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Satiric, touching, insightful, self-empowering, self-skewering and consistently funny! Shamas repeatedly hit the nail on the head! The capacity crowd’s reaction: unstinting laughter and applause. There’s no better mark of A FINE EVENING OF COMEDY.” -John Terauds, Toronto Star
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“LAUGHS THAT COME STRAIGHT FROM THE BELLY!
The cutting edge of Shamas’s wit remains undiminished, its razor sharpness is more often than not soothed by the emollient of deepened affection and a sense of peace, both within herself and for the world around her. DON’T MISS THIS!” -John Coulbourn, Toronto Sun
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Shamas is very funny... very skilled verbally and visually... remarkable... friendly... a natural and accomplished chatter-upper!” -Robert Cushman, National Post
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electro-rockers are joined by the always excellent Juan Maclean at the Phoenix. 9 pm. $20. PDR, RT, SS, TW. ShopliFT The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) celebrates its 30th anniversary with a fundraising auction, movie karaoke and more, hosted by Anand Rajaram. 9 pm. $8. The Garrison. LIFT.on.ca.
plays the plain governess hired by the mysterious Mr. Rochester in this new adaptation of the Charlotte Brontë novel. Opening day. Spin Evalyn Parry performs her show with music about women, cycling and freedom. To Mar 27 at Buddies in Bad Times. 8 pm. $16-$20. 416-9758555. anDreW pyper The local author discusses his excellent thriller, The Guardians, at Isabel Bader. 3 pm. Free. english@ utoronto.ca.
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Haitians were robbed of their own food supply, with prof Melanie Newton. 2 pm. Free. OISE. torontoboliviasolidarity@ gmail.com. WiT’S enD iii: love liFe Sandra Shamas delivers the next chapter in her funny series about an aging urbanite living in the country. 2 pm. Extended to Apr 3 at the Winter Garden. $25-$65. 416-872-5555.
new theatre, music and performance by emerging artists continues at the Tarragon. From 7 pm. Free. 416-531-1827. garDening up FronT Talk on front-yard veg plots by Green Gardeners’ Andre Roy. 6:30 pm. Free. Annette Library. 416-393-7521. MauDe barloW speaks on access to water as a public resource, with Romilia Verman and Debby Danard. 6 pm. $2$5. New College William Doo Auditorium. Pre-register waterworkinggroup@gmail.com.
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Annett, the minister who blew the whistle on treatment of native children in residential schools, talks about his new book. 5 pm. Free. Oakham House. consiencecommunications@ gmail.com. cineFranco The fest of French-language movies continues at the TIFF Bell Lightbox until Apr 3. $8-$12. 416-599-8433.
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Shhh! The second annual fest devoted to images (and accompanying music) opens at Innis Town Hall and runs to Apr 7. $15. torontosilentfilmfestival.com. rabih Mroué The Lebanese artist’s superb show probing political conflict continues at Prefix to Apr 23. Free. 416-591-0357.
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i don’t usually dabble in patriotism unless it’s the Olympics or K’naan is wavin’ the flag on some interna tional stage. But you guys made me break my rule this week by featuring an American R&B singer on the cover for Canadian Music Week (NOW, March 1016). Did somebody misplace their atlas and assume Kansas City was actually Manitoba? Were you subtly saying that Canadian bands and artists are good for page 38 but not the cover? I know. You were thinking page views for the website and eyeballs for the paper version. Janelle Monáe is a name the coveted 18to34 demogra phic will recognize. Bachman & Turn er or Yukon Blonde, on the other hand, not so hot! It’s all mathematics, as Mos Def once said. Eloi Minka Toronto
in are we about to bomb again? (NOW, March 1016), I am rightly quot ed as expressing strong reservations about the impli cations of a Western led nofly zone over Libya. But I am in no position to determine the extent of Gaddafi’s massa cres against civilians, nor did I assert that such massacres have certainly not hap pened yet, as the final statement at tributed to me might suggest. I also believe that supporting or opposing any form of Western inter vention must take into account the collective wish of the Libyan people. Hicham Safieddine Toronto
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paul weinberg, in his excellent piece on the standoff in Libya, quotes Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Pol icy Studies in Washington as saying the U.S. has done the right thing by “invoking the International Criminal Court” to weigh Gaddafian abuses. Could this be the same judicial body, based in the Hague, that the U.S. has variously ignored, condemned and obstructed since it was created nine years ago? Sure, put Gaddafi on trial at the ICC. But ahead of him on the docket let’s see Iraq War criminals George W. Bush and Tony Blair as well as those responsible for the 20089 Israeli slaughter of Palestin ians in Gaza. Dana Cook Toronto
Tenant priorities at TCHC
while the recent uncovering of TCHC’s mismanagement of funds is a tremendous step in the right direc tion (NOW, March 39), it is disap pointing to TCHC tenants that so little attention has been paid to the deplor able conditions experienced by many living in Toronto’s public housing. As a TCHC resident and board member of Toronto ACORN, whose community organizers have knocked on the doors of roughly 25,000 low income tenants to talk about their issues, I would like to see more em phasis on the needs of tenants. But I am also concerned about what will happen if a serious effort is made to privatize public housing. If land lords are guaranteed rent though On tario Works or ODSP, there will be no incentive for private landlords to properly maintain the already aging public housing stock. In fact, the worst continued on page 11 œ
INUIT MODERN Symposium Saturday, April 2, 10 am – 5 pm Baillie Court Members $135 | Public $160 Students $90 (includes lunch) This illuminating one-day discussion will feature Inuit artists and thinkers addressing the issue: “It is not who we are, but where we come from and where we are going.” David Ruben Piqtoukun, Journey to the Great Woman, 1995. Gift of Samuel and Esther Sarick, Toronto, 2001. © 2011 David Ruben Piqtoukun.
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Still on subways
from y our featured articles from the NOW archives, Subway Snit: Is Surface Rail The Answer? (NOW, March 10-16). Sixteen years later and we’re still having the same argument about surface light rail versus subways? Wonderful. Dunstan
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DANCE Kalanidhi Fine Arts of Canada – Contemporary Choreography in Indian Dance Festival and Symposium, Part 2 Through Mar. 19 Showcasing contemporary Indian dance with 12 outstanding performances from Canada, England, India and the U.S. Part of NextSteps. MUSIC Leo Kottke in Concert – RBI Productions Mar. 19 | One of the most admired acoustic guitar virtuosos, Leo Kottke, makes a triumphant return to Toronto. MUSIC Robert Charlebois: Avec tambour ni trompette Semaine de la Francophonie Mar.19 Quebec singer-songwriter Charlebois performs with three musicians and more than 40 instruments. MUSIC The Toronto All-Star Big Band Mar. 20 Toronto’s finest big band performs swing-era tunes in the original styles of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra and others.
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buildings in Toronto are [owned by] private landlords housing rentgeared-to-income tenants. How quickly the public forgets that the city had to pull people out of 1775 and 1765 Weston Road when the private landlord was exposed as exceptionally substandard. Privatization of public housing will only result in a whole new breed of slumlord. Privatization is not the answer. Proper TCHC administration and allocation of funds is. Kay Bisnath Toronto
Black eye for NHL
hockey players need to learn to live with the consequences of their aggressive actions (NOW Daily, March 13) and be responsible for them, regardless of intent. It’s time the National Hockey
League relearned the lessons of the 1970s, or we will be left with 32 goon squads and a desert of real hockey talent. It’s time for the league to step up and act responsibly and enforce rules against violence. Those corporate sponsors that are demanding the NHL take action should be applauded. Roy Santin Toronto
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having experienced a concussion in an accident, I will say that someone should start a petition to have any player who causes this injury eliminated from the NHL. Headshots can maim. M. Martin Malton
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West boom going bust
although the boom isn’t totally bust, I caution people heading to Saskatchewan or Alberta for work. Unless you are highly skilled [and have] a job offer, you could face months seeking work. The labour laws are stacked against the worker. Employers are unwilling to give workers necessary training. The cost of living is astronomical. Your credentials and experience may match the job, but employers would rather hire cheap labour they can push around. The West typically has a boom-bust cycle. Mix in fast big-money arrogance and small-town intolerance and you have a taste of the West. It isn’t worth the trip. David Wayne Pristupa Saskatoon NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.
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proved to both left and right that downtown and the burbs have decidedly different priorities. Etobicoke seems to be as much Toronto as it is Mississauga, and these regions ought to operate independently. I’m pro-Miller, but he was a downtown mayor. We should reverse Mike Harris’s megacity nonsense for the benefit of the right and the left in every community. Chris Orbz Toronto
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Political morale Born-again Stockwell Day announces he won’t seek re-election. Yahoo! Farewell to the evolutionchallenged Tory minister who revved public fear with dubious data on unreported crime. Have a nice life, Stock, and stay out of our hair.
Common sense TTC driver Mohamed Aden, suspended for using a cell to contact TTC communications when the streetcar phone conked out, is reinstated, a blow for simple decency in a hailstorm of public sector hostility.
Time flies Call it one pricey four minutes. The draft of a city-commissioned report concludes that passengers on flights leaving from the city’s Island Airport will, if the proposed pedestrian tunnel proceeds, save a measly four minutes in waiting time. That saving grace comes with a $50 million sticker to be paid for by airport fees. Community activists worry a fixed link to the islands will invite an increase in flights, despite the current cap. Yup, could be.
Spare us, puh-leeze. Records of councillor spending released this week have sent the dailies into a binge of recrimination. Among the dissed items: a $42 Barbie doll (so the councillor could set an example at a police auxiliary toy drive), a $7,000 office reno (so staff could share a room with the councillor), $1,175 for constituency office landscaping. We’re drowning in minutiae. Isn’t this all just a way of calling anyone in the public realm a thief?
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Rooting out the reformers
How heroes get punished in this city. Derek Ballantyne, CEO of Build Toronto, was forced to resign his post this week in the wake of the mayor’s manufactured TCHC crisis. The Regent Park redo visionary and former TCHC head, winner of the Jane Jacobs Prize, is now out of a job thanks to Rob Ford’s vow to “deal with” him. One whipped-up scandal; one city reformer safely disposed of.
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Rob Ford and his cronies want to destroy public services so they can put in their political payback friends. When they take away garbage services here, it affects us in Wisconsin; it affects us all over. Privatization is not going to stop with half the garbage department. It’s going to go on and on and on. Stephanie Bloomingdale, Wisconsin AFL-CIO secretarytreasurer and an organizer of the labour uprising there, spoke at a CUPE Ontario meet at the Sheraton on Monday, March 14. Union supporters in Madison recently occupied the Capitol building for several weeks and drew tens of thousands of supporters to protect public sector bargaining. They lost.
City cycling Finally – the long-awaited Bixi program scooped up its required 1,200 signees and the public bike system will wheel out May 3 with 1,000 bikes, 80 stations and 1,500 docking points.
BAROMETER The Libyan resistance It’s sort of their worst nightmare: Gaddafi’s forces are fiercely resilient despite dissension in the ranks, and the world media, which can’t hold two thoughts in their heads at once, are turning their attention to the horror in Japan.
Civic democracy It’s revealed that the Ford faction gave orders on how to vote to their cadre on 15 different items. Sure, David Miller’s folks stuck together, but even on teensy issues, the Fords are demanding obedience. We’ve got a military op here.
Fun stuff at Queen’s Park So it’s not only the Freedom Festival that’s lost its right to use Queen’s Park. Now Afrofest can’t either. Parks director Richard Ubbens says the vegetation is suffering — okay, but c’mon, the city has to offer alt spaces for such events, because our T.O. includes big crowds.
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Michael Hollett: Stop the war on public service Forget the imaginary war on cars. We are currently engaged in a very real war on the public service. And this battle is not being waged only in Wisconsin. It’s in full swing in Toronto, led by a creature almost mythical in its heartlessness and ignorance, the two-headed, 600-pound beast that is Doug and Rob Ford. From frontline public sector employees to the managers who lead them, the unions that defend them and even the politicians who supposedly police them, the Fords and their simple-minded supporters would have us believe that anyone entering the public realm is doing so to fleece us rather than serve us by working in often thankless, high-pressure and even dangerous jobs. An early casualty in this battle was George Robitaille, the unfortunate TTC fare collector who dozed off on the job while taking meds for a heart condition. He subsequently died of a stroke. Still laughing, folks? And when the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) operates like the very sacred private sector the Fords hold dear, by giving employees morale-building holiday parties and modest gifts, and by investing available cash in the stock market, they are vilified like sex offenders. Despite inevitable mistakes, the TCHC has done a miraculous job with the ongoing reinvention of Regent
Park, a public-private partnership, the kind the Fords claim to love, that has dazzled the world as it transforms our downtown. Similar caterpillar-tobutterfly transformations are on the books for Alexandra Park and Lawrence Heights, and the perpetrators should be being celebrated, not run out of town. From teachers to soldiers, from garbage collectors to transit workers, postal employees and the rest, public servants keep our society running and civilized, including the private sector that pockets profits in part generated by public employees’ hard work.
Don’t see a lot of suits digging through the rubble of Japan do we? Take a look at the faces and uniforms of the people conducting the rescue and rehabilitation in quake-and tsunami-ravaged Japan right now. They are public workers in the army, the police, the health sector and more. Don’t see a lot of suits digging through the rubble of that ravaged country, do we? Sadly, this war will only get uglier as the effects of the Fordistas’ cuts put us in a stranglehold and public workers are inevitably ordered to sacrifice their incomes and families so our anti-government governors can continue to worship at their altar of deconstruction.
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We took the piss out of rapper Vanilla Ice – an artist we couldn’t stand – but only pissed readers off by giving him the cover spot. Such is the automatic prestige that goes with appearing on NOW’s first page. We never again wrote a negative cover story. As for Vanilla Ice, he still has a life. He’s skedded to be a judge on Global TV’s Canada Sings series and has surfaced with his own home improvement TV show, The Vanilla Ice Project, seen on the DIY Network Canada. Who knew? (Page 20 of the issue)
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GARBAGE SCIENCE: THE 1-2-3s We used to burn the contents of most landfill sites closed before the 70s, which released dioxins and who knows what else into the atmosphere but left fewer harmful volatile organics in the ground. Good news (sort of).
JACKPOTS AND SURPRISES The bad news is that landfills were terribly designed back in the day, and little thought went into their location. Worse, there were no controls on what was put in them, including hazardous waste. The province didn’t start regulating landfills until the late 70s. And
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diversion of recyclables from dumps wasn’t undertaken in any meaningful way until the 90s. Stronger environmental regs for landfills weren’t passed until 1998.
DOWN THE INFORMATION HOLE The unknowns about closed landfill sites are many – and that’s the biggest problem. Most were capped, i.e., covered with a metre or two of dirt and left for dead, before there was even a Ministry of the Environment to regulate them. Databases kept by the ministry are woefully out of date and, until very recently, off limits to the public. The last comprehensive landfill inventory was published by the MoE in 1991.
TRICKY TECH Until the 90s, there was little in the way of technology to mitigate
the leaching of harmful pollutants from closed landfills. None of Toronto’s closed landfills, for example, are outfitted with liners to catch contaminants that may be leaking from the sites.
SAFEGUARDS IN PLACE? At the 41 closed dumps where control systems are in place, pipes are used to release gases trapped beneath the surface and carry leachate to nearby sewer systems. In some cases, the volume of leachate generated by the dumps is such that pumping stations are used to collect the gunk and then redirect it into the sewer system.
REASON FOR ALARM The conventional wisdom is that the closed landfills, whatever their volatile mix of pollutants, do not pose an environmental threat. But there’s no way
of knowing that for sure, because no review has ever been undertaken of the sites. Nor is the city required to report problems to the province.
SCARIER STILL On the subject of closed landfills, the city auditor uncovered some flimsy oversight: no documentation that supervisory staff followed up on annual inspections, no record that the city implemented the recommendations of consultants hired to review the monitoring of closed landfills.
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Peter Crockett, executive director, Technical Services, city of Toronto, on whether there’s enough money in the
current cash crunch to monitor closed landfills effectively: “It’s not that we’re operating on a shoestring. We’re doing everything we believe we need to do to keep those sites safe and secure and environmentally responsible.” Gord Miller, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, on the potential for eco fallout: “We produced bad waste in the old days. One can reasonably ask why we haven’t dealt with these landfills. The answer, of course, is that we don’t have the resources to do the job. We had better records in the 80s.” enzom@nowtoronto.com
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tokyo/kyoto – an earthquake 9.0 on the Richter scale, tsunamis, nuclear meltdowns, aftershocks, avalanches, chemical plant explo sions, flooding, volcanic eruptions, food shortages, rolling blackouts, bird flu breakouts, snowstorms: it’s as though the 8 million Shinto gods, those legendary guardians of na ture, had released their combined wrath to avenge who knows what environmental sins. With more than 4,300 people con firmed dead, 13,000 registered as missing and almost 350,000 surviv ors in refugee centres, I’m struggling to take in the endless stream of apo calyptic images. As Japan teeters on the edge of a fullout nuclear catas trophe, all I can do is follow the news helplessly and try my best to remain calm. Last Friday’s quake hit while I was at my workplace, a clinic in the west ern suburb of Tokyo called Hachioji, over 300 kilometres from the epi centre. When the floor started to churn like a ship’s hull in a hurricane, I leaped away from my computer and sheltered under the conference table in the middle of the room, as I had learned to do in disasterresponse training. Crouching on the carpeted floor, I watched a crack running along a cor ner of the room open and close, open and close, like a gnawing mouth, as the walls were pried apart by under ground pressure. With all the roads jammed and the train lines closed, there was no way to return to my downtown Tokyo apartment. I bed
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when it comes to nuclear energy in our backyard. That’s largely because operators and regulators have looked at every conceivable scenario of what could go wrong (limited, of course, to everything they can imagine going wrong). “Every system has to have backups, every area that’s important to safety has to be analyzed and demonstrated to be able to manage all the design-based accidents.” Then, he says, there’s what the industry refers to euphemistically as “beyond-design-based accidents.” In this case, Frappier says, “you start going out to very incredible events, once-in-a-million-years-type events, and for those you need to demonstrate that the facility will still perform its basic safety function.” So was the Japanese nuclear crisis the result of an unknown unknown? That country’s scientists certainly believed they had a quake-proof design. Were events there beyond the scope of a once in a million years? “If you look at Japan, this nuclear accident is the result of two very large, unprecedented natural disas-
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clear analyst Shawn-Patrick Stensil. “We need to stop pretending they can’t happen in Canada.” Yes, it’s tremendously unlikely that an earthquake anywhere close to the force of Japan’s will ever strike southern Ontario. Depending on whom you ask, there may or may not be a significant fault line under the Pickering plant, but either way, Gruetzner insists, engineers have prepared for that contingency. Or the
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He’s skeptical in particular about our reliance on CANDU reactors, which he points out are banned in the U.S. “The CANDU design has something called ‘positive reactivity,’” he explains, “a propensity, when you lose the moderator [material in the core that slows fission], that instead of the nuclear reaction slowing down, it speeds up.” And Stensil has other issues. “What we’re seeing in Japan is multiple reactor accidents, but they have separate safety systems at the same site. In Ontario, we have one containment [safety system] for four reactors at Darlington, and again, only one for eight at Pickering. Instead of losing containment on just one reactor, we’d lose it on four to eight, so the severity of accidents could be a lot worse, and our ability to control in accident situations a lot less.” “Given the way urban sprawl is moving, we have to ask about building new reactors at Darlington.” 3
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There are more drug users walking along the busy Queen West sidewalk than there are gathered on the steps of Old City Hall for a formal anti-druglaw protest. Check your pockets: aspirin, Adde rall, Viagra, Ritalin, cigarettes. Even that cup of coffee warming your hands on this frigid, rainy day. You get the point. “We are all drug users,” Kai’enne Tyrmerik from the youth harm reduc tion collective TRIP! shouts into the mic at this rally hosted by the Prison Moratorium Action Coalition on the afternoon of Thursday, March 10. The group is here to protest the Tories’ toughoncrime laws that are swelling Canada’s prison system, and specifically Bill S10, which aims to amend the Controlled Drugs And Sub stances Act to add mandatory min imum sentences for drug offences. (Think one year for a kilo of pot.) The bill is in third reading, awaiting assent. Other voices in the ampedup crowd demanding communitybased programs instead of prison construc tion include a sex worker from Mag gie’s: The Toronto Sex Workers Action Project, and an activist from Toronto Hash Mob. According to NDP Public Safety critic Don Davies, on the phone later, the Tories will spend $500 million on jail expansion next year. This, he says, is “absolutely immoral” and “stupid economics,” especially because the average annual cost of keeping a male inmate in a maximum security prison is $223,687 ($343,810 for females.) When the Tories took power in 2006, there were 12,500 people in federal custody. Today that has risen to 13,500, although crime rates have de clined 17 per cent since 1999. “We know there’s no jurisdiction in the world that has [caused] its crime rate to come down and lowered recid ivism by locking more people up for longer periods of time,” says Davies. The increase in the numbers of those incarcerated, says U of T crimi nologist Anthony Doob, is partly due to the feds’ passage of the Truth In Sentencing Act in 2010, which limits the credit inmates receive for time served while awaiting trial. It also imposes restrictions on conditional sentencing, which delineates rules an offender must follow in order to remain out of prison. It’s still too early to ascertain, he says, whether the 2008 Tackling Violent Crime Act, with its harsher mandatory minimum sentences for firearm offences, is responsible for expanding the federal prison popula tion. “Increasing punishment does not make communities safer,” says Doob.
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Suddenly, the news shifts to a story about the Japanese stand-up comedian Sandwichy Man, juxtaposing dire importance with light entertainment. It’s at about this time that someone in the government must have realized they needed an official who
could distract the public full-time and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano made his debut in the crisis. Edano now appears at press conferences where he gives ambiguous information about efforts to tame the reactors and responds to all questions with the same statement: “We’re gathering and analyzing the data right now and will clarify everything once we finish our assessment.” The effect of this circus of sophistry is to make me and many other viewers fear for our lives. The only reason we can imagine that Tokyo Electric and the government are
“ The New York Times reported that the Tokyo government detected radiation above the city 20 times the normal level – a piece of crucial info the Japanese media seem to have glossed over – I decide, like others, that T:10”escape.” it’s time for
evading questions is to stem panic over a situation that’s much worse than they’re letting on. After reading in the New York Times on Tuesday that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government detected radiation above Tokyo 20 times the normal level – a piece of crucial information the Japanese mass media seem to have glossed over – I decide, like many others, that it’s time for escape. I call my boss to tell him I’m taking indefinite leave, pack my bags, withdraw 100,000 yen (about $800 Canadian) and take the train with my girlfriend to Kyoto, 600 kilometres
away from ground zero in Fukushima. In my hotel room, I’m just beginning to let go of the stress, knowing there’s a fair distance now between me and the bubbling nuclear cores, when another quake hits, this time over 6 on the Richter scale. Once again I’m on the outer edge of the seismic shock. The main impact is in Shizuoka, an area between Tokyo and Kyoto that we’d just passed through on the train. Perhaps not even the 8 million deities know what to expect next. 3 news@nowtoronto.com
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Anonymity pumps creativity By nowtoronto.com editor JOSHUA ERRETT AUSTIN, Texas – With 14,000 attendees, countless parties, millions of free cocktails and Jake Gyllenhaal wandering around, it’s easy to be anonymous at South By Southwest’s Interactive Festival. That can be isolating (mid-conversation, attention is often diverted to Twitter), but it also has positives. Anonymity can foster creativity, argued SXSWi keynote speaker Christopher Poole, who goes by the name m00t on 4chan, the infamous message board he started eight years ago. The awkward, geeky Poole was here to launch his new brainchild, Canvas, which looks like it will be an image meme generator, but also launched into a spirited defence of anonymity. Much like the infamous Anonymous group of 4chan members who campaigned against Scientology, Poole singled out a large, powerful organization weary of a scrutinizing spotlight: Facebook. His target was CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his view that every single person on the web should have an identity. “Zuckerberg’s totally wrong on anonymity being cowardice. Anonymity is authenticity,” said Poole. “It allows you to share in a completely unvarnished, raw way.” If Facebook is tracking your every move, inevitably including your failures, you can never escape your past, he said. And each time you fail, it’s costly. You have to wear that failure, in some cases for the rest of your life. Anonymity allows you to reinvent yourself, Poole said,
to break free from the shackles of past mistakes. It’s like starting at a new school where no one knows you. In the past few years, though, anonymity has become a licence to behave like a jerk. Online, this is called The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. The equation is “normal person + anonymity + audience = total fuckwad.” And unfortunately, many of 4chan’s 12 million contributors have proved this theorem correct. But the message board has also produced hilarious memes like RickRolling. What happens to that creativity if it’s always under a microscope? It evaporates. The threat of personal failure always looms. And when a failure has the potential to reach of the entire world, it’s paralyzing. Except when you’re anonymous. You can float some out-there ideas when you don’t have to own them. And in an ideal world, your ideas should mean more than your name. Anonymity is worth protecting, Poole rightly argued. Not all the time (his new Canvas service has a Facebook login), but it always should be an option. Earlier this week, one SXSWi attendee took a photo of that hunky Gyllenhaal, here for the premiere of his film Source Code, at a urinal. Gyllenhaal caught the iPhone paparazzo and deleted the picture, and that spectacle was witnessed by a number of gawkers. Proof enough that everyone deserves a little anonymity. Christopher Poole
For the past 10 years, the web was all about social. The next 10 will be about gaming. Not exactly World Of Warcraft or whatever, but competition. This prophecy was made in the keynote address by the wiry Seth Priebatsch, founder of check-in game SCVNGR. The exuberant Princeton dropout had instant charisma even though he wore an orange shirt and matching sunglasses. He came off as the anti-Zuckerberg. Games are all about personal motivation, he said. So in order to motivate people – users, customers, students, anyone – you need to turn your project into a game. This can solve any problem, his example being global warming (!). If this sounds like a head-in-the-clouds idea, that’s because it is. But it all made sense. If you’d heard this engaging geek speak, chances are you’d be game, too. Seth Priebatsch
Guide to Groupon What’s the secret of Groupon, the coupon-dealing dynamo worth some $4 billion? A sense of humour, said the site’s genuinely funny editor-in-chief, Aaron With. Groupon may have 500-plus imitators, but who would copy some of the stunts it pulls? Like awarding a baby a $100,000 scholarship because the parents used a Groupon on their first date? His company’s goofball writing and left-field corporate culture are uncopyable and have paid off – except for those offensive Super Bowl ads, that is.
Spinning Circles The biggest news at SXSWi was no news at all. Google’s mysterious new social network, Circles, was rumoured to be about to pop up somewhere in Austin. Word spread at lightning speed, and I think the whole conference may have held their breath in unison. But it wasn’t meant to be. The search company denied everything, even the existence of Circles.
Let me be Franken Former SNLer and current U.S. senator Al Franken knows how to put on a performance. And he has the common sense to pick a worthy cause. His speech on network neutrality was electric, and left those who’d heard him charged up for the rest of the day. With hundreds of panels, millions of tweets and information flying around at a billion miles a minute, that’s very impressive. Read more SXSWi coverage at nowtoronto.com/sxsw
ecoholic
By ADRIA VASIL
When you’re addicted to the planet
Are soy and eucalyptus fabrics truly eco-friendly? When mainstream fashionistas roll their eyes at the idea of green threads, I tell them they clearly haven’t seen the freshest cuts being rolled out by indie Canadian designers, all crafted with a slew of eco textiles. Are all the fabrics without flaws? Well, no. No new products created onthiseartharewithoutanimpact. Thegreenesttextileswillalwaysbe those repurposed from salvaged clothes, followed by hemp, linen and organic cotton (which is waterintensive but thankfully pesticidefree). The ones you’re asking about I call plant-based synthetics. Why? Well, you’d never see a traditional weaver spinning creamy-soft fabrics out of little soybeans. Ditto for eucalyptus fibres. They need some heavy-duty processing to get the silky drape we’ve learned to love in synthetic naturals. The whole class of textiles made from tree pulp, cornstarch, soy, bam-
boo, seaweed, crab shells – you name it – can be lumped together as “regenerated fibres.” Some are made of plant cellulose (tree pulps like eucalyptus and bamboo); others, like soy, are made from plant proteins. Now, I’ve already written about bamboo’s fading star in the green scene, thanks to the chemical-intensiveviscoseprocessing it takes to refine bamboo stalks into super-soft fabrics. That’s why Canada’s Competition Bureau a couple of years back told all bamboo clothing vendors to change their terminology to “viscose from bamboo.’’ Rayon or viscose is made from a woody pulp (be it pine, spruce, bamboo or beech) dissolved in a caustic soda and then spun in a chemical solution of carbon disulfide (a reproductive toxin). So how does, say, soy compare? While soy processing is very similar to making viscose/rayon from bamboo, some say it uses less polluting chemicals, but there’s not a
astrology freewill
by Rob Brezsny
Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Like Bob Dylan in
his 1962 song A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, you’ve done a lot of rough and tumble living lately. You’ve “stumbled on the side of 12 misty mountains.” You’ve “stepped in the middle of seven sad forests.” You’ve “been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.” Maybe most wrenching of all, you’ve “seen a highway of diamonds with nobody on it.” The good news is that the hard rain will end soon. In these last days of the downpour, I suggest you trigger a catharsis for yourself. Consider doing something like what Dylan did: “I’ll think it and speak it and breathe it / And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it.”
TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Mythologist Michael Meade says that the essential nature of every human soul is gifted, noble and wounded. I agree. Cynics who exaggerate how messed-up we all are, ignoring our beauty, are just as unrealistic as naive optimists. But because the cynics have a disproportionately potent influence on the zeitgeist, they make it harder for us to evaluate our problems with a wise and balanced perspective. Many of us feel cursed by the apparent incurability of our wounds, while others, rebelling against the curse, underestimate how wounded they are. Mead says: “Those who think they are not wounded in ways that need conscious attention and careful healing are usually the most wounded of all.” Your task in the next few weeks, Taurus, is to make a realistic appraisal of your wounds.
GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Metallica’s frontman, James Hetfield, brashly bragged to Revolver magazine that he was proud his music was used to torture prisoners at the U.S. military’s detention camp in Guantanamo Bay. I urge you to make a more careful and measured assessment of the influences that you personally put out into the world. It’s time to find out how closely your intentions match your actual impact – and to correct any discrepancies. How are people affected by the vibes you exude and the products you offer and the words you utter and the actions you undertake? CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 “In the absence of clearly defined goals,” said Cancerian writer Robert Heinlein, “we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.” If this description is even a partial match for the life you’re living, now is an excellent time to address the problem. You have far more power than usual to identify and define worthy goals – both the short-term and long-term variety. If you take advantage of this opportunity, you will find a better use for the energy that’s currently locked up in your enslavement to daily trivia. Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 As I was mulling over
your astrological omens, I came across a short poem that aptly embodies the meaning of this moment for you. It’s by Richard Wright, and goes like this: “Coming from the woods / A bull has a lilac sprig / Dangling from a horn.” Here’s one
lot of third-party material on all this. What I prefer about soy protein fabrics is that they’reaby-productof soy oil extraction, and most of the extrudedprotein’ssupposedlyused for cattle feed. That means, unlike bamboo or corn (for Ingeo fibres) or tree pulp for rayons, soy isn’t grown mainly for the clothing biz. It’s a waste product, and that gives soy rayons a leg up. The outstanding issue is that soybeans are largely genetically modified. China, which makes most of the world soy fabrics, imports 70 per cent of its soybeans from GMO-happy countries like the U.S. (where 91 per cent of soy is GMO). Too bad organic soy clothing is hard to come by, though I expect this may change. (You can now find some certified organic bamboo clothing.) So what’s eucalyptus fabric all about?Well,itspropernameislyocell,and,goodnews,it’sdefinitelya
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way to interpret this symbolic scene: primal power is emerging into a clearing from out of the deep darkness. It is bringing with it a touch of lithe and blithe beauty – a happy accident.
VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 As I see it, you
have one potential enemy in the coming weeks: a manic longing for perfection. It’s okay to feel that longing as a mild ache. But if you allow it to grow into a burning obsession, you will probably undo yourself at every turn. You may even sabotage some of the good work you’ve done. My recommendation, then, is to give yourself the luxury of welcoming partial success, limited results and useful mistakes. Paradoxically, cultivating that approach will give you the best chance at getting lots of things done. Here’s your motto for the week, courtesy of Theodore Roosevelt: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 When I was nine
years old, one of my favourite jokes went like this: “What’s worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm? Give up? Biting into an apple and finding half a worm.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Libra, that’s a good piece of information for you to keep in mind right now. If and when a serpent offers you an apple, I hope you will sink your teeth into it with cautious nibbles. I’m not saying you shouldn’t bite, just that you should proceed warily.
sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 Normally we
think of a garbage dump as a spot where
greenerversionofrayon,processed with gentler solvents in a 99.6 per cent closed-loop system. The Tencel brand of lyocell is the greenest of all, made with Euro Forest Stewardship Council-certified pulp, so the eucalyptus sourced has a pretty sound rep. Some lyocell factories do use a formaldehyde treatment to avoid pilling, but it’s certainly not necessary, and the Tencel brand (used by Patagonia) says it’s formaldehyde-free. Lyocell can also be made out of bamboo (even BCBG carries a little), seaweed (aka seacell) and more. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Competition Bureau ordered companies claiming their clothes are made of straight eucalyptus, (you know who you are, Modrobes) were ordered to change their tags to say “lyocell from eucalyptus” for accuracy. Ditto for fabrics labelled as soy, which some forward-thinking designers are already labelling “rayon from soy.” we go to get rid of trash and outworn stuff we no longer need. It emits a stench that wafts a great distance, and it’s a not a place where you wear your finery. But there is a dump in northern Idaho that diverges slightly from that description. It has the usual acres of rubbish, but also features a bonus area that the locals call “The Mall.” This is where people dispose of junk that might not actually be junk. They have no use for it any more, but they recognize that others might find value in it. It was at The Mall where my friend Peter found a perfectly good chainsaw that had a minor glitch he easily fixed. I suspect that life may be like that dump for you in the coming week: a wasteland with perks.
sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Accord-
ing to Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, time “is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” I believe he meant for that statement to be true for all of us. Luckily for you, though, you’ll soon be getting a temporary exemption. For a while, you’ll be more like the tiger than the one the tiger devours; you will have more in common with the fire than with the one consumed by the fire. In other words, Sagittarius, you will have more power than usual to outwit the tyrannies of time. Are you ready to take advantage? You’re primed to claim more slack, more wiggle room, more permission.
CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 San Francisco band Smash-Up Derby approach their music-making with a spirit that might be useful for you to emulate in the coming week, Capricorn. Each of their songs is a blend of two famous tunes. Typically, the instrumentalists play a rock song while the singers do a pop hit with a similar chord progression. Imagine hearing the guitars, bass and drums play Nirvana’s
Eucalyptus fabric called lyocell is a greener version of rayon. By the way, the Modal fabric found in lingerie stores is similar to lyocell but made of beech pulp viscose. One of its makers, Lenzing (which makes Tencel), tells me 90 per cent of the carbon disulfide involved in the process is recycled – at least at its factory. And its by-products go into the tooth-friendly sweetener xylitol. Can’t guarantee that other Modal is produced to the same standard.
