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"Dror Halavy"
] | 2016-08-29T14:49:25 | null | 2016-08-29T10:26:53 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fpoll-most-not-so-happy-with-education-system%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/F160824HP08-300x244.jpg | en | null | Poll: Most Not So Happy With Education System | null | null | hamodia.com | Monday, August 29, 2016 at 10:26 am |
An Israeli schoolchild buys school supplies for the upcoming school year at a store in Yerushalayim, last week. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
YERUSHALAYIM - Most Israelis are dissatisfied with the country’s education system, a poll by the Central Bureau of Statistics showed. Released on the eve of the start of the new school year, the poll showed that 48 percent of Israelis regard the education system in a negative light, compared to 45 percent who see it positively.
Of the latter, 7 percent see the activities of the school system as “very good,” while 38 percent said the system was a “good” one. Among those who dislike the system, 36 percent said that the education was “not so good,” while 12 percent believed it was “not good at all.”
Analyzed by religion, fewer in the Jewish community had positive things to say about Israeli schools. Forty-one percent of Jews said that their children were getting a good education, but among Muslims, 67 percent were satisfied with their children’s schools. The highest level of satisfaction – 74 percent – was found among Druze parents.
When asked which government institution needed the most improvement, the schools were chosen by more Israelis than any other, like the IDF, with 36 percent saying that the schools needed the most help, the poll showed. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/29/poll-most-not-so-happy-with-education-system/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/6c2a2805830410a9910de48a90661cfc1dfc2f9ae2b63dfa602e78018d23e29c.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T00:49:36 | null | 2016-08-29T19:16:26 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fhagaon-harav-don-segal-shlita-visiting-hagaon-harav-shteinman-shlita%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/IMG_20160829_192118-300x300.jpg | en | null | Hagaon Harav Don Segal Shlita visiting Hagaon Harav Shteinman Shlita | null | null | hamodia.com | null | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/29/hagaon-harav-don-segal-shlita-visiting-hagaon-harav-shteinman-shlita/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/dc734bbb0a179f069f3fefecdcb31c426a32cb4abb17109a38be9c6796d391ce.json |
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"Hamodia Staff"
] | 2016-08-28T20:48:58 | null | 2016-08-28T16:17:34 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Frimon-airport-lines-tech-provider%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/Rimon-Airport-Lines-Up-Tech-Provider-300x168.jpg | en | null | Rimon Airport Lines Up Tech Provider | null | null | hamodia.com | Sunday, August 28, 2016 at 4:17 pm |
View of the construction of a new airport in Timna, near Eilat. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
YERUSHALAYIM - The new international airport in Timna, near Eilat, took a major step forward toward its April 2017 opening date on Sunday, as it awarded a tender to C. Mer Industries for the design, supply, installation, and maintenance of technological systems, Globes said.
The contract, valued at 1.5 million shekels, calls for construction of a protection system with a closed circuit television system with 400 cameras for observation and control of the airport and passenger halls, support and maintenance buildings, a control system at the entrance to the airport, and a public address system.
Under the agreement, C. Mer will also provide maintenance services, training, and airport services for 12 years.
The new airport, named after astronaut Ilan Rimon and his son Asaf Rimon, has been designated to replace the current airports in Eilat and Ovda. Passenger traffic has been projected for two million passengers a year. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/28/rimon-airport-lines-tech-provider/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/019eee9375a80e1dad0d2a1f95d3d4b97c200b67532f5d5ca02ac67586f6fc18.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T02:48:30 | null | 2016-08-27T22:39:32 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fn-korea-threatens-fire-u-s-s-korea-troops-lights%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/AP16240356860623-300x197.jpg | en | null | N. Korea Threatens to Fire at U.S., S. Korea Troops' Lights | null | null | hamodia.com | Saturday, August 27, 2016 at 10:39 pm |
FILE – In this July 27, 2014 file photo, North Korean army soldiers watch the south side while a South Korean and United States Army soldiers stand guard at the border villages of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Saturday threatened to aim fire at the lighting equipment used by “provocative” American and South Korean troops at a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas.
The North’s Korean People’s Army accused U.S. and South Korean soldiers of “deliberate provocations” by aiming their lights at North Korean guard posts at Panmunjom since Friday evening.
The KPA said in a statement that the soldiers’ actions have seriously threatened the safety of North Korean troops and disrupted their normal monitoring activities. It said the activities have further raised the anger of North Korean soldiers at a time when the Korean Peninsula has reached the “brink of war” due to last Monday’s start of annual joint military drills between the U.S. and South Korea that Pyongyang says are an invasion rehearsal.
“Floodlight directed at the KPA side at random is taken as an intolerable means of provocation and it will be the target of merciless pinpoint shots,” the KPA’s chief security officers at Panmunjom said in the statement, carried by the North’s state media.
“The true aim sought by the provocateurs through their recent act is to seriously get on the nerves of the KPA soldiers, lead them to take due countermeasures and label them as provocation,” it said.
South Korea’s Defense Ministry didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The statement by North Korea’s military came hours after the United Nations Security Council issued a statement strongly condemning four North Korean ballistic missile launches in July and August.
On Tuesday, the American-led U.N. Command in South Korea accused North Korea of planting land mines near the truce village. Panmunjom, jointly overseen by North Korea and the U.N. Command, is where an armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War was signed and is now a popular tourist spot for visitors from both sides.
