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The October Issue
Besides “freezing,” fall’s other f-word is “fashion.” Here, we shop around for the best autumn
trends, style by neighbourhood, and explain why Toronto is a super-chic sartorial destination.
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Rick Mercer’s latest rant;
commuting time-killers; the Fords’
financial illiteracy; and making
Canadian history in a minute flat.
Green Beanery’s java supplies;
Scarborough’s Hot Wok; mooching
from ma and pa; and what is your
home really worth?
Zombies among us; the ab-fabulous
return of Matthew McConaughey;
closet disco fan John Lydon; and
Big Brother: Is this real life?
Kim Collier’s Tear the Curtain!;
Dragonette says “Hello” to a whole
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SEXUAL ASSAULTS IF INFORMATION IS POWER, WHY AREN’T WE GETTING ANY? P.26
What I learned from trying
(and failing and trying again) to
evict my deadbeat tenant.
BY SARAH LISS P.22
_DATING DIARIES
Photo: Kaija Siirala
And the Dickweed of the Year
Award goes to...this guy P.50
October 18-24
CLASS BEFORE CRASS, LADIES
LESSONS FROM CANADA’S TV BACHELOR P.13
HOME INVASION
In last week’s cover story, associate
editor Sarah Liss wrote about
the challenge of navigating the
Landlord and Tenant Board’s maze
of red tape to evict her deadbeat
tenant. Commenter Daniel could
sympathize with Liss’s plight.
“We, too, had a tenant from hell
last year,” he wrote. “She stayed
eight months, rent-free, and we
have not collected a dime. For
every bad landlord, you have
10,000 bad tenants. The Landlord
and Tenant Board (LTB) gives all
the power to the tenants, so they
go from rental to rental, paying
the minimum, and making the
landlord’s life hell.” Sara agreed,
saying, “As a former landlord for
over 10 years, I am glad to be
out of the business. The law has
become too tenant-friendly. I was
fortunate that I never had to deal
with the LTB, but know plenty of
people who did. The thousands
of dollars it cost them in arrears
and property damage wiped
out any rental income they had
earned.” Reader Mike Mikelson,
however, chastised the landlords
themselves, writing, “There are
a lot of landlords on here talking
about how tough the LTB is on
them, and how difficult some
tenants can be. Here’s a bit of news
for you: it’s a business.The fact
is, if you became a landlord and
didn’t figure out what was involved
with removing a tenant, then that’s
your fault. You can’t expect to
hang a shingle and make money.”
Commenter Afairlandlord tried to
find some middle ground between
the two warring factions. “Two
things become glaringly obvious
to me after reading this: The first
is that you have to do due diligence
as a landlord. This is not smalltown Ontario and we are not living
in simple times. The second is that
the kind of tenant who refuses to
pay rent, in this case, is not doing
so out of righteous indignation
or spite because you are a bad
landlord. Rather, it reveals a
serious, deep character flaw.
The law needs to change to
protect the real victims, be they
renter or landlord.”
WHAT GOES
ON IN THERE?
THE SHELL GAME
Just when you thought you had
eaten your way through all of
Toronto’s tacos, assistant editor
Jacob Rutka exposed the second
wave of handheld delights in
last week’s issue. Some readers,
like Shawn, had already done
research of their own. “The best
taco I’ve had in Toronto was last
Programming Partners
FERRY TALES
In last week’s graphic content,
associate editor Matthew Halliday
examined the contributions of
figures like William Inglis and
Sam McBride to Toronto’s nautical
heritage. (Pssst: those are ferries.)
Reader Stan Valchek was equal
parts proud and critical. “It’s a
great achievement that these
machines have lasted for so long,”
he wrote. “Some people seem to
have a problem with the fact that
the ferries are old. I, for one, am
happy to see durable things last
in this era of quick consumption.
Being old is not a problem. Being
unsafe, broken, pollutive, and too
costly to repair would all be good
reasons to renew the fleet.”
What you were reading on thegridto.com this week
The notion of
normalizing
teenage sex
Space invaders
Billy Jamieson
lives
Requiem for
a tricycle
Tacos: the
second wave
DANCE
SKATING
DanceWorks DW196, Road Trip
Learn to Skate
Susie Burpee and Linnea Swan – two physically
fierce contemporary dancers – take their audiences
on an unforgettable road trip in this rollercoaster
tragicomic face-off.
October 18-20, $19.50-34
Winter’s coming. Might as well embrace it.
Harbourfront Centre offer skating lessons for tots,
kids, teens and adults. Courses start late November.
Register by calling 416-973-4093.
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week at the new Maizal in Liberty
Village, made with corn they grind
themselves.” Chris, too, had his
own recommendations, saying,
“I did a taco tour of La Carnita,
Tacos el Asador, and Mexitaco
about a month ago, then met
friends at a place called Drift on
Bloor. They only had one taco on
the menu, a fish taco, but it was the
best one of the night.” L.C., a reader
from Mexico, was so taken with
Seven Lives’s smoked-marlin and
shrimp taco that he demanded the
recipe. “I will make them myself.”
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from the
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Reading from
Dark Diversions at IFOA
_contributors
@danalacey
The best part of The
Grid this week: when
Bryan Cranston warns
Torontonians about
dangerous street
infrastructure.
@brennaob
Drooling over The Grid’s
marvellous taco gallery.
@rnfjohnston
@TheGridTO Great
issue this week. I enjoyed
it cover to cover.
@ValMaloney
Really, Dating Diaries
guy? Really?
Angela Lewis
Photographer
“I’m wearing Queen West,” p. 31
Angela has been busy shooting
for Fashion magazine, The Globe
and Mail, and local designers like
Biko and Dagg & Stacey for their
upcoming look-books. She was also
featured in the “Focus” section of
ION magazine this month, and in
the recent issue of Plaid magazine.
You can often catch her shooting the
fashionable folks that hang around
Trinity Bellwoods Park for her blog,
Woodies and Belles.
What’s your most “Toronto” outfit?
Navajo desert boots, cuffed light
denim or red pants, the biggest
cardigan you can find, two times
the circle scarf, and my jean jacket.
I also accessorize with my fur
headband from Headmistress,
and my Steven Alan grey,
striped knapsack.
With the cold weather coming on,
where do you go to warm up?
Fall is my favourite season in
the city, so I break in my new
shoes by walking around the park
and the quiet back streets in my
neighbourhood, near Ossington and
Dundas. I follow that with a visit to
my favourite Pho restaurant, Pho
Tien Thanh, for a #12.
Katie Underwood
Assistant editor
“The ties that fund,” p. 26
Katie is one of The Grid’s
assistant editors and details her
misadventures with money for
our personal finance column,
The Money Rookie. Her favourite
neighbourhood pastime is
witnessing nine-year-olds order
double-tall Americanos, deadpan,
at the Yonge and St. Clair Starbucks.
What’s your most “Toronto” outfit?
I would have to say the horrendous
pair of leopard print high-waisted
harem trousers I bought from
H&M’s clearance pile last year.
My friends teased me about them
non-stop until one night when I
wore them out to the Drake and
was hit on relentlessly—much to
my confusion. The proof is in the
pants, I guess.
With the cold weather coming on,
where do you go to warm up?
Home. My roommate and I live on
the first floor of a converted office
building in Deer Park, right above
the furnace. From the time the heat
comes on in early October, my living
area could double as the fire river in
Dante’s Inferno. Surely it sounds like
some kind of balmy oasis, but talk
to me when you find cups of water
on your nightstand half-evaporated
by morning, or are forced to lie face
down on your bathroom floor just to
“feel the coolness.”
VISUAL ART
SAILING
Sunday Scene
Sail the Caribbean!
Laura Berazadi, executive director of InterAccess, speaks
about the exhibition, Omer Fast: Continuous Coverage, at
The Power Plant.
October 21, 2pm, FREE
This February, Harbourfront Centre Sailing and Powerboating
is organizing a sailing trip to Antigua, Barbuda and Monserrat.
Want to join us?
Email hscp@harbourfrontcentre.com for information.
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Touching myself while
looking at this week’s
Grid. #tacos #foodporn
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WE THE
TWEEPLE
So long,
Premier Dad
Premier Dalton McGuinty
took Ontarians by surprise
Monday night, announcing
he was resigning and
proroguing parliament.
His departure follows a
string of PR disasters:
the scandal-ridden Ornge
air-ambulance service,
legislation that would
prohibit teachers from
striking, and costly
plans to cancel gas plants.
No surprise that most
Toronto tweeters were
happy to see him go.
@Sid_Seixeiro
Breaking News:
Dalton McGuinty resigns
as Ontario premier
in order to focus on
his dream of jumping
130,000 feet from space.
@NPsteve
Unlike a lot of people,
I was never passionately
for or against Dalton
McGuinty. I guess
I was just pretty Dalton
McGuinty about him.
@stats_canada
78 per cent of
Ontarians wish they
could pull a “Dalton
McGuinty” this morning.
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St. John Ambulance celebrated the 20th anniversary of its therapy dog program, which provides canine
companions to convalescing patients. The event was held at PawsWay, a facility “dedicated to the
understanding and celebration of pets.” It involved a doggie talent show and, seen here, a doggie kissing booth.
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@jdotdashed
Is it just me or would
Dalton McGuinty’s exit
last night have been
awesomer with a mic
drop at the end?
@JordFairclough
Dalton McGuinty has
resigned? Who’s going
to send me random
$10 cheques now?
Gridlock The week in animosity.
JOHN FILION
@patterballs
What McGuinty did was
equivalent of a waiter
walking out in the middle
of his shift. Only the
waiter would have to
pay back his shortages.
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BLACK
KAREN STINTZ
VS.
PATIO
PUFFING
VS.
JOE BIDEN
TIM HUDAK
Where there’s smoke, there’s Filion: The Willowdale
councillor and Toronto Public Health chairman—who
led the charge to ban smoking in restaurants
and bars—is now supporting a proposed ban for
patios, too. The board will decide next week whether
to hold public consultations on extending the ban.
In the National Review Online, the one-time media
mogul declared Republican Paul Ryan the victor
of last week’s vice-presidential debate, referring
to the current veep as a “havering, querulous,
self-righteous (though somewhat amiable) hack.”
Hours after Dalton McGuinty’s resignation Monday,
provincial PC leader Tim Hudak promised that if
elected premier, he’ll “maximize the dollars available”
to build new transit underground, and won’t
rule out cancelling the city’s already approved
above-ground LRT lines. TTC chair Karen Stintz shot
back that “those deals have been done.”
@ScouseNerd
Toronto Sun could use
some work on their
headlines. Turning
“Dalton McGuinty”
into “Dalton McQuitty”?
@Z_Cooperstown
It’s only politically
correct to label Dalton
McGuinty’s departure
a “resignation.” In truth,
it’s called “bailing.”
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pack up lanterns and protest
signs. The pair left the march
in a group, among friends.
—Cheryl Stone
CANADIANA
Lighting the march
against sexual assault
_QUEEN’S PARK
Just hours after calling an emergency caucus meeting, during which he
tendered his resignation as premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty walked
with his wife, Terri, towards a press conference where he fielded questions
about the surprise announcement. The 57-year-old politician served
as leader of the Liberal party since 1996, spending the past nine of those
years in charge of the province, and though dogged by many recent
controversies—which now includes his decision to prorogue government—
he leaves a legacy as a middle-of-the-road leader who frequently made
good on his nickname, “Premier Dad.”
Candice Anderson and Olivia Chow
were discussing how to brighten
a paper lantern that would mark
the tail end of Friday night’s
march in support of local victims
of sexual assault. “We want to
make it brighter and easier to
follow,” said Anderson, who was
asked to participate in the walk—
which traced a route through
eight of the 12 most recent assault
locations—by her friend, organizer
Rebecca Mallinson.
Mallinson didn’t want to walk
the route alone, which is why
she invited Anderson along. Yet
among the hundreds of people
who confirmed on the Facebook
page, and the 300 who made
their way to Christie Pits, the
camaraderie has continued to swell
in response to the string of assaults.
“This is our city and we have every
right to walk around in it and be
safe,” Mallinson explained.
After attaching a bike light,
Chow and Anderson hoped the
lantern’s cream colour would
be enough to show the way.
The marchers were slowly
beginning to move past, so
Chow went ahead to lead the
rally. Anderson waited for the
corner of Christie Pits Park to
clear, and dutifully took her
place next to some cyclists
tailing the march.
When the it ended, Anderson
was abuzz with excitement,
“People came out of their homes
to meet us,” she explained, before
helping a grinning Mallinson
On Monday night, the HistoricaDominion Institute screened
the first new Canadian Heritage
Minute in over seven years at
the Royal Cinema. Arguably the
country’s most popular preinternet meme, the 60-second
TV spots have, since 1991, delivered
bite-sized tales of Canadian
heroism, like the cancellation of
revolutionary fighter jet the Avro
Arrow and Dr. Wilder Penfield’s
advances in neural stimulation,
the minute that originated the
catchphrase “I smell burnt toast.”
“It’s almost like they’re inside
jokes that all Canadians share,”
laughed the institute’s president,
Anthony Wilson-Smith over
the phone from their office, of
the occasional Heritage Minute
parodies that pop up. The latest
official addition to our collective
Canuck consciousness, on the
other hand, will be available
online and has already aired on
some stations.
Thanks to a boost of federal
funding, Monday’s new vignette
spotlights the lesser-known story
of 68-year-old black Loyalist
soldier Richard Pierpoint. A
former slave who fought with
the British during the American
Revolution and fled to Canada,
he later petitioned to establish the
first all-black regiment in the
War of 1812, known as the
“Coloured Corps.”
While the institute wasn’t
making many new commercials
during the past decade, it wasn’t
lacking for possible stories,
especially from people who want
to share their own family history.
“Sometimes you have to say,
STREET
LEVEL
@OCAD
Hey, OCAD student,
give us your most
creative idea to fund
transit expansion.
Jonathan, 20
Some kind of movie screening—maybe
movies that are set in cities with great
subway systems, like New York.
Alyssa, 20
We could white out the streetcars and
people could pay a little more than the
usual fare to write their ideas of how to
fund TTC expansion on the streetcars.
Ash, 20
People could pay to see Rob Ford
dressed in drag.
Cows
May 29, 2003,
Hwy. 401,, near
Jane St.
A transport truck
carrying 85 cows
tipped over while
changing lanes.
Thirty-seven
of the animals
were killed, or
euthanized due
to injuries. (The
cows were on
their way to the
slaughterhouse.)
Azra, 20
One time I raised money for UNICEF
and we had our friends’ bands play a
show. We did it around Christmas time
when people were in a giving mood.
Beer
May 11, 2005,
Jane St., at
Hwy. 401
A Honda Civic
collided with a
Molson truck,
spilling 2,184
cases of beer.
No one was
seriously hurt.
‘We’ve only done 66 minutes on
the entirety of Canadian history,’”
says Wilson-Smith, “and I’m afraid
this just isn’t one of them, you
know?’”—Katie Underwood
Live pigs
April 14, 2008,
Hwy. 401,
near Winston
Churchill Blvd.
Approximately
50 of the 200
pigs escaped
the damaged
tractor-trailer,
several were
killed in the crash,
and two had to
be euthanized on
the scene.
Pigs (again!)
Oct. 4,2010,
Hwy. 427, near
the Gardiner
Eighty-one of
the 235 pigs
aboard the truck
died in the crash;
60 more escaped
onto the highway.
Steadily climbing from a
starting bid of US$250, the toilet
has attracted enough attention to
double its going rate in one day
and start a bidding war. With
“cheezy1” at four bids, “Akiberg”
at two, and little less than a
month left to bid, the item is
well on track to beat the $2,640
price tag it went for in 2000. As
of press time, the toilet was going
for $1,200.—Katie Flood
OCCUPY TORONTO
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otherwise occupied
The Leafs former dressing room
toilet may see more action than
any other part of the franchise
this season. Up for auction with
keepsakes including a 1967 Stanley
Cup banner and a penalty box
bench, the team’s old porcelain
throne is the most bid-upon item
in an online NHL clearance.
With only a few dozen people
showing up for Occupy Toronto’s
one-year anniversary on
Monday, rumblings of imminent
re-occupation seemed put to
rest. For the most part, the small
crowd didn’t appear interested
anyway. One man, calling himself
the “marshall of marches,” did
try to convince a police officer to
authorize a rally up Yonge Street,
but the point was moot—he could
hardly find any takers.
Jake, 21
A mass street party where you can
buy beer and merch. It would be cool
if it was on the street in the summer.
Edwin, 21
A poker night: have a buy-in, sell lots
of booze. Twenty per cent of winnings
would go to fund the TTC.
SPORTS
Flushing away money on
a piece of Leafs history
PHOTOGRAPHS (STREETERS) LEANNE SKINNER; ILLUSTRATION ANTONY HARE
COMMUNITY ACTION
Rob Ford’s big lie
Last week’s cocoa-powder spill on Hwy. 403 was one
of the most expensive loads to be lost in recent memory.
Here are some others.—Katie Flood
Making history, one
minute at a time
11
Edward Keenan—notebook
Lost loads on local roads
A biased roundup of the week’s top stories.
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Apples
April 9, 2012,
QEW, near
Erin Mills
No apples
escaped, but
several were
damaged from
the crash,
causing apple
juice to leak
from the truck.
Cocoa powder
Oct. 11, 2012,
Hwy. 403, near
Dundas St.
Unspecified
amount of cocoa
powder spilled
(a product that’s
currently selling
for $2,300 per
metric tonne).
A slightly more effective
protestor, Ken Canning, spent
much of Monday evening
explaining to passers-by why he
was carrying a huge, upside-down
Canadian flag around St. James
Park. It was not, he insisted,
intended to cause offence.
“You fly a flag upside down when
you’re in distress, and Canada
is in distress,” said the 20-year-old
veteran of Occupy Newfoundland,
in St. John’s. “They used to do
it when the captain of a ship
went nuts. The crew would fly
the flag this way to tell everyone
that they needed help.”
As night fell and the temperature
dropped, the crowd started to thin.
The few police in the park also
drifted off—Sgt. Nancy McLean
of 51 Division said there wasn’t
much concern about the gathering,
and no extra police were assigned,
just the usual complement of
local beat officers. Besides, she
said, casting an eye around the
placid scene, “These people are
nice.”—Matthew Halliday
Courtney, 21
A bake sale in the subway, like the way
they do Pizza Pizza. Bake sale Mondays.
At Rob Ford’s executive committee meeting last week,
city councillors had a long (and long overdue) discussion about ways to pay for public transit expansion in
Toronto. A staff report put a lot of options on the table:
a one per cent city sales tax, a one per cent personal
income tax, road tolls, fuel taxes, parking taxes, vehicle
registration taxes…
So, which option, the mayor was asked, would he support? None of the above, he told the press. “There’s other
options, and a P3’s the way to go,” he said. “I’m not going
to implement a new tax or a new user fee.”
By “P3,” he meant “public-private partnership.” But,
as the staff report made clear, such partnerships are just
one method of building things, not a source of funding.
It is as if, asked to name his favourite vegetable, Ford had
answered, “Fork!”
Let me break down the terminology for you: A publicprivate partnership is a way of borrowing money from
a private sector company that you also hire to build
things. By definition, the government side of the partnership still involves paying the private company to
build the infrastructure. And the government pays with
tax dollars, which are, ultimately, the only real source
of money the government has.
The episode underscored, yet again, the mayor and
his brother’s fundamental financial illiteracy. (Another
example: On the radio on the weekend, Doug Ford
made an analogy comparing the city’s capital debt to
household economics. “Do you go out and purchase a
house… and not have the money?” he asked, apparently
unaware of just how common mortgages are among
homebuyers.)
What is interesting about Rob Ford’s parallel insistence
that the city will build subways, the most expensive form
of public transit, and that they will be built with no tax
money or user fees, is that it crystalizes the foundational
lie—the big one—on which the whole structure of his
mayoral career is built.
Here’s the fantasy he sold the public: We can have
everything we want, and it will cost nothing and inconvenience no one. It is a childish fiction, but once you look
at it, you’ll realize it is the whole of Ford’s ideology, the
premise of virtually every position he adopts.
We already have the lowest property taxes in the Greater
Toronto Area, but Ford insists they are criminally high.
(Because we’d all like to pay less money, right?) Yet
he’s been equally insistent that when he cuts taxes or
eliminates user fees, we will have no reduction in services. (Because we all like the services we use, right?)
He insists that we can and should build subway lines
into the thinly populated suburbs, where they are guaranteed to hemmorhage money for generations. (Because
who doesn’t like to travel by subway?) For free. (Because
that’s a price we all love!) And he thinks that making
more space on roads for cars by removing other vehicles will eliminate gridlock. (Because who doesn’t want
a less stressful commute?)
Each of these is a Santa Claus proposition. Even if they
have no basis in reality, isn’t it nice to think they might
be true? Since there is simply no way to make the logic
of Ford’s intertwined assertions work together—you cannot have tax cuts without service cuts; you cannot have
a subway without paying for it—he has simply manufactured a set of wholly imaginary boogeymen to blame for
problems (“the gravy train,” “the war on the car,” fat-cat
unions, and an NDP conspiracy) and a corresponding
set of equally imaginary silver bullets with which to slay
them (“efficiency,” “the private sector,” the steely resolve
to “call a spade a spade”).
Here’s the truth: If we want good public services and
infrastructure (and we do), we have to pay for them with
tax dollars. If we want lower taxes (and we do), we need to
stop building infrastructure and cut service levels. Finding the balance between those two competing desires is
a difficult debate, one made easier if we acknowledge
that no solution is entirely painless. The Ford lie that it
should be easy—adopted as truth by many of his voters—just turns the discussion into nonsense.
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Art-house swap meet
Last week’s announcement that the medical centre housed in the former
Carnegie Library at Queen and Lisgar would be transformed into a massive
arts hub is just the latest development in Toronto’s history of commercial
spaces trading places with the arts.—Chris Bilton
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Toronto Public
Health building
This former Carnegie
Library became a
medical centre in
1964, but is now
being transformed
into a theatre/gallery/
rehearsal space.
The Big Bop
Complex
The corner of Queen
and Bathurst was
ground zero for
crust punks until
Crate&Barrel cleaned
the facade and opened
some windows on
this former haven for
heavy music.
Circa
The glitzy meganightclub at 126 John
St., which hosted
early shows by Lady
Gaga and Justice,
was open only briefly,
from 2007 to 2009.
Its current conversion
into discount clothing
store Marshalls is
almost complete.
The Theatre
Centre
Polyhaus
Art
Commercial
Marshalls
STEPS medical
Education
Resource
This anonymous
looking industrial
office near Carlaw and
Gerrard is now one
of the few music
venues to emerge in
the city’s east end.
CB2
_By the numbers
66 min.
Toronto’s average
car commute.
Here are some
suggestions
for how to pass
the time.
Listen to Rush’s
new album,
Clockwork
Angels, in its
entirety
Play a really
long game
of “I Spy”
Watch every
single Canadian
Heritage Minute
Get 1/18th of the
way though the
Fifty Shades of
Grey audiobook
Solve 33
Two-Minute
Mysteries
_how’s business?
Gentry Lane luxury
car rentals 770 Dupont St.
What are they selling? Gentry Lane houses a vast
collection of classic automobiles, which are often rented
to film and television production companies. The garage
holds up to 50 vintage cars in pristine condition, such
as a ’67 Pink Cadillac, a ’55 Porsche Speedster, and a
’73 Corvette Stingray. It’s also the only Toronto dealership
selling new Lotuses as well as a selection of vintage ones.
Who’s the clientele? Their cars have been featured in
movies, television shows, and music videos—everything
from period pieces to rap videos. Nelly Furtado rode in
the back of a ’61 Thunderbird convertible in her 2010
music video for “The Night Is Young.” A 2008 TV movie
starring John Stamos, The Two Mr. Kissels, used many
of Gentry Lane’s cars and their basement garage as a set.
And a 2004 miniseries called The Grid (no relation to
this publication), about counter-intelligence in the Middle
East, used a number of Gentry Lane vehicles.
So, how is business? Every year, there are some Lotus
owners who trade in their old model for the new one,
while other Gentry Lane patrons are vintage collectors
and store their cars in the basement. “Our Lotus customers
are from all different walks of life, from grandmothers
to young entrepreneurs,” says John Simoes, the
dealership’s managing director. “Our classic-car
customers come from all over the world.” But don’t
come looking for a joy ride, says Simoes: “We try to
read our customers to make sure they’re not here
for play test drives.”—Chris Riddell
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_ COURTNEY SHEA VS.
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LIGHTNING ROUND
PHOTOGRAPH JESSE SENKO; ILLUSTRATION ANTONY HARE
For the host of The Rick Mercer Report, getting fired up is
a professional calling, and his recent book, A Nation Worth
Ranting About, is a greatest hits of past gripes. We caught
up with Mercer—now in season 10 of his Gemini-winning
TV show—to talk political star power, the trouble with
Rob Ford, and why modern-day MPs are such a snooze.
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In your book you say that being
You don’t spend a lot of time
a political junkie is a bit like
on local politics on your show.
being a die-hard Leafs fan.
Is that because you have a
Care to flesh out the metaphor?
national show or are you just more
If you’re a political junkie
interested in the feds?
and you follow politics, it’s
My interest has always been
easy to become overwhelmed.
federal politics, but yes, my show
You want to throw in the towel
is national. Does my audience
and you’re envious of the people
in Ontario want me to talk about
who say, “I don’t pay attention
legislation in British Columbia?
to politics. None of it matters.”