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Smells Like Teen Spirit while the lead vocalist croons Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance. The crucial part of their ongoing experiment is that it works. The sound coming from the stage isn’t a confusing assault. You could pull off a challenge like that: combining disparate elements with raucous grace.
AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Last August I
wrote you a horoscope that spoke of opportunities you’d have to upgrade your close relationships. I said you’d be tested in ways that would push you to get more ingenious and tenacious about collaborating with people you cared about. Hoping to inspire you, I cited two people I know who have successfully reimagined and reinvented their marriage for many years. In response, one reader complained. “Yuck!” his email began. “I thought I was getting a horoscope, but instead I got a sentimental self-help blurb in the style of Reader’s Digest.” I took his words to heart. As you Aquarians enter a new phase when you could do a lot to build your intimacy skills, I’ll try something more poetic: Succulent discipline and luminous persistence equals incandescent kismet.
pisCes Feb 19| Mar 20 If I had to come up
with a title for the next phase of your astrological cycle, it might be “Gathering Up.” The way I see it, you should focus on collecting any resources that are missing from your reserves. You should hone skills that are still too weak to get you where you want to go, and you should attract the committed support of allies who can help you carry out your dreams and schemes. Don’t be shy about assembling the necessities, Pisces. Experiment with being slightly voracious. 3
Homework: What is the thing you’re so ignorant about that you barely know you’re ignorant about it? Testify at freewillastrology.com. NOW march 17-23 2011
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Thursday, March 17
Benefits
body monologues (YWCA) Student presentation of the monologue show and a silent auction. Today and tomorrow 7:30 pm. $12$25, adv $10. Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, 1255 Sheppard. muchlove@ bodymonologues.ca. book sale (Toronto Public Library) Gently used books and withdrawn library materials. Today 10 am-8 pm; tomorrow 9:30 am-5 pm; Mar 19, 9 am-5 pm. Free (books $0.50 or 3 for $1). Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. reggae retro (Sir Sandford Fleming Academy music program) Performances by Carla Marshall, Nana McLean and others. 8:30 pm. $20. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. shoPliFt (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers) Fundraising film karaoke and a silent auction. 9 pm. $8, stu $5. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. auction.lift.on.ca.
Events
adrenal health Lecture. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. barbara sternberg Film screening and discussion. 6 pm. Free. Rogers Communications Centre, Eaton Lecture Theatre, 80 Gould. slewchuk@ryerson.ca. be the Change you Want to see! PeaceWorks activist training session. Today and Apr 21. 6:30-9:30 pm. $180. Friends House, 60 Lowther. Pre-register 416-732-8965. budget 2011: WarFare or WelFare? Discussion with Sid Lacombe of Canadian Peace Alliance and Stop Community Food Centre’s Jen Danch. 7 pm. Free. Davenport-Perth Community Centre, 1900 Davenport. davenport4peace@gmail.com. Canada blooms Flower and garden festival with workshops, seminars, demos, displays
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Festivals
Yoshihiro Ito’s Vortex screensat T.O.’s Japanese Short FilmFest.
this week
PaPrika Festival Original theatre, live music,
cabaret performances and workshops. Free. Tarragon Theatre Studios, 30 Bridgman. 416531-1827, paprikafestival.com. Mar 18 to 26
toronto JaPanese short Film Festival
Short films by Japanese filmmakers and international filmmakers whose work relates to Japan. $11, adv $8; 5-screening pass $35, adv $30, opening night free. Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex), Japan Fdn (131 Bloor W). tjsff.com. Mar 17 to 20 WritenoW! Festival of new one-act plays by Jon Nelson, Jessica Rose and others. $12, 2-show pass $20. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. writenowfestival2011.eventbrite.com. Mar 21 to 26
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ContemPorary ChoreograPhy in indian danCe Performances and a symposium. $25-
$35. Fleck Dance Theatre (207 Queens Quay W), School of Toronto Dance (80 Winchester), Best Western Primrose Hotel (111 Carlton). 416-973-4000, kalanidhifinearts.org. To Mar 20
and more. Today to Mar 19, 10 am-8 pm; Mar 20, 10 am-6 pm. $18, stu/srs $16, children free. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. canadablooms.com. rdive into marCh break Activities for families on the theme of water include water science and aquatic origami. To Mar 20, 11 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. early 20th-Century italian Poetry Lecture by professor Rodolfo Delmonte. 4 pm. Free. U of T, 10 St Joseph. 416-921-3802 ext 221. rFamily disCovery Hands-on activities and tours of the historic house. To Mar 18 noon4:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432. rhands-on drum CirCle Workshop for youth 12 to 19 with Mystic Drumz. 2-3 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. 416395-5448. rmarCh break at Colborne lodge Tour of the historic house and kids’ activities. To Mar 20, 12:30-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Colborne Lodge, High Park. 416-392-6916.
rmarCh break at the legislative assembly Kids six to 10 dress up in Parliamentary robes and go on a scavenger hunt. Mon to Fri 10 am12:30 pm, Tue and Thu 2 to 4:30 pm. To Mar
u oF t – going to Class may be bad For your health: the biologiCal imPaCt oF College street air Seminar with clinician/scientist Chung-Wai Chow. 4:10 pm. Free. U of T Centre for Environment, rm RS208, 4 Taddle Creek. environment.utoronto.ca. rWizard World Indoor family fun park with entertainment, birds of prey, rides and more. To Mar 20. $8. Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place. wizardworld.ca/toronto.
Friday, March 18 arChaeology oF PerFormanCe in the an-
Female eye Film Festival Shorts, docu-
mentaries and feature films by women directors. $8. Carlton Cinema (2 Carlton), Rainbow Cinemas (80 Front E), Warc Gallery (401 Richmond W). femaleeyefilmfestival.com. To Mar 20 rFireside Culture Week Parkdale community festival of music, visual art, spoken word, comedy and food with headliner Maestro Fresh Wes. Queen West between Dufferin and Roncesvalles. firesidecultureweek.com. To Mar 19 rmaPle magiC Maple syrup festival with 18. Free. Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-325-7500. rmarCh mania in the valley Open-hearth baking and crafts. To Mar 20, 11 am-3 pm. Free w/ admission. Todmorden Mills, Pottery E of Bayview. 416-396-2819. marCh through time Drop-in activities include dress-up and historic cooking. To mar 18, 10 am-3 pm. Free w/ admission. Fort York, Garrison off Fleet. 416-392-6907. mastering google and going deePer Workshop on web research skills for activists and independent journalists. 6:30-9 pm. Free. OISE, rm 5150, 252 Bloor W. Pre-register tools. change@gmail.com. matt ridley The journalist/author talks about how prosperity evolves. 5 pm. $49, U of T alumni $39. Rotman School of Management, 105 St George. rotman.utoronto.ca/events. movie madness Kids watch movies and learn how to make them. To Mar 18, 9 am-3 pm. $310. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. Pre-register 416-698-3456. rPlaytime Forest Year Of The Forest celebration with exhibits and activities. To Mar 20, 9:30 am-4:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929. seaton trail Bus trip for a hike with Toronto
demos, activities, pancakes and more. Free w/ admission. Bradley Museum, 1620 Orr, Mississauga. museumsofmississauga.com. To Mar 20 sPotlight.italy Contemporary Italian music, theatre, art, fashion, food and wine. $32. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com/italy. To Mar 26
rsugarbush maPle syruP Festival
Demos, pancakes, wagon rides and more. $9, srs/child $6.50. Kortright Centre, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 416-667-6299, maplesyrupfest.com. To Apr 10 Bruce Trail Club. 8:30 am. $23. York Mills subway. torontobrucetrailclub.ca.
semiotiCs, Cognitive sCienCe and mathematiCs Interdisciplinary workshop. To Mar
18. $100, stu $50. Fields Institute, 222 College. 416-348-9710. rsPring Fling Indoor carnival with midway rides, family entertainment, exotic animals and more. To Mar 18, 10 am-6 pm. $10, all-day ride ticket $20. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. 416-341-3000. rst Party’s day St Patrick’s Day celebration with live music by Ryan Higgins and Mookie Morris, green beer, food and more. Noon-6 pm. Free. St Lawrence Market N, 92 Front E. 647-272-2779. rtime sleuths Kids six to eight investigate the mysteries of the 1920s mansion. To Mar 18, 9 am-4 pm. $40. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. Pre-register 416-392-6910. rtoronto sPortsmen’s shoW Outdoors, fishing and boating show. Today to Mar 18, 10 am-8 pm; Mar 20, 10 am-6 pm. $19, stu/srs $13, children free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. torontosportshow.ca. ttC riders revolution Protest rally to demand more accountability from the TTC and better screening methods for applicants. 10
$3.95 pints of Guinness This St. Patrick’s Day At The Loose Moose 4pm - 7pm
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Cient World Soc for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities conference. Today and tomorrow 10 am-5 pm. Free. U of T Jackman Humanities Bldg, 170 St George. thessea.org. bernie dWyer The Irish journalist talks about the covert U.S. war against Cuba. 7 pm. Free. Casa Mais, 1280 Finch W. torontoforumoncuba.weebly.com. CanCer Prevention and bisPhenol a Active Cancer Survivors Support Group meeting and talk. 1-3 pm. Free. Whole Foods, 87 Avenue. 647-258-9478, activecancersurvivors.info. Queer and trans Family Planning Course for people of diverse family structures and identities. Today 7-9:30 pm; tomorrow 9:30 am-4:30 pm; Mar 20. $75 sliding scale. 519 Church Community Centre. Pre-register 416392-6874. rtoronto ComiC Con Comics, movies, toys, video gaming, television and more with appearances by Billy Dee Williams, Julie Benz and others. Today 4-9 pm; tomorrow 10 am-6 pm; Mar 20, 11 am-6 pm. $25 and up. Direct Energy Centre, 100 Princes’. wizardworld. com. toronto Wine and Cheese shoW Gourmet foods, wines, beers and spirits plus seminars. Today and tomorrow noon-10 pm; Mar 20 noon-6 pm. $18, adv $15. International Centre, 6900 Airport. towineandcheese.com. Want to get your business started? Small business workshop with Debbi Arnold. $40. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-762-7171.
Saturday, March 19
Benefits
a little oPera For little babies (Linden
Fund for Neonatal Intensive Care) Arias and ensembles from well-known operas performed by Maureen Batt and others. 7:30 pm. $25, stu/srs $15. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W. musicforpreemies.ca. seeds oF hoPe (Pakistan flood relief) Art exhibition and musical performances by Anwar Khurshid and others. 6-10 pm. $20. Gallery 345, 345 Sorauren. 647-989-5143.
catch cagerS for muSic eD
The Juno Cup hockey game gets most of the ink when it comes to the Juno Awards’ satellite sports events. But this year, hoops fans can get their fix, too, thanks to Juno Hoops 2011, a cool celebrity basketball game benefiting MusiCounts, an organization promoting music programs in schools. Former track star – and fastest man on earth – Donovan Bailey, spoken word artist Dwayne Morgan and others tip off at Ryerson’s Kerr Hall Gymnasium (31 Gerrard East) on Monday (March 21), 7 pm. $5. junoawards.ca/40thanniversary-events/juno-hoops.
talk anti-poverty tacticS
The provincial Liberals are certainly
Events
Bernie Dwyer The Irish journalist talks about the covert U.S. war against Cuba. 6:30 pm. Free. U of T Galbraith Bldg, rm 120, 35 St George. torontoforumoncuba.weebly.com. Brickolage Guided tour of the artist-run centres, galleries and studios led by curator William Huffman. 12:30-2:30 pm. Free. 401 Richmond W. 401richmond.net. cafe Skeptique Discussion on what constitutes evidence. 5-7 pm. Free. Free Times Café, 320 College. cficanada.ca/ontario/events. rcaSa loma’S fantaSy queSt Kids eight and up go an a quest to find the wizard who has stolen the magical bells. $31. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. Pre-register 416-923-1171. DaviD Suzuki Lecture by the scientist/peacemaker. 7-10:30 pm. $75. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. 905787-8811. ra Digital Day Multimedia workshops for kids seven to 10. 10 am-3 pm. Free. Malvern Town Centre, 31 Tapscott. 416-698-7322. egypt, the araB upriSingS anD the nDp
NDP Socialist Caucus federal conference with speakers including Mohammed Shokr. 9:30 am-5 pm. $5 or pwyc. OISE, rm 2-212, 252 Bloor W. ndpsocialists.ca.
iriSh immigrant trail: Slattery’S cornerS to hog’S Back mountain Toronto Field Nat-
uralists walk. 1 pm. Free. Dundas West subway. 416-593-2656. oak riDgeS trail Bus trip for a hike with Toronto Bruce Trail Club. 8:30 am. $23. York Mills subway. torontobrucetrailclub.ca. poor no more Film screening and panel discussion with the producers and director. 2 pm. Free. York Civic Centre Council Chamber, 2700 Eglinton W. ndp.ca/district/35105. poor people’S aSSemBly Meeting to plan a fight-back challenging the Liberal government to restore the special diet and raise welfare/ disability rates. 2 pm. Free. Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre, 1900 Davenport. 416925-6939.
in no rush to solve the poverty crisis – instead, they’ve established an 18-month review of the welfare system, with a report due long after the election. Meanwhile, they’ve gutted the special diet allowance for those on social assistance and allowed welfare rates to fall way below inflation increases. Join CUPE Ontario, OCAP and others in a Poor People’s Assembly strategizing to win a raise in rates, Saturday (March 19), 2 pm. Free. Davenport Perth Neighbourhood Centre (1900 Davenport). ocap@tao.ca.
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Yes, the Great Lakes are our commons, and it’s time we gave them some respect. Celebrate World Water Day (March 22) with the Council of Cana rtoronto animecon Autograph sessions,
Q&As, anime trivia and more. Today 11 am-6 pm; tomorrow 11 am-5 pm. $15, under 10 free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. hobbystar.com.
toronto taBle hockey championShipS
Tournament. 10 am. U of T Brennan Hall, 81 St Mary. Sign up at torontotablehockey@ hotmail.com. women, reSiStance anD revolution Activist conference examining the roots of women’s oppression and what can be done. 11:30 am4:30 pm. Free. OISE, rm 4414, 252 Bloor W. international.socialists@utoronto.ca.
Sunday, March 20
Benefits
clothing Swap anD Book Sale (Gallery
1313) Swap and sale in conjunction with the Eco-Art 2011 exhibition. 1-5 pm. $5 to swap. Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen W. 416-536-6778. pawS on the Shore (Stop K9 Profiling) Group dog hike and raffle. Noon-3 pm. Free. Marie Curtis Park, Lake Shore W and 42nd. pawsontheshore.ca.
Events
Bernie Dwyer The Irish journalist talks about the covert U.S. war against Cuba. 3 pm. Free. San Lorenzo Church, 2981 Dufferin. torontoforumoncuba.weebly.com. green fielDS Film screening and talk by actor Jack Newman. 4 & 7:30 pm. $15, yth $10. Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. mnjcc.org. haiti anD the Struggle for fooD Sovereignty Open study session. 2-4 pm. Free.
OISE, 252 Bloor W. torontoboliviasolidarity@ gmail.com. healthy water healthy citieS Water forum on the Great Lakes with Robert Lovelace of Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, Council of Canadians’ Anil Naidoo and others. 10 am4:30 pm. Free. Metro Hall, 55 John. torontochapter@gmail.com. living without religion Discussion on reli-
Ex-sprint champ Donovan Bailey joins Juno Hoops 2011 on March 21.
uniteD nationS commiSSion on the StatuS of women Canadian Voice of Women for Peace report back on the conference. 7-9 pm. $10-$20 or pwyc. Friends House, 60 Lowther. 416-603-7915.
dians at the Healthy Water, Healthy Cities Forum. The day-long event focuses on access to clean water as a human right and features Robert Lovelace from the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, Karen Buck of Citizens for a Safe Environment, Lino Grima of U of T’s Centre for the Environment and others. Sunday (March 20), 10 am to 4:30 pm. Free. Metro Hall (55 John). canadians.org. gious issues and looking at a positive life. 3:30-5:30 pm. Free. Centre for Inquiry, 216 Beverley. cficanada.ca/ontrio/events. metalworkS inStitute Open house for those interested in a career in entertainment. 1 pm. Free. Metalworks Plaza, 3611 Mavis, Mississauga. 905-279-4000. moSaic Stories celebrating spring and change with Sandra Carpenter-Davis. 3 pm. Pwyc ($5 sugg). St David’s Parish Hall, 49 Donlands. 416-469-2878. Spring equinox evening tour Celebrate the arrival of spring with music, stories and food. 7-8:30 pm. $15. Colborne Lodge, High Park. Pre-register 416-392-6916. Spring equinox laByrinth walk Walk the labyrinth accompanied by music. Noon-1 pm. Free. Toronto Public Labyrinth, Trinity Square Park (behind the Eaton Centre). labyrinthnetwork.ca.
a Story of pigS anD rice: how haitianS were roBBeD of their own fooD Supply
Talk and discussion with professor Melanie Newton. 2-4 pm. Free. OISE, rm 5150, 252 Bloor W. torontoboliviasolidarity@gmail.com. toronto BrewSter Women-only beer talk and guided tasting with beer sommelier Mirella Amato. 4 pm. $25. Twisted Kilt, 1954 Yonge. barleysangels.ca.
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Juno hoopS 2011 (MusiCounts) Celebrity basketball game with Donovan Bailey, Ray Robinson, Dwayne Morgan and others plus entertainment. 7-9:30 pm. $5. Ryerson Kerr Hall Gymnasium, 31 Gerrard E. junoawards. ca/40th-anniversary-events/juno-hoops.
water: in converSation with mauDe Barlow Discussion on access to water as a
public resource and human right with Barlow, Romila Verman, Debby Danard and student activists. 6-9 pm. $5, stu $2. New College William Doo Auditorium, Willcocks. Pre-register waterworkinggroup@gmail.com.
Tuesday, March 22
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anguiSh – richarD iii Lecture by Shakespeare expert Jane Freeman. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.
how to BuilD your BranD uSing twitter
Learn the ins and outs of Twitter for business. 8 pm. $45. Broadview Espresso, 817 Broadview. Pre-register divinelabinc@gmail.com.
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Debate with journalist David Frum and author John English. 6:30-8 pm. $25. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. Stephen temple The architect talks about his recent works. 6:30 pm. Free. U of T Daniels Faculty, 230 College. 416-978-5038. taBle hockey night in canaDa Get out and score. 8-11 pm. Free. Gladstone Art Bar, 1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel.com.
unique native plantS of the malcolm Bluff ShoreS, niagara eScarpment Presen-
tation. 7:30 pm. $12. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340. waShi Talk by artist Elizabeth D’Agostino. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Japanese Paper Place, 77 Brock. Pre-register 416-538-9669. worlD water Day Student forum. 9:30 am-3 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-5897.
Wednesday, March 23 Bernie Dwyer The Irish journalist talks about the covert U.S. war against Cuba. 2-4 pm. Free. York U, York Lanes, rm 280N, 4700 Keele. torontoforumoncuba.weebly.com.
Big houSeS, faSt BoatS anD lotS of gooD Salmon Talk on the complex lives of ances-
tral First Nations in the Pacific Northwest. 5:15 pm. Free. U of T Sandford Fleming Bldg, rm 1101, 10 King’s College Rd. 905-823-2819.
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Human Rights Legal Support Centre clinic for people thinking of filing a human rights application. 10 am or 5 pm. Free. 8th fl, 180 Dundas W. archdisabilitylaw.ca. entrepreneurShip 101 Class on the nuts and bolts of starting a business. 5:30-6:30 pm. Free. MaRS Auditorium, 101 College. Preregister marsdd.com/ent101. keeping your water Safe Discussion on water protection and the quality of drinking water in Ontario. 7 pm. $15. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-5897, rom.on.ca/water.
paul roBeSon: the talleSt tree in our foreSt Panel discussion on the achievements of
the actor/civil rights leader with playwright Norm Kelly, civil rights activist Lee Lorch and others. 7 pm. Free. Hart House E Common Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca. roméo Dallaire The Canadian senator, author and humanitarian lectures on child soldiers in war and armed conflict. 5-7 pm. Free. Academic Resource Centre Lecture Theatre AC223, U of T Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail. romeodallaire.eventbrite.com. toronto BaBel Practice a new language and meet people from around the globe. 7:30 pmmidnight. Free. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. torontobabel.com.
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wilD currentS (Ride to Conquer Cancer) Fundraising concert. Today and Apr 28. $10. Club Lambadina, 875 Bloor W. 416-451-1347.
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feeling tireD? – DiScovering wilSon’S temperature SynDrome Lecture. 7-8:30 pm.
Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. taxeS: what you neeD to know Talk on tax planning, and understanding credits and deductions. 7-9 pm. Free. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. 416-392-0511.
when iS it Safe to Swim in the great lakeS? Seminar with Marg Sanborn of McMaster’s department of family medicine. 4:10 pm. Free. U of T Centre for Environment, RS208, 4 Taddle Creek. environment.utoronto.ca.
the women BehinD the graSSy narrowS BlockaDe Speak Hear from three of the
women who helped initiate and sustain the Grassy Narrows blockade. 7:30 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. freegrassy.org. 3
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6:30 pm. Free. Annette Library, 145 Annette. 416-393-7521. rJuno week at the Science centre Workshops on rap, spinning, percussion science and more with Maestro Fresh Wes and others. To Mar 25, 10 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416696-1000. paul verhoeven Film critic Adam Nayman looks at the controversial director’s career. 7-9 pm. $12, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211.
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Bernie Dwyer The Irish journalist talks about the covert U.S. war against Cuba. 1-3 pm. Free. U of T New College, 1016 Wilson Hall, 40 Willcocks. torontoforumoncuba.weebly.com. garDening up front Talk on front-yard vegetable gardens by Green Gardeners’ Andre Roy.
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Toronto Alternative Arts and Fashion Week (alternativefashionweek.com) takes over 99 Sudbury from April 26 to 29 and includes a preview of short designer collaboration films that will be part of the International Fashion Film Festival launching in 2012. Jessica Jensen, Zoran Dobric and Gaudet are a few of the labels contributing to the style movie project. FAT tickets go on sale at the end of March.
On-point vintage picker (and last fashion issue’s cover model) Sarah Magwood (magwood.ca) opens her own eponymous clothing and accessory boutique at 1418 Dundas West on April 1. Her racks will be packed with luxe pieces from the 1800s to the 1980s from names like Versace, Chanel and Gaultier.
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Blue crush Our favOurite wedge Of the cOsmetics cOlOur wheel this seasOn is the spectrum frOm aqua tO navy 1 Powerpoint eye pencils in So There Jade, Navy Stain and Prussian, $17.50, MAC Cosmetics. 2 NARS Bateau Ivre duo eye shadow, $38, Sephora. 3 Deborah Lippmann Glitter in the Air nail polish, $20, Donato Salon + Spa. 4 Benefit BADgal Lash blue mascara, $26, Murale. See the complete retail index on page 33.
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spring fashion special Ela totE Designer Ela Kowalewska didn’t fall for the overwhelming palette of fluorescent tones and crayon box colours for her first collection of clutches, messengers and tote bags. Instead, she focused on developing the line’s signature details, including asymmetrical flaps and angled hardware, in materials like supple nubuck and stiff canvas. The bags are instant classics and the sleeper hit of an otherwise manic fashion season.
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Fanny Chadwick’s loves corned beef, as in this Reuben sandwich (above); or build your own eggs Benedict with tons of available options. New spot Fanny Chadwick’s has cozy decor, but sadly, service is pure chaos.
Fanny’s a bummer A spotty menu and poor service sink Fanny Chadwick By STEVEN DAVEY and there’s already a queue of grumbling early birds at the Annex diner’s front door. Those smart enough to show up by 10:15 am have commandeered every seat in the joint, the primo tables a row of gaudily upholstered booths opposite a jumping open kitchen. With its shelves lined with Mason jars of pickles and preserves, boomer soundtrack and retro comfort food card, Fanny falls somewhere between upmarket and mainstream, as if Jamie Kennedy decided to tag-team with Golden Griddle. Given the pedigrees of everyone involved (co-owner Leanne Martineau was a long-time Terroni wrangler, partner Sarah Baxter
FANNY CHADWICK’S (268 Howland, at Dupont, 416-944-1606, fannychadwicks. com) Complete dinners for $45 per person (lunches/brunches $25), including tax, tip and a Caesar. Average main $20/$12. Open for lunch Tuesday to Friday 11 am to 5 pm, for dinner Sunday, Tuesday to Thursday 5 to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 6 to 11 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 4 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Licensed. Access: two steps at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NN
barely three weeks old, fanny Chadwick’s is clearly rushed off her feet. It’s not even 11 am Sunday morning
and hubby own the popular Feathers pub on Kingston Road, and chef Joel McDonald has worked under both Susur Lee and George’s Lorenzo Loseto), Chadwick’s should be a contender. But first she has to get the food out. It’s been at least 20 minutes since we ordered one of ex-George pastry chef Elysia Staszczyszyn’s terrific hazelnut sticky buns, even though there’s a whole tray of them on the lunch counter not 6 feet away. After another delay, a side of bland house-cured gravlax (both $3) arrives with a “Did you order this?” We shouldn’t have bothered. We’ve stared down many a plateful of eggs Benedict in preparation for
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NOW’s April 4 Brunch Guide but have seen none as foolish as Fanny’s Build Your Own Benny ($11 and up). Maybe this is Martineau’s way of making up for the tyranny of Terroni’s “no substitution” rule, but 50 permutations of eggs with egg sauce is 49 ways to screw up every time. Instead, we opt for Finnish pancakes ($12), an impressive stack o’ buttery crepe-like flapjacks dressed with whipped cream and blueberry compote, plus a spicy house-made sausage. Layered with dried apple, crème anglais and a splash of maple syrup, Fanny’s French toast ($12) is easily one of the most luxurious we’ve encountered. Shame the same can’t be said for her corned beef hash ($12), a haphazard combo of home fries, fried onions and stringy house-cured brisket topped with a scrambled “farm fresh” egg omelette, and lukewarm to boot. Dinner – while not nearly as chaotic as brunch – runs from hot to cold as well. Lubricated by a round of Bloody Caesars ($6.95) stirred with pickled heirloom carrots, we start with clams ($12) steamed in vermouth spiked with garlic and tarragon, its gravy boat of drawn butter overkill. Warm Winter Salad ($10) turns out to have
the same glazed root veggies that show up alongside some of the mains on a bed of lettuce and radicchio, here tossed with random chunks of Benedictine blue cheese and walnuts in a barely there sherry vinaigrette. They’re alongside chef’s perfectly roasted chicken with stuffing ($20), though it, too, gets unnecessarily sabotaged by butter. Pan-seared Ocean Wise steelhead trout dusted in cornmeal is definitely fish, and deep-fried strings of russet potatoes might be chips, but the two could hardly be considered proper fish ’n’ chips ($16) despite their Thai-spiced ketchup, dilled tartar sauce and warm red cabbage slaw. The less said about fatty corned beef and cabbage ($20) paired with mushy fried perogies, the better. Tonight’s bread pudding ($6) – tasty as it is – looks an awful lot like reheated French toast. And don’t get us started on the disorganized service. But she makes a good burger ($12/ $16 with fries, soup or salad), and if we lived down the street, we’d likely be here every other weekend. Give her time to catch her breath and Fanny Chadwick’s could be worth the lineup. 3 stevend@nowtoronto.com
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Though news of its imminent launch last week proved a tad premature, the second Guu (559 Bloor West, at Bathurst, 647-343-1101, guu-izakaya. com) is scheduled to open today (Thursday, March 17) at 5 pm. “We have one last inspection on Tuesday afternoon, so we should be open shortly after,” says the Vancouver-based Izakaya’s James Kim. “The weekend at the latest.” “Actually, the delay has been great. It’s given us time to make sure everything’s perfect. I even gave the chefs a day off.”
Dubbed a “saka bar,” the 125-seat Annex annex features a cheaper tapaslike card than the original – carbonara udon with bacon and partially boiled egg, anyone? – and sports a glassed-in holding pen out front. No more lining up outside in the cold. Sadly, the boozy bistro’s two-hour seating limit is still in effect. “Some customers stay too long and get really drunk,” laughs Kim.
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portions guarantee there will be leftovers aplenty. And, no, he doesn’t do pizza. Reservations essential. NOW’s Resto of the Year 2010. Best: oven-baked French onion soup with Gruyère and caraway crouton; Red Fife papardelle with either tomatobraised wild boar or wild mushrooms and boozy shallots; chicken and smoked ham hock pot pie with seasonal root veggies and cippolini onion; lemon ’n’ blueberry tarts topped with roasted marshmallow merengue. Complete meals for $55 per person, including tax, tip and a pint of Duggan’s #9 IPA. Average main $23. Open
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Mexican street food? Then you’ve never eaten at ex-Torito, JKWB and Scaramouche (!) cook Francisco Alejandri’s tiny Kensington Market not-so fast food stall. The proof? Immaculately plated $5 tapasto-go that would be worth three times the price at his former employers’. Best: made-to-order shredded flank steak salad dressed with chopped jalapeños, ripe tomato and raw red onion in lime juice, finished with avocado, fresh tortilla chips and peppery arbequina olive oil; green vegetarian tostadas on guacamole with sliced tomato, organic Montfort Dairy queso fresca and guayillo chili ‘n’ tomatillo salsa; lime Charlotte, a multi-tiered tiramisu finished with zest and more of that fab Spanish olive oil. Complete takeout dinners for $15 (lunches $10), including tax, tip and an iced hibiscus tea. Average main $5. Open Tuesday to Sunday 11 am to 6:30 pm. Closed Mondays, holidays, and Tuesdays after long weekends. No reservations. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: three steps at door, no washrooms. Rating: NNNNN 3
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This year’s CMW programming was lacklustre and unfocused, but you wouldn’t know that from our glowing reviews. Turns out we’re pretty good at finding gold in a mountain of mediocrity (or maybe they’re lacing writers’ beer with Xanax). With the exception of a few big-ticket American acts, most of our favourites were Canadian. That’s as much a comment on how uninspiring most of the headliners were as it is on the strength of our homegrown scene. And once again, the rain-drenched festival-goers we ran into were as confused about whether to call the thing CMW or CMF as we were. Judging from the poll we ran online, the organizers still have a long way to go in rebranding the music fest portion.
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MOTHER MOTHER at the Phoenix Rating: NNN Stepping onstage to a roaring ovation, Vancouver’s Mother Mother wasted no time getting fans on side at the sold-out Phoenix. Jaunty frontman Ryan Guldemond and his harmonic counterpoint/sister, Molly, launched into the snappy 2008 singles O My Heart and Hayloft. Hitting the crowd with two of their best-known tunes created plenty of energy early on, but then the show hit a lull, especially since songs from their impending Eureka have yet to soak in. Still, a strutting new tune called The Stand picked up the pace near the JASON KELLER end. BIRDS OF TOKYO at the Phoenix Rating: NN Despite considerable success in their native Australia, Birds of Tokyo don’t seem poised to take flight over our shores. Their plodding mid-tempo rock sound is about as visceral as Keane, Razorlight or any of those other unthreatening British indie bands. The crowd indulged BOT with smatterings of polite applause, but no one raced to the merch table once the Aussies howled their last hard-driving JK dirge.
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YOUNG EMPIRES at the Great Hall Rating: NNNN The CBC/Windish party peaked early, thanks to a fun, highenergy set by quickly rising local synth rockers Young Empires. The trio’s glossy blend of retro post-punk and thumping electro is the perfect pump-up music for a night out. Bodies were moving on the
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A distinctive blend of 60s girl group drama and new wave fun, Modern Superstitions wooed a crowd that grew steadily throughout their early set. But while singer Nyssa Rosaleen has a sugar-and-sandpaper voice that makes the hair on your arms stand on end, an occasional hesitance in her delivery holds her back. A really good band that could be incredible. JOANNE HUFFA
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co-singer/guitarist James Younger offered up amusing banter, out came an English accent. For real? Their publicist confirmed it is indeed. Watch for their debut CARLA GILLIS album, out March 29. METZ at Wrongbar Rating: NNNN Few bands in Toronto bring as much energy – and volume – to the stage as Metz. Despite sound problems that made the vocals all but inaudible, the trio got the audience moving during a brief, brutal set that left us wanting more. The beauty of Metz is that their songs are well crafted and hook-filled, providing structure for all that face-melting feedback. JH LAKE OF STEW at the Dakota Tavern Rating: NNNN Not a single patch cord or DI was in use as the six-piece Montreal bluegrass team Lake of Stew sang about buses, love and graffiti to an enthusiastic crowd. The members took turns leading, with scrappy-voiced Richard Rigby and nearyodeller Brad Levia most often at the helm. Producer Ken Whiteley guested on mandolin and a maple syrup jug, and washtub bass player Julia Narveson’s old-timey voice shone on Hey Bully. They SARAH GREENE played an encore at 3 am.
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1977 at Hard Luck Bar Rating: NNN Toronto singer/songwriter Julie Kendall (aka 1977) put out a great album of sunny Beach Boysish pop last year that snagged her a Juno nomination despite floating below most people’s radar. She’s about to put out another, and judging from the sound of her new band, we can expect it to be more surf rock than surf pop. Too bad a horrible sound mix buried both her vocals and keys during her whole Hard Luck set; the little we could hear sounded promBENJAMIN BOLES ising. AUSTRA at Wrongbar Rating: NNNN Technical problems delayed Austra’s set for so long that Katie Stelmanis gave up on getting all of her band’s
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synths going. But you’d never have guessed they were a keyboard short; their sound was huge and lush. Newer dance-floor-friendly material went over great, and getting the warbling identical twins from Tasseomancy on backup vocals was a highly effective way to enhance Stelmanis’s own forBB midable pipes.
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PAT JORDACHE at the Drake Hotel
Rating: NNN Pat Jordache is the solo project of Montreal’s Patrick Gregoire, whom some might know from Islands, Sister Suvi and Tune-Yards. His newer material has more of a damaged 80s soft rock vibe compared to his earlier Afropop- and dub-influenced tracks. He
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JAMES vINCENT McMORROw at the Great Hall Rating: NNN
Armed with just an acoustic guitar and his affecting falsetto cry, a jetlagged James Vincent McMorrow took the stage prior to Kurt Vile and J Mascis, unfurling songs from his haunting Early In The Morning album with hushed intensity. Despite the Dublin singer/songwriter’s immaculate delivery and striking lyrics, he seemed withdrawn and perhaps not entirely into it. Interestingly, Vile was also more subdued CG than expected. J MASCIS at the Great Hall Rating: NNNN It takes a lot for a solo acoustic performance to hold the attention of a large crowd, but it was no problem for J Mascis at the Great Hall. The Dinosaur Jr. leader was without his signature Fender Jazzmaster, but even seated with an acoustic he oozed his distinctive laconic style. Delivering tracks from his debut solo record and acoustic versions of Dinosaur classics, Mascis kept the crowd energized. And those looking for guitar solos weren’t disappointed; an overworked fuzz pedal allowed RICHARD TRAPUNSKI him to indulge. HOLGER at the Drake Hotel Rating: NNN Brazil’s Holger looked thrilled to be onstage at the Drake, and won us over with their enthusiasm. Their marriage of classic indie guitar rock with Brazilian rhythms and melodies is like a more dance-floor-friendly Vampire Weekend. They don’t really have a defined frontman, as all members sing most of the time. A fun party band, they sometimes seemed a little too eager to please and got a bit BB cheeseball here and there.