Under the Korean War armistice, the two sides are barred from carrying out any hostile acts within or across the 2.5-mile-wide DMZ. Still, they have accused each other of deploying machine guns and other heavy weapons and combat troops inside the zone.
More than a million mines are also believed to be buried inside the DMZ. In August 2015, land mine blasts that Seoul blamed on Pyongyang maimed two South Korean soldiers and caused tensions between the two Koreas to flare. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/27/n-korea-threatens-fire-u-s-s-korea-troops-lights/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/d41dcbb56e7d9ea1262049e3581fa97cd91ee74648c2c77777d381e3f813f9a7.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T18:48:42 | null | 2016-08-26T13:09:32 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Falert-return-evil-weevils-rice-barley%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/46288528_l-300x199.jpg | en | null | ALERT: The Return of the Evil Weevils in Rice and Barley | null | null | hamodia.com | Friday, August 26, 2016 at 1:09 pm |
(Orthodox Union) - Recently, the OU has received complaints from consumers about high levels of infestation in barley and rice and other grain products. Many of these complaints have revealed that the affected products were beyond or close to their expiration dates.
The problem: While our certified packers sift all incoming products such as grain and flour etc., the sifting process does not detect the microscopic eggs which are laid in the kernels furthermore, eggs are laid individually in cavities that the female drills in the grain kernels. Cavities are sealed by a waxy plug, which the female secretes. Eggs incubate for about 4-14 days before hatching, depending on temperature and humidity. One larva develops in each infested kernel. Feeding larvae excavate a tunnel and may keep feeding until only the hull remains. Females usually lay around 150 eggs, and up to 300 eggs. In warm conditions the life cycle can be completed within 4-6 weeks, but this can last up to 21 weeks in the winter. As mentioned, storage in hot, humid conditions can result in hundreds of eggs hatching in a short period of time. This type of infestation is most common during July and August, but once affected grains are stored, it can occur year round.
What the OU does about this: The OU recommends that packers store their grains in cool places. Furthermore, upon receiving reports of infestation the OU investigates and will trace the problem back to where it originated. The OU will then post an alert on the OU website about which product and which lot numbers are affected. Please note that not every bag in the lot is infested, and if no tell-tale signs of infestation are present, then the product may be used.
What the consumer can do:
– Keep your rice, barley, flour etc. in a cool place (if small quantities its best to keep it in the freezer).
– Double-bag your barley, rice and flour and keep it sealed in a zip lock bag or hard plastic container.
– Do not use such product when close or beyond its expiration date.
– Check the OU website for alerts about such products. We will post lot codes of products that have been found to be infested.
– We recommend checking your rice and barley over a white paper plate before using it, alternatively you can soak it in water and detect if any critters float to the top. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/26/alert-return-evil-weevils-rice-barley/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/d6c7ddf964ecfce31699367023d0cfc997344a0776926e5fd8edee22933d5aa4.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T12:50:24 | null | 2016-08-31T08:34:51 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Frussia-says-killed-leader-adnani-syria%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/AP16243667629469-300x169.jpg | en | null | Russia Says It Killed IS Leader Adnani in Syria | null | null | hamodia.com | Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 8:34 am |
Abu Muhammed al-Adnani (SITE Intel Group via AP)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that Russian air strikes in Syria had killed one of Islamic State’s most prominent leaders, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani.
The ministry said that Adnani was one of up to 40 rebels killed on Tuesday by air strikes carried out by a Russian Su-34 bomber in Maaratat-Umm Khaush in Aleppo province.
Islamic State said on Tuesday Adnani had been killed in what appeared to be a U.S. air strike in Syria. A U.S. defense official told Reuters the United States targeted Adnani in a strike but stopped short of confirming his death.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Adnani’s killing by the Russian air strike had been confirmed “through several intelligence channels.”
Islamic State’s Amaq News Agency reported on Tuesday that Adnani was killed “while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo.” | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/31/russia-says-killed-leader-adnani-syria/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/19b6e18a9dfebe3171b1d2a196dacbd76783e197a960e9a6ab441c8d816d4ec5.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T00:49:33 | null | 2016-08-29T20:40:54 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fregional-briefs-august-29-2016%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/wp-content/themes/hamodia/favicon.png | en | null | Regional Briefs - August 29, 2016 | null | null | hamodia.com | Monday, August 29, 2016 at 8:40 pm |
NYC Republicans Form ‘Stop de Blasio’ Ballot
NEW YORK – The NYC GOP won state Board of Elections approval Friday for a “Stop de Blasio” line that will allow voters in November to back their state lawmakers without having to vote the GOP party line, the New York Post reported. They’re aiming to tap into the mayor’s unpopularity.
Wedding Crasher Stole Gifts From 2 Receptions
UTICA, N.Y. – A man who attended two weddings uninvited on July 23 and stole cards containing cash and checks was arrested, The Associated Press reported. Joseph Ciszek, 40, of Whitesboro, was seen on surveillance photos from one of the venues.
Cop Pulls Man From Tracks Just Before Train Arrives
SECAUCUS, N.J. – A NJ Transit police officer is being hailed as a hero for pulling a man from the tracks just as the train was coming into the station, The Associated Press reported. Officer Victor Ortiz pulled him up in the nick of time.
Toddler Pulled From Pool Is in Critical Condition
WINSLOW, N.J. – A 2-year-old girl is in critical condition after she was pulled from a swimming pool at her home Saturday night, The Associated Press reported. Emergency crews arrived to find family members performing CPR.