Probably not. Now, Rob Ford has
Of course, I would argue
really transcended that, because
that that’s not true. Paying
everywhere I go in the country
attention is important,
people ask me why the hell we have
but sometimes you wanna beat
this guy as a mayor. I don’t talk
your head against the wall.
about him on the show a lot, but
So you’re like that crazy
he may be the exception to the rule.
hockey guy screaming at the
If you were going to rant about
television, but you can’t bring
Ford, what would you focus on?
yourself to turn it off.
I would just tell him to call
Exactly. It’s a tough sport to love.
a press conference and leave.
In the past few years, your
Change careers.
show has moved away from
So back to cabinet minister
interviewing politicians. Specifically,
versus lobster fisherman.
I think you said you’d rather
Right. There was a time early in my
talk to a lobster fisherman than
career where if I had my druthers
a cabinet minister.
I’d have been doing a show where
Absolutely. A lobster fisherman
I only spoke with politicians. Maybe
doesn’t get speaking notes
I’ll do that again some time, but
and therefore it’s a more
right now I like getting out there
interesting conversation. It’s
and exploring. Just this weekend
very rare that you get anything
I went to the Rockton World’s Fair.
original out of a cabinet minister
It’s one of the longest running
or any member of a sitting
agricultural fairs in the country.
caucus. These days, at 7:30 in the
You see all of the animals and there
morning, all of the BlackBerrys
are also the classic fair things.
vibrate and they have an
The world’s largest pumpkin,
email from head office saying
the bearded lady…
exactly what they’re allowed
No bearded ladies, but there was
to talk about that day and they
a Tilt-A-Whirl.
do not deviate. TV shows evolve.
You spoke recently about
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how Canadian politics are lacking
■ Stewart or Colbert?
How can I choose?
■ Favourite burger joint?
The Detroit on The Danforth.
■ Best interview ever?
Rick Hansen.
■ Worst interview?
Both are still living, so can’t say.
■ Dream interview?
Any dead prime minister.
■ Cherry or MacLean?
I share an elevator with both.
■ Childhood crush?
Ricky Schroder.
■ Biggest vice?
Smoking was a struggle.
in star power. Could Justin
Trudeau change that?
I didn’t lament the fact that we lack
star power, and I’m certainly not
advocating a system where famous
people run based on the fact that
they’re famous. Obviously, Justin
Trudeau has a certain profile that’s
different from most MPs. Christ,
I just picked up the new issue of
Maclean’s and it’s like one of those
special editions they put out after
the Queen visits the country.
On one hand, people are
describing him as an underqualified
coattail rider; on the other,
people are saying not to
underestimate him. Which is it?
I think for anyone going into
any race, lower expectations
are your friend, and for him, the
expectations are very high. I would
guess that if he had [a choice], there
wouldn’t be 27 pictures of him in
this week’s Maclean’s, but I don’t
think he has any control over that.
Last year, your rant about Jamie
Hubley [a gay teenager who was
bullied and committed suicide] got
a lot of attention, particularly the
suggestion that gay adults had an
obligation to be out.
I certainly wasn’t advocating outing
anyone, I was just saying that when
I was in high school, no one was
out. Now we have kids who are and
I just think it’s important that they
know that you can be a news anchor
and gay, or a cabinet minister
and gay, or a hockey player and gay,
or a television host.
I know you’ve said you’d rather
be tasered than talk about your
personal life.
Well, I’ve already been tasered on TV.
Can you tell me what you did over
the summer?
I went back to Newfoundland for
a while. I spent some time at a
cottage north of the city, which
is one of my favourite things to do.
I love to just sit on a dock.
What about musical taste?
Is that too personal?
Growing up I was an old punk-rock
fan—The Clash and Stiff Little
Fingers and the Ramones. My tastes
are pretty eclectic. I’m going to go
upstairs and download the new
Tragically Hip album, with my
apologies to Gord for not buying it
on vinyl. But I don’t have a record
player, so I’ll just have to download
it from iTunes.
Now on our
dessert
menu.
Our Fall Craft Beer Collection
is now available.
Exclusively at the LCBO.
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Pumpkin-spiced everything
(lattes, bread, Pringles)
Really, really dark lipstick
Pizza Hut stuffs its crusts
with hot dogs
Toronto fashion week
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Dogs or cats?
Andrew, 27, web designer
Cats, ’cause they’re independent.
They’re fierce, and they know what
they want. I have seven wild cats
living in my backyard.
Michelle, 30, retail worker
Dogs. I just think cats are snotty—they
always have an attitude.
Dylan, 28, unemployed
Cats. I’ve always had them. They’re
nice to have around; they just kind
of hang out.
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Dogs, because they’re intuitive
and know how you feel, and they
help you get exercise.
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David Fleming—real estate
Coffee time
Don’t list your home for
more than it’s worth (and
other pricing problems)
10.
For
something
non-javarelated
Green Beanery
also carries a few
choice Bodum
designs, like the
Fyrkat Charcoal
Picnic Grill ($70)
in a stand-out
green. Great for
the city dweller
with limited
outdoor space.
11.
1.
3.
2.
4.
1. Sowden SoftBrew,
8- or 12-cup, $70–$80
This porcelain number
extracts a deliciously
smooth brew—both cold
and hot—and features an
uber-efficient stainless
steel microfilter. No bells
and whistles here—just a
back-to-basics technique
that steeps your grounds
rather than squeezing the
goodness out.
2. Yama drip pot, $25
Another classic drip method
that has stood the test of
time. The reusable cotton
“sock” filter requires only
a quick hand wash.
3. Mukka one-cup vetro
coffee maker, $113
An all-in-one stovetop
cappuccino maker from
the producers of the
ever-popular Bialetti Italian
espresso maker. With that
history, it’s no surprise that
the Mukka delivers
a great cup of joe.
Bonus: The glass top lets
you take in the bubbly
chemistry of it all.
4. Chemex pourover,
three- to eight-cup
options, $35–$98
Actress Michelle Williams
used the Chemex in Take
This Waltz. Ah, the power
of product placement.
5. Knock box, $70
The side of the sink or
the tip of a knife? Uh-uh.
Get those grounds out by
tapping your filter into this
natural—and handsomelooking—maple box.
6. Bodum iced coffee
maker, 12-cup, $40–$45
This French press from
Bodum is made from
highly durable borosilicate
glass. And you’ve gotta
admit: The blue version
is pretty striking.
7.
5.
8.
6.
9.
7. Ascaso Basic One, $200
“This espresso maker
boasts the inner mechanics
of a machine with a heftier
price,” says store manager
Fernando Martins. “It
doesn’t feature a milk
frother, but it’ll give you
an espresso with a thick
crema and it’s excellent
value for the money.”
8. AeroPress, $40
This one-cupper extracts
a smooth and bitter-free
brew. An awesome takealong for a camping trip.
9. Rattleware tamper, $30
Many espresso machines
come with a plastic tamper
(the tool used to press the
coffee grounds into the filter
basket). Do yourself a favour
and spend the extra bucks
for a heavily weighted one.
10. Fresh Roast SR 500,
$170
The GB prides itself on
its extensive inventory of
green beans from small
farms around the globe.
With a bit of notice, you can
order beans to be roasted
on site or do it at home with
this easy-to-use compact
unit that can handle small
amounts, so your brew is
always fresh.
11. FAL-mini, $80
For the coffee and foamy
milk lover who doesn’t want
to break the bank, pair
the Ascaso with this electric
milk frother. Bargoon.
i
Green Beanery, 565 Bloor
St. W., 416-588-7700.
photographS REYNARD LI; Illustration Antony Hare
In a hot market or a cold one, pricing your home accurately is always important. Under-pricing a property to
attract multiple offers has been a successful strategy in
the past, but even that appears to be turning buyers’
stomachs in the current climate. It seems my job these
days is the complete opposite: talking clients out of
over-pricing their homes. I get these same questions and
comments every time I sit down with sellers:
“Another agent said it was worth more.”
It’s no secret that a lot of agents will “buy” listings by
quoting the highest price, but if four agents said your
home was worth $600,000-ish, and one agent said
$700,000, that should concern, not excite, you. Beware
of the realtor who wants your listing at any cost. He’s
just going to rope you into a six-month listing, and hope
you gradually decrease the price.
“Let’s try it at our price for a month or so first.”
The highest price you’ll get as a seller is within one to five
days of listing your home, not 30 days later. I know I can
get the full asking price, or more, if I can sell the property
within that short timeframe. All the work should be done
ahead of the listing, so the property will sell ASAP. After
a house or condo unit spends a full month on the market unsold, you’ll attract low-ball offers from buyers still
looking at your stale listing.
“People always offer less than asking anyway!”
Not always, and not if it’s in that initial one-to-five day
period when you have all the leverage as a seller. And if
the property is over-priced, they’re not going to make
any offer, let alone one that is less than asking.
“Nobody knows the value of my home better than I do.”
Here’s why I have no choice but to be a jerk, because any
seller who says that is wrong. Selling your home is an
emotional experience that can leave a homeowner vulnerable, especially when your own bias causes you to
over-inflate the value of your house.
“We’ll include all the furniture to get our price.”
This is a last resort. The depreciation on furniture and
household products is massive. Your five-year-old couch
that you paid $1,800 for is probably now only worth $300,
sorry to say. That 42-inch Panasonic flat screen TV cost
$1,400 in 2008, but technology has changed and you can
get a better one today for half the price. Furnishing a
house or condo is something today’s buyers look forward
to. Most of them wouldn’t take your furniture for free, let
alone pay for it.
“My neighbour’s house sold in two days for over asking!”
Right: your neighbour’s house, not your house. These
are two different products, with different lot sizes, bedroom/bathrooms, sizes, styles, and upgrades. You can
compare the two houses, so long as you contrast as well.
“We need to get at least this much out of our house.”
N-e-e-d is one of the worst words in real estate. Hey, I
“need” a date with Scarlett Johansson, but that doesn’t
mean I’m going to get it. People’s “needs” are typically
more of a “want,” and ultimately a need or a want doesn’t
change the fair market value for a given property.
“A higher price will make buyers think it’s worth more.”
I understand the thinking here. But buyers in Toronto are
far too savvy to be fooled by that pricing nonsense. They
all have access to sales histories in condominium buildings and on neighbourhood streets, and charging $25 for
a $20 bill is never going to fly.
I’m a competitive agent by nature, and I get excited
by the prospect of netting my clients even an extra $500
or $1,000 for their properties. But even I can’t get somebody 120 per cent of fair market value, no matter how
badly they want it.
The way you brew coffee is as personal as your taste in clothes. The retail corner
at Bloor and Bathurst’s Green Beanery café is extensive enough to satisfy anyone’s
inner barista. Here are a few nice items that won’t break the bank. By Nancy Tong
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_ FOOD SpY
Hail Caesar
Brave is the restaurateur who doesn’t put Caesar salad on the menu. Here are four very different, very good local
versions that explain why it’s been unfailingly popular since it was invented in the 1920s. By Karon Liu
Crumbs
Plating up the week’s
restaurant news.
Openings
■ A giant wine bar called Skin
and Bones is moving into a
former auto-parts shop at
980 Queen St. E. (at Carlaw).
Owners Harry Wareham and
Daniel Clarke (formerly of
Enoteca Sociale and Pizzeria
Libretto) expect a November
opening. Ex-Malena chef
Matthew Sullivan will be in
charge of the menu.
1.
The origins
of the
Caesar
Though
common
in Italian
restaurants,
the Caesar
salad is a North
American
creation. It’s
probably the
invention of
restaurateur
Caesar Cardini,
who began
serving it
tableside at
his Tijuana
restaurant back
in 1924.
2.
3.
4.
■ Mexican restaurant Rebozos
opened a second location
last week (424 College St., at
Bathurst) shortly after leaving
the Kensington Market food
court. The original location,
just north of Corso Italia, has
been keeping residents happy
for many years now, since
long before taco-mania hit.
■ Dlish Cupcakes has also
just opened a second shop,
on the outer edge of Yorkville
(848A Yonge St., at Yorkville).
■ Ninki Izakaya is now
welcoming customers to its
large space at 133 Richmond
St. W. (at York St.). It’s more
like a standard Japanese
restaurant, with sushi sets and
tempura, than a boisterous
izakaya such as Guu.
■ Fancy Franks Gourmet Hot
Dog (326 College St., at Major)
has been receiving a lot of
buzz since it opened last week.
Options include dogs topped
with pulled pork, fried eggs,
baked beans, or bacon.
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1.
The updated
chicken Caesar
Come and Get It
Owner Jon Polubiec knows
what makes for a trendy salad:
pulled meat and fried chicken
skin. He marinates chicken
thighs overnight with garlic and
black pepper, then roasts them
for about half an hour before
the meat is pulled from the bone.
It’s served atop romaine lettuce
and an apple slaw, dressed with
a creamy garlic-confit aioli. Fried
chickpeas replace traditional
croutons and crispy puffs of
fried chicken skin add texture.
Shavings of grana padano
cheese finish the dish.
$9. 170 Spadina Ave., 647-344-3416.
2.
The classic
Aunties and Uncles
Russell Nicholls, chef and
owner of this oft-packed
brunch spot, saw one too many
complicated Caesars in the ’90s.
“There were chipotle Caesar
salads, deconstructed salads
with quail eggs—it didn’t really
interest me,” he says. He makes
a no-fuss version by whisking
red-wine vinaigrette with a garlic
aioli, then adding Dijon mustard
and salt and pepper. Crunchy
focaccia, bits of sliced bacon,
and grated parmesan finish it
off. Nicholls’ explanation as to
why the Caesar remains a menu
staple: “Garlic. Raw garlic. It’s a
cliché but it tastes really good.”
$5.50. 74 Lippincott St.,
416-324-1375.
3.
The throwback
Jacobs & Co.
The modern steakhouse goes
old school with its Caesar,
which is prepared tableside.
Chopped garlic and anchovies
are macerated in a bowl with
coarse sea salt and a whackload of black pepper. Then, in
goes an egg yolk that’s coated
with a thin layer of Tabasco and
Worcestershire. “I could say a
dash of Tabasco, but depending
on how much air is in the bottle,
a dash could be a lot or very
little, so we measure it against
the other ingredients,” says chef
Danny McCallum. Red-wine
vinegar, lemon juice, and olive
oil complete the mixture, which
the romaine is tossed in. It’s
served with croutons, bacon,
and grated parmesan.
$15. 12 Brant St., 416-366-0200.
4.
The grilled salad
Strada 241
Brothers Michael and Guy Rubino
have made a departure from
their avant-garde cuisine with
the just-opened Italian room
Strada 241 in Chinatown. Like
the restaurant, their salad is
both rustic and contemporary.
“Romaine gets sweeter when
you grill it,” says chef Guy, who
likes a warm salad during cooler
weather. “We use grilled radicchio
as well, which is more bitter, so
you get the polarity of flavours.
It tastes like a braised lettuce but
the stems are still crunchy, so you
also get a polarity of textures.”
Guanciale and prosciutto are
used in place of bacon for a more
delicate flavour, and house-baked
ciabatta is made into croutons.
$9. 241 Spadina Ave., 647-351-1200.
Changes
■ Making lemonade, er,
burgers out of the NHL lockout,
Jump (18 Wellington St. W.,
at Yonge) is offering a halfpriced beef- and short-rib
burger on the nights that the
Leafs were supposed to play
at the ACC (Oct. 18 and 20).
Offer not valid for NHL players
or managers. Seriously.
■ Alsatian restaurant Elle M’a
Dit (35 Baldwin St., at Henry)
is now serving weekend
brunch from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
■ Those who missed out
on last year’s mega-cookout
Foodstock can check out
Soupstock, where more than
100 chefs will be making soup
at Woodbine Park (Coxwell
and Eastern) this Saturday.
Proceeds from the event will
go to the campaign to stop a
mega-quarry being built on
farmland northwest of the city.
Know of any openings, closings,
or other lockout deals?
Email crumbs@thegridto.com.
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_ PEOPLE, PLACE, FOOD
The best of most worlds
As you enter the Hot Wok restaurant in Scarborough,
near Kennedy and the 401, you’ll pass a giant photograph
of the leaning tower of Pisa on your way into the small
dining room. The owner, Simon Hsieh (pronounced
shea), who is Chinese, welcomes you in an accented English that’s equal parts Calcutta (where he was born), Austria (where he lived for a dozen years), and Guangdong
(where his family’s ethnic group, the Hakka, originate
from). The menu reads like a mash-up of Sunday takeout specials: fish pakoras, Manchurian paneer, Singapore
noodles. Hsieh places a jar of homemade hot-chili vinegar on the table next to the soy sauce, and puts down
a plate with a fork and spoon, not chopsticks. The customers are largely Indian, the owners and staff Chinese,
and the food something in between. The air smells of
ginger, garlic, coriander, and chili. You are part confused, part delighted.
At a time when we’ve become obsessed with seeking
out “authentic” ethnic food—whether via strip-mall
expeditions or high-end reproductions—we sometimes
forget that these cuisines aren’t always the product of a
single, identifiable place. Sure, the VPN Neapolitan pizzeria designation at Pizzeria Libretto draws a straight line to
the ovens of Napoli, but for many cultures, food is shaped
by the constant flux of migration—as much a product of
the homeland the chefs came from as the one they’re in.
The food at Hot Wok, which is ostensibly Hakka Chinese, is a case in point. The Hakka are a linguistic subset
of the Chinese Han ethnic majority who largely populate southeastern China. Over the past century, Hakka
have emigrated in great numbers to countries around
the world, forming communities in Taiwan, Indonesia,
Jamaica, America, Britain, India, and others. India is
where Hsieh’s family ended up four generations ago,
where they worked in Calcutta’s leather tanneries, a trade
dominated by Hakkas.
Traditionally, Hakka food in China includes dishes
such as salt-baked chicken and deboned duck stuffed
with sticky rice, but Hsieh explains that the Hakka tend
to shape their cooking around local ingredients and
tastes. “Hakka are the nomads of [the] Chinese,” Hsieh
explains with a smile. “We move around and have to
adapt to where we go. I don’t even know traditional
Hakka cuisine. Each Hakka community cooks to suit the
local cuisine.” When Hsieh ran a restaurant in Austria, for
example, he dialed back the spice, added more breaded
dishes, and upped the sugar quotient to conform to the
Austrian palate.
The Cantonese
term “Hakka”
literally translates
as “guests”
or “stranger
families.” In
common usage,
it refers to
“settlers” or
“newcomers.”
In recent years, around 5,000 Hakka Chinese have
moved to Toronto from India, with many going into the
restaurant business. Hsieh opened Hot Wok six years
ago, and the style of food he cooks is typical to the Hakka
of Calcutta and other Indian cities: Chinese food with
aggressive Indian spicing, halal meats, and no pork.
What you get is a savoury, full-bodied hybrid of both
cooking styles that makes the case for multiculturalism
better than any CBC radio special. Fish pakoras come in
a pile of crisp, moist, fiery-red filets, smelling of tandoor
spices like allspice and cumin. Fried lengths of chewy,
salty Manchurian squid are tossed in a garlic-chili sauce,
while a small hill of chicken fried rice lights up every
part of the tongue with generous doses of coriander, ginger, garlic, and cayenne that leave a smouldering burn
minutes after the last bite.
Some dishes, such as Gan Ben crispy beef, which consists of marinated slices of semi-dry beef, deep fried
and tossed in a sweet-and-sour ginger sauce, lean more
towards the restaurant’s Chinese roots, while Manchurian paneer features fried cubes of salted cheese in a
thick sauce made of coriander, garlic, and chili that’s
so slick with the buttery current of ghee, it could have
emerged from the Ganges.
Though Hsieh identifies more closely with the Chinese community in Toronto than the Indian one, over
half his clients are Indian and South Asian, with the rest
made up of Filipinos, Afghanis, Koreans, and, surprisingly, only a small percentage of Chinese. He claims that
Hakka restaurants are now opening at the rate of two per
month in the GTA (his brothers own three, his aunt one),
and it’s easy to see why they’re succeeding. “This food is
Chinese food with more spicy, more flavourful dishes,”
Hsieh says. This cuisine may not come from one place on
a map, but it certainly feels right at home.
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_ HOPPED UP
_ THE WINE PONCE
Belgians do it better
This week in our
critic’s notebook:
Wines that
go with pizza
Or fancier, at least. Last week, the LCBO started stocking a few delicately crafted gems from
200-year-old Belgian brewery Bosteels. And, next month, one of the most sought-after beers in the
world will hit shelves as well—a limited edition, monk-brewed rarity from Belgium’s Westvleteren
abbey. (Yes, it’ll sell out fast.) Here’s a rundown of the new brews. BY CRYSTAL LUXMORE
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If you still prefer to wash pizza
down with beer, it’s time to take
your couch-potato palate to the
LCBO for a grape-based libation.
Citra Montepulciano
d’Abruzzo 2010, $7.25
Reds made in Italy’s
Abruzzo region from the
Montepulciano grape
invariably offer tremendous
value. Open with a
budget pepperoni or
Neapolitan margherita.
Ponce notes “Bursting with
juicy cherries, this wine’s
bright acidity can stand up
to tomato sauce and cut
through the gooey cheese
and greasy pepperoni.”
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champenoise
method—the
traditional and
most expensive
way to produce
all that bubbly
effervescence.
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Westvleteren 12
$75/six pack
The Trappist Abbey of Saint Sixtus
of Westvleteren is falling apart—
bad news for the monks, but good
news for beer aficionados. That’s
where this ultra-rare brew is made.
To pay for renovations, the monks
are producing 163,000 six-packs
to sell globally (it’s normally only
available at the abbey). Toronto’s
complement will hit LCBO
shelves in mid-November. It’s a
complex, 10.2 per cent alcohol
by volume dark Belgian ale
with notes of prunes, figs, and
currants, along with molasses,
cherries, smoke, and earthy hops.
Serve warm.
Super-rare Quantity to be
determined.
2
Pauwel Kwak
$3/330-ml bottle
This sparkling, rose-hued
ale has aromas of strawberry
candy, cinnamon toast, and
banana. It’s a warm, malty
brew whose sweet caramel
notes play as nicely with
Moroccan-spiced lamb
as they do with a Crunchie bar.
Serve at cellar temperature.
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3
Tripel Karmeliet
$3/330-ml bottle
Not one but three kinds of grains
are used to make this bronzed
ale, which gives it the unusually
wicked combination of a thick,
frothy head atop a silky body.
With warming peach, vanilla,
and orange notes, you’ll barely
notice the 8.4 per cent punch.
Serve at cellar temperature
(wait 20 minutes after removing
from fridge).
After Westvleteren was rated the world’s
“best beer” at ratebeer.com in 2005, the monks
couldn’t keep up with demand. “Outsiders don’t
understand why we are not raising production,”
one told a Belgian newspaper. “For us, life in the
abbey comes first, not the brewery.”
4
DeuS Brut des Flandres
$18.40/750 mL bottle
The Champagne of beers—
literally. To make it, Bosteels
sends its strong ale to France’s
Champagne region. Before it’s
bottled, more yeast is added
for a new round of fermentation.
The bottle is turned daily for
about three weeks, allowing the
yeast to settle in the neck, where
the yeast deposits are frozen and
removed. The result is a golden
ale with the sparkling quality of
a Champagne (and 11.5 per cent
alcohol by volume) but stays
firmly in the beer camp thanks
to its sourdough notes—a sip is a
bit like taking a bite of apple crisp.
Serve ice-cold in a flute glass.
Rare Only 40 cases available.
O’Leary Unoaked
Chardonnay 2011, $14.95
This new offering at the
LCBO is a partnership
between Dragon’s Den’s
Kevin O’Leary and Niagara’s
Vineland Estates. Try it
with pesto-sauced pies.
Ponce notes “This
Chardonnay shows how
delicious the grape can
be when treated with kid
gloves. It’s light and quaffable,
and the white-peach flavours
nicely complement
the licorice whip of basil.”
Fielding Red Conception
2010, $18.95
This Niagara red is a
blend of Merlot, Cabernet
Sauvignon, Pinot Noir,
and Syrah. It’s a perfect
pizza wine for vegetarians.
Ponce notes “Despite
the ripe vintage, this red is
light and bright, with enough
acid to handle the ’za.
It makes your taste buds
dance Gangnam-style when
mushrooms enter the equation.”
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This week in fashion
Your weekly guide to the city’s style scene. BY LORETTA CHIN
Scout is celebrating its first anniversary.
EVENTS
■ Valentine K, a Toronto label of
vintage-inspired cashmere sweaters,
is holding a trunk show at DEW
(1553 Bayview Ave., 647-436-1232)
from Oct. 18 to 21. Designed by former
Fashion Television alumnus Lauren
Waters McLachlan, the knitwear
collection comes in 15 different
colours and prints (including a newly
introduced woven houndstooth)
and with the line’s signature leather
patchwork arms and trim ($325–$425).
Three different styles are available:
The Best Friend Pullover, The Carolina
Sweater (a longer pullover),
and a cardigan.
■ Get a complimentary naturalmakeup application with the
purchase of $50 or more in green
beauty products at The Detox Market
(367 King St. W., 416-548-9879)
from Oct. 20 to 23.
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■ Attend the debut of Myths in
Existence, the latest collection from
Toronto Speech jewellery designer
Michael Mercanti on Oct. 23. It’s
also the launch of Speech’s online
shop. Mercanti—whose gritty, raw
designs have been worn by Grimes
and Florence Welch—says his new
pieces ($100–$180) are inspired by
“modern symbolism and music.” The
party will be held at V (702 Queen St.
W.) and runs from 7–11 p.m., with a
performance by Montreal-based indie
pop band TOPS. Oysters and drinks
will be served. RSVP to natalie@
ssspeech.com.
