studied architecture at the University of Waterloo, then fashion in Belgium at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts. It’s a non-traditional education for a designer, and the feeling of being caught between two worlds is evident in his designs.

His spring/summer 2015 collection is called Roses Drowning In A Molotov Cocktail, which besides having a pretty fucking fantastic name, combines nostalgic 3D-printed cartoon elements with fine embroidery and daring denim.

Benji WZW competes for $25,000 and other perks as a finalist at TFI New Labels on May 4 at One King West. Ticket proceeds benefit the Toronto Fashion Incubator and can be purchased at tfi@fashionincubator. com or 416-971-7117.

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When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL

JOHNNIES ON THE SPOT: THE LONG UNDERWEAR GUIDE DON’T LET A LITTLE ARCTIC AIR GET IN THE WAY OF A GOOD TIME. BUT KNOW WHAT YOU’RE SLIPPING INTO BEFORE YOU LAYER UP.

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Didn’t your mother tell you that you get what you pay for? Jockey and Hanes both offer super-cheap long underwear, but – no surprise – there’s nothing particularly sustainable, ethical or high-performance about them.

They’re made with conventional pesticide-heavy cotton and run-of-the-mill fossil-fuel-derived polyester, at ever cheaper factories. Jockey ditched its Colombia factory last year over rising salaries, and Hanes’s suppliers lobbied against raising the minimum wage at its Haiti operations to just $5 a day.

Kind of makes their underwear feel, well, dirty.

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These may not be the long johns you take to the ski hill, but they’ll do fine for lounging around a cabin. Vancouver-made Johnwear has revived ye olde classic neckto-ankle red onesie – complete with butt flap – for adults, kids and, yes, dogs. And they’re all made with certified organic cotton, woven and sewn in Canada.

Would definitely be a tad heavy as a base layer, but oddly sexy for home wear. Now, if they only made form-fitting versions that could work as well for the outdoors and not just for chillin’ inside, they’d get a perfect score. Johnwear.ca SCORE: NNNN

If you’re the kind of person who lives, breathes and dies for cold weather sports or just wants some quality 100 per cent wool base layers, Icebreaker and SmartWool make good options. These companies both use wool from free range New Zealand sheep that haven’t undergone mulesing (removing strips of skin around the buttocks), a common practice in Australia.

Icebreaker actually has a fully traceable “Baacode” that lets you track your garment back to the actual sheep farmer. Plus, like all 100 per cent wool base layers, they have amazing built-in stink-resisting powers so they can be worn again and again without washing (a green plus). Icebreaker used to be sewn in New Zealand but has moved production to Shanghai and Taiwan. The move cost the company some fans but hasn’t really reduced the price. SmartWool mostly makes its johns in Vietnam.

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PATAGONIA WOOL AND RECYCLED All it takes are some bone-chilling winds to make you realize, “Man, I really need some better long johns.”

This certified B Corp has affordable, high-performance options. The most sustainable pick is made of merino wool blended with all-recycled polyester for amped-up durability. And its chlorine- and mulesing-free wool comes from the grasslands of Patagonia. Too bad these only come in lighter weights. The more diverse Capilene line come in four weights but is made with just 35 per cent recycled polyester. The rest is virgin petroleumbased fabrics, though it’s Bluesign-approved for minimized use of water, energy and chemicals. Made in Vietnam.

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What compelled you to do this project?

It struck me that all these people were moving to work in the oil patch. And despite this clearly very important cultural phenomenon, there was almost no media coverage, and politicians avoided it. It was as if this massive industrial project were hidden in plain sight.

You say Beautiful Destruction is all about illuminating the contradictions there. Why was that important to you?

There’s a real drama unfolding in Fort McMurray. There are great jobs, lots of money, but also environmental destruction. The issue is approached in a deeply polarized way that I’m not sure is entirely helpful. Maybe public policy would be better if it reflected some of the tension and contradictions.

You include quite a range of voices in the book.

As far as I know it’s the only forum that brings together all these different people. And it’s important that it does so under the rubric of art and the space that art can create when we use our imagination to reflect. That was the core of my pitch to all the contributors. It goes back to the deeply polarized way in which we see this issue in Canada. There’s a lot of fear of talking to people one perceives to be on the other side.

You can sense some of that tension within the book. Ezra Levant writes that Beautiful Destruction is oil sands pornography designed to stimulate revulsion. Do you agree?

I do, definitely. Not so much that it’s

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understand or relate to this vast space.

In the book, I put the photo titles in Denesuline and Cree. I hope that conveys the point that this is a place where Canadians live and have lived for a very long time.

Q&A Louis Helbig Shot through acclaimed aerial photographer Louis Helbig’s lens, a swirling black and tan bitumen slick becomes strangely reminiscent of an abstract expressionist painting. In Beautiful Destruction, Helbig lets his bird’s-eye-view images of the tar sands’ sulphur ponds and frothing tanks, rivers and trees speak, mostly, for themselves.

But he leaves room in its pages for 15 contributors with dramatically diverging viewpoints (from 350.org’s Bill McKibben and Green party leader Elizabeth May to oil industry apologist Ezra Levant) to share their unedited perspective on Alberta’s bitumen extraction.

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You say that at the end of the day it’s just a picture book about an elephant.

designed to stimulate revulsion, maybe, but, sure, this can be seen as pornography. It can also be seen as art – either way it’s stimulating. I actually think it’s really cool to be challenged.

Ezra wrote his book Ethical Oil as a response to seeing my photos exhibited.

I’m happy about that, on some level. I also think Ezra is being very Canadian with his holier-than-thou argument.

When we do that, we shield ourselves from hard questions, but I also think he raises some really important issues. He points out that my camera is plastic and my plane fuelled with gas. I think he is right that we are all implicated.

We are all consumers of petroleum products. We need to look in the mirror and ask ourselves about that.

Your perspective on the tar sands has shifted over the years of working on the book. How so?

I would have called myself a reluctant activist. But pretty much right away, I

thought [the tar sands] represented a real failure of civil society and politics.

Now I’m beginning to think that for many Canadians, there’s an absence of meaningful relationship with most of the vast landscape. I don’t know if we really relate to or empathize with that wilderness in a substantive way. I sometimes think we’re kind of stuck in this neo-Group of Seven visual literacy where we mythologize but don’t

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I sometimes have the feeling this elephant, metaphorically, is stomping around in the living room of our country. One leg comes down, it’s about oil.

The next leg comes down, it’s about tar. The next is urban against rural, east versus west. It says a lot of about who we are. There’s a lot of us-versusthem. What goes with that is a real, powerful sense of fear, and I think that limits us in being able to engage with each other. I hope that the book creates a space for respectful engagement rather than being afraid.

This interview has been condensed and edited. ecoholic@nowtoronto.com | @ecoholicnation

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WHAT Porchetta

sandwich with rapini, ñ truffle sauce and hot sauce WHERE Porchetta & Co TIME 1:45 RATING: NNNNN It’s a simple meal – roasted pork on a crusty bun – but the sandwiches at this Dundas West shop pack a serious wallop of flavour. The fatty, tender pork and crunchy crackling create a stellar canvas for your choice of toppings – rich truffle mayo, sharp Parmesan, bitter broccoli rabe.

Food this good, naturally, takes plenty of time – but lucky for you, the meat is pre-roasted, and the staff can crank out a sandwich in two minutes flat.

TAKEOUT FACTOR The paper sandwich sleeve and brown bag don’t quite hold up in transit – the oil and mayo threaten to make things a little sloppy – but everything else sure does. The 4 ounces of pork stays impressively warm long after leaving the shop, and even the rapini remains pleasantly al dente. $7.25 (toppings 25 to 95 cents), 825 Dundas West (at Palmerston), 647-3526611, porchettaco.com

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FOOD CHALLENGE What if you have to sandwich a lunch into a 20-minute window between meetings? We put some of Toronto’s quickest kitchens to the test: we timed the prep, assessed longevity in the takeout box and chowed down. Then we rated the goods, with ratings heavily weighted toward taste. Here’s what we discovered. Remember, only one item per restaurant comes under the NOW microscope. By EDIE PAZIENZA 36

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WHAT Carne asada, pork

ñand grilled avocado tacos WHERE Wilbur Mexicana TIME 3:50 RATING: NNNN At this King West taco joint, gleaming with white subway tiles and staffed exclusively by sexy 20-somethings, the hearty burritos

might be the best-travelling menu item, but it’s tough to resist the siren call of the tacos. The pork, in particular, offers a tomatoey richness, and the Wilbur kitchen really livens things up with its array of housemade cremas and sauces, including a zippy pineapple salsa.

TAKEOUT FACTOR The soft tortillas hold up surprisingly well in the white

paper takeout box – aside from the grilled avocado taco, which gets soggy, but it’s bland enough to skip anyway. A nice bonus: sealable to-go sauce containers at the famed salsa bar, which caters to all pain tolerances (ranging from pico de gallo to ghost pepper sauce). $3.75 each, 552 King West (at Brant), 416-792-1878, wilburmexicana.com

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WHAT Casino Queen sandwich WHERE Sky Blue Sky TIME 4:38 RATING: NNN Sky Blue Sky’s sandwiches, famously themed around Wilco songs, are comforting and homey – the kind of elaborate sammies you’d make yourself after a particularly good trip to the grocery store. The Casino Queen, with turkey breast and bacon swathed in guacamole and onion marmalade, doesn’t skimp on the lunch meat, but the super-nutty

whole wheat bread threatens to overwhelm all those gentle flavours.

TAKEOUT FACTOR After cooling off in a brown bag, the meat is still warm and the condiments gel ever so slightly into the bread. Everything on the menu, with the exception of the super-saucy Kingpin (pork) and Hey Chicken (take a guess) sandwiches, is built to travel (insert dumb joke about going on tour here). $4.99, 333 King East (at Ontario), 647-350-3100, sbssandwiches.com, and others

WHAT Margherita Capricciosa pizza WHERE 180 Secondi TIME 10:54 RATING: NN Owners of this new pizza joint are so certain its oven can turn out a pipinghot pie in just 180 seconds, they named the restaurant for it. But on a dead weekend, the staff appear almost puzzled by my presence, and my prosciutto, mushroom and artichoke pie shows up almost 11 minutes later. The crust is lovely, cracker-like and featherlight, but the prosciutto,

cooked with the rest of the pie, adds a wallop of salt and has a leathery texture – in my professional opinion as an Italian, a damn travesty.

TAKEOUT FACTOR After chilling out in a delivery box, the crust holds its crispness and airiness, and the oncechewy fior di latte is somehow easier to eat once cold, but the residual oiliness and tough prosciutto don’t redeem things. A different set of toppings might make for a respectable desk-side pizza party. $15, 21B St. Clair West (at Yonge), 647-350-7180, 180secondi.com

505 College (at Palmerston) The team behind wildly popular College Street eatery Bar Isabel have opened Bar Raval – the name comes from the El Raval district in Barcelona– further east in the old Teatro space. While the tin ceiling is still visible, the place has been transformed by undulating mahogany structures across the ceiling and walls. During the day, get coffee, pastries and breakfast treats, and snack on seafood and small bites in the evening.

Dirtybird

79 Kensington (at Baldwin), thedirtybird.ca, @dirtybirdto March 4 is opening day for Dirtybird, a new Kensington Market shop offering “northern-fried” chicken at its 16-seat, takeout-focused storefront. That “northernfried” is a nod to Canadiana: signature chicken dishes incorporate some form of maple syrup, like a maple seasoning blend or maple butter, says chef Adrian Forte, who’s worked in the kitchens of Rock Lobster and the Libertine.

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WHAT Chicken Piri Piri

ñsandwich WHERE Brock Sandwich TIME 6:55 RATING: NNNN

The sandwiches are all over the map (literally) at this Bloordale takeout counter, from schnitzel on a bun to prosciutto panini to seafood po’ boys. The menu’s cornerstone, however, is the crispy chicken, a beautiful, sloppy beast of a sandwich fea-

turing a high stack of juicy, buttermilk-fried chicken breast, thick-cut caramelized onions, mild piri piri sauce and a few leaves of lettuce for decoration.

TAKEOUT FACTOR The fryer-fresh chicken emerges from the kitchen steaming and stays toasty thanks to a tight wrap in foil, with the breading only losing a touch of its crunch. $9, 1260 Bloor West (at Emerson), 647-748-1260, brocksandwich.ca

WHAT Braised beef and pork belly bao WHERE Mean Bao TIME 3:45 RATING: NNN

popular. There’s flavour to both meats, but maybe not quite enough to stand up to the doughy-sweet bao, which tend to dominate every mouthful.

TAKEOUT FACTOR You’d think something as delicate and puffy as a bao The Queen and Bathurst sister locawould toughen or collapse after a walk tion of the Grange cafeteria doles out around the block, but they’re are still savoury sandwiches wrapped inside as fluffy and chewy as ever when I Chinese steamed buns. The braised crack open the cardboard takeout box. beef and pork belly versions, dressed $3.60 (for pork belly); $3.55 (for braised with sprinklings of cilantro, cucumber beef) 167 Bathurst (at Richmond), and peanuts, are among the most 416-862-7737, meanbaotoronto.com

WHAT Lemongrass pork banh mi WHERE Banh Mi Boys TIME 1:55 RATING: NNNN

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The Vietnamese joints on Spadina might be more authentic (and even easier on the wallet), but Banh Mi Boys’ sandwiches make the perfect lunch, thanks to the marriage of sweet hoisin sauce, a touch of mayo, and cilantro and veggies that provide just enough freshness and crunch to

make you think you’re eating healthy.

The pork is precooked, but it’s tough to argue with a two-minute lunch.

TAKEOUT FACTOR The toasted baguette gets a little chewy post-cooldown in waxed paper and brown bag.

Still, there’s enough meat inside that the sandwich holds onto some heat, and the carrot and cucumber are still crisp and crunchy – no harm done. $5.49, 392 Queen West (at Spadina), 416-363-0588, banhmiboys.com, and others

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120 Avenue Road (at Bernard), 416-962-0011, sottosotto.ca When fire struck on Christmas Day, Drake was among the mourners, Instagramming “Truly the end of an era. Be back soon though. #SottoSotto” and “My second home.

Gone but not forgotten. #SottoSotto” to his 5.6 million followers.

Rising from the ashes a few doors away, in the space previously occupied by Dyne, is a new version of the beloved restaurant. The move takes Sotto Sotto above ground, after being famously subterranean (“sotto” means “underneath” in Italian) for two decades, but don’t expect name change to Sopra Sopra.

Closing Weezie’s

354 King East (at Power) This Corktown spot has been on the market since last October and has finally shut its doors. Set to open in the space sometime in March is Corktown Kitchen.

Changes Guu

398 Church (at McGill), 416-9770999, guu-izakaya.com, @guuizakaya Rumour has it that Guu will take over the lease of Indian restaurant Mehran come March 1. The larger space should mean shorter lineups for diners, but the cheerful “Irasshaimase” greeting from the chefs will hopefully remain in FRASER ABE place.

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ñP&L Burger WHERE P&L Burger TIME 8:25 RATING: NNNN The counter guy tells me all of P&L’s burgers take roughly five to 10 minutes to make, so I stick with the namesake, which comes finished with cheddar and savoury-sweet bacon jam. It’s a winner. The patty is just charred, its ample juices melding with the preand melted cheese to create a Restaurant openings, reviewsserves & foodie news dozen or so bites of messy heaven. It’s from T.O’s foodnot&the drink scene. quickest takeout spot in town, nowtoronto.com/newsletters but some things are worth the wait.

TAKEOUT FACTOR Some foods get soggy and gross after they’ve been sitting a bit. Others get soggy and awesome. After 10 minutes in a foil wrapper, the burger’s still warm, while the edges of the egg bun have sucked up all the flavours from the toppings. Delicious – though you might want to be careful about eating it at your desk. $9, 507 Queen West (at Vanauley), 416-603-9919, thepnlburger.ca

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The sister eatery to Kupfert & Kim dishes up tacos and burgers to the meat- and gluten-averse in the PATH. This most popular example of the latter dresses up a falafel-like baked patty with classic burger toppings on an excellent gluten-free bun. (There are even gratis sides like crunchy kale slaw and caramelized, if slightly toothsome, roasted root veg.)

TAKEOUT FACTOR The precooked patty and side veggies aren’t piping hot to begin with. But even as they cool way, way down in the compostable takeout container, the bread keeps its spring and the burger remains crumbly and chewy. $11.06, 50 King West (at York), 416-260-7777, kupfertandkim.com

WHAT Chicken breast laffa wrap WHERE Me Va Me TIME 9:08 RATING: NNN Shawarma and gyros abound in Toronto, but at this Mediterranean eatery’s Queen West fast-foodery, meats are rolled onto hand-stretched, freshbaked laffa flatbread instead of the usual bagged pita. Ordering the grilled chicken breast needlessly inflates the wait time; the real stars of the show are the toppings, including bright pickled vegetables and

creamy baba ghanouj. Instead, get the shawarma, which is precooked on a rotisserie, to speed things up.

TAKEOUT FACTOR Skip the optional tahini, or fall prey to the inevitable leaky bottom (the fatal flaw of every lunch wrap). Though the gloriously malleable laffa stiffens a bit after a few minutes, the cylindrical foil wrap keeps heat in well, and a walk around the block gives the flavours a chance to mingle. $8.95, 240 Queen West (at John), 416546-3770, mevamekitchenexpress.com, and others 3

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SHAMROCK Laughs, food, drinks

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ST PARTY’S DAY Traditional Irish dancing and dance lessons, music, DJs and beer in a massive heated tent. Today and tomorrow various times. $15$22. Andrew Richard Designs, 571 Adelaide E. stpartysday.com.

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Thursday, March 13 UNICORN EXPERIENCE = 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 THIRSTY THURSDAY Ena’s traditonal music session. 8 pm. The Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. 416-406-1301, ceilicottage.com.

WEEK OF CRAIC Detour play this party followed by Julian Taylor. Fionn MacCool’s Esplanade, 70 the Esplanade.

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SHAL BALL Irish entertainment by Hugo Straney, appearance by Irish Olympic gold medalist Katie Taylor, dinner and a reception. 6:30 pm. $130. Hilton Toronto, 145 Richmond W. Pre-register 416-487-1566,

The party at Ceílí Cottage (1301 Queen East, 416-406-1301, ceilicottage.com) runs through Monday (March 17), with live music, an oyster shucking contest and daily $6 Irish beer and whiskey specials.

Enjoy live Celtic bands, litre boots of Steam Whistle and a complimentary Jameson tasting (Sunday, March 16, 5 to 7 pm) at Stout (221 Carlton, 647-344-7676, stoutirishpub.ca) before Monday’s final shindig.

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Drink more bubbles You don’t need a special occasion to pop a bottle of bub. The invigorating intricacies of traditional-method (bottle-fermented) sparkling wines make for choice aperitifs, flexible food pairings and everyday palate-fresheners.

Once upon a time, day drinking wasn’t reserved for vacationers, uptown housewives or alcoholics. It was socially embraced and in some cases needed in order to face the day.

Some say the etymology of the word “cocktail” comes from an old-time garnish of rooster’s feathers (but probably not). Who would consider such a cumbersome (and gross) decoration?

A habitual morning drinker with a sense of humour, that’s who.

The rise-and-shine cocktail was such a hit around the turn of the 20th century that a small family of drinks emerged tailored to the daily ritual of shaking off the sandman and widening one’s eyes to the world. These bore the fitting label of Corpse Revivers, close relatives of hairof-the-dog.

The Corpse Reviver #2 (equal parts gin, orange liqueur, Lillet blanc and fresh lemon with a skiff of absinthe) is the most memorable and delicious of these. True to its origins, it’s a damn

fine brunch cocktail and an easy drink to wrap your mind and mouth around.

Just be sure to heed the sage words of Harry Craddock (who compiled the Savoy Cocktail Book, where this recipe was published in 1930): “Four of these in swift succession will quickly un-revive the corpse again.”

Rush Lane (563 Queen West, 416-551-7540, rushlaneco.com) has this classic in ready-todrink format – on tap ($12).

Parkdale’s Chantecler (1320 Queen West, 416-628-3586, restaurantchantecler.ca) serves a beefier version of the Corpse Reviver #2, using Grand Marnier in place of the usual Cointreau ($11). If you ask nicely, co-owner and barman Jacob Wharton-Shukster might just substitute Cocchi Americano for Lillet.

Nestled in the village, Smith (553 Church, 416-926-2501, 553church.com) mixes a slightly lighter (but still boozy) formula Numero Dos (gin, Lillet Blanc, Cointreau, fresh lemon, $12) rinsed with pastis over absinthe.

Monzio Compagnoni Brut Franciacorta 2009

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Sumptuous and brisk. Drink with abandon.

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Cave Spring Segura Viudas Blanc de Blancs Brut Reserva Cava Brut Sparkling Sparkling

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Price 750 ml/$29.95 Availability LCBO 213983

Rating NNN Why When it comes to sparkling wine, Cava is a steal (a statement that can be extended to Spanish wine in general). Dry, thirstquenching and approachable without being basic, Segura Viudas should be everyone’s old faithful.

Price 750 ml/$13.25, on sale till the end of the month Availability LCBO 216960

TASTING NOTES For sake’s sake

Attention, all sake lovers! Starting in April, the Independent Wine Education Guild (IWEG) will be providing the only Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) level 3 sake course available in Canada.

Learn about the history and character of Japan’s national beverage from Michael Tremblay, IWEG’s WSET-certified sake instructor and advanced sake professional (ASP). The eight-week course includes a tour of Toronto’s Ontario Spring Water Sake Company, sake tastings and food pairings. More info and registration online at iweg.org/courses/wset-level-3-award-in-sake.

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THEOPHILUS LONDON at Tattoo, Friday, February 20.

NIC POULIOT

Rating: N Theophilus London is often described as an eclectic pop musician who skips between genres.

He sings and raps, but what he’s really good at is complaining.

“This mic looks pretty beat up,” the New York-based performer announced upon arriving onstage.

Then he disappeared.

It was an inauspicious start and the first of many bitchy remarks about the venue that, even if warranted, were clearly calculated to distract from the fact that he was off his game.

No matter how tightly his three-piece band played the gliding funk rhythms off last year’s Vibes! album, nothing could hide London’s raspy, tuneless singing, incoherent delivery and affectless raps. Dressed in an over-sized varsity jacket and sunglasses he never removed, he looked tense and closed off in contrast to his flirty, escapist club music.

Whenever London managed to get a vibe going, he promptly killed it again. Arms were in the air during banger Do Girls, which he followed up by mumbling something and vanishing again, leaving the band to jam awkwardly.

Was this the encore moment? It was hard to tell. And half the audiKEVIN RITCHIE ence was long gone.

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RICH HOMIE QUAN at the Phoenix, Tuesday, February 17.

Rating: N Nothing makes a rap event less enjoyable than poor planning, and unfortunately for the sparse crowd at the Phoenix on Tuesday, the Rich Homie Quan show was rife with it. The 25-year-old MC didn’t take the stage until 20 minutes after midnight, and fans were by then worn out by classic hip-hop show misdirection – a DJ saying, “Are y’all ready for Rich Homie Quan? He’s up next!” before bringing out several more openers.

Despite the long wait, the crowd livened up when Quan took the stage to his celebratory 2014 hit Walk Thru, and he engaged early on with popular mixtape cuts They Don’t Know and Milk Marie. But it wasn’t long before

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the room slumped with exhaustion.

To make matters worse, Quan liberally checked his phone throughout his 25-minute set, his eyes most certainly on a clock that counted down the minutes until his contractual obligation was fulfilled. Occasional flashes of the charisma that’s endeared him to progressive rap fans couldn’t speak louder than that.

JORDAN SOWUNMI

FATHER JOHN MISTY at the Danforth Music Hall, Wednesday, February 18.

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Rating: NNNN The return of Father John Misty, aka Josh Tillman, to the Danforth Music Hall was about as far away from his guitar-smashing meltdown two years ago as could be. He was cheerful and in

control, performing with total confidence. His voice was luxuriously robust, his stage moves playful and erotic, his wit top-shelf entertaining.

And if you hadn’t been fully sold on his new album, I Love You, Honeybear, which ups the unabashed romance and minimizes the irony and bleakness of 2012’s Fear Fun, its songs took on greater potency through the sevenpiece band, which moved dynamically through lush acoustic folk, lap steel country, epic indie rock and even chilly electronic (when all the guitarists, including Tillman, moved over to keyboards for True Affection).