About 20,000 More Dead Fish Wash Up in NJ
LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. – About 20,000 fish have washed up in southern New Jersey in the state’s second mystifying fish kill in less than a week, The Associated Press reported. Officials believe the peanut bunker fish died due to low concentrations of dissolved oxygen in the water. Last week, more than a million dead fish appeared in area.
Long Island Car Goes Into Water, Driver Survives
PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. – A Long Island woman escaped injury when she accidentally drove her car early Monday into the water, Newsday reported. It appears she hit the gas instead of the brake. She was able to get out before the car became submerged. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/29/regional-briefs-august-29-2016/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/3aa6ddffad8899927155d4fb9e4fb2de29d470d8da72dc40b417b73da4cc8ddf.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T00:48:33 | null | 2016-08-27T20:27:47 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fdollar-rallies-u-s-stocks-fall-as-fed-shakes-complacent-markets%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/07/AP16204471896408-300x200.jpg | en | null | Dollar Rallies, U.S. Stocks Fall as Fed Shakes 'Complacent' Markets | null | null | hamodia.com | Saturday, August 27, 2016 at 8:27 pm |
A Wall Street sign hangs near the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks closed lower in choppy trading and the U.S. dollar surged on Friday as investors grappled with the possible timing of an interest rate hike after comments from several Federal Reserve officials, including Chair Janet Yellen.
Oil steadied in a volatile session and Treasury prices fell as investors across asset classes parsed the details of Yellen’s presentation, the markets’ central focus of the week.
“The Fed served notice that a rate hike is still a possibility this year, and the markets had gotten a little complacent,” said Anthony Valeri, investment strategist for LPL Financial in San Diego. “You’re seeing the Treasury market and stocks have an adjustment.”
In her much-awaited speech at an international gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Yellen did not indicate when the Fed might hike rates. But her comments reinforced the view that such a move could come later this year.
The Fed has policy meetings scheduled in September, November and December.
The dollar rallied quickly off Yellen’s comments that were perceived as hawkish, said Minh Trang, senior FX trader at Silicon Valley Bank in Santa Clara, California.
“The overall takeaway, not just from Yellen but for the week, is that all the Fed officials – the voter and no-voter alike – have all taken a hawkish bent. The only downside I see is that there are only three meetings left this year and time is running out. Given the Fed’s history, it’s difficult to see them hiking more than once this year.”
In a midday interview on CNBC after Yellen spoke, the Fed’s No. 2 policymaker, Vice Chair Stanley Fischer, suggested that rate hikes were on track for this year. U.S. stocks, which had been higher, then fell.
The odds of a hike in September climbed to 30 percent from 21 percent on Thursday, according to CME Group’s FedWatch tool. Traders were pricing in a 60.2 percent chance of a hike in December, up from 51.8 percent on Thursday.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 53.01 points, or 0.29 percent, to 18,395.4, the S&P 500 lost 3.43 points, or 0.16 percent, to 2,169.04 and the Nasdaq Composite added 6.71 points, or 0.13 percent, to 5,218.92.
“The market … needed to digest both Yellen and Fischer’s comments and it is reacting in a way that is very consistent with an interest rate move,” said David Schiegoleit, managing director at U.S. Bank Private Client Reserve in Los Angeles.
“Taken in balance the market has found a new direction today; it’s just with those comments coming so close together we got bounced around a little bit.”
The greenback hit a two-week high against the yen and Swiss franc, and a 10-day peak against the euro. In afternoon trading, the dollar was up 0.74 percent at $95.47 versus a basket of major currencies.
Oil prices stabilized after taking cues from the dollar and reacting to reports of Yemeni missiles hitting Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities.
Brent crude futures pared some gains in post-settlement trading, last up about 0.2 percent, or 11 cents, at $49.78. U.S. crude ended the session 31 cents higher at $47.64 but later fell back to $47.38.
European stocks gained strength, with a late boost from Yellen’s remarks. The pan-European STOXX 600 closed up 0.5 percent.
Euro zone government bond yields, including Germany’s 10-year bond, fell.
U.S. Treasury prices slumped as investors evaluated whether the Fed is likely to raise rates in September. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/27/dollar-rallies-u-s-stocks-fall-as-fed-shakes-complacent-markets/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/6df66c9949d33869b4c42eb4512bbaec8cca44f6d7bddf82529a1bf315b2d0c5.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T16:49:20 | null | 2016-08-29T12:18:53 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fbrazils-rousseff-faces-senators-says-accusations-without-merit%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/AP16242489312762-300x200.jpg | en | null | Brazil's Rousseff Faces Senators, Says Accusations Without Merit | null | null | hamodia.com | Monday, August 29, 2016 at 12:18 pm |
A demonstrator shouts slogans in support of Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff on Monday, in front of the National Congress where her impeachment trial is taking place. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Fighting to save her job, suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff told senators on Monday that the allegations against her have no merit and that history would judge the country if she is removed from office.
“I know I will be judged, but my conscience is clear. I did not commit a crime,” Rousseff told senators at her impeachment trial.
Rousseff reminded senators that she was re-elected in 2014 by more than 54 million votes. She said that at every moment she has followed the constitution and done what was best for the country.
“I can’t help but taste the bitterness of injustice” of this process, she said.
In the middle of her second term, the left-leaning leader is accused of breaking fiscal rules to hide problems in the federal budget. Brazil’s first female president denies wrongdoing and argues that her enemies are carrying out a “coup d’état.”