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OPENINGS
■ Managing your fashion finances
might get a little easier with the
opening of Marshalls’ first downtown
location on Oct. 18. The off-price
retailer of brand-name and designer
fashion has moved into a heritage
building at 126 John St. in the
entertainment district. The store
offers clothing, accessories, and
footwear at up to 60 per cent off
regular prices. It also houses an
in-store boutique dedicated to teens
called The Cube. Thousands of new
items are delivered weekly and no two
stores carry the same merchandise.
(There are over a dozen locations in
Ontario.) Marshalls is owned by TJX
Companies Inc., which also operates
Winners and HomeSense.
Featured product available at select LCBO stores.
Prices subject to change without notice.
Price offers in effect until Nov. 11, 2012.
SALES
■ Call time for the fall edition of the
Canadian Alliance of Film &
Television Costume Arts & Design
Movie Wardrobe Sale is 9 a.m. on
Oct. 20. The location: Pinewood
Toronto Studios (225 Commissioners
St., Bouchette Street entrance).
The scene: the sale of vintage and
contemporary fashion and costumes
from locally shot film and television
productions. Starring: more than 30
costume designers, stylists, retailers,
wholesalers, and inventory from
industry rental houses. Admission:
$5. The sale wraps at 5 p.m.
■ Explore a treasure trove of eclectic
collectibles (some museum-quality)
at the Absolutely Vintage Clothing
Show and Sale in Leslieville on Oct.
20 from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Occupying the
three-room historic Maple Cottage
(62 Laing St.), this bi-annual sale is a
top-notch mix of antique and costume
jewellery, accessories, ephemera,
textiles, and clothing for both men and
women. Showcasing the extensive
collections are a trio of veterans—
Gadabout, Eclectisaurus, and Angela
McCool—and a new vendor: Madeleine
Colleran of Phoenix Vintage, who
re-works vintage clothes using
traditional patterns and methods.
■ Independent retailer Leah Eyles,
owner of Scout, is hosting a customerappreciation night on Oct. 18 to
celebrate her store’s first birthday.
Drop in to the adorable Roncy gift shop
(405 Roncesvalles Ave., 416-546-6922)
between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. for snacks
and refreshments and receive a 20
per cent discount on everything in the
store. Scout specializes in handmade
goods such as letterpress cards,
jewellery, housewares, items for mother
and child, handbags, and accessories
from Canadian designers like Kerri
Westlake, Noujica, and Isak & Inger.
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CULTURAL ICONS OFFER WISDOM ON BORROWING
“Neither a borrower
nor a lender be, for
loan oft loses both
itself and friend…”
—William Shakespeare,
playwright
“Dad, I need $300.”
—Hilary Banks,
spoiled brat,
The Fresh Prince
of Bel Air
_THE MONEY ROOKIE
The ties that fund
From the outside looking in, my life earlier
this year appeared to be unfolding like a Candace Bushnell novel: A young, starry-eyed girl
makes the move from sleepy mid-sized town
to The Big Smoke to pursue her dreams of
writing, moves in with a quirky-yet-loveable
roommate, and hijinks ensue. And, as is the
case with Bushnell’s Sex and the City heroine Carrie Bradshaw, people were wondering
how I had the money to fund my new downtown lifestyle. As it turns out, I didn’t. With
not much more than first month’s rent in
the bank, I quickly realized the error of my
rushed decision.
So, feeling like a downcast baby bird who’d
made her first wobbly flight only months earlier, I begrudgingly called my mom and dad to
ask for financial assistance. (If it’s any consolation, I pay interest in self-inflicted guilt.) I’m
one of the lucky ones, and I know that, believe
me. Not everyone has the luxury of having two
parents who are willing to (temporarily) help
bail you out of your financial gaffes. Mercifully, I’m not alone: According to a recent RBC
study, 78 per cent of Canadians have personally
loaned or borrowed up to $500 or more from
friends or family members. But if you think
it would be less complicated to borrow from
mom than a bank, think again.
Our families know us better than anyone,
so any wrongdoing, even a financial one, is a
slight at close range. Recently, even the paragons of mother-daughter harmony—Lindsay
and Dina Lohan—experienced a very public
bust-up over a $40,000 mortgage loan, among
other things. If the Lohans can’t make it work,
what hope is there for the rest of us?
Not much, says Laurie Campbell, CEO of
Credit Canada Debt Solutions. A large percentage of her clients are in dire financial straits,
and on limited speaking terms with their relatives, thanks to loans gone awry. “It’s just such a
mess,” she says. “They’ve either loaned money
directly to a family member or co-signed on
a loan that they’re not being paid back for.
Because it’s family, there’s this expectation
that you don’t really need to pay them back
right away. Then, every time you see them, you
know that you owe them money. The relationship’s balance has shifted and there can be real
discomfort that surfaces afterwards.”
There are, of course, obvious upsides to borrowing from the Bank of Rich Uncle Tony over,
say, the Bank of Montreal: You’re not subjected
to a barrage of service and product offers, rigid
payment schedules, or those lofty interest rates
that can really stymie your upward climb out
of debt. If you’re considering hitting up a relative for money, make sure you choose your
backer wisely. Being on good terms with a family member is just as important as their financial situation. “If the relationship is a bit rocky
to begin with,” says Campbell, “this could definitely put it over the edge.”
Even though it might seem a bit impersonal,
Campbell recommends approaching an intrafamily loan as you would any other business
transaction. Resentment and confusion often
stem from the lender interpreting the money
as a short-term loan, and the recipient viewing it as a gift. “It’s amazing how quickly that
relationship will sour if you get the feeling that
you’ve been taken advantage of,” says Campbell. “It’s not even about the money.” Be sure
to establish immediately whether payback is
necessary to avoid any miscommunication.
Once that’s out of the way, start outlining the
terms of the loan—and do it in writing. Come
to an agreement on the amount of money being
loaned, and figure out how the funds will be
transferred—will you send a cheque? A wire
transfer? A carrier pigeon? Make sure to settle
on a repayment schedule and any interest that
the lender will collect over the course of the
reimbursement period. And kids, if you’re having problems with payback, don’t let them fester: Tell mommy and daddy all about it as soon
as you realize you’re in trouble.
“Make sure you’re committing to something
you can do,” warns Campbell. “There’s nothing
worse than saying, ‘I’ll pay you back $500 next
month,’ when you have no intention of doing
that. If you need to renegotiate the terms, discuss this openly.” Finally, as tempting as it
might be to punctuate requests to “pass the
stuffing” with comments like “and my money,
you thieving bastard” at family get-togethers,
Campbell stresses the importance of setting
up acceptable times and places to discuss the
debt. (This does not include the dinner table.)
Slowly but surely, I’m finding my financial
footing. My current closet doesn’t exactly
resemble a Manolo Blahnik showroom, but
baby steps, right? In the interim, though, it’s
nice to know my family has my back through
bank accounts thick and thin—that is, until
mom shows up when I’m 40 with my stack
of IOUs.
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THIS WEEK How to avoid a falling out after shaking the family tree for money. BY KATIE UNDERWOOD
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That’s not
Anna Wintour...
and this is not
your average
fashion guide
There are zero rail-thin models. There are no $2,500 designer
gowns. And we haven’t used the word fashionista once (except for
just now). There are plenty of clothes, shoes, and accessories—all
of which can be found in this city at a reasonable price. Don’t be so
surprised: It’s never been a better time to be a shopper in Toronto.
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Since when
did Toronto
have so
much stuff?
Oct. 18-Oct. 24, 2012 |
Holy H&M!
A recent history
of foreign
chains opening
in Toronto.
United Colors of
Benetton (Italy)
102 Bloor St. W.
1983
Urban Outfitters (U.S.)
235 Yonge St.
French Connection
(U.K.)
11 Bloor St. W.
Old Navy (U.S.)
Eaton Centre
Zara (Spain)
50 Bloor St. W.
American Apparel (U.S.)
499 Queen St. W.
H&M (Sweden)
Fairview Mall
Abercrombie
& Fitch (U.S.)
Eaton Centre
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What’s on your fall shopping list?
31
I’m wearing Queen West
What does an outfit put together by a neighbourhood look like? We started with a plain, white t-shirt
and went store-to-store, asking Toronto retailers to add something to the look. The resulting ensembles
were surprisingly cohesive and totally wearable. By Briony Smith
By Danielle Groen
I was a mid-’90s mall rat. Shopping could be a sport at my north Toronto
high school, and I—having little interest in clothes but plenty of onlychild competitiveness—wanted a respectable showing. I did not want,
however, to put in the 10,000 hours required for greatness in grungyhippie dressing, so malls appeased my need for a shortcut: maximum
stores (here’s the Gap, here’s Le Château, here’s somewhere that sells
Birkenstocks) with minimal real estate between them. Back then, a similarly condensed shopping trip outdoors meant a journey to Kensington
or Queen West or…nope, that was basically it. I spent afternoons in those
areas, but I spent more afternoons at Yorkdale, where it was possible to
get your ears pierced and get something trashy from Suzy Shier and
smoke at the back tables of Michel’s Baguette Bakery Café.
We’ve talked endlessly, it seems, about the city’s culinary growth—
our tacos, fish charcuterie, pig’s-blood pasta, and nifty bar snacks—
but less noise has been made over our evolving retail landscape. And
friends, this is a very good time to be a Toronto shopper. Even the most
casual of sartorialists knows that her beyond-the-mall alternatives are
no longer confined to either side of Spadina: The map has broadened,
with further-flung corners of the city emerging as prominent fashion
haunts, each with its own particular aesthetic. You’ll find, for starters,
Philistine, The Future of Frances Watson, and Community 54 in Parkdale, where heritage Canadiana holds court. Leslieville offers Doll Factory by Damzels and Nathalie-Roze & Co. for girly, craftier looks. Dundas West boasts Magwood and Woodlawn, Dalston Grey, and Bridge +
Bardot—a mix of vintage finds and small, hyper-cool labels.
The advance of these local boutiques has been matched by the migration of American and European chains. In the past half-dozen years,
Toronto welcomed outposts of Abercrombie & Fitch, Anthropologie,
Brooks Brothers, and Victoria’s Secret, as well as Topshop, Massimo
Dutti, and J. Crew. Next year will deliver Target, that pantheon of discount celebrity-designer collections (and candy), while the mammoth
department store Nordstrom is slated to open in Sherway Gardens by
2016. Rumours have The Bay bringing Bloomingdale’s to its Bloor West
location later this year. Even Yorkdale is almost unrecognizable from
my childhood—the mall’s already packed with imports like Burberry,
Michael Kors, Tory Burch, and Kiehl’s, and is currently undergoing a
$220-million facelift that’ll add nearly 145,000 square feet. (Also, no
more smoking at Michel’s back tables.)
There are straightforward reasons why American stores in particular
have inched their way northward: Our dollar is strong, we have more
disposable income and less inclination to shop online, and our malls
fetch 50 per cent more in sales per square foot than their U.S. counterparts (mall rats die hard). Business is booming for them. The upshot
for us is that Toronto has moved from a place of retail adequacy to one
of abundance. Between homegrown shops and the rapid expansion of
international chains, we’re spoiled for choice.
But as a consequence, all that choice has spoiled another ritual from
my vanished youth: We are witnessing the death of the Buffalo run.
Cross-border shopping was once a necessity for any serious outfit supplementing—match your vintage Kensington cords with some chunky
Old Navy sweater; slip a teal-blue Victoria’s Secret bra under your
Queen West concert tee. Those purchases gave us the thrill of exclusivity (can’t get this chunky sweater in Canada) with the assurance of
populist appeal (after all, we first saw the sweater in a TV commercial).
It’s a combination that speaks forcefully to teenagers, and it’s why I’ve
probably left a solid week and a half of my life on the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge.
These trips, with their day-off urgency and girl-bonding opportunities—trips that, let’s be clear, extended well into my 20s—marked
shopping as an occasion. In that way, at that time, they were like dining out in Toronto, when decent restaurants were scarce and making a
reservation was the prelude to something special. (This was way back,
young’uns, when restaurants still took reservations.) Now we eat out
every week, because we can, because there are ample quality options
at our doorsteps. And we shop here, comprehensively, because a single 501-streetcar ride can yield an entire wardrobe’s worth of clothing
from stylish local stores and boldface foreign chains. Hopping in the
car to commute a great distance to secure the good stuff you can’t get
at home—that tends to be a small-town tradition. Apologies to Buffalo,
but Toronto is a full-service city.
Jimmy, 25, editorial intern
A new pair of black jeans, because mine
have a hole in the crotch.
Carly, 24, student
I really want a shawl-collar, Hudson Bay
Co. sweater. You know, the one with the
stripes on it.
Queen
west
+
Amy, 22, student
A burgundy knit scarf.
+
+
Neil, 30, writer
My fall must-have? This wig, obviously.
Mikael, 28, photographer
A Filson wool jacket and matching vest.
Lana, 20, taking a gap year
Woolly knit caps.
+
+
=
› Sydney’s
Ashleigh, 28, retail manager
I want the biggest cardigan ever, thighhigh socks, and floral everything.
Taca, 35, hair/makeup artist
I’m going for a ’60s British look this fall.
More suits, a slightly mod look.
Chelcie, 23, hairstylist
I want a nice knit sweater. I know, it’s the
lamest thing ever.
962 Queen St. W., 647-348-7673.
Pilot jacket, $545.
“The colour of the jacket is
pretty easy to build off of, while
the tweed means you can dress
it up or down.”—Chris Naidu,
social-media manager
682 Queen St. W., 416-603-3369.
United Stock Dry Goods jeans, $135.
“Dark denim goes with everything.
A well-made pair of jeans can
dress up a white tee instantly.
Along with that varsity jacket,
you just need to roll up the denim
and put a pack of cigarettes in
the sleeve cuff and you’re ready!”
—Sandra Kim, manager
› Fred Perry
› Joe Fresh
› Oliver Spencer
964 Queen St. W., 416-538-3733.
Cardigan, $165.
“This cardigan is a really great
staple that you can use for
many different looks. It builds
on the preppy look of the white
tee and the varsity jacket.”
—Natasha Cook, manager
Sean, 19, student
Definitely a Céline bag.
Patrick, 21, student
Anything in tweed, brown leather, or
army green.
Sharaz, 16, high-school student
Thick sweaters and a nicer pair of jeans.
585 Queen St. W., 416 361-6342.
Circle scarf, $16.
“The scarf adds depth to the
outfit. It’s pretty neutral, so the
grey gives you a platform to build
on. It’s the raw city look—it’s
more Tribeca now, less varsity.”
—Raymond Deslandes, manager
Photographs by Angela Lewis
› Aldo
349 Queen St. W., 416-340-9882.
Shoes, $110.
“These shoes dress the outfit
up with their sharp, clean lines.”
—Liz Nolan, sales lead
› Klaxon Howl
706 Queen St. W., 647-436-6628.
Palmer trading satchel, $295.
“The bag matches the ruggedness
of the final outfit. It’s not
precious.”—Lena Kim, manager
“I really like the final outfit. The jacket is
definitely something I would wear on my
own, and I quite like the thickness of the
denim—they seem like they would only get
better with age. I personally wouldn’t
wear the shoes—I’m not keen on rubber
soles—and I wouldn’t wear an infinity
scarf.” Mike Dell, 32, pianist with the band Suzana d’Amour
32 | Oct. 18-Oct. 24, 2012
Oct. 18-Oct. 24, 2012 |
Lacoste (France)
131 Bloor St. W.
Forever 21 (U.S.)
220 Yonge St.
2007
Steve Madden (U.S.)
Fairview Mall
(1800 Sheppard Ave. E.)
2008
2009
+
Anthropologie (U.S)
Shop at Don Mills
(1090 Don Mills Rd.)
2009
Victoria’s Secret (U.S.)
Yorkdale Shopping
Centre
Stuart Weitzman (U.S.)
Eaton Centre
Marshalls (U.S.)
23 Brentcliffe Rd.
UGG (Australia)
23 St. Thomas St.
Topshop (U.K.)
Yorkdale Shopping
Centre
J. Crew (U.S.)
Yorkdale Shopping
Centre
Free People (U.S.)
79 Yorkville Ave.
Coming soon:
Target (U.S.)
March/April
2010
2010
2011
2011
2011
2011
2012
2013
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Dundas
and
Ossington
+
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› Woodlawn
› Danier
416-598-1159.
Greta Constantine Skin for
Danier skirt, $169.
“The skirt’s a sleek, chic,
sophisticated piece—it’s such
a great staple to start with. The
mix of leather and fabric contrasts
well with the simplicity of the
tee.”—Amanda Lorefice, manager
+
1418 Dundas St. W., 416-818-3975.
Vintage fox-fur collar, $75.
“The subtle grey tones of the fur
balance out the starkness of the
white tee. White is such a dramatic
colour—you need the rich green
of the coat and the different tones
in the fur to work together. And
adding a piece of vintage fur to
any outfit looks next-level
elegant.”—Sarah Magwood, owner
416-598-2065.
Gloves, $12.
“The trend of the season is
classic elegance, so a dainty
glove really evokes that feel.
The black-and-white trend is
also very strong, so these work
well together.”—Paige Sevenson,
assistant manager
› Lost & Found
1255 Dundas St. W., 647-348-2810.
J.W. Hulme Co. bag, $350.
“It’s classic and minimal, but so
versatile—it really matches this
outfit.”—Jonathan Elias, co-owner
› Life of Manek
› Armed
› Dalston Grey
1317 Dundas St. W., 416-840-5447.
Gat Rimon sleeveless blazer, $267.
“Dove grey and white work
well together, and the doublebreasted style makes the white
tee more formal.”—Navroz Lalani,
sales associate
1024 Dundas St. W., 647-988-9462.
Necklace, $150.
“I like the juxtaposition of the
pretty, feminine necklace with the
plain-Jane t-shirt. It’s interesting
to see something usually worn
with a fancy outfit paired with a
more casual piece, especially since
the brass tones stand out from the
white tee.”—Désirée Girlato, owner
+
=
› Smart Set
=
› Magwood
1504 Dundas St. W., 647-347-2635.
J Brand jeans, $205.
“The jeans complement the green,
and the cherry-black colour is great
for fall. It’s almost like a new basic.
Rather than having the old whitetee-and-black-jeans look, it’s good
to have a hint of colour in there.”
—Clara Gold, manager/buyer
eaton
centre
+
+
1491 Dundas St. W., 416-551-8000.
Ganni poodle coat, $275.
“I love forest green. It’s a
seldom-worn colour but looks
great on almost everyone, and
goes great with a crisp white tee.
The coat dresses up the tee when
worn open, and paired with
jeans and some short boots,
it’s the perfect outfit for fall.”
—Ainaz Maleko, owner
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› Costa Blanca
“I am a jeans-and-t-shirt kind of girl, so
this outfit complemented my everyday
style. They pulled pieces that I would wear
and amped up the look with jewels and
fur, which could take me from day to night
easily. That is a quality I like in an outfit!”
Jaclyn Locke, 27, fashion photographer
416-977-9754.
Poncho, $49.
“It jazzes up the simple skirt
and white t-shirt, and mixes
up the textures, too.”
—Brooke Cafaro, keyholder
› Sears
416-349-7111.
Jessica cardigan, $25.
“A cardigan with a slim fit and
light fabric is good for layering
and lends a bit of class to
the outfit.”—Chaendra Gittens,
department manager
› Call It Spring
416-340-2563.
Booties, $65.
“These booties go with
anything. They’re so chic
that you could wear them
with a white tee, leather skirt,
or that cape, and it works.”
—Maricris De Guerto,
assistant manager
› Little Burgundy
416-260-0497.
Clutch, $40.
“It’s a stand-out piece to
finish off the outfit—whether
it’s your shoes or your purse,
your accessories should
always stand out.”—Theofani
Bakalopoulos, manager
“I thought that the final outfit was pretty impressive considering
it was 100 per cent from the mall. I had no idea that Costa Blanca
did Lindsey Thornburg knock-offs. I would definitely wear the
Greta Constantine for Danier skirt again.”
Shawna Robinson, 31, creative director at Label Clothing
34 | Oct. 18-Oct. 24, 2012
Oct. 18-Oct. 24, 2012 |
Fall trends, bitches
Starring nine of the city’s most stylish stylists.
The Art Department
Monique Vinent and Dustin Granofsky
Monique, stylist, Aquilibrium Salon & Spa,
1383 Wilson Rd. N., 905-404-9097.
Dustin, barber, Garrison’s Barbershop,
907 Queen St. W., 416-703-8602.
The Models
June Croken, left, and Nitziti Eyob
June, owner and stylist, June Croken Hairdresser
on Fire, 313 Queen St. W., junecroken.com.
Niziti, stylist, Qi Salon, 37 King St. E.,
King Edward Hotel, 416-868-0123.
Long-lasting
The Fashion Editor
Leesa Berry
Owner and stylist, Leesa Berry
Haircutting, 264 Dunn Ave.,
647-223-8408.
Versatile
For women
For men
35
Degree of
difficulty
What’s
up with
burgundy?
And other fall
trends explained
Styling by Jessica Albano
Words by Carley Fortune
Photograph by
Matt Barnes
Maison
Martin
Margiela
Camel (on Trevor)
Camel, both the fabric and the
colour, is one of those things that
just never goes out of style. And
yet there aren’t very many men,
especially young men, walking
around the city wearing long camel
coats. Bad call, because there are
few other ways to look sexier in the
drab months post-October than by
slipping one over whatever you’re
wearing: jeans, a suit, or more
caramel-hued pieces, like loads of
designers did (take a look at how
Maison Martin Margiela put the
outfit together). This year, if there’s
one thing more baller than camel,
it’s camel on camel.
Club
Monaco
The Designers
Trevor Odho and Jon Roth
Trevor, stylist, Fringe, 1336 Queen St. W., 416-588-1336.
Jon, stylist, Crows Nest, 35 Kensington Ave., 647-346-4333.
THE OFFICE
Centre for Social Innovation
215 Spadina Ave., 4th floor, 416-979-3939.
The Editor-in-Chief
Priscilla Medeiros
Owner, esthetician, and stylist, West Salon
and Spa, 1188 Queen St. W., 647-348-4088.
The Assistant
Steve Kwok
Stylist, Sassoon Salon,
37 Avenue Rd., 416-920-1333.
Leather (on June)
You’re probably going to laugh
when you read that leather is a
trend for autumn and winter, right?
36 | Oct. 18-Oct. 24, 2012
Oct. 18-Oct. 24, 2012 |
TRENDS YOU
MAY WANT
TO STAY
AWAY FROM
THIS FALL
It’s like saying black’s all the rage.
When isn’t leather fashionable?
But leather (both real and faux) is
freaking everywhere! It’s on your
jackets, pants, skirts, coat sleeves,
tees, shirt collars, and we bet we
can find it on undies, too. You
can go full-on with animal skins,
as many designers did—Fendi,
Alexander Wang, Versace, Ann
Demeulemeester, and plenty of
others were outfitting Lisbeth
Salander lookalikes. Or you can
add a touch here and there. Club
Monaco, which has a tremendous
fall collection this year, has added
subtle hints to its pieces, like
trim on the lapels and pockets of
a wool plaid coat ($389).
Céline
OVERSIZED COATS (on Nitziti)
Things you can hide under these
coats include a whole turkey, three
inflated balloons, and a pregnancy.
As with the pear shape, this fall’s
silhouettes arrive just in time for
scoffing down an entire platter of
your mom’s holiday baking. And if
that’s not enticing enough for you,
just think about the thick, woolly
sweaters you can fit underneath
them. These coats, on the runway
at Céline, Chloé, and Jil Sander,
are so voluminous that no one is
going to mistake the bulk for your
bulge. Zara is a good bet for finding
one at a price suitable for a look
that’s not exactly timeless.
BIG, FLUFFY HATS, MARC
JACOBS (YOU WON’T
MAKE FRIENDS ON THE
SUBWAY, SIDEWALK, OR
AT THE THEATRE).
OVERSIZED
SHOULDERS, THOM
BROWNE (THE WRONG
KIND OF BUFF).
Burberry
Prorsum
BRITISH GENTRY (on Jon)
If you look like you’re about
to gather the hounds, mount a
horse, and take off across the
British countryside in pursuit of a
terrified fox, then you’ve mastered
this look. Nubbly tweeds, Ralph
Lauren checks, and elbow patches
are where it’s at, but that kind of
sophistication may not appeal to
you if you’re a man under the age
of, say, 60. Still, there are plenty of
modern, youthful interpretations
that won’t get you confused for
Sherlock Holmes or Giles from
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The
mall is full of the stuff, such as
the herringbone blazer and skinny
tie from Banana Republic.
Carven
of the moment, like Joan
Holloway’s bottom half on steroids.
There were quite a few extreme
examples of the shape (Stella
McCartney, Carvin) on the runway,
along with more wearable versions
(Lanvin, Rodarte). Peplums—that
extra flounce of fabric circling
around the middle—are just as in
as they were last year. You could
also try this three-step plan: Wear
a winter-weight jumper over a
full pleated skirt and fasten a belt
snugly around your waist.
Jason
Wu
Dolce &
Gabbana
BURGUNDY (on Dustin)
Need a cue for the colour of the
season? Just look at what’s being
poured out of your $9 bottle of
Friday night Malbec. Guys, of all
the fall trends, burgundy has to
be one of the easiest to incorporate
into your regular rotation of
jeans and plaid button-ups. Here’s
how you do it: Pick up a pair of
merlot-hued trousers (Gap has
a pair of cords for $70 and Joe
Fresh has a similar, slimmer style
for a measly $19) and throw on
a black shirt. Seriously, that’s all
there is to it. And you’ll look like
a rock star. A rock star with really,
really cool pants.