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Hand & Teeth’s multiple vocalists were effective at the Comfort Zone Saturday
Close And Personal tour stop, a fun, feel-good trip through three decades of pop and R&B hits. The veteran performer revived classic choreography moves and jammed nearly 30 songs into a briskly paced 90 minutes. A relaxed pro, she connected with fans through her emotive, upbeat performance style, those influential dance routines and cleavage visible from KEVIN RITCHIE outer space.
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Rating: NNNN Montreal friends told me not to miss the Barr Brothers, and despite technical difficulties – blown fuses, feedback, delayed start time – they were right. Brad and Andrew Barr (formerly of the Slip) along with harpist Sarah Page and multi-tasking Andres Vial put on a show that defied categorization. Too bad Czehoski was uncomfortably packed and people talked through a set that ran the gamut of SG folk, blues and prog rock. DIGITS at the El Mocambo Rating: NNNN Alt Altman’s (aka Digits) breezy bedroom synth-pop was the perfect intro to 2+2 Management’s impressive showcase of buzzy indie dance bands. Uniting bits of retro new wave and eclectic 00s electro, Altman’s tracks benefit from strong songwriting, meticulous production and thumping beats. But it’s his catchy, chilled-out vocals and thoughtful lyrics that separate him from the solo laptop set. Singing, playing two synths and at times donning an electric bass, he impressed a large early crowd with moody gems that land somewhere between Hot Chip and Harold FalterJB meyer. TY SEGALL at Wrongbar Rating: NNNNN The curse of cross-armed Toronto crowds doesn’t apply to Ty Segall. On record, the San Francisco garage rocker’s reverby tunes are most notable for their sun-drenched 60s hooks, but in a live setting they’re all about bratty punk swagger. There are much heavier bands out there, but the capacity Wrongbar crowd practically treated Ty Segall like Black Flag. Segall himself got into it, sacrificing his guitar to the sea of moshing, surfing, beerspraying bodies. He had to finish the set with a guitar borrowed from openers Heavy Cream, yet never missed a RT beat.
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Rating: NNNN Jay Electronica once again gave Toronto’s hip-hop heads something to talk about. His lyrics loaded with historical and contemporary injustices, the charismatic New Orleans MC fired up the audience with incendiary a cappellas, offered a not so eloquent rebuke (“Suck my dick!”) to critics of his infamous rough-sex comments made at a gig here last fall and tore a strip off security for trying to evacuate fans he’d invited onstage. By the end, half the crowd was onstage and Electronica was on the floor, thrilling frenzied fans amidst a whirlpool of outstretched arms and glowing smartphones. KR
HANDS & TEETH at the Comfort Zone
Rating: NNN It’s not unusual for lead vocals to shift between several members over the course of a song by Hands & Teeth, but the results aren’t as jarring as you’d think. The band’s best moments, however, happen when everyone sings together; that impressive big-group power can’t be matched. The Toronto quintet offered up catchy tunes and good stage presence, and pulled off classic soul rock vibes better than their stabs at contemporary indie rock. BB
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Rating: NNNN Toronto hard-rock quartet the Mercy Now don’t yield to modern alt/indie trends, and there’s something refreshing about the unabashed retro tendencies of their high-octane boogie riffs. And while they look like they’d be more comfortable living in the 70s, they bring so much energy to the stage that it’s surprisingly easy to ignore the throwback aspects. It also helps that their grooves are a lot sexier than most classic rock acts manage. BB
Sunday, March 13
RATTAIL at the Horseshoe Rating: NNN Unofficially closing out CMW in the final slot of a surprisingly strong Sunday-night lineup at the Horseshoe, Toronto’s RatTail were suitably low-key. The trio’s repetitive, warm three-chord grunge-folk was weirdly lulling, even when singer Jasmyn Burke stretched her deep Karen O-ish vocals into an almost guttural scream. It’s Burke’s unique voice and quirky, jovial stage presence that make the band so persuasive live, but they would have benefited from a longer, better-attended showcase. RT3
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Quirky record label collective take the show on the road By JOANNE HUFFA ELEPHANT 6 HOLIDAY SURPRISE TOUR at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Friday (March 18). $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TM.
Since the late 80s, when four friends in Denver – Robert Schneider, Jeff Mangum, Bill Doss and Will Cullen Hart – created a label for the home recordings they made for each other, the Elephant 6 Recording Company has become legendary. The friends formed the bands Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel and the Olivia Tremor Control respectively, the nucleus of an American independent music scene that hit its peak in the late 90s and continues to thrive today. “[Elephant 6] has been around for so
long that we’ve built up a catalogue and a history, so there’s definitely an interest in that,” says Elf Power’s Andrew Rieger over the phone from his hotel room in Boise, Idaho. “There are a lot of young people coming out who were too young when, say, Olivia Tremor Control were touring. But there are a lot of old fans as well, so it’s a good mix.” Rieger, Julian Koster from Neutral Milk Hotel and the Music Tapes, and the Olivia Tremor Control’s Doss and Hart are among the crew touring as the Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise, an idea conceived around Christmas 2008. Despite it being mid-March, the tour’s name conjures the festive season, and so do the tour’s contents. “We’re playing songs from eight or
nine different bands and songwriters,” Rieger says. “And we’re incorporating films and games.” Games? “We have this 12-foot gigantic snowman, and we play an audience participation game where you help the snowman guide a snowball across the venue to puncture a moon. If the snowman can do it, the audience member who helped gets to pick any song by anybody ever, no matter if we know it or have ever heard it. “We give ourselves a couple of minutes to get the song together, and if we’re unfamiliar with it – like the other day someone picked a Justin Timberlake song none of us had ever heard – we just make something up.” 3
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84.85 After three years of tearing up the local live scene, electrorap duo 84.85 finally have something to show for it: a wellcrafted independent EP, Good Problems. Made up of MC Colin Maciver and producer Jay Jolliffe (aka Lucy ’Lo), the duo have a rep for engineering sweaty, all-out dance parties. This EP, though, has an edge not found in their older batch of floor-fillers. “We weren’t in the happiest of places,” admits Jolliffe about writing and recording the six tracks. “We wanted to write songs that were more than just music to dance to, and the
dark sound is a true reflection of who we were at the time.” That said, the EP is still party-ready. Maciver’s flow is quick, clever, personal and often funny, while Jolliffe’s alloriginal production weaves in and out of hip-hop, dubstep and deep house. For now, 84.85 remain unsigned and manage themselves. “We’re tired of needing people to help us,” says Jolliffe, who recorded Maciver’s vocals in his kitchen. But with a record this solid, the pair might soon have to rethink their commitment to independence. Not a bad problem to have. At Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Friday (March 18), 10 pm. JORDAN BIMM 416-516-8677.
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The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Wednesday (March 23) Electro-pop and classic house vibes.
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Thursday, March 17 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
ALLEYCATZ Ascencion. AQUILA José’s Massively Grand St Paddy’s
Night Bash The New Mynah Birds, Jake Chisholm (Celtic rock’n’reel). THE BALLROOM BOWL BAR BISTRO 360 St Patrick’s Day Party The Midway State doors 9 pm. BAR ITALIA UPSTAIRS Music For The Soul Chicken & Waffles 9:30 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB St Patrick’s Day: Creepshow After Party Johnny Lubera, the Irish Organ Thieves, DJ BJ Ripin, DJ Cactus. CADILLAC LOUNGE The Neil Young’uns 8:30 pm. C’EST WHAT Running Red Lights, Ol’ Savannah 9 pm. CLINTON’S St Patrick’s Day Party Lady N’ Gentlemen, Run for Cover. CLOAK & DAGGER PUB St Paddy’s Day The Boys from County Hell (rock/folk) 10 pm. CRAWFORD DOWNSTAIRS St Pat’s Black Mass (R&B/reggae). CRAWFORD UPSTAIRS St Pat’s Black Mass (punk rock). CROCODILE ROCK St Patrick’s Day Party Sonic Playground 3 pm.
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Blue Moon 9 pm, $10. April 2.
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Hip-Hop Summit Live Taping CBC Broadcast Centre Atrium cbc.ca/toronto/community. April 1.
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Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Friday (March 18) See preview, page 47.
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Senanigans 5:30 to 8 pm. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Nights And Weekends 3 Strikes (rock) doors 10:30 pm. THE GARRISON LIFT Fundraiser: Movieoke Bob Wiseman. HARD LUCK BAR The Matador’s St Paddy’s Day Massacre The Nightmares, Straight Razors. THE HIDEOUT Meeting Maybe 7 pm. THE HIDEOUT The Cover 10 pm. HORSESHOE Martian Awareness Ball Marcus Ohara, Mary Mary Margaret Ohara. LEE’S PALACE Hungarian Celtic Folk Punk Metal St Paddy’s Day Firkin, Sound One Shamrockers doors 8:30 pm. LULA LOUNGE JUNO Awards: Reggae Retro Carla Marshall, Nana McLean, Blesses, Sonia Collymore, Korexion, Humble doors 7 pm. MASSEY HALL Sarah McLachlan, Butterfly Boucher, Melissa McClelland doors 6:30 pm. MITZI’S SISTER St Paddy’s Day Party: Mysterion’s Great Canadian Burlesque Showcase. MOD CLUB The Creepshow, the Brains, Sinkin Ships, Unbelievers (stomp psychobilly) doors 8 pm, all ages. OPERA HOUSE Travie McCoy, Donnis, Black Cards, SV, Black Rabbits (rap/hiphop) doors 6 pm, all ages. PARTS & LABOUR The Get Nuns, Deutche Banks, Hate Gang (punk rock) 10 pm. PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Simian Mobile Disco, Juan Maclean, Blondes doors 9 pm. THE PISTON Daniel Sky (pop/rock/hip-hop/ soul). PRESS CLUB St Patty’s Day The Dishes (rock) 9 pm. RIVOLI St Patrick’s Day Paint, the Autumn Portrait, Joel Battle doors 8 pm. ROC N DOC’S Busted Again (rock) 10 pm. SILVER DOLLAR EP release GAY, Vowls, Sexy Merlin 9 pm. SLACK’S Raise The Roof Women’s Music Festival Auditions For The Main Stage Elana Harte 8 pm. SNEAKY DEE’S A Necessary Evil, A Faster Now,
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SYMPHONY X, NEVERMORE, POWERGLOVE, BLACKGUARD Opera House doors 7 pm, all ages, $32.50. RT, TM. April 27.
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Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, all ages, $28.50. RT, SS, TM, UE. May 12.
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Rivoli doors 9 pm, $20. TM. May 14.
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Mod Club doors 6 pm, all ages, $17.50. RT, SS, TM, UE. May 14.
THE EX + BRASS UNBOUND
Music Gallery Doors 8 pm, $22. RT, SS, TW. May 18.
ARCTIC MONKEYS
Kool Haus doors 8 pm, all ages, $29.50. RT, SS, TM. May 21.
KID ROCK
Air Canada Centre doors 6:30 pm, $39.50-$75.50. TM. May 27.
BRENDAN PERRY, ROBIN GUTHRIE
Opera House doors 8 pm, $27.50. RT, SS, TM. June 4.
BEADY EYE
Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $40. RT, SS, TM. June 20.
MÖTLEY CRÜE, POISON, NEW YORK DOLLS
Molson Amphitheatre doors 5:30 pm, $22.50-$89.50. TM. June 28.
BATTLES
BLACK DUB
THE FELICE BROTHERS
DENNIS COFFEY
Mod Club doors 7 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. April 29. Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. May 12.
Opera House doors 7 pm, $27.50. RT, SS, TM. July 5. Horseshoe doors 10 pm, $22.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. July 8.
Creek Water Junkies, Laugh at the Fakes doors 9 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S St Patrick’s Day Party Kevin O’Bath & Skip Tracer (rock) 9:30 pm. SUPERMARKET Down by Riverside, TJ Whitelaw, Trading Hearts. TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR St Patrick’s Day The Mahones doors 6 pm. WRONGBAR Salem, Silk Flowers doors 10 pm.
TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Greg Smith Sounds
FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD
GATE 403 Patricia Murray Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 String Theory Collective 9 pm. GLENN GOULD STUDIO Glass Houses Revisited
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CAMERON HOUSE Colonel Tom & American Pour 6 pm.
CAMERON HOUSE Greg Cockerill Band 10 pm. FIONN MACCOOL’S IRISH PUB St Patrick’s Day
Celebration Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped In Tradition (Celtic) noon to 6 pm. FYNN’S OF TEMPLE BAR St Patrick’s Day: Shamrock The House Poor Angus 6:30 pm. HART HOUSE ARBOR ROOM Stages Jowi Taylor, David Myles 8:30 pm. HOLY OAK CAFE Alex Lukashevsky (folk) 10 pm. HUGH’S ROOM St Patrick’s Day Rant Maggie Rant 8:30 pm. LOLA Brian Cober (double slide) 9 pm. LOU DAWG’S Call In Sick Friday Mike C (acoustic) 10 pm. MAGPIE CAFE St Paddy’s Day Jamboree The Sure Things 10 pm. MYSTERIOUSLY YOURS... DINNER THEATRE St Patrick’s Day: Rocky Road To Dublin: An Irish Canadian Musical Celebration Randy Vancourt, Paul Gibson, Daniel Giverin. NOT MY DOG St Patrick’s Day Barnstorm Charlatan (fiddle tunes) 10 pm. THE PAINTED LADY St Paddy’s Day Bash Michael OGrady (music and burlesque) 10 pm. ROY THOMSON HALL St Patrick’s Day Celebration The Chieftains 8 pm. ST LAWRENCE MARKET NORTH St Party’s Day: St Patrick’s Celebration Mookie Morris, Ryan Higgins noon onwards. TORONTO CENTRE FOR THE ARTS Zakir Hussain, Niladri Kumar (tabla, sitar) 8 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Bluegrass & Oldtime 7:30 pm.
& the Michael Parks 10 pm.
THE WILSON 96 Samantha Martin & the Haggard (alt country) 9:30 pm.
JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL
CHINA HOUSE Steve Koven Trio. EMMET RAY BAR CD Release Half Beat Mishap (jazz) 9 pm.
FOGARTY’S St Patrick’s Day Celebration (traditional Irish music) 6 pm to midnight.
CD launch Christina Petrowska 7:30 pm. METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH Noon At Met Bruce Kirkpatrick-Hill (pipe organ) 12:15 to 12:45 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR John Sherwood (solo piano) 7:30 pm. REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). REX Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm. REX Sheryl Bailey 3 9:30 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Sketchpad Simeon Abbott Joe Sorbara, Nicole Rampersaud 8 pm. STATLER’S Donovan LeNabat 9:30 pm. TEN FEET TALL Jam Nicola Vaughan (acoustic jam) 9 pm. TRANE STUDIO Downtown Funk Connection 8 pm. WAYLABAR The Chris Weatherstone Trio (jazz).
DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE
ALTO LOUNGE Thurst DJ Smunchy. ANNEX WRECKROOM Sham Rock: St Patty’s
Day Music Fest DJ Special K, Forest Fires, DJ Dynasty, Maskot Irregular, the Family 6 pm. AUGUSTA HOUSE breakandenter: St Paddy’s Day O’Rave-OH! Punisher, Nebula, Martin Fazekas. FOX & FIDDLE WELLESLEY Remix Dance Party DJ Noble (electro) 10 pm. MAISON MERCER The Immaculate Jed Dadson. MOD CLUB Popstars & Icons: Video Dance Party. NACO GALLERY CAFE The Pinko Commie Dance Party.
eye, Jonny Dangerously, DJ Blndr (jungle/raggajungle/old school), 10 pm. THE OSSINGTON More Times DJ Coolin. LA PERLA Soft Focus DJ Wilkins (eclectic indie). RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE deejayscoots (roots/hiphop/reggae/soul/disco/electro/funk) 9 pm.
PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Cold War Kids (indie rock) doors 9 pm.
THE PISTON Prince Perry & the Gladtones 10 pm. PRESS CLUB The Cosmotones (old school rock-
ALLEYCATZ Ascencion. AQUILA The Paul Gellman Band (R&B). BAR ITALIA Shugga (funk). BOVINE SEX CLUB EP release Bacchus, Sunrise
abilly) 9 pm. RIVOLI The Idlers, Tim Turvey (NFLD roots reggae) 9 pm. ROC N DOC’S Who Made Who (rock) 10 pm. SILVER DOLLAR CD release Purple Hill, Pony DaLook, Dora Alexander, DJ Erin Knight (indie rock) 9 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Ten Q (rock) 10 pm. TRANZAC Jay Crocker, Metal Kites, Picastro 10 pm. UNDERGROUND GARAGE Airbag.
BULL & FIRKIN Firkin (Hungarian Celtic folk
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THE FLYING BEAVER The Elaine Dark Band, DJ
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CADILLAC LOUNGE Big Tobacco & the Pickers,
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Jazz/Classical/Experimental
Boiler House Kush (feel-good instrumental/
electronic nu-jazz) 9:30 pm. Dominion on Queen Circles, the Pulse 9 pm. Gate 403 Jerzy Sieczka Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm. Gate 403 Joanna Moon (flamenco-Latino/ Quebec edge quartet) 9 pm. Glenn Gould Studio Robert Glasper Experiment (jazz/soul/R&B/gospel/hip-hop) 8 pm. Harlem Jake Wilkinson 7:30 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Fridays To Sing About Ori Dagan Trio 7:30 pm. Quotes Tara Davidson (saxophone) 5 to 8 pm. Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). Rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. Rex Artie Roth Trio 6:30 pm. Rex CD release Chris Tarry Group 9:30 pm. Somewhere There Studio Leftover Daylight Series James Bailey, Michelangelo Iaffaldano, Rob Piilonen, Andy Yue and others 8 pm. Trane Studio Steve Hall, the Alexander Brown Quintet 8 pm. Tranzac The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm. Waterfalls The Jim Heineman Trio 6:30 pm. Zemra The Love Potion Jazz and Blues Band 9 pm.
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
Annex Wreckroom Yes Yes Y’All Hollyrock, Sammy D, Nino Brown, J-ill, Stunts ñ (queer hip-hop/dancehall/R&B jam) 10 pm.5 The Barn Katy Perry Vs Ke$ha, Miley Cyrus Vs Kelly Clarkson. Battle Pop: Bad Girls Club DJ Craig Dominic (R&B/hip-hop/dancecall) 10 pm.5 Bunda Lounge Uptown Fridays DJ T-Ace (Caribbean music/hip-hop/top 40). C’est What DJ Good Faux (indie/retro rock) 9 pm. Clinton’s Girl & Boy 90s Dance Party 10 pm. College Street Bar Bogey Nights DJ Mercilless, DJ Freeon doors 10 pm. Comfort Inn Mermaid Lounge Latin Fridays DJ Gene (merengue/salsa/bachata/rumba/ cumbia/cha cha) 9 pm.
T.O. music notes
DudeBox: Sick Kids Hospital Benefit Nights, DJs Johnny & Andre doors 11 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. Emmet Ray Bar DJs Juice Box Jam (soul/funk) 10 pm. Fly AX Party Nights 10 pm.5 Footwork Luv This City Fridays The Junkies, Rafwat & Chorniy, YM, Randall Truscott 10 pm. Fox & Fiddle Wellesley Fiesta Friday DJ ShaqT (top 40/house/salsa). George’s Play DJ Oscar (Latin/top 40) 11 pm.5 Guvernment Orange Room DJ A Skillz, Big League Chu, MickeyD, Farbsie, Krfnx. Holy Oak Cafe DJ Filthy Pitch 10 pm. Insomnia Funkn’ Fresh Fridays DJ Dirtyred (house/breaks). lot 332 Hey, Rebel all ages dance party 9 pm. Luxy Nightclub Diva Fridays DJ Jedi, DJ 4Korners. Mod Club Arcade Fridays Fake Blood, T.E.E.D. doors 10 pm. Naco Gallery Cafe Fancy Pants (dance party). The Ossington Lucky Bitches. The Painted Lady DJ Phantastik, Honey B Hind (old-school hip-hop/reggae/80s) 10 pm. La Perla Hypnotic Mindscapes (deep house). Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Stu (rock/old school/ Brit/electro/classics/retro) 10 pm. Stone Lounge Fabricated Neil Quigley, Matt Coleridge (deep;/tech house/UK). Supermarket PluggedNotThugged DJs Mickey D, Mandelephant, Billionaire, Ballistik, OGod 10 pm. Tattoo Rock Parlour Play Fridays DJ Dwight (alternative/indie rock) doors 10:30 pm. Waylabar On The East Side DJ Vanessa (funky house). Woo’s Lounge Heart.Of.The.City DJ J-Class, Kariz (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/oldschool) doors 10:30 pm. Wrongbar ‘Nuff Said DJ Fase, Tom Wrecks, 84.85 10 pm. See preview, page 47. œ
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friday
may 27
lee’s Palace 15.00 advance
$
thurSday april 28 horSeShoe tavern | $10.00 advance
The
acoRn
TuneyaRdS with buke
and gass
johnny Flynn
advance
& the sussex wit
maSon
thurSday may 12 lee’S palace | $17.50 advance
the
sneaky dee’s | $10.50 adv Montreal Ska punkS
The BeaTdown flatfoot 56 with
sun march 27 @ sneaky dee’s | $8.50 adv - 8:30
larry &
sunday march 27
drake underground | $13.50 advance
thurs march 31 @ sneaky dee’s | $13.50 adv
moon duo blank dogs
sam amidon
sat april 9 @ el mocambo | $10.50 adv
monday april 11 @ the drake | $12.50 adv
his flask
oklahoma
thurs march 31 | solD out!
desTroyer
with spitfist & DeaD queen Bitch the war on Drugs
felice mark kozelek tuesday march 22 |
17.50 adv - sun Kil moon/red house Painters indie folk rock
$
brothers british BlueS in d thurs march 24 | $ 18.50 adv
friday march 25 | Junofest $12.00 or $30 wristband
portugal the man
sun march 20
cowbell
onE long show @ 10pM
wed march 23 @ drake underground $16.50 advance - 8:30pm doors
rocky VoTolaTo with
matt pond
tues april 5 & wed april 6 el mocambo | $10.50 advance
the civil
sea misteur valaire amos the transparent poweR gloryhounD a claSSic educaTion
saturday march 26 | Junofest $12.00 or $30 wristband
Beauties & frienDs
friday april 1 | $ 22.50 advance
wire
luke Doucet the real nq arbuckle Dustin Bentall mckenzies saturday april 2 | $ 13.50 adv
wye royal bangs wars nomeansno slowcoaster joe lewis the old 97’s oak sean rowe joe pug foRmidaBle
wednesday april 6 | $23.50 adv
thursday april 14 @ dakota | $11.50 adv
monday april 4 | $ 20.00 adv
wed april 20 @ horseshoe | $10.00 advance
wed april 6 |
& the honeybears
with teddy thompson
thursday april 21 @ drake underground | $12.00 advance - 8pm doors
saturday april 9 | $ 10.00
wednesday april 27
23.50 adv - FEat. lou barlow pErForMing bakesale & harmacy
seBaDoh $
horseshoetavern.com joan as policewoman hunx & 370 Queen St. WeSt / Spadina april 22 the submarines hiS punx leespalace.com artist bookings: craig@horseshoetavern.com or 416-598-0720
friday
416-598-4226 • 1947 to 2010
horseshoe tavern | $11.50 advance
san Francisco hardly art 50s doo wop punk!
horseshoe | $12.50 adv
artiSt bookingS: 416-598-0720 or ben@leespalace.com
529 bloor Street WeSt / bathurSt NOW march 17-23 2011
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PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul
AlleycAtz Soular (R&B/soul/funk). Annex Wreckroom Return to Mono, Futureless 8 pm.
BAr ItAlIA Al Webster 10 pm. BovIne Sex cluB You Call Yourselves Soldiers,
the Dirty Water, Jam Squid, DJ Ian Blurton. cAdIllAc lounge Heads Up Lincoln 10 pm. chAlkerS PuB Soul Stew (retro/funk/disco/ rock) 9:30 pm. cherry colA’S rock n’ rollA Waxmen (rock/ alt/indie) 8 pm. domInIon on Queen CD release The Kat Kings (roots rock) 9 pm. el mocAmBo St. Pat – Rocks 2011 Amanda Moscar, the Johnny Lane Band, Starship Experience, Get Loot, Reverse Grip 7:30 pm. FIrkIn on kIng Firkin (Hungarian Celtic folk punk metal). grAFFItI’S Sin City Boys 4 to 7 pm. hArd luck BAr South End, Chosen Ones, Broadcast Zero. hArlem Joni NehRita 7:30 pm. the hIdeout The Bombs 9 pm. the hIdeout Wednesday Engine 10 pm. horSeShoe CD release Decade of Sleep, Salty Radio, Here Comes the Calvary, Life Blown Open. lee’S PAlAce White Cowbell Oklahoma (rock & roll) doors 9 pm. lIvIng ArtS centre Royal Wood, Jenn Grant 8 pm.
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St. Patrick's Day
The Creepshow AfTer-pArTy w/ The (Irish) Organ Thieves & Johnny Lubera (x-Jersey) + DJ Ben Rispin & DJ Cactus fri mar 18 tHuRsDAY MARcH 17tH Melody Bar: 12pM - 5pM Paddy's day Family lunch with the Bellwoods trinity FRee Melody Bar: 5pM - 8pM Paddy's day matinee show the spudniks FRee Gladstone Gallery: 7pM - 10pM oPening RecePtion “stark" lana paiMent FRee Melody Bar: 8pM - 12AM tnc - Blocs RecoRding cluB & giRls Rock camP PResent patti Cake & friends FRee FRIDAY MARcH 18tH BallrooM: 9pM - 2AM words & letters cd Release PaRty $10 Melody Bar: 7pM - 10pM gladstone woRld PResents JaMeskinG FRee Melody Bar: 10pM - 2AM karaoke w/ peteR stYles | FRee sAtuRDAY MARcH 19tH Melody Bar: 7pM - 10pM mill st. countRy satuRdays PResent Box full of Cash FRee Melody Bar: 10pM - 2AM karaoke w/ peteR stYles | FRee sunDAY MARcH 20tH Melody Bar: 5pM - 8pM mill st. BluegRass sundays PResents Makita haCk & the loGrollers FRee Melody Bar: 8pM - 10:30pM Class a studio fundraiser pwYc MOnDAY MARcH 21st art Bar: 7:30pM - 9pM eaRly monthly segments #26 nathanial dorsky $5 tuesDAY MARcH 22nD art Bar: 8pM - 11pM taBle hoCkey niGht in Canada FRee weDnesDAY MARcH 23RD Melody Bar: 7:30pM - 12AM gRanny Boots too asian??? sooo asian!!!! FRee
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Macquarrie.
oAkvIlle centre For the PerFormIng ArtS
Colin James, Chris Caddell 8 pm. the PISton Planet Creature, Easy Targets, Elk 10 pm. PlAceBo SPAce The Box Tiger, In the Audience, Inlet Sound, the Morals 8:30 pm, all ages. PreSS cluB Scotty Mack & the Big Night 9 pm. rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. rex Justin Bacchus 7 pm. roc n doc’S Mike Daley (R&B) 5 pm. roc n doc’S Pop Cherry (Stonesy rock) 10 pm. rockPIle The White (Led Zeppelin tribute). SIlver dollAr Late Night Live Boys Who Say No, Little Pony, Donlands & Mortimer 10:30 pm. Sound AcAdemy Goddo, the Carpet Frogs, Fludd doors 8 pm. SouthSIde Johnny’S Amanda Rose (rock/ R&B/pop) 10 pm. SPortSter’S Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 10 pm. t.S.t’S lAunch PAd Chill With Pill Madd III the Pill, DJ Phame One, Queenz (rap/hip-hop) 9 pm, all ages.
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Saturday, March 19
Thu mar 17
mItzI’S SISter The Joyful Sinners, Brenna
BACChus ep releAse pArTy w/ Sunrise, Oh Sunrise and DGB + DJ Vania SaT mar 19
you CAll yourselves soldiers w/ The Dirty Water & Jam Squid + DJ Ian Blurton mon mar 21
moody mondAys WITh DOuGLaS FaIRBankS JR. tues mar 22 The Pink & Black Attack Presents:
The ApATheTiCs w/Ghetto Blaster & The Crack Squad Wed mar 23 Rock 'N' Roll Rehab Presents:
The Thinly veiled douBle enTendres w/ PICTuRe SOunD + DJ JuLIan SWIFT 542 Queen St W • 416 504 4239 bovinesexclub.com • bovinebooking@gmail.com
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Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld
AQuIlA Ken Yoshioka Blues Band (blues). cAdIllAc lounge Mary & Micky (country)
3:30 pm.
cAmeron houSe Front room Sue & Dwight
3:30 to 5:30 pm.
cAmeron houSe Cameron Family Singers 6 pm. cAmeron houSe Jack Marks 10 pm. c’eSt WhAt Dan McLean Jr’s 50th Birthday
Show (acoustic/soul/country) 9:30 pm. dAkotA tAvern The Foggy Hogtown Boys (bluegrass) 4 to 7:30 pm. dAkotA tAvern Big Tobacco & the Pickers, Uncle Sean & the Shifty Drifters 10 pm. domInIon on Queen Sunday Wilde & Ronnie Hayward 3 to 7 pm. enWAve theAtre Leo Kottke (guitarist) 8 pm. FogArty’S Foggy Celtic Band 8 pm. hugh’S room Cuban Rumba Roots Meets Jazz Jane Bunnett 8:30 pm. lInux cAFFe Path Through Life Experiences Toz 9 pm. the locAl Ronley Teper & her Lipliners (experimental pop). lolA Johnny Dead 8 pm. lou dAWg’S Don Campbell 10 pm. old nIck Kyle Duffin, Jennifer Brewer 10 pm. rex Jerome Godboo 3:30 to 6:30 pm. rex David Rotundo & Jerome Godboo 3:30 pm. SIlver dollAr Jack De Keyzer (blues) 7 pm. St nIcholAS AnglIcAn church Acoustic Harvest Concert The Dardanelles doors 7:30 pm. trAnzAc Southern croSS CD Release Giant Hand, Michael Duguay (folk) 9:30 pm. trAnzAc mAIn hAll Mariposa Folk Foundation Benefit For The Tranzac Michael Johnston, Andy Maize, Lynn Miles, Alejandra Ribera (workshop-style performance) doors 7:30 pm. trAnzAc Jamzac (folk) 3 pm. the WIlSon 96 The True Romantics, Kendal Thompson (country/rock) 9 pm.
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Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental
BeerBIStro The Gene Pool Boys (soulful swinging jazz) 8:15 pm. Bloor Street unIted church A Little Opera For Little Babies – Benefit For The Linden Fund Maureen Batt, Cheryl Campbell, Nadine Guertin, Geoff Keating and others 7:30 pm.
c’eSt WhAt Hot Five Jazzmakers 3 pm. chAlkerS PuB CD release Nancy Walker Quartet (jazz) 6 to 9 pm.
gAte 403 Bill Heffernan 5 to 8 pm. gAte 403 Blakeley Walker Duo noon to 3 pm. gAte 403 Six Points Jazz Orchestra 9 pm. glenn gould StudIo The Lost Fingers (gypsy
jazz) 8 pm.
old mIll Inn home SmIth BAr Piano Masters Dave Thompson Trio 7:30 pm. rex CD release Chris Tarry Group 9:30 pm. SomeWhere there StudIo Alaniaris Michael Kaler, Ken Aldcroft, Mark Zurawinski 8 pm. StAtler’S Alex Hopkins 9:30 pm. ten Feet tAll B2 w/ Bill McLean 8 pm. trAne StudIo Steve Hall, the Alexander Brown Quintet 8 pm. trAnzAc Southern croSS Michael Davidson (jazz) 6:30 pm.
dance muSic/dJ/lounge
Annex Wreckroom Remixed Saturdays 10 pm. BreAd & cIrcuS Crazy East – Euro Full Moon
Party Istvan Kantor, Worldly Savages, DJ Gypsy Viking doors 10 pm. clInton’S Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop). cornerStone PuB DJ Dazz (R&R) 10 pm. crAWFord uPStAIrS DJ Serious, Taktiks, Kaewonder. crAWFord doWnStAIrS Soul Bomb Party. dImItrA’S BIStro DJ Viviana (salsa) 9 pm. drAke hotel underground Groovestew doors 11 pm. drAke hotel lounge DJ Dougie Boom doors 10 pm. emmet rAy BAr DJ Love Tastic (funk/soul) 10 pm. Fly DJ Mark Falco, Alexx Brown 10 pm.5 the FlyIng BeAver DJ Madame Hair (rock). Fomo Mingle 9 pm. FootWork OXIA, James Teej, Jamie Kidd, Jeff Button. Fox & FIrkIn Uptown Anthems DJ NV (hiphop/funk/soul/Motown/mashups) 10 pm. george’S PlAy DJ Jon (Latin/top 40) 11 pm.5 goodhAndy’S Sodom Runway: Crack Couture Fashion Show/Haute Couture Meets DIY DJ Sumation doors 10 pm.5 the greAt hAll Invisible Allies Bluetech, Hans Ohm, Kilowatts, Kadmon, Machinelf, Zum One, T-Minus doors 8 pm. guvernment Laidback Luke. holy oAk cAFe DJ Soulio 10 pm. InSomnIA Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). mAro Red Carpet Saturdays DJ Undercover (house/hip-hop/club anthems). megAS Rumba Cubana DJ Otto (salsa/timba/ merengue/Bachata) 9 pm. mod cluB UK Underground DJ MRK, Milhouse Brown, DJ Dwight. nAco gAllery cAFe Alimanha Family Night DJ NoLoves, VJ Nero (Latin contemporary from Spain to Mexico). the oSSIngton Electric Relaxation DJ Elle Nino (hip-hop/soul). the PAInted lAdy DJ Salazar (funk/soul) 10 pm. PArtS & lABour Bitch Craft DJs Blonde & Redhead (hip-hop). lA PerlA UK Garage Nights DJ Anzola (garage/ UK/funky/house). rIvolI Pool lounge deejayscoots (roots/hiphop/soul/R&B/disco/electro/funk) 10 pm.
rIvolI Footprints 10 pm. SuPermArket Do Right Saturdays! DJs Fase,
John Kong, MC Abdominal. tAttoo rock PArlour Tattoo Saturdays DJ Trevor Gen Y, DJ Stu (dance rock/retro) doors 10 pm. trAFFIk nIghtcluB Jet Saturdays – The DTF Party (top 40/house) 10 pm. WAylABAr Tequila Nights DJ Truewind (salsa/ merengue/reggaeton/top 4os). WrongBAr Roska doors 10 pm.