Tillman gives off a vaguely madman persona – flinging himself atop a kick drum, gyrating while waving his mic stand acrobatically, crooning to the front row from his knees – but actual

danger never seemed imminent. His passion came off as genuine and never waned. Things got truly thunderous during bombastic set closer Holy Shit, which saw him wade into the crowd for a long time.

All in all, love looks good on him.

CARLA GILLIS

ARIEL PINK at the Phoenix, Thursday, February 19.

Rating: NN Ariel Pink concerts are inherently difficult to digest and rate. If you view the L.A. avant-garde pop star’s performances as grating, are you just missing the point because of your pedestrian take on experimental music? It can be intimidating panning “art”; there’s a chance you’re just not “getting it,” even in the case of Pink’s

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lo-fi mess.

And yet, here’s a 2N review. Pink opened with the bubbly Kinski Assassin, from 2012’s Mature Themes, changing his vocal pitch as if alternating personas, and then launched into the standout track from last year’s pom pom, White Freckles, a frenzied cacophony of synth and effects. He insisted on louder vocals and more effects, which muddied the already murky mix and made the five-piece band’s sonics blur together. The intricacies of pom pom – layers of alien sounds and strange vocals – were lost.

For the encore, Pink returned fully clothed (he’d stripped down to just black hot pants), brandishing a cigarette. The final song, Jell-O, excited the weary crowd, but it was too little SAMANTHA EDWARDS too late.

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clubs&concerts hot KAKI KING, LOOM Geary Lane (360 Geary), Thursday (February 26) See preview, page 51.

THOMAS D’ARCY, NEW HANDS, THE OXFORD WILD Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Thursday (February 26) See album review, page 53, and video interview, nowtoronto.com.

ZEUS, ART THE BAND & OTHERS Opera House (735 Queen East), Friday (February 27) Biggest Johnnyland all-ages show yet.

GIRLS ROCK CAMP Tranzac (292 Brunswick), Thursday (February 26) See preview, page 51.

YOUNG PARIS, BONJAY, JUNIA T & THE JUICE MONEY COLLECTIVE, PHOENIX PAGLIACCI & OTHERS Rivoli (332 Queen West), Friday (February 27) See preview, page 50.

IRIS DEMENT Hugh’s Room (2261 Dundas West), Friday and Saturday (February 27-28) See preview, page 51.

OVERNIGHT, CATRIONA STURTON Holy Oak (1241 Bloor West, 7:30-9:30

pm); and Duffy’s (1238 Bloor West, 10:30 pm), Saturday (February 28) See preview, page 46.

GREYS, TEENAGER, BELIEFS, FAKE PALMS Johnny Jackson (587 College), Saturday (February 28) It might get loud.

DAN MANGAN + BLACKSMITH, HAYDEN Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Saturday (February 28) Singer/songwriter gets ambient.

NIGHTMARES ON WAX Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Saturday (February 28) Warp Records stalwart.

HOZIER, GEORGE EZRA Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Monday (March 2) Irish bluesman takes ’em to church.

SLEATER-KINNEY, LIZZO Sound Academy (11 Polson), Monday (March 2) See preview, page 48.

ST. VINCENT, JENNY HVAL Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Tuesday and Wednesday (March 3-4) See preview, page 51.

THE DODOS, SPRINGTIME CARNIVORE Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Tuesday (March 3) See preview, page 51.

HONEYBLOOD, 2:54, STELLA ELLA OLA Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Tuesday (March 3) See preview, page 51.

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March 5.

PATRIK, VIC NS, JORDAN SOLOMON

Johnny Jackson doors 9 pm. $10. ticketfly.com.

March 13.

Academy 7 pm. $37.50. ticketmaster.ca.

March 17.

FAT AS FUCK, BLASTRONAUT, MOKOMOKAI The Garrison 9 pm. March 20.

HOLY GASP, RONLEY TEPER & THE LIPLINERS, FRIENDLY RICH AND THE LOLLIPOP PEOPLE Silver Dollar LP re-

lease show, doors 9 pm. $8 door. March 21.

BENNY BENASSI, MANZONE & STRONG Uniun doors 10 pm. $30 adv. ticketweb.ca. March 27.

MEXICAN SLANG, UKIAH DRAG, MOSS LIME S.H.I.B.G.B.’s doors 9 pm. $10.

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PETER JACKSON, SESE Adelaide Hall

The Since I Was 16 Tour, 8 pm. $15. April 1.

SAUKRATES Revival Sunday Night Live,

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At a time when many of the world’s marquee DJs are booked on the strength of studio productions, a Toronto event series is shifting the focus back to the nitty-gritty skills it took to rock a party before software spawned legions of producers-turned-DJs. Last fall, The Masters Series brought hiphop founding fathers Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa together on the same bill, and on Saturday two respected turntablists take over the decks at the second edition: competitive turntable champ and fourth Beastie Boy Mix Master Mike and Grand Wizard Theodore, the first DJ to scratch a record and pioneer of the needle drop.

Theodore is so revered that the International Turntablist Federation named its lifetime achievement award, which Mix Master Mike has won, in his honour. Local funk group KC Roberts & the Live Revolution and vintagevinyl spinner DJ Splatter­ monkey round out the bill.

Saturday (February 28) at the Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), doors 10 pm. $20-$40. playderecord. com, wantickets.com/mixmaster.

Just announced FIFTH HARMONY, JASMINE V, JACOB WHITESIDES, MAHOGANY LOX Sound

TUESDAY MARCH 10, 2015 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE

The MasTers series

doors 10 pm. $15. ticketgateway.com. April 5.

TESTAMENT, EXODUS, SHATTERED SUN Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm.

$30.50. April 15.

RANDY BACHMAN Mod Club 8 pm, all

ages. $35. ticketmaster.ca. April 15.

DISGRACE S.H.I.B.G.B.’s April 15.

DIE MANNEQUIN Horseshoe doors 9 pm. $15. rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com, ticketfly.com, horseshoetavern.com. April 18.

soundscapesmusic.com, ticketfly.com, rotate.com. May 19.

KORPIKLAANI, ENSIFERUM, TROLLFEST Opera House 9 pm. $TBA. May 20.

SCOTT BRADLEE’S POSTMODERN JUKEBOX Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm. $27.50-$35. June 6.

BESTIVAL Hanlan’s Point Beach Outdoor

MYSTIC INANE, FARANG, CONUNDRUM, THE BRAIN S.H.I.B.G.B.’s 9 pm.

music festival. Details TBA. June 12-13.

ANAMAI, TWIST, CASTLE IF, DJ HUREN CineCycle LP release, doors 9 pm.

Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm. $34.50. rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com, ticketfly. com. June 20.

April 23.

$10. April 24.

SHY GIRLS, YOUNG EJECTA The

Garrison doors 8 pm. $12. soundscapesmusic. com, rotate.com, ticketfly.com. April 26.

PASSION PIT, COIN Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm. $30-$40.50. ticketmaster.ca.

April 29.

JESSIE J Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages. $40.50-$50.75. May 7.

SMALLPOOLS Adelaide Hall 8 pm. $TBA. May 7.

PRIMAL SCREAM Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm. $36-$52.50. ticketmaster.ca, rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com. May 15.

TENNIS Mod Club doors 8 pm. $16.50.

BAD RELIGION, PLAGUE VENDOR

GOGOL BORDELLO, FLOGGING MOLLY, MARIACHI EL BRONX Echo

Beach doors 5:30 pm, all ages. $45-$60. livenation.com, soundscapesmusic.com, rotate.com. June 21.

SPOON Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm. $26. soundscapesmusic.com, rotate.com, ticketfly.com. June 23-24.

VELD FESTIVAL WITH DEADMAU5, HARDWELL AND OTHERS Downsview

Park $154-$244. ticketmaster.ca. August 1-2.

THE OPPRESSED, THE PROWLERS, PUB NIGHT AND MORE Hard Luck Bar

doors 8 pm. $25. ticketweb.ca. September 4.

this week How to find a listing

Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics.

See Venue Index, online at nowtoronto.com, for venue address and phone number. = Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night

How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: events@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1168 or mail to Music, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include artist(s)/band(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and contact phone number or website. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.

If your free listing requires a correction, send info to: fixevents@nowtoronto.com.

Thursday, February 26 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

3030 DunDas West Crooked House Road,

Taylor & Bryn, Jane’s Party Benefit concert for women in poverty and The Redwood Women’s Shelter. 9 pm.

Cavern Bar Sly Why, Floating Islands doors 9 pm.

Dakota tavern Rachael Cardiello & The Warm Electric Winter, Michelle Willis, Stonetrotter Winter Be Damned, doors 9 pm.

Geary Lane Kaki King, Loom Invocation TO & Burn Down The Capital, 8 pm. See preview, page 51.

HaBits GastropuB Jammers Waffle House, Alessia Cohle, Michelle Pereira WonderFest Music Series, 9 pm.

HorsesHoe Thomas D’Arcy, New Hands, The Oxford Wild Record Release Party, 9 pm. See online interview, nowtoronto.com. karLa’s roaDHouse Tommy Rocker (classic rock), 9:30 pm. kensinGton LoDGe Derek Mok 7 pm.

Lee’s paLaCe Hundred Waters, Suno Deko doors 8:30 pm. pauper’s puB Mike Barnes Jam, 10:30 pm. tHe piston Le Couleur, Beat Market, Triple Gangers (French pop/rock) rivoLi Midnight Vesta, Beyond The Mountain, The

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Shakedown, Orangabang doors 9 pm.

Rose TheaTRe Playing For Change Live: Peace Through Music Tour 8 pm. silveR DollaR Aliens Ashore, Skrou, Creep Echo doors 8:30 pm. smiling BuDDha Mimico, Ken Park, Zones, Bodies That Matter. souThsiDe Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40), 9:30 pm. sToRy PlaneT Under The Portal The Wooden Sky’s Gavin Gardiner and Edwin Huizinga, (benefit forStory Planet’s arts and writing programming for teens and kids).

Doors 7:30 pm.

TaTToo The Contortionist, Revocation, Fallujah, Toothgrinder.

TRanzac Girls Rock Camp Showcase After School Program Showcase, 7 pm, all ages.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

aga Khan museum Wen Zhao (pipa/Chinese classical), The Hive Jam Session, 7 pm. asPeTTa caffe Open Mic 8 pm. casTRo’s lounge Jerry Leger & The Situation (folk rock), 8:30 pm.

DaKoTa TaveRn Charlotte Cornfield, Rachel Ries 6 pm. ñ fRee Times cafe Emily Coffin & Ian Weir (folk), 8 pm.

gRossman’s TaveRn Thrill Harmonic 10 pm.

Bhugh’s Room Lorraine Klaasen (South

African classic/traditional folk songs), A Tribute To Miriam Makeba, 8:30 pm. linsmoRe TaveRn Johnny Cox & The Magnetic Line (blues), 9 pm.

The local The John Showman Trio (bluegrass), 9 pm. local gesT Open Mic Sign up 8:30 pm. monaRchs PuB The Gary Kendall Band 8 pm.

TRanzac souTheRn cRoss Houndstooth Bluegrass Thursdays, 7:30 pm

alleycaTz Wild ‘T’ Tony Springer.

The cage 292 Kalya Ramu Quintet (jazz/

blues), Nightbird Vocal Jazz Jam, 9:30 pm. eDwaRD Johnson BuilDing U of T Jazz Orchestra, Dave Liebman 7:30 pm. gaTe 403 Christine Aziz Jazz Quartet 5 to 8 pm. Collette Savard Jazz Duo 9 pm.

Jane malleTT TheaTRe The Gryphon Trio 8 pm.

Jazz BisTRo Don Thompson Quartet 9 pm.

Kama Russ Little (trombone), Thursdays At Five, 5 to 8 pm.

KoeRneR hall Christian Gerhaher & Gerold Huber (baritone, piano) 8 pm. lula lounge The SSJO-Sonuskapos Jazz Orchestra (jazz/big band/swing), 7:30 pm.

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PoeTRy Jazz cafe Thompson Egbo Straight No Chaser. 9 pm.

RePosaDo The Reposadist Quartet w/ Sandy Alexander 9:45 pm.

The Rex Erik Deutsch & the Jazz Outlaws 9:30 pm. Worst Pop Band Ever 6:30 pm.

TheaTRe cenTRe Tony Arnold & The International Contemporary Ensemble The Whisper Opera, 8 pm.

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DRaKe hoTel Animal Collective (DJ set), Famous Players 10 pm [Underground].

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BBlaKBiRD The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble

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REDHINO

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(avant/roots trio) , 9 pm.

Bovine sex cluB Mip Power Trio, Little Foot Long Foot, Freeman Dre & The Kitchen Party Mip Power Trio album launch, doors 9 pm. camPBell house museum Keith Hamm & Edwin Huizinga, Brendan Canning, Aaron Scwebel, Joseph Johnson Stereo Live Performance Series: Haydn, Beethoven, and Canning, (classical/indie rock), doors 7 pm. casTRo’s lounge The Straight Eights (50s style rockabilly), 6 pm. caveRn BaR Outer Rooms, White Spaces, Lint doors 9 pm.

DaKoTa TaveRn Bent by Elephants, Beams 7 to 9 pm. See preview, page 51.

The DanfoRTh music hall 5Rupaul’s Drag Race: Battle Of The Seasons 2015

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Congratulations Tour with Michelle Visage hosting this reality tv show with BenDeLaCreme, Darienne Lake, Jiggly Caliente, Pandora Boxx, Cary NoKey, Jinkx Monsoon, Alaska 5000 and others. VIP doors 7 pm, regular doors 8 pm.

The Devil’s cellaR Starship Experience, Piffbreak Arcade, Hormoans, Sofistifucks, The Might Be Fascists Junction Punk Rock Invasion, 9 pm.

DRaKe hoTel Ewert & The Two Dragons doors 8 pm. eTon house Stiletto Flats (classic rock), 9 pm. haBiTs gasTRoPuB Arlene Paculan & The Cool Ones, Niall, Kokiri 9 pm. haRD lucK BaR Felix Martin, Barishi 8:30 pm.

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T.O. Music NOTes NXNE 2015

The multitude of new summer music festivals is going to make it harder for each to stand out, but NXNE always hits it out of the park. The first round of programming, announced Tuesday, February 24, proves that.

Heavy hitters include – omg – doom metal legends Pentagram, nüblack-metallers Deafheaven and Liturgy, punks Alice Glass (one of her first solo appearances since Crystal Castles’ breakup), Obliterations and White Lung, indie rockers the New Pornographers, Blonde Redhead, Glass Animals and Real Estate, hiphop by way of Ty Dolla $ign, Tink, Action Bronson, Rae Sremmurd, Uniiqu3 and Vince Staples, dream poppers Best Coast and Dilly Dally, psych rock via Om, Amen Dunes and Jacco Gardner, electronic-heavy Baths, Majical Cloudz and Lydia Ainsworth and straight-up genre-blurrers like Ibeyi and Son Lux. Three cheers for all the women – and metal and rap (but thankfully not those two genres together). And that’s a mere sample. The festival takes place in venues across the city from June 17 to 21, and ticket prices are more accessible than ever. The Clubland four-day pass gets you into all club venues (Lee’s Palace, Horseshoe, etc) for $49. Northby Advance tickets for bigger shows are $20-$35 per show. Buying tickets for three Northby shows lets you upgrade to a full-fest platinum badge for $60. Tickets on sale at nxne.com.

WAYHOME, GO HOME?

Residents of OroMedonte are organizing against the rezoning of Burls Creek Event Park, the 700-acre site that will host the inaugural WayHome Festival, a summer music fest headlined

by Sam Smith and Kendrick Lamar.

The plot of land northeast of Barrie was bought and expanded last year by

Stanley Dunford, a majority shareholder in Republic Live, which is producing the July event (as well as country music fest Boots & Hearts) with Bonnaroo promoters AC Entertainment.

However, the group Save Oro is pressuring local officials to turf the promoters’ zoning application, arguing that less farmland and increased traffic will spoil their tranquility.

“We’re a quiet farm and residential community,” Save Oro member Al Sinclair tells NOW. “There’s not a whole lot that goes on here, and that’s kind of the way we like it.”

So far, Republic Live does not seem particularly worried. Read the full story at nowtoronto.com/music.

MASSEY HALL TO CLOSE FOR RENO

Massey Hall will shutter for two years in 2019 to undergo a massive overhaul, the second phase in a twopart renovation that began last year with demolition of the Albert Building directly south of the 120-year-old concert hall.

On Monday, February 23, Rush’s Geddy Lee joined Mayor John Tory and Minister of Finance Joe Oliver at a press event announcing the plan, which will cost $32 million (including $8 million in federal funding).

The venue is scheduled to close temporarily so the interior can be refurbished and made more accessible with new elevators, washrooms, lobby and bar. Read the full story at nowtoronto.com/news.

MUSICOUNTS CALLS FOR APPLICATIONS

The 2015 MusiCounts TD Community Music Program is accepting applications for $220,000 in grant money. The program launched three years ago with the aim of giving atrisk youth access to musical instruments and equipment. Last year, 16 recipients were selected from more than 100 hopefuls. Applications are being accepted now until May 8.

Visit musicounts.ca for details.

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Overnight Sisters writing about sisters

By SAMANTHA EDWARDS overnIgHt with catrIona sturton at Holy Oak Café (1241 Bloor West, 7:30-9:30 pm) and Duffy’s Tavern (1238 Bloor West, 10:30 pm), Saturday (February 28). $8-$10. overnightmusic.ca.

Beautiful things can sometimes emerge from tragedy. together. As young teenagers in Earlier this month, Carla and Halifax in the early 90s, they Lynette Gillis released their band, formed the all-girl rock band PlumOvernight’s, debut full-length, tree, toured Canada and wrote the Carry Me Home. It’s chock full of song Scott Pilgrim, which inspired Black Sabbath riffs contrasted with the eponymous comic book series. delicate Fleetwood Mac-inspired They later moved to Vancouver, harmonies, but the alt-rock album is made catchy indie pop music under most influenced by a family tragedy the name Bontempi, before eventuand its painful aftermath. ally settling in Toronto, where Carla In 2008, their older sister Darlene is currently music editor at NOW. – the second eldest of four girls, the The process of making this new wild child who took them to an record, translating their grief into Alice Cooper concert as preteens lyrics and illuminating the words and introduced them to Slayer – with music was a tumultuous, healdied in a car accident at the age of ing experience, and perhaps the 34. only way to fully confront their feel“This project was basically us goings. ing through the grieving process,” “If you’re really grieving, there’s a says Lynette over the phone. “It was couple of different ways you can go. quite cathartic and the most collabYou can keep [your feelings] to orative [Carla and I] have ever been yourself, or you can face them in terms of songwriting.” openly. [This album] was us being For the better part of two decopen and vulnerable and trying not ades, the two sisters have explored RCM_NOW_1-4_4c_Feb12+19+26.qxp__V 2015-02-09 12:32 PM Page 1 to worry about what people will multiple musical personalities

think of it, trying to put judgment aside,” says Lynette.

The Gillises wanted Carry Me Home to be relatable, celebratory and playful, something that headbangin’ Darlene might have gotten a kick out of.

But most importantly, they wrote it for themselves.

“When you’re making something that’s about a person or for your own personal reasons, the nice thing is you stop worrying about what other people might think, because you have your own reason for why you’re making it.”

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asPetta caffe Open Mic 8 pm.

Dakota tavern Big Tobacco & The Pickers

(country), 10 pm.

tHe fLyIng beaver Pubaret Leisa Way Rhinestone Cowgirl: A Tribute To Dolly Parton, 7 pm.

free tImes cafe Dave Rutt (singer/songwriter), 8 pm.

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Dwayne Gretzky doors 9 pm. ñ InvIctus Nikki Clarke w/ DJ Ron Jon Soul

Vusi Mahlasela and Hugh Masekela

SAT., FEB. 28, 2015 8PM KOERNER HALL South Africa’s legendary trumpeter, vocalist, and composer Hugh Masekala and singer/songwriter Vusi Mahlasela celebrate 20 years of democracy in South Africa.

Jon Batiste and Stay Human

SAT., MAR. 7, 2015 2PM (FAMILY-FRIENDLY CONCERT) & SAT., MAR. 7, 2015 8PM KOERNER HALL The dense, spicy stuff that fuels New Orleans: pounding rhythms and lively melodies, deceptively finessed and firmly steeped in gospel and the blues.” (The Washington Post)

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Lee’s PaLace The Lone Bellow, Odessa doors 9 pm.

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BrIvoLI Young Paris, Bonjay, Junia T & The Juice Money Collective, Phoenix Pagliacci, Bakers Club, DJ 8AM811 Rap N’ Roll : The Afro Alternative Music Showcase (electro/hip-hop/soul/punk), doors 9 pm. See preview, page 50. rose tHeatre Classic Albums Live: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Chronicle, Vol. 1 8 pm. sILver DoLLar Secret Broadcast, Green Rays, UKAE, The Cool Hands doors 9 pm. sneaky Dee’s RMNGNT, Twenty Mill (hiphop), doors 9 pm. soutHsIDe JoHnny’s Pop Cherry (vintage rock), 10 pm. tattoo Olatunji Yearwood, D’Enforcas, D’Bandit, Jester Touchdown – The After Carnival Pump, doors 10 pm. tranzac soutHern cross Ryan Driver Sextet 10 pm.

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HoLy oak cafe The Most Loyal, Tiny Rhymes

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HugH’s room Iris DeMent 8:30 pm. See preview, page 51.

I DeaL coffee ParkDaLe Brian Macmillan Catweazle Open Stage, 8 pm.

LuLa Lounge Changui Havana (salsa/merengue/cumbia/bachata/timba), 10:30 pm. musIc gaLLery John Millard & Waleed Abdulhamid (documentary-style concert), 8 pm. tHe rex The Jivebombers (jump/blues), 6:30 pm. st vLaDImIr InstItute BALfolkFESTnoz #3 6:30 pm-midnight. tranzac soutHern cross The Foolish Things (folk), 5 pm.

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Desotos Anthony Abbatangeli Jazz Jam, 8 pm. gate 403 Tiffany Hanus Jazz Band 9 pm.

Whitney Ross Barris Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

Harbourfront centre tHeatre Art of Time Ensemble w/ Sarah Slean, John Southworth, Margo & Michael Timmins, Tom Wilson and others Magic And Loss: A Tribute To Lou Reed, 8 pm.

HarLem David Hutchinson Jazz & Blues Band 7:30 pm.

Jazz Bistro Don Thompson Quartet 9 pm.

LuLa Lounge Alex Baro Quartet (jazz), 7:30 pm. oLd MiLL inn Hilario Duran Trio (jazz), 7:30

pm. [Home Smith Bar].

Poetry Jazz Cafe Patrick Hewan, Barry Romberg & Kieran Overs ICON, 9:30 pm. the rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. st thoMas’s angLiCan ChurCh Sine Nomine (medieval music ensemble), Ad Mortem Festinamus, 8 pm. theatre Centre Tony Arnold & The International Contemporary Ensemble The Whisper Opera, 7 & 10 pm. u of t sCarBorough CaMPus Madawaska Quartet Concert 7 pm.

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751 Bar DJ Miss Barbrafisch (death/black/

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Beaver Gotta Pay The Rent DJs Lobodotcom, Jen.eralist (indie electro/nu disco), 10:30 pm.

Castro’s Lounge DJ I Hate You Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/pop/rockabilly) 10 pm.

CLinton’s Jamz! 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, doors 10 pm.

CLuB 120 Deep Into The Underground DJs Stark Raving Savage, Jacob Walker & Steve Now. 10 pm.

CoaLition Lounge DJ Heights Gravel Pit HipHop Party, 9 pm. eMMet ray Bar DJ Funky Flavours (funk/ soul), 10 pm. handLeBar The Art Of “The Shake” DJs (hiphop), 10 pm. harLeM underground DJ Hitmon, Glitch (hip-hop/reggae/waybacks/trap), Foreplay Fridays, 11 pm. the hoxton Tory Lanez HRMXNY Sweater Beats, doors 10 pm.