PEAR SHAPE
(on Monique and Leesa)
Sir Mix-a-Lot’s preference for
women with “little in the middle
but got much back” seems to be
shared by many designers this
season. Cinched-in waists and
fullness through the hips and,
yes, backside is the silhouette
FLORALS AND BROCADE
(on Monique and Priscilla)
At first, jewel-tone florals and
metallic brocades in silks, satins,
and velvet may say “Rosedale
window treatment,” but on a
wicked dress and a confident
woman, that Old World fustiness
becomes totally sexy. Proof: the
frocks from Erdem, embroidered
mini-dresses from Balmain, and
cocktail attire from Marchesa.
These are not the sweet flowery
prints that you might find on
cottage bedding. We’re partial to
the Adelita brocade number from
Anthropologie ($198).
M
Y
CM
MY
CY
CMY
K
TURTLENECKS
PULLED UP TO YOUR
NOSE, ALEXANDER
WANG (IT’S BAD FOR
CONVERSATION).
could gently ease into the trend
with a Fair Isle–patterned knit tie
from Oliver Spencer.
Topman
J.Crew
PATTERNED KNITS
(on Steve)
Bill Cosby is your man. Your
sweater should look like it could
be mistaken for one of his Cosby
Show numbers. It’s 2012’s ironic
fashion statement, like trucker hats
or sweatshirts with wolves on them.
Don’t be frightened: This is all
about injecting a little silliness into
your decidedly unfunny collection
of striped knit jumpers. Highbrow
fashion houses—Ermenegildo
Zegna, for example—are even
doing slightly untasteful patterns.
Head to Tommy Hilfiger, J.Crew,
or any one of Toronto’s vintage
stores to find them. We spied one
from Topman (the men’s section of
Topshop at The Bay), with elbow
patches, for $56. If it’s still a bit
too ridiculous for your liking, you
BRIGHT ACCESSORIES
(on Leesa and Steve)
While fall tones tend to be earthy,
bright colours aren’t going anywhere
for fall. But a neon-green cashmere
sweater isn’t the most versatile
of pieces. Eye-popping belts and
pumps are a more reasonable way
to wear Popsicle shades, paired
with jeans and a tee or a plain dress.
Right now, the racks at J.Crew are
a rainbow of fabric (including that
neon-green cashmere sweater, if
you’re interested), and they also
have leather skinny belts, both
matte and patent, in an almost
confusingly wide array of hues
($54). For footwear, H&M and Aldo
have your back.
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MATCHING (on Leesa)
For years, we’ve been living by
the words of What Not to Wear’s
Stacy London: “Things don’t
have to match, they have to go.”
Matching your purse to your coat
CANZINE2012
FESTIVAL OF ZINE CULTURE & THE INDEPENDENT ARTS
Sunday October 21 at the 918 Bathurst Centre,
918 Bathurst Street (2 blocks north of Bloor)
Open 1:00 to 7:00 p.m. $5 admission
For a complete schedule of Canzine events, visit:
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Erdem
COBALT (on Leesa)
Every season, designers seem to
favour certain colours. Cobalt
blue, which happily looks rad on
every skin tone, is one of them
this year. They particularly liked
pairing it with black, as in both
Marc Jacobs’s and Zac Posen’s
collections. There’s oodles of it in
Toronto shops—mostly in bags
and sweaters. It’s a rich shade of
blue, so don’t be surprised if you
see it in cocktail dresses as the
holiday season approaches.
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to your belt to your shoes was
like wearing a sign that read,
“I have no creativity, and I love
the ’80s.” Well, step off, Stacy,
because matching is back. On the
runway, it was all about wearing
multiple pieces in the same
pattern. Miuccia Prada featured
suits in psychedelic patterns
with matching pants and jackets
for both her Miu Miu and Prada
collections, and she was just one
of many designers doing so.
For less of a Don Cherry vibe,
you could just try matching
your nail polish to something
you’re wearing.
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store directory
$120) and ring ($36), Love of Mine
Boutique, 781 Queen St. W.,
416-368-4999; booties ($180),
Nine West, various locations,
ninewest.ca.
On Trevor
Shirt ($30), H&M,
various locations,
hm.com/ca; tie ($15),
H&M; Plectrum by
Ben Sherman cardigan ($158),
Ben Sherman, 734 Queen St. W.,
416-603-7437; blazer ($298), Ben
Sherman; Georgetown trousers
($110), Over the Rainbow,
101 Yorkville Ave., 416-967-7448;
Tiger of Sweden shoes ($299),
Deluxe Boutique, 793 Queen St. W.,
416-603-3704.
On Nitziti
Line & Dot top ($130),
Charlie Boutique,
809 Queen St. W.,
647-436-8452; Rich & Skinny
waxed-cotton jeans ($250), Over
the Rainbow, 101 Yorkville Ave.,
416-967-7448; coat ($144),
Topshop at The Bay, 176 Yonge St.,
416-861-9111; necklace ($36), Love
of Mine Boutique, 781 Queen St. W.,
416-368-4999; Boutique 9 by Nine
West booties ($325), Nine West,
various locations, ninewest.ca.
On June
Designers Remix
Charlotte Eskildsen
Signature dress ($469),
Deluxe Boutique, 793 Queen St. W.,
416-603-3704; Bod & Christensen
leather jacket ($399), Deluxe
Boutique; necklaces ($59 and
On Jon
Shirt ($19), Joe Fresh,
various locations,
joefresh.com; blazer
($685), Ted Baker,
opening Nov. 16 at Yorkdale
Shopping Centre; chinos ($148)
and shoes ($148), Penguin,
700 Queen St. W., 416-504-1234.
On Monique
Dress ($355), Ted
Baker, opening
Nov. 16 at Yorkdale
Shopping Centre;
belt ($12), Joe Fresh,
various locations,
joefresh.com; shoes ($120), Aldo,
various locations, aldoshoes.com.
On Dustin
Shirt ($125), Lacoste,
Toronto Eaton Centre,
416-593-0001; sweater
($138) and shoes ($178),
Ben Sherman, 734 Queen St. W.,
416-603-7437; bowtie ($8), Courage
My Love, 14 Kensington Ave.,
416-979-1992; blazer ($285),
Scotch & Soda, Toronto Eaton
Centre, 647-477-4095; trousers
($135), Scotch & Soda; Happy Socks
($13), A2Zane, 753 Queen St. W.,
416-803-7754; glasses ($10),
Public Butter, 1290 Queen St. W.,
416-535-4343.
On Priscilla
Dress ($40) shoes
($40), H&M, various
locations, hm.com/ca;
necklace ($20), Aldo,
various locations, aldoshoes.com;
jacket ($225), Wilfred, Toronto
Eaton Centre, 416-597-0644.
On Leesa
Dress ($48),
Koopdekour popup shop at Love of
Mine Boutique,
781 Queen St. W.,
416-368-4999; jacket ($385),
Ted Baker, opening Nov. 16 at
Yorkdale Shopping Centre; CC Skye
leather bracelet ($169), A2Zane,
753 Queen St. W., 416-803-7754;
Hue tights ($16), The Bay,
various locations, thebay.com.
On Steve
Shawl cardigan
($298), Over the
Rainbow,
101 Yorkville Ave.,
416-967-7448; jeans ($39), Joe Fresh,
various locations, joefresh.com;
Gitman Bros. shirt ($225) and tie
($85), Nomad, 819 Queen St. W.,
416-202-8777; shoes ($178), Penguin,
700 Queen St. W., 416-504-1234.
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Culture
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THEATRE
■ They shoot horses,
don’t they?
Last chance to get your
World War I on: War Horse,
which has been playing
at the Princess of Wales
Theatre (RIP) since
Feb. 28, is set to close
on Jan. 6, 2013. The
show will have run
368 performances by its
closing date, making it the
longest running play—not
including musicals—in
Canadian theatre history.
One last block of tickets
is on sale for shows
starting Nov. 4; prices
range from $35-$130.
KIPL
ING
ORE
E SH
PHOTOGRAPHS JAY SHUSTER
LAK
7:22 p.m.
SATURDAY
_ LAKE SHORE AND KIPLING
Though Halloween is still a fortnight away, eager ghouls and zombies decided to
get a head start on their annual “Boo!” quota at Etobicoke’s Powerhouse of Terror,
a low-tech “haunted house attraction” on the Humber College campus.
FILM
■ Adult entertainment
Good news for film-goers
who prefer oversized seats
and a glass of Riesling with
their blockbusters: Cineplex
will bring three more VIP
auditoriums to Toronto in
the next two years. Theatres
will be added to the existing
Queensway and YongeEglinton cinemas, while
Shops at Don Mills gets a
brand-new, 21,000-squarefoot building. Cineplex
boasts Don Mills will be
the only Canadian theatre
open exclusively to
adults (we assume they’re
not counting the Metro).
ONE-HIT WONDERS
■ The bum rush
The “Steal Your Sunshine”
jokes practically write
themselves. Len’s first new
music video in nine years is
for “It’s My Neighbourhood,”
off their upcoming album,
It’s Easy if You Try. And if
said video—complete with
dramatic helicopter pans
of the financial district and
footage of people buying
fruit in Chinatown—kind of
looks like a three-minutelong tourism ad posing
as a Toronto anthem,
that’s because it kind
of is: The Grid’s own David
Topping discovered that at
least some of the clips in
“It’s My Neighbourhood”
were from B-roll produced
by Tourism Toronto, whose
VP of Communications,
Andrew Weir, confirmed
it in a tweet. “Yup,”
Weir wrote, “that’s ours.”
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Lara Zarum—television
Real or not real?
i
Big Brother Canada is scheduled to air on
Slice in winter 2013. slice.ca.
The Law of
Diminishing
Reality-TV
Returns
An American
Family (1973)
The Real
World (1992)
_WHAT DO YOU SAY?
Big Brother
(1999)
John Lydon
The erstwhile Johnny Rotten sounds off on hating Radiohead, loving Donna Summer,
and having his song played for the Queen of England. By Greig Dymond
The Surreal
Life (2003)
Celebrity
Rehab (2008)
Doing an ad for butter can help a punk legend’s career.
Despite having served as lead singer and chief songwriter
in two of the most influential bands of all time, John
Lydon (The Artist Formerly Known as Johnny Rotten)
fell off the musical radar during the past decade. Due to
financial hassles with Virgin—the label that distributed
most of the Sex Pistols’ product and all of Lydon’s subsequent post-punk albums with Public Image Ltd—he
was reduced to appearing on British reality-TV tripe like
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! But Lydon took the
money he made from appearing in a series of ads for
Country Life butter in 2008 and 2009 and resuscitated
PiL as a live act. Now, hitting the road in support of his
first new album in 20 years (This is PiL, on his own label),
the famous contrarian appears to be happier than ever.
“I’m John and I never let the bastards grind me down,”
he says, “no matter what insurmountable problems the
record label or anybody else puts in front of me. And
that’s always been the case.”
It’s tough to be modest, and even tougher
to resist criticizing Radiohead.
Modesty has never been one of Lydon’s dominant personality traits, but nevertheless, PiL were pioneers in
combining post-punk, dub, electronic, and dance music,
a recipe that’s been reheated countless times. “An awful
lot of today’s music really does owe a lot of its sequences,
notes, intonations, and set patterns to PiL,” he says. “And
that goes right across the board on all the dance stuff.
They’re using our ideas, and sometimes not properly.”
Lydon and his PiL-mates still place a premium on live
performance. “It’s our philosophy that if you can’t play
it live, why the hell are you bothering to record it? This
isn’t like a Radiohead album, all fucking blocked up in
electronic trickery. We’re real players—a perfect combination of electronica meets acoustic.”
The Olympics can be really entertaining,
even if you don’t care about track and field.
During the opening of the London Olympics, a dozen
dancers or so took centre stage and started pogoing to a
Sex Pistols track. It turns out that Lydon gave his blessing to event planner Danny Boyle to use the music,
because the director “wanted to approach the ceremony
from a working-class British point of view.” Of course,
this meant that some unlikely spectators witnessed the
punk performance: “At the opening ceremony there
was the entire Royal Family, all of them in the stadium,”
Lydon recalls. “And they’re facing an enormous screen
and it’s my face on it for a minute and 30 seconds,
screaming ‘Pretty Vacant.’ Listen, that’s a most excellent
thing. If you want to understand British culture, there it
is—that juxtaposition, all in one building.”
Apparently, disco doesn’t suck.
Although punk and disco were both born in the ’70s and
shared a mutual contempt for the hippie movement of
the previous decade, proponents of the two genres barely
tolerated each other at the time. Back in 1977, it would’ve
been shocking to discover that the man who snarled
“Anarchy in the U.K.” was a massive fan of Donna Summer—but that was indeed the case. “I loved her,” Lydon
confesses. “I got very emotional when she died [in May of
this year], because I loved her records when I was young.
Those songs are powerful anthems. They affected many
different walks of life. They brought couples together
on the dance floor; the gay movement used them as the
backbeat to get out of their doldrums. She did wonders
for black music, period. She shall be missed. Rebellion
doesn’t always have to come with a fist.”
i
Public Image Ltd play The Opera House (735 Queen St. E.)
on Oct. 18. 416-466-0313, theoperahousetoronto.com.
ILLUSTRATION ANTONY HARE
Twenty years after MTV’s The Real World introduced us to
reality television as we know it, you can find a version of
the format to suit any sensibility: You’ve got Survivor-style
physical endurance shows, you can DIY along with handymen like Mike Holmes, you can follow your favourite celebs
on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, or you can shudder at
the nadir of humanity on Hoarders, Toddlers and Tiaras, or
pretty much every show on TLC.
But Big Brother—a reality-competition progam on which
a group of strangers are confined to a house with shitty food
and no TV or internet—is the purest form of reality TV. It
may not be the zaniest (hello, The Surreal Life) or the most
fun to mock (The Bachelor, if you please), but its conceit has
a brilliant simplicity and an internal logic that takes our
addiction to the fish-bowl worlds we peer into week after
week and reflects it right back at us.
The only skill you need to be successful on the show is
an ability to manipulate people. Because the “houseguests”
vote each other off, your survival depends on alliances. You
have to be careful whose back you stab: When it’s down to
the final two, a jury of former houseguests votes for the winner, who takes home a cash prize.
A show like Survivor, on which players also vote each other
off, aims to disorient its contestants by putting them in an
unfamiliar place and testing their endurance to the point of
misery. While Survivor breaks its players with overstimulation, BB breaks the houseguests by removing stimulation:
They’re left to fester in a house that gives off the illusion of
domestic comfort. It’s like The Real World, only it actually
matters if you’re a dick to your housemates. Unless, of
course, that’s your strategy.
On Sunday morning, I went to the Big Brother Canada
auditions to speak to Mike “Boogie” Malin, who made his first
appearance on the show’s second season in 2001, and was
open about the fact that as an actor in L.A., he originally
tried out for the show to get some exposure. He went on to
win the all-star season in 2006, and entered the house again
as a “mentor” on the most recent season. By all accounts,
Malin would seem to have a Big Brother addiction—one
that’s not easy to shake. “It’s very hard to re-enter the real
world,” he said. “You’re used to having a microphone on and
having cameras watching, and when the cameras go away…
you’re kind of like, Wow, no one really cares anymore.”
I got the impression that most of the people auditioning
for the Canadian edition were trying to avoid the boring, nocameras-or-microphones kind of life Malin described. The
mostly twentysomethings lined up at the Fairmont Royal
York looked surprisingly normal for reality-show hopefuls.
Energetic representatives in Big Brother Canada t-shirts
went around telling the contenders, “Be yourself!”
Being a houseguest on BB is probably the closest you
can get to “being yourself” on a reality show. While most
heavily edit conversations (I’m looking at you, The Hills),
Big Brother shows events unfolding more or less as they
are, with a completely live season finale. And if you doubt
the editors’ judgment, you can watch a 24/7 live feed of the
show online, for a small fee.
Despite Big Brother’s Orwellian title, to many people,
constant surveillance seems to be more comforting than
being left alone. Almost everyone I spoke to at the audition was a fan of BB; they wanted to go on the show to “be
as popular as Mike Boogie,” as one man told me. “My life
is so dull and boring,” said another. “I just go to work and
come home.” One woman was hoping her real-world job
as a therapist would help her decide which houseguests to
trust; two girls from Ridgeway, Ontario, wanted…well, to
get out of Ridgeway, Ontario.
Usually we play a game with ourselves when we watch
reality shows—to borrow a line from The Hunger Games’
Peeta Mellark, real or not real? Is this contestant a ditz, or
just playing one? Is this guy’s assholery part of his strategy, or is he just an asshole? On Big Brother, the contestants themselves take part in this dilemma, one that is usually reserved for reality-TV viewers.
“You can’t really make a living doing this,” one young
man lamented, but if Mike Boogie is any indication, that’s
not necessarily true anymore. The winner of Big Brother 14
was a 21-year-old mega-fan who’d watched the show since
he was a kid. For a new generation of reality-show superfans, the real world begins when the cameras switch on.
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_LINER NOTES
Inside the cluttered mind of Michael Chabon
Having set his last three novels in comics-saturated 1940s Brooklyn (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay), an alternative-universe
Alaska (The Yiddish Policemen’s Union), and war-torn 10th-century Russia (Gentlemen of the Road), Michael Chabon comes a little closer
to home with Telegraph Avenue. Centred around the owners—one white, one black—of an Oakland vinyl shop endangered by a big-box
music store, this book sweeps from midwives to gangsters to young idealists, while taking up classically Chabonesque issues of fatherhood,
marriage, and art. The author tells us how he crafted Telegraph Avenue out of his personal obsessions. BY MIKE DOHERTY
BRUCE LEE
Characters seek refuge from their problems
at the fictional Bruce Lee Institute for Kung
Fu, run by an ancient Chinese woman
who dispenses tough love. (Lee lived and
studied in Oakland before his movie career.)
Chabon says the novel’s characters “are
always wrestling with the artistic, cultural,
and historical legacy of the 1970s.”
TELEGRAPH AVENUE
This seven-kilometre drag runs
between Berkeley, California,
home of college students and
aging hippies (and Chabon) and
the largely working-class Oakland.
Though it’s set in 2004, the novel’s
name signals the author’s attention
to all things analog: As he says,
“The title is not Tweet Avenue.”
YES
Chabon often writes with the early-’70s
output of the British band Yes playing
in the background, and there’s definitely
something prog-rock about his prose.
He stretches the limits of language
by piling clause upon clause upon
metaphor—the book’s centrepiece is
a nearly 12-page–long sentence—and
draws openly from literary influences
such as Thomas Pynchon and John
Updike. Bands like Yes, he says, prove
that “purism is the enemy of innovation.”
BERIGAN’S RECORDS
The fictional Brokeland Records was
inspired by this now-defunct Oakland
jazz emporium. For the novel’s launch,
a neighbourhood bookstore was remade
as Brokeland Records, and sold vinyl
belonging to the former Berigan’s owner.
Loyal customers of the bookstore raced
in, fearing it had been replaced.
QUENTIN TARANTINO
Chabon compares his super-long
sentence to a film’s tracking shot, and
acknowledges Tarantino as a touchstone.
Two of the novel’s younger characters
take a film seminar on Kill Bill, which, like
Telegraph Avenue, incorporates strong
female characters, a preoccupation
with martial arts, self-consciously cool
dialogue, and a theme of betrayal.
BLAXPLOITATION FILMS
The novel’s Valletta Moore was inspired by actress
Vonetta McGee, star of Shaft in Africa. It was
empowering, says Chabon, for young black viewers
to see strong black characters onscreen, “but at the
same time, [those characters] were presented as drug
dealers, pimps, and gangsters” by white directors.
Blaxploitation “was so dusted with ambiguity that it
felt like the perfect thing” for Telegraph Avenue.
BARACK OBAMA
In real life, the POTUS went to Harvard
Law School with Chabon’s wife, writer
Ayelet Waldman, though “they weren’t
BFFs or anything.” He has a cameo in
Telegraph Avenue, consoling a pregnant
character who has misgivings about her
husband and complimenting a cover
band: “Those guys are pretty funky.”
i
Michael Chabon reads
with Junot Diaz on Oct. 18
at the Fleck Dance Theatre
(207 Queen’s Quay W.)
at 8 p.m. as part of the IFOA.
_UNDER THE COVERAGE
Faceoff: LMFAO vs. IFOA
THE COLOURFUL
POP DUO
Until recently, the International Festival of Authors—colloquially known as the IFOA—was the most influential acronym
in cultural circles. But when electro-pop goofs LMFAO exploded onto the charts, IFOA’s bragging rights were threatened.
With the fest kicking off this week, we decided to settle this battle once and for all. BY DANIELLE GROEN AND SARAH LISS
Sky Blu,
Redfoo
Shufflin’
Lil Jon in
“Shots”
will.i.am
KEY
PERSONNEL
THE PRESTIGIOUS
LIT FEST
Laser synths,
squelchy
beats
PATRON
Margaret
Atwood
Cordelia
Strube,
well-read fools
DEFINING
SOUND
Candy
wrappers,
stifled coughs.
“Is that Jane
Urquhart?!”
SIGNATURE
MOVE
BOOZY
CAMEO
Shufflin’
pages
Poets at
the Westin
Harbour Castle
after-party
Sorry
for Party
Rocking
Redfoo joins
U.S. women’s
gymnastics
team’s
gold-medal tour
Jermaine
Yes
NOTABLE-JACKSON
CONNECTION
IS THERE AN
OBAMA REMIX?
MEA
CULPA
SIDE
PROJECT
Marni
Not yet
Sorry for
Alice Munro’s
no-show
IFOA
Brantford
i
WINNE
R
IFOA
(Suck
it, par
rockers ty
)
IFOA runs from Oct. 18–Oct. 28 at Harbourfront
(235 Queens Quay W.). 416-973-4760, readings.org.
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Earlier this year,
McConaughey reprised
his David Wooderson role
in the video for Butch
Walker’s “Synthesizers.”
In an homage to his
infamous 1999 pot
arrest, McConaughey
plays bongos in a
scene in Magic Mike.
_FILM
Blonde ambition
Texas actor Matthew McConaughey’s
personal motto is “Just keep livin’,”
but, for a while there, the dude’s
career just kept dyin’. He’d starred
in a string of crummy rom-coms
meant to capitalize on his
dreamboat looks (The Wedding
Planner, Failure to Launch, Fool’s
Gold). He’d been cast as the hero
in a blockbuster action comedy,
Sahara, which was supposed
to start a franchise but instead
failed to recoup its astronomical
costs. And by 2008, he’d hit
rock-bottom, playing the title role
in the self-produced Surfer, Dude,
a misbegotten stoner flick that
achieved a big, fat “zero” rating from
review-aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
Then, just when “failure to
launch” was beginning to sound
like an apt summary of his
situation, McConaughey bounced
back. After a short hiatus from
the big screen, he re-emerged last
year, playing quirkier roles in much
better movies. He was a smugly
crooked attorney in the legal
thriller The Lincoln Lawyer and a
brutally crooked cop in the trailertrash nightmare Killer Joe. He was
just this side of crooked as another
lawyer, this one determined to put
Jack Black’s lovable undertaker
behind bars, in Richard Linklater’s
mockumentary Bernie. And
he flirted with self-parody as
the studly club owner in Steven
Soderbergh’s male strip-tease saga
Magic Mike. The picture, though,
that will really throw McConaughey
fans for a loop is Lee Daniels’
The Paperboy, opening this Friday.
In this torrid, trashy crime drama,
the actor once deemed by People
to be the “Sexiest Man Alive”
plays a masochistic gay journalist
whose scarred face attests to his
near-suicidal taste for rough trade.
To quote another catchphrase
(Fred Willard’s in A Mighty
Wind), “Wha’ happened?” As
McConaughey explained in a
New York Times profile back in July,
he just got sick of the rom-com
rut and began turning those parts
down. “In a wild cyclical way,”
he said, “I started to attract these
other things.” The directors of
those “other things,” meanwhile,
seem to have recognized
something in McConaughey that
had never been fully exploited.
Call it his capacity for sleaze.
McConaughey is correct to
describe it as cyclical. After all,
he first made his mark playing
a sleazy charmer in Dazed and
Confused, Linklater’s 1993 exercise
in marijuana-fuelled 1970s
nostalgia. As moustachioed stoner
David Wooderson, McConaughey
was the college-age guy who
still hangs with the high-school
crowd so he can indulge his taste
for younger girls. (The character
also gave McConaughey his
motto. Wooderson imparts these
boneheaded words of wisdom
to the latest crop of high-school
seniors: “You just gotta keep livin’,
man. L-I-V-I-N.”)
McConaughey followed up
with an all-out psycho turn in
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw
Massacre. But after he attained
stardom, with the first of his
many lawyer roles in the 1996
film adaptation of John Grisham’s
A Time to Kill, he officially
became a Hollywood hunk.
He snagged that “Sexiest Man
Alive” citation in 2005 and spent
most of his screen time opposite
leading ladies like Kate Hudson
and Jennifer Lopez in those
chemistry-free (albeit profitable)
chick flicks.
Although McConaughey
occasionally strayed into offbeat
fare—such as Bill Paxton’s cult
horror flick Frailty—Hollywood,
perhaps blinded by those dreamy
blue eyes, didn’t recognize that
his real gift was for playing villains,
rogues, and sleazebags. It took
the auteurs behind his current
winning streak—Daniels,
Soderbergh, his old pal Linklater,
and the legendary William Friedkin,
who helmed Killer Joe—to bring out
his dark and slippery side.