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Sunday, March 20 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul
cAdIllAc lounge Scotty Campbell & His
Wardenairs 4 pm.
domInIon on Queen Rockabily Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.
drAke hotel underground David Suzuki Foundation benefit + Playlist For The ñ Planet release party Danny Michel 9 pm. FAlcon & FIrkIn Firkin (Hungarian Celtic folk punk metal).
grAFFItI’S Blackmetal Brunch 11 am to 4 pm. grAFFItI’S Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm. the hIdeout Dan Gagnon 10 pm. holy oAk cAFe The Last Birdman & Clarinet Panic 9 pm.
horSeShoe Humber Film Student Fundraiser
Of North America, J-9, Sisata Fista, BBT doors 8 pm. lee’S PAlAce Joey Belladonna (performing Anthrax) doors 8 pm. mItzI’S SISter The Liquidaires 5 to 7 pm. orBIt room Horshack (rock/blues) 10:30 pm. the oSSIngton Unlimited Sunday Hajah Bug, Mantis (hip-hop). roc n doc’S The Bottle Devils (rock) 9:30 pm. SlAck’S Elana Harte, Jen Benton, Topher Stott, Jake Chisolm 6 to 9 pm. SneAky dee’S The Beatdown, Flatfoot 56, Good Rats (ska punks) doors 7:30 pm. Sound AcAdemy A Day to Remember, Bring Me the Horizon, We Came as Romans, Pierce the Vail doors 6 pm, all ages. SouthSIde Johnny’S Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix Band 9:30 pm.
Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld
AQuIlA Sunday Junction Jam The New Mynah Birds, Bill Priddle. cAmeron houSe Jay Pollock 6 pm. cAmeron houSe Kevin Quain & the Mad Bastards 9 pm. cloAk & dAgger PuB Myke Mazzei (folk/pop) 9 pm. grInder Raven Shields 1:30 pm. hugh’S room Vintage Blues Revue Chris Whiteley, Diana Braithwaite, Bob Hall (30s & 40s blues) 8:30 pm. the locAl Dan Boniferro noon. the locAl Chris Coole (banjo) 5 pm. the locAl Gord Zubrecki Band 10 pm. lou dAWg’S Blues Brunch Mark Bird Stafford & Darran Poole. mAlmArt Sunday Wilde (blues) 2 to 4 pm. nAco gAllery cAFe Flamenco Sundays Shirlita Pili & Dennis Duffin 8 pm. the PAInted lAdy Combo Royale (bluegrass/ jazz/ska) 9 pm. Pogue mAhone Cape Breton Ceilidh Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition (Celtic) 4 to 8 pm.
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22 9pm
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10pm Members of The Beauties & Flash Lightnin’ play Rolling Stones
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ARMEN at the BAZAAR w/ Benefit Of The Freeman THE SPOOFS
thu mar 17 | drs 8pm | $6
ThE AUTUMN PoRTRAIT
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THE POW WOWS
with The Calrizians
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statler’s James Moyer 7 pm. ten feet tall Steve Cole Trio 3:30 pm. tranzaC southern Cross Monk’s Music
(jazz) 5 pm.
tranzaC southern Cross Doug Tielli &
Anna Linda Sidall 7:30 pm.
Pour Boy PuB Peter Verity (singer/songwriter) 3 to 6 pm. Press CluB Ross Neilson (blues) 9 pm. relish Open Jam Relish Stew 9:30 pm. rePosado Mariachi Sundays 7 pm. rex Dr Nick & the Rollercoasters (blues) 3:30 pm. roC n doC’s Chuck Jackson & the All-Stars (blues) 4 pm. royal Canadian legion #258 Bluegrass Sundays Charlie Sizemore, Rhyme ‘n’ Reason 2 pm. suPermarket Freefall Sundays Open Mic Jam 8 pm.
Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal
Banknote CD release The Cookers (jazz) 8 pm. dominion on Queen Jazz Jam 4 to 7 pm. duffy’s tavern Ken Yoshioka (blues). edward Johnson Building walter hall
Jane Coop (piano) 3:15 pm. emmet ray Bar Lowell Whitty (jazz) 9 pm. gate 403 Bartosz Hadala Jazz (solo piano) noon to 3 pm. gate 403 Anthony Fung Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm. gate 403 Nicole Christian Jazz Duo 9 pm. musiC gallery Step, Turn, Kick Continuum Contemporary Music 8 pm. reBas Café The Whole sheBang (jazz) 1 to 4 pm. rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. rex Ugly Beauties 7 pm. rex Random Access 9:30 pm. somewhere there studio Lightsweetcrude Jason Steidman, Alexei Orechin, Jawari Bahar, Michael Kaler, Mark Segger 5 pm. somewhere there studio Jack Vorvis (drums) 8 pm.
tranzaC southern Cross Muskox 10 pm.
DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE
Bovine sex CluB DJ Rockabilly Rob. Crawford DJ Bespin. the flying Beaver T-Dance DJ Christina. henhouse Neverending Weekend DJ Poor Pil-
grim 10 pm. insomnia DJ Lk (old-school hip-hop/disco/ funk). 751 Big Shiny Sundays DJs SHEMCA & Sunshine 10 pm. tattoo roCk Parlour Tattoo Sundays: Trash Palace Industry Night 4Korners (old school/ rock mash-up/electro/dance).
Monday, March 21 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul
drake hotel lounge Live Karaoke Shark
Week (live band karaoke) doors 10:30 pm. drake hotel underground Elvis Monday MIPS, David Hustler, Yuka, Old Major, the Jilted Lovers Club, People of Canada (rock) doors 9 pm. el moCamBo Civil Twilight, A Silent Film doors 7 pm, all ages. graffiti’s Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 6 to 9 pm. harlem CarolynT (R&B/soul/jazz/pop/funk) 8 pm. the hideout The Targets 10 pm. horseshoe Shoeless Monday Dave Russell & the Precious Stones, Forbidden, IHAD 9 pm. mitzi’s sister Domestic Bliss The Shraggs. old niCk M Factor Mondays Keep You Honest, Trish Robb, Elana Harte 7 pm. roC n doC’s Phil Naro & John Rogers (rock) 9:30 pm.
t.s.t’s launCh Pad In a Nuts Shell, Mike Collinson (rock/talk) all ages.
Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD
Cameron house Betty Stew 6 pm. Cameron house The Cameron Review 10 pm. C’est what Bob Dylan Tribute #11 (folk) 9 pm. Cloak & dagger PuB Alun Piggins (folk/pop) 9 pm.
dave’s... on st Clair The Monday Sessions Open Jam Pete Eastmure 7:30 pm.
free times Café Open Stage Signe Miranda 7:30 pm.
highway 61 southern BarBeQue Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm.
the loCal Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass/
country) 9:30 pm. lola Calliopes Nest Ladies Open Stage 6 pm. naCo gallery Cafe Open Mic 8 pm. the Painted lady Open Mic Mondays 9 pm. the wilson 96 Steve Puchalski (country/rock) 9 pm.
Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal
dominion on Queen Toronto Composer Workshop 9 pm.
emmet ray Bar Easty, Chaloner, Farrugia, Cashion & Juhas (jazz) 9 pm.
gate 403 Zaynab Wilson Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gate 403 Snake Oil Johnson Ken Kawashima
& Bob Vespaziani 9 pm. rex U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm. rex Humber College Student Jazz Ensembles 9:30 pm. statler’s AJ Stewart & Matthew Marcoccia 9:30 pm. tranzaC southern Cross This is Awesome 7 pm. tranzaC southern Cross Open Mic 10 pm.
DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE
Bovine sex CluB Moody Mondays Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
fuzion vizion lounge FML Mondays DJ Craig
Dominic (R&B/hip-hop/dancecall).
Singer/Songwriter
Juno Songwriters’ Circle Cheerful Scottish-Canadian singer hosts songwriting showcase By Sarah Greene Johnny reid with luke douCet, lynn miles, royal wood and sylvia tyson as part of Juno songwriters’ CirCle at
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Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Wednesday (March 23), 8 pm. $29.50-$49.50. RTH, TM.
Country music chart-topper and quadruple 2011 Juno nominee Johnny Reid is as upbeat when he calls from Ottawa, where he’s performing at the Genie Awards, as he is on his fifth album, last year’s pop- and soul-tinged A Place Called Love. “I choose to walk in the sunshine as much as possible,” he says in his warm Scottish brogue. The Scottish-Canadian multi-platinum entertainer, as his label, EMI, refers to him (they don’t call him a country artist), moved to Brampton in his teens and was a kicker on the football team at Bishop’s, where he met his wife. “My father was a working man,” says Reid, “and when I was figuring out what to do after college, he told me to try to make a living doing something I love. A couple of weeks later I got a phone call from DreamWorks, and eight months later I was in Nashville.” Asked about the meaning behind
the title of his album, Reid offers a touching tale. “I’ve phoned my granny every Sunday since the day I came to Canada. On a Thursday I got a phone call from Glasgow. ‘You better get here. Your granny’s not feeling well.’ On a Sunday, when I was visiting her, was when she decided to leave. Two days later, my wife came downstairs and told me we were pregnant. I asked myself, ‘Where did my granny go? And where is my baby girl coming from?’ The only answer was a place called love.” Reid’s disarming sincerity is no doubt part of his enormous appeal. And although I had to fill him in on who he’ll be sharing the stage with at the Juno Songwriters’ Circle – Luke Doucet, Lynn Miles, Royal Wood and legend Sylvia Tyson – he says he was humbled when asked to host the event. The songwriters will share songs and stories, with Reid leading the discussion and also performing songs. “[Storytelling] puts the audience in the place where you want them to hear the song and allows them to know that you’re just like them and experience the same things. “They can sit back and relate with you. The song will be believable.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com
RandyNewmanNOW.qxd:Layout 1 InsomnIa DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). The PIsTon DJs Jorge & Jared (pre to post punk/new wave/garage) 10 pm.
RoY Thomson hall 40 Years Of Juno Awards Celebration: Ovation Measha ñ Brueggergosman, Tafelmusik Baroque Or-
PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul
chestra, Gryphon Trio, Amici Ensemble, Winona Zelenka and others 8 pm. sTaTleR’s Chris Tsujiuchi 9:30 pm. TRanzac souTheRn cRoss Toronto Trombone Collective 7:30 pm. TRanzac souTheRn cRoss Drumheller 10 pm.
(drum circle) 8 pm.
dance muSic/dJ/lounge
Rockwood Mash Up Mondays DJs Crunch,
Tilt, Scratchez.
Tuesday, March 22 annex wReckRoom Drummers In Exile The avRo Sexy Merlin, New Positions, Wet
Dreams (pop/dance) 9 pm. BovIne sex cluB The Apathetics, Ghetto Blaster, the Crack Squad. cameRon house Luke Nicholson (alt pop) 10 pm. domInIon on Queen Rockabilly Workshop 2 to 4 pm. dRake hoTel Iguana New Music Night (rock) doors 9 pm. GRaffITI’s The Marcus Walker Band. hoRseshoe Nu Music Nite Jeans Boots, Slow Down Molasses, the Sidewalks, the Bone Devil 9 pm. The PIsTon The Dead Tuesdays & Mercy Flight (pop/rock/hip-hop/soul) doors 9 pm. Queen elIzaBeTh TheaTRe Jeff Tweedy, Snowblink doors 7 pm. somewheRe TheRe sTudIo Friendly Rich & the Lollipop People, Vanessa’s Entire Heart 8 pm. Yellow GRIffIn Johnny Devil & the Screaming Demons (rock) 10 pm.
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cameRon house Alejandra Ribera 6 pm. c’esT whaT Tanya Philipovich 10 pm. cloak & daGGeR PuB Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm.
dakoTa TaveRn Peter Elkas (soul/folk rock). The founTaIn Badly Bent Bluegrass 9 pm. GaTe 403 Julian Fauth (blues) 9 pm. GaTe 403 Ross Neilsen Blues Solo 5 to 8 pm. lee’s Palace Mark Kozelek (folk rock) doors 8
pm.
The local Allison Brown, Jeff Kahl, Myke Mazzei (folk/country/oldtime) 9:30 pm. naco GalleRY cafe Story & Song Night. old nIck Open Mic Jennifer Brewer 9 pm. The PaInTed ladY Sigrun Stella (folk/soul) 9 pm. PRess cluB Press Club Open Jam 9 pm. Roc n doc’s Marshall Dane (new country/ pop) 9:30 pm. TRane sTudIo Acoustic Soul Open Mic 8 pm. The wIlson 96 Ron Leary 9 pm.
Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental
BRassaII Jazz Night 6 pm. domInIon on Queen Corktown Django Jam 8:30 pm.
Rex Jake Wilkinson Group 6:30 pm. Rex Rex Jazz Jam 9:30 pm.
cRawfoRd Southern Fried Tuesdays DJ Lilly (blues/country/soul). The hIdeouT SPY Vs Some Other Guy 10 pm. InsomnIa Soulful Tuesday D-Jay. RePosado Alien Radio DJ Gord C.
Wednesday, March 23 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul
aQuIla CBGB Wednesdays Ray Whimsey
(acoustic rock).
BovIne sex cluB The Thinly Veiled Double
Entendres, Picture Sound, DJ Julian Swift. cadIllac lounGe The Neil Young’uns 8:30 pm. cameRon house Joshua Cockerill 6 pm. c’esT whaT Garage Baby (garage punk) 9 pm. dakoTa TaveRn Katie Moore. dRake hoTel undeRGRound Rocky Votolato, Matt Pond doors 8:30 pm. emmeT RaY BaR Jamie Drayton (pop) 9 pm. haRd luck BaR Treestar (rock). The hIdeouT The Sidewalks (ska) 10 pm. lula lounGe Nick Buzz (Hugh Marsh, Martin Tielli, Rob Piltch, Jon Goldsmith) (pop/avant garde/classical/jazz) doors 7 pm. masseY hall Juno Songwriters’ Circle Johnny Reid, Royal Wood (host) 8 pm. See preview, page 56. mod cluB Jeff Martin doors 8 pm. Queen elIzaBeTh TheaTRe Jeff Tweedy, Snowblink doors 7 pm. Rancho Relaxo Glory Glory Man United (indie pop) 10 pm. suPeRmaRkeT Wednesdays Go Pop Mike Slute, Ben Somer, Robyn Dell’Unto, Gavin Slate doors 9 pm. velveT undeRGRound Wanted Toronto Showcase Q Rock Ready To Rock, Angerville, KDB, T Illa, Unknown Misery, Masia One, Thrust doors 8 pm.
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cloak & daGGeR PuB Steve Gleason (folk) 10 pm.
GRaffITI’s Kitgut Oldtime Stringband 7 to 10
pm.
GRossman’s Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm.
hollYwood on The QueenswaY Latin Wed-
nesdays Jay & Viv (salsa/meringue/bachata/ cumbia) 9 pm. hoRseshoe William Fitzsimmons, Slow Runner (indie folk) doors 8:30 pm.
venue index
alleYcaTz 2409 yonge. 416-481-6865. alTo lounGe 582 church. annex wReckRoom 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346. aQuIla 347 keele. 416-761-7474. auGusTa house 152 augusta. 416-977-8881. The avRo 750 Queen e. 416-466-3233. The BallRoom Bowl BaR BIsTRo 145 John. 416597-2695. BanknoTe 663 king W. 416-947-0404. BaR ITalIa 582 college. 416-535-3621. The BaRn 418 church. 416-593-9696. BeeRBIsTRo 18 king e. 416-861-9872. BlooR sTReeT unITed chuRch 300 Bloor W. 416-924-7439. BoIleR house 55 mill. 416-203-2121. BovIne sex cluB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. BRassaII 461 king W. 416-598-4730. BRead & cIRcus 299 augusta. 416-336-3399. Bull & fIRkIn 1835 yonge. 416-340-9459. Bunda lounGe 1108 dundas W. cadIllac lounGe 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717. cameRon house 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. c’esT whaT 67 Front e. 416-867-9499. chalkeRs PuB 247 marlee. 416-789-2531. cheRRY cola’s Rock n’ Rolla 200 Bathurst. chIna house 925 eglinton W. 416-781-9121. clInTon’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. cloak & daGGeR PuB 394 college. 647-436-0228. colleGe sTReeT BaR 574 college. 416-533-2417. comfoRT Inn 6355 airport (mississauga). 905-677-7331. coRneRsTone PuB 537 college. 647-430-7111. couRThouse 57 adelaide e. 416-214-9379. cRawfoRd 718 college. cRocodIle Rock 240 adelaide W. 416-599-9751. czehoskI 678 Queen W. 416-366-6787. dakoTa TaveRn 249 ossington. 416-850-4579. dave’s... on sT claIR 730 St clair W. 416-657-3283. dImITRa’s BIsTRo 782 St clair W. domInIon on Queen 500 Queen e. 416-368-6893. dRake hoTel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. duffY’s TaveRn 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330. edwaRd Johnson BuIldInG 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. el mocamBo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. emmeT RaY BaR 924 college. 416-792-4497. enwave TheaTRe 231 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000. falcon & fIRkIn 10300 yonge (Richmond Hill). 905-883-4253.
fIonn maccool’s IRIsh PuB 310 Front W. 416340-1917. fIRkIn on kInG 461 king W. 416-979-5464. flY 8 gloucester. 416-410-5426. The flYInG BeaveR 488 Parliament. 416-759-1031. foGaRTY’s 3481 lake Shore W. 416-253-5500. fomo 270 adelaide W. 416-408-3666. fooTwoRk 425 adelaide W. 416-913-3488. The founTaIn 1261 dundas W. 416-203-2311. fouR seasons cenTRe foR The PeRfoRmInG aRTs 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. fox & fIRkIn 51 eglinton e. 416-480-0200. fox & fIddle wellesleY 27 Wellesley e. 416-9449369. fRee TImes café 320 college. 416-967-1078. fuzIon 580 church. 416-944-9888. fYnn’s of TemPle BaR 489 king W. 416-586-1331. The GaRRIson 1197 dundas W. GaTe 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. GeoRGe’s PlaY 504 church. 416-963-8251. Glenn Gould sTudIo 250 Front W. 416-205-5555. GoodhandY’s 120 church. 416-760-6514. GRaffITI’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. The GReaT hall 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330. GRIndeR 126 main. 416-901-0290. GRossman’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. GuveRnmenT 132 Queens Quay e. 416-869-0045. haRd luck BaR 812 dundas W. haRlem 67 Richmond e. 416-368-1920. haRT house 7 Hart House circle. 416-978-8849. henhouse 1532 dundas W. 416-534-5939. The hIdeouT 484 Queen W. 647-438-7664. hIGhwaY 61 souTheRn BaRBeQue 1620 Bayview. 416-489-7427. hollYwood on The QueenswaY 1184 Queensway. 416-251-0288. holY oak cafe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. hoRseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. huGh’s Room 2261 dundas W. 416-531-6604. ImPeRIal PuB 54 dundas e. 416-977-4667. InsomnIa 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. James JoYce 386 Bloor W. 416-324-9400. lee’s Palace 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. lInux caffe 326 Harbord. 415-534-2116. lIvInG aRTs cenTRe 4141 living arts (mississauga). 905-306-6000. The local 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225. lola 40 kensington. 416-348-8645. lou dawG’s 589 king W. 647-347-3294.
huGh’s Room Ron Hynes 8:30 pm. The local Make Out Wednesdays Ron Leary
Quintet (indie folk). lola Open Stage Johnny Bootz 8 pm. The PaInTed ladY The Julian Taylor Band (folk rock) 9 pm. Roc n doc’s Back Alley Ringers (blues) 10 pm. sIlveR dollaR High Lonesome Wednesday: Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings 9 pm. TeRRI o’s sPoRTs BaR Gary 17s Acoustic Open Stage Pete Otis 8 pm. TRanzac TIkI Room Comhaltas Irish Slow Session 7:30 pm.
TRanzac souTheRn cRoss 10 pm. ñLAL
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Newman
alleYcaTz Grayceful Daddies (swingin’ jazz/ blues/R&B) 8:30 pm.
chalkeRs PuB Girls’ Night Out Jazz Lisa Parti-
celli (jazz) 8 pm.
domInIon on Queen Corktown Uke Jam 8 pm. fouR seasons cenTRe foR The PeRfoRmInG aRTs RIchaRd BRadshaw amPhITheaTRe
Songs Of Love And Loging Wendy Nielsen, Liz Upchurch (soprano, piano) noon. GaTe 403 Alex Samaras Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. GaTe 403 Miss Caroline M-R Jazz Band 9 pm. mezzeTTa Shirantha Beddage, Ted Quinlan 9 pm. nawlIns Jazz BaR The Jim Heineman Jazz Trio 7 pm. Rex Samuel Blais Group 6:30 pm. Rex Roberto Occhipinti 9:30 pm. RoY Thomson hall Vaughan Williams Symphony 4 Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Karen Gomyo (violin) 8 pm.
Sat. Mar. 26, 8 PM
Convocation Hall (University ofToronto)
www.ticketmaster.ca or 416-870-8000
RoYal conseRvaToRY of musIc koeRneR hall The Glenn Gould School Opera 8 pm. somewheRe TheRe sTudIo Kyle Brenders
Quartet (experimental/jazz) 8 pm. sT anne’s anGlIcan chuRch Trio Mediaeval and the Toronto Consort 8 pm. sTaTleR’s Bram Zeidenberg 9:30 pm. TRane sTudIo Ernesto Cervini & the Myriad Trio 8 pm. TRanzac souTheRn cRoss Josh Cole 4Tet (jazz) 7:30 pm.
dance muSic/dJ/lounge
The avRo DJ Damn Aykroyd (funk/disco/hiphop) 10 pm. cRocodIle Rock DJ Kaos (retro/top 40) 9 pm. The GaRRIson Shit Robot. GeoRGe’s PlaY DJ Jon 9 pm.5 haRlem DJ Melanie Sutherland, DJ Ty Hale 8 pm. henhouse Snakepit DJ Steve Rock 10 pm.5 InsomnIa DJ Parro (house). The ossInGTon Humblemania XVI. RePosado Sol Wednesdays Spy vs Sly vs Spy. wRonGBaR Bassmentality Netsky, the Killabits, Zeds Dead doors 10 pm. 3
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lula lounGe 1585 dundas W. 416-588-0307. luxY nIGhTcluB 60 interchange Way. maGPIe cafe 831 dundas W. 416-916-6499. maIson meRceR 15 mercer. 416-341-8777. malmaRT Honeydale mall, 5555 dundas W. maRo 135 liberty. 416-588-2888. masseY hall 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255. meGas 402 danforth. 416-466-7771. meTRoPolITan unITed chuRch 56 Queen e. 416-363-0331. mezzeTTa 681 St clair W. 416-658-5687. mITzI’s sIsTeR 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. mod cluB 722 college. 416-588-4663. musIc GalleRY 197 John. 416-204-1080. mYsTeRIouslY YouRs... dInneR TheaTRe 2026 yonge. 416-486-7469. naco GalleRY cafe 1665 dundas W. 647-3476499. nawlIns Jazz BaR 299 king W. 416-595-1958. nocTuRne 550 Queen W. 416-504-2178. oakvIlle cenTRe foR The PeRfoRmInG aRTs 130 navy (oakville). 1-888-489-7784. old mIll Inn 21 old mill Rd. 416-236-2641. old nIck 123 danforth. 416-461-5546. oPeRa house 735 Queen e. 416-466-0313. oRBIT Room 580a college. 416-535-0613. The ossInGTon 61 ossington. 416-850-0161. The PaInTed ladY 218 ossington. 647-213-5239. PaRTs & laBouR 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. la PeRla 783 Queen W. 416-366-2855. PhoenIx conceRT TheaTRe 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251. The PIsTon 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. PlaceBo sPace 1409a Bloor W. PoGue mahone 777 Bay. 416-598-3339. PouR BoY PuB 666 manning. 647-343-7969. PRess cluB 850 dundas W. 416-364-7183. Queen elIzaBeTh TheaTRe 190 Princes’ Blvd. 416-263-3293. QuoTes 220 king W. 416-979-7717. Rancho Relaxo 300 college. 416-920-0366. ReBas café 3289 dundas W. 416-626-7372. RelIsh 2152 danforth. 416-425-4664. RePosado 136 ossington. 416-532-6474. Rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. RIvolI 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. Roc n doc’s 105 lakeshore e (mississauga). 905891-1754. RockPIle 5555 dundas W. 416-504-6699.
Rockwood 31 mercer. 416-979-7373. RoY Thomson hall 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255. RoYal canadIan leGIon #258 45 lawson. 416779-2627. RoYal conseRvaToRY of musIc 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208. 751 751 Queen W. 647-436-6681. sIlveR dollaR 486 Spadina. 416-763-9139. slack’s 562 church. 416-928-2151. smIlInG Buddha 961 college. 416-516-2531. sneakY dee’s 431 college. 416-603-3090. somewheRe TheRe sTudIo 227 Sterling, unit 112. sound academY 11 Polson. 416-461-3625. souThsIde JohnnY’s 3653 lake Shore W. 416-5216302. sPoRTsTeR’s 1430 danforth. 416-778-0258. sT anne’s anGlIcan chuRch 270 gladstone. 416-536-3160. sT lawRence maRkeT Front between yonge and Jarvis. sT nIcholas anGlIcan chuRch 1512 kingston Rd. 416-691-0449. sTaTleR’s 487 church. 647-351-0957. sTone lounGe 783 college. suPeRmaRkeT 268 augusta. 416-840-0501. TaTToo Rock PaRlouR 567 Queen W. 416-7035488. Ten feeT Tall 1381 danforth. 416-778-7333. TeRRI o’s sPoRTs BaR 185 danforth. ToRonTo cenTRe foR The aRTs 5040 yonge. 416-733-9388. TRaffIk nIGhTcluB 287 Richmond W. TRane sTudIo 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. TRanzac 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. T.s.T’s launch Pad 46 Hyde. undeRGRound GaRaGe 365 king W. 416-3400365. velveT undeRGRound 510 Queen W. 416-5046688. vIllaGe vaPoR lounGe 66 Wellesley e. 416-9729500. waTeRfalls 303 augusta. 416-927-9666. waYlaBaR 996 Queen e. 416-901-5570. The wIlson 96 615 college. 416-516-3237. woo’s lounGe 10 dundas e, 4th floor. 416-9779966. wRonGBaR 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677. Yellow GRIffIn 2202 Bloor W. 416-763-3365. zemRa 778 St clair W. 416-651-3123.
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Angles (Sony) Rating: Ten years after they were supposed to save rock ’n’ roll, and five years since their last album, the Strokes sound like a band trying to figure out who they’ve become. You can hear them stretching themselves in different directions, then occasionally retreating to archetypal Strokes formulas, and it’s readily apparent that Julian Casablancas isn’t dominating the songwriting any more. One minute they sound like the Cars, and the next they’re paying tribute to Thin Lizzy while still dropping enough nods to contem-
porary trends to avert retro accusations. The first impression is that it’s a bit of a mess, with some really good bits scattered throughout. The more you listen, though, the more it makes sense as a record. The electronic tangents are jarring initially, but then a genius guitar lick pops out of nowhere and ties it back to the rest of the album. At times they sound like they’re working too hard to prove they’re not just a pop band, but thankfully, they’re not so deluded as to forget that’s exactly what they do best. Indecision and infighting have rarely sounded this solid and inspired. Top track: Gratisfaction BENJAMIN BOLES
WIN TIcKeTS! collective concerts presents
BRITISH SeA POWeR
3D In 3D (Pleasence) Rating: Building on the success of last fall’s split 7-inch with White Suede, Toronto weirdo indie rockers Gay (fronted by Foxfire bassist Neil Rankin) continue to explore the possibilities of the single format on this boundary-testing collaboration with Sexy Merlin, the solo percussion project of Sean Dunal (also of Foxfire). Both acts work together on the A-side’s Asbestos, a soulful, upbeat epic that takes on tropical inflections thanks to Dunal’s rhythm work. The B-side is three linked songs; two Sexy Merlin tracks bookend Cool Island by Gay, effectively serving as a trippy intro and outro. Introspective and wistful Cool Island is the standout, sounding like it could have come out of early-2000s NYC, with Rankin’s soaring vocals landing somewhere between David Byrne and the Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser. They’ve clearly tapped into something special. Top track: Cool Island Gay and Sexy Merlin release their 7-inch tonight (Thursday, March 17) at the Silver Dollar. JORDAN BIMM
FIRKIN Whup! (Pump Jump) Rating: NN
Firkin are a Hungarian Celtic punk band, which tells you most of what you need to know about them. They don’t specialize in the traditional acoustic variety popularized by the Pogues. Instead, they throw penny whistles and fiddles over pop metal power chords while singing odes to drinking in their best fake Irish accents. It’s almost weird enough to work, and they seem like they’re probably a fun live band, but it’s all too goofy to take seriously. Part of the problem is that they’re not really that punk, and obviously aren’t very Celtic either, which makes you wonder who this disc is intended for. When they keep it high-energy and lighthearted, you can see the charm, but the beer-fuelled thrashers are diluted by too many overwrought acoustic rock ballad intros, and the formula gets tired quickly. Top track: Beer Almighty Firkin play Lee’s Palace tonight (Thursday, March 17) as well as the Bull & Firkin March 18, Firkin on King March 19 and the Falcon and Firkin March 20. BB
$18.50 advance 19+ Tickets available at HS/RT/SS/TM O n s ale n o w. C h e c k o u t c o l l e c t i ve c o n c e r t s .c a f o r m o r e inf o.
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King Night (Iamsound) Rating: The haunting, hard-living and controversial Michigan band Salem have a we-justdon’t-give-a-fuck approach to playing live that detractors often cite as a weakness, and after watching their now-infamous dazed performance at last year’s SXSW on
cream cone face tattoo. The highlights are the humorous and heartfelt: the syncopated flow on This Is What I Do, the ridiculously fun chorus on Pancakes, and the gravelly lovelorn lament Better Baby. Top track: Pancakes KR
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JENNIFER HUDSON I Remember Me
(Sony) Rating: NNN On her sophomore effort, Jennifer Hudson steps slightly away from pop to embrace a more grown-up R&B sound sprinkled with feel-good soul and disco flavours courtesy of top songsmiths like Rich Harrison, Alicia Keys and Salaam Remi. Opener No One Gonna Love You sets a familiar, againstall-odds tone with inspirational lyrics and bouncy piano that’s pure Elton John. Of course, the main attraction is Hudson’s stratospheric voice, which at times is as much a liability as an asset. She almost always goes for the jugular, belting out Super Bowl Sunday-sized performances over the most laid-back of summer-afternoon soul clappers. Her voice overflows with emotion, and subtlety’s in short supply. The album’s best moments are its most down to earth, like the chuggy, 4/4 beat of Don’t Look Down and the vivid lyrical riposte to an elusive lover on Where You At. Top track: Where You At KEVIN RITCHIE
Michel Poiccard (Counter) Rating: NNNN The Death Set’s second LP comes cloaked in tragedy. Founding member Beau Velasco died of a drug overdose right before its conception. That’s a heavy context for a band whose self-described “spaz punk” revels in sugar-rush energy and a party-at-all-costs M.O. But they manage to stick to their guns without avoiding the elephant in the room. In fact, they refer to it directly in the surprisingly sweet, nearly anthemic (for them) I Miss You Beau Velasco. Mostly, though, the album displays their distinctive hybrid formula of double-speed tempos, chanted vocals and distorted guitar, with electronic/hip-hop production from Diplo, Spank Rock and XXXchange. Sure, songs like We Are Going Anywhere Man (with it’s “we aren’t going fuckin’ anywhere man” chorus) and Too Much Fun For Regrets take on new meaning knowing the background, but they’re also just plain fun, and no amount of misfortune can change that. Top track: Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Snap The Death Set play the United Steelworkers Hall May 4. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI
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YouTube, I find those charges tough to counter. (They make Crystal Castles look like Tony Robbins.) Still, on record their now-signature spooky combination of heavy slow-mo synths, ethereal vocals and hyperactive, club-ripped percussion is creepy perfection. This debut LP updates five tracks from previous EPs and offers six new ones, all cleanly mixed by industrial/hardcoreleaning producer Dave Sardy. They might be unreliable performers, but their studio work is forward-thinking and beautiful in an oddly satisfying, downtrodden way. Top track: Redlights Salem play Wrongbar tonight (Thursday, March 17). JB
GUCCI MANE The Return Of Mr. Zone 6 (Warner/Asylum) Rating: NNN After calling in production heavyweights Swizz Beatz and the Neptunes for his previous major-label albums, Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane keeps it hardcore on a new one produced mostly by long-time collaborator Drumma Boy and featuring guest spots by his 1017 Brick Squad group. The result encapsulates the quick and dirty energy that’s made the prolific Atlanta MC into a cult gangsta-rap icon: lo-fi synths, skittery club beats and his off-key warble that recalls Biz Markie. Gucci’s head-down focus on honing his signature sound is admirable, but the monosyllabic stuntin’ gets old fast, and flashes of lyrical or melodic invention are scant. Disappointing coming from a man with an ice
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Rating: NN Nineties hit-maker Mae Moore (I’ll Watch Over You, Bohemia) is back with a jazzy folk album and a companion coffee-table book of artwork. She’s an environmentalist, organic farmer and painter, so it isn’t surprising to hear about land, weather and Tom Thomson’s mandolin on this ultra- Canadian solo record that she’s touring across Canada on Via Rail. Producer Joby Baker (Cowboy Junkies, Alex Cuba) clearly captured Moore’s voice and the simple, mostly acoustic arrangements of Rain Song and Oh, Canada.Moore is best when almost talking, and the nononsense title track – a tough call to action – invites repeat listens. Unfortunately, most of the other songs fall dangerously close to adult-contemporary vocal jazz: meandering, noodly love songs that are unmemorable at best and uncomfortably slow at worst (When Love Is Shattered). My One And Only One is a fiercer, more immediate example of Moore’s writing, sharp edges thankfully intact. Top track: Folklore SARAH GREENE
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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interview with ERIN SHIELDS AND GIDEON ARTHURS • Interview with PAPER SERIES’ NINA LEE AQUINO • Scenes on THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, YELLOW FACE, PAPRIKA and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings
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Erin Shields, with husband Gideon Arthurs, doesn’t mind being nude with her “post-partum, nursing body.”
THEATRE PREVIEW
Baring all for their art
Husband-and-wife team shed their inhibitions for Montparnasse By JON KAPLAN MONTPARNASSE by the company, with Maev Beaty and Erin Shields, directed by Andrea Donaldson (Groundwater/Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson). Previews begin tonight (Thursday, March 17), opens Tuesday (March 24) and runs to April 2, Tuesday-Saturday 7:30 pm, matinee Saturday 2 pm. $30-$35, previews $15, matinee pwyc. 416-504-7529.
montparnasse captures the joie de vivre of 20s Paris through the period’s painters and writers as well as their muses. Especially their muses, often models who bared all for art. “It was an amazing time in Paris,” says Groundwater Theatre’s Erin Shields, who performs alongside Maev Beaty, with the collaboration of
director Andrea Donaldson. “Something magical happened, an explosion of life, creativity and allure. “People wanted to put the war behind them and enjoy life. It was a time of permissiveness and sexual liberation, when people like Joyce, Hemingway, Stein and Picasso socialized and jazz was a hot item – American black musicians found a new freedom.” “It marked the birth of the modern age,” adds Shields’s husband, Gideon Arthurs, the company’s producer. “Paris became the lightning rod for experiments in ideas and lifestyles.” Montparnasse’s central characters are two freedom-seeking women from Toronto. Mags (Shields) becomes an artist’s model and entices Amelia (Beaty), a painter, to join her in the City of Light.
dance listings Opening
COEXISDANCE SERIES #34 presents dance improvisers performing with AIM Toronto musicians. Mar 19 at 8 om. $10. Arraymusic Studio, 60 Atlantic. myspace.com/coexisdance. DAI DON DEN 3 Green Tea presents Japanese contemporary dance choreographies by Keiko Kitano, Ayako Matsuura, Hiroshi Miyamoto, Naoko Murakoshi, Keiko Ninomoya and Peter Chin. Mar 18-20, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $23, stu/srs $20, Sat mat pwyc. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 416-3017543. THE LAND OF FUCK (A FABLE) The Dietrich Group presents a conceptual dance work
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by DA Hoskins about the expletive, with Susie Burpee, Brendan Wyatt, Valerie Calam and others. Opens Mar 23 and runs to Mar 27, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $22-$25. Workman Arts Theatre, 651 Dufferin. totix.ca. NRITYAGRAM DANCE ENSEMBLE Rose Theatre presents a fusion of classical Indian dance and contemporary concepts. Mar 19 at 7:30 pm. $48-$68, child $18. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca. ONEGIN National Ballet of Canada presents John Cranko’s adaptation of Pushkin’s novel. Mar 17-20, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $24-$227. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416345-9595, national.ballet.ca.