During her 30-minite speech, Rousseff argued that in early 2015 the opposition in Congress began creating a climate of instability by refusing to negotiate and throwing “fiscal bombs” in the face of declining revenues.
She said the impeachment process had exacerbated the recession in Latin America’s largest economy, flipping the blame on the opposition, which often argues she has to be removed for the financial climate to improve.
Rousseff blasted interim President Michel Temer as a “usurper.” Her vice-president-turned-arch-enemy will serve out Rousseff’s term if she is removed. Temer took over when the Senate in May voted to impeach and suspend Rousseff for up to 180 days while a trial was prepared.
Rousseff said that Brazilians would never have voted for a man who picked a Cabinet of all white men in a country that is more than 50 percent non-white. The Cabinet that Temer put in place in May has been roundly criticized for its lack of diversity. Three of his ministers were also forced to step down within a month of taking office because of corruption allegations.
Rousseff said that process against her was launched by Eduardo Cunha, the former speaker of the lower house of Congress, who is facing numerous changes of corruption. Rousseff said he tried to “blackmail” her into providing votes from her Workers’ Party to quash an ethics inquiry into him.
Rousseff said it was “an irony of history” that she would be judged for crimes she did not commit, and judged by people who were accused of serious crimes.
“I ask that you be just with an honest president,” she said, her voice cracking with emotion toward the end of her address.
The impeachment process began late last year, when opponents in Congress presented a measure to remove her from office. Her appearance comes a day or two before the Senate votes on whether to oust her from the presidency.
Several hundred supporters demonstrated outside Congress, and cheered when she arrived. Outside Congress, a huge wall was put up to separate Rousseff supporters and pro-impeachment activists.
Rousseff’s appearance came on the fourth day of the trial which has seen name-calling, shouting and a declaration by the Senate President Renan Calheiros that “stupidity is limitless.”
Opponents claim her maneuvers were an attempt to continue high spending and mask deficits, which ultimately exacerbated a severe recession.
The trial is being presided over by Supreme Court Chief Justice Ricardo Lewandowski. Before Rousseff spoke, he warned senators and spectators to remain silent.
When Rousseff finished speaking, many senators applauded, prompting Lewandowski to temporarily suspend the session.
“We are holding a judgment trial here, not a political debate,” he said. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/29/brazils-rousseff-faces-senators-says-accusations-without-merit/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/f37edac467f3f1d5aeabdb26ea39ebcfa1a080a234ffab1a0d6e69e87d4e983e.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T22:49:30 | null | 2016-08-29T18:01:12 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fpenn-firm-launches-zika-vaccine-trial-puerto-rico%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/wp-content/themes/hamodia/favicon.png | en | null | Penn. Firm Launches Zika Vaccine Trial in Puerto Rico | null | null | hamodia.com | Monday, August 29, 2016 at 6:01 pm |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A Pennsylvania drug company announced Monday that it has launched a clinical trial of an experimental Zika vaccine in Puerto Rico, the part of the U.S. hardest hit by the mosquito-borne virus.
Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. will be testing its DNA-based vaccine candidate on 160 adult volunteers in Puerto Rico. If the results are promising, the company would meet with regulators next year to discuss plans to develop the vaccine, CEO J. Joseph Kim said.
“The rapid progression of the Zika outbreak in Puerto Rico provides an immediate and unique opportunity to assess a preventive vaccine in a real world setting,” Dr. Kim said.
Inovio conducted the first vaccine trial in June with volunteers in the U.S. and Canada. It expects results later this year. Small, early-stage studies help assess the safety and promise of an experimental vaccine but cannot prove if it really works.
The National Institutes of Health is also studying a DNA-based vaccine rather than the traditional method, using a dead or weakened virus to train the body’s immune system to recognize an infection and fight it off. Other vaccine candidates are also in development, including one developed by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research that is scheduled for safety testing in October.
The search for a vaccine is particularly relevant in Puerto Rico, which as of Friday had reported more than 14,000 cases, including 1,244 among expectant women. Zika is generally spread by the bite of two species of infected mosquito. The symptoms can include fever, rash, joint pain and red eyes. Zika during pregnancy can cause birth defects. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/29/penn-firm-launches-zika-vaccine-trial-puerto-rico/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/fd9ec217c5ac038777bd8487d6d49367436985c514ec194f9ecadb3ca7abb71f.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T12:48:49 | null | 2016-08-28T07:40:14 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fgerman-economy-minister-eu-u-s-trade-talks-failed%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2015/07/Germany-300x202.jpg | en | null | German Economy Minister: EU-U.S. Trade Talks Have Failed | null | null | hamodia.com | Sunday, August 28, 2016 at 7:40 am |
German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel. (Reuters/Axel Schmidt)
BERLIN (AP) - Germany’s economy minister says free trade talks between the European Union and the United States have failed.
Negotiations on the so-called Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, have made little progress in recent years.
Sigmar Gabriel, who is also Germany’s Vice Chancellor, said Sunday that “in my opinion the negotiations with the United States have de facto failed, even though nobody is really admitting it.”
He noted that in 14 rounds of talks the two sides haven’t agreed on a single common chapter out of 27 chapters being discussed.