McConaughey’s career reboot
is not unlike Bill Murray’s a decade
ago, when directors Wes Anderson,
Sofia Coppola, and Jim Jarmusch
steered the SNL alum away from
mainstream Ghostbusters-type
comedy and into deeper, more
interesting waters. They saw
that, behind Murray’s goofiness,
there was a melancholic strain
waiting to be tapped.
The 42-year-old McConaughey’s
comeback could also be the sign
of a new maturity. It may be no
coincidence that the weed-smoking,
bongo-drumming dude of yore is a
family man now. When not playing
killers and strippers onscreen, he’s
been playing daddy to a pair of
tykes, and he and wife Camila Alves
are expecting a third in the new
year. Those of us who were ready
to write McConaughey off as a joke,
a real-life Wooderson, are starting to
reconsider. But given the roles that
have revitalized his career, maybe
a new personal motto is in order.
How about: Just keep sleazin’?
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Rock ruckus courtesy of Jon
Spencer Blues Explosion at
the Horseshoe (Oct. 18)
Hilarious writer/comic
Brian Posehn at the Annex
Wreckroom (Oct. 19)
The mesmerizing melodies
of Cat Power at the Kool
Haus (Oct. 20)
The Normal Heart, an
essential play about AIDS,
at Buddies (Oct. 19–Nov. 18)
The Toronto After Dark Film
Festival at Bloor Hot Docs
Cinema (through Oct. 26)
What we’re
listening to (I can
read edition)
1 Elvis Costello’s early’80s hit, “Everyday I
write the Book.”
2 The reflective and
melancholy “Reading in
Bed,” by Emily Haines.
3 “Here’s Where the
Story Ends,” a literary
“souvenir of a terrible
year” by The Sundays.
4 The Arkells’ jubilant
“Book Club.”
5 “My Baby Loves a Bunch
of Authors,” a classic
slab of nerdy Cancon
by the inimitable
Moxy Früvous.
To hear these songs, visit
thegrid.to/whatwerelisteningto.
The relative virtues
of diamond things
Diamond
Rings
The
diamond
planet
_BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE
International Festival of Authors
Sparkliness
Diamond
Taxi
Though not quite as paparazzi-packed as TIFF, Toronto’s other massive international fall culture
festival boasts almost as many A-listers—and arguably, more compelling stories. This year’s
edition of IFOA features contemporary fiction stars like Junot Diaz and Michael Chabon, rising
stars like Victoria, B.C. bildungsromantic Marjorie Celona, Canlit lions like Rohinton Mistry,
and many other word wizards. Harbourfront Centre, through Oct. 28.
Accessibility
The real reasons
we’re going to see
The Paperboy
On-demand highlights
1
Mad Men: Season 5 (Blu-ray/DVD)
After a 17-month hiatus, our second-favourite
AMC drama series (Breaking Bad reigns supreme)
proved as enthralling and gorgeous as it was when we left
off. Mad Men’s fifth season had its share of the show’s
signature sharp suits and sordid affairs, but fresh elements
like drug hallucinations and a suicide shocker provided
welcome curveballs to keep things fresh.
2 Pete’s
Dragon
(Blu-ray/
DVD)
3 Excision
(Blu-ray/
DVD)
4 Chernobyl
Diaries
(Blu-ray/
DVD)
1
Moonrise Kingdom (Rogers on Demand/iTunes)
Wes Anderson’s latest delight is set on the coast
of 1960s New England, an ideal backdrop for
the director’s nostalgia-packed compositions. Blending the
tastiest ingredients from Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums,
and The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom follows a
pair of 12-year-old lovebirds who run away for a romantic
rendezvous in the wilderness. (Also new on Blu-ray/DVD.)
2 Dark
Horse
(iTunes/
Rogers on
Demand)
3 Disco
Godfather
(Netflix)
Baseball
diamonds
See music reviews on page 51.
IFOA participants (clockwise from top left): Ben Lerner, Marjorie Celona, Rohinton Mistry, Hiromi Goto, Chris Cleave, and Louise Erdrich.
New on Blu-ray/DVD
Diamond
Shreddies
4 A Fish
Called
Wanda
(Bell TV
Online/
iTunes)
Nicole Kidman
peeing on
Zac Efron
Zac Efron getting
peed on by
Nicole Kidman
See film reviews on page 47.
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style, though the frank interviews
with her children point to a less
endearing quality: The disinterest
in family life that Vreeland
developed, likely due to her frosty
relationship with her American
socialite mother.
Then again, in the conversations
with Plimpton—which are
reenacted by actors for the
film’s soundtrack—Vreeland has
zero patience with his efforts at
armchair psychoanalysis. The
documentary also prefers to
keep matters breezy, delivering
a conventional but well-packaged
summary of her achievements
while shining a light on lesserknown corners of her career, like
her costume exhibitions for the
Metropolitan Museum in New
York. As you might expect, the
roster of luminaries interviewed
here—including Richard Avedon,
Anjelica Huston, Marisa Berenson,
David Bailey, and Lauren Hutton—
reads like the guest list at one of
those exhibition’s ultra-glamorous
opening parties. But the avowedly
original and somewhat loony icon
at the centre of the film still outglams them all.—Jason Anderson
film
ALEX CROSS

The Paperboy 
Starring Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman. Written by Lee Daniels, Peter Dexter.
Directed by Lee Daniels. STC. 107 min. Opens Oct. 19.
For better and for worse, director Lee Daniels’ follow-up to 2009’s Precious has “cult film”
stamped squarely on its sweaty forehead. Its relentless flow of disturbing imagery is the
movie-going equivalent of having your face shoved in a pile of dirt for a couple of hours, and is
bound to divide audiences. Matthew McConaughey plays Miami Times reporter Ward Jansen,
who returns to his small Florida hometown in the blistering summer of 1969 with his writing
partner (David Oyelowo) to investigate the wrongful conviction of death-row prisoner Hillary van
Wetter (John Cusack). Zac Efron plays Ward’s brother, Jack, who falls in love with Charlotte Bless
(Nicole Kidman), a sexpot who is engaged to Hillary although they’ve only exchanged letters.
The first half of the film showcases Daniels’ mood-evoking skill and his ability to transform
well-known actors into almost unrecognizable id machines. But the murder-mystery set-up
melts like an ice-cream cone on a hot sidewalk as the narrative loses momentum. Kidman
is excellent as the Southern sex kitten, and McConaughey is in his element as an investigative
journalist with a hidden sexual proclivity. But the film’s roving eye wanders lazily from one
character to the next, pausing just long enough to pique the viewer’s interest before moving
on to something more titillating.
And there’s always more raw provocation just around the corner—close-up shots of an alligator
being skinned, Charlotte and Hillary’s hands-free sex when they finally meet in prison, Jack in
his uniform of tighty-whities and nothing else. The now-infamous scene where Nicole Kidman
pees on Zac Efron to relieve a jellyfish sting is actually one of the film’s least shocking scenes.
Daniels clearly has no problem with depicting physical and moral ugliness in his films, but The
Paperboy is too wrapped up in its feverish aesthetic to follow through on character development.
Consequently, the movie’s eventual outpouring of violence feels strangely tedious.—Lara Zarum
DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE
HAS TO TRAVEL

Directed by Lisa Immordino
Vreeland. PG. 86 min. Opens Oct. 19
at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
During a series of interviews
conducted a few years before she
died at the age of 86 in 1989, writer
George Plimpton asked the fashionworld empress how exactly one
becomes Diana Vreeland. Her advice
is typically quotable: “The first
thing to do, my love, is to arrange
to be born in Paris—after that,
everything follows quite naturally.”
Evidently, this strategy does not
work for everyone. Everything in
this suitably chic documentary
portrait—which was directed by its
subject’s granddaughter-in-law, Lisa
Immordino Vreeland—suggests that
Vreeland was a singular creation.
During her editorial tenure at
both Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue,
she popularized everything from
bikinis and blue jeans to many of
our most fundamental precepts
about fashion and beauty.
Yet the film’s best insight is
how much Vreeland’s childhood
experiences amid the splendour of
Paris in the 1910s would influence
her later aesthetic. It’s also easy
to see how these times instilled
in her a lust both for life and for
Starring Tyler Perry, Matthew
Fox. Written by Marc Moss, Kerry
Williamson from a novel by James
Patterson. Directed by Rob Cohen.
14A. 101 min. Opens Oct. 19.
Understandably eager to establish
a career in movies that he didn’t
direct himself and/or didn’t require
him to put on a dress, Tyler
Perry makes his boldest move
yet by assuming a role previously
occupied by Morgan Freeman in
two earlier adaptations of James
Patterson’s bestselling thrillers
starring Alex Cross, a detective,
psychologist and intrepid tracker
of serial killers. Yet Perry’s
shortcomings as a leading man
are made all too clear in a sluggish
film that variously evokes a
botched pilot for a CSI spinoff
and a community theatre rendition
of Manhunter.
Then again, connoisseurs of trash
will find many reasons to savour
Alex Cross, the first being Perry’s
painfully wooden turn as the title
character, portrayed here in an
early stage of his career as both a
devoted family man and a dogged
pursuer of Detroit’s most devious
criminals. Unfortunately for Cross
and partner Tommy (Edward Burns),
an investigation into a lurid multiple
homicide has deadly repercussions
in the detectives’ personal lives.
Despite the low, growling
voice he uses in all of the
movie’s extra-intense moments,
Perry fails to convey even the
tiniest speck of the gravitas that
Freeman brought to 1997’s Kiss
the Girls and 2001’s Along Came
a Spider, two equally ludicrous
but far more convincing Cross
mysteries. But to be fair, Perry’s
responsible for only one platter in
an exceptionally generous buffet of
bad performances. Especially aweinspiring is the scenery-chewing
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of Matthew Fox. Buff and bugeyed as the psychopathic assassin
who brings a world of pain down
on our hero, the former Lost star
gets through all but his last scene
without blinking, a feat that
should win him at least some sort
of technical Oscar.—J.A.
TAI CHI ZERO

Starring Yuan Xiaochao, Tony
Leung Ka Fai. Written by Kuo-fu
Chen. Directed by Stephen Fung.
PG. 94 min. Opens Oct. 19.
When compared to the ultrafrenetic, tricked-out contents of
Tai Chi Zero, the most crazed
chopsocky spectaculars of the
’70s and ’80s now seem as spare
and rigorous as Ingmar Bergman
movies. Like the makers of so
many recent Chinese blockbusters,
director Stephen Fung believes that
more is always more. Consequently,
his movie—which premiered at
TIFF in September before doing
big business at the Asian box
office—is under constant threat
of bursting at the seams, packed
as it is with silent-film parodies,
videogame homages, steampunk
imagery, and gravity-defying,
CG-enhanced action scenes.
As dazzling as the result often
is, Tai Chi Zero is also frustrating,
especially since what little
storyline the movie has mostly
exists to set up a sequel that
was shot at the same time. (That
follow-up, Tai Chi Hero, arrives
in Asian cinemas next weekend.)
The prevailing air of chaos also
does a disservice to the otherwise
impressive cast and crafty visual
design, which reflects the clash
of traditional values and western
technology in 19th-century China.
Chinese martial-arts champ Yuan
Xiaochao makes a respectable
debut as Yang Lu Chan, a quickfisted prodigy who becomes even
deadlier whenever anyone thumps
the small horn-like shape sticking
out of his forehead. With his
health endangered by his powers,
he journeys to a remote village
in hopes of being healed by the
townspeople’s unique kung-fu style.
Instead, he must fight alongside
them when their homes are
imperilled by a railroad company.
Fung’s film reaches such a
sustained level of lunacy that it
seems perfectly reasonable to
see the townspeople use fruits
and vegetables as weapons in the
climactic battle. By that time,
Tai Chi Zero’s elements of
restraint—like Tony Leung Ka
Fai’s sardonic turn as the only
townsperson who’s friendly to the
young interloper—have become
as rare as they are valuable.—J.A.
TORONTO AFTER DARK
Oct. 18–26 at the
Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
What with all the blood, guts, and
deviant behaviour that so often
prevail in the wild world of genre
cinema, it’s easy to overlook the
educational value of these films.For
instance, if the world is someday
threatened by blood-sucking aliens,
series
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Spanish werewolves, or murderous
houseguests, surely it’s a good thing
if some of us know how to step up
and take care of business.
If you believe that’s the case,
then you may consider your
attendance at Toronto After Dark
to be a matter of civic duty. Others
will come to sate their appetite
for chills and thrills at the annual
festival of horror, science fiction,
action, and cult flicks at the Bloor
Hot Docs Cinema.
Both camps should be pleased
with TAD’s opening selection on
Oct. 18 at 6:45 p.m. A deliriously
fun creature-feature about manytentacled beasts that lay siege
to an Irish island, Grabbers is
engaging whether it’s spoofing the
conventions of extraterrestrialinvasion tales or making light of
its characters’ fondness for drink.
Indeed, Grabbers’ stroke of genius
arrives when its heroes realize that
their only means of protecting
themselves against alien attack is
by maintaining a dangerously high
blood-alcohol level. Never before
has getting hammered seemed like
such a sensible decision.
Rambunctious horror comedies
have become a mainstay of TAD.
An especially goofy example from
Spain, Game of Werewolves, plays
the fest’s final spot on Oct. 26 at
9:30 p.m. Yet two of this year’s
best new titles are less easily
categorized. Resolution, which
screens Oct. 23 at 9:45 p.m., is an
inventive thriller by the American
team of Justin Benson and Aaron
Moorhead. Their film’s opening
set-up about a man who chains up
his troubled pal in order to get him
off meth plays more like a grubby
mumblecore drama than a genre
pic. Unfortunately for these two,
their impromptu rehab clinic soon
attracts weirdness of all sorts.
As surreal as the action gets in
Resolution, it can’t hold a candle
to Wrong, the latest exercise in
absurdism by Quentin Dupieux,
the French director better known
by his musical handle of Mr.
Oizo. Returning to the Californian
setting of 2010’s Rubber, Dupieux
presents the story of a schlubby
Everyman whose bizarre series
of misadventures begins with
the disappearance of his beloved
dog. Among the highlights of
his search are a very Being John
Malkovich–style workplace where
the employees are continually
drenched by indoor rain-showers,
and an appearance by an
indescribably weird dog expert,
played by William Fichtner. Even
TAD’s most adventurous-minded
patrons may be perplexed by
Wrong, which makes Dupieux’s film
especially deserving of its own cult.
It plays Oct. 25 at 9:45 p.m.
Further moments of inspiration
can be found in two Canadian
features at TAD. American Mary—
which screens Oct. 18 at 9:45
p.m.—is a grisly slice of surgically
inclined horror by Jen and Sylvia
Soska, identical-twin filmmakers
from Vancouver. Fuelled by a
tough performance from Ginger
Snaps’ Katharine Isabelle as a
medical student who develops a
rep for performing unusual body
modifications for her discerning
clientele, the film is enjoyably
perverse until iffy plotting
sends it awry. Another new film
from B.C., In Their Skin (Oct.
25 at 6:45 p.m.) is a hard-edged
thriller about a bourgeois family
menaced by intruders. Though
Jeremy Power Regimbal’s feature
debut is similarly distinguished
by a strong leading lady (in this
case Selma Blair as the mom in
jeopardy), it suffers in comparison
with earlier films that preyed
on home-invasion worries, most
obviously Michael Haneke’s Funny
Games. Even so, it still provides
moviegoers with useful tips on
handling unwanted visitors.—J.A.
that go bump in the night. (Late
press screening; see our review at
thegridto.com/film.)
THE IMAGINENATIVE FILM +
MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
To Oct. 21.
Eighty film and video works
from around the world are
presented at the world’s largest
indigenous media arts festival.
(Programme info available at
imaginenative.org.)
NOW PLAYING
STORIES WE TELL

Starring Michael Polley, Harry Gulkin.
Written and directed by Sarah Polley.
14A. 108 min.
Sarah Polley’s first two features as
a director, Away From Her and Take
This Waltz, were skilfully crafted,
emotionally rich dramas. Neither,
however, quite prepared us for the
artistic leap she makes with Stories
We Tell. Her new film, a unique
documentary about her family,
is her most complex, playful, and
deeply moving work to date.
In this investigation into her
origins, Polley sets out to piece
together the facts about her parents’
marriage and the circumstances
of her birth by drawing on the
various—at times, conflicting—
memories of her father, siblings, and
family friends. The main storyteller
is Michael, the filmmaker’s father,
who reads a memoir he has written
of his life with her mother, Diane—
a sometime actress, who died
when Polley was 11. Michael’s tale
becomes the main thread guiding
us through this story-labyrinth,
where surprises await around every
corner. The central one concerns
Polley’s realization that a long-time
family joke—that Michael isn’t
her biological father—may in
fact be true, and her attempt to
discover which of her mother’s
lovers is her real dad. Even at its
most cerebral, Stories We Tell is
buoyed by wry humour (often
courtesy of Polley’s sibs) and a
quiet, steady undercurrent of
emotion.—Martin Morrow
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Wed 12:10-4-9:40
$ NOBODY WALKS (STC) Thu 1-6:45-9
SAMSARA (PG) Thu-Sun 11:50-2-4:10-6:208:30-10:40 Mon 6:20-8:30-10:40 Tue, Wed 11:502-4:10-6:20-8:30-10:40
Varsit y ✸☎
MANULIFE CTR, BLOOR AT BAY 416-961-6303
$ ANTIVIRAL (STC) Thu 2:10-4:45-7:20-9:55
ARBITRAGE (14A) Thu 1:35-4:10-9:45 Fri-Sun
11:35-2:10-4:45-7:20-9:55 Mon 1:35-4:10-9:45
Tue, Wed 1:35-4:10-6:55-9:45
ARGO (14A) Thu 1:45-4:30-7:15-10 Thu 1:204:05-6:50-9:35 Fri-Sun 1:40-4:30-7:15-10 Fri-Sun
11:30-2:15-5-7:45-10:30 Mon-Wed 1:20-4:056:50-9:35 Mon-Wed 1:45-4:30-7:15-10
THE IMPOSTER (14A) Thu 2-4:45-7:10-9:40 FriSun 12:50-3:15-5:40-8:05-10:30 Mon, Tue 2-4:457:10-9:40 Wed 2-4:45-10
LOOPER (14A) Thu 1:45-4:30-7:15-10 Fri-Sun
2-4:45-7:30-10:15 Mon-Wed 1:45-4:30-7:15-10
THE MASTER (14A) Thu 1:15-4-7-10 Thu 3-6:309:30 Fri-Sun 12:45-3:45-6:50-10:05 Fri-Sun 1:154-7-10:15 Mon-Wed 3-6:30-9:30 Mon 1:15-4 Mon
7-10 Tue, Wed 1:15-4-7-10
H THE PAPERBOY (STC) Fri-Sun 12-2:30-57:30-10 Fri-Sun 12:30-3-5:30-8-10:30 Mon-Wed
1:55-4:25-6:55-9:25 Mon-Wed 2:25-4:55-7:259:55
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN (PG) Thu 1:303:45-7-9:20 Fri-Sun 1-3:30-6-8:15-10:25 MonWed 1:30-3:45-7-9:20
STORIES WE TELL (PG) Thu-Wed 1:30-4:157:05-9:50
TAKEN 2 (14A) Thu 2:45-5:05-7:30-9:50 Thu
1:55-4:20-9:30 Fri-Sun 12:45-3:05-5:25-7:4510:05 Mon 4:20-9:30 Tue 1:55-4:20-9:30 Wed
1:55-4:20-6:40-9:30
Rainbow Market
Square
80 FRONT E 416-977-2642
H ALEX CROSS (14A) Fri 1:25-3:30-7:30-9:4011:55 Sat 1:25-3:30-7:30-9:40 Sun, Mon 1:257:30 Sun, Mon 3:30-9:40 Tue 1:25-3:30-7:30-9:40
Wed 1:25-7:30 Wed 3:30-9:40
ARGO (14A) Thu 1:05-3:50-6:50-9:20 Fri 1:053:50-6:50-9:20-11:45 Sat-Wed 1:05-3:50-6:509:20
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Thu 1:15-3:155:15-7:15-9:15 Fri 1:15-3:15-5:15-7:15-9:1511:15 Sat-Wed 1:15-3:15-5:15-7:15-9:15
LOOPER (14A) Thu 1:10-3:45-6:45-9:25 Fri
1:10-3:45-6:45-9:25-11:45 Sat-Wed 1:10-3:456:45-9:25
H PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A) Fri 1-3-5-79-11 Sat-Wed 1-3-5-7-9
PITCH PERFECT (PG) Thu 3:40-7:10-9:30 Fri
1:20-3:40-7:10-9:30-11:40 Sat 7:10-9:30 Sun,
Mon 1:20-7:10 Sun, Mon 3:40-9:30 Tue 1:20-3:407:10-9:30 Wed 1:20-7:10 Wed 3:40-9:30
Yonge & Dundas 24
10 DUNDAS E 416-977-2642
$ BARFI! (PG) Thu 6-9:15
THE CAMPAIGN (14A) Thu 4:10-6:40 Fri 7:359:45-11:55 Sat 7:40-9:55 Sun-Wed 7:35-9:45
DRACULA/FRANKENSTEIN DOUBLE
FEATURE (STC) Sun 12:45-4:15-7:45 Wed 2-7
ENGLISH VINGLISH (PG) Thu 3:55-6:55-10 Fri
4:15-7:25-10:25 Sat 1:05-4:15-7:25-10:25 Sun
11:40-3:45-6:45-9:40 Mon-Wed 3:45-6:45-9:40
FINDING NEMO 3D (G) Thu 3-6:10-8:55 Fri 2:104:50-7:40 Sat 12:30-3:10-5:50-8:25 Sun 11:102:10-4:50-7:40 Mon-Wed 2:10-4:50-7:40
$ FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE 3D
(STC) Thu 2:05-10:10
FRANKENWEENIE IN DISNEY DIGITAL 3D (PG)
Thu 3:20-5:40-8-10:15 Fri 2:20-4:35-6:50-9:10 Sat
12:10-2:20-4:35-6:50-9:10 Sun-Wed 2:20-4:356:50-9:10
$ FRANKENWEENIE: AN IMAX 3D
EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 2-4:20-6:25
GHOSTBUSTERS (PG) Fri 2-4:10-7:15 Sat 2-7:15
Mon 4:30-9:30 Tue 2-4:10-7:15-9:30
HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG) Thu 2:05-3:455-6:30-7:45-9:15-10:20 Fri 2:50-3:30-5:20-6:157:50-8:45-10:20-11:20 Sat 12:20-1:20-2:50-3:505:20-6:20-7:50-8:50-10:20 Sun 2:50-3:50-5:206:20-7:50-8:50-10:20 Mon 2:50-3:30-5:20-6:157:50-8:45-10:20 Tue 3:30-5:20-6:15-7:50-8:4510:20 Wed 2:20-3:30-4:50-6:15-8:45-10:20
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Thu 4:30-7:209:40 Fri 3:30-5:55-8:20 Sat 1:05-3:30-5:55-8:20
Sun-Wed 3:30-5:55-8:10
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D (PG) Thu 3:255:45-8:45 Fri 2-4:15-7-9:45 Sat 12:05-2:30-4:557:20-9:45 Sun 2:30-4:55-7:20-9:45 Mon-Wed
2-4:15-7-9:45
$ THE INTOUCHABLES (14A) Thu 4:45-9:40
THE LAST GLADIATORS (STC) Wed 7:30
LAWLESS (14A) Thu 4:05-7-9:55 Fri 3:05-68:45-11:40 Sat 11:20-2:05-5-7:45-10:40 Sun
11:10-1:45-4:40-7:30-10:15 Mon-Wed 1:45-4:407:30-10:15
LED ZEPPELIN: CELEBRATION DAY (STC) Fri 11:59
MASQUERADE (STC) Thu 3:20-6:15-9:45 Fri
1:45-4:40-7:40-10:40 Sat 11-1:45-4:40-7:4010:40 Sun 12:45-3:40-6:40-9:40 Mon-Wed 1:304:25-7:20-10:20
THE MASTER (14A) Thu 3:15-6:20-9:25 Fri 1:507:25-10:35 Sat 1:10-4:20-7:25-10:35 Sun 3:056:40-9:50 Mon-Wed 2:30-5:45-9:15
$ ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
(R) Thu 2
$ PARANORMAN (PG) Thu 3:35
PARANORMAN 3D (PG) Thu 6 Fri 2:55-5:20 Sat
12:25-2:55-5:20 Sun 11:50-2:55-5:20 Mon-Wed
2:55-5:20
H PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A) Thu 10 Fri
3:15-5:30-7:45-10-11:45 Fri 2:30-4:45-7-9:15 Sat
1-3:15-5:30-7:45-10 Sat 12:15-2:30-4:45-7-9:15
Sun-Wed 3-5:15-7:30-9:45 Sun-Wed 2:15-4:306:45-9
H PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4: THE IMAX
EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu 9 Fri, Sat 1:45-4-6:158:30-10:45 Sun 1:30-3:45-6-7:45-10:30 Mon-Wed
1:30-3:45-6-8:15-10:30
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (14A)
Thu 4:15-7:15-8:50-9:50 Fri 2:50-5:25-8:05-10:40
Sat 12:40-3:20-5:50-8:25-11 Sun 11:05-1:504:25-7:05-9:35 Mon 1:55-4:25-7:15-9:35 Tue
1:55-4:25-7:05-9:35 Wed 1:50-4:25-7:05-9:35
PITCH PERFECT (PG) Thu 4-6:45-9:20 Fri
2-4:30-7:10-10:05 Sat 1:10-3:40-6:10-8:40-11:10
Sun 11:30-2-4:30-7:10-10:05 Mon-Wed 2-4:307:10-10:05
THE POSSESSION (14A) Thu 2:25-4:55-7:2510:05 Fri, Sat 10:50 Sun 10:20 Mon-Wed 10:30
$ PREMIUM RUSH (14A) Thu 2:20-4:35-7:059:35
RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D (14A) Thu
2:15-4:40-7:30-10:05 Fri 3:40-6:10-8:35-11 Sat
11-1:20-3:40-6:10-8:35-11 Sun 11:25-2:05-4:207:15-9:55 Mon-Wed 2:05-4:20-7:15-9:55
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (STC) Sat 4:10 Mon 2-7
SINISTER (14A) Thu 2:15-3:50-5:05-6:35-7:359:30-10:15 Fri 2-3-4:45-5:45-7:30-8:30-10:1511:15 Sat 2-3-4:45-5:45-7:30-8:30-10:15-11
Sun-Wed 2-3-4:45-5:45-7:30-8:30-10:15
STOP MAKING SENSE (STC) Fri 9:25
STUDENT OF THE YEAR (STC) Fri 3:55-7:0510:30 Sat 12:35-3:55-7:05-10:30 Sun-Wed 3:557:05-10:30
H TAI CHI ZERO (PG) Fri-Wed 2:25-5-7:35-10:10
TED (14A) Thu 2-4:50-7:35-10:10 Fri 3:45-6:208:55-11:50 Sat 12:15-2:45-5:20-7:55-10:25 Sun
11:35-2:40-5:15-7:55-10:30 Mon-Wed 1:40-4:156:55-9:35
THE THIEVES (14A) Fri, Sat 1:50-4:55-7:5510:55 Sun 12:50-3:45-6:45-9:55 Mon 1:35-4:307:25-10:25 Tue 1:35-4:30-7:20-10:20 Wed 1:354:30-7:25-10:25
$ WAGNER’S DREAM: MET OPERA RING
CYCLE (STC) Thu 7:15
Midtown
Canada Square 
2198 YONGE 416-646-0444
ANTIVIRAL (STC) Thu 4-6:30 Fri 4:20-6:45-9:15
Sat, Sun 2-4:20-6:45-9:15 Mon 4:10 Tue, Wed
4-6:30
ARBITRAGE (14A) Thu 4:10-7 Fri 4:10-6:30-8:50
Sat, Sun 1:30-4:10-6:30-8:50 Mon 4-7 Tue, Wed
4:10-7
$ END OF WATCH (18A) Thu 4:15-6:45
FRANKENWEENIE (PG) Fri 4:50-7-9 Sat, Sun
2:30-4:50-7-9 Mon-Wed 4:15-6:45
HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Thu 4:30-6:40 Fri 3:506:20-8:45 Sat, Sun 1:40-3:50-6:20-8:45 Mon-Wed
4:30-6:40
THE INTOUCHABLES (14A) Thu 3:55-6:20 Fri
4-6:40-9:10 Sat, Sun 1:25-4-6:40-9:10 Mon-Wed
3:55-6:20
THE MASTER (14A) Thu 3:50-6:35 Fri 5-8:40 Sat,
Sun 2:10-5-8:40 Mon-Wed 3:50-6:35
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (14A)
Fri 4:40-7:10-9:30 Sat, Sun 2:20-4:40-7:10-9:30
Mon-Wed 4:40-7:05
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (18A) Thu 4:20-6:50
Fri 4:30-6:50-9:20 Sat, Sun 1:50-4:30-6:50-9:20
Mon-Wed 4:20-6:50
$ WINNIE (14A) Thu 4:40-7:05
Mt Ple asant
675 MT PLEASANT 416-489-8484
TO ROME WITH LOVE (PG) Thu 7 Fri 7-9:20 Sat
7-9:25 Sun 4:30-7 Tue, Wed 7
Regent 
551 MT PLEASANT 416-480-9884
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG)
Thu 7 Sat, Sun 7 Tue, Wed 7
MOONRISE KINGDOM (PG) Sat 9:20 Sun 4:30
Silver Cit y Yonge &
Eglinton ✸
2300 YONGE 416-544-1236
H ALEX CROSS (14A) Fri 12:35-3-5:25-7:5510:25 Sat 12:30-3-5:25-7:50-10:20 Sun 12:403:55-6:50-9:45 Mon-Wed 1:50-4:15-6:50-9:30
ARGO (14A) Thu 1:30-4:20-7:10-10 Fri 1:35-4:307:20-10:15 Sat 1:30-4:20-7:20-10:10 Sun 1:254:20-7:20-10:10 Mon-Wed 1:20-4:20-7:20-10:10
$ FRANKENWEENIE IN DISNEY DIGITAL 3D
(PG) Thu 1:10-3:40-9:40
HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG) Thu 1:50-4:307-9:30 Fri 1:45-4:20-7:05-9:45 Sat 1-4:10-6:409:40 Sun 1-4:10-6:40-9:30 Mon, Tue 1:30-3:556:30-9:10 Wed 3:45-6:30-9:10 Wed 1
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Thu 2:10 Fri 12:302:50 Sat 12:15-2:30 Sun 12:15-2:35 Mon-Wed 2:10
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D (PG) Thu 4:40-7:309:50 Fri 5:10-7:35-9:55 Sat 4:50-7:10-9:30 Sun
5-7:40-9:55 Mon-Wed 4:40-7:40-9:50
LOOPER (14A) Thu 1-3:50-6:50-10:05 Fri 1-46:50-10 Sat 12:50-3:45-6:50-10 Sun 12:50-3:457-10 Mon, Tue 1-3:45-7-10 Wed 1:10-3:55-7-10
$ THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CEASAR &
CLEOPATRA (STC) Thu 7
H PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A) Thu 9:20
Fri 1:15-3:30-5:50-8:15-10:45 Sat 1:20-3:355:50-8:20-10:45 Sun 12:25-2:45-5:10-7:50-10:15
Mon-Wed 2:20-5-7:50-10:15
$ THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
(14A) Thu 1:20-4-6:30
PITCH PERFECT (PG) Thu 1:40-4:10-6:40-9:55
Fri 1:25-4:10-6:40-9:35 Sat 1:50-5-8-10:45 Sun
1:10-4-6:30-9:20 Mon, Tue 1:10-4:05-6:40-9:20
Wed 1 Wed 4:05-6:40-9:20
The Rev ue
400 RONCESVALLES 416-531-9959
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (PG) Sun 9:15
CASABLANCA (PG) Sun 7
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (PG) Sat 2
FUNNY FACE (STC) Mon 7
HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON (STC)
Wed 9
$ HUGO 3D (PG) Thu 6:30
JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (STC) Sat 4
JEKYLL & HYDE (STC) Sun 4:15
KIDTOONS: THE WIGGLES BIG BIRTHDAY
(STC) Sun 10
THE MAD MAGICIAN (STC) Wed 7
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (PG) Sat 9:30
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (PG) Fri 9:15
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (AA) Mon 9:15
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (STC) Fri 7
TAXI DRIVER (R) Tue 9:30
VERTIGO (STC) Sat 7
THE WIZARD OF OZ (STC) Sun 2
The Royal
608 COLLEGE 416-534-5252
THE BALLAD OF HUGH (STC) Tue 7
BRAZIL FILM FESTIVAL 2012 (STC) Fri 7-9:15
Sat 3-5-7:15-9:15 Sun 2-3:50-6
HAROLD AND MAUDE (STC) Sun 9:15 Tue 9:15
The Queensway ✸☎
1025 THE QUEENSWAY 416-503-0424
H ALEX CROSS (14A) Fri 3:10-5:40-8:10-10:40
Sat, Sun 12:45-3:10-5:40-8:10-10:40 Mon-Wed
2:35-5:10-7:45-10:15
ANTIVIRAL (STC) Thu 2:40-5:15-7:50-10:25 Fri
2:40-7:55 Sat 12-2:40-7:55 Sun 2:40-7:55 MonWed 1:50-7:10
H ARBITRAGE (14A) Thu 2:20-5-7:45-10:25 Fri
1:55-4:25-7-9:35 Sat 11:15-1:55-4:25-7-9:35 Sun
1:55-4:25-7-9:35 Mon-Wed 2:40-5:20-7:55-10:25
ARGO (14A) Thu 1:40-4:30-7:25-10:15 Fri-Sun
1:40-4:30-7:20-10:10 Mon, Tue 1:35-4:25-7:1510:05 Wed 1 Wed 4:25-7:15-10:05
THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A) Thu 12:55-3:556:55 Fri, Sat 1:05-4:10-7:15-10:20 Sun 4:107:15-10:20 Mon, Tue 12:55-3:55-6:55-9:55 Wed
12:55-3:55-9:45
DRACULA/FRANKENSTEIN DOUBLE
FEATURE (STC) Sun 12:45 Wed 7
$ DREDD 3D (18A) Thu 12:50-3:20-10:25
END OF WATCH (18A) Thu 1-3:45-7:25-10:30
Fri 2:05-4:45-7:25-10 Sat 11:30-2:05-4:45-7:2510:05 Sun 2:05-4:45-7:25-10:05 Mon-Wed 1:304:15-6:50-9:30
FRANKENWEENIE IN DISNEY DIGITAL 3D (PG)
Thu 1:15-3:35-7:05-9:45 Fri 2:35-4:50-7:05-9:20
Sat 12:25-2:35-4:50-7:05-9:20 Sun 2:35-4:507:05-9:20 Mon-Wed 2:20-4:40-7:05-9:20
HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG) Thu 1-3:407:15-9:50 Fri 2:50-5:25-8-10:35 Sat 12:20-2:505:25-8-10:35 Sun 2:50-5:25-8-10:35 Mon-Wed
2:10-4:50-7:30-10:10
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Thu 12:40-3 Fri
2:55 Sat, Sun 12:40-2:55 Mon-Wed 2:55
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D (PG) Thu 5:20-7:4010 Fri-Wed 5:15-7:35-9:55
HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET (14A)
Thu 1:55-4:25-7:05-9:35 Fri-Sun 5:20-10:35 MonWed 4:30-9:50
LED ZEPPELIN: CELEBRATION DAY (STC) Fri 11:59
LOOPER (14A) Thu 1:50-4:25-7:20-9:55 Fri 2:204:55-7:40-10:15 Sat 11:45-2:20-4:55-7:40-10:15
Sun 1:30-4:55-7:40-10:15 Mon, Tue 2-4:35-7:109:40 Wed 4:10-7:10-10:35 Wed 1
THE MASTER (14A) Thu 1:10-4:10-7:10-10:20
Fri 1-4:05-7:10-10:15 Sat, Sun 12:55-4:05-7:1010:15 Mon-Wed 1-4-7-10
$ THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CEASAR &
CLEOPATRA (STC) Thu 7
H PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A) Thu 10 Fri
2:45-5:10-7:30-9:45 Fri 1:45-4-6:15-8:30-10:45
Sat, Sun 1:10-3:20-5:35-7:50-10:05 Sat 11:301:45-4-6:15-8:30-10:45 Sun 1:45-4-6:15-8:3010:45 Mon-Wed 2:45-5:05-7:25-9:40 Mon-Wed
1:20-3:35-5:50-8:05-10:20
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (14A)
Thu 2:15-4:40-7:10-9:40 Fri 3:20-5:50-8:20-10:50
Sat 11:20-1:50-4:20-6:55-9:40 Sun 1:50-4:206:55-9:40 Mon-Wed 2:05-4:45-7:20-9:45
PITCH PERFECT (PG) Thu 2-4:50-7:35-10:15 Fri
2-4:40-7:15-9:50 Sat 11:25-2-4:40-7:15-9:50 Sun
2-4:40-7:15-9:50 Mon-Wed 1:45-4:20-7-9:35
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (18A) Thu 2:10-4:507:30-10:10 Fri 2:15-5-7:50-10:25 Sat 11:35-2:104:50-7:30-10 Sun 2:10-4:50-7:30-10 Mon, Tue
2:25-5-7:50-10:25 Wed 2:25-5-7:50-10:30
SINISTER (14A) Thu 2:05-4:45-7:45-10:20 FriSun 2:25-5:05-7:45-10:30 Mon-Wed 2:15-4:557:40-10:20
TAKEN 2 (14A) Thu 12:45-1:25-3:15-4-7-7:359:55-10:30 Fri-Sun 1-3:25-5:45-8:05-10:25 MonWed 12:55-3:10-5:30-7:50-10:10
49
East end
Be ach Cinemas
1651 QUEEN E 416-646-0444
ARGO (14A) Thu 7-9:50 Fri 4:20-7-9:50 Sat, Sun
1:30-4:20-7-9:50 Mon-Wed 7-9:50
FRANKENWEENIE IN DISNEY DIGITAL 3D (PG)
Thu 7:10-9:30 Fri 4-6:40-9 Sat, Sun 1:20-4-6:40-9
Mon-Wed 6:40-9
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Sat, Sun 1-3:10
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D (PG) Thu 6:40-9 Fri
4:30-6:50-9:30 Sat, Sun 5:20-7:30-9:40 Mon-Wed
6:50-9:30
LOOPER (14A) Thu 7:20-10 Fri 4:40-7:20-10:10
Sat 2-4:40-7:20-10:10 Sun 2-4:40-7:20-10 MonWed 7:20-10
H PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A) Fri 4:507:30-10 Sat 1:10-3:20-5:30-7:40-10 Sun 1:103:20-5:30-7:40-9:55 Mon-Wed 7:30-9:55
PITCH PERFECT (PG) Thu 6:50-9:20 Fri 4:107:10-9:40 Sat, Sun 1:40-4:10-7:10-9:40 Mon-Wed
7:10-9:40
$ TAKEN 2 (14A) Thu 7:30-9:40
Fox
2236 QUEEN E 416-691-7330
THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A) Fri 9:15 Sat 9 Sun,
Mon 9:15 Tue 9 Wed 6:45
BRAVE IN DISNEY DIGITAL 3D (PG) Sat, Sun 2
THE INTOUCHABLES (14A) Fri 7 Sat 4:15 Sun,
Mon 7
ROBOT & FRANK (PG) Sat 7 Sun 4:15 Tue 7
Wed 9:15
$ SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (STC) Thu 7
$ TO ROME WITH LOVE (PG) Thu 9:15
TOONS FOR TODDLERS (STC) Sat 10
Woodside
1571 SANDHURST CIRCLE 416-742-3456
AIYYAA (PG) Thu 3:45-9:45 Fri 6:30 Sat, Sun 3:45
Mon-Wed 6:30
CHAKRAVYUH (STC) Wed 3:45-9:45
ENGLISH VINGLISH (PG) Thu 4-6:45 Fri 3:45
Sat, Sun 12:45-3:45 Mon-Wed 3:45
MAATTRRAAN (STC) Thu 4:30-6:30-7:30-9:3010:30 Fri 4:15-7:30-9:30-10:30 Sat, Sun 1-4:156:30-7:30-9:30-10:30 Mon-Wed 4:15-7:30-9:3010:30
STUDENT OF THE YEAR (STC) Fri 3:45-6:459:45 Sat, Sun 12:45-6:45-9:45 Mon, Tue 3:456:45-9:45 Wed 3:45-6:45
Projection Booth
1035 GERRARD ST. EAST 416-466-3636
BATTLE ROYALE (STC) Sat 9
BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING (STC) Fri-Wed
$ MARINA ABRAMOVIC: THE ARTIST IS
PRESENT (STC) Thu 9
$ ROLLER TOWN (14A) Thu 7:30
North York
Empire Theatres ✸
EMPRESS WALK, 5095 YONGE 416-223-9550
ARGO (14A) Thu 4:10-7:05-10:10 Thu 4:10-7:0510:10 Fri 3:45-6:50-9:50 Fri 3:45-6:50-9:50 Sat,
Sun 1-3:45-6:50-9:50 Sat, Sun 1-3:45-6:50-9:50
Mon-Wed 3:45-6:50-9:50 Mon-Wed 3:45-6:509:50
$ THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu 6-9:30
Thu 6-9:30
FRANKENWEENIE (PG) Thu 5 Thu 5 Sat, Sun
1:30 Sat, Sun 1:30
FRANKENWEENIE IN DISNEY DIGITAL 3D (PG)
Thu 7:45-10:15 Thu 7:45-10:15 Fri-Wed 4-6:309:30 Fri-Wed 4-6:30-9:30
$ FRANKENWEENIE: AN IMAX 3D
EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 4:30-7 Thu 4:30-7
a sTeamPunK
KunG-Fu THrowdown
F R O M T H E C R E ATO R S O F
IP MAN & DETECTIVE DEE
“Hilarious, absurd,
and awesome.”
– Ain’t It Cool News
Kingsway The atre
3030 BLOOR W 416-232-1939
THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A) Fri-Wed 9:10
BRAVE (PG) Sat, Sun 12
$ THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu 8:55
FAREWELL, MY QUEEN (PG) Fri-Wed 3:30
$ HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Thu 1:35
THE INTOUCHABLES (14A) Thu 7 Fri-Wed
1:35-7:10
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES (PG) Thu 5:15
Fri-Wed 5:20
$ TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE (PG) Thu 3:20
STARTS FR IDAY 10/19
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& DUNDAS CINEMAS
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/ TA I C H I z E R O
50 | Oct. 18-Oct. 24, 2012
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HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG) Thu 4-7:20-10
Thu 4-7:20-10 Fri 3:50-6:40-9:45 Fri 3:50-6:409:45 Sat, Sun 1:15-3:50-6:40-9:45 Sat, Sun 1:153:50-6:40-9:45 Mon-Wed 3:50-6:40-9:45 MonWed 3:50-6:40-9:45
LOOPER (14A) Thu 4:15-5:15-7:10-8:30 Thu
4:15-5:15-7:10-8:30 Fri 4:10-5:15-7-8-10 Fri 4:105:15-7-8-10 Sat, Sun 1:10-2:15-4:10-5:15-7-8-10
Sat, Sun 1:10-2:15-4:10-5:15-7-8-10 Mon-Wed
4:10-5:15-7-8-10 Mon-Wed 4:10-5:15-7-8-10
H PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A) Thu 10:05
Thu 10:05 Fri 5:45-8:15-10:30 Fri 5:45-8:15-10:30
Sat, Sun 2:45-5:45-8:15-10:30 Sat, Sun 2:45-5:458:15-10:30 Mon-Wed 5:45-8:15-10:30 Mon-Wed
5:45-8:15-10:30
H PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4: THE IMAX
EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu 9:15 Thu 9:15 Fri 4:457:20-9:40 Fri 4:45-7:20-9:40 Sat, Sun 1:45-4:457:20-9:40 Sat, Sun 1:45-4:45-7:20-9:40 Mon-Wed
4:45-7:20-9:40 Mon-Wed 4:45-7:20-9:40
SINISTER (14A) Thu 4:25-7:45-10:20 Thu 4:257:45-10:20 Fri 4:30-7:15-10:20 Fri 4:30-7:15-10:20
Sat, Sun 1:40-4:30-7:15-10:20 Sat, Sun 1:40-4:307:15-10:20 Mon-Wed 4:30-7:15-10:20 Mon-Wed
4:30-7:15-10:20
TAKEN 2 (14A) Thu 4:45-5:30-7:10-8-9:40-10:30
Thu 4:45-5:30-7:10-8-9:40-10:30 Fri 4:20-5:307:30-8:30-10:10 Fri 4:20-5:30-7:30-8:30-10:10
Sat, Sun 1:20-2:30-4:20-5:30-7:30-8:30-10:10
Sat, Sun 1:20-2:30-4:20-5:30-7:30-8:30-10:10
Mon-Wed 4:20-5:30-7:30-8:30-10:10 Mon-Wed
4:20-5:30-7:30-8:30-10:10
Fri, Sat 5:20-7:40-10 Sun 5:35-7:55-10:15 MonWed 3:50-7:05-9:30
LOOPER (14A) Thu 1:30-4:20-7:10-10 Fri, Sat
2:20-5:05-7:50-10:35 Sun 12:45-3:40-6:45-9:45
Mon-Wed 1:40-4:30-7:20-10:10
H PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A) Thu 10 Fri,
Sat 1:25-3:45-6:05-8:25-10:45 Sun 12:50-3:105:30-7:50-10:15 Mon-Wed 2:30-5:25-7:50-10:15
$ THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
(14A) Thu 1:55-4:35-7:05
PITCH PERFECT (PG) Thu 1:35-4:15-7-9:40
Fri 2:10-4:50-7:30-10:10 Sat 11:35-2:10-4:507:30-10:10 Sun 2:10-4:50-7:30-10:10 Mon-Wed
4:30-10
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (18A) Thu 2:10-4:457:30-10:10 Fri 2:10-4:45-7:30-10:10 Sat 11:302:10-4:45-7:30-10:10 Sun 1:20-4:15-7-9:50 MonWed 1:50-7:15
SINISTER (14A) Thu 1:45-4:35-7:25-10:15 Fri
2:40-5:20-8-10:40 Sat 12-2:40-5:20-8-10:40 Sun
1:30-4:30-7:15-10:10 Mon-Wed 1:45-4:30-7:2010:05
TAKEN 2 (14A) Thu 2:15-5-7:40-10:10 Fri 3:305:55-8:20-10:45 Sat 1:05-3:30-5:55-8:20-10:45
Sun 2-4:40-7:10-9:40 Mon-Wed 2-5-7:40-10:15
Sheppard Grande ✸
MCCOWAN & ELLESMERE 416-290-5217
H ALEX CROSS (14A) Fri-Sun 12:40-3:10-5:408:10-10:40 Mon 1:20-4:20-7:30-10:15 Tue 12:403:10-5:40-8:10-10:40 Wed 1:20-4:20-7:30-10:15
ARGO (14A) Thu 1:15-4:15-7:20-10:20 Fri-Sun
1:40-4:30-7:20-10:15 Mon 1:15-4:15-7:20-10:20
Tue 1:40-4:30-7:20-10:15 Wed 1:15-4:15-7:2010:20
$ CAESAR & CLEOPATRA - ENCORE
PRESENTATION (STC) Thu 7
$ FRANKENWEENIE IN DISNEY DIGITAL 3D
(PG) Thu 2:55-5:15-7:35-9:50
HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG) Thu 2:30-5:057:40-10:30 Fri-Sun 12:30-3:05-5:40-8:15-10:50
4861 YONGE 416-590-9974
H ALEX CROSS (14A) Fri 5:15-7:50-10:25 Sat
2:40-5:15-7:50-10:25 Sun 2:20-4:50-7:25-10
Mon-Wed 4:50-7:25-10
ANTIVIRAL (STC) Thu 4:50-7:25-10 Fri, Sat
5-10:15 Sun-Wed 4:30-9:45
ARBITRAGE (14A) Thu 3:55-6:40-9:30 Fri 4:107-9:45 Sat 1:10-4:10-7-9:45 Sun 1-4-6:40-9:30
Mon-Wed 4-6:40-9:30
END OF WATCH (18A) Thu 4:30-7:05-9:45 Fri
7:25 Sat 2:20-7:25 Sun 1:55-7:10 Mon-Wed 7:10
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Sat, Sun 12:40-3
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D (PG) Thu 5:20-7:409:55 Fri-Wed 5:20-7:40-9:55
MASQUERADE (STC) Thu, Fri 3:45-6:45-9:50 Sat
12:45-3:45-6:45-9:50 Sun 12:45-3:45-6:45-9:40
Mon-Wed 3:45-6:45-9:40
THE MASTER (14A) Thu, Fri 3:30-6:50-10 Sat,
Sun 12:20-3:30-6:50-10 Mon-Wed 3:30-6:50-10
$ THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CEASAR &
CLEOPATRA (STC) Thu 7
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (14A)
Thu 4:40-7:05-9:35 Fri 4:40-7:15-10:05 Sat 2:154:40-7:15-10:05 Sun 2:15-4:40-7:05-9:35 MonWed 4:40-7:05-9:35
PITCH PERFECT (PG) Thu 4:35-7:15-9:55 Fri
4:50-7:35-10:20 Sat 2-4:50-7:35-10:20 Sun 1:504:35-7:15-9:55 Mon-Wed 4:35-7:15-9:55
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (18A) Thu 4:45-7:30-10
Fri 4:45-7:30-10:10 Sat 2:10-4:45-7:30-10:10 Sun
2:10-4:45-7:30-10 Mon-Wed 4:45-7:30-10
H STORIES WE TELL (PG) Fri 3:40-6:30-9:20
Sat, Sun 12:50-3:40-6:30-9:20 Mon-Wed 3:406:30-9:20
Scarborough
Coliseum
Scarborough ✸
3:10-5:35-8-10:20 Sun 12:30-2:50-5:15-7:30-9:45
Mon-Wed 5:10-7:30-9:45
HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG) Thu 4:55-7:2510 Thu 1 Fri 2:50-5:25-8-10:35 Sat 12:10-2:455:20-7:55-10:30 Sun 2:10-4:50-7:25-10:10 MonWed 4:50-7:25-10:10
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Fri 2:40 Sat, Sun
12:15-2:40
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D (PG) Thu 4:50-7:209:45 Fri-Sun 5:10-7:35-10 Mon-Wed 5:10-7:30-10
LOOPER (14A) Thu 4:15-7:15-10:10 Fri, Sat
1:55-4:50-7:45-10:40 Sun 1:30-4:25-7:30-10:20
Mon-Wed 4-7:05-9:55
$ THE MASTER (14A) Thu 3:45-6:45
H PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A) Thu 9:50 Fri
3-5:20-7:45-10:10 Fri, Sat 1:45-4-6:15-8:30-10:45
Sat 12:40-3-5:20-7:45-10:10 Sun 12:20-2:505:15-7:45-10:15 Sun 1:50-4:15-6:40-9:10 MonWed 4:15-6:40-9:10 Mon-Wed 5:15-7:40-10:10
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (14A)
Thu 4:10-6:50-9:30 Fri-Sun 2:20-4:50-7:25-10
Mon, Tue 4:30-7-9:35 Wed 4:30-9:35
PITCH PERFECT (PG) Thu 4-6:45-9:35 Fri, Sat
2-4:45-7:30-10:15 Sun 2-4:40-7:20-10:05 MonWed 4:40-7:20-10:05
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (18A) Thu 4:20-7:109:55 Fri 2-4:45-7:30-10:25 Sat, Sun 2-4:45-7:3510:25 Mon-Wed 4:25-7:10-9:55
SINISTER (14A) Thu 5-7:35-10:10 Fri, Sat 2:355:10-7:50-10:30 Sun 2:25-5:05-7:45-10:30 MonWed 4:15-6:55-9:40
STUDENT OF THE YEAR (STC) Fri 3:40-7-10:25
Sat, Sun 12:20-3:40-7-10:25 Mon-Wed 3:40-6:5510:15
TAKEN 2 (14A) Thu 4:40-5:20-7:05-7:45-9:3510:15 Fri 3:35-6-8:20-10:45 Sat 1:10-3:35-6-8:2010:45 Sun 12:15-4:45-7:15-9:45 Mon, Tue 4:457:15-9:45 Wed 4:45-7:15-10:20
Etobicoke
Albion Cinemas ✸
1530 ALBION ROAD 416-742-FILM (3456)
AIYYAA (PG) Thu 7-9:45 Fri-Sun 6:45 Mon-Wed
4:05-6:40 Tue, Wed 4:05-6:35
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D (PG) Thu 5:20-7:409:55 Fri-Mon 12:30-2:55-5:20-7:40-9:55 Tue, Wed
5:20-7:40-9:55
HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET (14A) Thu
4:10-6:55 Fri 12:35-4:10-7:45-10:10 Sat 12:354:10-7:55-10:55 Sun, Mon 12:35-4:10-6:55-9:45
Tue, Wed 4:10-6:55-9:45
LED ZEPPELIN: CELEBRATION DAY (STC) Fri
11:59
LOOPER (14A) Thu 4:15-4:40-7:15-7:35-10-10:20
Fri-Mon 1:50-4:40-7:35-10:20 Tue, Wed 4:407:35-10:20
H PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri
12:30-2:45-5-7:15-9:40 Sat-Mon 12:45-3-5:157:45-10:10 Tue, Wed 4:15-7-9:30
H PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4: THE IMAX
EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu 9 Fri, Sat 1:45-4-6:158:30-10:45 Sun, Mon 1:30-3:45-6-8:15-10:30 Tue,
Wed 3:45-6-8:15-10:30
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (14A)
Thu 3:40-6:40-9:10 Fri 1:15-3:40-7:05-9:45 Sat
1:15-3:40-7-9:45 Sun, Mon 1:15-3:40-6:40-9:10
Tue, Wed 3:40-6:40-9:10
PITCH PERFECT (PG) Thu 3:30-6:30-9:20 Fri, Sat
12:50-3:30-6:45-9:20 Sun, Mon 12:50-3:30-6:309:20 Tue, Wed 3:30-6:30-9:20
$ RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION (14A) Thu 9
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (18A) Thu 4:45-7:3010:10 Fri, Sat 2:10-4:45-8:20-11 Sun, Mon 2:104:45-7:30-10 Tue, Wed 4:45-7:30-10