Marquis of granBy 5DJ Producer Barry Harris 10:30 pm. the Piston Shindig! (60s R&B/rock ‘n roll dance party), 10 pm. thyMeLess Vibes Monthly 5 Year DJs Kulcha Ites, Divine Smoke, Louie Don, 10:30 pm. uniun Ummet Ozcan, Manzone & Strong Factory Fridays, doors 10 pm.

West Bar DJ Nine (current/classic hits from the 90s to today), 10 pm.

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3030 dundas West The Outlaw Brother, Brendt Thomas Diabo 10 pm.

air Canada Centre Bryan Adams Reckless

30th Anniversary Tour, 8 pm. aLLeyCatz Lady Kane BaCkLine studios The Guzzlers, Dirty Work, Filthy Slate, Caustic Lime (punk), doors 8 pm.

CadiLLaC Lounge The Cocksure Lads (pop/ rock/britpop) 8 pm.

Castro’s Lounge The Bidini Band (folk/rock), 8:30 pm. The Cosmotones (rockabilly), 6 pm. the Cave The Independents (horror punk), doors 7:30 pm.

Cavern Bar WOMB, The Zilis, Darling Cora doors 9 pm.

CoaLition Lounge Valley Boys, Chloroform, Flesh Rag Punks Is Covers, 9 pm. the danforth MusiC haLL Silverstein (posthardcore), 7 pm, all ages. duffy’s tavern Snaggle, Koopa Troop (jazz fusion/pop/rock), doors 8:30 pm. eton house The Dreamboats (50s & 60s pop rock), 9 pm. $5. grossMan’s tavern Caution Jam 8 pm. handLeBar Depression Era, Body Butter, Barbara 10 pm. harLeM Kristin Fung (indie soul/R&B), 7:30 pm. hoLy oak Cafe Overnight, Catriona Sturton Album release party X 2. 7:30 pm. See preview, page 46. horseshoe The OBGMs, Brews Willis, Mad Ones, The Effens 9 pm.

Johnny JaCkson Greys, Teenanger, Beliefs, Fake Palms 9 pm. koPs reCords Astral Swans In-store performance. 4:30 pm.

Lee’s PaLaCe Chadwick Stokes, Big Thief doors 9 pm.

LinsMore tavern The Doors Men (Doors tribute), 9:30 pm. oPera house Julian Cruz & His Band Of Luxurious Bastards. the PaddoCk Matt Foy, Whisky Legs, Sky Wallace, The Commoners doors 9 pm.

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Bkoerner haLL Vusi Mahlasela & Hugh Masekela (Afrobeat/folk/jazz from South Africa), 20 Years Of Freedom concert by two of South Africa’s true freedom fighters. 8 pm.

LuLa Lounge Orquesta Fantasia (salsa), 10:30 pm.

Massey haLL Dan Mangan + Blacksmith, Hayden 8 pm.

MusiC gaLLery John Millard & Waleed Abdulhamid (documentary-style concert), 8 pm. tranzaC Lukas Vos, Francesca Daoust & John Muller 10 pm. [Southern Cross]. Old Haunt, Babel, Beard Closet 7-10 pm. [Tiki Room].

Scott B Sympathy 6:30 pm [Southern Cross].

Jamzac 3 pm [Southern Cross]..

WonderWorks Adventures In Sweetland Kristin Sweetland launches her photography book and performs with Sarah Featherstone.

5-8 pm. Free. [Fleishman Gallery].

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Jazz Bistro Don Thompson Quartet 9 pm.

MusideuM Chase Lo, Aries Chung, Leslie Mo, Thompson Nguyen Laurance Tan-Male Voice Studio Student Showcase (classical/pop/theatre), 8 pm. oLd MiLL inn Chase Sanborn Duo (jazz), 7:30 pm. [Home Smith Bar].

Poetry Jazz Cafe Ori Dagan Less Than Three, 9:30 pm. rePosado Bradley & the Bouncers (swing jazz/blues). the rex Nick Teehan Group 7:30 pm. roy thoMson haLL Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Barbara Hannigan, Jonathan Crow (orchestra w/ soprano, violin), New Creations Festival: A Mind Of Winter, 8 pm. st PatriCk’s CathoLiC ChurCh Tallis Choir Las Mananitas: A Baroque High Mass In New Spain, 7:30 pm. st siMon-the-aPostLe ChurCh Bell’Arte Singers Masses. 8 pm. the stone Lion David Hutchison & Terry Logan (jazz), The Unit, 3:30 to 6:30 pm. theatre Centre Tony Arnold & The International Contemporary Ensemble The Whisper Opera, 2 & 7 pm. toni BuLLoni’s Gene Hardy (jazz) 9 pm. tranzaC Diane Roblin’s Reconnect & Eric St Laurent Trio 9 pm [Main Hall]. Diane Roblin’s

Reconnect & Eric St-Laurent Trio 8 pm.

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Eric Peterson’s Desert Island Cabaret Denzal Sinclaire, Mike Ross, Miranda Mullholand, Colleen Allen, Frank Cox O’Connell (Desert Island songs), 8:30 pm. [Soulpepper Theatre Company].

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Bunda Lounge Lou Gorbea, Groove Institute Solid Garage Crossroads Party, doors 10 pm.

CaBaL Lounge Gene King, Corey Dawkins, Mr Pablo, gaDJet, Joe Rizla Late Song, 10 pm.

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Party, 10 pm to 3 am.

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Voltaire 8:30 pm.

June RecoRds Anamai 6 pm. See preview, page 51. ñ LinsmoRe TaveRn Pat Perez & John Dickie

Band (blues/R&B/funk), 5 to 9 pm.

PaRTs & LabouR Extinction A.D, Jealous Gods, Six Of Swords, False Hope 7 pm, all ages.

The scaRboRough JuncTion Tommy Rocker (classic rock) 8 pm. souThside Johnny’s Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix (pop/rock), Open Jam, 9:30 pm.

The Tennessee The Fairest And The Best (original pop/rock/soul), 5 to 7 pm.

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Burlington Welsh Male Voice Choirs (choral/ classical), St David’s Day Concert, 2 pm. aRRay sPace Contemporary Classical Brass Quintet Concert 3 pm. Michael Snow, Nobuo Kubota, Glen Hall, Diane Roblin, Bill Gilliam Somewhere There concert. 8 pm. beach uniTed chuRch Orpheus Choir, Edward Moroney Rutter: Requiem. 3 pm. edWaRd Johnson buiLding Clarinet Day Wychwood Clarinet Choir, the U of T Clarinet Ensemble. 10 am.

FLaTo maRkham TheaTRe Markham Concert Band Hollywood! (movie hits and Disney classics). 2 pm. gRace chuRch on-The-hiLL Oriana Women’s Choir, The O’Pears Songs Of Our Sisters, 3 pm. gRossman’s TaveRn New Orleans Connection (all-star jazz band) 4:30-9 pm. heLiconian haLL Anastasia Rizikov (piano), 3 pm. koeRneR haLL Marc-André Hamelin (piano) 3 pm.

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The Rex Tim Hamel Quartet 9:30 pm. Bugaloo Squad 7 pm. Club Django (Gypsy swing sextet), 3:30 pm. Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. scaRboRough civic cenTRe George Lake Big Band Sunday Concert Series, 2 to 4 pm. seven44 Robbie Lane & the Disciples 5 pm.

TheaTRe cenTRe Tony Arnold & The International Contemporary Ensemble The Whisper Opera, 2 pm.

Kyle Skillman, doors 9 pm.

FRee Times caFe Singer’s Edge: Unplugged Session 13 (songwriters), 7:30 pm. gRossman’s TaveRn Brian Cober (double slide guitar), Open Blues Jam, 10 pm. hiRuT Fine eThioPian cuisine Nicola Vaughan Jam, 3 to 6:30 pm.

LuLa Lounge Shine! Benefit Concert Big danCe musiC/dJ/lounge Tobacco & The Pickers, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, Andrew Cash and New handLebaR Gabe Knox, Club Vandal Country Rehab (benefit concert for Shine!

Renegade Nite Comfort #19, 9 pm.

(Jim Fay) Music bursary). 7 pm. mcgRadies TaP and gRiLL Dan Walek Open Jam, 6 to 10 pm. pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul ReLish baR & gRiLL David MacMichael & Paul caveRn baR The Good For Naughts, Mattie Brennan Stir It Up Sundays Open Mic, 9 pm.

Leon doors 8 pm.

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sLeaTeR-kinney and Lizzo at Sound Academy (11 Polson), Monday (March 2), doors 8 pm, all ages. $35-$48.50. rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com, ticketfly.com.

JON BATISTE AND STAY HUMAN SAT., MAR. 7, 2015 8PM KOERNER HALL “The dense, spicy stuff that fuels New Orleans: pounding rhythms and lively melodies, deceptively finessed and firmly steeped in gospel and the blues.” (The Washington Post)

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We’re getting pretty used to sudden, no-hype surprise album drops by the likes of Beyoncé and Drake, but Sleater-Kinney, a long-dormant, powerful contender for world’s greatest rock ’n’ roll band, totally upped the sneakiness level last fall.

When Sub Pop announced it was releasing Start Together, a retrospective vinyl box of the three-piece band’s discography, there appeared to be no special significance to its October street date. Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss hadn’t performed as Sleater-Kinney in eight years, and beyond their loyal followers the band was really only talked about in passing because of Brownstein’s fame as a cocreator and star of the IFC sketch show Portlandia.

When shipments of the box set arrived, recipients discovered an additional 7-inch single with the inscription “1/20/2015.” After some

bewildered fans posted photos of it, everyone lost their shit. Were the two unfamiliar songs B-sides? What was happening in January? What the hell was going on?

The bonus record turned out to be a sly message: Sleater-Kinney planned to release a new album, No Cities To Love (now critically acclaimed) in January, the band was back together and hitting the road.

“It was a way to speak to the fans with no middleman,” Weiss explains of the vaguely anti-PR move.

“They didn’t need some news agency to tell them it was happening; they actually got to find out for themselves first. People were so excited, but also unsure what it was.

In this day and age, when information is available so quickly, the idea of people imagining a scenario on their own was really compelling.”

Those who love the band know that it’s a unique configuration of driven personalities giving their

emotional and physical all. Weiss – who has played in Quasi, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks and, with Brownstein, in Wild Flag – recognizes their rare chemistry.

“It’s very palpable,” she says. “It’s like the thing is pulling us in and we’re caught up in it and have to keep up. We spend a lot of time in a tiny, airless basement room working on the songs, and it’s intense.

We’re really focused on creating something vital. The idea of it being super-fun is not on the top of my priority list.

“We’re serious. We’re trying to get to something and we keep pushing.”

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days, doors 8:30 pm.

Johnny Jackson Michael Rault, Blonde

Elvis, Sam Coffey & The Iron Lungs, Bart ñ 9 pm.

kitch Luke Vajsar Hypnotic Lounge Series, 9:30 pm.

Massey hall Hozier, George Erza (R&B/

soul/jazz) 8 pm, all ages. ñsound Sleater Kinney, Lizzo pm, all ages. See preview, ñdoors 8acadeMy page 48.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

castro’s lounge I Spy (folk/jazz), 8:30 pm. dora keogh Open Stage Julian Taylor, David

Storey. 8 pm.

Free tiMes caFe Open Stage Monday (folk/ songwriter), 7:30 pm.

Mcgradies tap and grill Dan Walek Acous-

tic Jam, 8 to 11 pm.

tranzac southern cross Dirty Dishes Old

time, bluegrass, alt-country. 7:30 pm. Tranzac Open Stage 10 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

the rex Humber College Student Jazz Ensembles 9:30 pm. University Of Toronto Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

alleycatz DJ Frank Bischun Salsa Night,

8:30 pm.

reposado DJ Ellis Dean Mezcal Monday, 9 pm. thoMpson hotel DJ Eric The Tutor Blacklist,

doors 10 pm [Rooftop].

Tuesday, March 3 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

caMeron house Run With The Kittens 10 pm. the danForth Music hall St. Vincent, Jenny Hval doors 8 pm. See preview, ñ page 51.

daniels spectruM Launch party and concert for Invincible Decency Lorraine ñ Segato CD release, doors 7:45 pm. See album review, page 53.

drake hotel Wolf Alice doors 8 pm. ñ the garrison Catfish And The Bottlemen,

Wild Party doors 7:30 pm. horseshoe The Dodos, Springtime Carnivore doors 8:30 pm. See preview, page 51. the painted lady John Orpheus, Pastel, Gillian Nicola, The Celebration Army, Jim Dan Dee 8:15 pm. silver dollar Honeyblood, 2:54, Stella Ella Ola doors 8:30 pm. See preview, page 51.

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the duke live.coM Frank Wilks Open Jam,

8:30 pm.

reMix lounge Drum & Dance TuesdaysDrum & dance circle. 8 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

castro’s lounge TWAC (jazz/folk), 8:30 pm.

Four seasons centre For the perForMing arts Quatuor Fandango Modern Sketches (classical guitar), noon-1 pm. [Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre]. gallery 345 Martin Soderbergh The Art of the Piano. 8 pm. hugh’s rooM Toronto Ravel doors 10 am. old Mill inn Richard Whiteman Group 6:30 pm. salty dog Jazz Tuesdays 7 pm. tranzac southern cross Peripheral Vision (jazz) 10 pm.

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the danForth Music hall St. Vincent, Jenny Hval doors 8 pm. See preview, ñ page 51. drake hotel Aqua Alta (dream pop), 8 pm [Underground]. ñ horseshoe Better Weather, Death To Porter.

Melange Soul Instigators Tap In Jam. 6 to 11 pm.

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the piston AA Wallace, Ben Stevenson, DJ Ango 9 pm.

unicorn pub The B-Sides 9:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

c’est What Angie Nussey, Lee Stroud doors

8:30 pm.

castro’s lounge Blue Venus (folk), 8:30 pm. del ray so-cal cantina Open Stage 9 pm.

Flato MarkhaM theatre Jake Shimabukuro

(ukulele virtuoso), 8 pm. grossMan’s tavern Bruce Domoney 9:30 pm. hugh’s rooM The Bombadils, 10 String Symphony (Celtic/bluegrass), CD release, 8:30 pm. kraMer’s Open Stage hosted by Meghan Morrison, 8 to 11 pm. silver dollar Crazy Strings Bluegrass Wednesday, doors 9 pm.

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chalkers pub Lisa Particelli Girl’s Night Out Jazz Jam. 8 pm to midnight. holy FaMily catholic church Oratorium Saeculare (choral), Lent Concert, 8 pm.

Mezzetta Lorne Lofsky & Rob Piltch (jazz), 9 pm. naWlins Jazz bar Jim Heineman Trio (jazz), 7 to 11 pm. placebo space Emily Steinwall Jazz Jam doors 8 pm. reposado Spy vs Sly vs Spy (jazz/blues trio). the rex Scott Kemp Trio 6:30 pm. roy thoMson hall Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Barbara Hannigan, Ryan MacEvoy McCullough (orchestra w/ soprano, piano), New Creations Festival: Let Me Tell You, 8 pm tranzac southern cross Kyle Brenders Big Band 10 pm.

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young paris, Junia t & the Juice Money collective and phoenix pagliacci and others as part of Dalton Higgins’s rap n’ roll at the Rivoli (334 Queen West), Friday (February 27), 9 pm. $10. daltonhiggins.wordpress.com.

“My father co-founded the First National Ballet of the Congo,” rapper/producer/performance artist Young Paris says over the phone from his home in New York City.

“Back then, you couldn’t speak out against the government, so they would do theatrical plays as a way of transmitting messages across communities.”

His upbringing was a direct influence on the burgeoning artist, whose music is a compelling mélange of African drumbeats, American hip-hop and electronica. Born to a Congolese choreographer father and an African-American dancer mother, Paris and his nine siblings were based in France for years before moving to Long Island when he was a kid.

“To American kids, Africa was a joke,” he recalls about the rough transition. “They associated you with being hungry and dirty.

“I grew up knowing and being proud of my history – knowing of

the castles and kingdoms our land held, as well as the great history of our people from Egypt to Sudan, so it was hard to adjust.”

Elements of Young Paris’s music can be seen as a response to these childhood traumas. In Kaké, from his self-titled 2014 release, he seems dead set on upending the dominant narrative about Africa: “They call us the Third World, but the media is lying / How are we the Third World? We sit on gold and diamonds.”

“I try to be very clear about [providing a different perspective on Africa] while also making songs lively.”

His POV and originality have helped his just-released video for The Haus get tens of thousands of hits, and made him a key act at Dalton Higgins’s Rap N’ Roll: The Afro Alternative Music Showcase, a Black History Month event highlighting the best in urban indie alternative music. Its theme this year is Young, Gifted & Black. Perfect fit.

He’s also earning some notable

fans. After a raucous performance at Montreal Fashion Week in the summer of 2013, Paris caught the attention of the Arcade Fire’s Win Butler, who invited him to perform at the band’s annual fundraiser for Haiti, Knape Kanaval.

“I hadn’t heard of the Arcade Fire because I didn’t know much about rock music,” Paris admits. “But it worked out. We blew the performance at Knape out of the water. And I’ve kept in touch with Win.” Future plans include more music and videos while keeping his message intact.

“My goal is to show Africans that you should have pride about who you are, because our origins are the basis of everything we know today.”

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Week of Women Emerging and established, all seven days By CARLA GILLIS When it comes to women and rock and roll, the playing field still isn’t even close to level. So when a week like this one comes around, with ace female musicians, both emerging and established, playing all nights of the week, we’re going to shout about its awesomeness.

our favourite new discoveries. A little bit MGMT, a little bit Bonnie Tyler, a little bit the Supremes.

Tuesday (March 3) at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), 8:30 pm. $17.50.

The most emerging of emerging musicians play the first songs they’ve ever written to a packed house of supporters. The nurturing atmosphere, brave vulnerability and rad talent will make you cry. Seriously.

Thursday (February 26) at the Tranzac (292 Brunswick), 7 pm, all ages. Pwyc.

If the country-folk legend’s two nights at Hugh’s Room are anything like her 2012 appearance, expect a show that’s down-to-earth, generous, lifeaffirming and pretty much perfect.

Worthy of 5Ns, in fact.

Friday and Saturday (February 27-28) at Hugh’s Room (2261 Dundas West), 8:30 pm. $37.50-$40.

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HONEYBLOOD, 2:54 and STELLA ELLA OLA What a bill! Scottish shoegazey duo Honeyblood, English gloomster sister duo 2:54 and Anne Douris’s supercatchy local indie pop band Stella Ella Ola equals a big-time triple threat.

Tuesday (March 3) at the Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), 8:30 pm. $12.50.

Also don’t miss: Sleater-Kinney and Overnight features on pages 48 and 46, plus a review of Lorraine Segato’s new album on page 53.

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Sunday (March 1) at June Records (662 College), 6 pm. Free.

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RING ñPURITY NNNN

Another Eternity (Last Gang) Rating: After Purity Ring’s 2012 breakthrough debut, Shrines, shot to the number-one spot on iTunes’ electronic chart and was named best new music by Pitchfork, there were, understandably, huge expectations for the follow-up. Three years later, Purity Ring’s sophomore effort lives up to the anticipation.

The Halifax-Montreal duo escaped to Edmonton to write Another Eternity together, a huge change from their debut, when beatmaker Corin Roddick and vocalist Megan James collaborated cross-country via email. The minimalist, jittery electronic pop of Shrines has evolved and matured, mostly thanks to Roddick’s bombastic take on trance and hip-hop.

While Shrines was wrought with skittish crescendos and start-stop rhythms, this time he sounds comfortable experimenting with subtlety while still knocking out a few club bangers.

James’s vocals are as ethereal as ever yet also expand beyond her saccharine-laced tendencies to sultry pop-star tones. Shrines ushered in a new trend in indie electronica, and it’s likely that copycat acts will follow them in this direction, too.

Top track: Bodyache Purity Ring play Field Trip at Fork York on June 6. SAMANTHA EDWARDS

Pop/Rock NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Chasing Yesterday

(Kobalt/Sour Mash) Rating: NNN It’s no surprise that Noel Gallagher already hates the title of his new album, Chasing Yesterday: he must know it’s an apt description of what’s wrong with the record.

Then again, he probably doesn’t care that some will dismiss it as another predictably conservative rock album overly indebted to both his own glory days with Oasis and the usual icons of classic rock. And to be fair, anyone still excited about a record from either of the Gallagher brothers is unlikely to see those factors as serious flaws.

Chasing Yesterday breaks no new ground but does show more range than we normally expect from Noel Gallagher, possibly a result of his taking on production duties this time. The outing feels less Beatles and more Rolling Stones, although that often ends up coming across like Primal Scream. But even if it’s a little too easy to hear who he’s ripping off, it’s impossible to deny that he’s still impressively talented at crafting memorable classic pop choruses.

Top track: Ballad Of The Mighty I Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds play the Sony Centre May 3 and 4.

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LORRAINE SEGATO Invincible Decency (Get Off My Dress/independent) Rating: NNN Thirty years after Rise Up, Parachute Club’s Lorraine Segato is still making us dance. Her third solo album and first in over 15 years is full of the soca-, funk- and reggae-infused songs of affirmation and hope for which she’s known.

It’s also almost a Parachute Club

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album, produced and co-written by longtime PC collaborator and co-founder David Gray. Numerous members past and present make appearances, including bassist Steve Webster, Chendy Leon, Vicki Randle and Rebecca Jenkins. Drummer Billy Bryans (who died in 2012) plays timbale on We Gave The Night Away. He also inspired the quietly mournful ballad Times Like This.

Segato’s soulful, distinct voice is charismatic whether she’s singing high or delivering humorous spoken riffs, as she does at the tail end of endearing reggae jam Who You Are (Be What You Be). Her message is stronger on some songs than others – Stephen Lewis’s reading of an Arundhati Roy quote on the title track is well-placed, as is d’bi young’s poetry on jazzy closer Living On The Outside. At times Segato’s writing could be stronger and Gray’s production less dated. These seem like quibbles, however, about so sunny and feel-good an album.

Top track: Invincible Decency Lorraine Segato plays Daniels Spectrum Tuesday (March 3).

SARAH GREENE

SCREAMING FEMALES Rose Mountain (Don Giovanni) Rating: NNN Screaming Females release albums at a speedy rate, and their sixth is delivered with that same sense of brisk urgency.

Singer/guitarist Marissa Paternoster anchors the New Jersey grunge-punk threepiece, her vocals dramatic, furrowedbrowed and on the hollering side, with a subtle vibrato used most effectively on third song Wishing Well.

Her guitar riffs are loud, thick and sometimes ricochet up the fretboard to dazzling effect. Spin named her the 77thgreatest guitarist of all time, but her standout talent is actually as a melodymaker (and lyricist). She keeps the verses

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relatively plain, but then the big, fierce, hugely memorable choruses sweep in and seal the deal.

The band’s straightforward punk leanings give way to more angular, spacious, softer songwriting – and some welcome metal nods in the title track – partway through the 10-track album, but Paternoster’s vocals never back off. That’s where the power, hooks and originality come from, but they’re a little relentless.

Top track: Ripe Screaming Females play the Silver Dollar on April 10.

CARLA GILLIS

Naturally, Smith’s 60s bedroom acoustic folk is still on display, but also so much more: the summertime jangle of opener The Application has a charming doo-wop twist, while a heavy mod influence can be heard in clap-along Alice Leaves For The Mountains. Smith has fashioned the record as one for every season: like films you feel compelled to watch again and again, it has a range of emotions, all showcasing Smith as one of the most unheralded songwriters out there today.

Top track: Cheap Extensions JOSHUA KLOKE

THOMAS D’ARCY Fooled You

Twice (Maple) Rating: NNN If you’re surprised that long-time Canadian singer/songwriter Thomas D’Arcy, who fronted the Carnations and Small Sins, has only released one solo album, you’re not alone. D’Arcy has long been making melodic rock that builds magnificently when paired with his soothing croon. Produced, engineered and mixed by D’Arcy, his latest full-length builds off 2013’s impressive What We Want, with 10 inoffensive tracks that, at the best of times, channel his inner Tom Petty and whose grooves lock in with repetitive choruses.

First single All Over Your Face sets the tone with too-soft vocal delivery that fails to keep up with the crescendoing songs.

The title track has ambitious stomp that might’ve resonated more strongly had it had more pronounced production. Instead, the tacked-on electronics distract from its acceleration. But sometimes, like on Stronger Tomorrow, his singing matches the build. And standout Fooled You Twice shows just how strong D’Arcy’s pophook writing can be.