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Soon both are disrobing to inspire such real-life artists as Chaim Soutine and Jules Pascin. The women’s lives lead to a discussion about the relative importance of artist and muse. “Mags felt put down by Protestant Toronto, she never lets her freak flag fly until she gets to Paris,” smiles Shields, author of the Dora-nominated If We Were Birds. “It’s only when she starts modelling that she realizes how much she craves liberation. As a model, she says, her life can be more than just standing still.” We first see Mags, in fact, posing in the nude and reflecting on her life in Paris. And how does it feel to be so exposed? “I’ve always been comfortable OUT OF LINE York Dance Ensemble presents dances about coming of age and going against the grain with choreographies by Yvonne Ng & Robert Glumbek, Keiko Kitano and others. Opens Mar 23 and runs to Mar 26, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $10. York University, 4700 Keele, Joseph G Green Studio Theatre. 416-736-5888. SINFONIA Silhouettes Dance Company presents a showcase of jazz, ballet, hip-hop and other styles by the ensemble. Mar 17-19 at 8 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca. THEMES AND VARIATIONS/APOLLO/RUSSIAN SEASONS National Ballet of Can-
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graphed by George Balanchine and a modern piece by Alexei Ratmansky. Opens Mar 23 and runs to Mar 27, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $24-$227. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145
with it,” admits Shields, who performed an earlier version of the show, in SummerWorks 2009, when she was three months pregnant. “After the run, both Maev and I realized how beautiful it is to see naked bodies onstage, not the kind of manufactured models you see on TV or in magazines. “‘Go ahead,’ we invite the audience, ‘we’re cool with it, look to your hearts’ content.’ I don’t even mind being nude with my post-partum, nursing body.” Arthurs has no problem with viewers checking out his wife. “Nudity always elicits a reaction,” he says. “When I directed Wallace Shawn’s A Thought In Three Parts, the nudity was intended to be shocking, abrasive and violent. Here it’s a calming breath in the room. “There’s something in both characters’ relationship to art that suggests they are modern women who control how they show their bodies. “Montparnasse has been created by women, and I see both its nudity and its creative process as active ways of reclaiming female power. The women – both the characters and the theatre artists – are the masterminds of the creation, not the servants of others.” The two actors also conjure up a host of figures who, as Shields says, “bubble out of life in 20s Paris.” One is Henry Miller, presented by Mags from a female perspective. “That might seem impossible, since he’s so masculine a writer.” “But,” argues Arthurs, “it’s my favourite part of the writing. It’s raunchy, visceral and sexy, and flips our sense of the macho virtuoso by making Mags the seducer. “It has the only swearing in the show,” admits Shields, “with Mags as the aggressive female hunting Miller. Simultaneously, the audience watches the shy, vulnerable Amelia do her first nude modelling. “That kind of contrast is the essence of Montparnasse.” 3
theatre listings How to find a listing
Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. Opening plays begin this week, Previewing shows preview this week, One-Nighters are one-offs, and Continuing shows have already opened. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK). The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Standing ovation NNNN Sustained applause NNN Recommended, memorable scenes NN Seriously flawed N Get out the hook
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Opening BODY MONOLOGUES (Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine). Monologues on self acceptance and taking care of our bodies are presented. Mar 17-18 at 7:30 pm. $10-$25 (proceeds to YWCA). 1255 Sheppard E. bodymonologues.ca. CABARET by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Steppin’ Out Theatrical Productions). An American writer falls for a nightclub singer in Nazi-era Berlin. Opens Mar 23 and runs to Mar 26, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $27, stu/ srs $22. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. 905-787-8811. LE DOCTEUR MIRACLE/L’HEURE ESPAGNOLE by Georges Bizet/Maurice Ravel (The Glenn Gould School Opera). Artists of the GGS vocal program perform two one-act operas. Opens Mar 23 and runs to Mar 25, Wed and Fri 8 pm. $20-$40. Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208, rcmusic.ca.
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CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKS Ryerson Theatre
School presents performances by students of the Dance program. Runs to Mar 19, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $18, stu/srs $14. Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard E. 416-979-5118, ryersontheatre.ca.
CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHY IN INDIAN DANCE Kalanidhi Fine Arts and ñ Harbourfront NextSteps present perform-
ances by Ipsita Nova Dance Projects, inDance, Bageshree Vaze & Vineet Vyas, Sadhya Dance and others as part of the international symposium and festival. Runs to Mar 19, Thu-Sat 8 pm (see website for symposium info). $30-$35, stu/srs $25-$28; festival pass $80-$92. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, kalanidhifinearts.org. FULL STOP Hub 14 presents an installation/
Sonia Rodriguez and Aleksandar Antonijevic get to the pointe in Onegin. dance performance with Marie-Josée Chartier, Colin Edwards, Tina Fushell and others. Runs to Mar 20, Thu-Sun 8 pm. $22. 14 Markham. hub14fullstop.eventbrite.com. 3
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court (Mysteriously Yours... Dinner Theatre). Irish music and humour are featured in this St. Patrick’s Day show. Mar 17 at 8 pm. $25. 2026 Yonge. 416-486-7469, mysteriouslyyours.com. tOuGh caSE by David S Craig (TSP Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts/Roseneath Theatre). This new play about restorative justice in action gets a staged reading, followed by discussion. Mar 20 at 2 pm. Pwyc. Trinity St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. trinitystpauls.ca.
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FantaStIc MR. FOx based on a book by Roald Dahl (Peel Panto Players/Dramatic Publishing Co). Three farmers clash with a group of foxes in this family show. Mar 17-20, Thu-Fri 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun 1 and 4:30 pm. $11.75. Lester B. Pearson Theatre, 150 Central Park, Brampton. 905-874-2800, peelplayers.com. GROuch On a cOuch by Jeff Cottrill (Agawa Sapphire Productions). Cottrill performs his solo comedy about anger issues and popular culture. Mar 17-20, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 6 pm. $10. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. breadandcircus.ca. MOntpaRnaSSE by Maev Beaty and Erin Shields (Groundwater Productions). Art, voyeurism, nudity and ego are explored in this look at artist models of 20s Paris (see story, page 59). Previews Mar 17-20. Opens Mar 22 and runs to Apr 2, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $30-$35, preview $15, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca. papER SERIES by David Yee (Cahoots Theatre Company). Various situations examine how we use paper to create, amuse, define and communicate (see story online at nowtoronto.com/stage). Previews Mar 18-19. Opens Mar 21 and runs to Apr 9, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $10-$30. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, cahoots.ca. papRIka FEStIvaL (Tarragon Theatre). This festival presents new works by emerging artists in theatre, live music, comedy, cabaret performances, staged readings and workshops. Opens Mar 18 and runs to Mar 26, daily at 7 pm, mats Mar 19, 23 and 26 at 1 pm. Free. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, paprikafestival.com. puRIM FaMILy MuSIcaL (Beth Tzedec Congregation). Music, dance and theatre with a Roaring 20s theme is performed in this community show. Mar 17-20, Thu 7:30 pm, Sun 1:30 and 7 pm. $10-$36. 1700 Bathurst. 416-781-3511. thE ROcky hORROR ShOw by Richard O’Brien (Brampton Theatre School). This interactive rock musical is based on the 70s film. Opens Mar 23 and runs to Mar 25, Wed-Fri 8 pm, plus Fri at midnight. $18-$25. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800.
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Not so Fine MORE FInE GIRLS by Jennifer Brewin, Leah Cherniak, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa Palmer and Martha Ross (Theatre Columbus/Tarragon, 30 Bridgman). To April 3. See Continuing, page 62. Rating: nn
A last-minute cast change postponed the opening of More Fine Girls, but even that can’t explain its utter failure. The collaboratively written script feels less like a play than notes for a first draft. A sequel to the 1997 hit The Attic, The Pearls, And Three Fine Girls, the story picks up a decade and a half later, when the three Fine sisters have reunited for the first time in years. Jojo (Martha Ross) is a tenured lit prof who’s avoiding work and her boyfriend; Jayne (Ann-Marie MacDonald) is a lesbian lawyer who’s left her practice to become a hobby farmer; and Jelly (Severn Thompson, replacing co-writer Leah Cherniak) is an installation artist with a daughter who’s about to turn 13. Convening first at a restaurant where they crack unfunny jokes about food trends, then at their old family home, where Jelly nursed their father before he died, the siblings
bicker, reminisce and avoid discussing matters you just know are going to be revealed at the end. Things are complicated by the fact that Jelly’s mounting a show in their former dwelling, so the furniture hangs from the ceiling: something the creators obviously invest with symbolic significance. Much of this would be bearable if the plot weren’t saddled with sitcom contrivances and the actors didn’t resort to the sort of shameless mugging that gives clown a bad name. The script, directed by co-creator Alisa Palmer, offers few insights about work, relationships or even aging. And unlike, say, Crimes Of The Heart, it’s devoid of genuine emotion. Jelly’s installation, explanations of which Thompson gamely delivers throughout the show, seems full of metaphysical flimflam. Only a short tableau near the end, when the sisters are huddled together on Judith Bowden’s plain but serviceable set, features the kind of writing and acting worthy of these talented artists.
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thOMaS & FRIEndS LIvE! On StaGE – thOMaS SavES thE day by Jim Millan (Sony Centre for
the Performing Arts). Thomas the Tank Engine stars in this all-ages musical adventure. Mar 18-20, Fri-Sat 2 and 5 pm, Sat-Sun 10:30 pm (and Sun 2 pm). $21.90-$56.90. 1 Front E. 416-872-2262, sonycentre.ca.
DirectorNinaLeeAquino discussespaperSERIESat nowtoronto.com/stage. thE tIME OF yOuR LIFE by William Saroyan (Soulpepper). Various characters speak of their dreams in a Depression-era San Francisco bar. Previews to Mar 17. Opens Mar 18 and runs to Apr 16, see website for schedule. $45-$60, stu $28; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. thE wItch OF EdMOntOn by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford (Theatre @ York). The Jacobean drama is set in 1950s America and looks at how society treats nonconformists. Previews Mar 20-21. Opens Mar 22 and runs to Mar 26, nightly at 7:30 pm, mats Wed and Fri 1 pm. $17, stu/srs $12, previews $5. York University Accolade E Bldg, 4700 Keele, Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan Theatre. 416-736-5888, yorku.ca/perform. wRItEnOw! FEStIvaL OF nEw wORkS (pivotal (arts) theatre company). The final edition of this one-act play festival features works by Jon Nelson, Jessica Rose and Mark Tipps. Opens Mar 21 and runs to Mar 26, Mon-Sat 7:30 and 8:30 pm. $12, two-show pass $20. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. pivotalarts.ca.
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Theatre). An American interviews the son of a Soviet dissident and poet. Previews Mar 22-29. Opens Mar 30 and runs to May 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm (no preview mats). $23-$46, rush $10. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.
One-Nighters
a LIttLE OpERa FOR LIttLE BaBIES (The Linden Fund). Maureen Batt, Cheryl Campbell, Geoff Keating and others perform popular arias to benefit premature infants. Mar 19 at 7:30 pm. $25, stu/srs $15. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W. musicforpreemies.ca. a pIctuRESquE REaLIty by Ian Stoddart (Ecliptic Image Production). A photographer is held hostage and must fight for his right to live. Mar 18 at 8 pm. $15-$20. Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston. picturesquereality. blogspot.com.
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aLIcE In wOndERLand based on the novel by Lewis Carroll (Théâtre Tout à Trac). Théâtre Tout à Trac’s compact production of the Lewis Carroll book features Alice as a petulant kid who escapes her lessons by dropping into a Wonderland that proves disappointingly unwondrous. Originally written in French, Maureen Labonté’s English translation sags under the laborious and expository wordplay, but the sluggishness is eased in part by Gabriel De Santis-Caron’s bumbling Humpty Dumpty and Marie-Ève Trudel’s hookah-smoking Caterpillar. Runs to Mar 19, see website for schedule. $10-$20. Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, lktyp.ca. nnn (Naomi Skwarna) anGELIna BaLLERIna thE MuSIcaL by Susan DiLallo and Ben Morss (Vital Theatre). Angelina and her pals dance to get a starring role in this all-ages show. Runs to Mar 19, Fri 4:30 pm, Sat 1 pm. $29.50-$49.50. MNJCC Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. angelinathemusical.com. ‘aRt’ by Yasmina Reza (Stage Centre Productions). The purchase of an expensive modernist painting tests the limits of friendship. Runs to Mar 19, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $27.50, stu/srs $22. Fairview Library, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-2995557, stagecentreproductions.com. BILLy ELLIOt thE MuSIcaL by Lee Hall and Elton John (Mirvish). One of the best new musicals of the millennium, Billy Elliot is based on the 2000 film about a working-class boy whose dreams of becoming a ballet dancer are set against the grim reality of his 1984 northern England mining community. The characters are richly detailed, the conflicts believable and complex, and the dialogue raw, crudely funny and uncompromising. The songs, while not exactly hummable, serve the story and characters, and the performances (four boys alternate in the demanding lead role) grounded and deeply felt. Bring tissues. Runs to Jul 10, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $36-$130. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. nnnnn (GS) BROthEL #9 by Anusree Roy (Factory Theatre). Roy based this heartbreaking but realistic exposé of Calcutta’s brothel system on first hand research. While the subject matter is depressing, Roy’s writing is haunting, using four characters to accurately map out the power relationships that enable this form of modern-day slavery. Runs to Mar 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$40, previews $15, Sun pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. nnn (Jordan Bimm)
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(The Pub Theatre Company). This interactive show takes a satirical look at the drinking culture. Runs to Apr 23, Sat 8 pm. $15. Hard Rock Cafe, 279 Yonge. byebyeliver.com.
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Sat-Sun 11 am and 3 pm. $15-$90. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. ticketmaster.ca. Disney’s Camp RoCk: The musiCal (Brian Bird/ Music Theatre International). Rival teen music camps face off in a showdown. Runs to Mar 19, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20. Cyril Clark Library, 20 Loafer’s Lake Lane, Brampton. birdent.com. Double DooR by Elizabeth McFadden (Scarborough Theatre Guild). A tyrannical heiress torments her relatives and her brother’s fiancée. Runs to Mar 19, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $17, stu/srs $14, stu rush $10. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. 416267-9292, theatrescarborough.com. The FanTasTiCks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones (Soulpepper). Soulpepper’s remount of this classic slice of Americana stays faithful to the musical’s folksy story of a pair of young neighbours tricked into romance by their fathers’ phony feud. Lots of physical comedy and wonderfully rendered music theatre classics like Try To Remember and Soon It’s Gonna Rain make this enduring and endearing chestnut worth a second look. Runs to Mar 24, see website for days and times. $45$60, stu $28; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. nnnn (Jordan Bimm) Female impeRsonaToR shows (Zelda’s). Divas from Broadway and film perform weekly. Fri-Sat 9 pm. Free. 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca. Foolish Tales FoR Foolish Times by David Powell and Ann Powell (Puppetmongers Theatre). Four stories about human blunders are told in this family puppet show. Runs to Mar 19, Thu-Sat 2 pm. $10-$12. 401 Logan, #219. 416-469-3555, foolish-tales.eventbrite.com. GooD mouRninG mRs bRown by Brendan O’Carroll (Mirvish). A feisty Irish grandma and her offspring play a trick on her brooding husband in this comedy. Runs to Mar 19, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25-$75. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. happy Days, a new musiCal by Garry Marshall and Paul Williams (Stage West). This musical is based on the TV sitcom. Runs to Apr 24, Tue-Sat 6:30 pm, Sun 5 pm, mats Wed and Sun 11 am. $53-$88 (incl buffet). 5400 Dixie, Mississauga. 905-238-0042, stagewest.com. heaD a TeTe by David S Craig and Robert Morgan (Theatre Direct). Two strangers who speak different languages take shelter from a storm under a magical tree. Runs to Mar 19 daily at 11 am & 2 pm. $10-$15. Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie. 416-537-4191, theatredirect.ca. i maRCus GaRvey by Edgar Nkosi White (Theatre Archipelago/b current). This drama looks at the life and activism of the Jamaican national hero. Runs to Mar 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15-$35. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. 416-533-1500, theatrearchipelago.ca. JuDy & DaviD’s beansToCk (Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts). The Treehouse TV duo perform an all-ages musical. To Mar 17, Thu 11 am and 2 pm. $27-$34, stu $21. 171 Town Centre Blvd. 905-305-7469. The lion, The wiTCh & The waRDRobe by CS Lewis (Lower Ossington Theatre). The fairy tale from The Chronicles Of Narnia is pre-
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Broken bonds Tombs oF The vanishinG inDian by Marie Clements (Native Earth Performing Arts/Red Diva Projects). At Buddies in Bad Times (12 Alexander). Runs to March 27. See Continuing, page 62. Rating: nnn With its themes of uprooted households and government-encouraged sterilization, Tombs Of The Vanishing Indian is a daunting play to tackle. But don’t be put off by the grim material, for the Native Earth production captures much of the play’s strong cry for the reclamation of history, culture and family. Set largely in 1970s Los Angeles, Marie Clements’s script follows three grown-up native sisters separated in early childhood. Janey (PJ Prudat), living in poverty, has been pulled into a police station and questioned by a detective (Martin Julien) because she’s suspected of killing her child. Miranda (Falen Johnson), an actor, auditions for a randy director (David Storch) to play an Indian in a Hollywood film. Jessie (Nicole JoyFraser), the most successful of the three, is a doctor who’s moved to L.A. with her physician husband (Keith Barker).
But though they’re in different worlds, each feels the pull of her siblings, and their lives eventually interlace, at least on a symbolic level. The narrative is often upsetting, but Clements adds some comic moments – most of them bitter. They work best and most perceptively in the Miranda episode, when she bandies ironic words with the director and discovers his secrets. The performances are generally strong, though Joy-Fraser isn’t as emotionally communicative as Prudat and Johnson. The writing doesn’t fill out the male characters as well, but Julien’s detective has a touch of humanity lacking in the other men. Michelle St. John anchors the production as the girls’ mother and a variety of other figures, including the mythic Lone Woman, the last member of the Gabrielino/Tongva tribe, who makes an indelible link to Janey, and, in other guises, leads Jessie to some startling discoveries. Yvette Nolan directs with a sure hand, gradually increasing the speed of the intercut scenes. In the process, she subtly weaves the three sisters’ stories together both visually and narratively, ultimately capturing the script’s element of magic realism Jon kaplan with true theatricality. jonkap@nowtoronto.com
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sented on stage. Runs to Mar 20, Fri 1 pm, SatSun 11 am. (Also Mar 26-27 at 11 am.) $18. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lionwitchwardrobe.eventbrite.com. A MidsuMMer Night’s dreAM by William Shakespeare (Soulpepper). Director Rick Roberts sets the Bard’s classic comedy in the Roaring 20s and nails the fun and magic at the heart of this enchanted tale. Creative use of LED lights, projections and eerie live music make the forest scenes visually striking, while the rag-tag group of actors rehearsing in the woods steal the show with hilarious physical comedy. Runs to Apr 23, see website for schedule. $45-$60, stu $28; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) More FiNe girls by Jennifer Brewin, Leah Cherniak, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Alisa Palmer and Martha Ross (Theatre Columbus). Three sisters reunite over a family crisis ten years after a party drove them apart (see review, page 60). Runs to Apr 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $23-$46, rush $10. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NN (GS) Morro ANd JAsp goNe Wild by Heather Marie Annis and Amy Lee (U.N.I.T. Productions). Two clown sisters go on a Spring Break coming-of-age trip. Runs to Mar 26, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm. $20, mats pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, morroandjasp.com. NeW ideAs FestivAl 2011 (Alumnae Theatre). The annual showcase of new writing, worksin-progress and experimental theatre features plays and staged readings. Week 2 (to Mar 19): works by Flora Stohr-Danziger, Richard Ballon, Francine Dick, Kelsey Blair and Betty Jane Wylie. Week 3 (Mar 23-26): works by Rosemary Doyle, Neale Kimmel, Nicholas Sgouros, David Nicholson and Betty Jane Wylie. Runs to Mar 26, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm (readings Sat at noon). $15, pass $35, Sat readings pwyc. 70 Berkeley. 416-3644170, alumnaetheatre.com. NohAyquieNsepA (No oNe KNoWs) by Trevor Schwellnus and Olga Barrios (Aluna Theatre). This multimedia dancetheatre piece explores how we react to the deaths of strangers. Runs to Mar 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20-$30, stu/srs/Sun $15; Mar 18 gala $75. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988, alunatheatre.ca. piFF pAFF pooF (Magicana). Magicians and a mischievous rabbit perform an interactive show for kids aged 5 to 12. Runs to Mar 27, Sat-Sun 3 pm (and Mar 14-18 daily). $25. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-913-9034, piffpaffpoof.com. piNKAlicious, the MusicAl by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre). A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. Runs to May 29, Sat-Sun 1 pm. $29.50-$39.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-6428973, vitaltheatre.ca. the possibilities by Howard Barker (Univer-
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sity College Drama Program at U of T). Ten vignettes about beauty, pain, violence and sexuality unfold at an internet cafe. Runs to Mar 19, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79A St. George. uc. utoronto.ca/drama. the secret gArdeN by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon (Edinburgh Festival Theatre/Mirvish). This touring production of the 1991 musical based on Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel is certainly ambitious, but it’s hampered by scenes that awkwardly juxtapose time schemes, a cumbersome Rubik’s Cube of a set and merely adequate performances by the leads. Full of unmemorable music, it’s a tough sell to people unfamiliar with the book. Runs to Mar 20, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $40-$110. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NN (GS) she did WhAt?!!! (Famous People Players). The black light theatre company presents a musical based on a children’s book by Diane Dupuy. Runs to Apr 29, Tue-Sat 11:30 am and 6 pm. $59.50, srs $52.50, child $39.95 (includes meal). 343 Evans. 416-532-1137, fpp.org. south pAciFic by Rodgers & Hammerstein (Dancap/Lincoln Center Theater). Love blooms on an island paradise during WWII in this musical. Runs to Mar 20, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 1 pm. $35-$190. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416644-3665, dancaptickets.com. spiN by Evalyn Parry (OutSpoke Productions). Music, narration and projections are used to portray the bicycle as an instrument of social change. Runs to Mar 27, WedSat 8 pm. $20, stu $16. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. spotlight.itAly (Istituto Italiano di Cultura/ Canadian Stage). Italian music, dance, theatre and art are presented to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Italy’s reunification. Runs to Mar 26, see website for schedule. $32. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-921-3802, canadianstage.com/italy. toMbs oF the vANishiNg iNdiAN by Marie Clements (Native Earth Performing Arts/Red Diva Projects). Three Aboriginal sisters and their mother deal with issues of identity and isolation after a forced relocation (see review, page 61). Runs to Mar 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $25, Fri & Sun pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, nativeearth.ca. NNN (JK) the WiNter’s tAle by William Shakespeare (Theatre Erindale). A jealous king puts his wife on trial. Runs to Mar 19, Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Erindale Studio Theatre, 3359 Mississauga Rd N. 905569-4369, theatreerindale.com. Wit’s eNd iii: love liFe (Sandra Shamas). Shamas’s third show to deal with living on a farm and getting older is also one of her best. Relaxed and completely confident, she tackles menopause, farming and (briefly) relationships with men. Her powers of description, physicality and affectionate impersonations are as vivid and funny as ever. Runs to Apr 3, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$65. Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. 416-8725555, ticketmaster.ca. NNNN (GS) 3
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Sloppy Second Script lets down energetic comics By GLENN SUMI THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! written and performed by Rob Baker, Dale Boyer, Adam Cawley, Inessa Frantowski, Carly Heffernan and Kris Siddiqi (Second City, 51 Mercer). Limited run. $15-$29. 416-3430011. See Comedy Listings, this page. Rating: NNN
second city’s new revue doesn’t match the smart laughs of its prede cessor, the recordbreaking Some thing Wicked Awesome This Way Comes. But its game cast powers through even the weaker sketches with enthusiasm. The show opens with a highenergy sequence featuring the six comics wondering what they did the night
before. Sound and rhythm problems plague this bit, and there just aren’t that many laughs. Things pick up when Adam Cawley and talented newcomer Carly Hef fernan play a couple addressing their wedding party guests, the rifts in their relationship showing beneath their smiling, drunken faces. Cawley dominates the revue with a manic edge, whether he’s the bitter son of a greedy baby boomer (Rob Baker), a Jersey Shore wannabe trying to pick up club district girls with his best pal (Kris Siddiqi) or a husband who doesn’t get what he bargained for when he and his wife (Inessa Fran towski) agree to a threesome. I wish director Bruce Pirrie had set
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Thursday, March 17 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Jason Blanchard, Tommy Fitz and host Herb Irving. To Mar 20,
Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat-Sun 8 pm (and Sat 10:45 pm). $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca.
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UP SHOw Second City presents interactive, family-friendly improv and sketch. To Mar 19, Mon-Sat 11 am. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. GAME PLAYA THURSDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents longform improv by Rob Norman’s Game Of The Scene class. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. HOT BOX COMEDY Hot Box Cafe presents a weekly show w/ host Jillian Thomas. 7:15 pm. $5. 191A Baldwin. hotboxcafe.ca. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! Second City presents a new show poking fun at the ever-changing world we live in (see review, this page). TueSat 8 pm (plus Sat late show 10:30 pm), Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. NNN (GS)
RobBaker(left), AdamCawley andInessa Frantowski makean amusing ménageatrois. up a more satisfying rhythm for that boomer sketch. There’s no arc to Caw ley’s emotional outbursts, but still he’s completely watchable. So is Siddiqi, especially as a preten tious yoga instructor with unortho
dox methods and a zombie who has a crush on his exgirlfriend (Dale Boy er). And Boyer and Heffernan stand out in a funnybecauseit’strue sketch about a drunken visit to a tattoo par lour.
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THE MARY JANE’S OF COMEDY The Sixth presents Diana Love, Candice Gregoris, Deborah Primeau, Rose Giles, Steph Tolev, Leah Mac, Bev Ellis and Jillian Thomas. 9 pm. $10. 1642 Queen W. jillilyn@hotmail.com. NAKED FRIDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents music, improv and sketch. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 17. YUK YUK’S DOwNTOwN See Thu 17. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Freddy Proia. To Mar 19, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $22. 70 Interchange Way. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S wEST presents Stephen Patterson. To Mar 19, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $22. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.
Chaves. To Mar 20, Thu-Sun 8 pm, plus Fri-Sat late show 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Double Feature Night w/ two new comics. 8 pm. $13. 70 Interchange Way. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S wEST presents Double Feature Night w/ two new comics. 8 pm. $13. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.
Friday, March 18 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 17. THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOw See Thu 17. COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World
News Café presents improv w/ Athletic Robot (Jason Gemmill, Jorge Moreira, Rhonda Riche). 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com. LAUGHS @ TRACKS New Reach Creative presents stand-up w/ Dave Emrich, Phil Watkins, Craig Watkins, Tyler Brent, Azfar Ali, Jonathon Schabl, Kevin Soldo, Dave Merheje and host Ricky R Singh. 10 pm. Free. Tracks Brew Pub, 60 Queen E, Brampton. 905-453-3063, newreachcreative.com.
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sents the actor/comic in a stand-up show. 8 pm. $45-$75. 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905-306-6000. COMEDY LOUNGE Lambadina presents Scott
Alas, unpolished writing ruins a promising sketch about how social media contributed to the Egyptian revolution. (Is it really possible that in 2011 the phrase “You’re all gay” is meant to get laughs?) A sendup of the A&E show Hoarders goes nowhere, a bit of audience interaction adding lit tle to the unfunny result. Another failed sketch about the suggestion box at a lowmorale office would be cute if it came up during an improv session, but for this to make the cut – and to open up the second act – feels bizarre. Speaking of improv, the show closes with an offthecuff scene that goes in unexpected directions. It’s a huge logistical gamble for the company, but if it works, as it did partly on opening night, the payoff includes a terrific postshow buzz. You’ll definitely be talking about this one on the way out. 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com
Dell, Ted Scott, Kris Bonaparte and host Adrian Sawyer. 9 pm. $10-$15. 875 Bloor W. comedylounge.ca. RICHARD RYDER LIVE The Flying Beaver presents stand-up comedy as part of its opening weekend. 7 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. brownpapertickets.com/event/162205. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 17. YUK YUK’S DOwNTOwN See Thu 17. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Fri 18. YUK YUK’S wEST See Fri 18.
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Sunday, March 20 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 17. THE BENCH John Candy Box Theatre presents
upcoming improvisers picked by the Second City. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. BIG LAUGHS IN LITTLE ITALY Public presents Daniel Woodrow, John Hyatt, Matt Shuri, host Kris Bonaparte and others. 9 pm. Free. 596 College. 416-539-8890. FLUSH YA MOUT! Split Verse presents a freestyle comedy battle w/ host Dred Lee. Doors 7 pm. $15-$20. The Poor Alex, 772A Dundas W. splitverse@gmail.com. continued on page 64 œ
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House Of Jokes w/ Adam Christie, Chris Locke, Stephanie Kaliner, Deborah Robinson, Andrew Johnston, Debra DiGiovanni, David Dineen-Porter, Ted Morris, host Poppa Proppa and others. Doors 8:30 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. laughsabbath.com. LEGENDS OF ZELDA’S presents weekly improv w/ the Eleventh Commandment plus guests. 8 pm. $5. Zelda’s, 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca. THE SCENE Comedy Bar presents troupes, stand-up, long form and short films w/ John Hastings, Emergency Bingo, Faceplant, Lobster Cats and Bee Arthurs. 7:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. SUDDENLY SUNDAY Pantages Martini Bar presents a weekly comedy night w/ hosts Melissa Story and Jeff Clark plus musical guests. 9 pm. Free. 200 Victoria. 416-362-1777. SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present an all-new sketch show every week w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 17. YUk YUk’S DOwNTOwN See Thu 17.
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DeBonis, Nathan Macintosh, Ian Lynch, MC John Hastings and others. Broadcast live on ustream.com. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. DIRTY BINGO Zelda’s presents a weekly game with adult prizes w/ hosts Gloria Hole and Lena Over. 8:30 pm. Free. 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca.
HARD TIMES AT THE HARD LUCk – CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF JAPE Impulsive Entertainment pre-
sents Statutory Jape, sketch by Smells Like the 80s, stand-up by Fraser Young and Dan Ramos, and more. 9 pm. Pwyc. Hard Luck Bar, 812 Dundas W. impulsiveentertainment.com. IMPERIAL COMEDY Imperial Pub presents weekly Pro/Am comics w/ host Eric Bud. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. 54 Dundas E. imperialcomedy.com. SAVED BY THE JOkES Fox & Fiddle presents weekly comedy w/ hosts Evan Desmarais and Chris Robinson. 8 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. wellesleyfox.com. $#*! MY MAYOR SAYS Second City presents current-events comedy about T.O. 8 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. THE SOAPS The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly improvised soap opera w/ Jim Annan, Lisa Brooke and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com. THE VEST SHOw IN TOwN Comedy Bar presents a variety show w/ Vest of Friends. 7 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. wHEEL OF IMPROV John Candy Box Theatre presents competitive improv. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.
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Tuesday, March 22 HARD LUCk COMEDY REVUE Hard Luck Bar pre-
sents sketch, improv and stand-up comedy. 9 pm. Free. 812 Dundas W. hardluckbar.com. IMPROV NIGHT IN CANADA John Candy Box Theatre presents the ultimate improv faceoff. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. SkETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents Bedroom Antics w/ Debra DiGiovanni, Nathan Macintosh, Nile Seguin, Aaron Berg, Sex Desk with Ron Sparks, MC Andrew Ivimey and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com. STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Megan (the light queen) Birthday Show, w/ Ted Morris, Kate Davis, Stephen Sharpe, Doug Taylor, Nikki Payne, Eric Clifford, Leah MacDonald, Cal Post, Marco Bernardi, Trevor Wilson and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 17. YUk YUk’S DOwNTOwN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
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Danny Polishchuk and host Kevin Gasior. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.
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weekly talent contest w/ host Vicki Licks. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 692 Yonge, upstairs. zeldas.ca. POURDON ME COMEDY NIGHT Pour Boy Pub presents a weekly show. 10 pm. Free. 666 Manning. 647-343-7969, pourboy.ca. QUANTUM QOMEDY SHOwQASE Double Deuce Saloon presents stand-up w/ Daryn McIntyre, Dave Barclay, Kristian Reimer, Trevor Wilson, Nick Flanagan and host Jon Perrault. 9 pm. Free. 1168 Queen W. 647-349-8245. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents stand-up w/ David Horn and host Matt White. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. SPIRITS OPEN MIC presents Dave Martin, Dom Pare, Barry Taylor, Leny Corrado, Derek Sweet, Shelley Marshall, Suneet Luther, Robert Keller, Marty Simsovic and host JoAnna Downey. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001.
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Fallis falls THE HIGH ROAD by Terry Fallis (Emblem/ McClelland & Stewart), 327 pages, $19.99 paper. Rating: NN
either the business of politics is deadly dull or Terry Fallis is a mediocre writer, but either way, The High Road is a dud. In his follow-up to 2007’s The Best Laid Plans, the 2010 winner of CBC’s Canada Reads contest, Fallis again taps his experience as a Liberal insider (aid to Jean Chrétien, legislative assistant to Robert Nixon, to name just two positions) in the 80s. This time he portrays the re-election campaign of loose cannon Liberal Angus McLintock, as told from the point of view of his executive assistant, Daniel Addison. This is supposed to be satire, so we
can almost forgive the stereotypes: endearing biddy Muriel, who gathers the elderly troops in her retirement home; Bradley, the PM’s prick of an assistant; and McLintock himself, flawless except for his untameable beard and famous stubbornness, seen here as a virtue. It’s the absence of real conflict that makes the book such a snore. Every time a small snag occurs, the problem is easily smoothed out, and what tension there is in the narrative never deepens. And the clichés are positively cringe-making. Fallis uses the Shakespearean term “slings and arrows” in a way so egregious that even a junior editor should know enough to delete the reference. Though it was overrated, copping the Stephen Leacock Medal as well as Canada Reads kudos, The Best Laid Plans scored because people get a kick out of peeking
IN PERSON In One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing ($30, Viking), the sixth in his Thursday Next series, Jasper Fforde again shows his gift for playful yet complex storytelling. His protagonist, a literary detective, gets involved in a case that could get her killed. But Fforde, as usual, finds a way to blend the thrills with an elaborate parody of the literary scene and some savvy storywithin-a-story narrative strategies. Fforde appears at the Brigantine Room as part of the Harbourfront Reading Series on SGC Monday (March 21).