SINISTER (14A) Thu 4:50-7:35-10:20 Fri-Mon
2-4:50-7:25-10:05 Tue, Wed 4:50-7:25-10:05
TAKEN 2 (14A) Thu 4:20-7-9:50 Thu 5:40-8-10:30
Fri, Sat 1-1:30-3:20-4:20-5:40-7-8-10-10:30 Sun,
Mon 1-1:25-4-4:20-7-7:50-9:50-10:20 Tue, Wed
4:20-5-7-7:50-9:50-10:20
$ THAANDAVAM (STC) Thu 6:10-9:40
Elgin Mills ✸☎
10909 YONGE, RICHMOND HILL
905-770-6998
H ALEX CROSS (14A) Fri 7:05-9:40 Sat, Sun
12:45-3:40-7:05-9:40 Mon-Wed 5:25-8:25
ARGO (14A) Thu 5:15-8:05 Fri 6:55-9:30 Sat, Sun
12:35-3:45-6:55-9:30 Mon-Wed 5:05-8:05
BRAZIL FILM FESTIVAL
608 COLLEGE ST. 416-466-4400
BRAZILFILMFEST.NET
Oct 18-21
SYSTEMS OF SURVIVAL: COLLECTED
SHORTS Mon 6:30 pm
CAMERA BAR
1028 QUEEN ST. W. 416-530-0011
CAMERABAR.CA. FREE
LOST EMBRACE Sat 3 pm
CINECYCLE
129 SPADINA AVE. 416-971-4273.
SUPER8PORTER.CA/CINECYCLE
THE BETTER SEX OF ANIMATION: FILMS BY
SIGNE BAUMANE Sat 7 pm
IMAGINENATIVE FILM +
MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
416-585-2333. IMAGINENATIVE.ORG
VARIOUS LOCATIONS Oct 17-21
INNIS TOWN HALL
2 SUSSEX AVE. 416-978-4145
UTORONTO.CA/TOWNHALL/
THE FIFTH ELEMENT Fri 7 pm
OISE
252 BLOOR ST. W. 416-461-6942
SOCIALISTACTION.CA
THE BIG FIX Fri 7 pm
TORONTO AFTER
DARK FILM FESTIVAL
506 BLOOR ST. W. 416-637-3123
TORONTOAFTERDARK.COM Oct 18-26
GRABBERS Thu 6:45 pm
AMERICAN MARY Thu 9:45 pm
CRAVE Fri 6:45 pm
INBRED Fri 9:45
SHORTS AFTER DARK Sat 3:45 pm
[REC] 3: GENESIS Sat 6:45 pm
COCKNEYS VS ZOMBIES Sat 9:45 pm
DOOMSDAY BOOK Sun 1 pm
LLOYD THE CONQUEROR Sun 3:45 pm
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING
Sun 6:45 pm
AFTER Sun 9:45 pm
GRAVE ENCOUNTERS 2 Mon 6:45 pm
CITADEL Mon 9:45 pm
MY AMITYVILLE HORROR Tue 6:45 pm
RESOLUTION Tue 9:45 pm
SUSHI GIRL Wed 6:45 pm
DEAD SUSHI Wed 9:45
TRASH PALACE
89B NIAGARA ST. 416-203-2389
TRASHPALACE.CA
CLASSROOM FILMS Fri 9:30 pm
Silver Cit y Fairview
Mall ✸
1800 SHEPPARD E 416-644-7746
H ALEX CROSS (14A) Fri 2:30-5:10-7:45-10:15
Sat 12:05-2:40-5:10-7:40-10:10 Sun 2:30-5:107:45-10:15 Mon-Wed 2:40-5:10-7:40-10:10
ARGO (14A) Thu, Fri 1:30-4:15-7:10-10 Sat 1:204:10-7-9:50 Sun 1:30-4:15-7:10-10 Mon-Wed
1:15-4:05-6:55-9:50
DRACULA/FRANKENSTEIN DOUBLE
FEATURE (STC) Sun 12:45 Wed 7
$ FRANKENWEENIE IN DISNEY DIGITAL 3D
(PG) Thu 2:05-4:25-6:55-9:30
HERE COMES THE BOOM (PG) Thu 1:40-4:207-9:45 Fri 1:50-4:40-7:20-9:55 Sat 11:55-2:25-57:30-10:05 Sun 1:50-4:40-7:20-9:55 Mon-Wed
1:50-4:30-7:10-9:45
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Thu 1:35 Fri 2:20
Sat 12:20-2:45 Sun 12:40-3 Mon, Tue 1-3:15 Wed
1 Wed 3:15
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D (PG) Thu 4:10-6:509:20 Fri 4:50-7:25-9:50 Sat 5:05-7:25-9:45 Sun
5:25-7:50-10:10 Mon-Wed 5:30-7:50-10:05
$ HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET (14A)
Thu 2:15-4:50-7:25
LOOPER (14A) Thu 1:50-4:30-7:15-9:55 Fri 2:104:55-7:40-10:25 Sat 1:40-4:30-7:10-9:55 Sun
2:10-4:55-7:40-10:25 Mon, Tue 1:10-3:50-6:509:40 Wed 1 Wed 3:50-6:50-9:40
H PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A) Thu 9:50
Fri 1:35-3:45-6-8:15-10:30 Sat 12:50-3:10-5:307:45-10:15 Sun 1:20-3:45-6-8:15-10:30 Mon-Wed
1:05-3:20-5:40-8-10:15
PITCH PERFECT (PG) Thu 1:45-4:35-7:20-10:05
Fri 1:40-4:30-7:15-10:05 Sat 1:30-4:15-6:55-9:40
Sun 4:30-7:15-10:05 Mon, Tue 1:30-4:15-7-9:55
Wed 1:30-4:15-10:20
SINISTER (14A) Thu 2-4:45-7:30-10:10 Fri
2-4:45-7:30-10:10 Sat 1:50-4:40-7:20-10 Sun
2-4:45-7:30-10:10 Mon-Wed 2-4:40-7:20-10
TAKEN 2 (14A) Thu 2:10-4:40-7:05-9:40 Fri 2:505:20-7:55-10:20 Sat 12:25-2:50-5:20-7:50-10:15
Sun 12:30-2:50-5:20-7:55-10:20 Mon-Wed 2:305-7:30-9:55
Mon 2:30-5:05-7:40-10:30 Tue 12:30-3:05-5:408:15-10:50 Wed 2:30-5:05-7:40-10:30
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) Thu 2:05 Fri-Sun
12:40-3 Mon 2:05 Tue 12:40-3 Wed 2:05
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 3D (PG) Thu 4:45-7:059:30 Fri-Sun 5:20-7:40-9:55 Mon 4:45-7:05-9:30
Tue 5:20-7:40-9:55 Wed 4:45-7:05-9:30
LOOPER (14A) Thu 1:20-4:20-7:15-10:15 Fri-Sun
2:15-5:05-7:55-10:35 Mon 1:55-4:40-7:25-10:05
Tue 2:15-5:05-7:55-10:35 Wed 1:55-4:40-7:2510:05
H PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 (14A) Thu 9:50
Fri-Sun 1:30-3:45-6:05-8:25-10:50 Fri-Sun 12:453-5:20-7:40-10:05 Mon 2-4:30-7-9:25 Mon 12:453-5:30-8-10:25 Tue 1:30-3:45-6:05-8:25-10:50 Tue
12:45-3-5:20-7:40-10:05 Wed 2-4:30-7-9:25 Wed
12:45-3-5:30-8-10:25
PITCH PERFECT (PG) Thu 2:10-4:50-7:30-10:15
Fri-Sun 2:25-4:55-7:30-10 Mon 2:10-4:50-7:3010:15 Tue 2:25-4:55-7:30-10 Wed 2:10-4:50-7:3010:15
$ RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION 3D (14A) Thu
1:55-4:40-9:55
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (18A) Thu 1:05-4:057:10-10:10 Fri-Sun 2:10-4:45-7:25-10:10 Mon
1:05-4:10-6:50-10 Tue 2:10-4:45-7:25-10:10 Wed
1:05-4:10-6:50-10
SINISTER (14A) Thu 1:45-4:35-7:25-10:05 FriSun 2:20-5:10-7:50-10:45 Mon 1:30-4:05-7:109:55 Tue 2:20-5:10-7:50-10:45 Wed 1:30-4:057:10-9:55
TAKEN 2 (14A) Thu 12:45-3-5:30-8-10:25 Thu
2-4:30-7 Fri-Sun 12:50-3:10-5:35-8-10:30 Mon
2:45-5:10-7:45-10:10 Tue 12:50-3:10-5:35-810:30 Wed 2:45-5:10-7:45-10:10
THAANDAVAM (STC) Thu 12:45-4-7:15-10:30
Fri 12:30-3:45-7-10:20 Sat 12:15-3:30-6:55-10:20
Sun 12:30-3:45-7-10:20 Mon 12:45-4-7:15-10:30
Tue 12:30-3:45-7-10:20 Wed 12:45-4-7:15-10:30
Silver Cit y
Yorkdale ✸
1901 EGLINTON E 416-752-4494
H ALEX CROSS (14A) Fri 3:10-5:45-8:10-10:40
Sat 12:35-3:10-5:45-8:10-10:40 Sun 2:40-5:107:50-10:30 Mon-Wed 4:45-7:25-10
ANTIVIRAL (STC) Thu 4:50-7:30-10:05 Fri 10:30
Sat 10:35 Sun-Wed 10:15
ARBITRAGE (14A) Thu 4:35-7:25-9:55 Fri 2:255-7:50 Sat 12:15-2:50-5:25-8 Sun 2:35-5-7:40
Mon-Wed 5-7:40
ARGO (14A) Thu 4:30-7:20-10:10 Thu 1 Fri-Sun
1:30-4:25-7:20-10:20 Mon-Wed 4:25-7-9:50
$ BARFI! (PG) Thu 3:45-7-10:15
DRACULA/FRANKENSTEIN DOUBLE
FEATURE (STC) Sun 12:45 Wed 7
ENGLISH VINGLISH (PG) Thu 3:50-6:50-9:50 Fri
4-7-10:05 Sat 1:25-4:25-7:25-10:35 Sun 1-4-7:0510:05 Mon-Wed 4-7:05-10:05
FRANKENWEENIE IN DISNEY DIGITAL 3D (PG)
Thu 5:15-7:40-10 Fri 3:10-5:35-8-10:20 Sat 12:50-
3401 DUFFERIN 416-787-4432
H ALEX CROSS (14A) Fri 3:10-5:40-8:10-10:40
Sat 12:40-3:10-5:40-8:10-10:40 Sun 1:40-4:207:20-10 Mon-Wed 2:10-4:50-7:30-10:10
ARGO (14A) Thu 1:40-4:30-7:20-10:15 Fri, Sat
1:40-4:30-7:20-10:15 Sun 12:55-4-7-9:55 MonWed 1:30-4:15-7:15-10:10
$ FRANKENWEENIE IN DISNEY DIGITAL 3D
(PG) Thu 1:30-4-7-9:30
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Titus Andronicus
LOCAL BUSINESS XL
New Jersey garage punkers Titus Andronicus made a great leap
in ambition and actualization during the two years between their
nihilistic 2008 debut and their brilliant sophomore effort, The
Monitor (the latter was, after all, a Civil War–themed concept
record). With Local Business, they’ve dialed back the lofty ideas
and extensive reading lists, drawing instead on an approach that
evokes the anthemic irony of Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the
U.S.A. Indeed, the songs seem generally more straightforward—
“Titus Andronicus vs. The Absurd Universe (3rd Round KO)” is
a Beatles-in-Hamburg blast of amphetamine pop, the lyrics of
which are simply “I’m goin’ insane” repeated over and over—but
bandleader Patrick Stickles embeds a complex mix of biting
humour and philosophical despair at every turn. Case in point:
Stickles’s hyper-personal account of being afflicted with
selective eating disorder (it’s an actual medical thing), delivered
via a raucous number with a catchy chorus that begins with, “My
eating disorder…” and ends with a lengthy coda featuring more
guitarmonies than Def Leppard’s “Bringing on the Heartbreak.”
(As if to underline the black humour, the song is preceded by
a 71-second banger called “Food Fight”). Despite its many
moments of genius songcraft (“Still Life With Hot Deuce on
Silver Platter”), Local Business occasionally takes the joke too
far: As catchy as it may be, the ’70s goof “(I Am the) Electric Man”
is hardly a song for the ages. One thing is clear: Titus Andronicus
have no difficulty cranking out punk-rock perfection, regardless
of whether they’re overthinking or underachieving.—Chris Bilton
Playlist picks “Still Life With Hot Deuce on Silver Platter,”
“Titus Andronicus vs. The Absurd Universe (3rd Round KO),”
“Ecce Homo”
Given the almost
instant liftoff of his glam-heavy
Diamond Rings project, it’s easy
to forget that Toronto’s own John
O actually hasn’t been a synthpop star for very long. He began
as the frontman of guitar-rock
band The D’Urbervilles (now
called Matters), and while his early
singles as Diamond Rings had
a charmingly rudimentary feel,
they also showed that he was still
adapting to unfamiliar sonic terrain.
So when it came time to craft his
second LP, the choice to enroll in
an electronic-music master class by
teaming up with BjÖrk’s acclaimed
producer, Damian Taylor, was a wise
one—John O’s glittering pop songs
have been fleshed out with the type
of dense synths they could have
used right from the beginning. The
bigger production values lend Free
Dimensional an ’80s-revivalist gloss
that’s heavily indebted to Depeche
Mode. Yet amid flashes of digitized
brilliance, there are elements of the
man John O used to be: The album’s
standout track, “Runaway Love,” is
also by far its most guitar-centric,
and Free Dimensional also reveals
a few of the performer’s growing
pains. After a hit parade of colossal
jams, the album’s midsection sags
thanks to some garish songwriting
choices (not one but two songs
contain downright cringe-worthy
rap verses). But a strong finish built
on the steely groove of “Stand My
Ground” reminds us that John O
is a brilliant melody-maker, and
Free Dimensional stands as another
encouraging step in his evolution.
Surely, though, Diamond Rings’s
best is yet to come.—Rob Duffy
Playlist picks “Runaway Love,”
“Stand My Ground,” “Put Me On”
AC Newman
SHUT DOWN THE
STREETS
Last Gang Records
As the ringleader of
the New Pornographers’ band of
merry men and women, Carl “AC”
Newman is known for concocting
dense, cerebral pop. The Pornos’
hooks might be jubilant, and their
harmonies soaring, but their lyrics
are sly and slippery, layered with
winking references that often
set the meaning just beyond a
casual listener’s reach. Newman
maintained this playful distance
over the course of his first two solo
releases, but on Shut Down the
Streets, the offbeat power-pop bard
addresses the camera. Drawing
on the pillowy, honeyed sound of
both ’70s yacht rock and early2000s indie-rock, this album has
a wistful, grounded quality in both
form and content; it’s the sound of
a slightly unsettled person settling
down. Though Newman still has
moments of nervous side-stepping,
he’s noted that these songs were
written in the wake of a pair of
life-changing events—the death
of his mother and the birth of
his son—and he’s at his best here
when he’s candidly responding to
one or both of those things. The
middle of the album contains a
stunning three-track suite directed
towards his son that begins with
the gentle, jangly “There’s Money
in New Wave,” a sort of rueful state
of the union, arcs through the
banjo-laced “Strings,” and falls back
into “Hostages,” a wry hymn of
gratitude bolstered by Neko Case’s
backing vocals. He uses his most
affecting songs as bookends: “I’m
Not Talking” and “They Should
Have Shut Down the Streets” are
two clear reflections on coping with
loss—the former a constellation
of strummed guitar and feathery
synths, the latter a stately march—
that are frank, emotional, and
poetic; the indie-rock answer to
Auden’s “Funeral Blues.”—Sarah Liss
Playlist picks “I’m Not Talking,”
“There’s Money in New Wave,”
“Strings”
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AC Newman plays Lee’s Palace
(529 Bloor St. W.) on Oct. 21.
Departures
STILL AND
MOVING LINES
Borana
From Moncton’s
Eric’s Trip to Calgary’s Women,
geographic isolation and crap
weather have historically
contributed to producing some
of this country’s most invigorating,
emotionally resonant indie rock.
And so the story goes for Winnipeg
five-piece Departures. Their very
51
name suggests a desire to escape,
a notion underscored by callingcard track “Pillars,” which (following
a brief ambient intro) sets their
debut album in motion with a
fidgety, frantic post-punk assault.
But something jarring happens
just as the song reaches its throatshredding climax—it stops cold,
before yielding to a surprisingly
dreamy, mantra-like denouement
that provides an instant snapshot
of this band’s textural depth, while
setting the sanguine tone for what
follows. You settle into Still and
Moving Lines just as you would an
all-nighter at a friend’s apartment
on a wind-chilled night, spilling
wine on the pull-out sofa and
blasting the collective discographies
of Pavement and The Clean until the
turntable breaks and you pass out on
the rug before the morning sun and/
or a dog sloppily licking your cheek
wakes you up. In other words, for all
their jet-set intimations, Departures
make music for the comfortably
familiar crash pads at which you
want to arrive.—Stuart Berman
Playlist picks “Pillars,” “Sleepless,”
“Contempt”
i
Departures play Parts & Labour
(1566 Queen St. W.) on Oct. 23.
Aidan Knight
SMALL REVEAL
Outside Music
Aidan Knight was
once the ubiquitous
understudy of British Columbia’s
music scene. The Victoriabased singer-songwriter toured,
collaborated and worked with
nearly every indie artist on the
West Coast, from Dan Mangan to
Hannah Georgas, from The Zolas
to Said The Whale. When Knight
quietly released his debut fulllength, 2010’s elegantly simple
Versicolour, it was evident he’d
done his musical homework while
singing harmonies and strumming
along behind the scenes. And
his latest effort, Small Reveal, is
even more pensive, creative, and
ambitious than its predecessor.
Seven-minute opener “Dream
Team” swells from a low, emotive
whisper to a tastefully aggressive
outro—a dreamy, atmospheric
soundscape that persists
throughout the entire album. The
11 experimental-folk tracks on
Small Reveal are littered with
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bouts of baroque pop: three
are beautifully orchestrated
instrumental numbers, while
horns perfectly complement
“The Master’s Call,” a melancholy
piano and vocal ballad. Even the
few songs that get off to a less
promising start—a confusing time
signature muddles the intro of
“A Mirror,” and repeating dischords
make “You Will See the Good in
Everyone” less inviting—evolve into
memorable, cathartic jams. While
this sophomore offering lacks the
cheerful innocence of Versicolour,
Knight’s songwriting is appealingly
mysterious and unpredictable.
Small Reveal is an album worthy
of being unpacked properly; like
the delicate sonic additions Knight
made from the background in his
formative years, its subtle layers
of sound wait to be discovered
by patient listeners.—Luc Rinaldi
Playlist picks “Dream Team,”
“The Master’s Call,” “Creatures
Great & Small,” “Margaret Downe”
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some of the smartest
bubblegum pop is dominating the
airwaves, it’s not enough to just
coo some randomly catchy phrases
over a bumpin’ beat and hope that
discerning ears won’t notice. Sure,
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charts with a phoned-in track like
“Give Me All Your Luvin’,” but she
also earned some intense critical
blowback. While Dragonette singer
Martina Sorbara has shored up
dubious popularity as a result of
providing the criminally annoying
vocals on Martin Sloveig’s “Hello,”
there’s not a whole lot about her
band that elevates their third
album, Bodyparts, to the level of the
big-dumb-pop brilliance of Robyn,
Ke$ha, Diamond Rings, or even
Carly Rae Jepsen. The problem isn’t
a lack of airy hooks—“Live in This
City,” “Let It Go,” and “My Legs” all
boast choruses that defy gravity—
nor is it the unwavering electro-pop
production constructed around
Sorbara’s Gwen Stefani-esque
baby voice delivery. But for all its
consistency, Bodyparts is almost
devoid of original ideas: The songs
all sound like vaguely familiar
Top 40 hits or commercial jingles,
while the lyrics rarely stay focused
for more than a couplet or two,
which makes for a free-associative
catalogue of clichés, city-girl
accessories, and weird euphemisms
(“You launch your rocket ship / into
the empty pit in my heart” from
“Rocket Ship”). Sorbara’s knack
for one-dimensional earworms is
little more than a quick-fix sugar
high, which, in the world of big
dumb pop, leaves us wanting more
big, and more pop.—C.B.
Playlist pick “Let It Go,” which
will probably have a second life as
a commercial in the near future.
i
Dragonette plays Sound Academy
(11 Polson St.) on Oct. 18.
Concerts Announced
Alex Clare Opera House
Dec. 3. 735 Queen St. E., 416-466-0313.
$15 at RT, SS, LN.
Army Girls Garrison
w/Elk, The Beverleys. Nov. 14.
1197 Dundas St. W., 416-519-9439.
$8 at RT, SS.
* Dave Matthews Band
Air Canada Centre
Dec. 7. 40 Bay St., 416-815-5500.
$59–$90 TM.
Doro Mod Club
Feb. 7. 722 College St., 416-588-4663.
$23.50 at TM, RT.
El Vez Horseshoe
Dec. 8. 370 Queen St. W., 416-598-4753.
$18.50 at RT, SS, HS, TM.
* Eluveitie Opera House
* R5 Mod Club
feat. Ross Lynch. Dec. 16. 722 College St.,
416-588-4663. $21.50 at LN.
The Skydiggers Horseshoe
Dec. 21 & 22. 370 Queen St. W.,
416-598-4753. $25 at RT, SS, HS, TM.
The Tragically Hip Air Canada Centre
w/Arkells. Feb. 14. 40 Bay St.,
416-815-5500. $35–$89.50 at ACC, LN.
* Underoath Phoenix
w/mewithoutyou, As Cities Burn, Letlive.
Jan. 18. 410 Sherbourne St., 416-323-1251.
$24 at RT, SS, TM.