Top track: Fooled You Twice Thomas D’Arcy plays the Horseshoe Thursday (February 26). See video interview at nowtoronto.com/music.

JK

Hip-hop GUCCI MANE Brick Factory Vol. 3 (1017) Rating: NN Gucci Mane has been incarcerated since September 2013, but that hasn’t stopped the infamous and prolific emcee from releasing nearly 20 batches of material recorded before he was locked up. With Brick Factory Vol. 3, it seems the well has finally run dry.

Gucci shows up on the opening track, then disappears for the rest of the album,

leaving the heavy lifting to disciples like Young Thug, Peewee Longway and multiple interchangeable rappers with the MPA prefix, making this the weakest of the Brick Factory releases.

The album screams “throwaway.” Even the frequently unstoppable Young Thug has trouble overcoming the cheap-sounding video game plinks and frequently puerile hooks. It’s Thug’s pal Longway who ends up the star of the tape, displaying sly wit, slipping into a hypnotizing double time at a moment’s notice and imbuing his raps with the same largerthan-life wonder that once buoyed Gucci’s career.

Top track: Lost My Plug JORDAN SOWUNMI

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Restarter (Relapse) Rating: It’s tempting to reduce the development of Torche’s sound to a gradual moving away from knuckle-dragging metal to leavened, anthemic guitar pop. But listen to their 2009 split with Boris or their 2010 EP, Songs For Singles, and suddenly that trajectory has more than a few wrinkles in it. Restarter, Torche’s latest and first for Relapse, reflects that evolution while also being their first record to incorporate all of the band’s disparate sounds.

In fact, its greatest moments unveil that landscape of influence in a single song. Loose Men and Believe It have poppy purpose but connect through earth-shattering heaviness. The band hasn’t gotten softer – they’ve just learned a bit of restraint. Torche can, and still do, conjure their ruinous rumble on a whim.

So while it doesn’t mine new territory, Restarter is the sound of Torche getting comfortable and digging in their heels.

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Two Room Apartment, starring Oren Laor (left) and Niv Sheinfeld, and Ce n’est pas la fin du monde, sweat it out this weekend.

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Men making moves Two guy-only shows heat up the local dance scene By GLENN SUMI TWO ROOM APARTMENT choreographed and performed by Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, Thursday and Saturday (February 26 and 28) at 8 pm, Sunday (March 1) at 3 pm, Dancemakers (9 Trinity, Studio 303). $20-$25. dancemakers.org .

CE N’EST PAS LE FIN DU MONDE choreography by Sylvain Émard, Saturday (February 28) at 8 pm, Fleck Dance Theatre (207 Queens Quay West). $19-$37. 416-9734000.

older,” says Laor, on the phone from his Tel Aviv home.

Thankfully, a video of the work existed, and the two studied it. How to make it their own?

“At first we recreated all the movements they did and kept the same score,” says Laor. “Then we began changing things. They’re a man and a woman. Two men behave very differently, although you’d be surprised how often people ask who’s the ‘man’ and who’s the ‘woman’ in a same-sex relationship.”

Before doing much work on the duet, however, they went out to Dror and Ben Gal’s home in the Israeli desert to ask for permission. The couple agreed, and papers were drawn up to make it legal.

“We didn’t want to put in all this effort and then not be able to perform it,” says Laor, laughing.

One of the most striking images comes late in the work, when Laor, stripped down to his birthday suit, leaps off the floor and claps onto his

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It might be chilly out, but lots of testosterone will be heating up the city’s dance theatres this weekend. Two shows by acclaimed choreographers feature all-male casts.

First up is Two Room Apartment, which is being put on by Dancemakers as part of the multidisciplinary Spotlight On Israeli Culture series.

The duet was originally choreographed and performed by a woman and man, Liat Dror and Nir Ben Gal, back in 1987.

Now the influential work – one of the cornerstones of contemporary Israeli dance – has been reconceived by two men, Niv Sheinfeld and Oren Laor, who are partners on and off the stage.

“Niv had seen the entire work, and he spent some of his early career with Dror and Ben Gal’s company, but I’d only seen an excerpt of about five to seven minutes, performed by the two when they were much

partner with his arms and legs.

“In the original, the woman seduces and teases the man, who’s at first not interested,” says Laor. “When they created the piece, they were much younger, in their 20s. We’re in our 40s and men. Life is much different. It didn’t feel right. We felt this was strong.”

Audiences and critics agree. In 2013, the Israeli Dance Critics’ Circle acknowledged the piece with an award for best performance.

A choreographer who’s no stranger to international acclaim is Sylvain Émard, whose shows here, including Te Souvient-Il? and Fragments – Volume 1, are dance must-sees.

Now he’s bringing Ce n’est pas la fin du monde (It’s Not The End Of The World), a work for seven male dancers.

“I wanted to create something about urgency,” says Émard from Montreal.

He’d also wanted to do something with an all-male cast, especially after enjoying a duet he created as part of Fragments – Volume 1.

“Then I realized that the all-male cast could fit with this idea about urgency,” he says.

The title, he says, is optimistic, despite things like climate change and political unrest throughout the world.

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him back to childhood, perhaps mimicking the segregated arena of the schoolyard. And having seven dancers allows him to group them in varied configurations.

Still, seven is nothing compared to the number or performers Émard employs in the massive Le Grand Continental, which combines line dancing with a modern sensibility.

What started out as a work for some 60 dancers at Montreal’s Festival TransAmériques has mushroomed into jumbo-size performances, some involving more than 200 amateur dancers.

“I’ve always been obsessed with line dancing, and I would often put a bit of it into my pieces,” says Émard.

What he didn’t know was that the piece would become an international phenomenon. He presented a version in Mexico, several in North American cities and the day after we speak, he’s off to South Korea.

“It’s become this amazing thing where I get to travel around the world and meet people from the local dance scenes,” he says. “There are weeks of rehearsals, so I get to know the culture, hang out and learn about the dance climate.”

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ONCE by Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová and Enda Walsh (Mirvish). At the Ed Mirvish (244 Victoria). Runs to May 31. $29-$130. See Continuing, page 57.

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To paraphrase a character from the Tony Award-winning musical Once, the best songs “have heart and soul.” That rule applies to theatre, too, as this allCanadian production of the show illustrates.

This is the third production of Once I’ve seen, and making it work onstage is a tricky, delicate thing. It needs honesty and soul, and the leads must have chemistry (which was missing in the touring production). This version has all of that and more.

The simple story is based on the indie movie about two strangers (known only as Guy and Girl) who meet on the streets of Dublin. He’s (Ian Lake) a scruffy, busking singer/songwriter who misses his ex and is fed up with scraping by; she’s (Trish Lindström) a Czech immigrant who responds to his songs and offers to help write lyrics for them.

They each have other attachments.

Will they become a pair? Bring Kleenex and find out.

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Bare Bones THE SOUND OF CRACKING BONES by Suzanne Lebeau (Pleaides Theatre/Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson). Runs in English to February 28; in French March 3-7. $17-$38. 416-504-7529, artsboxoffice.ca.

See Continuing, page 57. Rating: NNN The Sound Of Cracking Bones deals with horrific material, but it’s a story that we must hear even if not all the play’s elements succeed.

At its centre is Elikia (Harveen San­ dhu), abducted by rebels at the age of 10 and now, three years later, a child soldier in an intentionally unspecified country. Her humanity, both toward herself and others, has largely been eliminated in a “family” where she is

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Ian Lake and Trish Lindström make beautiful music in Once.

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New this week bBEEN A LONG TImE COmIN’ KasheDance and Wind in the Leaves present art, music, dance and poetry about the African diasporic experience in North America. Feb 26 at 8 pm. Pwyc. Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, 130 Navy. oakvillecentre.ca.

BODy BRAKE 4.0 TPM and Anandam Dancetheatre present short dance works exploring various genres. Feb 28 at 10:30 pm. $12. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. passemuraille.ca.

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music. That explains the down-home feel you get before the show begins.

The audience is invited to have a drink with the ensemble at the onstage bar.

Music both raucous and mournful is played, and then, gradually, the story quietly begins.

This production, directed by John Tiffany, is so solid that even a burnt-out lighting board midway through the first act and some projection problems in the second didn’t affect the mood on opening day.

Lake’s Guy is initially sullen and

closed-off, biting off his words with a nasty sneer; watching him open up and let loose – emotionally and musically – is cathartic.

Lindström’s Girl is at first bold and blunt, but as she begins to fall for Guy she retreats, and the actor lets you see what she’s hiding in every line and quiver in her accented voice.

The ensemble is brilliant. Stephen­ Guy McGrath devours his role as a boisterous, lusty music store owner, while Laurie Murdoch brings an understated charm to Guy’s recently widowed dad.

All the actors play instruments and move to Steven Hoggett’s choreography, which is always precisely placed to express something that can’t be said. Scenes blend into each other with no-fuss efficiency.

This is less a musical than a play with songs. On Bob Crowley’s inviting and versatile set, they range from a simple yet haunting a cappella tune to rock ballads that swell with so much feeling they’re almost unbearable.

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both an aggressor and a victim. Despite her age, as a female she’s not only expected to fight and kill, but also to cook, wash and perform sexually for the group’s men.

Suzanne Lebeau’s script, translated

by Julia Duchesne and director John Van Burek, captures the dreadfulness of Elikia’s situation but also, in a number of ways, offers a glimmer of hope.

At the start of the play Elikia meets a new captive, eight-year-old Joseph (Caity Quinn), who so affects her that she flees with him, knowing that capture and death are likely.

The third character, Angelina (Patri­ cia Cano), a nurse at a children’s hospital, adds another hint of light. Her scenes, in which she presents sections of Elikia’s journal to a group of influential people, take place at a later time than the story’s main narrative.

Given the material, the show’s tension is often high, and Van Burek’s direction highlights the contrast between the children’s desperation in the forest, where danger is everywhere, and the calmness of Angelina’s testimony.

Cano’s performance, simple and direct, both moves the action along and provides commentary on the narrative. This is a country, we learn from her, that has more guns than shoes.

Quinn is only partly successful in bringing the young Joseph to life. The character is often flat and requires further exploration; we need a sense of what it is in Joseph that touches

something in Elikia and sets them off on an almost impossible trek.

Sandhu is an expressive Elikia, first showing anger and fear as the soldier who’s deserted a post for which she has no love, and then, in the course of the play, becoming softer and gentler as she discovers a new way of living and caring for others.

In the show’s last few minutes, the years of brutality drop away from Elikia; she becomes a feeling young woman in contrast to the character we met at the start. A quietness surrounds Sandhu here, a silence that contains one of the evening’s most JON KAPLAN eloquent moments.

Danse featuring seven male dancers in a ritual of resistance and adaptation. (See story, page 54.) Feb 28 at 8 pm. $19-$37.

Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. danceworks.ca.

THE DRAGON OF GLORy Harbourfront presents dragon dances performed by Jhuo Lan High School Dragon Dance Team as part of LunarFest. Feb 28-Mar 1, Sat noon & 6 pm, Sun noon & 5 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com/lunarfest.

FORCIER/NORmAN Short dance works by Marie France Forcier and Tracey Norman explore loss and transformation. Mar 4 at noon. Free. Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca.

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The National Ballet of Canada presents choreography by James Kudelka set to Johnny Cash songs, Wayne McGregor’s piece and more. Mar 4-8, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Thu, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $26-$249.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. national.ballet.ca.

TwO ROOm APARTmENT Dancemakers presents Israeli dance artists Oren Laor and Niv Sheinfeld. (See story, page 54.) Feb 26-Mar 1, Thu and Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $20-$25. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity. dancemakers.org. vOx:LUmEN Harbourfront World Stage presents Zata Omm Dance Projects’ sustainable show, choreographed by William Yong, which lights itself with energy produced by the dancers, the audience and renewable sources.

Mar 4-7, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $35-$40.

Harbourfront Centre Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

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Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. New​this​week lists shows that open or preview this week; Continuing shows have already opened. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK).

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New this week AmeriCAn Pie – A songBooK inVesTigATion

(Soulpepper Concert Series). An investigation of the meaning and musical references of Don McLean’s folk-rock anthem, from Buddy Holly to Dylan to Joplin and more.

OpensINFeb 27 NEW DIRECTIONS MUSIC and runs to Mar 8, see website for times. $22$60. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

BAlm in gileAd by Lanford Wilson (Ryerson Theatre School). Heroin addicts, prostitutes and thieves intersect in a NYC cafe in this drama. Opens Mar 4 and runs to Mar 12, see website for schedule. $tba. Abrams Studio, 46 Gerrard E. 416-979-5118.

BeneATh The BAnyAn Tree by Emil Sher (Theatre Direct). A young Indian girl copes with moving to Canada in this fusion of theatre, music and dance. Opens Mar 4 and runs to Mar 28, see website for schedule. $7-$25.

Wychwood Theatre, 76 Wychwood. brownpapertickets.com/event/879977.

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(Starvox Entertainment). This homage to the John Cleese TV series features the audience as guests of the wacky inn in a partially improvised show. Opens Feb 27 and runs to Apr 19, Tue-Thu 7 pm, Fri-Sat 6 and 8 pm, Sun 6 pm, mat Sat-Sun 1 pm. $77 and up (includes dinner). O’Keefe Lounge. Sony Centre for the Per­ forming Arts, 1 Front E. sonycentre.ca. hArPer regAn by Simon Stephens (Canadian Stage). After learning of her father’s impending death, a woman suddenly walks away from her home and family. Previews to Mar 4, opens Mar 5 and runs to Mar 22, Tue-Thu and Sat 8 pm, Fri 7pm, mat Sat-Sun 1 pm. $30-$99.

Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-3683110, canadianstage.com.

Jesus’s exeCuTion (imProVised) (Christian Theatre Company). Jesus’s execution is woven into an intricate story in this improvised solo play with musical accompaniment. Mar 3 at 6:30 pm. Pwyc. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. freetimescafe.com.

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hunT (Koba Entertainment). Mike the Knight embarks on an adventure and helps others along the way in this family-friendly show.

Feb 28 at 1 pm. $27-$47. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. sonycentre.ca.

PinoCChio by Hugo Bélanger (Tout à Trac).

The children’s classic comes alive in an inventive new production for ages 6 and up. Opens Mar 3 and runs to Mar 21, see website for schedule. $25-$34. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

QueerCAB (BIBT). The monthly open-mic night

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and We Say Such Terrible Things by Bil Antoniou will be presented in this double bill.

Opens Mar 4 and runs to Mar 14, Wed-Sun 8 pm. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, redsandcastletheatre.com.

CAKe And dirT by Daniel MacIvor (Tarragon Theatre). This play takes a darkly comic look at life in Toronto through a fractured family of privilege. Previews from Mar 3, opens Mar 11 and runs to Apr 12, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm (and some Sat). $29-$55, previews $23-$27.

Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. 416-5311827, tarragontheatre.com.

ChinA CArniVAl 2015 (China Broadcasting Performing Arts Troupe). Chinese New Year show featuring a mix of theatre, acrobatics, music, dance and more. Mar 2 at 7:30 pm. $28-$128. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. sonycentre.ca.

for youth features music, spoken word, standup, drag and more. Mar 4 at 8 pm. Pwyc. Bud­ dies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. reVeAl me BurlesQue (Red Herring Burlesque). Virgin vixens and professional peelers put on a show. Mar 4 at 9 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. aprofessionaldistraction.com.

sPur-of-The-momenT BirThdAy fundrAiser

(Spur of the Moment Shakespeare Collective).

SOTMSC’s fifth birthday party features live music, dancing, prizes and more. Mar 3 at 8 pm. Pwyc. Rancho Relaxo, 300 College. facebook.com/events/1553482248240543. iThis is for you, AnnA by Suzanne Khuri, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Banuta Rubess and Maureen White (Hart House Theatre). This collective creation explores revenge, liberation and motherhood. Opens Feb 27 and runs to Mar 7, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Mar 7 at 2 pm. $28, srs $17, stu $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle.

416-978-8849, harthouse.ca.

TriPle Bill (Restless Spirit Productions). The company presents plays Dolores (Edward Allan Baker) and The Value Of Trying (Katie Ford) plus comedy by host Ken Hall. Opens Feb 27 and runs to Mar 8, Fri-Sun 8 pm. $15. Restless Spirit, 688 Richmond W, #103. williammac.ca/ restless-spirit-productions.html. winTer’s on The wing (Etobicoke Musical Productions). Tribute to musical theatre songs including hits from Fiddler On The Roof, Grease and more. Opens Feb 27 and runs to Mar 8, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $24. The Assembly Hall, 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Dr. 416-248-0410, e-m-p.ca.

Continuing AByss by Maria Milisavljevic (Tarragon Thea­ tre). Not your typical thriller, this dark and cryptic mystery about a missing person turns into an introspective look at a group of friends living in Germany who are unable to escape the lingering psychological effects of growing up during the Yugoslav Wars. Despite the impressive acting and staging, the play’s disparate elements fail to coalesce into a clear whole by the end. To Mar 15, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun (and Feb 28) 2:30 pm. $29-$55. 30 Bridgman. 416531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. nnn (Jordan Bimm) The BeAVer den by Taylor Abrahamse, Jaclyn Enchin and Jennifer Enchin (Jazz Squared Theatre). You Can’t Do That On Television meets

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Thursday, February 26

Brooke-Perrin, Tim Gilbert, Steph Kaliner, Tom Henry, Marty Topps, host Jackie Pirico & more. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com.

PeTer AnThony Stand-up show. To Mar 1, Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

Pierre BrAulT Headlining with Marc Anthony and host Geoff MacKay. To Mar 1, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

PorT CrediT Comedy fesTiVAl Stand-up by Tim Harmston, Mark Forward, Mary Mack, Kyle Radke, Nathan McIntosh, Jen Grant and others plus a family variety show. Feb 26-28, see website for schedule. $15-$45. First United Church, 151 Lakeshore W, and Clarke Memorial Hall, 161 Lakeshore W (Mississauga). portcreditcomedy. com.

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Shane Lewis, Marito Lopez, Che Durena and Ernie Vicenta vs Aaron, Anthony Englebrecht, Chris Robinson and Nitish Sakhuja. 11 pm.

Free. 120 Diner, 120 Church. 120diner.com.

BeerProV: The drAfT Jim Robinson presents thirsty young improvisers competing in elimination games. 9:30 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

Comedy ACes Stand up w/ Glen Foster and four other comics. 8 pm. $25. Pilot Tavern, 22 Cumberland. comedyaces.com. how To Kill A ComediAn Second City presents its Spring 2015 Mainstage revue. In previews, opens Mar 9, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sun 7:30 pm, plus Sat 10 pm. $25-$45, stu $16$18. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

KiTCh Komedy Weekly pro/am show hosted

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ToP shelf ComGavin​​ Crawford​get​ laughs​at​the​ Toronto​ Musical​​ Improv​Fest​ on​​ February​28.

Robin Sparkles in this all-ages musical comedy show. To Mar 1, Tue-Sun 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com.

BeCKy shAw by Gina Gionfriddo (Sterling Theatre Company). Four men and women in their 30s are caught in a tale of love, sex and ethics in this comedy. To Mar 7, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $20 stu/srs $15 on Tue. The Theatre Machine, 376 Dufferin. sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

BliThe sPiriT by Noel Coward (Mirvish). In this classic Coward play, a writer dabbles with séances and brings back the ghost of his first wife, resulting in an uncomfortable but comic triangle involving himself and his current wife. Angela Lansbury is the headlining star in this touring show, but other fine performers also know how to handle the rhythms and deliver the laughs. To Mar 15, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed and Sat-Sun 2 pm. $35-$175. Prin­ cess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. nnn (JK) CAnniBAl! The musiCAl by Trey Parker (Starvox Entertainment). Musical based on the story of American cannibal Alferd Packer (see review, page 57). To Mar 8, Tue-Sun 7 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $30-$110. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212.nn (GS) The dining room by AR Gurney (Soulpepper). Gurney’s gently elegiac play consists of a couple dozen vignettes about life around a dining room table. It’s not the same table, and the show spans several decades yet isn’t chronological, but you get a good look at changing North American attitudes toward sex, fidelity, communication and class. Joseph Ziegler’s production has been polished to a warm glow, and the six actors bite lustily into their roles. To Mar 7, see website for times. $29.50-$89. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. nnnn (GS) A doll’s house by Henrik Ibsen (Etobicoke School of the Arts). A wife and mother must face the emergence of a secret in this drama about gender roles and family values. To Feb 28, Thu 7 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm. $27, stu $15.

Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. esainfo.ca. don gioVAnni & un BAllo in mAsCherA by Mozart/Verdi (Toronto City Opera). Two Italian operas with English projected titles are performed on alternating days. To Mar 1, see website for times. $28, srs $20, stu $15. Bick­ ford Centre Theatre, 777 Bloor W. uofttix.ca. don’T sToP me now (Lower Ossington The­

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ToronTo musiCAl imProV fesTiVAl The festival presents Five Finger Miscount, ñ One Night Only, Notorious and JerJosh & the SteveCams at 8 pm; Drunk Make’em Ups, the Maple Clefs and Beatvox at 10 pm. $10/show, festival pass $40. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. torontomusicalimprovfestival. com.

we hAPPy few: now is The winTer of our disConTenT The troupe presents an improvised play using the style, language and themes of William Shakespeare, w/ guest host Korri Birch. 8 pm. $7. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

Friday, February 27 BeerProV Jim Robinson presents a short form improv competition. 10:30 pm. $20. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

The BesT of The seCond CiTy Classic and original sketch and improvisation. 10:30 pm. $30-$45, stu $18. Second City, 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

CATCh23 Weekly improv pit fight. 8 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

Comedy KAPow! Weekly stand-up, improv and sketch with a pro standup headliner. 8:30 pm. Free. 120 Diner, 120 Church. facebook.com/comedykapow. gloBeheAd 2015 Single-elimination team Theatresports tourney with scenes scored by the audience and a series of guest judges. To Feb 28, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com/ globehead-2015.

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Fitz, Darren Frost, Dave Martin, Jennifer McAuliffe, Winston Spear and host Kevin MacDonald. 9 pm.

and sharpened their irreverent style yet. Not even additional material by Christopher Bond, Aaron Eyre and Trevor Martin – some of them involved in bringing another cult film, Evil Dead, to the stage – can give it much theatrical bite.

The story is loosely inspired by the tale of Alferd Packer (Liam Tobin), a Utah miner who, in 1873, got lost with a prospecting team searching for gold in Colorado. When the corpses of his crew were later found, partially eaten, he was charged and convicted of cannibalism.

Not the worst material for a show, even a sophomoric show. But the hackneyed structure – Packer’s in jail awaiting his hanging and tells his story to a reporter (Elicia MacKenzie), prompting many flashbacks – and limp jokes that make the journey so predictable you’ll be tempted to chew off your seatmate’s arm to exit the theatre.

We’re talking puerile references to feces, farts and bestiality. There’s a song called When I Was On Top Of You sung by Packer to his horse, and when one of the generic prospectors brings out a bit of fudge, you know it’s leading to a sodomy joke. Fudge-Packer, get it?

A few amusingly surreal scenes almost make the show watchable. One involves a run-in with a native American chief (Mark Andrada) and his daughter (Lana Carillo), both of whom speak with Japanese accents, and a bit of Bollywood choreography (by Stacey Maroske) involving these same characters pushes the politically incorrect button with total absurdity. And damn it if the musical’s ridiculous theme song isn’t catchy.

But this talented cast is wasted in a series of mock power ballads that are meant to send up musical clichés.

They’re just not given much to do.

The exception is Andrada, who gets some of the funniest sequences and is present for the most surprising grossout gag in the show, a sort of buffet of bad taste.

A few more squeamishly silly scenes like this and Cannibal! would have become a solid cult work, and not just a show trying to capitalize on its creGlEnn sumi ators’ names.

7469, mysteriouslyyours.com.