Gabriel compared the TTIP negotiations unfavorably with a free trade deal forged between the EU and Canada, which he said was fairer for all sides. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/28/german-economy-minister-eu-u-s-trade-talks-failed/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/a4a49d246f50df43bf99be3c0781d58e0616d3be39bd4e87ee0f918b6e4bccff.json |
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"Rafael Hoffman"
] | 2016-08-31T02:50:05 | null | 2016-08-30T21:03:07 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Flithuanian-town-marks-75th-anniversary-massacre%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/AP16242695625151-300x200.jpg | en | null | Lithuanian Town Marks 75th Anniversary of Massacre | null | null | hamodia.com | Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 9:03 pm |
The Holocaust memorial at the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the massacre of some 2,000 Jews by Nazi occupiers and their Lithuanian collaborators during World War II in Moletai, Lithuania, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)
Lithuania’s president joined thousands of people marking the 75th anniversary of the massacre of approximately 2,000 Jews by Nazi occupiers and their Lithuanian collaborators in the town of Moletai. Observers say the scale of the commemoration and march signals a growing openness in the country to own up to the role of native collaboration in Holocaust-era atrocities.
It was the first such high-profile event commemorating the massacre, which President Dalia Grybauskaite said shows the Baltic country is becoming more “open and tolerant.”
A book authored by Dr. Efriam Zuroff, director of Simon Wiesenthal’s Israel Office and Eastern European Affairs, together with Ruta Vanagaite, a popular Lithuanian author, has brought the subject of the role of Lithuanians in mass killings and subsequent attempts to minimize local involvement to the public’s attention.
“The turnout was surprising and outstanding; it’s hard to imagine such a thing taking place even a year ago,” Dr. Zuroff, who attended the event, told Hamodia. “It’s really a milestone in the willingness of Lithuanians to admit their complicity in the Holocaust.”
Marius Ivaskevicius, a well-known Lithuanian film director originally from Molitai, penned an article in advance of the anniversary of the murders, saying that the event constitutes a personal tragedy for him as a native of the town. The article brought further attention to the issue and to the Molitai event more specifically.
Immediately after Moletai was occupied by Nazi forces in 1941, violence against Jews commenced, with many being killed. On August 26, German troops and Lithuanian collaborators gathered the remaining Jewish citizens, mostly women and children, in the town’s shul, keeping them there for three days without food. They were subsequently led out of the town and murdered. A small number who were hidden by local gentiles managed to survive the ordeal.
Tzvi Kritzer, an individual who lives in Israel and who is descended from Jews from Molitai, was central in organizing the event. The commemoration began with a small ceremony at the site of the town’s shul. There, the town’s mayor delivered an emotional address making direct mention of the involvement of Lithuanians in the killings. The event then continued with a mass march from there to the site of the massacre about a mile and a half away.
Local marchers were joined by many others who traveled on buses from Vilnus (Vilna), Lithuania’s capital. The event was also attended by prominent politicians, artists, and leading intellectuals in the country.
Milda Kuodyte, a 23-year-old student attending Monday’s event, said Lithuania’s Holocaust history is a painful one, but “this march is the best proof of a major shift in society.” | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/30/lithuanian-town-marks-75th-anniversary-massacre/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/98855020856750a6661566cc88c28883ae331c8872a685820decda50b5568f70.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T22:49:40 | null | 2016-08-29T18:08:22 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Ftropical-depression-gulf-expected-strengthen-monday%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/20160829_Storm-300x209.jpg | en | null | Tropical Depression in Gulf Expected to Strengthen Monday | null | null | hamodia.com | Monday, August 29, 2016 at 6:08 pm |
MIAMI (Miami Herald/TNS) - A messy tropical wave that strengthened to a tropical depression late Sunday as it pushed into the Gulf of Mexico could gain more power Monday
In their 11 a.m. advisory, National Hurricane Center forecasters said the system would likely become a tropical storm later Monday. Located about 170 miles west, southwest of Key West, the storm had slowed to about 7 mph as it moved west. Forecasters expect it to begin turning toward the north Tuesday.
While South Florida managed to dodge much of the rain predicted for the weekend, forecasters say this week will likely be different. As the storm moves into the Gulf, the moisture it’s packing should spread and lead to heavy rain and flooding in parts of South Florida by mid week. Forecasters called for three to five inches through Wednesday, with scattered thunderstorms and squalls today.
The storm is also churning up rip currents along Atlantic beaches, the National Weather Service said, which could spread to the Gulf.
Heavy rain is also expected to continue over Cuba, with four to eight inches pounding most of the island, and as much as 12 inches in isolated locations. So much rain could trigger flash floods and mudslides, forecasters warned.
Most computer models show the storm making a turn to the right and tracking back over Florida later in the week as it speeds up. The center of the storm, which struggled to form all last week as it pushed west, was located on the northwest side. How powerful it becomes remains somewhat uncertain, with wind shear expected to pick up over the next three days and smother any strengthening. So far, forecasters are only giving the storm a 30 to 40 percent chance of producing tropical storm force winds by the time it crosses over the state.
A hurricane hunter plane is scheduled to take a second look at the storm later Monday.
Forecasters were also keeping an eye on another tropical depression off the Carolinas and Hurricane Gaston, located about 900 miles east of Bermuda at 11 a.m. The depression, which was crawling along about 7 mph, is expected to reach the Outer Banks by late Tuesday, after it intensifies to a tropical storm. Forecasters issued a tropical storm watch for the north part of the coast, from Cape Lookout to the Oregon Inlet.