The Weeknd Sound Academy
Fourth show added. Nov. 2–5.
11 Polson St., 416-649-7437.
$34.50 at TM, RT, SS.
White Cowbell Oklahoma
Lee’s Palace
Dec. 21. 529 Bloor St. W., 416-532-1598.
$15 at RT, SS, HS, TM.
Concerts This WEek
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The Be Good Tanyas Great Hall
1087 Queen St. W., 416-537-0803.
Chris Cab El Mocambo
464 Spadina Ave., 416-777-1777.
* Dragonette Sound Academy
11 Polson St., 416-649-7437.
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Horseshoe
370 Queen St. W., 416-598-4753.
Public Image LTd Opera House
735 Queen St. E., 416-466-0313.
Dec. 13. 735 Queen St. E., 416-466-0313.
$27 at RT, TM.
The Sea and Cake Lee’s Palace
529 Bloor St. W., 416-532-1598.
* Emeli SandÉ Kool Haus
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New venue. Nov. 23. 132 Queens Quay E.,
416-869-0045.$22.50 at TW, RT, SS.
* Emilie Autumn Mod Club
Feb. 16. 722 College St., 416-588-4663.
$20 at TM.
Guy Picciotto TIFF Bell Lightbox
w/Jim White, T. Griffin, Efrim Menuck,
Jessica Moss, more. Dec. 5.
350 King St. W., 416-968-3456.
$30–$50 at RT, SS, imagesfestival.com.
Jem Cohen: We Have an Anchor
TIFF Bell Lightbox
w/Guy Picciotto, Jim White, T. Griffin,
more. Dec. 4. 350 King St. W.,
416-968-3456.
$30–$50 at RT, SS, imagesfestival.com.
Monster Truck Lee’s Palace
Second show added. Dec. 14 & 15.
529 Bloor St. W., 416-532-1598.
$16 at TM, UE, RT, SS.
Ohbijou Lee’s Palace
Dec. 1. 529 Bloor St. W., 416-532-1598.
$15 at RT, SS, HS, TM.
Purity Ring Phoenix
w/Young Magic. Feb. 1.
410 Sherbourne St., 416-323-1251.
$15 at RT, SS, TM.
Delhi 2 Dublin Mod Club
722 College St., 416-588-4663.
Eleni Mandell Drake Hotel
1150 Queen St. W., 416-531-5042.
The English Beat Phoenix
410 Sherbourne St., 416-323-1251.
Eraserheads Kool Haus
132 Queens Quay E., 416-869-0045.
Flight Facilities The Hoxton
69 Bathurst St., 416-456-7321.
The Lost Replacements The Rivoli
334 Queen St. W., 416-596-1908.
Madison Violet Danforth Music Hall
147 Danforth Ave., 416-778-8163.
Robert Glasper Experiment
The Hoxton
69 Bathurst St., 416-456-7321. $32 at TM.
_Saturday
* Cat Power Kool Haus
132 Queens Quay E., 416-869-0045.
The Mountain Goats Phoenix
410 Sherbourne St., 416-323-1251.
Richie Sambora Danforth Music Hall
147 Danforth Ave., 416-778-8163.
SBTRKT Wrongbar
1279 Queen St. W., 416-516-8677.
* Social Distortion
Sound Academy
11 Polson St., 416-649-7437.
VistaVision El Mocambo
464 Spadina Ave., 416-777-1777.
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AC Newman Lee’s Palace
529 Bloor St. W., 416-532-1598.
The Blind Shake Parts & Labour
1566 Queen St. W., 416-588-7750.
Crosswires Garrison
w/Triple Gangers, Hate Hang, Noble
Savage. 1197 Dundas St. W., 416-519-9439.
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RYAN BINGHAM Opera House
735 Queen St. E., 416-466-0313.
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370 Queen St. W., 416-598-4753.
DAUGHTER Drake Hotel
1150 Queen St. W., 416-531-5042.
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1 Front St. E., 855-872-7669.
PANTHA DU PRINCE Wrongbar
1279 Queen St. W., 416-516-8677.
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735 Queen St. E., 416-466-0313.
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w/Party Supplies. 1150 Queen St. W.,
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735 Queen St. E., 416-466-0313.
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I on the Sky
theatre
Starring Laurianne Brabant,
Andréanne Joubert. Written and
directed by Yves Simard. Young
People’s Theatre, to Oct. 21.
When it comes to acrobatics,
Cirque du Soleil may have the
dazzle, but DynamO Théâtre
has the soul. Montreal’s veteran
young people’s troupe is back in
Toronto to open the YPT season
with I on the Sky, another exquisite
piece of physical theatre. In Yves
Simard’s wordless story, a refugee
(Andréanne Joubert) from a
war-torn country sits alone in a
busy park, watching the changing
sky and revisiting memories of
her lost past. Working with just a
park bench, a trampoline, and an
array of costumes, the agile fivemember cast turns this universal
tale of alienation into a poignant,
sometimes comic, and ultimately
hopeful ballet.—Martin Morrow
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No Great Mischief
Tear the Curtain!
Starring Jonathon Young, Dawn Petten, Laura Mennell. Written by Jonathon
Young, Kevin Kerr. Directed by Kim Collier. Bluma Appel Theatre, to Oct. 20.
In Tear the Curtain!, which opens Canadian Stage’s 25th
season, two mobs are at war over a vacant lot in Vancouver.
One faction wants to build a theatre, the other a cinema.
The production itself, however, is a breathtaking example
of how those two art forms can work together.
Alex Braithwaite (Jonathon Young), is a theatre critic in 1930,
a time when cinema began to overtake theatre in popularity
and, as he soon learns, newspaper coverage. Bored by
theatre and skeptical of film, he becomes obsessed with a
third movement dedicated to a defunct theatre called The
Empty Space, its deceased creator, Stanley Lee, and a pouty
actress named Mila Brook. Aided by his devoted secretary,
Mavis (Dawn Petten), Alex falls deeper and deeper into the film
noir–style mystery that unfolds through scenes that alternate
between live action and film projected onto the stage.
The script by Jonathon Young and Kevin Kerr is intended
to lose and confuse you over its two-and-a-half hour duration.
The writers achieve this goal, but in doing so, they create
an arduous experience for the audience. Still, director Kim
Collier (known for the stunning visuals of 2010’s Studies in
Motion) turns this muddled script into a must-see spectacle.
Thanks to the seamless transitions between live and prerecorded performances and the luxurious 1930s design from
Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre, Tear the Curtain!
breaks through the unruly plotline to—almost magically—
captivate the audience, bringing the theories of the fictional
Empty Space theatre to life.—Carly Maga
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Tarragon Theatre, to Oct. 21.
Playwright David S. Young’s stage
adaptation of No Great Mischief,
Alastair MacLeod’s 1999 epic
about the cursed MacDonald clan,
never really takes the audience
anywhere. In this remount of
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dentist, visits his older brother,
Calum (David Fox), a drunk on
the brink of death, in Toronto.
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elder MacDonald regales the
younger one with boastful tales
of their ancestry and sorrowful
memories of their immediate
family’s past. Though the story is
full of darkness—both thematic
and literal—the script contains
devices to lighten the mood. These
include song and dance numbers,
grandparents drawn as caricatures,
and the image of Thompson
playing a three-year-old, sucking
on a digestive cookie. Though
they draw their share of hoots and
hollers, those moments that allow
us to breathe also make us realize
that the script never quite took our
breath away in the first place.—C.M.
This Must Be the Place:
The CN Tower Show
Starring Greg Gale, Georgina Beaty.
Created by the Architect Theatre
Collective. Directed by Jonathan
Seinen. Theatre Passe Muraille,
to Oct. 27.
To Toronto newcomers, the CN
Tower is a beacon letting them
know that, yep, they’re in the right
place. So it’s a fitting namesake for
The CN Tower Show, an engaging
piece of documentary theatre
created by the Architect Theatre
Collective that examines the love/
hate relationship we—bikers, TTC
workers, city councillors, students,
—have with the city. Using the
exact words taken from weeks of
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research and interviews with reallife Torontonians, The CN Tower
Show touches upon such a wide
array of issues that there’s no time
to explore any one of them in depth.
But through the down-to-earth
speeches and interactive singalongs, the performers impressively
capture Toronto’s unique qualities—
it may frequently be frustrating,
but it feels like home.—C.M.
BLOODLESS
Starring Evan Buliung, Eddie Glen.
Written by Jason Aragon. Directed
by Adam Brazier. Music directed by
Jason Jestadt. Panasonic Theatre,
to Oct. 28.
Theatre 20’s Bloodless: The Trial
of Burke and Hare is perhaps
the most unique production on
Toronto’s stages—it’s that rare thing,
a brand-new Canadian musical.
Unfortunately, that’s where the
innovation stops. Jason Aragon’s
script about the true story of William
Burke and William Hare, two Irish
immigrants in 1829 Scotland who
suffocated guests at Hare’s boarding
house and sold the bodies to the
local anatomy professor, feels more
than a little like a comical Sweeney
Todd. Even so, the skilled cast
of Broadway, Stratford, and Shaw
alumni—in particular, Carly Street
as a prostitute determined to find
one of Burke and Hare’s victims—
delivers a show that’s a welcome
addition to our country’s musicaltheatre canon.—C.M.
AMALUNA
Performed by Cirque du Soleil.
Written and directed by Diane
Paulus. The Port Lands, to Nov. 4.
The amazing Amaluna, currently
on display beneath the Cirque
big top on Toronto’s Port Lands,
is a Tempest-inspired, rockpropelled spectacle with its own
Prospera (Julia Andrea McInnes),
a formidable sorceress who oversees
a whole island of unicycling
nymphs, acrobatic Amazons,
and high-flying Valkyries. Into
this gymnastic gynocracy tumbles
an all-male crew of castaways,
including a ripped young Romeo
who immediately catches the eye of
Miranda, Prospera’s supple teenage
daughter. Before you know it,
they’re engaged in a sweetly playful
aquatic courtship, contorting in and
around a giant, transparent cauldron
of water on Scott Pask’s tropical set.
In director Diane Paulus’s concept,
female symbols abound, from cellos
to the moon, and women rule the
stage. Most impressive is the White
Goddess, played by Lara Jacobs,
whose breathtaking routine involves
slowly building a huge skeletal
mobile from a pile of palm-leaf
ribs, using her feet. It might well
be a metaphor for Paulus’s own
graceful direction—or perhaps the
skilful balancing act of your average
working parent.—M.M.
Bill Steinkellner. Directed by Jerry
Zaks. Ed Mirvish Theatre, to Nov. 4.
Based on the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg
movie comedy, which seems subtle
by comparison, Sister Act—making
its first post-Broadway tour stop at
the Ed Mirvish Theatre—flogs its
one-joke premise with all the vigour
of a pain-happy flagellant. The plot
is a mash-up between Some Like It
Hot and The Sound of Music. Deloris
Van Cartier (Ta’rea Campbell), a
sassy Donna Summer wannabe in
late-1970s Philadelphia, winds up on
the run from gangsters and has to
hide out in a convent. There, after
some fish-out-of-water gags—and
despite the resistance of a sourpuss
Mother Superior (Hollis Resnik)—
she finds her true calling as director
of the choir. She reshapes its timid
choristers into high-stepping Bible
belters, and, in the process, turns
SISTER ACT
their failing South Philly church into
a soul sensation. It’s meant to be
Starring Ta’rea Campbell, Hollis
good, clean fun—and certainly the
Resnik. Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics
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number so ingratiating, that it
actually becomes offensive.—M.M.
War Horse
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Starring Alex Furber, Patrick
Galligan. Based on the novel by
Michael Morpurgo. Adapted by Nick
Stafford and the Handspring Puppet
Company. Directed by Alex Sims.
Princess of Wales Theatre, to Jan. 6.
The stars of War Horse are two
magnificent thoroughbreds named
Joey and Topthorn. Life-size
puppets created by South Africa’s
Handspring troupe, their equine
movements and behaviour are so
convincing that you spend most of
the show marvelling at them. Not
that there aren’t other things to
knock your spurs off in this highimpact spectacle from Britain’s
National Theatre, splendidly
recreated for Canada with Mirvish
Productions. It’s a masterpiece of
state-of-the-art stagecraft, even if
the sentimental story itself—a boyand-his-horse drama set amid the
carnage of World War I—has a strong
whiff of old Hollywood about it. It’s
partly redeemed by some enjoyable
character acting and, especially,
by an authentically tender subplot
in which a gentle German officer
(Patrick Galligan) bonds with a little
French girl (Addison Holley) over
their shared love of horses. That
said, even the excellent Galligan
can’t upstage the spirited Joey,
a sublime animal among men who
act like beasts.—M.M.
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
Royal Alexandra Theatre
Hamilton and Christopher Sieber.
To Nov. 18. 260 King St. W.,
416-872-1212, mirvish.com.
$35–$130.
Book Sale
In the early stages of the AIDS crisis,
a group of NYC activists fight to get
doctors, the press, and politicians to
recognize the epidemic.
Oct. 19–Nov. 18. 20 Alexander St.,
416-975-8555, studio180theatre.com.
$25–$30.
Follow Brad and Janet as they
are swept into the world of
Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
Oct. 19–Nov. 3. 100A Ossington Ave.,
416-915-6747,
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arts
Various locations
The second-annual Dark Comedy Festival
returns to Toronto, featuring Jim Norton,
Maria Bamford, and more.
Oct. 19–Nov. 10. Various locations,
darkcomedy.com. $69.99 festival pass.
DARREN FROST
Yuk Yuk’s
Canadian actor and stand-up comedian
Darren Frost performs his raunchy show.
To Oct. 21. 224 Richmond St. W.,
416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. $12–$20.
NORM MACDONALD
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Former SNL news anchor Norm
MacDonald performs stand-up.
Oct. 19. 190 Princes’ Blvd., 416-870-8000,
ticketmaster.ca. $40–$50.
Friday 21st 10 – 8
Saturday 22nd 10 – 8
Sunday 23rd 12 – 8
SLADE HAM
Absolute Comedy
Slade Ham headlines, with support from
Adam Growe and host Martha O’Neill.
Oct. 18–21. 2335 Yonge St., 416-486-7700,
absolutecomedy.ca. $10–$15.
Monday 24th 10 – 8
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plans. Performed in the original French.
Oct. 24–Nov. 10. 26 Berkeley St.,
416-534-6604, theatrefrancais.com.
$25–$57.
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LES FOURBERIES DE SCAPIN
Various locations
Comedy groups from Toronto, Los
Angeles, New York, and Chicago perform.
Oct. 22–27. 319 Spadina Ave.,
416-238-7337,
torontoimprovfestival.ca. $10–$20.
Trinity College
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food:
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Beast, C5, Café Belong, Canoe, Cava, Chiado, Cowbell, Frangipane, George, Gwailo,
The Harbord Room, Jamie Kennedy Kitchens, Kurtis Coffee, La Carnita,
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This year’s festival of music and dance
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Oct. 20. 1 Front St. E., 1-855-872-7669,
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$52–$133.75.
ROAD TRIP
Enwave Theatre
Susie Burpee and Loinea Swan perform a
dramatic contemporary work spiked with
humour.
Oct. 18–20. 235 Queens Quay W.,
416-973-5379, harbourfrontcentre.com.
$19.50–$34.
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Bathurst Centre
Broken Pencil presents Canzine 2012,
Canada’s largest zine fair and festival for
indie creators, featuring hourly events.
Oct. 20 & 21. 918 Bathurst St.,
brokenpencil.com.
W INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF
AUTHORS
Various locations
IFOA invites writers from all over the
world for 11 days of reading, interviews,
lectures, round-table discussions, and
book signings. Notable figures include
Jian Ghomeshi, Jonathan Goldstein,
Gordon Pinsent, and more.
To Nov. 2. 235 Queens Quay W.,
416-973-4093, readings.org.
Free-$18 per event.
RAY KURZWEIL
Danforth Music Hall
Kurzweil will lecture about the growth of
technology and its impact on life, health,
and communications.
Oct. 18. 147 Danforth Ave., 416-778-8163,
thedanforth.com. $35–$50.
ROHINTON MISTRY
Fleck Dance Theatre
Giller Prize-winning author of A Fine
Balance, Rohinton Mistry discusses
his life, work, and love of music.
Oct. 18. 207 Queens Quay W.,
416-973-4600, harbourfrontcentre.com.
$50.
SANDRA MARTIN
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic
Journalist Sandra Martin talks about
her book, Working the Dead Beat:
50 Lives That Changed Canada.
Oct. 18. 111 Queen’s Park, 416-586-8080,
gardinermuseum.on.ca.
$25 (includes lunch).
GALLERIEs
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THE ALCHEMIST’S GARDEN
University of Toronto Art Centre
Architect and artist David Lieberman’s
digitally painted landscapes and video
show that there is, in fact, movement in a
landscape and that it is always changing.
Oct. 23–Dec. 1. 15 King’s College Cir.,
416-946-8687, utac.utoronto.ca.
THE ARCHIVIST’S ÉTAGÈRE
Birch Libralato
It’s not hard to get lost in Martin
Golland’s dimension-bending paintings
of deteriorating nature and architecture.
Oct. 20–Nov 24. 129 Tecumseth St.,
416-365-3003, birchlibralato.com.
FRIDA & DIEGO: PASSION, POLITICS
AND PAINTING
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Paintings, drawings, and photographs
showcase the dramatic relationship
between two artistic legends and their
commitment to political and cultural
forces in post-revolutionary Mexico.
Oct. 20–Jan. 20. 317 Dundas St. W.,
416-979-6648, ago.net.
IMMERSIVE LANDSCAPE:
A CANADIAN YEAR
For this exhibition, 60 paintings from
U of T’s collection were chosen for their
expressions of Canadian seasons. Works
by The Group of Seven and Emily Carr
will be included.
Oct. 23–Dec. 1. 15 King’s College Cir.,
416-946-8687, utac.utoronto.ca.
University of Toronto Art Centre
Traditional anatomical drawing is
displayed with contemporary body
art, providing new and diverse ways to
examine the complex human form.
Oct. 23–Dec. 1. 15 King’s College Cir.,
416-946-8687, utac.utoronto.ca.
The whole family can use their
imagination to create spooky masks.
Treats provided.
Oct. 21. 1 p.m. 67 Pottery Rd.,
416-396-2819. $5–$10.
Toronto Zoo
Family Days
Howling Hootenanny
Ultimate Dinosaur: Giants
from Gondwana
Learn how to create using clay, with the
help of a ceramic artist.
Sundays. 10 a.m. 111 Queen’s Park,
416-586-8080, gardinermuseum.on.ca.
Free with admission.
Families can enjoy pumpkin carving, trick
or treating, a haunted maze and more at
this historic village.
Oct.20 & 21. 11 a.m. 1000 Murray Ross
Pkwy., 416-736-1733, blackcreek.ca.
Featuring previously unseen dinosaurs,
using special augmented-reality stations
and interactive experiences.
To March 17. 100 Queen’s Pk.,
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A Taste for the Arts
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A moveable feast of art, wine, and
music set in three of Cabbagetown’s
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Kate Carraway—Thirtyish
Ha ha, what a hilarious
racist joke, loser
“the reality is that some white
people do not step back and
realize how white their social
circle is.” Your mom and dad’s
pals are probably not guilty
of the not-actually-ironic stuff
of “hipster racism” (which is
just “racism”), but it’s the same
principle: Race, as Sampath
points out, is about power, and
while power is still centralized
with one group of people
it’s not funny coming from
them. Even if they do, in fact,
have that one black friend.
Still, humour is the best
way to approach and access
basically every discomfort.
So, your best move is probably
to make a (better) joke about
whoever is making a racist
one, even if their intentions
are probably not explicitly,
specifically racist. Also, in the
same way that it’s not my job
to girlsplain about sexism
(men should be doing that, to
and for other men), Sampath
says “as a white person, you
do have more responsibility,”
to get up on other white people
(especially at Thanksgiving,
come on!) about their
assumptions and arrogance.
I wouldn’t worry about
changing an 85-year-old’s
mind, but it could be cool to
say to someone who isn’t going
to die soon that their joke
reminds you of that Chris Rock
line about how being white
is like always having five
bucks, or, make something up:
There is just as much pathos
available in other people’s racist
ignorance as there is in your
mom’s friend’s feelings about
cab drivers and manicurists.
I met this girl online near
the end of the summer.
It was a first date worthy
of Dating Diaries (10/10), and
we kept seeing each other.
She even made me dinner
for my birthday. Then she
randomly said she needed
space and that she wasn’t
feeling a spark. I don’t know
what to do. Give her two
weeks and talk? Pretend she
never existed?—Toby
What? No. None of those
things. Don’t re-approach her;
don’t re-imagine it. You were
rejected, and it hurts more
than almost any other human
experience, but that’s what
happened. Feel it, and try to
learn from it, talk about it, and
get ready for a version of that
to probably happen all over
again with someone else. You
don’t need to hold on so tightly
to a single, short relationship,
and always remember: Life is
beautiful and the worst.
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_ DATING DIARIES
Selma and Ryan
THIS WEEK Selma is a 35-year-old government employee who lives in Liberty
Village. She describes her style as “hussy chic,” and her personality as
spontaneous and easygoing, but hardworking. “I am often too nice, and don’t
speak up as often as I should,” she says. Selma has been divorced for six months,
and has been “getting her feet wet in the dating pool” again. She met Ryan online.
Ryan and I traded messages back and forth for a he texted me that his back, legs, and neck hurt, and
while. I was unsure about my level of interest in that his mother was out of town. I offered some
him, but I was trying to steer away from the usual sympathy and went to sleep. In the morning, I got
type of guys I go for. I know now that I want a man another text from Ryan that said he called in sick
who knows what he wants out of life, and who is to work. I couldn’t bring myself to tell him I wasn’t
willing to share that with someone special. I asked interested, so I wrote that I was busy at work. I really
him to call me, but Ryan didn’t feel comfortable thought that would end it, but he texted that he
talking on the phone. That should have been my wished I could come over and take care of him.
first clue. He was also 32 and still lived at home with
He then sent a series of texts outlining all the
his mom, which should have been my second clue. things he tried eating but threw up. He also told me
He suggested dinner at an Asian fusion
that he was experiencing diarrhea, and sent
restaurant downtown where I’ve been
me another text every time it happened.
many times. He wasn’t that bad looking. He
Ryan started pleading with me to help him.
had a slim build and curly, short hair and
I didn’t know what to do, so I just told him
wore glasses that suited him. I was feeling
to drink Gatorade and take some Gravol. He
Selma rates
okay about the date until he told me that
texted me asking what flavour of Gatorade
her date
(out of 10)
he didn’t know how to cook for himself or
he should drink, and whether he should
do his own laundry—third clue. When we
chew or swallow the Gravol. I told him I
ordered, he said he didn’t like spicy food—fourth didn’t know. He said he thought he was dying.
clue. I wondered why he chose this place. When his
I started to just ignore his texts, but they kept
order of cashew chicken arrived, he immediately coming. The next day, Ryan texted me to report
began to choke on it, and his eyes watered like crazy. every question that his doctor had asked him,
He said it was much too spicy and sent it back. I including whether or not there was blood in his
tasted it first; it wasn’t spicy at all. I thought he must stool. A few days later, he texted me again, and said
be very sheltered or something. When his next dish that he could have been dead or in the hospital and
arrived, he only ate two or three bites.
I wouldn’t have known because I was ignoring him.
By the end of dinner, I knew that I didn’t want
Needless to say, there will not be a second date,
a second date. I gave Ryan a modest hug and fig- especially now that I have the image of this man
ured that it was over. Later that night, I received a sitting on the toilet imprinted on my brain.
text from him that said “My whole body hurts.” I
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Over the long weekend,
while visiting my family and
having some after-dinner
drinks with their neighbours
and friends, I was surprised
to hear some of the jokes
they were telling. It was a very
white crowd. I wouldn’t call
them “racist”, but the jokes
were about race. These are
good people, and I don’t
think they meant anything by
it, but I was offended.—Dave
Outside of the most
conspicuously extreme ways
of being racist, nothing much
about race and racism is black
and white (I’ll atone for that
unintentional almost-pun
somehow, I promise). Same
goes for “comedy,” if we can
even consider the probably
terrible jokes made at an old,
all-white turtleneck convention
like your family’s Thanksgiving
anything close to funny.
Racism, I think, is about being
detached from the lives and
experiences of other people,
which is also an easy metric
to apply to sexism, classism,
whatever. Did you read that
perfect thing Michael Chabon
wrote about the long-ago
inspiration for his new novel?
Following the O.J. Simpson
verdict, confused about
why black people were
celebrating in the streets
of L.A., “I discovered, to
my shame, to my absolute
wonder and horror, that in the
course of that journey I had,
somehow, become a racist....
All you have to do is look at
[other] people in a kind of
almost scientific surprise.”
Race and racism has got to
be somewhere near the apex
of cultural confusion. I mean,
between the sexy black U.S.
president, the TV shows where
non-white characters exist on
similar, if separate, narrative
planes, and the indisputable
collective crush on Beyoncé,
it seems to some people that
racism is done, we’ve solved
it, and so it might be just fine
to make jokes about stuff we
don’t completely understand.
Sheila Sampath, creative
director at activist design
studio The Public, and a
professor at OCAD, says that
in Canada, despite a superracist history of genocide
and colonialism, “we tend to
promote a view of being postracial,” or even “colourblind”,
which is the most kindergarten
way of avoiding complexity
I’ve eeeever heard of.
Sampath (who has been
called “Paki” and “terrorist”
on the streets of downtown
Toronto) says that there
remains a lot of social
segregation, adding that
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