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inside political back rooms. Emboldened by his success, Fallis went back to the well instead of digging a new one; unfortunately, that old well has dried up. SUSAN G. COLE Fallis appears tonight (Thursday, March 17) at the Barbara Frum Library and Wednesday (March 23) at the Northern District Library. See Readings, this page. Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com
READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, March 17
Clara Blackwood and others. 7-10 pm. Pwyc. Zemra, 778 St Clair W. 416-651-3123.
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thor. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. FARZANA DOCTOR Talking about her new novel, Six Metres Of Pavement. 7-8 pm. Free. Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord. 416-922-8744. TERRY FALLIS Meet the author of The High Road. 7 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. torontopubliclibrary.ca. JOE SACCO The graphic novelist reads. 8 pm. $10, stu $5. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. uofttix.ca.
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Saturday, March 19 TORONTO POETRY SLAM Semi-finals. 7 pm. $5. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-3123865.
Sunday, March 20
JASPER FFORDE/GAIL SCOTT/DON WINSLOW
Fforde reads from One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing, Scott reads from The Obituary, Winslow reads from Satori. 7:30 pm. $10, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.
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Road. 7 pm. Free. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View. torontopubliclibrary.ca. ANYA WASSENBERG Launch for This Is The Way The World Ends. 7-9 pm. Free. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. freakyfountain.com. 3
Tuesday, March 22 JEFFERY DONALDSON/PAMELA PORTER/JACOB McARTHUR MOONEY Poetry and an open
mic. 8 pm. Free. Cinton’s, 693 Bloor W. artbar.org. THE ESSENTIAL RICHARD OUTRAM Launch with readings by Steven Bourque and Erin Brubacher. 5-7 pm. Free. Arts and Letters Club, 14 Elm. elke@porcupinesquill.ca. PEGGY HERRING Reading from her novel This Innocent Corner. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5535. SYLVIA TYSON The singer-songwriter talks about her debut novel, Joyner’s Dream. 7 pm. Free. Indigo, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.
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stephen andrews takes technologically generated images through several permutations in this elegant series of lithographs and paintings that riffs on crowd scenes in Toronto. This isn’t the first time Andrews’s imagery has taken the degraded or blurred mechanical image as a starting point. Facsimile, his series of portraits of HIV/AIDS victims, was based on faxed photographic memorials. The Quick And The Dead, about the Iraq War, used grainy video stills from the conflict. This show, Un Pequeno Parte De Algo Mas Grande, isn’t overtly political, but the recorded images are at
first glance barely intelligible. Eventually, as figures begin to emerge from the blurred abstractions, adding another layer of visual density and interest, you realize you’re seeing some kind of visually distorted field. Three paintings resemble the tightly woven, out-of-focus digital pattern of a large LED screen at a concert, while four lithographs appear to be gradual reductions of a photographic image to simpler and simpler elements, taking the viewer into the fuzzy terrain between the representational and the abstract. One tiny painting between two windows consists of four circles in cyan, magenta, yellow and black, a discreet reference to the printed halftone rasters that make up images in the four-colour photographic process. It, too, is a reduction of the pho-
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$12, stu $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799. BURLINGTON ART CENTRE Critical Path, to Apr 5. Latow Photography Guild, to Apr 10. Scott Barnim, to Apr 17. 1333 Lakeshore (Burlington). 905-632-7796. CAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM Ingrid Mayrhofer, to Mar 31. 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227. DESIGN EXCHANGE Design Exchange Awards, to Mar 27. Toy Wonder, to Apr 9 (free). $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Gordon Monahan, to Apr 13, Dave Dyment talk noon-1 pm Mar 21. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007. GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Sugar And Spice, to May 1. Betty Woodman, to Jun 5. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-5868080. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Ron Terada, to Mar 20. 7
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Stephen Andrews repurposes mechanical images to probe the process of vision.
tographic image to its most basic elements, a reminder that photography is only one method of visual rendering. Andrews’s juxtaposition of hightech and painterly ways of seeing is less about opposition than it is about finding pleasing resonances. There’s something serenely meditative
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Mar 27. Playful Pursuits: Chinese Traditional Toys And Games, to May 13. Jane Ash Poitras, to Sep 1. Water: The Exhibition, to Sep 5 ($31, stu/srs $28). $22, stu/srs $19; $11, stu/srs $9.50 Fri 4:30-9:30 pm; free Wed 4:30-5:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Kai Chan, to May 1. Beauty Born Of Use: The Fibre Rain Cape, to May 1. Silk Oasis On The Silk Road: Bukhara, Mar 23-Sep 25, reception 6:30 pm Mar 23. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE University College Collection; North Korean Images At Utopia’s Edge, to Mar 19. Work In Process: UTM/Sheridan art and art history students, to Mar 31. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-9781838. VARLEY ART GALLERY Carol Wainio, to May 1. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main. 905-477-9511. 3
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man Rockwell and Kevin Rivoli, to Apr 25. Traditional Stories: Unikkaaqtuat/Modern Stories: Unikkaat, to May 8. Life As A Legend: Marilyn Monroe; Marilyn In Canada, to May 15. George McLean, to May 22. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-8931121. MOCCA Luis Jacob and Geoffrey Pugen; Cabinet, to Mar 27. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. OAKVILLE GALLERIES Sublimation, to May 15 (Centennial Square, 120 Navy). The Birds And The Bees, to Jun 5 (Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore E). 905-844-4402. THE POWER PLANT To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong?; Thomas Hirschhorn and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, to May 29. $6, stu/srs $3, Wed 5-8 pm free. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Position As Desired/ Photographs From The Wedge Collection, to Mar 27. Ragmala: Garland Of Melodies, to Mar 20. Fryderyk Chopin & The Romantic Piano, to
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Tim Zuck, to Mar 19, artist’s talk 2 pm Mar 19 (RSVP). 1069 Bathurst. 647-348-5110. BIRCH LIBRALATO Painting/video: Janet Werner and Steve Reinke, Mar 19-Apr 23, reception 2-5 pm Mar 19. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003. CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Painting: Ron Martin, to Apr 9. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566. COMMUNICATION ART GALLERY Photos: Brett Gundlock, to Mar 31. 209 Harbord. 416-588-2011, communicationgallery.net. EDWARD DAY GALLERY Photos: SNAP! 2011 (preview for ACT auction), Mar 17-20. Painting/photos: Melissa Doherty, Jennifer Walton and Dianne Bos, to Apr 10. 952 Queen W. 416-921-6540. GALLERY 44 Photos/video: Thomas Kneubühler and Bertrand R Pitt, to Apr 9. 401 Richmond W #120. 416-979-3941. GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS Anitra Hamilton, Mar 17-Apr 23, reception 6-8 pm Mar 17. 133 Tecumseth. 416-554-4112. GLADSTONE HOTEL Painting: Travis Shilling, to Mar 26. Graphic Details: Confessional Comics By Jewish Women (Koffler Gallery), to Apr 17. Textiles: Kathryn Walter, to Jun 26. Totems Of Care: CARE Daycare students,
to Mar 20. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.
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Marla Hlady, to Mar 26. 1450 Dundas W. 416-537-3125. LABSPACE STUDIO Snow Days group show, Mar 18-20, reception 7 pm-midnight Mar 18. 2A Pape. 416-836-1516. O’BORN CONTEMPORARY Photos: Rafael Goldchain, Mar 18-Apr 23, reception 6-9 pm Mar 18. 131 Ossington. 416-413-9555. PAUL PETRO Painting: Stephen Andrews and Sandy Plotnikoff, to Mar 26. 980 Queen W. 416-979-7874. P|M GALLERY Painting: William Griffiths, to Apr 16. 1518 Dundas W. 416-937-3862. PREFIX Video: Rabih Mroué, to Apr 23. 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357. RED HEAD GALLERY Installation: Janet Bellotto, to Mar 29. 401 Richmond W #115. 416-504-5654. TORONTO IMAGE WORKS Photos: Eugen Sakhnenko, to Mar 26. 80 Spadina. 416-7031999. 253469 Performance/video/installation: Climbing The Pink Tree, Mar 19, performance/reception 9 pm Mar 19. 1267 Bloor W. 416-653-9919.
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McConaughey’s smooth ride Laid-back actor says The Lincoln Lawyer could become a franchise By NORMAN WILNER THE LINCOLN LAWYER directed by Brad Furman, written by John Romano from the novel by Michael Connelly, with Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe and William H. Macy. An eOne release. 118 minutes. Opens Friday (March 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 74.
for a guy who’s spent two decades refining a certain laid-back persona, Matthew McConaughey isn’t one for sitting still. Seated at a conference table in a quiet room in the Thompson Hotel, he’s singing a little “bum-bumbum” song to himself and doodling on a legal pad. Later, as he poses for NOW’s photographer, he whistles through his teeth. McConaughey’s nervous energy evens out once we get to talking about his new movie, The Lincoln Lawyer, an adaptation of a Michael Connelly novel that casts him as a streetwise Los Angeles defence attorney. It’s the first time the actor’s been back in a courtroom since he broke out in the mid-90s with A Time To Kill and Amistad, but McConaughey says he couldn’t resist the chance to shoot a movie in downtown L.A. He’s lived in the city for 16 years, he says, but never really engaged
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REVIEW THE LINCOLN LAWYER (Brad Furman) Rating: NNN The Lincoln Lawyer is the cinematic equivalent of a decent airplane read – an easily digested page-turner that keeps you occupied but doesn’t demand much. Michael Connelly’s novel about a wheeler-dealer defense attorney pulled into an increasingly nasty assault case works nicely as a big-screen thriller and gives Matthew McConaughey a role ideally suited to his laid-back, southern-fried vibe. McConaughey’s Mick Haller – who uses a Lincoln Continental as his mobile office, hence the title – turns every conversation into a battle of wits, whether he’s negotiating with his sleazy rich-boy client (Ryan Phillippe) or sparring with his ex-wife (Marisa Tomei) and investigator sidekick (William H. Macy). Naturally, his conniving ways mask a heart of gold, which starts shining awful bright when he suspects that his current case holds the key to overturning another client’s murder conviction. Director Brad Furman moves the action along efficiently enough, making good use of some grimy Los Angeles locations. It’s predictable, which becomes a bit of an issue in the second half, but McConaughey works hard NW to hold our interest.
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with that part of town. “There’s a certain way things move down there,” McConaughey explains. “The shadows lay a different way down there, and there’s quite a few of ’em. Drive down the streets, you can see it: ‘Oh, I bet some kind of little crime’s going on there right about now.’ Watts, Boyle Heights, those places – I stayed there on location, slept there overnight, and it was necessary to have security guards outside. Not because I was Matthew McConaughey, celebrity – just because a man was staying there overnight, on campus.” McConaughey sees The Lincoln Law yer as a potential franchise, and it’s not hard to imagine that happening. He likes the idea of playing someone who’s comfortable jousting with anyone and has a client list that ranges from motorcycle gangs to society types. “People he sees on the street, a lot of ’em need his services, you know?” he says, smiling that easy smile. “And he may give them to ’em and he may not. And if he’s gonna do a deal, he loves dealing – whether it’s the bikers or the lowbrows on the street corner. There’s something Mick gets off to about dealing with those people – and he knows how to deal with ’em.” The character is tailored to his own strengths, particularly the sense of play the actor brings with him these days. Sahara director Breck Eisner once told me that McConaughey has a quality that makes you want to follow him along on whatever adventure he’s having, and this is very much that kind of movie. “I think I consistently portray some form of humanity in all my characters that makes people go, ‘Ah, okay, even when this guy’s scammin’ and hagglin’ and gettin’ away with stuff, I’m on his side, you know? I root for this guy.’ Even if I’m playing a heartless bastard, you’re gonna feel some pulse behind my chest.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com
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WHEN WE LEAVE (Feo Aladag). 119 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (March 18) at
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Limitless potential The Hangover’s Bradley Cooper feels the buzz in his first lead By GLENN SUMI LIMITLESS directed by Neil Burger, written by Leslie Dixon, with Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Robert De Niro. An Alliance release. 105 minutes. Opens Friday (March 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 74. bradley cooper doesn’t hesitate when I ask if he’d take the clear little pill from his new movie, Limitless, a drug that makes you super-smart. “Oh, yes,” he says, laughing. “Even without knowing the side effects?” “Knowing what it could unlock, I’d be wary of anybody who said they wouldn’t.” Not that things aren’t already happening at the speed of light for the actor, especially after his breakthrough performance in 2009’s massive comedy hit, The Hangover. But after the ensemble actioner The A-Team, feel-good schmaltzfest Valentine’s Day and All About Steve, a Sandra Bullock rom-com that critics didn’t love, Limitless marks the first film in which the blue-eyed actor plays the bona fide lead. Plus, he served as executive producer. A lot’s at stake. “It’s funny, but I didn’t feel any pressure filming it,” he says from England, where he’s promoting the film, “and I didn’t feel any pressure in post-production or executive producing, because it was so much fun. But I do feel it now. I really would love it to do well.” Leslie Dixon’s script, based on Alan Glynn’s 2001 novel, had been kicking around Hollywood for a while. Heath Ledger was attached to it at one point, then Shia LaBeouf was set to star in it but got injured. That opened it up to Cooper. “I loved everything about it,” he says. “My character, Eddie, the tone, the movement, the story.” He doesn’t see the film as a metaphor for addiction (I’ll take just one more pill and then stop), but rather
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as a look at power. “To me, it’s about the question ‘What am I going to do with this power I have that has opened up my brain? Holy shit! What am I going to do?’ It’s about the use and abuse of power and the price of getting it in a way that perhaps is not earned traditionally – which is something that comes out in that great speech that Bob has.” “Bob,” in this case, is Robert De Niro, who plays a business tycoon who finds out about Eddie after the pills make him a stock market savant. Was that… intimidating? “Not really, because I had a history with Robert De Niro,” Cooper jokes. “He obviously wasn’t aware of it, but I’d grown up with him, watching his movies. He was the primary reason why I wanted to become an actor.” Two of the high points of his life,
he says, came when De Niro answered a question of his at an appearance in college, and then when he got 15 minutes with the legend at an audition for Everybody’s Fine. “When I reminded him afterwards that I’d auditioned,” he laughs, “he had no memory of it.” Now they’re discussing future collaborations. In a few weeks, The Hangover sequel opens. Where’s Cooper’s character now? “He was really itching to get to Vegas last time. He couldn’t wait to get away from his family. This time he’s willing to go to Bangkok, but I think he’s settled down a little bit more. “He’s in a good place,” says Cooper, in a statement that could easily apply to himself. 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com
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Anyone can make a movie about a woman suffering under the restrictions of a fundamentalist mentality; the trick is making one that doesn’t fall back on stereotypes and simplistic finger-wagging. In her directorial debut, When We Leave, the German actor Feo Aladag neatly avoids those traps and comes up with a tense drama about people, rather than character sketches. The movie’s universe of cloistered women and controlling men living within today’s Germany feels distressingly credible. The terrific Sibel Kekilli (Head-On) stars as Umay, a German-born Muslim who abandons her abusive husband in Turkey and takes their son (Nizam Schiller) back home to her family – only to find they think she’s dishonoured them by fleeing her marriage and aren’t interested in hearing her side of things. Depicting Umay’s oppressive surroundings in long, largely silent sequences, Aladag creates a suffocating atmosphere that gives the story’s grim trajectory – signalled in the very first scene – a terrible inevitability. When We Leave uses dread powerfully, letting us watch impotently alongside Umay as her relatives fall into a feedback loop of indignant self-justification. Sibel Kekilli flees an abusive marriage Manipulative? Absolutely. But awfully NORMAN WILNER effective. in stunning When We Leave.
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Don’t go to A Screaming Man expecting histrionics. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s tale of status and self-perception in the African nation of Chad is measured and calm – the better to let us discover its heavy heart. In the city of N’Djamena, 50-something husband and father Adam (Youssouf Djaoro) works as a pool attendant at a ritzy tourist hotel, enjoying his job and the camaraderie with his co-workers. But the country is in the throes of civil war, and the hotel is struggling; there’s a wave of layoffs, and Adam is demoted to working the parking gate. An associate offers him a way to reverse his career spiral, but the remedy carries a terrible price. The plot – which can be interpreted as an allegory of Chad’s struggle to define itself as a country in the post-colonial age – is largely relegated to the background, as is the bloody power struggle between the rebels and the military. Haroun focuses almost exclusively on Adam as he wanders the increasingly chaotic streets of his city weighing the cost of his choice, forcing us to consider it with him. It’s a grim, powerful study of a nation in convulsion – and a man whose lost NORMAN WILNER perspective may end up robbing him of his soul as well.
LIMITLESS (Neil Burger) Rating: NNN Youssouf Djaoro (right) and Djénéba Limitless takes an intriguing “What would you do?” sci-fi premise and zigKoné weigh their options in A Screaming Man. zags to some pretty unexpected places. Bradley Cooper stars as Eddie, a shabby wannabe writer who chances upon a trial drug that lets him use 100 per cent of his brain’s capacity. Within hours of taking his first pill, he’s polishing off his manuscript, and after a few days on the drug (which also helps him become a snappier dresser), he’s making big money on the stock market and attracting mogul Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro) and a host of less savoury characters who want some of what he’s on. Director Neil Burger has great fun visualizing the effects of the drug: colours become supersaturated, the camera zooms up and down its Manhattan locations with the speed of neurons. And although the film lurches, sometimes awkwardly, from comedy to thriller to romance (Abbie Cornish plays Eddie’s ex-girlfriend), with nary a thought to the drug’s sinister implications, Cooper holds his own with charisma, charm and (of GS course) natural intelligence. Cooper and Cornish get close in Limitless.
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The opening scene of Paul is set at San Diego’s Comic-Con, with your characters walking among thousands of conventioneers. It’s a zoo – were you actually able to shoot there? Nick Frost: We tried, [but] to use the fire marshal of San Diego’s exact
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Frost: Nah, we wanted it to be seam less; we didn’t want people to think, “Oh, there, it’s a puppet.” We were in terested in seeing the most amazing CGI character in a gas station in Wyo ming, you know? Simon Pegg: We used to say, “Ima gine seeing him sitting there scratch ing his nose.” You have this amazing effect, but all he’s doing is lying on the sofa watching TV. Paul celebrates sci-fi fandom by referencing virtually every piece of it from the last 35 years. Pegg: We’ve grown up at a really fer tile time in popular culture, and so we often go there for our metaphors and our similes. “It was like going into the cantina in Star Wars, and at the end it was just like Close Encounters!” That’s Graeme and Clive telling the story of their adventure: big visual metaphors
taken from pop culture. Speaking of Close Encounters, the two of you are actually working with Steven Spielberg now, playing Thompson and Thomson in his upcoming Tintin movie. Frost: When Paul first comes out of the darkness and Clive kinda laughs and hits the floor, that was our reac tion to meeting Steven for the first time, essentially. Pegg: I think Paul is like a reflection of that whole experience, to be honest. We’ve travelled to this fabled land and met these incredible figures who’ve turned out to be just regular guys. The experience that Graeme and Clive have in meeting the very pinnacle of their ambitions and dreams, and him just turning out to be a normal bloke – you know, that’s very much what’s hap NORMAN WILNER pened to us.
This latest adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel about the eponymous orphanturnedgoverness occasionally gets bogged down by clunky dialogue, but director Cary Fukunaga knows how to lay on the atmosphere and has found a superb actor for the lead. Mia Wasikowska, who looked lost amidst Tim Burton’s fussy art direction in Alice In Wonderland, appears more at home as the plain but passionate young woman who falls under the spell of her gruff employer, Mr. Roches ter (Michael Fassbender), not knowing he’s got some secrets locked up in the attic. Moira Buffini’s cleverly structured script begins at Jane’s lowest point and then flashes back to her terrible child hood in scenes that are marred by Simon McBurney’s and Sally Hawkins’s caricature baddies. Rochester and Jane share some smouldering chemistry, but, unfortunately, their dialogue occasionally feels wooden. And Fassbender’s chiselled GQhand some looks are all wrong for the role. The rest of the cast works well, with Jamie Bell exuding a lowburning flame as Jane’s brotherly saviour, St. John, and Judi Dench adding layers of nuance to her kindly maid, Mrs. Fair fax. Apart from Wasikowska, though, the biggest star is Adriano Goldman, whose cinematography captures the look and feel of each of the settings, especially Rochester’s imposing home, with its creepy, creaking staircases and candlelit scenes worthy of a La Tour GLENN SUMI canvas.
review PAUL (Greg Mottola) Rating: NNN While not a breakthrough on the level of Shaun Of The Dead or Hot Fuzz, writer/stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Paul features an appealingly oddball premise. An alien-encounter comedy for a generation raised on Star Trek and The X-Files, Paul finds Pegg and Frost celebrating their inner geeks as Graeme and Clive, a pair of English sci-fi nerds who stumble across an actual ET on a road trip through America’s most famous alien encounter sites. It’s up to them to help their new friend get home before the government can recapture him, which would be much easier if the good-time alien (voiced by Seth Rogen) didn’t keep insisting they stop for beer and weed. Greg Mottola is a decent enough director, but he doesn’t have the same innate facility with pop texts as Edgar Wright, who set an awfully high bar with Pegg and Frost’s earlier features. Paul never becomes more than the sum of its references. Still, watching the pair goof around with a CG alien is pleasantly charming, and the supporting cast – Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman, Bill Hader and Joe Lo Truglio – is solid. Even if Paul amounts to nothing more than a good time, it’s still a NW good time, right?
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The BuTcher, The chef anD The sWorDsman (Wuershan). 95 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (March 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 74. Rating: nn
The Butcher, The Chef And The Swordsman is so garish and overcooked, it’s impossible to digest – unless, of course, you’re in the hooting and hollering environment of TIFF’s Midnight Madness, where this movie premiered last year. The antic tongue-in-cheek take on Chinese mythology intertwines the tales of a piggish-looking butcher who lusts after a high-priced call girl, a chef out to avenge the death of his family, and the power-hungry swordsman
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Kill this pic Kill The irishman (Jonathan Hensleigh). 105 minutes. Opens Friday (March 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 74. Rating: n A movie that includes Val Kilmer, Vincent D’Onofrio and Christopher Walken shouldn’t be dull, but somehow Kill The Irishman manages it. Parton me: Julia Stone sets off to find her mom.
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who got the whole ball rolling when he sought to obtain the finest black iron blade in Asia. All three are linked by a big, dirty cleaver that looks like something left behind by Jason from the Friday The 13th series. Amidst all this you get a brothel full of rapping courtesans, a Jabba the Hutlike eunuch and countless animal fatalities. You may find yourself amused by the sheer nuttiness on display, but that’s only because your senses have been butchered by commercial director Wuershan’s tactics. Making his feature debut, Wuershan goes manic with colour filters and choppy, sloppy editing, as if to disguise the fact that the story has little else going for it. His movie throws everything but the kitchen sink at the screen, just hoping some of it will stick. raDheYan simonPillai
Jonathan Hensleigh’s tepid crime drama tells the true story of Danny Greene, a burly dockworker who slapped his way through the Cleveland underworld in the 70s. Played by Ray Stevenson, the glowering star of Punisher: War Zone, Greene is presented as the Irish equivalent of Ray Liotta’s Italian stooge in GoodFellas – except that Greene actually manages to amass a small amount of power, which puts him on the hit list of every rival organization in town. So people keep trying to blow him up and he keeps surviving. Hensleigh does nothing to bring his utterly clichéd tale to life, either visually or emotionally. Greene’s a blustering jerk, his associates are onedimensional gangsters and goons, and Kilmer, D’Onofrio and Walken don’t get nearly enough screen time. Everything this movie does, season two of The Wire did so much better. norman Wilner
The feature debut of Montreal writer/director Tara Johns tells the story of Elizabeth (Julia Stone), an 11-year-old in 1976 Manitoba who discovers she’s adopted and concludes – through parsing song lyrics – that Dolly Parton is her birth mother. When Elizabeth takes off on her bicycle to meet Dolly at a concert in Minneapolis, her adoptive mother (Macha Grenon) goes chasing after her and – wouldn’t know you it? – they both learn a little something along the way. The actors are appealing and the music is great, but Johns pads the slender story out to feature length with distracting subplots about the changing cultural landscape and a wince-inducing interlude in which a kindly short-order cook helps Elizabeth find her spirit animal. This would have been much stronger at a third the norman Wilner length.
Kim Ji-woon makes some weird-ass movies, and he never makes the same one twice. His filmography includes the unsettling familial horror of A Tale Of Two Sisters and the manic Manchurian actioner The Good, The Bad, The Weird, and now he’s embraced the gore-soaked serial-killer genre. I Saw The Devil pits Korean secretservice agent Soo-hyeon (Lee Byunghun) against Kyung-chul (Choi Minsik), the dull-eyed monster who butchered Soo-hyeon’s fiancée. This is calculating, precise revenge; our hero corrals Kyung-chul, equips him with a GPS tracker and proceeds to shadow him through suburban Seoul in an infernal game of catch, mutilate and release. The first two-thirds of the movie play as jet-black comedy, as if David Fincher had dedicated himself to remaking that great Warner Bros. cartoon about the sheepdog and the coyote. (“Morning, Sam.” “Morning, Ralph.” “Time to bleed.”) But it turns out both sadism and close-ups of spurting head wounds are subject to the law of diminishing returns, especially when the only message behind them is that old saw about how fighting monsters can turn a hero into a monster himself – particularly when he resorts to using an actual saw. norman Wilner
Lee Byung-hun keeps his eye on the Devil.
Amazon Falls, starring Anna Mae Routledge (left) and April Telek, opened the Female Eye Film Fest recently and begins a run this week at the Rainbow Market Square. See review at now.uz/f32lch.
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(Mike Leigh) is a melancholic and affectionate film about a happy couple in their twilight years who routinely have less fortunate friends and family over for dinner, tea and occasionally a lot of wine. During these naturalistic and rudimentary proceedings, the film observes the minor discomforts, awkwardness and even modern manifestations of class consciousness that threaten the couple’s strictly sustained pleasantness. 130 min. NNNN (RS) Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant
BARNEY’S VERSION (Richard J. Lewis) is a radically simplified adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s final novel, looking back at the life and loves of a deteriorating Montreal television producer (Paul Giamatti). Simultaneously ambitious and pedestrian. 132 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity
BATTLE LOS ANGELES (Jonathan Liebesman) opens in the middle of the action, Nolfi) is a nimble, genre-shifting before disappointingly rolling back the hybrid of political drama, conspiracy thrillclock so we can spend 20 minutes watcher and romantic comedy. Writer/director ing the characters lay out their prefab Nolfi’s remarkable debut stars Matt baggage before the aliens arrive. Wouldn’t Damon as a New York senatorial candiit be great if a movie like this just hit the date who meets the girl of his dreams ground running? But then, this is an alien(Emily Blunt) only to learn a mysterious invasion blockbuster designed for people team of suits led by John Slattery and who wondered why Steven Spielberg’s Anthony Mackie is bent War Of The Worlds was on keeping him from all flight and no fight. ever seeing her again. Screenwriter Christopher EXPANDED REVIEWS It’s exactly what we Bertolini borrows his nowtoronto.com need after this miserstructure from another able winter: a smart, Spielberg movie, Saving resourceful picture that Private Ryan, following a single platoon of demonstrates that even the most ridicusoldiers on a rescue mission through lous premise can be made to work if you enemy territory – though Spielberg’s film get the tone right. 106 min. NNNN (NW) was a commentary on war-movie clichés, 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliand Battle Los Angeles is content to reseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park cycle them, rounding up a generic crew of 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, grunts and dumping them into the CG Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Marmayhem. After that, it’s all forward momentum, except when it pauses to let ket Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Aaron Eckhart’s world-weary staff Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity sergeant deliver a generic motivational Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkspeech. Simultaneously satisfying and dale, Varsity superficial. 116 min. NNN (NW) AMAZON FALLS (Katrin Bowen) has an ama- 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliteurish feel, but it aptly reflects its theme: seum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, life in the schlock-movie biz. Jana (April Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Telek) used to be a B-movie star in a series Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, of Amazon flicks, but she’s getting old, and Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow that’s not a good thing in Hollywood. Her Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, RainDJ boyfriend is a druggie leech, she’s workbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, Silvering in a sleazy club where she gets big tips City Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity for doing who knows what, and she’s conYorkdale, Varsity stantly fantasizing that the next audition will make her an indie star. Telek gives a BEASTLY (Daniel Barnz) is a miscalculated performance that manages to be both overmodern adaptation of that fairy tale the-top and believable, but the key to Amaabout a beautiful girl and a vain monster, zon Falls is its commentary on the desperaobviously meant to cash in on the craze tion of women seeking fame in all the for fantasy films about hormonal teens, wrong places. 82 min. NNN (SGC) started by a certain chick-lit vampire serOpens Mar 18 at Carlton Cinema. ies. But Beastly simply shows how Twilight THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (George
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(Steven Soderbergh) resurrects beloved actor and monologist Spalding Gray, who ended his life in 2004, through archival recordings of live performances. Soderbergh, who directed Gray in King Of The Hill and Gray’s Anatomy, assembles a kind of summary performance, punctuated by the odd clip from a TV interview or home video to place a story in context. Gray’s material remains as funny, honest and joyous as it ever was, though of course some of the higher points are undercut by our melancholy knowledge of his death. But it’s lovely to have him back, if only for a little while. 89 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox
got it right. As Kyle, hexed with scar-tissue and some nifty tats, and Lindy, the idealistic girl he’s sweet on, Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens can’t conjure the sexual intensity of Edward and Bella. It doesn’t help that they have to choke on clunky dialogue about the “death of romance” and an unsubtle screenplay that reeks of laziness. The only person who comes out of this mess looking good is Mary-Kate Olsen, who clearly has some fun with her goth-flavoured witch. The rest of the movie is just cursed. 97 min. N (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy
(John Whitesell) is a witless sequel that has Martin Lawrence reprising his role as FBI agent Malcolm, who along with his stepson hides out in drag at an arts school for girls. It’s Some Like it Hot with Lawrence and Jackson finding ways to make the cross-dressing antics as monotonous as possible. Some Glee-style musical numbers unfortunately feature no Glee-calibre musicians. 108 min. N (RS) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Interchange 30, Rainbow Woodbine
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(Alejandro González Iñárritu) tracks small-time criminal and single father Uxbal (Oscar-nominated Javier Bardem), who’s just beein informed that he’s dying. Super-intense, it’s not for everyone, just those who want to experience a terrific filmmaker and superb performer at the height of their powers. Subtitled. 147 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity
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(Darren Aronofsky) is a deliriously operatic tale of a ballerina (Natalie Portman) who starts to lose her mind when she wins the role of the Swan Queen in a star-making production of Swan Lake at Lincoln Center. It’s a rich, weird experience – and a little over the top, which is the only way to make a movie this ambitious and impassioned. 110 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Cumberland 4, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
BLUE VALENTINE (Derek Cianfrance) charts the beginning and end of a marriage in heartbreaking but overly schematic detail. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams deliver superb, natural performances as the endearing yet rough-around-the-edges couple who long ago seemed perfect for each other but can now barely carry on a conversation without breaking a few things. 120 min. NNN (RS) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Regent Theatre
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CEDAR RAPIDS (Miguel Arteta) features Ed Helms panicking an awful lot as a smalltown insurance salesman who travels to Iowa for a convention and finds himself confronted with all the writhing debauchery of the big city. But the sales-convention-as-bacchanal thing was summed up in a few brief scenes in Up In The Air, and the rest of the office details have been covered at length by Helms himself on The Office. 86 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (Michael Apted)
finds the two youngest Pevensie siblings (Skandar Keynes and Georgie Henley) whisked – along with their obnoxious cousin (Will Poulter) – to the oceans of Narnia, joining King Caspian (Ben Barnes) in a quest to find some missing lords and restore balance to his magical land. That is, until the movie drops all pretence of entertainment and turns into Walden Media’s creepiest proselytization yet. 112 min. NN (NW) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk
THE COMPANY MEN (John Wells) wastes
Oscar winners Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones, who star in a timely pic about corporate greed and recessionary downsizing. Writer and first-time filmmaker Wells oversells his unoriginal message about CEOs being bad and common workers being saintly. 115 min. NN (GS) Kennedy Commons 20
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The Dilemma (Ron Howard) marks the
latest step in Howard’s attempt to recapture his past glory as a populist filmmaker. Vince Vaughn plays a Chicago hustler who finds out that the wife (Winona Ryder) of his best friend and business partner (Kevin James) is having an affair and twists himself into knots trying to decide whether to spill the beans. There is exactly one laugh. 111 min. N (NW) Interchange 30
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everything that’s good about 1970s grindhouse movies – sun, sweat, muscle cars, sinister cultists, an undercurrent of irreverent wit, unapologetic servings of sex and violence – and distills it into a Nicolas Cage chase movie. In 3-D and everything! Cage has a great deal of fun tearing up the American South to rescue a baby from apocalyptic cultists, with another pursuer known only as the Accountant (William Fichtner) on his own tail. Amber Heard steals the picture as an embittered diner worker swept up in Cage’s mission. Seriously, why isn’t she a proper movie star yet? 104 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale
Due DaTe (Todd Phillips) is basically just
an update of Planes, Trains & Automobiles, with control freak Robert Downey Jr. and clueless chaos-bringer Zach Galifianakis racing from Atlanta to L.A. Downey gives a great performance, but the emotional depth winds up pushing against the broader nature of the increasingly cartoonish plot. 95 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30
The eagle (Kevin Macdonald) plays like unintentional softcore gay porn. Marcus (Channing Tatum) is a 140 AD Roman soldier who, with his British slave Esca (Jamie Bell), travels north of Hadrian’s Wall to retrieve his legion’s emblem, reportedly lost by his father years before. There, the tables are turned and Marcus is suddenly at the mercy of Esca. It’s not until the final act that director Macdonald delivers the kind of adventure demanded by the genre. He’s not helped by Tatum, who mumbles his lines when he’s not squinting his baby blues at the horizon. 114 min. NN (GS) Interchange 30 The FighTer (David O. Russell) is the story of working-class Massachusetts boxer Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg, who toils in the shadow of his older brother Dicky (Christian Bale), a former fighter who’s since spiralled into crack addiction. It’s is an underdog story that plays out just like Rocky, only in this version Adrian has an outgoing personality and Paulie is on the pipe. 115 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cumberland 4, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre
FuNkyTowN (Daniel Roby) has a bloated
narrative, but it spectacularly evokes the era when the Parti Quebecois came to power, disco dominated the dance scene and AIDS hadn’t yet reared its head. Bastien (Patrick Huard) is king of the scene, hosting radio’s most popular disco show as well as huge TV hit Disco Dance Party. There’s also gay TV co-host Jonathan, closeted disco dancer Tino and not-so-supermodel Adriana. They all gather at the Montreal club Starlight, bankrolled by Gilles and run by the son he constantly ridicules. Screenwriter Steve Galluccio (Mambo Italiano) has way too much going on here,
and the moralism about drug use is a bit much. But when Gilles comments that the PQ’s going to fuck up his business or washed-up disco singer Mimi discovers a punk all-girl band, you can appreciate how spectacularly Funkytown captures the moment. Subtitled. 132 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema
gNomeo aND JulieT (Kelly Asbury)
crosses Shakespeare with Toy Story to transpose the Bard’s timeless tale of young love to the back gardens of adjoining British homes. The animation is bright and inventive, but you do get the sense that someone has tried to Shrek up the script, offsetting the clever nods to Shakespeare with random pop culture references. 84 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
The greeN horNeT (Michel Gondry) finds Gondry and writer/star Seth Rogen collaborating on a big-budget update of a char-
acter best known from a 1960s TV series. The opening sequence belongs in a far sharper picture, and the film’s climax is built around a novel, thoroughly Gondryesque idea – though it’s preceded by one of the sloppiest car chases in memory, made even worse by the added darkness imposed by the 3-D conversion process. 118 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24
hall Pass (Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly)
finds the makers of Dumb & Dumber and There’s Something About Mary trying to reclaim the territory they ceded to Judd Apatow in the last decade with a midlifecrisis comedy about two dorky Providence husbands (Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis) given a week off of marriage. The Farrellys are attempting to court a slightly more mature audience, but they haven’t grown up themselves. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(David Yates) is nearly two and a half hours long, doesn’t have an ending and introduces characters
and situations that won’t pay off until the second half reaches theatres next summer – and none of that matters. This is the most satisfying and confident Harry Potter movie yet. 146 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30
i am Number Four (D.J. Caruso) is a step
backwards for Disturbia and Eagle Eye director Caruso, whose latest film feels like a merely adequate sci-fi series pilot. Alex Pettyfer plays a humanoid alien hiding out in a midwestern high school to escape detection from another set of aliens. Caruso cleverly uses technology to advance the plot, but the performances are uneven and the special effects underwhelming. 110 min. NN (GS) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale
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(Sylvain Chomet) finds the creator of The Triplets Of Belleville turning an unproduced script by Jacques Tati into a marvellously dry, rewardingly subtle comedy about an aging French stage magician who befriends a Scottish village girl and takes her with him
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(Denis Villeneuve) successfully adapts Wajdi Mouawad’s play Scorched, a multi-layered mystery set both in Canada and somewhere in the Middle East. Villeneuve’s control over the ambitious material, André Turpin’s vivid cinematography, and committed performances make this modern-day Greek tragedy feel timeless. Subtitled. 130 min. NNNN (GS) Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity
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(Charles Ferguson) takes a very complex subject – the story of the global economic collapse triggered by the 2008 failure of several American financial institutions – and explains it in terms so easily understood that if you’re not furious by the time you leave the theatre, you were probably staring at the floor with your fingers in your ears. Which a number of U.S. economists, lobbyists and politicians would appreciate. 108 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Mt Pleasant
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See review, page 72. NNN (NW) Opens Mar 18 at Scotiabank Theatre.