Farther east, Gaston had nearly stalled to just 2 mph as winds reached 110 mph. The hurricane is expected to keep moving to the northeast, but begin fizzling by Saturday as it nears the Azores. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/29/tropical-depression-gulf-expected-strengthen-monday/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/eda97e50b3c0fbe0886e7381c95d7c13b7cce41a70ffce1ee8ef3c5d0dea7145.json |
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"Dov Benovadia"
] | 2016-08-26T12:57:37 | null | 2016-08-26T02:35:33 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fsoldiers-arrest-group-at-kever-yehoshua%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/F140425GY06-300x201.jpg | en | null | Soldiers Arrest Group at Kever Yehoshua | null | null | hamodia.com | Friday, August 26, 2016 at 2:35 am |
Kever Yehoshua. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)
YERUSHALAYIM - Thirteen people were arrested overnight Thursday for illegally entering the village of Kifl Haris in the Shomron, in order to daven at the tziyun of Yehoshua Bin Nun. Most were taken into custody and released, while thirteen people were arrested, and one person injured as IDF soldiers took him into custody. Kifil Haris is located adjacent to the Israeli city of Ariel.
According to witnesses, the army was aware of the unauthorized attempt to enter the village and set up an “ambush” for the group in an attempt to stop them before they entered the village. Several visitors were able to slip away without being taken into custody at all.
The incident comes just a few days after a large group of visitors attempted to visit the site Sunday night, and were met by large numbers of Arab rioters. IDF soldiers intervened to break up the riot. Several visitors were lightly injured in the rioting, and were treated on the scene. Thirty-two members of the group of visitors were arrested, and soldiers pursued a bus with Palestinian Authority license plates into Shechem.
Police said in a statement that they viewed the incident as “serious. Entry into Area A, which is under total Palestinian control, is dangerous, as well as a felony.” Samaria Council head Yossi Dagan on Wednesday called the unauthorized entry “irresponsible. Anyone who wants to visit the site should join the authorized entries sponsored by the Shomron Council and the IDF. Entering without the relevant security arrangements is dangerous, both for the visitors and for IDF soldiers.” | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/26/soldiers-arrest-group-at-kever-yehoshua/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/ff6cdb75ca56f22558acec58d81aecfe58210b329890e71968a7491f24da7f70.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T00:49:07 | null | 2016-08-28T19:43:21 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fmounties-new-hijabs%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/wp-content/themes/hamodia/favicon.png | en | null | The Mounties’ New Hijabs | null | null | hamodia.com | Sunday, August 28, 2016 at 7:43 pm |
The name Tahita Jenkins will ring bells only in the heads of a rarified group of lawyers and others aware of the black Pentecostal New York City bus driver having been fired from her job in 2007 — because she insisted that her religious beliefs required her to wear a modest skirt in public.
Agudath Israel of America engaged a law firm to contest the MTA’s termination of Ms. Jenkins, and eventually she prevailed.
In most cases, American employers covered by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 must make exceptions to their usual rules or preferences to permit applicants and employees to follow their religious dress and grooming requirements, including things like a necklace or pin with a religious symbol, a Muslim hijab (headscarf), a Sikh turban, a Jewish woman’s tichel or sheitel, or a Jewish man’s peyos.
Certain entities, however, like law enforcement agencies, can insist on more rigid dress codes, even against an employee’s religious scruples. In the case of police departments, issues of safety have been raised to limit things like beards or overly loose-fitting garments; and the importance of dress and grooming uniformity has been asserted as key to maintaining the public’s trust, and invoked as well for limiting exceptions to established codes. Courts have widely accepted such concerns as legitimate and rational.
Last week, north of our border, a highly regimented and uniformed police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, gave official permission to female officers to wear hijabs along with the Mounties’ famous British-style red uniforms, leather riding boots and broad-brimmed hats. It was only a matter of time. Sikh Mounties have been permitted to wear turbans since 1990.
Police in Britain, Sweden, Scotland and Norway, as well as in some U.S. localities, have also permitted Muslim women officers to wear head-coverings on the job.
The Mounties, as it happens, are the third Canadian police agency to allow hijabs to be worn on duty. Toronto police first allowed it in 2011 and Edmonton police gave it the green light in 2013.
New York’s police department, for its part, “makes reasonable accommodations for religious beliefs,” according to NYPD spokesman Paul Browne. It has permitted Sikh members of the service to wear turbans that fit under department headgear.
Nevertheless, Masood Syed, a Muslim member of the force, was suspended by the NYPD for 30 days last year because of his beard. Subsequently, though, a judge ordered the NYPD to reinstate him and compensate him for the time of his suspension.
The military is another institution where uniformity is a treasured ideal. There, too, though, rules have been relaxed over the years for at least some religious garb.
In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Jewish active military members were required to remove their yarmulkes indoors.
Shortly thereafter, however, Congress proposed the Religious Apparel Amendment, permitting yarmulkes and other unobtrusive religious garb, and the amendment became part of U.S. Department of Defense regulations the following year.
That legislation, interestingly, was bolstered by the story — recounted twice publicly by then-President Ronald Reagan — of how a Jewish navy chaplain, present during the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, used his yarmulke to wipe blood off the face of a wounded Marine, and how a Catholic chaplain then tore off a piece of his own uniform to replace the Jewish chaplain’s head-covering. Members of Congress saw the account as an emblem of America’s respect for religion.