THE HEarT of roBin Hood by David Farr (Mirvish). A laid-back, hipster feel suffuses this uneven take on the Robin Hood story, which comes complete with a feminist subplot, scruffy acrobats as Robin’s merry men and the enjoyable harmonies of neo-bluegrass/folk group Parsonsfield to back up the action. The show has energy and a couple of good sight gags on the remarkable set, but the characters are thin and the performers don’t get to show off their musical chops. To Mar 29, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35-$130. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish. com. nnn (GS) JamEs alan’s maGic ToniGHT Weekly live magic show. Sundays 7 pm. $20-$25. Izakaya

Sushi House, 294 College. abracadabaret.com. mEmoraBlE munscH (Solar Stage Children’s Theatre). This family-friendly show is based on the stories of Robert Munsch. To Mar 29, Sat-Sun 11 am & 2 pm (see website for other shows). $16. 4950 Yonge. solarstage.on.ca. midsummEr by David Greig and Gordon McIntyre (Théâtre français de Toronto). A young divorce lawyer and a stolen car dealer meet in a bar and spend the night together. To Mar 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $30-$48. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. theatrefrancais.com. occuPy vErona & alms for o (Theatre Erindale). Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet and Troilus And Cressida are condensed into oneacts and re-conceived in a modern context in this double bill. To Mar 1, Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat

8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $12-$18. Erindale Studio Theatre, 3359 Mississauga Rd N. 905569-4369, theatreerindale.com. oncE by Enda Walsh, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová (Mirvish). An Irish musician and a Czech immigrant are drawn together by their shared love of music (see review, page 55). To May 31, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $29-$130. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. nnnnn (GS) ProBlEm cHild by George F Walker (NightShift Theatre). Three broken-down characters in a motel room plot to get a social worker to give them back custody of a child. To Feb 28, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. nightshifttheatre.com. r-E-B-E-c-c-a by Sara Farb (Theatre Passe Mu-

Hennessey & Steph Kaliner and guests Scott Thompson, Dawn Whitwell, Sandra Battaglini, Phil Luzi, Chris Locke, Aaron Eves, Laura Pharo, house band the Bicycles and others. 8 pm. $10 (free w/ 70s costume).

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com.

alTdoT comEdy lounGE Steve Dylan, Tim Gilbert, James Hartnett, Dylan Gott, Givins-sHaw comEdy fundraisEr ñ Winston Spear, Mark Heath, Barry Taylor, Stand-up featuring Elvira Kurt, Chris ñ Foad HP, Ian Gordon, Patrick Hakeem, MC Locke, Pat Thornton, Jeannie Calleja, host

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Rotten meat canniBal! THE musical by Trey Parker, with additional material by Christopher Bond, Aaron Eyre and Trevor Martin (Starvox Entertainment). At the Panasonic Theatre (651 Yonge). Runs to March 8. $30-$110. See Continuing, page 56. 416872-1212. Rating: nn

Remember those goofy musicals you put on in high school and university?

They were lots of fun at the time. But mount them on a professional stage today and they’d seem pretty dumb.

That’s the feeling you get while watching Cannibal! The Musical, and it’s not a surprise. After all, it’s based on a 1993 film written and directed by Trey Parker while he was still in college.

Fellow student Matt Stone produced it.

Those two would later collaborate on South Park and The Book Of Mormon. But clearly they hadn’t honed atre). The hits of British rock band Queen are performed in this theatrical tribute show. To Mar 7, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $30-$40. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

Elvis’s ToEnail by Fionnuala Kenny (Toronto Irish Players). A pregnant teen working at a factory poses moral dilemmas for her colleagues in 1960s Dublin. To Mar 7, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $18. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. torontoirishplayers.com.

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Solem and Brian Caws (MYDT). Comedy whodunit set in a world where the Bates Motel meets Mad Men. To Mar 28, Fri-Sat dinner from 6:30 pm, show 8 pm. See website for more times/prices. $45-$87. Mysteriously Yours Dinner Theatre, 2026 Yonge. 416-486-

$5. Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine, 2050 Danforth. 416-551-7560.

How To kill a comEdian See Thu 26. imProv GamE sHow Weekly Whose Lineinspired competition. 8 pm. $5. 3rd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416903-5388, socap.ca.

PiErrE BraulT See Thu 26.

ToP sHElf comEdy livE: THE BEacH Weekly stand-up comedy show. 9 pm. Pwyc. 2nd floor. St Louis Wings Queen E, 1963 Queen E. topshelfcomedyshow.com.

ToronTo musical imProv fEsTival The festival presents Young Harmony, Special Features, Nicky & Nadine (8 pm); Let The Musical Wheel Of Improv Play! (10 pm). $10/ show, festival pass $40. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. torontomusicalimprovfestival.com.

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ryck Birch presents Kyle Hickey, Monty Scott, Lee Fernandez, Lucy Gervais, headliner Ernie Vicente & host Troy Stark. 9 pm. $15. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. derryckbirch.com.

GloBEHEad 2015 See Fri 27.

How To kill a comEdian See Thu 26. laTin livE! Sketch, stand-up comedy & music with a Latin touch. 7 pm. Free. 120 Diner, 120 Church. 120diner.com. liP-scHTick Comedians battle it out in an epic lip-sync smack-down w/ host Robin Henderson. 11 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

THE midniGHT BrEakouT Late-night stage for rising talent. Midnight. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

PiErrE BraulT See Thu 26. socaP sTudEnT sHow Improv students perform with members of the SoCap Players.

7:30 pm. Free. 3rd fl. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388, socap.ca.

THE suPErsTars of comEdy Nigel Grinstead, Bobby Knauff, headliner Pat MacDonald and host Chris Locke. 7 & 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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Lana Carillo (front), Tim Porter and others try to send up stereotypes.

ToronTo musical imProv fEsTival The festival presents Flawedville, This ñ Is The Worst, Puppet Town: After Dark and Troubadour! at 8 pm; All-Star Musical w/ Gavin Crawford, Reid Janisse and others at 10 pm. $10/show, festival pass $40. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. torontomusicalimprovfestival.com.

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Irish Pub, 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

Mark Forward and others. 9 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

THE BEsT of THE sEcond ciTy Classic and original sketch and improvisation. 8 pm. $14.

Second City, 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

camEron HousE comEdy: drunkEn dEBaucHEry Stand-up w/ hosts Dena Jackson & Jen Sakato. 8 pm. Pwyc. 408 Queen W. cameronhousecomedy@gmail.com. cHEaP lauGHs Weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. PJ O’Briens

Sunday, March 1

Nathalie Brown and others. 7 pm. $50 (benefits The Children’s Breakfast Club).

Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

PancakE mondays Weekly comedy and allyou-can-eat pancakes. 7:30 pm. $5. Smiling Buddha, 961 College. facebook.com/groups/ PancakeMondays.

Tuesday, March 3 a lauGH a minuTE Open-mic stand-up w/

raille). Farb’s solo show is based on the life of her younger sister Rebecca, who was born seven weeks premature and diagnosed as developmentally delayed. Farb imagines what it would be like if she hadn’t had this disability, interweaving the stories of the real Rebecca and an imagined one around their 18th birthdays. Farb is a warm, focused performer, but the script and direction need clarity. To Mar 1, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $17-$33, mat pwyc. Backspace. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.ca. nnn (GS) sEussical THE musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Lower Ossington Theatre).

This all-ages musical is based on the classic books of Dr. Seuss. To Mar 1, Sat-Sun 11 am and Sun 1 pm. $30-$50. 100A Ossington. 416915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

THE sound of crackinG BonEs by Suzanne Lebeau (Pleiades Theatre). A child soldier rediscovers her humanity when a small boy is brought to the rebel camp (see review, page 55). To Mar 7, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm. Mar 3-7 shows are in French. $17-$38. TPM Mainspace. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-5047529, passemuraille.ca. nnn (JK) sPrinG awakEninG by Frank Wedekind (Lower Ossington Theatre). 19th-century German teens explore their budding sexuality and deal with the consequences. To Mar 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $50-$60. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

Two Plays By marGuEriTE duras (Spiel Players). Adaptations of Le Shaga and Savannah Bay are presented in this double bill. To Mar 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15-$20. Fraser Studios, 76 Stafford. spielplayers.com.

THE valuE of namEs by Jeffrey Sweet (TEATRON Theatre). A woman tells her father she is changing her last name to further her career in this comedy-drama. To Mar 1, TueThu and Sun 8 pm, Sat 8:30 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $31-$48, stu/srs from $26. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. teatrontheatre. com.

THE wild ParTy by Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe (Acting Up Stage Company/Obsidian Theatre). A vaudeville dancer and her performer boyfriend throw a wild party just before the 1929 economic crash. To Mar 8, Wed-Thu and Sat 8 pm, Fri 7 pm, mat Sat 1 pm. $30-$55, stu mats $18.

Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-3683110, actingupstage.com.

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alTdoT oPEn mic Headliner Dylan Gott & MC

Ali Hassan. 9 pm (sign-up 8:30 pm). $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. caGEmaTcH! No-holds-barred improv competition. 8 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

THE dark and nErdy comEdy sHow Joel West and Grumpy Jew Entertainment present headliner Amanda Day, Sarah Ashby and host West. Doors 9 pm. $5. Smiling Buddha, 961 College. 416-519-3332. founTain aBBEy Comedy in a dive bar w/ hosts Diana Love and Julia Hladkowicz. 9 pm.

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host Mandy Goodhandy. 10 pm. Free. 120

crimson wavE comEdy Jess Beaulieu and

Natalie Norman co-host a feminist-friendly, LGBTQ-positive stand-up night. 9:30 pm. $5.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

HaPPy Hour comEdy Chris Roberts, Sal Kit lo, Ali Mehedi, Billy Wiegand, Caitlin Langelier, Julia Bruce, host Jannifer McAuliff and others. 8 pm. Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

How To kill a comEdian See Thu 26.

PiErrE BraulT See Thu 26. rEal JokEs Weekly comedy w/ hosts Dion Arnold and Scott Belford. 8 pm. Free. Placebo Space, 2877 Lake Shore W. facebook. com/events/1490828984532340. sunday niGHT livE The Sketchersons’ weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

TokEs & JokEs Amanda Day hosts a comedy show w/ Nigel Grinstead, Lianne Mauladin and headliner K Trevor Wilson. 9 pm. $15.

796 Broadview Subway Vape & E-Cig, 796 Broadview. 647-999-9993.

Monday, March 2 200% vodka Weekly improv hosted by Matt McCready. 8 pm. Pwyc. 2nd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388, socap.ca.

4-3-2-1 cHaos! Each cast member will perform a set consisting of 4 people, 3 people, a duo or a solo scene. 7:30 pm. Free. 2nd fl. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388, socap.ca.

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Free. The Fountain, 1261 Dundas W. juliacomedy.com.

HOW TO KILL A COMEDIAN See Thu 26.

KING OF THE HILL Weekly comedy contest w/ host Ariel Kagan. 8-10 pm. Free. 120 Diner, 120 Church. 120diner.com.

THE SKIN OF MY NUTS Weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar and others. 7:30 pm. Free. Sonic Cafe, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/skinofmynuts.

STUDENT BODIES Weekly improv showcasing the teams and players from the Social Capital Rep Players and House Teams. 8 pm. Pwyc.

2nd floor. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388, socap.ca.

YUK YUK’S NEW TALENT TUESDAYS The Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, New Talent Showcase at 9:30 pm. $4/show. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, March 4 AC PRO-AM NIGHT Dion Arnold, Dr Ron, JJ Liberman, Ken Hall, Selby Nixon, Tyler Forbes, headliner Fraser Young and host Josh Williams. 8:30 pm. $6. Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

BROAD SHITTY Comedy w/ hosts Sarah Ashby & Rachel Matheson. 8-10 pm. Free. 120 Diner, 120 Church. 120diner.com.

COMEDY NIGHT AT MUSIDEUM Weekly standup, improv and sketch. 8 pm. $5. Musideum,

401 Richmond W. musideum.com.

CORKTOWN COMEDY Jill Knight, Michael Morrison, Byron Collins, host Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free. Betty’s, 240 King E. 416-988-2675, corktowncomedy.com.

DOPE N’ MIC COMEDY Weekly show presented

by Jeff Paul, w/ Chrissie Cunningham, Troy Stark, Jen Sakato, Ali Hassan and K Trevor Wilson. 9 pm. $5. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. facebook.com/jeffpaulcomedy.

IHOLODECK FOLLIES The Dandies present an all-female ensemble for this month’s improvised Star Trek adventure, stand-up from Zabrina Chevannes and music by Dana Jean Phoenix. 8 pm. $8. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. improvdandies.wordpress.com.

HOW TO KILL A COMEDIAN See Thu 26.

ITHE RED PANTY DIARIES Comedy benefit to help girls in developing countries go to school every day of the month, w/ Jess Beaulieu, Natalie Norman, Zabrina Chevannes, Sara Hennessey, Kate Davis, and host Sarah Bruckschwaiger. 8 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. eventbrite.ca/e/15405645701.

SIREN’S COMEDY Open-mic stand-up w/ host Nick Martinello and headliner Troy Stark. 8:30 pm. Free. Celt’s Pub, 2872 Dundas W. 416767-3339.

SPIRITS COMEDY NIGHT Weekly open mic night. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001, spiritsbarandgrill.com.

TORONTO COMEDY CAVERN Stand-up comedy w/ host Ryan Long and others. 9 pm. Free.

Cavern Bar, 76 Church. facebook.com/ events/1414164218834741.

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books NON-FICTION ADVENTURE

Boundless talent BOUNDLESS by Kathleen Winter

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While our PM was triumphant when John Franklin’s ship was found in the Arctic, Kathleen Winter, in a brilliant op-ed piece in the Toronto Star, expressed her grief: only climate change could have made the discovery possible.

It’s something she knows firsthand, having navigated the Northwest Passage herself. In Boundless, her encounter with nature becomes a life-changing event – for her and for anyone who reads her account of it.

In the book, shortlisted for both the Charles Taylor Prize and last year’s Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust non-fiction award, Winter describes in delicate detail her journey by ship

through Arctic waters.

Thanks to her supple prose, her shipmates – a diverse group, from Nathan Rogers (Stan’s son) to Inuit teacher Aaju Peter – are fascinating characters and the spectacular land an inspirational guide to the limits of science and, well, any human attempt to tame the North.

Along the way, Winter weaves in stories of her past that explain why she’s embarked on the journey in the first place. She is the kind of narrator you crave: attentive to every natural wonder, whether seemingly insignificant, like tufts of animal fur, or obviously spectacular, like the columns of ice that line the seaway. And she has a loving respect for the native peoples and the land that compels her to ask deep questions about every aspect of it.

The title is not only a reference to the landscape, but acts as a challenge

Musician-turnedauthor David Usher signs Let The Elephants Run at Indigo March 4.

to anyone trying to contain it. Features that look inert, she realizes – the rocks, the ice – have their own movements and seem to breathe. By the time she’s finished her journey, she’s convinced there are no boundaries between living beings and the land. The ground is our creator – it’s ridiculous to think we can wield power over it.

Boundless is not just a walk on the tundra either. Winter plays a key role in disseminating the news that Franklin’s log has been found. And, unbelievably, her ship runs aground, leading to real danger.

It’s a beautiful, thrilling ride.

SUSAN G. COLE Winter talks about her experience at the Charles Taylor Prize brunch, Sunday (March 1) at the King Edward Hotel. See Readings, this page. susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

Monday, March 2 LORRAINE GREAVES One of the editors of Play It Forward: 50 Years Of Women And Sport In Canada shares stories from athletes, coaches and others. 6 pm. Free. Room B. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. 416-395-5440, tpl.ca.

ROWERS READING SERIES Readings by George Murray, Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Waubgeshig Rice and Kathleen Winter. Doors 6:30 pm, readings 6:50 pm. Free. The Central, 603 Markham. rowerspubreadingseries.com.

Wednesday, March 4

ART TALK ART TALK 4 HAPPENS AT 7PM IN THE OCADU AUDITORIUM ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH

ESAVA.CA

Thursday, February 26

TAYLOR PRIZE SHORTLIST BOOKS & BRUNCH Finalists MG Vassanji, Plum ñ Johnson, Kathleen Winter, David O’Keefe and

Saturday, February 28 ADVENTURES IN SWEETLAND Kristin Sweetland

launches her photography book and performs with Sarah Featherstone. 5-8 pm. Free. Wonderworks Fleishman Gallery, 25 Baldwin. kristinsweetland.com.

BTORONTO URBAN BOOK EXPO Celebration of urban fiction and Black History Month book fair featuring African-American fiction, ethnic kids’ books, music by DJ Majesty and more.

Noon-4 pm. Free. Malvern Library, 30 Sewells. kyapublishing.com.

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William New. 7-9 pm. 3030 Dundas West, 3030 Dundas W. junctionbooks@gmail.com.

CHRIS DIXON Launching Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements. 7 pm. Free. Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles. anotherstory.ca.

PAMPHLET NO. 2 Opening party for photography exhibit and issue launch. 7 pm. Free. Autumn Toronto, 478 Roncesvalles. autumntoronto.com.

UNDER THE PORTAL Readings by Palla Malla and Marianne Apostolides plus live music to benefit Story Planet’s arts and writing programming for teens and kids. Doors 7:30 pm. $12, adv $10. Story Planet, 1165 Bloor W. eventbrite.ca/e/15701120474.

15 VISUAL ART STUDENTS FROM ETOBICOKE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS GRADES 9-12 WILL SPEAK ABOUT THEIR CONNECTION TO CREATIVITY, WHY THEY MAKE ART, AND PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO THEIR RESEARCH AND PASSIONS.

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JUNCTION BOOK Launch and readings for the murder-mystery set in West T.O. Junction in 1951 written by Ken Newton, Ann Ball and

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Barbara Taylor share their experiences. 10 am. $50 (pre-register). King Edward Hotel, 37 King E. 416-361-0032, benmcnallybooks.com.

YVONNE RUKE AKPOVETA Book signing with the author of The Change You Want! Change Your Mindset And Change Your Life. 2-4 pm.

Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. changeyouwantbooksigning.eventbrite.ca.

BROCKTON WRITERS SERIES Readings by Hoa Nguyen, Waubgeshig Rice, Joyce Wayne and Karen Connelly. 7 pm (guest speaker at 6:30 pm). Pwyc. Full of Beans Coffee, 1348 Dundas W. brocktonwritersseries.wordpress.com.

DAVID USHER Signing copies of his new book, Let The Elephants Run. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge. facebook.com/ events/799969196741365.

JON REDFERN Launch for Children Of The Tide.

5:30-8 pm. Duke Of York, 39 Prince Arthur. dundurn.com.

WILD WRITERS POETRY READING Spoken word event with Max Layton, Nayani Thiyagarajah, Edward Nixon and host Georgia Wilder. 7:309:30 pm. $10 or pwyc. Poetry Jazz Cafe, 224 Augusta. poetryjazzcafe.com.

WORDS AT THE WISE Monthly short fiction reading series. 8 pm. Free. Wise Bar, 1007 Bloor W. versustheneanderthals.com.

WORDSPELL SPOKEN WORD SHOWCASE

Sheri-D Wilson and Eyeda Shopia. 8:30 pm. $6. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. freetimescafe.com.

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FEMALE JOCK TALK Female athletes have not had an easy time getting attention in this country. The substantive collection Playing It Forward: 50 Years Of Women And Sport In Canada ($25.95, Second Story) gathers stories from athletes, coaches, educators and activists – including hockey star Hayley Wickenheiser, activist/writer Laura Robinson and track phenom Charlene Crooks – about the challenge of making it in the game. Co-editor Lorraine Greaves gives a talk on the project Monday (March 2) at the Barbara Frum Library – a great way to usher in International Women’s Day. See Readings, this page.

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Tech warps all Coupland probes the new world By DAVID JAGER DOUGLAS COUPLAND at MOCCA

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(Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 952 Queen West, 416-395-0067) to April 19; and at the ROM (100 Queen’s Park, 416- 586-8000) to April 26 ($16, stu/ srs $14.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $10, stu/srs $9). Rating: NNNN

Douglas Coupland, West Coast prophet of our over-saturated digital age, is back again with works at MOCCA and the ROM. He doesn’t disappoint, giving us his removed take on a world that is increasingly flat, weird, glossy and banal. Think Duchamp unleashed at a Vancouver mall.

Suggesting that our technologydriven culture is profoundly warping everything we come in contact with, he provides example after wry example: Group of Seven landscapes reduced to pixels, utopian cities built from Lego blocks, electrical towers folded in half by ice storms. In MOCCA’ss lobby, T-shirts display his aphorisms: “I miss my pre-internet brain” and “Knowing everything

turns out to be slightly boring.”

In Canada House, his largest installation at MOCCA, Coupland tries to fit all things quintessentially Canadian into a space the size of a small duplex.

Raw plywood lines the walls, to which he’s affixed quilts with hubcaps sewn onto them and photographic still lifes of stacked plastic chairs, tires, lobsters and boxes of May West pastries. Modernist lounge chairs upholstered in lumberjack fabric occupy the centre of the space, and an ice machine hangs out on the periphery.

One giant wall of shelving is devoted to Canadian tchotchkes, from Saskatchewan licence plates, cans of Spam and hockey masks to miniature bison and a package labelled “WHALE MEAT.” These carefully curated injokes revel in Canada’s quirky rurality, giving the impression that you’ve wandered into an odd corner of Giant Tiger.

Murray Whyte lamented in his review that Coupland isn’t Sigmar Polke, the wildly inventive, genre-defying German artist of an older generation

MUST-SEE SHOWS ALISON MILNE GALLERY Mitchell Fenton (painting), Mar 4-Apr 10. 198 Walnut, unit 3. 416-203-6266.

BIRCH CONTEMPORARY Chloé Desjardins (sculpture), Feb 26-Apr 4, reception 6-8 pm Feb 26. Matthew James Cangiano, Jared Prince and Jane Lee, to Apr 4. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003.

BCARIBBEAN CORNER Karyn Olivier (social sculpture), to Mar 17. 171 Baldwin. 416593-0008.

CENTRE SPACE Kent Monkman (paintings), to Feb 28. Nicotye Samayualie (drawing), Feb 28-Mar 28. 65 George. 416-323-1373.

CLINT ROENISCH Niall McClelland, Jan 22-Feb 28. 190 St Helens. 416-5168593.

DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Jeff Tutt and Josh Thorpe, to Mar 21. 100 Niagara. 416-3612972.

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Bierk, Lyla Rye and Sarah Sands (painting/ sculpture), to Mar 14. 1520 Queen W. 416821-3060.

JAPAN FOUNDATION Alejandro Bertolo (painting), to Apr 30. 131 Bloor W. 416-966-1600.

KOFFLER GALLERY Kristiina Lahde, to Mar 29.

180 Shaw. 647-925-0643.

LOOP GALLERY Sandra Gregson and Mary Catherine Newcomb, Feb 28-Mar 22, reception 2-5 pm Feb 28. 1273 Dundas W. 416-5162581.

BMILES NADAL JCC Creating Futures: Threads Of Hope For African Grandmothers (textiles), to Mar 9. 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211.

NARWHAL CONTEMPORARY Junko Mizuno (paintings/drawings), to Mar 14. 2104 Dundas W. 647-346-5317.

O’BORN CONTEMPORARY Alex Fischer (prints/ painting), Feb 27-Apr 2, reception 6-9 pm Feb

THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS AGA KHAN MUSEUM The Lost Dhow, to

Apr 26. Howard Hodgkin; Visions Of ñ Mughal India, to Jun 21. 77 Wynford. 416-

646-4677. $15-$20, free Wed 4-8 pm.

AGO B Jean-Michel Basquiat, to May 10 ($16.50-$25). Art Spiegelman, to Mar 14.

Suzy Lake, to Mar 22. Henryk Ross and Yuri Dojc, to Jun 14. Silke Otto-Knapp, to Jul 19. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. $11-$19.50, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded).

ART GALLERY OF YORK U Biding Time: The Collection Strikes Back, to Mar 15. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Fashioning Life: Wear Your Story, to Mar 6. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. $8-$10.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Janet Werner, to Apr 11, reception 5-8:30 pm Mar 4. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

GARDINER MUSEUM Women, Art & Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise, to May 18. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. $9$15; Fri 4-9 pm half-price.

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MOCCA Douglas Coupland; Store/Fronts,

to Apr 19. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. ñBPOWER PLANT The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding, to May ñ 18. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROM Douglas Coupland, to Apr 26. Wildlife Photographer Of The Year, to Mar 23. ñ 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. $14.50-$16 Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9-$10.

RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Burn With Desire; Anti-Glamour, to Apr 5. Manuela Morales, Mar 4-Apr 5, reception 6 pm Mar 4. 33 Gould.

416-979-5164.

TEXTILE MUSEUM Oriental Rugs, to Apr 15. Children’s Clothing From China, to May 25. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. $6-$15; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm.

U OF T ART CENTRE Hart House Collection; Sign, Sign, Everywhere A Sign, to Mar 7. 15

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Nature and technology collide in Douglas Coupland’s The Ice Storm, at MOCCA.

who’s just had a career-spanning retrospective at MoMA in New York City. But Coupland’s oeuvre has always pushed against the authorial stamp, writer that he is. He’s a product of the postwar tech boom: heady and reflective as opposed to brash and revolutionary.

His exhibit is a record of the detritus of late capitalism: the thousands of tiny intrusions that global markets relentlessly and stealthily insert into our lives.

We are less defined by our individuality now than we are by an everincreasing number of disposable objects and throw-away gestures.

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PROPELLER Networks group show, to Mar 22. 30 Abell. 416-504-7142.

RED HEAD GALLERY Gabrielle de Montmollin (mixed media), to Feb 28. Sally Thurlow, Mar 4-28. 401 Richmond W #115. 416-5045654.

ROBERT KANANAJ Constans (painting), to Mar 14. 172 St Helens. 416-289-8855.

SUSAN HOBBS Krista Buecking (sculpture), Feb 26-Apr 4, reception 7-9 pm Feb 26. 137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699.

TRINITY SQUARE VIDEO Ho Tzu Nyen, to Mar 21. 401 Richmond W #376. 416-593-1332.

URBANSPACE GALLERY Mapped Ground: Representing The Urban Imaginary, to Mar 8. 401 Richmond W. 416-595-5900.

VTAPE Curatorial Incubator v.12: Bad Timing, to Mar 5. 401 Richmond W #452. 416351-1317.

Coupland’s giant sculptural self-portrait, Gumhead (in the window at Holt Renfrew on Bloor until March 9), cov-

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(Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz). 115 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (February 27). For venues and times, see Movies, page 64. Rating: NNNN

THE DONALD GLOVER EFFECT Hip-hop’s Childish Gambino and Community actor makes a scary smart move By NORMAN WILNER THE LAZARUS EFFECT directed by David Gelb, written by Luke Dawson and Jeremy Slater, with Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Donald Glover and Sarah Bolger. A D Films release. 83 minutes. Opens Friday (February 27). For venues and times, see Movies, page 64.

The Lazarus Effect isn’t Donald Glover’s first visit to the horror genre. In a beloved Halloween episode of Community, his character – dim but decent college student Troy – saved his entire campus from a zombie outbreak.

Of course, Community was a sitcom, and The Lazarus Effect – which stars Glover, Mark Duplass and Olivia Wilde as researchers whose experiments in reanimating the dead lead to fairly messy results – is straight-up horror. But there are some things that connect the genres, he says.

“You can put them in front of a test audience and see a laugh here or a scare there, these things you’re hoping feel like surprises even though you’ve been planning them for months in advance,” he says. “Timing is something that anybody who’s done comedy can relate to. You’ve gotta know the right way to do that kinda stuff, and Mark and Olivia and everybody are really good at that.”

The idea of seeing how director David Gelb would handle the horror genre was another attraction. Glover

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was a fan of the filmmaker’s delicate documentary Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. “[David] understands presentation, you know?” Glover laughs. “Jiro Dreams Of Sushi was really about presentation. Of course it’s delicious, he’s using all the best ingredients, but [Jiro’s] giving it to you in a certain way, and also [David’s] shooting it in a certain way so it feels like art. That’s pretty much like a lot of things now; it’s like how do things feel? Because everybody knows how they work.”

In addition to his hip-hop work as Childish Gambino, Glover has two highly anticipated pictures coming this year: Magic Mike XXL in July and The Martian in November. He says they’re both part

ACTOR INTERVIEW

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REVIEW THE LAZARUS EFFECT (David Gelb) Rating: NN Researchers discover that Some Things Should Be Left Unresearched in The Lazarus Effect, a mildly diverting riff on Frankenstein and Re-Animator with just a touch of Flatliners.

In a California university, a team led by lovers-partners Dr. Frank (Mark Duplass) and Dr. Zoe (Olivia Wilde) has devised a breakthrough corpse-reviving serum. So when Zoe is electrocuted in a lab accident, Frank decides to bring her back. It’s not the best idea.

David Gelb, who made the documentary Jiro Dreams Of Sushi, livens up some very derivative material with interesting casting – Duplass, Wilde, Donald Glover, Evan Peters and Sarah Bolger make engaging lab rats – and a sleek visual design that makes the most of a limited laboratory setting.

But the script gets less adventurous as it goes along, slowly shedding every intriguing idea and character detail for an utterly conventional final NW act.

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of a simple career strategy: work with interesting people on worthwhile endeavours.

“Project to project, I always try to make them special,” he says, explaining that The Lazarus Effect offered him the opportunity to work with producer Jason Blum, whose production company makes the Paranormal Activity, Insidious and Sinister movies but also brought Whiplash to the screen.

“I really liked the Blumhouse model,” he says, “and wanted to learn more about it. And I got to work with David, who did one of my favourite documentaries ever, and Mark Duplass and Olivia. It was a passion project, and I hadn’t been able to do that in a long time.”

Does shadowing a producer mean Glover’s looking to do more behind the camera himself? He’s already directed a short for hip-hop alter ego Childish Gambino, but is he looking at features?

“I’m looking, yeah,” he says. “I really like it when people are like, ‘I didn’t know.’ That’s what I always kinda chase a lot lately. I want people to be, ‘Oh, I didn’t know he did that.’ I feel like under-promise, over-deliver with everything. That’s the only way to get a reaction out of people.”

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Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem takes place entirely within a sterile rabbinic courtroom, where a divorce hearing drags on for more than five years.

The set-up can make things frustratingly constrictive and redundant, but that’s the point.

The film is no more exasperating than the rigid, patriarchal legal system it depicts. That Gett remains engaging, heart-wrenching and absurdly comical is a testament to the filmmakers’ skill.

Ronit Elkabetz (the film’s co-writer and -director with brother Shlomi) plays Viviane, the wife filing for divorce from her devoutly Orthodox and emotionally distant husband, Elisha (Simon Abkarian). According to Jewish law, a couple cannot end their relationship unless the husband grants his wife a divorce, or gett. Elisha repeatedly refuses to do so, motivated by stubbornness, hurt pride and vengefulness.

The rabbi presiding over the trial can’t find grounds to force the divorce, since Elisha is not physically abusive or an adulterer. An unhappy marriage, recounted through colourful witness testimony, is not sufficient.

This is a film that lives and dies by its cast, and the ensemble is stellar, particularly Elkabetz. She subtly conveys Viviane’s warmth, passion and sensuality, all tragically hemmed in by the dark, buttoned-up garb, hair ties and frown imposed upon her.

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Ronit Elkabetz is magnificent as a woman divorcing her Orthodox Jewish husband.

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HEY, I KNOW THAT GUY Character actor stays focused and welcomes his breakout role By NORMAN WILNER FOCUS written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, with Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Rodrigo Santoro and Adrian Martinez. A Warner Bros. release.

105 minutes. Opens Friday (February 27).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 64.

You’ve probably seen Adrian Martinez before; you just might not have noticed him.

He pops up all over the place – with Ben Stiller in The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, with Will Ferrell in Casa De Mi Padre, with Jeremy Renner in American Hustle – but he rarely gets enough dialogue to really make an impression.

Martinez’s new project, the caper picture Focus, lets him make an impression. As Farhad, sidekick to Will Smith’s master scam artist Nicky, Martinez gets to be the comic relief and share long, complex scenes with both Smith and Margot Robbie, who plays a novice grifter looking to level up by joining Nicky’s crew.

“For me it’s been a sort of universal pat on the back,” Martinez says during a Toronto press stop. “I’ve been working hard. I’ve been in small roles in big movies, and big roles in small movies, and people always say, ‘Ah, this role’s the one that’s gonna make you a big star!’”

Focus, he says, “kinda felt like I’d been in this marathon and somebody reached down and handed me a cup of champagne. ‘This is awesome! Veuve Clicquot?’ I feel rejuvenated, like I could keep going here.”

Martinez was especially gratified by writer/directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s faith in their actors.

“They were able to open up their canvas, so to speak, and let us improvise and play with the script, and take chances. I never felt more safe on a set, ever.”

He’s also happy Will Smith turned out to be okay with goofing around

for hours on end.

“Not every star wants to put up with that, you know? I just felt like, from the instant I met him, it was completely safe to work with him.

Say anything, do anything, he would catch me.”

Martinez hopes Focus marks a pivot in his career, and he’s doing his best to capitalize on it.

“I’ve got a big announcement [coming] at South By Southwest,” he says. “Time Warner’s gonna put out a project I’m co-creating. And then there’s Sisters, with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, that I’ll have a nice role in. We’ll see how it plays out. I’ll keep swinging the bat no matter what.”

And in the meantime, Martinez says, you can see Focus – and maybe catch it more than once so you can see the angles you might have missed the first time.

“We encourage you to do so,” he laughs. “Let’s start at three [times] and take it from there.”

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French director Céline Sciamma loves to keep adults out of the picture. Her film Tomboy (bad title) follows a middle-school transgender boy and his peers’ reactions to him in ways that show Sciamma’s understanding of kids’ mindsets.

The grown-ups are also almost entirely absent in her follow-up, Girlhood. In a suburban Parisian housing project, 16-year-old Marieme, aka Vic (the charismatic Karidja Touré), tries to find an identity of her own.

She’s so busy taking care of her younger sister and staying out of the way of her abusive brother (Cyril Mendy) while her mother works nights cleaning hotel toilets that her grades have tanked and she’s been kicked out of the academic stream.

The absence of options for poor black kids is one of Sciamma’s themes.

When Vic falls in with a gang of girls led by Lady (Assa Sylla, terrific), she gains some self-esteem, but gang life doesn’t exactly improve her choices.

Finding a boyfriend doesn’t help Vic either – he just wants the kind of traditional relationship Vic scorns. Soon she’s taking up with heavyweight hoodlums.

Sciamma taps her compassion for young people in spectacular moments: girls engaged in animated conversation while walking home go silent when they pass a group of guys. In one superb scene, Vic’s gang, clad in dresses they just shoplifted, dance and lipsynch to Rihanna’s Diamonds while partying in a hotel room.

The opening high-energy sequence features Vic and school pals playing football, and it’s slightly problematic.

Evidence of Vic’s personal connections weakens the case for her profound alienation.

But this is a small complaint about a film from a director with a lot of style SUSAN G. COLE and even more to say.

REVIEW FOCUS (Glenn Ficarra, John Requa) Rating: NNN Focus stars Will Smith as a master con artist who lets a small-time scammer (The Wolf Of Wall Street’s Margot Robbie) into his crew, and into his heart. Or… wait, does he?

The new film from writer/directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (I Love You Phillip Morris; Crazy, Stupid, Love.) is built on a base of constantly shifting loyalties and agendas played out against vividly realized locations in New York, New Orleans and Buenos Aires.

The sense of gamesmanship is woven into the texture of the film itself. The scams themselves are less important than the relationships of the people involved in them, Smith and Robbie have a spiky chemistry, and Adrian Martinez, BD Wong and Gerald McRaney pop up in rich supporting roles.

Best of all, Ficarra and Requa aren’t out to trick their audience with elaborate, impossible plotting; they just don’t serve us everything on a NW silver platter. It’s appreciated.

Will Smith and Margot Robbie master the art of the con in Focus.

Girlhood’s Karidja Touré shows charisma as a teen with limited options living in suburban Paris.

DOCUMENTARY

Slow dance BALLET 422 (Jody Lee Lipes). 72 minutes.

Opens Friday (February 27). For venues and times, see Movies, page 64. Rating: NNN If you’ve ever wondered what goes into mounting a new ballet, Ballet 422 takes you through practically every step. Too bad there’s not much drama on the journey.

Justin Peck is a New York City Ballet corps dancer in his mid-20s. He’s also a talented choreographer. Jody Lee Lipes’s vérité doc looks at a short piece he’s created – the company’s 422nd new work, hence the title – from conception to rehearsal to performance.

The film covers the two months leading up to its premiere in 2013.

If you’re interested in the performing arts, all this material will be fascin-

ating, from working with lighting and costume designers and stage managers to delicately negotiating with the conductor – one of the few moments of tension – to give a pep talk to the orchestra.

Problem is, Peck is an unnervingly calm and serene subject. Nothing fazes him. He doesn’t seem to have any particularly good friends at the company, and we don’t get any glimpse of his personal life. After the studio, at home, he studies rehearsal footage.

Still, there are worse ways to spend 72 minutes than watching beautifully expressive dancers like Tiler Peck, Sterling Hyltin and Amar Ramasar learn the moves, get fitted for costumes and apply their own makeup.

And since dance is so difficult to describe, there are some great expressions. My favourite is when Justin tells a performer a sequence is “not crispy enough.” Thing is, you get what he GLENN SUMI means.

Dancer/choreographer Justin Peck doesn’t crumble under the pressure in Ballet 422.

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romantic comedy

Not Cool

Playing it Cool (Justin Reardon). 94 minutes. Opens Friday (February 27). For venues and times, see Movies, page 64.

Rating: n Portia Doubleday has a Ball, and so will you.

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Fresh fable aFter the Ball (Sean Garrity). 100 minutes. Opens Friday (February 27). For venues and times, see Movies, page 64.

Rating: nnn It’s predictable and a little bit ridiculous, but After The Ball is a lot of fun.

In this fractured take on Cinderella, talented aspiring fashion designer Kate (Portia Doubleday) starts work at the company owned by her father (Chris Noth) only to discover that her stepmother (Lauren Holly) and stepsisters are bent on sabotaging her career and the entire fashion house.

When she’s fired, she seeks the help of an actor (Carlo Rota, channelling

Stanley Tucci) so she can disguise herself as a guy and go back to work at the company as designer Nate. The prince in the story is shoe designer Daniel (Marc-André Grondin) – yes, a glass slipper does figure – who’s got trust issues.

Doubleday, appealing as clumsy Kate, is not all that convincing as a man, and there’s more than a little sexism in the portrayal of the not-sobright stepsisters. But writers Kate Melville (Picture Day) and Jason Sherman serve up some zippy one-liners, which makes for a refreshing change from other dreary Telefilm-funded scripts.

Think of After The Ball the way many of us approach a high-end fashion mag, as a guilty pleasure. sUsan g. Cole

In a vividly realized urban setting, a lonely, cynical guy finds himself smitten with a vibrant young woman, only to discover she’s already in a relationship. So they decide to be friends – because nothing could possibly go wrong with that plan.

Yup, it’s The F Word, only it’s set in and around Los Angeles instead of Toronto, and rather than having Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan grapple with platonic buddyship, Justin Reardon’s comedy stars Chris Evans and Michelle Monaghan as its should-be lovers.

Which could be fine, but screenwriters Chris Shafer and Paul Vicknair aren’t interested in creating relatable characters, instead relying on rom-com stereotypes and contrivances that are supposedly excused by making Evans’s character a jaded screenwriter. (This guy, right? Complaining at length about the artifice of romantic comedies even as his life turns into one!)

Worst of all, though, is its wholesale waste of an insanely talented cast – and not just Evans and Monaghan but Ioan Gruffudd, Aubrey Plaza, Luke Wilson, Martin Starr, Topher Grace, Philip Baker Hall and Anthony Mackie.

I enjoy every last one of them, but not like this. Dear god, not like this.

Monsoon provides lovely images but little context or insight.

documentary

All wet

Monsoon (Sturla Gunnarsson). 108 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (February 27). For venues and times, see Movies, page 64. Rating: nn

It’s hard to shake the suspicion that Sturla Gunnarsson’s high-definition tour of India during monsoon season would be a far more impressive accomplishment had Jennifer Baichwal not already made Act Of God and Watermark, documentaries that actually dig into the mythologies we create to rationalize the indifference of the natural world.

In contrast, Gunnarsson’s Monsoon

is nothing more than a splendidly photographed travelogue. The filmmaker wanders through India’s provinces capturing spectacular images of rainfall and flooding, but he never builds a thesis or grapples with what he sees.

A sequence shot during a religious festival comes dangerously close to framing celebrants as sideshow freaks, while Gunnarsson’s voice-over tells us he has no idea what any of it means.

Isn’t that what Wikipedia is for?

There is a tradition of observational documentaries that present events and images without offering context or insight, but Monsoon doesn’t even do that. There’s no curiosity, not even a pretense of investigation. norMan Wilner It’s just tourism.

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Peter Keleghan (left), Tammy Isbell, Gordon Pinsent and Ennis Esmer aren’t given enough for a feature.

Xavier Dolan and Catherine Keener: this Song doesn’t soar.

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Off-key Song elePhant song (Charles Binamé). 110 minutes. Opens Friday (February 27). For venues and times, see Movies, page 64.

Rating: nn

Yeah, Elephant Song features maverick Quebec actor-turned-filmmaker Xavier Dolan in front of the camera rather than behind it. But veteran character actor Bruce Greenwood is the real star.

It’s 1966, and Greenwood plays Dr. Green, a psychiatrist at a Quebec mental institution trying to glean the whereabouts of a missing colleague from a disturbed young inmate (Dolan).

Elephant Song was adapted by

small-town comedy

Nicolas Billon from his play of the same name, and director Charles Binamé’s visualization of it remains utterly stage-bound. Other than brief, impressionistic flashbacks to Cuba and South Africa, it’s just Greenwood and Dolan talking in circles while the occasional supporting character – played by the ridiculously overqualified likes of Catherine Keener or Carrie-Anne Moss – barges into the room.

Greenwood is convincing as a professional teetering on the edge of desperation, but Dolan’s twitchy, mannered turn gives him almost nothing to play against.

Maybe that’s why Greenwood’s performance was recognized with a Canadian Screen Award nomination, while Dolan’s was overlooked. Fine by me. norMan Wilner

Minor News

Big neWs FroM grand roCk (Daniel Perlmutter). 87 minutes. Opens Friday (February 27). For venues and times, see Movies, page 64. Rating: nn

Michelle Monaghan wonders if she should have taken this crappy role.

Desperate to save his dying small-town newspaper, bright-eyed Leonard (Ennis Esmer) turns movie plots into heartwarming front-page stories – only to find his work under scrutiny by a bigcity reporter (Meredith MacNeill) when he writes about secret medical experiments being conducted in his tiny Ontario town.

The premise of Big News From Grand Rock feels like it could have made a great B-story on Corner Gas, if Dog River’s Blockbuster were still open.

But what might power a fun 22 minutes of TV proves unworkably naive at

an hour and a half, and writer/director Daniel Perlmutter’s insistent folksiness becomes exasperating and ultimately exhausting.

At least the actors put in the work.

As Leonard, Esmer makes obliviousness charming: it’s like he missed that one J-school class about ethics and can’t understand why everyone’s so pissed at him. And MacNeill’s sketch-comedy instincts, honed on Man Stroke Woman and This Hour Has 22 Minutes, keep peeking out in the conflict between professional offence and an unexpected attraction to the man she’s certain is a fraud.

Kristin Booth and Peter Keleghan have a lot of fun as Leonard’s newsroom colleagues, making meals of their characters’ single respective notes of mousiness and pomposity.

Someone should give them a show. norMan Wilner

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Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of film, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating.

Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Top 10 of the year NNNN Honourable mention NNN Entertaining NN Mediocre N Bomb ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our film times on page 71.

AdvAnced Style (Lina Plioplyte) follows

seven stylin’ women over 60 who are devoted to all things fashionable. They’re all delightful and fascinating in their own way, but you don’t get enough of any them, and the film has no narrative arc.

Pleasurable, though. 72 min. nnn (SGC) Revue

AeroSmith rockS donington 2014

(Dick Carruthers) is a high-def broadcast of a concert by the rock band filmed in Leicestershire last summer. 104 min.

Feb 26, 7:30 pm, at Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Yonge & Dundas 24; continuing at Yonge & Dundas 24

After the BAll (Sean Garrity) 100 min.

See review, page 62. nnn (SGC) Opens Feb 27 at Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, Yonge & Dundas 24 AmericAn Sniper (Clint Eastwood) turns the alpha-male autobiography of Navy SEAL turned Iraq War sniper turned rightwing poster boy Chris Kyle into a dull, bythe-numbers war drama. A bulked-up, bearded Bradley Cooper does a fine job of showing us how deeply uncomfortable Kyle is stateside, but Eastwood’s disconnected direction means we spend the entire movie with a man in stasis. At 84, he’s earned the right to coast – but we

don’t have to pretend he’s still making good movies. 132 min. nn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

AwAke: the life of yogAnAndA (Paola di Florio, Lisa Leeman) is the kind of hagiography you’d expect to find in a gift shop at a New Age store. With serene talking heads, plenty of sitar plucking but not much tension, it tells the story of Paramahansa Yogananda, who brought Eastern religion to the West. 87 min. nn (GS) Kingsway Theatre

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(Madeleine Grant) concerns former untouchables who, while still at the bottom of India’s social hierarchy, are studying at Shanti Bhavan School to pass college entrance exams. Director Grant focuses on three students, all nuanced characters, alongside inspiring principal Lalita Law, and builds powerful tension as we root for the kids to succeed. Winner of last year’s Audience Choice Award at Hot Docs. Some subtitles. 91 min. nnnn (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

BAllet 422 (Jody Lee Lipes) 72 min. See review, page 61. nnn (GS) Opens Feb 27 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

Big eyeS (Tim Burton) reunites the director with Ed Wood screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski for the story of Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), who obsessively painted sad-eyed children, and her husband (Christoph Waltz), who became a minor celebrity by selling her art as his own. It’s stronger and more interesting than Alice In Wonderland or Dark Shadows, but Burton can’t or won’t engage honestly with the tale’s darker turns. 106 min. nnn (NW) Royal

ñBig hero 6

(Don Hall, Chris Williams) centres on 14-year-old robotics genius Hiro Hamada (voiced by Ryan Potter), who “upgrades” himself and four college-aged scientists to battle an emerging super-villain. Directors Hall and Williams find new angles on the required action beats, but their real focus is on

Rajesh Tailang delivers a gut-wrenching performance in Toronto-based Richie Mehta’s drama Siddharth.

Hiro’s bond with his initial subject, a marshmallowy medical droid called Baymax (30 Rock’s Scott Adsit). The world in which it all takes place is a production designer’s dream. 108 min. nnnn (NW) Fox

Big newS from grAnd rock (Daniel Perlmutter) 87 min. See review, page 62. nn (NW) Opens Feb 27 at Carlton Cinema

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BlAck or white (Mike Binder) is a dreadful race-relations film with no shades of grey. Alcoholic WASP attorney Elliot (Kevin Costner) battles salt-of-the-earth black entrepreneur and earth mother Rowena (Octavia Spencer) for custody of their cute grandchild. It’s movie-of-the-week material, with only Costner’s salty, unselfconscious turn as a cranky codger making the film almost bearable. 121 min. nn (GS) Kingsway Theatre the Boy next door (Rob Cohen) is a latenight W Network slot filler in which Jennifer Lopez’s high school teacher is seduced and then stalked by her student.