JaNe eyre (Cary Fukunaga) 118 min. See review, page 70. NNN (GS) Opens Mar 18 at Varsity. JusT go wiTh iT (Dennis Dugan) finds Adam Sandler turning his lazy attentions to a remake of the 1969 farce Cactus Flower, playing a plastic surgeon who recruits his assistant (Jennifer Aniston) and her children as his fake family when his latest fling (Brooklyn Decker) proves to be more than a one-night stand. It’s a sloppy, unnecessarily cruel series of blandly photographed arguments and misunderstandings, with one dumb idea clunking artlessly against the next. 116 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale JusTiN bieber: Never say Never (Jon M.
Chu) mixes exciting 3-D concert footage with the story behind the titular 16-yearold Stratford, Ontario, native’s meteoric rise. Justin Bieber was discovered on YouTube and maintains his loyal fan base through Twitter, making him a remarkable example of a celebrity born out of the social networking age. You don’t have to be a lovesick tween to get in tune with this doc. 105 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24
The kiDs are all righT (Lisa Cholodenko) is a feeble comedy about lesbian couple Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore), whose two children want to meet their sperm donor. Enter Paul (Mark Ruffalo), who’s attracted to Jules. The plot is ridiculous. Bening, however, is terrific. 104 min. NN (SGC) Carlton Cinema kill The irishmaN (Jonathan Hensleigh) 105 min. See review, page 72. N (NW) Opens Mar 18 at Yonge & Dundas 24.
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MARS NEEDS MOMS (Simon Wells) is an
oddly affecting if predictable animated film based on the Berkeley Breathed book. After his strict mom (voiced by Joan Cusack) is abducted by aliens, Milo (“acted” by Seth Green but voiced by Seth Dusky) hitches a ride on the same spaceship and lands on the red planet, where he soon meets a 20-something earthling and a rebellious Martian. The trio set out to rescue Milo’s mom, but not before an expositionheavy section where we learn how and why Martians need earthling moms to keep their female-led society going. The film’s look borrows heavily from WALL-E’s junkyard universe and Star Wars’ spaceship corridors, and the rendering of human faces is less creepy than it was in The Polar Express. But the characters’ expressions and voice work are lovely, especially leading up to the film’s climax. And there’s something satisfying about seeing a film that celebrates moms, who’ll likely be lugging their bratty kids to see this en masse during March break. 88 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Simon West) finds Jason Statham squarely in his comfort zone, playing a no-bullshit assassin who helps a hotheaded youngster (Ben Foster) get over his father’s death by taking him on as his apprentice. Director West (Con Air, The General’s Daughter) works at a slower boil than usual, trusting his actors to carry their scenes without anything blowing up in the background. 92 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30
MEGAMIND (Tom McGrath) has an ingenious villain-beats-hero premise, but it’s executed with parts cribbed from Shrek, Despicable Me, The Incredibles and Monsters Vs. Aliens. Will Ferrell is great as the insecure super-genius, and David Cross has fun as his talking-fish sidekick, but they’re trapped in a formula storyline. 96 min. NN (NW) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk
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cast of the Met’s production of the Donizetti opera, starring coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay in the demanding title role. 244 min. Mar 19, 1 pm, at Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: FRANKENSTEIN
(Danny Boyle) is a high-def broadcast from London’s National Theatre of Nick Dear’s stage adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel, directed by Slumdog Millionaire’s Danny Boyle. 150 min. Mar 17, 7 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge.
NO STRINGS ATTACHED (Ivan Reitman) wrangles some very appealing actors (Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher), gives them some potentially entertaining things to do (have sex without commitment) and proceeds to play everything out well beyond the point of exhaustion. For a movie about people who have a great deal of sex, this is awfully frustrating. 110 min. NN (NW) Colossus, Scotiabank Theatre NORA’S WILL (Mariana Chenillo) takes
place almost entirely in the Mexico City apartment of a suicide who’s left behind a
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ñWASTE LAND
(Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim) tracks Brazil’s prime artistic export, Vik Muniz, who collaborates with garbage pickers to create astonishing pieces and changes his subjects’ sense of themselves. Except that they all have to return to work in the landfill. Still, it’s a moving testimony to the power of art. 98 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema
Johnny Depp voices the household lizard hero of Rango, an animated riff on spaghetti westerns.
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ñWHEN WE LEAVE
(Feo Aladag) 119 min. See review, page 68. NNNN
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THE YEAR DOLLY PARTON WAS MY MOM (Tara Johns) 95 min. See review, page 72.
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complete list of instructions for her exhusband (Fernando Luján). Writer/director Chenillo aims for cantankerous dramedy but miscalculates the emotional stakes. Subtitled. 92 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Grande - Yonge
ñOF GODS AND MEN
(Xavier Beauvois) dramatizes, in a subtle and respectful way, the story of Trappist monks who choose not to leave their Algerian monastery as the country tilts toward civil war in 1996, despite the knowledge that the government can no longer protect them. It’s a quiet, implacable film, finding notes of grace in the steady progression toward a dreadful end. Subtitled. 117 min. NNNN (NW) Cumberland 4, TIFF Bell Lightbox
ñ127 HOURS
(Danny Boyle) tells the story of Aron Ralston (James Franco), who spent the eponymous span of time trapped under a boulder in a Utah canyon before hitting on a particularly horrible solution. Franco is terrific as a guy with a powerful will to live. And yes, the climax is exactly as gruelling as you’ve heard. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Regent Theatre
PAUL (Greg Mottola) 102 min. See Q&A
and review, page 70. NNN (NW) Opens Mar 18 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24.
ñRABBIT HOLE
(John Cameron Mitchell) tracks bereaved parents Becca and Howie in a moving meditation on grief. Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart are sensational, as is Dianne Wiest as Kidman’s mother. 91 min. NNNN (SGC) Interchange 30
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snappy and delightful riff on spaghetti westerns masquerading as a family movie. Johnny Depp voices the titular household lizard who gets lost and ends up marshalling a town full of colourful critters desperate for water. Rango bucks current conventions by staying 2-D, yet it’s filled to the brim with exhilarating scenery, texture and dimensions that make you exclaim “wow” – visual feats only Kung Fu Panda and Wall-E have achieved. As a movie made with new technology that innovatively resorts to old-school techniques, Rango pushes the possibilities for animation ahead of 3-D. Take that, James Cameron. 107 min. NNNNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity
Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity
RED RIDING HOOD (Catherine Hardwicke)
is a dopey new version of the folk tale, with Amanda Seyfried as a medieval lass torn between two potential suitors while a werewolf tears through her neighbours. This won’t end Hardwicke’s career, but it should. As a filmmaker, she’s inept on almost every level – she can’t direct actors, she’s bad at pacing, she can’t even establish atmosphere in a tavern scene. 99 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Courtney Park 16, Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale
THE RITE (Mikael Håfström) stars Colin O’Donoghue as an American seminary student of little faith who goes to Rome to study exorcisms under Anthony Hopkins’s Jesuit priest. Director Håfström cloaks the proceedings with a sheen of middlebrow respectability, but the movie takes a good hour to going, there’s not that much at stake for anyone, and the special effects aren’t that special. 112 min. NN (GS) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20 THE ROOMMATE (Christian Christiansen)
rips off Single White Female without any comprehension of what it’s doing. Sara, a perpetually pouty fashionista from Iowa, ends up rooming with Rebecca, a Pasadena sociopath. The movie is a limp thriller that banks its frights on Leighton Meester’s Rebecca, whose strained head tilts and gleaming eyeballs are so overused that they verge on parody. 93 min. N (RS) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20
SANCTUM (Alister Grierson) combines two of executive producer James Cameron’s current interests – underwater exploration and 3-D photography – for an intermittently entertaining adventure about trapped cave divers trying to find their way back to the surface. As a test run for low-light 3-D digital cinema, it’s a little wobbly. As a movie, it’s considerably more so. 109 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24
A SCREAMING MAN (Mahamat-
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Saleh Haroun) 92 min. See review, page 68. NNNN (NW) Opens Mar 17 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
ñTHE SOCIAL NETWORK
(David Fincher) turns the nuts and bolts of the creation of Facebook into a thrilling, rippling comedy of manners about male vanity, social mores and the utter impossibility of transparency in the modern age. It’s tremendously entertaining, an endlessly clever creation myth produced with immense skill and peppered with great one-liners. 122 min. NNNNN (NW)
Interchange 30, Regent Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24
TANGLED (Nathan Greno, Byron
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Howard) is a fleet, fun and splendidly realized digital fantasy designed to look like a Disneyland attraction come to life. The best performance is delivered by the animators of Maximus, a guardsman’s horse clearly modelled on Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive – but funnier, obviously, because he’s a horse. 101 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre
YOGI BEAR (Eric Brevig) won’t be spawning any new interest in the 50-year-old cartoon bear who parts campers from their “pic-a-nic” baskets. The new live-action movie featuring CGI renditions of Yogi and Boo Boo on a mission to save Jellystone has sly winks and tongue-incheck humour that may satisfy adults but are bound to go over a five-year-old’s head. 83 min. NN (RS) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30 3
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THE TOURIST (Florian von Donnersmarck) finds the Oscar-winning director of The Lives Of Others going Hollywood by making a generic studio picture that feels 40 years past its sell-by date. Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp somehow negate one another in the frame, leaving us stuck with paper-thin characters and a movie that has no idea where it’s going or how to get there in an entertaining fashion. 103 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30 TRON: LEGACY (Joseph Kosinski) showcases breathtaking visual designs: neon-lit digital vistas and cool, sexy interiors that look like an Apple commercial directed by Kubrick. Unfortunately, aging hacker Kevin (Jeff Bridges) and his estranged son Sam (Garrett Hedlund) feel very analog. When they aren’t involved in light cycle chases or flinging shiny frisbees around, they deliver the kind of stilted dialogue that belongs in the original TRON. 125 min. NN (RS) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24
ñTRUE GRIT
(Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) is a lot of things, but quaint isn’t one of them. It’s mean as a snake, and has no illusions about the Glorious West. There’s a grave seriousness at the movie’s heart – it’s a story about the harshness of death, and the illusory promise of revenge and redemption. And if Jeff Bridges does end up snatching another Oscar away from Colin Firth this year, no one could possibly hold it against him. 109 min. NNNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cumberland 4, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24
UNKNOWN (Jaume Collet-Serra) is a
ludicrous, paranoid action movie with a decent budget and a sense of its own absurdity. After surviving a Berlin car crash, Liam Neeson’s doctor wakes up to discover someone has appropriated his identity, and must smash his way to the truth. The only weak link is January Jones. Some subtitles. 109 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, Yonge & Dundas 24
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127 HOURS (14A) Thu 4:35 AMAZON FALLS Fri-Wed 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 ANOTHER YEAR (PG) 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:35 BLUE VALENTINE 1:55, 4:30, 6:55, 9:25 CEDAR RAPIDS (14A) Thu 2:00 THE FIGHTER (14A) Fri-Wed 4:05, 9:00 FUNKYTOWN (18A) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Wed 9:20 THE ILLUSIONIST Thu 2:05, 3:50, 7:25, 9:05 Fri-Wed 2:05, 7:25, 9:15 INSIDE JOB (PG) 1:25, 3:55, 7:10 Thu 9:45 THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (18A) Thu 4:15, 6:50 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:15, 7:20, 9:45 NORA’S WILL Thu 1:50, 4:20, 7:15, 9:20 Fri-Wed 3:50 PAUL (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:05 TRUE GRIT (14A) Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:10, 7:15, 9:40 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:05, 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:45, 6:50 WASTE LAND Thu 1:30, 9:00
CUMBERLAND 4 (AA) 159 CUMBERLAND AVE, 416-646-0444 BLACK SWAN (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 OF GODS AND MEN Thu 1:20 4:10 7:00 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 THE YEAR DOLLY PARTON WAS MY MOM Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40
RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I) MARKET SQUARE, 80 FRONT ST E, 416-494-9371
THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) 12:55, 4:05, 6:45, 9:10 Fri-Sat 11:25 late BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) 12:40, 3:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sat 11:45 late THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) 12:35, 2:30, 4:45, 6:50, 9:00 RANGO (PG) 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:35 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:05 Fri-Sat 11:15 late
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THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:00, 3:10, 4:40, 6:30, 7:20, 9:15, 10:10 Fri-Mon, Wed 1:20, 2:30, 4:00, 5:10, 6:40, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 Tue 1:20, 2:30, 4:00, 5:10, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 12:20, 3:20 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 12:00, 1:00, 1:50, 3:00, 4:00, 4:50, 6:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:10, 10:00, 10:45 Fri, MonWed 1:10, 2:00, 3:00, 4:10, 4:40, 6:10, 6:50, 7:30, 9:00, 9:40, 10:20 Sat 1:10, 3:00, 4:10, 6:10, 6:50, 7:30, 9:00, 9:40, 10:20 Sun 1:10, 3:00, 4:10, 4:40, 6:10, 6:50, 7:30, 9:00, 9:40, 10:20 DRIVE ANGRY (18A) Thu 5:30, 8:00, 10:40 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sat 6:30, 9:20 I AM NUMBER FOUR THE IMAX EXPERIENCE 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 I SAW THE DEVIL Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:10, 6:15, 9:50 Wed 12:30, 3:10, 6:15 LIMITLESS (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 1:50, 3:30, 4:30, 6:20, 7:20, 9:10, 10:10 LORD OF THE DANCE 3D (G) Sun 1:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Sat 1:00 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: FRANKENSTEIN Thu 7:00 NO STRINGS ATTACHED (14A) Thu 9:00 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:40, 1:20, 3:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:20, 6:00, 8:50 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Thu 1:40 2:30 4:10 5:00 6:50 7:40 9:30 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:40, 2:20, 4:20, 5:00, 6:45, 7:40, 9:15, 10:00 TANGLED 3D (PG) Thu 12:10, 2:50
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX (I) 350 KING ST W, 416-599-8433
AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE (14A) Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed 5:00, 9:30 Mon 9:30 INCENDIES (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 7:15, 10:00 Sun, Wed 3:15, 7:15, 10:00 OF GODS AND MEN Thu 2:15, 8:15 Fri 2:15, 8:30 Sat-Sun, Tue-Wed 2:45, 8:30 Mon 8:30 A SCREAMING MAN 2:00, 4:15, 6:30 Wed no 4:15 WHEN WE LEAVE (14A) 5:45, 9:00 Sun, Wed 1:00 mat
VARSITY (CE)
55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:00 4:00 6:50 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu 12:10, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 FriSun, Tue-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 7:05, 10:10 Mon 12:20, 3:20, 10:10 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 12:20 3:30 7:10 10:20 FriWed 12:30, 3:30, 7:10, 10:05 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu 1:30, 5:00, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:05 INCENDIES (14A) Thu 12:30 3:50 7:20 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 JANE EYRE (PG) Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:10, 6:30, 9:40 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 FriWed 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:40 3:40 6:30 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00
VIP SCREENINGS
THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:25, 6:15, 9:05 Fri-Wed 12:25, 3:15, 6:25, 9:35 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 1:05 4:05 7:05 9:55 FriWed 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 JANE EYRE (PG) Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:35, 6:15, 9:05 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 12:55 3:45 6:35 9:25 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 RANGO (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:25, 6:55, 9:45
YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (AMC) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323
BEASTLY (PG) Thu 11:15, 12:00, 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 Fri, Mon, Wed 2:30, 4:50, 7:30, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 4:50, 7:30, 9:50 Tue 2:30, 10:05 BLACK SWAN (14A) 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Sat-Sun 11:10 mat THE BUTCHER, THE CHEF AND THE SWORDSMAN 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:45 mat CEDAR RAPIDS (14A) Thu 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:10 Fri 2:25, 4:35, 6:50 Sat 12:05, 2:25, 4:35, 6:50 Sun 12:05, 2:25, 4:35, 6:50, 9:10 Mon-Wed 2:25, 4:35, 6:50, 9:10 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Thu 10:40, 11:30, 12:45, 1:50, 4:05, 6:40, 8:50 Fri-Sun 11:30, 1:50, 4:05, 6:40 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:05, 6:40 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 2:55, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 THE GREEN HORNET 3D (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 11:00, 1:30, 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 9:15, 10:00, 10:30 Fri 11:50, 2:05, 3:30, 4:55, 6:15, 7:45, 9:05, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:50, 12:45, 2:05, 3:30, 4:55, 6:15, 7:45, 9:05, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:05, 3:30, 4:55, 6:15, 7:45, 9:05, 10:30 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER (G) 2:45, 5:15, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:15 mat KILL THE IRISHMAN 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:15 mat THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 1:45, 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:45, 9:40, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:05, 12:45, 1:45, 3:40, 4:40, 6:40, 7:45, 9:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:45, 3:40, 4:40, 6:40, 7:45, 9:40, 10:30 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 10:45 Fri 9:00 Sat 11:00, 1:00 mat, 9:00 Sun 11:00, 1:00 mat MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:30 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Thu, Sat-Sun 11:45 mat MARS NEEDS MOMS AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) ThuSun 11:00, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 MOOZ-LUM Thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Wed 9:00 PAUL (14A) 1:30, 2:15, 3:00, 4:15, 5:00, 5:45, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:30, 10:15 Fri 11:45 mat, 11:00 late Sat 11:00, 11:45, 12:30 mat, 11:00 late Sun 11:00, 11:45, 12:30 mat SANCTUM 3D (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 10:45, 1:25, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 10:05 Fri-Wed 7:50, 10:25 TAXI DRIVER Sat, Tue 8:00 TRON: LEGACY 3D (PG) Thu 1:50 4:30 7:15 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 10:45 mat TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Fri, Mon, Wed 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 11:20, 2:30, 5:15, 10:30 Sun 11:20, 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Tue 2:30, 5:15, 10:30 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 10:50, 1:30, 2:15, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:00, 6:45, 7:30, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15 Fri 10:50, 1:30, 2:10, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:20, 9:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 10:50, 11:45, 1:30, 2:10, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:20, 9:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:30, 2:10, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:20, 9:30, 10:15
Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444
BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Thu-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30 BEASTLY (PG) Fri-Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:00 BIUTIFUL (14A) Thu-Sun 1:20, 4:30, 7:40 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10 BLACK SWAN (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:40 THE FIGHTER (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Sun 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40 FUNKYTOWN (18A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 HALL PASS (14A) 4:40, 7:05 Fri-Sun 2:00 mat, 9:40 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:45 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Sun 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:20
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MT PLEASANT (I)
INCENDIES (14A) Thu 4:15 Fri-Wed 4:20 TANGLED (PG) Thu 12:30 Fri-Sun 10:30 TRUE GRIT (14A) Thu 2:15
ANOTHER YEAR (PG) Fri 6:50 Sat 4:10, 9:25 Sun, Tue-Wed 7:00 INSIDE JOB (PG) Thu, Sat 7:00 Fri 9:25 Sun 4:30
QUEENSWAY (CE)
REGENT THEATRE (I)
THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun 12:30, 1:50, 3:40, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:20 Sat 1:50, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 12:35, 1:50, 3:40, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:20 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 12:20 1:00 3:20 4:00 6:20 7:00 9:20 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:20, 12:55, 3:20, 4:00, 6:20, 7:00, 9:20, 10:00 BEASTLY (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:35, 9:10 Fri-Wed 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 DRIVE ANGRY (18A) Thu 9:35 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu-Sat 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10 Sun 4:45, 7:10 Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:10 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:15, 7:35, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 I AM NUMBER FOUR Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 Sat 7:45, 10:35 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 12:40, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:50 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:35, 6:35, 9:50 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Wed 9:35 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu-Sun 12:25, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25 LIMITLESS (14A) Fri-Mon 1:05, 4:15, 7:35, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:35, 10:30 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:55, 7:15, 10:35 Tue-Wed 3:55, 7:15, 10:35 LORD OF THE DANCE 3D (G) Sun 1:00 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Thu-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Sat 1:00 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: FRANKENSTEIN Thu 7:00 PAUL (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:15, 1:10, 3:25, 4:10, 6:15, 9:00, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:15, 1:10, 3:25, 4:10, 6:15, 6:55, 9:00, 9:40 MonWed 12:40, 1:10, 3:25, 4:10, 6:15, 6:55, 9:00, 9:40 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Thu 1:20 4:20 7:20 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 UNKNOWN (14A) Thu 12:10, 3:05, 6:10, 9:15 Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:15, 6:10, 9:15 Mon-Wed 12:25, 3:15, 6:10, 9:15
675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484
551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884
127 HOURS (14A) Thu 7:00 BLUE VALENTINE Fri-Sat 9:20 Sun, Wed 7:00 THE SOCIAL NETWORK (14A) Fri-Sat, Tue 7:00 Sun 4:30
SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236
THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Fri, Sun 1:45, 4:20, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 1:30, 4:00, 7:40, 10:30 Mon 1:40, 4:20, 7:35, 10:05 Tue 1:45, 4:30, 7:35, 10:05 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 BEASTLY (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Fri, Sun 1:30, 3:40 Wed 1:10, 3:20 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 12:15, 2:25, 5:10 HALL PASS (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:30 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 FriSun 6:30, 9:30 Tue-Wed 6:30, 9:15 LIMITLESS (14A) Fri, Sun 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Tue 7:00, 9:35 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:35 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:30, 6:45, 9:00 Wed 1:05, 3:30, 7:20, 9:40 MARS NEEDS MOMS 3D (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Fri, Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:45, 9:20 Sat 1:00, 3:40, 6:45, 9:20 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Sat 1:00 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: FRANKENSTEIN Thu 7:00 PAUL (14A) Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:40, 7:25, 9:55 Wed 4:40, 7:25, 9:55 RANGO (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Fri, Sun 1:05, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 1:05, 6:55, 9:50 Mon 1:05, 3:50, 6:55, 9:30 Wed 6:55, 9:30 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri, Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 4:50, 7:50, 10:25 Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Wed 9:45
Metro
West End KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939
BARNEY’S VERSION (14A) Fri-Wed 2:00 BIUTIFUL (14A) 7:00 BLACK SWAN (14A) Fri-Wed 12:10 THE FIGHTER (14A) 9:35 THE ILLUSIONIST Thu 11:00
1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424
RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)
WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 BEASTLY (PG) Thu 12:50, 2:55, 5:10, 7:15, 9:40 BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 7:05, 9:35 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Thu 12:45, 2:45, 5:00 JUST GO WITH IT (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:30 LIMITLESS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 9:40 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:35 MARS NEEDS MOMS (PG) 12:45, 2:50, 4:50, 7:10, 9:15 PAUL (14A) Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 7:05, 9:45 RANGO (PG) 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) 1:20, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20
East End BEACH CINEMAS (AA) 1651 QUEEN ST E, 416-699-5971
THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:20 BATTLE LOS ANGELES (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 7:10, 10:00 GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 6:40 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER - DIRECTOR’S FAN CUT 3D (G) Thu 9:00 THE KING’S SPEECH (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 LIMITLESS (14A) 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:40 mat, 4:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Sat 1:00 PAUL (14A) 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:50 mat, 4:40 RANGO (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Fri, Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 1:20, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:30 RED RIDING HOOD (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Fri, Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Sat 3:50, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:00
78
MARCH 17-23 2011 NOW
North York EmpirE ThEaTrEs aT EmprEss Walk (ET) 5095 YoNgE sT, 416-223-9550
Battle los angeles (14A) 1:10, 2:00, 3:50, 4:50, 6:50, 7:50, 9:35, 10:40 Fri-sat 11:59 late Beastly (PG) 2:30, 4:40, 7:10, 9:20 Thu 12:15 mat Fri 12:15 mat, 11:30 late sat 11:30 late the ChroniCles of narnia: the Voyage of the Dawn treaDer (PG) Thu-Fri 1:30, 4:10 DriVe angry (18A) Thu 7:20, 10:00 the fighter (14A) Thu-Fri 7:05, 9:55 sat-Wed 1:35, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 i am numBer four Thu 7:00, 9:40 Fri 7:00, 9:40, 11:55 sat 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40, 11:55 sun-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Justin BieBer: neVer say neVer - DireCtor’s fan Cut 3D (G) Thu 1:40, 4:20 the linColn lawyer (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 mars neeDs moms 3D (PG) 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-sat 11:50 late megaminD (PG) Thu-Fri 12:30, 2:50, 5:10 rango (PG) Thu 12:00, 1:20, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:15, 10:20 Fri 12:00, 1:30, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:15, 10:20, 11:40 sat 1:30, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:15, 10:20, 11:40 sun-Wed 1:30, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:15, 10:20 unknown (14A) Thu-Fri 8:00, 10:45 sat-Wed 2:10, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 yogi Bear (G) Thu-Fri 12:05, 2:10, 4:30
graNdE - YoNgE (CE) 4861 YoNgE sT, 416-590-9974
the aDJustment Bureau (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-sat 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 mon-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Barney’s Version (14A) Thu 12:20 3:20 6:30 9:40 FriWed 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Thu 12:20, 3:20 mat Fri-sat 12:30 mat Biutiful (14A) Thu-Fri, sun 1:50, 5:20, 8:40 sat 8:40 mon-Wed 5:20, 8:40 BlaCk swan (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:35, 10:05 gnomeo anD Juliet (G) 3:50 Fri-sun 1:25 mat gnomeo anD Juliet 3D (G) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:45 hall Pass (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 7:30, 10:15 Fri 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 sat 7:30, 10:15 sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 monWed 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 inCenDies (14A) Thu 9:55 Just go with it (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Fri, sun 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 sat 6:55, 9:55 mon-Wed 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 the king’s sPeeCh (PG) Thu-sat 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:35 mon-Wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:35 limitless (14A) Fri-sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 lorD of the DanCe 3D (G) sun 1:00 the metroPolitan oPera: luCia Di lammermoor sat 1:00 national theatre liVe: frankenstein Thu 7:00 nora’s will 6:20, 9:30 Thu 12:30, 3:30 mat Paul (14A) 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-sun 1:00 mat reD riDing hooD (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 10:05 sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:15, 7:05, 9:45
silvErCiTY FairviEW (CE)
FairviEW mall, 1800 shEppard avE E, 416-644-7746 the aDJustment Bureau (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Battle los angeles (14A) Thu-sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 mon-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 gnomeo anD Juliet (G) Thu 12:10, 2:20 hall Pass (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-sat 10:30 sunWed 10:10 i am numBer four Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Just go with it (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 limitless (14A) Fri-sat 1:15, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 sun 1:15, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 mon-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 the linColn lawyer (14A) Fri-sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:20 sun-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 mars neeDs moms 3D (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-sat 12:00, 2:30, 4:50, 7:05, 9:30 sun 12:00, 2:30, 4:50, 7:05, 9:25 mon-Wed 12:45, 3:20, 6:45, 9:05 the metroPolitan oPera: luCia Di lammermoor sat 1:00 Paul (14A) Fri-sat 12:30, 3:50, 6:40, 9:50 sun 12:30, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15 mon-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15 rango (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 Fri-sat 12:15, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 sun 12:15, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 mon-Wed 12:50, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 reD riDing hooD (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:50 Frisat 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 sun 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:05 mon-Wed 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:25 unknown (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Fri, sun-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:30 sat 7:30
silvErCiTY YorkdalE (CE) 3401 duFFEriN sT, 416-787-4432
the aDJustment Bureau (PG) Thu 1:00 4:00 7:10 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Battle los angeles (14A) Thu, sun-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Beastly (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-sat 2:00, 7:40, 10:15 sun-Wed 2:00, 7:40, 10:10 DriVe angry (18A) Thu 10:15 gnomeo anD Juliet (G) Fri-sun 12:15, 2:45 mon-Wed 1:15, 3:45 gnomeo anD Juliet 3D (G) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 hall Pass (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Wed 6:15, 9:00
i am numBer four Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Just go with it (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:15 Fri-Wed 4:40 limitless (14A) Fri-sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 sun-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 the linColn lawyer (14A) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 mars neeDs moms 3D (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:15 mon-Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:45, 9:15 Paul (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 rango (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:45, 6:30, 9:40 reD riDing hooD (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 mon-Wed 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30
scarborough 401 & morNiNgsidE (CE) 785 milNEr avE, sCarborough, 416-281-2226
the aDJustment Bureau (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:20, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-sat 12:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:15 sun 12:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:05 mon-Wed 5:00, 7:35, 10:00 Battle los angeles (14A) Thu 12:30, 1:20, 3:15, 4:30, 6:20, 7:20, 9:10, 10:00 Fri-sat 12:30, 1:30, 3:15, 4:30, 6:15, 7:20, 9:00, 10:05 sun 12:30, 1:30, 3:15, 4:30, 6:15, 7:20, 9:00, 9:55 mon-Wed 3:45, 4:30, 6:20, 7:20, 9:00, 9:55 Beastly (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:00, 6:30, 8:50 Fri-sun 1:50, 4:20, 6:30, 8:50 mon-Wed 4:20, 6:30, 8:50 gnomeo anD Juliet 3D (G) Thu 12:50, 3:00, 5:00, 7:10 Fri-sun 1:40, 4:00, 6:25 mon-Wed 4:00, 6:25 hall Pass (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:10 Just go with it (PG) Thu 9:00 Justin BieBer: neVer say neVer - DireCtor’s fan Cut 3D (G) Thu 9:20 the king’s sPeeCh (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:30, 6:10 limitless (14A) Fri-sat 1:00, 3:40, 7:00, 9:50 sun 1:00, 3:40, 7:00, 9:35 mon-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 the linColn lawyer (14A) Fri-sat 12:40, 3:30, 7:10, 10:00 sun 12:40, 3:30, 7:10, 9:50 mon-Wed 3:55, 7:10, 9:45 mars neeDs moms 3D (PG) Thu 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 Fri-sun 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:30, 9:40 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 9:40 Paul (14A) Fri-sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 mon-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 rango (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 reD riDing hooD (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 unknown (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Wed 9:10
ColisEum sCarborough (CE) sCarborough ToWN CENTrE, 416-290-5217