With the specter of violence worldwide being committed in the name of Islam, it might discomfit some to see Islamic garb being worn by an officer of the law. But what must be remembered is that the same concern for religious practice and garb that has come to characterize our country — in such striking contrast with France, whose policy of laïcité, or enforced secularism, forbids religious garb in public schools, hospitals and some other public spaces — benefits not only Jews but other religious groups no less. What is more, the Jewish quest for freedom of all religious expression in the U.S. holds the potential to help undermine the disdain for “the other” that fuels so much hatred and violence. It can even create strategic alliances.
Like the 2002 effort of Cook County, Illinois law officers Sergeant Larry Davidson, an Orthodox Jew, and Deputy Crystal Clark, a Muslim, to be permitted to wear their respective religious head coverings while on duty.
At first, the Cook County’s Sheriff’s Office barred the two officers. But, after public pressure, it reconsidered and reversed its decision.
The Mounties acted responsibly. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/28/mounties-new-hijabs/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/e569819e98fb58024c047d3581ad0f9b757be948d6af5d7f7fd238577bbf8330.json |
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"Yisrael Price"
] | 2016-08-29T22:49:53 | null | 2016-08-29T17:26:27 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fliberman-soldiers-bodies-wont-returned%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/wp-content/themes/hamodia/favicon.png | en | null | Liberman: Soldiers’ Bodies Won’t Be Returned | null | null | hamodia.com | Monday, August 29, 2016 at 5:26 pm |
YERUSHALAYIM - Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman provoked a furious response from the family of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, Hy”d, when he said on Monday that he would not negotiate with Hamas for the return of bodies.
“In my estimation, the troops’ bodies won’t come back to Israel; I don’t see it happening,” Liberman said. “Nobody must think that terror pays,” referring to the exchange of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners for kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, some of whom were responsible for the killing of hundreds of Israelis.
“I opposed in the past the Shalit deal as well, and I don’t intend to make a deal in the future with Hamas.”
The Goldins’ response came later on Monday: “A defense minister who decides to give up knowingly on returning bodies from the battlefield has no moral currency to remain as Israel’s defense minister,” the family said in a statement. “We call on the prime minister to clarify to the Israeli defense minister the government’s stance regarding returning Hadar and Oron home.” Oron Shaul, Hy”d, is the other soldier who was killed in the 2014 Gaza war and whose body is still in Hamas hands.
Liberman was in fact at odds with the official government position until now. Two months ago, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Israel is doing everything to bring the bodies back. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/29/liberman-soldiers-bodies-wont-returned/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/98b926825f5ea6c604b6b6e4858050eb028b00f27641c8f3b434adb39e3df37b.json |
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"Dror Halavy"
] | 2016-08-30T16:49:56 | null | 2016-08-30T10:40:33 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fboi-banks-must-take-care-retail-customers%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/07/bank-of-israel-1024x683-300x200.jpg | en | null | BoI: Banks Must Take Care of Retail Customers | null | null | hamodia.com | Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 10:40 am |
Bank of Israel headquarters in Yerushalayim. (Flash90)
YERUSHALAYIM - Bank of Israel (BoI) is demanding that banks present alternatives for their customers before closing branches or teller desks, Globes reported. This demand comes in the wake of the closure of dozens of branches in recent months, as banks attempt to shift customer banking habits from retail branches to online banking.
A law recently passed by the Knesset requires that banks submit any changes in their retail structure before the Supervisor of Banking; BoI’s instruction is the actualization of this law.
“The new instructions urge banks to keep their customers’ needs paramount in the decision to open or close branches, and that is the criteria the Bank of Israel will follow,” the Bank said in a statement. “The purpose of these instructions is to ensure that the technological revolution that has now arrived in the banking industry will impact customers in a positive way, and to ensure that customers are taken care of in the event of the closure of a branch.”
BoI expects the recent trend of branch closures to continue, it said. “Our focus, as we decide whether or not to approve a closure, will be the convenience of customers and the assistance they will be offered during the transition period,” BoI’s statement added. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/30/boi-banks-must-take-care-retail-customers/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/7c7c44a96a0f9b3b2a0d6a9db5dbf9849e6352d278842f0444c8271eda441a70.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T10:50:15 | null | 2016-08-31T06:05:37 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fswiss-find-dead-pilot-crashed-air-force-jet%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/hornet-60520-300x199.jpg | en | null | Swiss Find Dead Pilot From Crashed Air Force Jet | null | null | hamodia.com | Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 6:05 am |
A one-seat F/A-18C plane. (Illustrative: Pixabay)
ZURICH (Reuters) - Search parties have found the body of a Swiss air force fighter pilot whose jet crashed in the Alps on Monday during a training exercise, the defense ministry said on Wednesday.
It did not identify the 27-year-old pilot at the controls when the one-seat F/A-18C went down near Susten in central Switzerland just moments after takeoff. His jet was found on Tuesday after a search hampered by bad weather.
Authorities were still investigating the cause of the crash, the third by a Swiss Air Force F/A 18 in the past three years.