Everyone involved in this piss-poor Fatal Attraction-style thriller seems confident that they’re making a terrible movie, so the actors adjust their performances for camp, while director Cohen slyly shoots his reveals from the most unexpected places so audiences can stifle laughs instead of shrieks. 90 min. n (RS) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway

ñBoyhood

(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) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Laura Poitras) chronicles the eight days Edward Snowden spent in a Hong Kong hotel room with filmmaker Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald, where he blew the whistle on America’s secret data-collection programs and the complicity of foreign govern-

ments in those efforts. It’s as unnerving as any espionage thriller. Some subtitles. 114 min. NNNN (NW) Fox

THE DUFF (Ari Sandel) occasionally plays like a mashup of Mean Girls and Easy A, but Mae Whitman’s performance as a high-school senior who realizes she’s her group’s designated ugly fat friend and decides to challenge the accepted social structure gives The DUFF a spiky energy all its own. 101 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 DUKE OF BURGUNDY ñTHENNNN

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FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (Sam Taylor-Johnson) adapts the wildly successful novels into something so slow it hurts. Dakota Johnson as the innocent virgin lured into a BDSM relationship is watchable, but almost nothing happens. The pic, which boasts a laughably clichéd soundtrack – Beast Of Burden, anyone? – is plainly a cash-grabbing set-up to promote a full trilogy. 124 min. NN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Cineplex VIP Cinemas Don Mills, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñGIRLHOOD

(Céline Sciamma) 113 min. See review, page 61. NNNN (SGC) Opens Feb 27 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (Peter Jackson) is the climax of

the director’s gargantuan adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s slender prequel to The Lord Of The Rings, and most viewers will be struggling with Middle-earth fatigue. At two hours and 24 minutes it’s the shortest of the trilogy, but it still feels longer than it needs to be, especially since the Smaugrelated cliffhanger is resolved 15 minutes in. Some subtitles. 144 min. NN (NW) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Scotiabank Theatre

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2 (Steve Pink) is

exactly what you’d expect from a Hot Tub Time Machine sequel: bros partying heartily and insulting each other while checking out the racks on hot ladies, and also timetravel jokes. I laughed a few times, but more at the actors’ timing than at what they were saying. 93 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 1 (Francis Lawrence) keeps the fran-

chise in a holding pattern, focusing on Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) while she wrestles with whether she wants to be the Mockingjay, the public face of the rebellion against the Capitol and evil President Snow (Donald Sutherland). It’s very well made and Lawrence is riveting, as usual, but it’s all just set-up for the grand finale. 123 min. NNN (SGC) Scotiabank Theatre

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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. Subtitled. 80 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant

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(Morten Tyldum) stars Benedict Cumberbatch as mathematician and cryptanalyst Alan Turing, who’s hired by the British government to crack the Germans’ Enigma code during the Second World War.

Julianne Moore’s best-actress Oscar win last Sunday should get more people to see her haunting portrayal of a linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s.

Nominated for a best foreignlanguage film Oscar, Timbuktu looks at Islamic militants imposing sharia law on a small community that doesn’t want it. Balanced, humane and surprisingly gentle.

Parenthood’s Mae Whitman stars as a high school senior faced with an identity crisis when she realizes she’s her social group’s DUFF (designated ugly fat friend). The film is derivative, but Whitman’s great.

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FOCUS (Glenn Ficarra, John Requa) 105 min. See interview and review, page 61.

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(Ruben Östlund) follows a picture-perfect Swedish family’s skiing vacation in the French Alps, where the father (Johannes Kuhnke) panics in a moment of potential crisis, destroying his standing as benevolent patriarch and sending him into a spiral of selfjustification. The deeper he digs, the funnier Force Majeure gets, and the more perceptive and uncomfortable it becomes.

Some subtitles. 118 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

FOXCATCHER (Bennett Miller) finds director Miller returning to the chilly tone of his debut feature Capote for another real-life tale of interpersonal tensions and murder.

All three leads wear distracting prosthetics, which work against Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo’s naturalistic performances and make Steve Carell’s precise, creepy turn as the self-absorbed, deluded John du Pont seem far too obviously unhinged. 134 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM ñGETT: NNNN

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(Ana Lily Amirpour) follows a vampire (Sheila Vand) as she cruises the streets of a fictional Iranian city inviting men to chat her up, make a move, bring her home. Shooting in black-and-white widescreen, writer/director Amirpour has built a marvellous world that shares its DNA with Godard, Jarmusch, Lynch, Tarantino and Bigelow. Subtitled. 99 min.

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(Albert Shin) is an expertly plotted drama that packs a paralyzing emotional gut punch. In rural South Korea, a well-to-do city woman moves in with an elderly farm woman and her pregnant teen with the intention of adopting the child. Societal demands and class differences are just two of the factors that stir this dramatic pressure cooker. Subtitled. 115 min. NNNN (RS) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

(Paul Thomas Anderson) is a giddy adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s detective novel about a sometime detective (Joaquin Phoenix) fumbling further and further into an elaborate (and frankly insane) conspiracy in 1970 L.A. Phoenix makes an excellent tour guide to the Pynchon/Anderson funhouse, and the director’s casual mastery of image and sound is here to be admired, as always. It’s a fantastically dense movie worthy of repeat viewings. 149 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

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INTo THe Woods (Rob Marshall) is an awkward adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s witty and profound musical mashup of fairy tales. Sondheim’s musicals are constructed for the theatre. His clever wordplay, complex rhythms and harmonies, the way his stories intersect and unfold – none of these things translates easily to film. There’s poignant material here about parents and children, loss, commitment and forgiveness, but in Marshall’s film, the plot seems convoluted and the language laboured. The less time spent in these woods the better. 125 min.

NN (GS) Yonge & Dundas 24 JuPITer asceNdING (Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski) is kind of goony and more than a little cheesy as space operas go, but it has some absolutely spectacular highs, including an astonishingly complicated chase over and through Chicago that seems like the reason IMAX 3D was invented. Some subtitles. 127 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 KINGsmaN: THe secreT serVIce (Matthew Vaughn) is an action fantasy built around all the things people love about the Roger Moore-era Bond movies: unflappable gentleman heroes, megalomaniac villains, apocalyptic plots, awesome gadgets. And for a while, that’s enough. But an unironic celebration of such films means accepting their creepy white-men-as-conquerors undertone, leading the movie to some very uncomfortable places in the service of instant gratification. Some subtitles. 129 min.

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ñTHe lasT FIVe years

(Richard LaGravenese) is an adaptation of the off-Broadway musical in which a young couple (Anna Kendrick, Smash’s Jeremy Jordan) recount the ups and downs of their relationship in song – she moving backwards from the bitter end, and he going forwards from the optimistic beginning. Kendrick has never had a better showcase; she’s always been a vivid screen presence, but when she sings she’s absolutely electric. 90 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

THe lazarus eFFecT (David Gelb) 83 min.

See interview and review, page 60. NN (NW) Opens Feb 27 at 401 & Morningside, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(Andrey Zvyagintsev) is an epic drama set in a small Russian town where a property dispute between a hotheaded family man (Alexey Serebryakov) and the venal local mayor (Roman Madyanov) leads to a series of escalating confrontations. And it plays equally well as slow-motion domestic tragedy and a

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(Michele Josue) revisits the tragedy of Matthew Shepard, gay-bashed and left to die in Laramie, Wyoming, 17 years ago, and draws a full portrait of the very human young man who became a national symbol. There’s nothing new here in terms of documentary form, but this is an important, emotionally powerful story. 89 min. NNN (JT) Carlton Cinema

McFarlaNd (Niki Caro) is based on the

true story of a transplanted football coach (Kevin Costner) who convinced the Latino students at his California high school to form a cross-country running team and compete at the state level. It could move a little faster and be a little less proud of its own progressiveness, but it’s a sports movie that knows what it’s doing for the most part and ends strong. Some subtitles. 129 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(J.C. Chandor) is a moody character study of an entrepreneur (Oscar Isaac) who spends a month in the winter of 1981 trying to put his heating-oil business on a solid financial footing while someone keeps hijacking his trucks in broad daylight. As a study of corruption and lawlessness in precomeback New York City, it bears comparison to Dog Day Afternoon and Prince Of The City for its sense of place and time, and to the first Godfather for its depiction of a man who places himself at a moral crossroads. Some subtitles. 124 min.

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ñMr. Turner

(Mike Leigh) stars Cannes best actor winner Timothy Spall as painter J.M.W. Turner at the peak of his fame. Dick Pope shoots the landscapes that inspired the paintings spectacularly, but writer/director Leigh also conveys the impact of reality – slave ships, the rise of the steam engine – on the artist’s otherworldly masterpieces. An art film in every sense of the word. 150 min. nnnnn (SGC) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre

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My Old lady (Israel Horovitz) stars Kevin Kline as a penniless, middle-aged loser who travels to Paris to claim a sprawling apartment in the Marais bequeathed him by his dad. But under the viager system, the previous owner (Maggie Smith) and her daughter (Kristin Scott Thomas) can still live there. The plot’s telegraphed in the first 10 minutes, but the stars are watchable. 107 min. nn (GS) Kingsway Theatre

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(Gabe Polsky) is a pleasantly off-centre look at the Soviet Union’s fanatical pursuit of ice hockey superiority, which culminated in the socalled Red Army team of the 80s. Polsky, a veteran producer making his first documentary, has fun with the archival material and tells compelling stories about how stars like Vladislav Tretiak and Slava Fetisov balanced their beautiful game with the insane political situation back home. Some subtitles. 85 min. nnnn (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

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Writer/director King’s remarkable adaptation of Michael Bond’s beloved selMa (Ava DuVernay) traces key children’s books spins the story of the lost moments in the movement for black little bear from Darkest Peru into a voting rights in 60s America and comes at thoughtful and genuinely moving metaa time when racist killings have galvanized phor for the immigrant experience. It’s activism all over the U.S. David Oyelowo’s cartoonish in precisely the right way, situsuperb performance as King and Duating its talking, marmalade-loving, traVernay’s skill directing both the massive gically accident-prone protagonist (voiced set pieces and intimate details would

by Ben Whishaw) in a lush, just slightly make this a powerful film even without its exaggerated universe of delightful British current political resonance. 128 min. actors. I’d have loved this when I was a kid. nnnn (SGC) Hell, I love it now. 95 min. nnnnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, CanT:3.75” Kingsway Theatre, Varsity, Yonge & ada Square, Colossus, Eglinton Town CenDundas 24 tre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow

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sevenTh sOn (Sergei Bodrov) is a spectacularly bad dungeons and dragons fiasco with Julianne Moore as evil witch Mother Malkin, who tries to wipe out mankind. We root for her in the hopes that there won’t be a sequel. She vamps and camps it up, seemingly aware that the only way to liven up the dreadful material is by trying to out-wicked the Wicked Witch of the West. 102 min. n (RS) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Scotiabank Theatre

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(Richie Mehta) is an assured and harrowing look at poverty and desperation in India’s slums. Rajesh Tailang gives a quietly wrenching performance as chain-wallah Mahendra (he fixes zippers), who sends his 12-year-old son Siddharth to work out of town. When the boy fails to return, matters both trivial and critical impede Mahendra’s search.

The film’s sociopolitical critique never interferes with its intimate and devastating story. Subtitled. 97 min. nnnn (RS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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daft deep-sea burger flipper uncharacteristically surfacing on shore in CG and 3D, playing superhero in a live-action environment opposite a mugging Antonio Banderas as a villainous pirate. Thankfully, these unimaginative enhancements are limited to the final act. The bulk of the movie stays submerged, hand-drawn and Banderas-free, still delivering coy wit, surrealism and absurdity with SpongeBob’s childish whimsy. 93 min. nnn (RS) 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

sTill aliCe (Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland) follows a woman slowly losing her mind to early Alzheimer’s and succeeds because the script focuses less on Alice’s (Oscar favourite Julianne Moore) relationships with family and more on the ingenious strategies she uses to keep the ravages of her disease at bay. It does have a predictable trajectory – how could it not? – but it’s certainly not movie-of-theweek fare. 99 min. nnn (SGC) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Varsity

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Marion Cotillard gives a magnificent performance in Two Days, One Night.

who challenges a monstrous conductor (J.K. Simmons) for a potentially life-changing spot in his school’s jazz orchestra. Teller and Simmons commit completely, but Chazelle’s plot twists grow increasingly ridiculous – to the point where the final act has the feel of a fever dream. I just couldn’t go with it. 106 min. nn (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Fox, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Jean-Marc Vallée) stars Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed, who walked 1,100 miles solo along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1995. What could have been a mawkish and sentimental true-life story plays as intelligent drama thanks to the sure hand of director Vallée, and Witherspoon is entirely credible as the worndown Strayed. 115 min. nnnn (NW) Carlton Cinema, Fox, Regent Theatre

Taken 3 (Olivier Megaton) forces Liam Neeson’s glowering security expert Bryan Mills into a clumsy reworking of The Fugitive. Director Megaton can’t cut an action scene coherently, screenwriters Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen seem to have assembled this script by cutting and pasting from the previous ones, and Dougray Scott is so embarrassingly miscast that he might as well have been digitally superimposed from old Mission: Impossible II footage. Some subtitles. 109 min. n (NW) Colossus, Queensway

centuries-old predators annoy each other with petty personal tics and egotistical attempts to out-cool one another. 85 min. nnnn (NW) Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

whiplash (Damien Chazelle) is a battle of wills between a drummer (Miles Teller)

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The wrecking crew (Denny Tedesco) remembers the backup musicians who were key to the hit records cranked out in Los Angeles in the 50s and 60s. Unfortunately, director Tedesco name-checks so many players, we don’t know who the Wrecking Crew actually is. But those familiar with the tunes will love this. And the issue of how fans were fooled into thinking bands like the Byrds and the Association played on all their records is an important one. 102 min. nnn (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema 3

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Marsh) takes the remarkable, complex story of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and imprisons it in the inspirational treacle of a disease-of-the-week movie about a young couple struggling with life-altering illness. Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones make it worth watching, but Anthony McCarten’s script sees them only as noble sufferers waiting for the next challenge. 123 min. nnn (NW) Canada Square, Eglinton Town Centre, Fox, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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Subtitled. 97 min. nnnn (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne) is another excellent working-class drama from the Dardenne brothers, starring the magnificent Marion Cotillard as a depressed woman whose co-workers voted to eliminate her factory job to save their bonus.

Cotillard’s quivering face and resigned posture beautifully convey her fight against mental illness and to keep her job.

It’s a powerful, minimalist film about rallying self-worth in a dehumanizing economy. Subtitled. 92 min. nnnnn (RS) Carlton Cinema, Royal

The weDDing ringer (Jeremy Garelick) gives Kevin Hart material to work with, unlike those movies that simply drop him in a scene, pull the string on his back and let him loose. Jimmy, who pinch hits as a best man for friendless grooms, is an emotive character with some decent punchlines instead of the usual hot air of Hart’s act. As the groom who hires his services, Josh Gad also clicks as Hart’s straight man, making it easy to overlook how lazy, predictable and mildly offensive The Wedding Ringer often is. 101 min. nn (RS) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 whaT we Do in The shaDows

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(Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi) is a giddy, mostly improvised mockumentary about a quartet of vampire flatmates living in Wellington, New Zealand. Its sense of humour falls somewhere between deadpan and bloody hysterical, as the

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Downtown BLOOR HOT DOCS CINEMA (I) 506 BLOOR ST. W., 416-637-3123

THE BACKWARD CLASS (G) Fri 1:45 BALLET 422 Fri 6:45 Sat 1:00, 3:00 Sun 1:00 Mon 4:30, 6:30 Tue 3:30 Wed 4:00 CONCERNING VIOLENCE Fri 8:45 Sat 5:00 Sun 9:15 Mon 8:30 Tue 9:00 CONTROL (14A) Sat 9:30 THE HUNTING GROUND Wed 6:30, 9:15 IN SEARCH OF CHOPIN (PG) Sun 6:30 THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (14A) Fri 11:30 THE WRECKING CREW Thu 2:30 Fri 4:00 Sun 3:30

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AMERICAN SNIPER (14A) Thu 1:15, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:30 BIG NEWS FROM GRAND ROCK Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:15 BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 2:00 Fri-Wed 1:45 CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS Sun 8:00 DOCUNIGHT IRANIAN FILM SCREENING SERIES Thu 7:00 THE DUFF (14A) Thu 1:30 4:15 7:00 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:10 FOCUS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:35, 6:45, 9:05 FOXCATCHER (14A) Thu 3:50, 9:20 GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 6:40, 9:20 HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2 (14A) 4:20, 9:25 Thu 1:45 mat, 7:10 late IN HER PLACE (14A) Thu 4:10, 9:35 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (14A) 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 MATT SHEPARD IS A FRIEND OF MINE Thu 1:35, 4:15, 6:45, 9:05 Fri-Wed 1:40, 7:10 PLAYING IT COOL (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:40, 6:50, 9:00 THE ROOM Sat 11:00 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (G) Thu 1:25, 3:55, 6:40, 9:05 TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (PG) Thu 1:40 Fri-Sat, MonWed 7:05 WHIPLASH (14A) 1:35, 6:55 WILD (18A) Thu 3:55, 9:15 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 9:35 WILDSOUND FEEDBACK FESTIVAL Thu 7:00

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FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18A) 12:40, 3:40, 7:05, 9:40 Sat, Tue 11:15 late FOCUS (14A) Thu 9:05 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:25 Sat, Tue 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:25, 11:25 HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2 (14A) Thu 12:30, 2:45, 4:55, 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Wed 9:20 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 MCFARLAND (G) 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:35 PADDINGTON (G) Thu 12:25 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (G) Thu 12:35, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:20 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:35, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10 Mon 4:50, 7:10 STILL ALICE (PG) Thu 2:35, 4:45, 6:55 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 12:30, 2:45, 4:55, 7:00, 9:15 Sat, Tue 12:30, 2:45, 4:55, 7:00, 9:15, 11:10

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55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:55, 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 Sun 1:05, 3:50, 6:50, 9:55 Mon 1:35, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 Tue-Wed 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 ELEPHANT SONG (PG) Fri 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 10:25 Sat 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:20, 6:25, 9:10 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18A) Thu 12:30, 1:20, 3:20, 4:15, 6:25, 7:15, 9:25, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 THE IMITATION GAME (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:00, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Sun 12:55, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 A MOST VIOLENT YEAR (14A) Thu, Mon-Tue 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:25, 3:25, 6:25, 9:20 Wed 12:30, 3:10, 9:50 SELMA (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:35, 6:30, 9:30 Fri 12:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Sun 12:40, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 STILL ALICE (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 FriSat 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00

FOCUS: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:20 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 11:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 11:00 THE IMITATION GAME (PG) 7:40, 10:25 Fri 2:10, 4:55 mat Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:10, 4:55 mat IN THE GALLERY – REMBRANDT Sun 12:55, 4:00 Mon 7:00 Tue 1:45 INTO THE WOODS (PG) Thu 8:05, 10:55 JUPITER ASCENDING (PG) Thu 7:55 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:15, 7:05 Sat-Sun 1:05, 7:05 JUPITER ASCENDING 3D (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:15, 10:15, 11:00 Fri-Wed 4:05, 10:05 JUPITER ASCENDING: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:05 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:10, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:30, 10:45 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:45 MCFARLAND (G) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 MOULIN ROUGE – ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET Fri, Tue 4:00 Sat 5:00 Mon 1:45 PADDINGTON (G) Thu 6:50, 9:25 Fri 1:15 Sat-Sun 11:50

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BELLE EPOQUE Sun 6:30 BUBBA HO-TEP (14A) Fri 8:45 DAUGHTER OF THE NILE (PG) Sat 5:45 FERPECT CRIME (14A) Tue 9:15 GIRLHOOD (14A) Fri 12:00, 3:15, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 12:00, 2:20, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 12:00, 3:00, 7:30, 9:15 Mon 7:30, 10:00 Tue 12:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Wed 12:00, 4:30, 7:30, 9:30 THE GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME (PG) Fri 6:30 KAGAMIJISHI Sun 1:00 KAGOTSURUBE, THE HAUNTED SWORD (PG) Sun 3:30 THE LADY EVE (PG) Sat 8:00 THE LAST FIVE YEARS (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 7:15, 9:05 LEVIATHAN (14A) Thu 12:20, 3:45, 9:15 MEET JOHN DOE (G) Tue 6:15 MILLENNIUM MAMBO (14A) Sun 6:30 MONSOON (PG) Fri 2:30, 7:10, 9:30 Sat 2:30, 7:15, 10:10 Sun, Wed 2:30, 7:15, 9:40 Mon 7:15 Tue 2:30, 7:15, 9:30 THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2015: ANIMATED (PG) Thu 2:40, 4:45, 9:45 Fri 12:15, 4:50 Sat 12:20, 2:45 Sun 1:40, 6:20 Mon 9:40 Tue 2:40 Wed 2:20, 10:00 THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2015: LIVE ACTION (14A) Thu 4:35, 9:30 Fri 1:00, 2:40 Sat 4:35 Sun 3:40, 8:10 Tue 4:40 Wed 1:15, 4:10 THE REVENGE ON TOGITATSU (PG) Sat 3:00 SIDDHARTH (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 6:40 Fri 12:40, 4:00, 8:30 Sat 12:10, 5:15, 8:40 Sun, Wed 12:30, 5:00, 8:30 Mon 8:30 Tue 12:15, 2:15, 8:30 A SUMMER AT GRANDPA’S (G) Thu 6:30 TIMBUKTU (14A) Thu 12:10, 3:20, 6:50, 8:45 Fri 12:30, 3:00, 6:10, 10:15 Sat 12:30, 2:50, 6:10, 10:00 Sun 12:10, 2:20, 6:00, 10:00 Mon 6:15 Tue 1:15, 3:30, 6:10 Wed 12:10, 4:00, 6:15, 9:15 THE ZEN SUBSTITUTE - CINEMA KABUKI Sat 1:00

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SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) AMERICAN SNIPER (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:50, 7:00, 9:55 Fri 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 12:40, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 SunTue 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Wed 12:55, 3:50, 6:50, 9:55 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (18A) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 SunWed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (PG) Thu 12:55 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:00 Sat 12:50 THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 10:05 Fri 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Sun-Wed 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2 (14A) Thu 1:00, 1:35, 3:10, 4:10, 5:25, 6:30, 7:45, 8:55, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:10, 1:40, 3:20, 4:00, 5:35, 6:40, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:10, 1:50, 3:20, 4:00, 5:35, 6:40, 8:00, 8:55, 10:25 THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 1 (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Fri 12:55, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sat 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sun, Tue 12:55, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Mon 12:50, 3:25, 10:05 INHERENT VICE (14A) Thu 2:30, 6:00, 9:10 Fri 12:55, 3:55, 7:00, 10:10 Sat 3:30, 7:00, 10:10 Sun-Tue 12:55, 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 Wed 12:55, 3:55, 9:10 INTERSTELLAR (PG) Thu 2:00, 6:10, 9:55 Fri-Sat 2:00, 5:45, 9:30 Sun-Wed 2:10, 5:45, 9:20 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (14A) Thu 1:20, 2:00, 2:40, 3:25, 4:20, 5:10, 5:40, 6:20, 7:20, 8:05, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15 Fri 1:00, 2:45, 4:20, 6:00, 7:20, 9:10, 10:20 Sat 12:15, 1:00, 3:10, 4:20, 6:10, 7:20, 9:10, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:15, 2:50, 4:20, 6:00, 7:20, 9:00, 10:15 THE LAZARUS EFFECT (14A) Fri 1:20, 2:30, 3:30, 4:50, 5:55, 7:10, 8:15, 9:40, 10:30 Sat 1:20, 2:30, 3:45, 4:50, 5:55, 7:10, 8:15, 9:40, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:30, 2:40, 3:40, 4:50, 5:55, 7:10, 8:15, 9:30, 10:25 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: THE MERRY WIDOW ENCORE Sat 12:00 Mon 6:30 SEVENTH SON 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:40, 9:50 Fri-Sat 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Sun-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 Fri 1:30, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30, 10:35 Sat 12:30, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:00 Sun 1:40, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30, 10:35 Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:00, 6:10, 8:20, 10:25 Wed 1:40, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50

SELMA (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:30 Fri 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 STILL ALICE (PG) Fri 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:45 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (PG) Thu 5:25, 8:35 Fri-Sun 9:30 Mon-Wed 7:30 WHIPLASH (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:50, 8:20 Fri 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00

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

AEROSMITH ROCKS DONINGTON 2014 (14A) Thu 7:30, 9:30 Fri, Sun, Tue 9:30 Sat 8:00 AFTER THE BALL Fri 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:45, 10:20 AMERICAN SNIPER (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:30, 9:00 Fri-Sun 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:45, 9:00 BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (14A) 7:50, 10:40 Fri 2:05, 5:05 mat Sat-Sun 11:20, 2:05, 5:05 mat BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 2:00 THE DROP BOX Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 THE DUFF (14A) Thu 5:25, 8:20, 10:50 Fri 3:15, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:15, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:35, 8:20, 10:50 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18A) Thu 1:15, 2:00, 3:45, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00, 11:00 Fri 1:20, 3:30, 3:50, 4:25, 4:50, 6:55, 7:00, 8:00, 8:05, 9:55, 10:15, 11:00, 11:15 Sat 12:15, 12:50, 1:15, 1:50, 3:30, 3:50, 4:25, 4:50, 6:55, 7:00, 8:00, 8:05, 9:55, 10:15, 11:00, 11:15 Sun 12:15, 12:50, 1:15, 1:50, 3:30, 3:50, 4:25, 4:50, 6:55, 7:00, 8:00, 8:05, 9:55, 10:15, 11:00 Mon-Tue 1:20, 3:30, 3:50, 4:25, 4:50, 6:55, 7:00, 8:00, 8:05, 9:55, 10:00, 11:00 Wed 1:20, 3:30, 3:50, 4:25, 4:50, 7:00, 7:10, 8:00, 8:05, 10:00, 10:10, 11:00 FOCUS (14A) 1:45, 3:20, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:30, 10:00 SatSun 12:20 mat