the aDJustment Bureau (PG) Thu 12:55, 1:20, 3:45, 4:20, 6:55, 7:20, 9:55, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Battle los angeles (14A) Thu 12:40, 1:00, 1:30, 3:40, 4:00, 4:30, 6:40, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:00, 10:25 Fri, sun 12:40, 1:00, 1:30, 3:40, 4:00, 4:30, 6:40, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:00, 10:30 sat 12:40, 1:00, 3:40, 4:00, 6:40, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:00, 10:30 mon-Wed 12:45, 1:00, 1:30, 3:40, 4:00, 4:30, 6:40, 7:00, 7:35, 9:40, 10:00, 10:30 Big mommas: like father, like son (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:25, 10:25 Fri-sun 12:45, 3:55, 6:30, 9:20 mon-Wed 1:35, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 gnomeo anD Juliet 3D (G) 12:50, 3:20, 6:20, 8:40 hall Pass (14A) 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Just go with it (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:45, 6:55, 9:55 Justin BieBer: neVer say neVer - DireCtor’s fan Cut 3D (G) Thu 12:45, 3:55, 6:30, 9:20 limitless (14A) Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 the linColn lawyer (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 mars neeDs moms (PG) 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:00 mars neeDs moms 3D (PG) Thu-sun 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 mon-Wed 1:10, 3:30, 7:30, 9:45 the metroPolitan oPera: luCia Di lammermoor sat 1:00 national theatre liVe: frankenstein Thu 7:00
EgliNToN ToWN CENTrE (CE) 1901 EgliNToN avE E, 416-752-4494
the aDJustment Bureau (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:30, 9:30 mon-Wed 3:45, 6:35, 9:30 Battle los angeles (14A) Thu 12:00, 1:00, 3:00, 4:10, 6:20, 7:15, 9:10, 10:10 Fri-sun 12:30, 1:20, 3:30, 4:20, 6:20, 7:15, 9:10, 10:20 mon-Wed 3:30, 4:20, 6:20, 7:15, 9:10, 10:20 Beastly (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-sun 1:00, 3:20, 6:15, 9:00 mon-Wed 3:20, 6:30, 9:00 DriVe angry (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 gnomeo anD Juliet (G) Thu 1:10 Fri, sun 1:30 gnomeo anD Juliet 3D (G) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 Fri-sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:00, 7:30 mon-Wed 4:25, 6:45 hall Pass (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:45, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-sun 1:45, 4:10, 7:05, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:15 i am numBer four Thu 12:40, 3:20, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Wed 9:15 Just go with it (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Fri-sun 1:50, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 mon-Wed 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Justin BieBer: neVer say neVer - DireCtor’s fan Cut 3D (G) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-sun 9:55 mon-Wed 9:05 the king’s sPeeCh (PG) Thu 12:20 3:10 6:35 9:40 Fri-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Thu 12:20, 3:10 mat, 6:35 Fri-sat 12:50 mat limitless (14A) 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-sun 1:40 mat the linColn lawyer (14A) 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-sun 12:40 mat lorD of the DanCe 3D (G) sun 1:00 mars neeDs moms 3D (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:50, 5:10, 7:45, 10:05 Fri-sun 12:00, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10, 9:45
the metroPolitan oPera: luCia Di lammermoor sat 1:00 Paul (14A) 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-sun 2:00 mat rango (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:50, 3:30, 4:30, 6:10, 7:20, 9:00, 10:00 Fri-sun 12:20, 1:10, 3:15, 4:15, 6:10, 7:00, 9:50 monWed 3:15, 4:15, 6:15, 7:00, 9:50 reD riDing hooD (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-sun 1:15, 4:00, 6:55, 9:20 mon-Wed 4:00, 6:55, 9:20 unknown (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Fri, sun-Wed 4:05, 7:25, 10:05 sat 7:25, 10:05
kENNEdY CommoNs 20 (amC) kENNEdY rd & 401, 416-335-5323
127 hours (14A) Thu 7:20, 9:40 Barney’s Version (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri, mon-Wed 2:00, 4:55, 7:55 sat-sun 11:00, 2:00, 4:55, 7:55 Beastly (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:25, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-sun 11:50, 2:25, 4:35, 7:05, 9:20 mon-Wed 2:25, 4:35, 7:05, 9:20 BlaCk swan (14A) 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:50 sat-sun 11:30 mat the ButCher, the Chef anD the sworDsman 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-sun 11:35 mat the ComPany men (14A) Thu 2:20 5:05 7:35 10:05 FriWed 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 sat-sun 11:20 mat DriVe angry (18A) Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 the fighter (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Fri, monWed 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 sat-sun 11:05, 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 the green hornet (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 i am numBer four Thu-Fri 11:30, 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 sat-sun 11:25, 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 mon-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 inCenDies (14A) Thu-sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 mon-Wed 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 the king’s sPeeCh (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 Fri, mon-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 sat-sun 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Paul (14A) 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:25 Fri 11:45, 1:30 mat sat-sun 11:00, 11:45, 1:30 mat rango (PG) Thu 11:30, 1:15, 2:00, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-sun 11:30, 2:05, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 mon-Wed 2:05, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 reD riDing hooD (PG) Thu 11:35, 12:15, 2:10, 2:50, 4:40, 5:25, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30 Fri, sun 11:35, 12:15, 2:10, 2:50, 4:40, 5:25, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 sat 11:35, 12:15, 2:10, 2:50, 4:40, 5:25, 7:15, 9:45, 10:25 mon, Wed 2:10, 2:50, 4:40, 5:25, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 Tue 2:10, 2:50, 4:40, 5:25, 7:15, 9:45, 10:25 the rite (14A) 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 sat-sun 11:40 mat the roommate (PG) Thu 11:45, 2:40, 4:55, 7:50, 10:15 sanCtum (14A) Thu-Fri 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 sat-sun 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 tangleD (PG) Thu 11:45, 2:20, 4:50 Fri-sun 11:45, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 mon-Wed 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 taxi DriVer sat, Tue 8:00 true grit (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Fri-sun 11:40, 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 mon-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 unknown (14A) Thu 2:15 5:00 7:45 10:30 Fri-Wed 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 sat-sun 11:25 mat
GTA Regions mississauga
ColisEum mississauga (CE) squarE oNE, 309 raThburN rd W, 905-275-3456
Battle los angeles (14A) Thu-sat 12:20, 1:10, 3:20, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 sun 12:20, 1:10, 3:20, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10 mon-Wed 12:35, 1:10, 3:20, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10 Beastly (PG) Thu-sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:45, 10:15 sun-Tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:45, 10:05 Wed 4:30, 7:45, 10:05 Big mommas: like father, like son (PG) Thu 3:30, 10:20 DriVe angry (18A) Thu-sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:30 sunWed 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:15 i am numBer four Thu-Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 sat 7:40, 10:25 sun-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 i am numBer four the imax exPerienCe 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Justin BieBer: neVer say neVer - DireCtor’s fan Cut 3D (G) Thu-sun 12:10, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 mon-Wed 12:30, 3:15, 6:00, 9:00 the linColn lawyer (14A) Fri-sun 12:40, 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 mon-Tue 12:45, 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 mars neeDs moms (PG) Thu 12:50 3:40 6:45 9:20 FriWed 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:20 mars neeDs moms 3D (PG) Thu-sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 the metroPolitan oPera: luCia Di lammermoor sat 1:00 national theatre liVe: frankenstein Thu 7:00 rango (PG) 12:30, 1:20, 3:10, 4:00, 6:10, 7:10, 9:10, 9:50 tangleD (PG) Thu 12:40 unknown (14A) Thu 1:00 3:50 6:50 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30
CourTNEY park 16 (amC)
110 CourTNEY park E aT huroNTario, 888-262-4386 the aDJustment Bureau (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:25, 8:30, 11:05 Fri-sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25 mon-Wed 2:50, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25 Battle los angeles (14A) Thu 12:30, 2:05, 3:05, 4:45, 5:40, 7:30, 8:15, 10:20, 11:10 Fri 1:45, 2:20, 4:40, 5:30, 7:25, 8:15, 10:10, 11:05 sat 11:00, 1:45, 2:20, 4:40, 5:30, 7:25, 8:15, 10:10, 11:05 sun 11:00, 1:45, 2:20, 4:40, 5:30, 7:25, 8:15, 10:10 mon-Wed 1:45, 2:20, 4:40, 5:30, 7:25, 8:15, 10:10 Beastly (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:25 Fri-sun 12:45, 2:55, 5:00, 7:05, 9:15 mon-Wed 2:55, 5:00, 7:05, 9:15
DriVe angry (18A) Thu 1:45, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 gnomeo anD Juliet (G) Thu 3:30, 9:05 gnomeo anD Juliet 3D (G) Thu 12:35, 6:15 hall Pass (14A) Thu 2:55, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Fri, monWed 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 sat-sun 11:45, 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 i am numBer four Thu 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:20, 10:55 Fri, mon-Wed 2:35, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 sat-sun 11:45, 2:35, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 Just go with it (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 mon-Wed 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 the king’s sPeeCh (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30 Fri, mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 sat-sun 11:05, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 limitless (14A) 2:40, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 sat-sun 11:40 mat the linColn lawyer (14A) 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:30 satsun 11:10 mat mars neeDs moms 3D (PG) Thu 2:40, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 Fri 1:20, 3:35, 5:45, 8:00, 10:40 sat 11:10, 1:20, 3:35, 5:45, 10:40 sun 11:10, 1:20, 3:35, 5:45, 8:00, 10:40 mon, Wed 1:30, 3:35, 5:45, 8:00, 10:40 Tue 1:30, 3:35, 5:45, 10:40 mars neeDs moms an imax 3D exPerienCe (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:00 Fri, mon-Wed 2:25, 4:55, 7:00, 9:10 sat-sun 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:00, 9:10 Paul (14A) Fri 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 sat 11:50, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 sun 11:50, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 10:50 monWed 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 10:50 rango (PG) Thu 1:10, 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:20, 7:00, 9:10, 9:50 Fri, mon-Wed 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45 sat-sun 11:15, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45 reD riDing hooD (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-sun 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 mon-Wed 2:45, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 taxi DriVer sat, Tue 8:00 unknown (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:45 Fri, monWed 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 10:00 sat-sun 11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 10:00
silvErCiTY mississauga (CE) hWY 5, EasT oF hWY 403, 905-569-3373
Barney’s Version (14A) Thu 12:15, 3:20, 6:15, 9:40 Beastly (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-sun 2:00, 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 BlaCk swan (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Just go with it (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Justin BieBer: neVer say neVer - DireCtor’s fan Cut 3D (G) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 mon-Wed 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 the king’s sPeeCh (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Frisun 12:15, 3:20, 6:15, 9:20 mon-Wed 3:20, 6:15, 9:20 the linColn lawyer (14A) Fri-sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 mars neeDs moms 3D (PG) Thu-sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 mon-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 the metroPolitan oPera: luCia Di lammermoor sat 1:00 Paul (14A) Fri-sun 1:15, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 rango (PG) Thu-Fri, sun 12:40, 1:45, 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:15, 10:05 sat 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 7:20, 9:15, 10:05 mon-Wed 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:15, 9:55 reD riDing hooD (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 mon-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:50
North Colossus (CE) hWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001
the aDJustment Bureau (PG) Thu-Fri, sun-mon 12:45, 1:20, 3:40, 4:20, 6:40, 7:25, 9:30, 10:15 sat 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 7:25, 9:30, 10:15 Tue-Wed 3:55, 4:25, 6:40, 7:10, 9:10, 9:40 Battle los angeles (14A) Thu-sat 12:10, 12:50, 1:30, 3:10, 3:50, 4:30, 6:20, 7:00, 7:40, 9:20, 10:00, 10:40 sunmon 12:10, 12:50, 1:30, 3:10, 3:50, 4:30, 6:20, 7:00, 7:40, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 9:15, 9:45, 10:15 Beastly (PG) Thu 1:25, 3:35, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:15, 9:50 Fri-mon 1:25, 4:10, 7:20, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:35, 9:50 DriVe angry (18A) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 gnomeo anD Juliet (G) Thu 1:00 gnomeo anD Juliet 3D (G) Thu-mon 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 Tue-Wed 3:35, 6:10, 8:20 hall Pass (14A) Thu-mon 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 i am numBer four Thu-mon 1:05, 3:45, 6:55, 9:55 TueWed 4:00, 6:55, 9:35 Justin BieBer: neVer say neVer - DireCtor’s fan Cut 3D (G) Thu-mon 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:35, 9:05 the king’s sPeeCh (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:30, 6:15, 9:10 Frimon 12:40, 3:30, 6:25, 9:10 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 limitless (14A) Fri-mon 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 mars neeDs moms 3D (PG) Thu-Fri, sun-mon 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 9:30 mars neeDs moms an imax 3D exPerienCe (PG) Thumon 12:00, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 Tue-Wed 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 the metroPolitan oPera: luCia Di lammermoor sat 1:00 no strings attaCheD (14A) Thu-mon 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 Paul (14A) Fri-mon 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 rango (PG) Thu-mon 12:30, 1:10, 3:20, 4:00, 6:10, 6:50, 8:50, 9:40 Tue-Wed 3:40, 4:10, 6:20, 6:50, 8:50, 9:20 unknown (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-mon 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:25, 7:25, 10:05
iNTErChaNgE 30 (amC)
30 iNTErChaNgE WaY, hWY 400 & hWY 7, 416-335-5323 127 hours (14A) Thu-Fri 1:50, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 sat-sun
11:15, 1:50, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 mon-Wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 Barney’s Version (14A) Thu-sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 9:55 mon-Wed 3:30, 6:45, 9:55 Big mommas: like father, like son (PG) 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 Fri 2:05 mat sat-sun 11:30, 2:05 mat BlaCk swan (14A) Thu-Fri 1:40, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 sat-sun 11:00, 1:40, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 Blue Valentine Thu-Fri 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 sat-sun 11:10, 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 CeDar raPiDs (14A) Thu-sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:25, 7:40, 10:00 mon-Wed 5:25, 7:40, 10:00 the Dilemma (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:15, 6:25, 9:25 Fri-sun 12:25, 3:35, 6:25, 9:25 mon-Wed 3:35, 6:25, 9:25 Due Date (14A) Thu-Fri 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 sat-sun 11:55, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 the eagle (PG) Thu-sun 12:25, 3:15, 6:25, 9:25 mon-Wed 6:25, 9:25 the fighter (14A) Thu 1:00, 1:45, 3:45, 4:25, 6:30, 7:15, 9:25, 10:10 Fri 1:45, 4:25, 7:15, 10:10 sat-sun 10:55, 1:45, 4:25, 7:15, 10:10 mon-Wed 4:25, 7:15, 10:10 the green hornet 3D (PG) Thu-Fri 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 sat-sun 10:45, 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 mon-Wed 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 harry Potter anD the Deathly hallows – Part 1 (PG) Thu-Fri 2:15, 6:00, 9:45 sat-sun 10:40, 2:15, 6:00, 9:45 mon-Wed 6:00, 9:45 inCenDies (14A) Thu-sun 12:35, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 monWed 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 insiDe JoB (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-sun 1:05, 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 mon-Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 Just go with it (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:20, 3:25, 4:15, 6:25, 7:10, 9:20, 10:05 Fri 12:30, 1:20, 3:40, 4:15, 6:25, 7:10, 9:20, 10:05 sat-sun 10:35, 12:30, 1:20, 3:40, 4:15, 6:25, 7:10, 9:20, 10:05 mon-Wed 3:40, 4:15, 6:25, 7:10, 9:20, 10:05 the linColn lawyer (14A) 3:25, 3:55, 6:15, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00 Fri 1:00 mat sat-sun 11:50, 1:00 mat little foCkers (PG) Thu-Fri 1:55, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 sat-sun 11:20, 1:55, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 the meChaniC Thu-sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 mon-Wed 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 Patiala house (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 raBBit hole (14A) Thu-Fri 1:50, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 sat-sun 11:15, 1:50, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 mon-Wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 reD riDing hooD (PG) Thu-Fri 2:00, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 7:00, 7:45, 9:30, 10:15 sat-sun 11:25, 2:00, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 7:00, 7:45, 9:30, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:30, 5:15, 7:00, 7:45, 9:30, 10:15 the rite (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-sun 12:55, 3:50, 6:55, 9:50 mon-Wed 3:50, 6:55, 9:50 the roommate (PG) Thu-sun 12:05, 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 mon-Wed 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 sanCtum 3D (14A) 7:20, 10:05 Thu 2:55 mat the soCial network (14A) Thu-sun 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:30 mon-Wed 6:30, 9:30 tangleD 3D (PG) Thu-Fri 1:30, 4:00, 6:35, 9:15 sat 10:50, 1:30, 4:00 sun 10:50, 1:30, 4:00, 6:35, 9:15 mon, Wed 4:00, 6:35, 9:15 Tue 4:00 taxi DriVer sat, Tue 8:00 the tourist (PG) Thu-sun 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 monWed 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 tron: legaCy 3D (PG) Thu-sun 12:25, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 mon-Wed 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 yogi Bear 3D (G) Thu 12:45, 5:05 Fri 12:45, 2:55, 5:05 sat-sun 10:30, 12:45, 2:55, 5:05 mon-Wed 5:05
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indie&rep film complete festivals, independent and How to find a listing
Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date.
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All listings are free. Send to: movies@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-3641166 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.
festivals female eye film festival
carlton cinema, 20 carlton (cc); rainbow cinemas market square, 80 front e (rc); warc galery, 401 richmond w (wg). femaleeyefilmfestival.com.
thu 17-mar 20 – Provocative and revelatory short, documentary and feature ñ films as seen through the eyes of women dir-
ectors.$8. Tickets at ticketbreak.com. thu 17 – Canadian Aboriginal Filmmaker program: Remembering Inninimowin (2010) D: Jules Koostachin, Thirst (2009) D: Gail Maurice and short I Am Lake Ontario. Noon (RC). Canadian Shorts & Documentary Program: Kinngait: Riding Light Into The World (2010) D: Annette Mangaard, The Art Of Courage (2010) D: Kate Amesbury, and short films. 2:30 pm (RC). North American Short Documentary Program: In The Shadow Of Buddha (2010) D: Heather Kessinger, Pretend Not To See Me (2009) D: Katherine Knight and short L’Essere Umano Moderno. 4:30 pm (RC). Gala Feature: Amazon Falls (2010) D: Katrin Bowen, and shorts Frühlingserwachen and Gaykeith. 7 pm (CC). fri 18 – Feature Documentary Program: Assume Nothing (2009) D: Kirsty MacDonald. 11 am. Canadian Short & Documentary: Small Currents (2010) D: Carolyn Combs, and The Guests (2010) D: Taghreed Saadeh. 12:15 pm. Short Film & Documentary Program: Broken Art (2010) D: Pepa Albornoz, Out Late (2010) D: Beatrice Alda and Jennifer Brooke, Abandon Me (2010) D: Sayer Frey, and others. 1:30 pm. International Filmmaker Series: The Pond (2010) D: Ashley and Leslie Saunders, Small, Stupid, And Insignificant (2010) D: Valerie Buhagiar and others. 4:30 pm. Canadian Feature: The High Cost Of Living (2010) D: Deborah Chow, and A Lover’s Fragments D: Hayung Jeon. 6:30 pm. Late Night Suspense & Thrillers: Two Cities (2010) D: Nadia Awad, Missing (2009) D: Anna Sikorski and others. 9 pm. North American Shorts & Foreign Feature Documentary: Loving Sophia (2010) D: Ohad Itach, The Game (2010) D: Bonnie Anderson, and short Endless Before Me. 10:45 pm. All above screenings at RC. sat 19 – International Short Film & Feature Documentary: Grandmothers (2011) D: Sarah Moffat, My Slave Sister Myself (2010) D: Gwen Ragsdale and others. Noon. Toronto Filmmaker Series & Canadian Feature Documentary: Atlantic Crossing: A Robot’s Daring Mission (2010) D: Dena Seidel, Second Bodies (2009) D: Sandra Danilovic, and others. 2:30 pm. North American Shorts & Debut Feature: Little Black Dress (2010) D: Deborah Correa, Lady Lily: Adventures In God’s Country (2010) D: Danielle Barbieri, and others. 5 pm. North American Shorts & Debut Feature: Peach Plum Pear (2010) D: Alana Morshead, and others. 7 pm. Late Night Thriller Suspense: In The Woods (2010) D: Vilma Zenelaj and Play Dead D: Vanessa Revard Roman. 9:30 pm. All above screenings at RC. suN 20 – Supernatural Shorts & Feature: Mal’occhio (2010) D: Agata De Santis, Bunky The Vampire Killer (2010) D: Teresa Alfeld and The Valley Of Dawn (2010) D: Adrienne Grierson. 11 am. Experimental & Foreign Feature Documentary: Noise And Resistance
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Confident Cosmonaut soars COSMONAUT
ñ(Susanna Nicchiarelli) Rating: NNNN I’d never heard Susanna Nicchiarelli’s name before I got the screener of Cosmonaut, and now I can’t wait to see what she does next. She’s got a great eye, a vivid sense of character and a terrific instinct for music. With the right breaks, she could become a major talent. Set in Italy in 1963, Cosmonaut follows the uncertain path to womanhood of 15-year-old Luciana (Marianna Raschillà). A lifelong iconoclast – she walked out on her First Communion – Luciana has embraced communism with a ferocity that her mother and weedy stepfather can’t fully understand. Only her older brother (Pietro del Giudice) gets her, though his own obsession with the space race between the Americans and the Russians means he’s often distracted. Luciana has distractions of her (2009) D: Julia Ostertag and Francesca Araiza Andrade, and short Pretty Ballerina. 1 pm. Foreign Short & French Canadian Feature: Trois Temps Après La Mort D’Anna (2010) D: Catherine Martin, and short Bubbles. 3 pm. Tribute screening to actress Cayle Chernin: Not A Fish Story D: Anita Doron, Car Lady & Bike Girl D: Maria Theodorakis, and others. 5 pm. Closing gala: Sis (2010) D: Deborah Haywood, Black Ocean D: Marion Hänsel, and short Paramnesia. 6 pm. All above screenings at RC.
toronto japanese short film festival
innis town hall, u of t, 2 sussex (it); the japan foundation, 131 bloor w (jf). tjsff.com.
thu 17-suN 20 – Short films created by Japanese filmmakers and international filmmakers whose work relates to Japan. $11 (adv $8); 5-pass $35 (adv $30); Thu free. Advance tickets from Queen Video (480 or 412 Queen W), SANKO (730 Queen W). tjsff.ca. thu 17 – Free talk and screening event. Guest speakers include Isamu Hirabayashi. 7 pm (JF). fri 18– Momo Program of films by Isamu Hirabayashi, including A Story Constructed Of 17 Pieces Of Space And 1 Maggot (2007), Textism (2003), Aramaki (2009) and others. 7 pm. Mikan Program, including Jellyfish Boy (2009) D: Shoh Kataoka, Two-Timer (2009) D: Rikiya Imaizumi and others. 8:45 pm. Ringo Program, including Kudan (2008) D: Taku Kimura, Love Mouse (2009) D: Shinsaku Hidaka and others. 10:30 pm. All screenings at IT. sat 19 – Nashi Program: Palm Of The Hand Stories Episodes 1-4. 3:30 pm. Ichigo Program, including Vortex (2005) D: Yoshihiro Ito, The Tale Of The Reaper (2010) D: Takuya Fukui and others. 5:15 pm. Mikan Program. 7 pm. Ringo Program. 8:45 pm. All screenings at IT. suN 20 – Ichigo Program. 3:30 pm. Nashi Program. 5:15 pm. Momo Program. 7 pm. All screenings at IT.
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cinemas bloor cinema
506 bloor w. 416-516-2330. bloorcinema.com
thu 17-Wed 23 – More than 5,000 NFB films available at digital viewing stations. TueWed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. Wed 23 – The Coca-Cola Case (2009) D: Carmen Garcia and German Gutierrez. 4 pm. Free.
ontario place cinesphere 955 lake shore w. 416-314-9900. ontarioplace.com
thu 17-Wed 23 – Closed for renovations till May 2011.
ontario science centre
770 don mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre. ca
Mirianna Raschillà takes off into womanhood in Cosmonaut.
own, particularly an attractive young comrade (Michelangelo Ciminale). But he’s already seeing someone, so she takes up with another boy (Valentino Campitelli) until she can figure out how to trade up. Nicchiarelli guides us through Luciana’s chaotic head with a
heightened colour palette and a confident soundtrack of swaggering Italian pop songs, shifting into brief stylized montages to give the movie a burst of rebellious energy. She’s a natural. Opens Friday (March 18) at the Royal. See Listings, this page.
thu 17 – Heathers (1989) D: Michael Lehmann. 4:30 pm. The Night Of The Hunter (1955) D: Charles Laughton. 7 pm. Rue Morgue Magazine presents Amer (2009) D: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani. 9:30 pm. fri 18 – Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune (2011) D: Kenneth Bowser. 4:30 pm. Blue Valentine (2010) D: Derek Cianfrance. 7 pm. True Grit (2010) D: Joel and Ethan Coen. 9:30 pm. sat 19 – The Big Lebowski (1998) D: Joel Coen. 4:30 pm. Phil Ochs: There But For Fotrune. 7 pm. True Grit. 9:15 pm. suN 20 – Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune. 1:45 pm. Ethiopian film. 4 pm. True Grit. 7 pm. Blue Valentine. 9:15 pm. moN 21 – Nashville (1975) D: Robert Altman. 3:45 pm. True Grit. 7 pm. The Big Lebowski. 9:15 pm. tue 22 – True Grit. 4:30 pm. Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune. 7 pm. Nashville. 9:10 pm. Wed 23 – Lost Highway (1997) D: David Lynch. 4:10 pm. Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune. 7 pm. Network (1976) D: Sidney Lumet. 9:10 pm.
What The Light Did Now (2010) D: Anthony Seck. 7 pm. The JUNO Awards At 40: Music From The Big House (2010) D: Bruce McDonald. 9:45 pm. tue 22 – Scarlet Street. 6:30 pm. The JUNO Awards At 40: Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) D: François Girard. 7 pm. The JUNO Awards At 40: Hard Core Logo (1996) D: Bruce McDonald. 9:45 pm. Wed 23 – The Free Screen: Keeping Trace – On Time And Film program: She Is Away (1976) D: Bruce Elder, Tamalpais (2009) D: Chris Kennedy and others. 7 pm. The JUNO Awards At 40: Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage (2010) D: Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen. 9:45 pm.
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camera bar 1028 queen w. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca
sat 19 – The Perfect Storm (2000) D: Wolfgang Petersen. 3 pm. Free.
cinematheque tiff bell lightbox
reitman square, 350 king w. 416-599-8433. tiff.net.
thu 17 – Sous Le Soleil De Satan (1987) D:
Maurice Pialat. 6:30 pm. fri 18 – Joueuse (2009) D: Caroline Bottaro. 6:30 pm. La Cérémonie (1995) D: Claude Chabrol. 9 pm. sat 19 – Gremlins (1984) D: Joe Dante. 2 pm. Sans Toit Ni Loi (1985) D: Agnès Varda. 6:30 pm. suN 20 – Scarlet Street (1945) D: Fritz Lang. 1 pm. The JUNO Awards At 40: Neil Young: Heart Of Gold (2006) D: Jonathan Demme. 7 pm. The JUNO Awards At 40: This Movie Is Broken (2010) D: Bruce McDonald. 9:45 pm. moN 21 – The JUNO Awards At 40: Look At
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fox theatre
2236 queen e. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca
thu 17 – Tangled (2010) D: Nathan Greno and Byron Howard. 2 pm. Tron: Legacy (2010) D: Joseph Kosinski. 4:15 pm. Another Year (2010) D: Mike Leigh. 6:45 pm. Black Swan (2010) D: Darren Aronofsky. 9:15 pm. fri 18 – Tangled. 2 pm. Tron: Legacy. 4:15 pm. The King’s Speech (2010) D: Tom Hooper. 7 pm. Somewhere (2010) D: Sofia Coppola. 9:30 pm. sat 19-suN 20 – Tangled. 2 pm. The King’s Speech. 4:15 & 7 pm. Somewhere. 9:30 pm. moN 21-tue 22 – The King’s Speech. 6:45 pm. Somewhere. 9:15 pm. Wed 23 – The King’s Speech. 1:30 & 6:45 pm. The Illusionist (2010) D: Sylvain Chomet. 9:15 pm.
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graham spry theatre
cbc museum, cbc broadcast centre, 250 front w, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca
thu 17-Wed 23 – Continuous screenings, Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm. Free.
thu 17-fri 18 – The Suzuki Diaries: Coastal
Canada.
moN 21-Wed 23 – Geologic Journey 2 (Along The African Rift).
national film board 150 john. 416-973-3012. nfb.ca/mediatheque
thu 17 – Legends Of Flight. 10 & 11 am, 2 & 5 pm. Under The Sea. Noon, 3 & 6 pm. IMAX Hubble. 1 & 4 pm. fri 18 – Legends Of Flight. 10 & 11 am, 2, 5 & 9 pm. Under The Sea. Noon, 3, 6 & 8 pm. IMAX Hubble. 1pm. sat 19 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2, 5 & 9 pm. IMAX Hubble. Noon, 3, 6 & 8 pm. Under The Sea. Noon, 3, 6 & 8 pm. suN 20 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2 & 5 pm. IMAX Hubble. 1 & 4 pm. Under The Sea. Noon, 3 & 6 pm. moN 21-tue 22 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm. Wed 23 – Legends Of Flight. 11 am, 2 & 5 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm.
reg hartt’s cineforum 463 bathurst. 416-603-6643.
sat 19 – The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival. 7 pm. suN 20 – The French Line (1954) D: Lloyd Bacon. 3 pm. Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2004). 5 pm. Oz Darkside: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming, accompanied by the soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon album. 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, accompanied by the soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 9 pm.
revue cinema
400 roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca
thu 17 – Yogi Bear (2010) D: Eric Brevig. Noon. Tangled (2010) D: Byron Howard and Nathan Greno. 2 pm. Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader (2010) D: Michael Apted. 4:15 pm. The King’s Speech (2010) D: Tom Hooper. 7 pm. The Illusionist (2010) D: Sylvain Chomet. 9:15 pm. fri 18 – Tangled. Noon. Gulliver’s Travels (2010) D: Rob Letterman. 2 pm. Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader. 4:15 pm. The Illusionist. 7 pm. Somewhere (2010) D: Sofia Coppola. 9 pm. sat 19 – High Park Nature Centre presents The Legend Of Pale Male (2009) D: Frederic Lilien. 1 pm. $5 suggested donation. highparknaturecentre.com. Tangled. 4 pm. The Illusionist. 7 pm. Somewhere. 9 pm. suN 20 – Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader. 2 pm. The Grifters (1990) D: Stephen Frears 4:15 pm. The Illusionist. 7 pm. Somewhere. 9 pm. moN 21 – Somewhere. 1 & 9 pm. The Illusionist. 7 pm. tue 22 – The Grifters. 4 & 9:15 pm.
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the royal
608 college. 416-534-5252. theroyal.to
thu 17 – New Year (2010) D: Philip Borg. 7 pm. The Arbor (2010) D: Clio Barnard. 9:15 pm. fri 18 – Cosmonaut (2009) D: Susanna Nicchiarelli. 7 & 9:15 pm. The Room (2003) D: Tommy Wiseau. 11:30 pm. sat 19 – Cosmonaut. 7 & 9:15 pm. suN 20 – Cosmonaut. 4:30 & 9:15 pm. The Keyhole Sessions present Diary Of A
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dvd reviews Nymphomaniac(2008) D: Christian Molina. 7 pm. $12. MON 21-WED 23 – Cosmonaut. 7 & 9 pm.
ToronTo UndergroUnd Cinema
186 Spadina ave, baSemenT. 647-992-4335, ToronToUndergroUndCinema.Com
THu 17 – TheSecretOfNimh (1982) D: Don Bluth. 9:30 pm. FRi 18 – SaveTheGreenPlanet (2003) D: Joon-Hwan Jang. 7 pm. Repo!TheGenetic Opera (2008) D: Darren Lynn Bousman. 9:30 pm. SAT 19 – Drumatix Six plays a live set of dark and moody electro to a screening of scenes from World War II movies followed by Dark City(1998) D: Alex Proyas. 9 pm. $13.
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oTher filmS THu 17-WED 23 –
The CN Tower presents The UltimateWaveTahiti3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am to 8 pm. 301 Front W. 416-868-6937, cntower.ca.
THu 17-WED 23 – Casa Loma presents The
ellattNewsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a P film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am to 4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. THu 17 – Ryerson University Faculty Of Communication and Design presents discussion with filmmaker Barbara Sternberg and screening of films Once (2007), Transitions (1982), and LikeADreamThatVanishes (2000). 6 pm. Free. Rogers Communication Centre, Eaton Theatre, 80 Gould. 416-9795000 ext 2726. Evergreen Brick Works presents Vanishing OfTheBees (2009) D: George Langworthy and Maryam Henein. 6 pm. Panel discussion to follow. $12. 550 Bayview. ebw.evergreen. ca. FRi 18 – The Loop Collective presents The Lighthouse Series: Stan Brakhage: The Vancouver Island Quartet: AChild’sGardenAnd TheSeriousSea (1991), TheMammalsOf Victoria (1994), TheGodOfDayHadGone DownUponHim (2000), and PanelsForThe WallsOfHeaven(2002). 8 pm. Free. Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Ave (down the lane). loopcollective.com. SAT 19 – Pleasure Dome presents Bind Together, new Toronto films and videos by Keith Cole, Steve Loft, Victoria Cheong, Yi Cui and others. 7 pm. $8, stu $5. Poor Alex, 772-A Dundas W. pdome.org. York South-Weston NDP Riding Association presents a screening of PoorNoMore (2010) D: Bert Deveaux and Suzanne Babin. Panel discussion to follow. 2 pm. Free. York Civic Centre, 2700 Eglinton W, Council Chambers. ndp.ca/district/35105. SuN 20 – Toronto Jewish Film Society presents GreenFields (1937) D: Jacob Ben-Ami and Edgar G Ulmer. 4 & 7:30 pm. $15. Miles Nadal JCC, Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211, mnjcc.org. MON 21 – Early Monthly Segments presents films by Nathaniel Dorsky, including Ariel (1983), Summerwind (1965), AFallTrip Home (1964) and Ingreen (1964). 7:30 pm. $5 sugg donation. Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen W. earlymonthlysegments.org. The Avro presents Film School, a screening of short films and animations created by local talent. 7 pm. Free. 750 Queen E. 416466-3233, theavro.com. TuE 22 – Toronto The Better presents Matices(Perspectives) (2010) D: Aarón Díaz Mendiburo, a documentary on Latino farm labour migrants in Canada. Discussion to follow. 7 pm. Pwyc. OISE, 252 Bloor W, room 5-280. torontothebetter.net. WED 23 – The Hart House Film Festival presents works by up-and-coming student and alumni filmmakers. 7 pm. Free. Hart House Music Room, 7 Hart House. harthouse.ca/ student-engagement/filmfest. The Goethe-Institut and the Justina M Barnicke Gallery present the video Capital D: A Kluge. 7 pm. Free. 100 University, North Tower, 2nd flr. goethe.de/toronto. 3
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Sharktopus (Anchor Bay, 2010) D: 2010) D: Declan O’Brien, w/ Eric Roberts, Sara Malakul Lane. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNN Nothing in the movie equals the glory of its title, but, then, nothing could. In a single word, one you’ve never heard before but understand instantly, it delights, conjuring images of the goofiest B movie ever. That said, Sharktopus rules. Pointy teeth at the front end, nasty tentacles at the other, and nothing in between but rich, cheesy goodness. A weaponized genetic experiment escapes its corporate handlers to cruise the scenic Mexican coast and chow down on bikinied vacationers. The CEO’s biologist daughter and a mercenary oceanographer take off in hot pursuit. So do an aggressive reporter, her long-suffering cameraman and a drunk. None of it makes a lick of sense, and nobody cares except producer Roger Corman, who grumbles about impossibility in the cheery, informative commentary he shares with wife
You can see the real Micky and Dicky in the extras and marvel at how perfectly Wahlberg and Bale captured their mannerisms. Bale and Leo won Oscars for their roles, but Wahlberg and Adams’s work is just as nuanced and convincing. The difference is that Dicky and Alice are outgoing personalities, while Micky and Charlene are quiet. Watching the large and small battle it out is one of The Fighter’s greater pleasures. The making-of doc and director David O. Russell’s commentary have lots to say about acting, boxing and the real people involved. EXTRAS Director commentary, making-of doc. Widescreen. English, French audio and subtitles. and working partner Julie. No matter. Sharktopus obeys the prime monster movie rule: lots of monster. Between attacks, it’s funny, largely thanks to Eric Roberts as the corporate head and Liv Boughn, the reporter Sharktopus’s one flaw is its score. The movie needs surf music. Try Laika & the Cosmonauts’ The Amazing Colossal Band. EXTRAS Commentary. Widescreen. English audio. English, Spanish subtitles.
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(eOne, 2009) D: Teddy Chan, w/ Donnie Yen, Wang Xueqi. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNN It’s 1905, and revolutionary leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen is coming to Hong Kong for a secret meeting with revolutionaries from all over China. The Manchu Dynasty sends an army of assassins against him. Sun’s protection goes wrong, and conscience drives wealthy businessman Li Yue-tang (Wang Xueqi ) into
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