RUSSELL MADNESS Sat 12:45 SELMA (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 10:35 Fri 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 SatSun 3:25, 6:25, 9:20 Mon, Wed 9:40 Tue 6:45, 9:40 SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Fri 3:45, 6:35, 9:15 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:45, 6:35, 9:35 Mon-Wed 6:35, 9:15 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (G) Thu 1:25, 3:55 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:30, 4:50 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:30, 4:50 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER 3D (G) Thu 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 Fri-Sun 7:25, 9:45 Mon 6:30, 10:30 Tue-Wed 6:30, 9:05 THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:35 Fri 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:35 Sat-Sun 11:55, 3:00, 6:10, 9:15 Mon-Tue 7:10, 10:35 Wed 10:35 TRIUMPH IN THE SKIES Thu 1:30 4:00 6:30 9:10 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:00, 6:40, 9:10 THE WEDDING RINGER (14A) Thu 8:10, 10:45 Fri 3:05, 5:40, 8:10, 10:55 Sat-Sun 12:25, 3:05, 5:40, 8:10, 10:55 Mon-Wed 8:10, 10:55 WHIPLASH (14A) Fri 1:30, 7:00 Sat 2:40, 10:15 Sun, Tue 7:00 Mon 4:35, 9:00 ZHONG KUI: SNOW GIRL AND THE DARK CRYSTAL 3D Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:35, 7:35, 10:30 Wed 3:00, 6:40, 10:30

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

ENGLISH ONLY, PLEASE (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:40, 8:10 Fri 4:20, 6:45, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 6:45, 9:20 THE IMITATION GAME (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:45, 8:25 Fri 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 JUPITER ASCENDING 3D (PG) Thu 5:05, 8:00 MCFARLAND (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:15 Fri 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 MR. TURNER (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:05 Fri 5:00, 8:20 Sat-Sun 1:40, 5:00, 8:20 PADDINGTON (G) Fri 4:40, 7:00 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:00 Mon-Wed 5:10 RUSSELL MADNESS Sat 11:00

AMERICAN SNIPER (14A) Thu 12:45, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 Fri 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Sun 3:35, 6:40, 9:40 Mon 12:40, 3:35, 9:30 Tue 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 THE DUFF (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Fri 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 Sat 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 Sun 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Mon 1:10, 3:45, 6:40, 9:10 Tue-Wed 1:10, 3:40, 6:35, 9:15 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18A) Thu 12:30, 1:20, 3:40, 4:20, 6:50, 7:20, 9:50, 10:15 Fri 1:25, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Mon 12:30, 3:15, 7:00, 9:50 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 FOCUS (14A) Fri 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Mon 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:25, 9:55 HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2 (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 10:15 Fri 2:20, 4:50, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Sun 1:50, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Mon 1:50, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:25 IN THE GALLERY – REMBRANDT Sun 12:55 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (14A) Thu 12:30, 1:05, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:10, 9:40, 10:10 Fri 1:00, 1:35, 3:55, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:50, 10:30 Sat 12:20, 1:15, 3:20, 4:20, 6:30, 7:30, 9:35, 10:30 Sun 12:30, 1:00, 3:25, 4:00, 6:20, 7:00, 9:20, 10:00 Mon 12:30, 1:00, 3:25, 3:55, 6:20, 6:50, 9:15, 9:45 Tue 1:00, 2:00, 3:55, 5:00, 6:50, 8:00, 9:45 Wed 2:00, 3:55, 5:00, 6:50, 8:00, 9:45 THE LAZARUS EFFECT (14A) Fri 1:15, 3:25, 5:40, 7:50, 10:10 Sat 12:40, 2:50, 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 Sun 12:40, 2:50, 5:20, 7:30, 9:50 Mon 12:50, 3:00, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40 Tue-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: THE MERRY WIDOW ENCORE Sat 12:00 Mon 6:30 PADDINGTON (G) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (G) Thu 1:00 Fri 1:10, 3:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:00 Mon 2:00, 4:30 Tue-Wed 1:20, 4:05 THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER 3D (G) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:15 Fri 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Sat 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 5:30, 9:00 Mon 7:40, 10:00 Tue-Wed 7:35, 9:50

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

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18A) 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 Sat-Mon 1:00 mat KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (14A) 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 Sat-Mon 1:15 mat MCFARLAND (G) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 MCFARLAND, USA (G) 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Mon 1:30 mat THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SPONGE OUT OF WATER (G) Thu 3:55, 6:30, 9:00 Fri, Tue-Wed 3:55 Sat-Mon 1:45, 3:55 STILL ALICE (PG) Fri-Wed 6:30, 9:00

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

AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA (G) Thu 5:00 Fri-Wed 11:30 BIRDMAN OR (THE UNEXPECTED VIRTUE OF IGNORANCE) (14A) Thu 7:30 Fri-Wed 12:45, 7:25 BLACK OR WHITE Thu 3:20 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:10 BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 7:05 Fri-Wed 7:00 ELSA & FRED (PG) Thu 1:15 FITZWILLY Thu 11:30 FORCE MAJEURE (14A) Sat, Mon, Wed 1:10 A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun, Tue 9:45 IDA (PG) Sat, Mon, Wed 5:15 IN HER PLACE (14A) Sat, Mon, Wed 9:45 INTERSTELLAR (PG) Sat 9:25 A MOST VIOLENT YEAR (14A) Thu 9:35 Sat, Mon, Wed 5:15 continued on page 72 œ

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fOcus (14A) Fri 3:20, 6:15, 9:30 Sat 12:30, 3:20, 6:15, 9:30 Sun 12:20, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 in the gallery – reMBrandt Sun 12:55 kingsMan: the secret service (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 Sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:30

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Mr. turner (14A) Thu 12:40 Fri-Wed 2:45 My Old lady (PG) Thu 3:15 Fri, Sun, Tue 5:15 red arMy (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 11:10 selMa (PG) Thu 5:25 Fri, Sun, Tue 5:15 sOng Of the sea (PG) Thu 11:00 Sat-Sun 11:10 Whiplash (14A) Fri, Sun-Wed 3:10, 9:25 Sat 3:10

QueenSWay (Ce)

1025 The QueenSWay, QeW & ISlIngTon, 416-503-0424 after the Ball Fri, Tue 12:30, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10 Sun 12:15, 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Mon 12:30, 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Wed 12:30, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 aMerican sniper (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:15, 4:00, 6:30, 7:10, 9:45, 10:15 Fri 12:35, 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Sat 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Sun 12:30, 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Mon 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 Tue 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Wed 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:00 the BOy next dOOr (14A) Thu 9:15 the drOp BOx Wed 7:30 the duff (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:20 Fri, Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:25, 9:15 Sat 1:10, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Tue 1:10, 3:50, 6:25, 9:10 Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:25, 9:10 fifty shades Of grey (18A) Thu 12:35, 1:30, 2:45, 3:25, 3:45, 4:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 9:00, 9:30, 10:10, 10:25 Fri 12:40, 1:00, 3:00, 3:30, 4:20, 6:00, 6:35, 7:15, 7:30, 9:15, 9:35, 10:40 Sat 12:00, 12:10, 1:00, 1:10, 3:00, 3:50, 4:20, 6:00, 6:45, 7:15, 7:30, 9:15, 9:45, 10:40 Sun 12:00, 12:20, 1:00, 1:10, 3:00, 3:30, 4:20, 6:00, 6:30, 7:15, 7:30, 9:15, 9:35, 10:40 Mon 12:35, 1:00, 3:20, 3:30, 4:15, 6:30, 6:35, 7:15, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Tue 12:35, 1:00, 3:20, 3:30, 4:15, 6:30, 6:35, 7:15, 7:30, 9:30, 9:35, 10:30 Wed 12:40, 1:10, 3:20, 3:30, 4:15, 6:30, 6:35, 7:15, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 fOcus (14A) Thu 7:15, 9:55 Fri 1:30, 2:10, 3:30, 4:10, 5:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:50, 9:40, 9:50, 10:40 Sat 11:40, 12:40, 1:20, 2:20, 3:30, 4:10, 5:10, 6:30, 7:00, 7:55, 9:40, 9:50, 10:40 Sun 12:40, 1:20, 2:15, 3:30, 4:10, 5:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:50, 9:40, 9:45, 10:40 Mon 1:20, 2:20, 3:00, 4:10, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 7:50, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30 Tue 1:30, 2:20, 3:00, 4:10, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 7:50, 9:00, 9:50, 10:30 Wed 1:40, 2:20, 3:00, 4:10, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 7:50, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30 hOt tuB tiMe Machine 2 (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Fri 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Sat 12:25, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:30 Sun 12:25, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 Mon-Wed 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 the iMitatiOn gaMe (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 Fri, Tue 6:05, 9:00 Sat 6:10, 9:05 Sun 6:20, 9:20 Mon 10:10 Wed 9:50 in the gallery – reMBrandt Sun 12:55

Jupiter ascending 3d (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 Fri 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Sat 4:20, 7:25, 10:25 Sun 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Mon-Tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 kingsMan: the secret service (14A) Thu 12:45, 1:20, 3:00, 3:15, 3:50, 4:15, 6:10, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 9:20, 9:45, 10:10, 10:40 Fri 2:30, 3:10, 3:45, 4:00, 6:00, 6:15, 7:00, 9:15, 9:30, 10:15, 10:20 Sat 11:45, 12:20, 2:30, 3:00, 3:45, 4:00, 6:00, 6:20, 7:00, 9:15, 9:30, 10:15, 10:20 Sun 12:20, 2:30, 3:00, 3:45, 4:00, 6:00, 6:10, 7:00, 9:15, 9:30, 10:15, 10:20 Mon 2:55, 3:45, 4:00, 4:45, 6:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:10, 10:15 Tue 3:05, 3:45, 4:00, 4:45, 6:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:25, 10:10, 10:15 Wed 3:00, 3:45, 4:00, 4:45, 6:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:25, 10:10, 10:15 the land BefOre tiMe (PG) Sat 11:00 the lazarus effect (14A) Fri, Tue 12:55, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Sat 12:50, 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:35 Sun 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Mon 12:55, 3:20, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Wed 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Mcfarland (G) Thu 12:30, 3:35, 6:40, 9:50 Fri, Tue-Wed 12:30, 3:35, 6:45, 9:55 Sat 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 Sun 12:10, 3:35, 6:40, 9:50 Mon 12:35, 3:35, 6:45, 9:50 the MetrOpOlitan Opera: the Merry WidOW encOre Sat 12:00 Mon 6:30 paddingtOn (G) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:20 Fri, Tue-Wed 12:45, 3:15 Sat 12:40, 3:20 Sun 12:35, 3:10 Mon 12:45, 3:10 the spOngeBOB MOvie: spOnge Out Of Water (G) Thu 12:40, 4:20, 6:50 Fri 1:50, 4:30 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:40 Sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:50 Mon, Wed 2:10, 4:40 Tue 2:10, 4:35 the spOngeBOB MOvie: spOnge Out Of Water 3d (G) Thu 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Fri-Wed 7:10 still alice (PG) Thu 12:55 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:30, 2:30 Sat 11:50, 2:30 Sun 12:00, 2:35 taken 3 (14A) Thu 8:50 the Wedding ringer (14A) Thu 3:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 9:40 Mon, Wed 9:35 What We dO in the shadOWs (14A) Thu 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Fri, Sun, Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 5:20, 7:45, 10:15 Mon 5:15, 7:40, 10:00

RaInboW WoodbIne (I)

WoodbIne CenTRe, 500 Rexdale blvd, 416-213-1998 the duff (14A) Thu 1:15 3:50 6:50 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:20 fifty shades Of grey (18A) Thu 12:55 3:45 6:45 9:35 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 fOcus (14A) Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:30 Wed 3:55, 6:50, 9:30 hOt tuB tiMe Machine 2 (14A) 9:45 Thu 1:05, 3:55 mat, 7:00 late

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Jupiter ascending (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:40 kingsMan: the secret service (14A) 12:45, 3:35, 6:35, 9:30 the lazarus effect (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 7:00, 9:40 Mcfarland (G) 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:25 paddingtOn (G) Thu 1:10, 4:05 the spOngeBOB MOvie: spOnge Out Of Water (G) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:00, 6:55

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East End beaCh CIneMaS (aa) 1651 Queen ST e, 416-699-1327

the duff (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:50 Fri 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 SatSun 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:20 fifty shades Of grey (18A) Thu 6:40, 9:40 fOcus (14A) 7:00, 9:40 Fri 3:40 mat Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:45 mat hOt tuB tiMe Machine 2 (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:10 Fri 4:00, 7:30, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 7:30, 9:50 the iMitatiOn gaMe (PG) 9:00 kingsMan: the secret service (14A) 7:10, 10:00 Fri 4:10 mat Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:15 mat paddingtOn (G) 6:30 Fri 3:30 mat Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:30 mat the spOngeBOB MOvie: spOnge Out Of Water (G) Sat-Sun 12:30 the spOngeBOB MOvie: spOnge Out Of Water 3d (G) Thu 6:50, 9:10 Fri 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 Sat-Sun 2:45, 5:00, 7:20, 9:30 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:10

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2236 Queen ST e, 416-691-7330 Big herO 6 3d (PG) Sat-Sun 2:00 BirdMan Or (the unexpected virtue Of ignOrance) (14A) Fri-Sun 9:20 Mon-Tue 9:30 Wed 7:00 citizenfOur (PG) Thu 9:15 the theOry Of everything (PG) Wed 9:30 Whiplash (14A) Thu 7:00 Wild (18A) 7:00 Sat-Sun 4:00 mat

North York CIneplex CIneMaS eMpReSS Walk (Ce) 5095 yonge ST., 416-847-0087

aMerican sniper (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:35, 9:50 Fri-Sat 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 3:50, 7:05, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:50, 10:10 c’est si BOn Thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:30 the duff (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:35, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:25, 9:00 Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:55, 10:30 Sun 12:45, 3:25, 6:25, 9:00 fifty shades Of grey (18A) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Fri 4:30, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:30 Sun 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 fifty shades Of grey: the iMax experience (18A) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 fOcus (14A) 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 11:00, 1:30 mat Sun 1:30 mat fOcus: the iMax experience (14A) Fri 5:00, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:20, 10:15 hOt tuB tiMe Machine 2 (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 Fri 5:10, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 11:30, 2:40, 5:10, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:45, 10:05 in the gallery – reMBrandt Sun 12:55 Jupiter ascending 3d (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Wed 9:50 kingsMan: the secret service (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Fri 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 Sat 11:00, 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:15, 10:15

the lazarus effect (14A) Fri 4:40, 7:30, 9:40 Sat 11:50, 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 9:40 Sun 2:10, 4:25, 7:30, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:30, 9:40 the MetrOpOlitan Opera: the Merry WidOW encOre Sat 12:00 Mon 6:30 russell Madness Sat 11:00 the spOngeBOB MOvie: spOnge Out Of Water (G) Fri 4:20 Sat 11:00, 1:15, 4:20 Sun 12:40, 3:15 Mon-Wed 3:45 the spOngeBOB MOvie: spOnge Out Of Water 3d (G) Thu 4:10, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Sat 7:20 Sun-Wed 6:10 still alice (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:20, 9:20 Fri 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 Sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 Mon 3:35, 7:05, 10:15 Tue-Wed 3:35, 6:40, 7:05, 9:20

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special screenings B = Black History Month event

Thursday, February 26 Battle Of algiers: BackdrOp tO charlie heBdO Screening of the 1996 film The Bat-

tle Of Algiers followed by discussion on racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France. 7-10 pm. $5. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

WildsOund feedBack MOnthly filM festival Showcase of short films from around the world with an audience feedback format. 7-9:10 pm. Pwyc. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. wildsound.ca.

Friday, February 27 BinvisiBle city Screening of the film

about two boys from Regent Park crossing into adulthood. 2 pm. Free. Brentwood Library, 36 Brentwood N. tpl.ca. nightMare BefOre christMas 3d Screenings to benefit The Misanthropic Cow exhibit. 7 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. reghartt.ca/cineforum.

WOMen WhO act Canadian Screen Week presents the Barry Avrich film starring Patricia Rozema talking to female actors. Avrich and Rozema in attendance. 7 pm. Free.

TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. academy.ca.

Saturday, February 28 fish arMs and flying squirrels: the filMs Of Mike Maryniuk Short films and a

potluck dinner plus an artist talk. 8 pm (dinner 5:30-7:30 pm). $10. Pix Film Gallery, 1411 Dufferin, unit C. tais.ca.

legacy Of cOntrOl: an evening in the shadOWs Of JOy divisiOn Field Trip Music

& Arts Festival and This Film Should Be Played Loud film series screening. DJ set by Stuart Berman, Mimico and Aron D’Alesio following the screening. 9:30 pm. $17. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. bloorcinema.com.

MOMMy & Maps tO the stars Canadian Screen Week presents screenings of two highly acclaimed Canadian Films.

Mommy at 6 pm, Maps To The Stars at 9 pm. Free. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. academy.ca.

Tuesday, March 3 the Birth Of a natiOn Screening of the silent 1915 film by DW Griffith with score

by Reg Hartt. 7 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. cineforum.ca.

BOrn in gaza Cinema Politica screening of the 2014 documentary, followed by discussion. 6 pm. Pwyc. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. cinemapolitica. org/bloor.

Wednesday, March 4 intOlerance Screening of the 1916 film

by DW Griffith. 7 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. cineforum.ca.

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film festivals reelWOrld filM festival Dramas, docu-

mentaries and shorts by emerging and established artists focused and racial and cultural diversity. Mar 2-7 in Toronto and Mar 8 in Markham. $10-$15, stu/srs $5, pass $110. Scotiabank Theatre, 259 Richmond W. reelworld.ca.

Mar 2 to 8

tOrOntO Mapuche sOlidarity filM festival Films that pay tribute to indigen-

ous peoples and activists who have been repressed by the state and big business.

All foreign films with subtitles. Screenings from 6 pm Fri, 4 pm Sat. $10 or pwyc. Room 5160. OISE, 252 Bloor W. wccctoronto.wordpress.com.

Feb 27 to 28

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Chiara D’Anna (left) and Fatma Mohamed look super-stylish in The Duke Of Burgundy.

50 shades of sexual politics THE dUKE OF bURGUNdY (Peter Strickland) Rating: NNN I’m always leery every time a guy cooks up a pic about lesbians with unusual sex practices. but five minutes into The duke Of burgundy, it’s obvious that director Peter Strickland (barberian Sound Studio) isn’t exploiting his story for his own sexual benefit – the pic is about as erotic as fly-fishing. Strickland’s much more interested in sexual politics than actual heat.

Somewhere in Europe, maybe in the 70s, Evelyn (Chiara d’Anna, innocent yet feral) and Cynthia (Sidse babett Knudsen, wonderfully needy)

have an elaborate sado-masochistic arrangement, with Cynthia as top, Evelyn bottom. Soon it becomes obvious that it’s Evelyn who’s in total control.

Strickland creates a hermetically sealed environment in a mammoth villa that the couple leave only to attend lectures about insects in what appears to be an all-female universe.

Cynthia is a lepidopterist, a metaphor for I don’t know what (the duke of burgundy is the name of a butterfly), and she has an unslakable thirst, literally, for equally mysterious reasons. but Strickland shows off a ton of

style in extended footage of insect wings flapping and unsettling dream sequences, all set to Cat’s Eyes’ eerie music.

When a carpenter (Fatma Mohamed) discusses home decor that might be of interest to the couple, including a human toilet, Cynthia swoons with anticipation. It could have been a ludicrous moment, but it actually works within the careful artifice of Strickland’s world.

Just don’t look for any revealing backstories or a turn-on, regardless of your sexual tastes.

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He still may not date you I have been readIng your column for years, Dan, and now I’m writing you for the first time to ask for a favour. I met this dude online in December and felt we had a good connection. He “dumped” me, though, because he was busy and going through career shit and lived halfway across the country. I think a dude telling you he’s too busy for you is bullshit – because boobs – so I encouraged him to tell me the truth.

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Girl On The Move Before I turn to GOTM’s problem – such as it is – a quick note about why I chose her letter: I’m sick as a dog and so hopped up on Theraflu and DayQuil and Chinese tinctures that I probably shouldn’t be operating advice machinery at all today. But deadlines are deadlines. So I’m going to respond to some easy questions this week – low and over the plate – and leave the situational ethics, rulings on whether a particular infidelity is permissible and advice for stressed-out parents of budding young sadists for another column.

To the dude GOTM met online in December: You should date her.

To GOTM: Okay, I told the dude to date you. You’re welcome. But moving within dating distance solves only one of the three issues he cited when he “dumped” you. The distance problem has been resolved, but the career shit and busy shit endure – if those are the real reasons he dumped you. The courteous dumper often points to career, schooling, distance, etc, to spare a dumpee’s feelings. When a blindsided dumpee presses the courteous dumper Michael Hollett for the real reason(s) – as you did, @m_hollett GOTM – the dumper almost always doubles down and insists that career, Alice distance, Klein etc, are the real schooling, reason(s).

Only in rare cases does the @aliceklein dumper say, “Okay, that wasn’t the truth.

I totally lied. The real reasons I’m Susan G. Cole dumping you are [something devastat@susangcole ing, something you can’t unhear, something the dumpee was right to spare Enzo DiMatteo you from in the first place].” @enzodimatteo So, GOTM, you say you urged him to tell you the truth, and he insisted that disNorm Wilner tance, career, busyness were the real reasons he couldn’t date you. But even @normwilner if you somehow solved all three problems – moved closer, got him a better Glenn Sumi job, hired him a personal assistant – @glennsumi odds are good that he still wouldn’t be interested in dating you. So I’m telling Julia LeConte him to date you, GOTM, per your re@julialeconte quest, but I’m going to close by telling you to brace yourself for the no that’s Kate Robertson probably coming your way.

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Lose the selfish women I’m a 33-year-old man In a monogamous relationship with a 32-year-old woman for eight months. In the beginning she was really passionate and required sex all the time, but she was the first woman I was ever with who didn’t like to give pleasure with normal sex, by which I mean vaginal intercourse.

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I’m a hIgh-School Sophomore. I’m a mostly closeted gay, having come out only to some of my friends, but my best friend was the first one I told. I’ve had a crush on him since sixth grade.

Sometimes he acts very gay with me: He’s stroked my hair and leaned on my shoulder, some light rubbing of feet, etc, usually with me reciprocating.

Most of this was before he knew I was gay. But just a month ago, at a sleepover, we had to share a bed, and basically the entire night I was the closest I have ever been to a non-family member. Yet he continues to protest that he is straight.

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Crushing On Bestie Your best friend could be gay, COB, or

he could be one of those New Model Straight Boys, aka a straight boy so secure in his heterosexuality that he’s comfortable with what the sex researchers call “homosocial intimacy,” e.g., leaning on a male friend’s shoulder, stroking a male friend’s hair, rubbing a male friend’s feet (a form of homosocial contact that this homo isn’t comfortable with), etc.

If your friend is gay, COB, he may not have come out yet for all sorts of reasons (he’s not ready, his parents might freak, he’s not sure if he’s gay or bi or what). Or your friend may know he’s gay but hasn’t come out to you because he knows how you feel about him (crush since sixth grade) and he doesn’t feel the same way about you (he likes you only as a friend). So he tells you he’s straight to spare your feelings, COB, because then the rejection isn’t so personal.

But only your friend knows what he is for sure, and right now he says he’s straight. Respect his sexual identity, COB, just as he respects yours – sleepovers and homosocial intimacy notwithstanding.

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