A Swiss F-5E air demonstration fighter jet collided with another plane and crashed into a pond in the northern Netherlands ahead of an air show in June. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/31/swiss-find-dead-pilot-crashed-air-force-jet/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/dc64cece8563e449558f93c176a6a59c380540fd02264b482ab7c165e6d41450.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T02:49:07 | null | 2016-08-28T21:01:33 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fbig-potato-big-apple%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/Idaho-300x200.jpg | en | null | Big Potato in the Big Apple | null | null | hamodia.com | null | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/28/big-potato-big-apple/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/ceea1431ed0d27bfc1455871f706a614b2e225827a95c182d6b82aeb4f3f745e.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T08:49:23 | null | 2016-08-29T03:13:56 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fbrussels-prosecutors-no-bomb-outside-crime-institute%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/AP16242254390473-300x184.jpg | en | null | Brussels Prosecutors: No Bomb Outside Crime Institute | null | null | hamodia.com | Monday, August 29, 2016 at 3:13 am |
Damage can be seen at the building of the National Criminology Lab in Brussels on Monday. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
BRUSSELS (AP) - Reports of a bomb outside Belgium’s criminal institute early Monday are probably false, the Brussels prosecutor’s office said, adding that the incident is much more likely an arson attack on a crime lab.
“It’s probably not terrorism. It’s a criminal act,” said spokeswoman Ine Van Wymersch. “I cannot confirm that there was any bomb.”
State broadcaster RTBF and other outlets reported that a car drove through a security barrier at the site about 2 a.m., followed by an explosion that caused significant damage to the facility on Brussels’ north side. Nobody was injured.
The institute assists and advises Belgium’s justice authorities in carrying out their investigations.
Belgium has been on high alert since coordinated March 22 suicide bomb attacks on the Brussels airport and subway killed 32 people. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/29/brussels-prosecutors-no-bomb-outside-crime-institute/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/09b117ab1b79761af895dfad58f09c68db36207c79cf696594b8c5a941df4424.json |
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"Dror Halavy"
] | 2016-08-28T10:48:44 | null | 2016-08-28T05:47:08 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Folmert-to-seek-early-release%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/07/F160711AD02-300x196.jpg | en | null | Olmert Seeks Early Release | null | null | hamodia.com | Sunday, August 28, 2016 at 5:47 am |
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert seen leaving Maasiyahu Prison in Ramla on July 11, for his first furlough from prison. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)
YERUSHALAYIM - Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has filed a request for early release, after having served two thirds of the 19-month sentence imposed on him. Olmert claimed in his petition that he had an excellent record as an inmate, and that under Israeli law, he deserves a break on his sentence.
Olmert was sentenced last year to 18 months in prison for taking bribes to advance permits for contractors in the Holyland Apartments project affair, and an additional month for attempting to hide evidence consisting of secret recordings made by his assistant Shula Zaken.
Olmert “owes” a separate eight-month sentence for accepting money from American millionaire Moshe Talansky. The execution of that sentence was postponed until the completion of appeals in that case. If the High Court rules against Olmert in that case, the request for reducing his sentence will not include those eight months. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/28/olmert-to-seek-early-release/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/b8e2fb518dd63736b7f66db953eb7f88804e722cd4f9910bf8eb80bbcc09393c.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T00:50:05 | null | 2016-08-30T19:59:16 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fu-s-stocks-mostly-lower-investors-wait-jobs-report-2%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/Graph-1-115x300.jpg | en | null | U.S. Stocks Mostly Lower as Investors Wait for Jobs Report | null | null | hamodia.com | Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 7:59 pm |
NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks fell slightly on Tuesday in another quiet day on Wall Street as hesitant investors remained on the sidelines as a slow summer winds down.
Shares of the candy company Hershey plunged after it walked away from a merger proposal, and Apple slipped after the company was hit with a large tax bill in Europe.
Investors continue to wait to see whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates later this year. The next key piece of data is coming on Friday with the August jobs report.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 48.69 points, or 0.3 percent, to 18,454.30. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 4.26 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,176.12 and the Nasdaq composite fell 9.34 points, or 0.2 percent, to 5,222.99.
Trading was extremely light once again, with roughly 2.95 billion shares changing hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the seventh-slowest day of the year. Monday was the slowest trading day of 2016.
Bank stocks were among the few gainers as investors continued to interpret comments from Federal Reserve Chair Yellen and Vice Chair Stanley Fisher at a conference in Wyoming last week as signs the Fed is ready to raise interest rates later this year. In her comments, Yellen said “the case for an increase [in interest rates] has strengthened in recent months.”
Banks are a major beneficiary of rising interest rates since they can charge more for loans when interest rates rise.
Bank of America rose 35 cents, or 2 percent, to $16.19, Wells Fargo rose $1.06, or 2 percent, to $50.62 and Morgan Stanley rose 78 cents, or 2.5 percent, to $32.19.
Investors are waiting to see if the Labor Department’s monthly jobs survey this week indicates whether the U.S. economy remains on solid footing. Economists expect employers added 182,500 jobs in August and that the unemployment rate fell slightly to 4.8 percent.
A strong jobs report would give the Federal Reserve additional ammunition to raise interest rates either at its September meeting or later this year.
“After Yellen’s comments at Jackson Hole, there are some investors who think higher interest rates could hinge on this jobs report,” said Scott Wren, a senior global equity strategist at the Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
In other company news, Hershey fell $12.02, or 11 percent, to $99.65 after snack food company Mondelez International said it was walking away from its proposal to buy Hershey for roughly $25 billion.
Mondelez, which makes Oreo cookies and other snack foods, initially proposed to buy the company earlier this summer, but Hershey is a notoriously difficult company to propose mergers with since the majority of the shares are controlled by a non-profit organization.
Apple fell 82 cents, or 0.8 percent, to $106 after the European Union ruled that it has to pay $14.5 billion in back taxes. Both Apple and Ireland said they would appeal the decision, which is the EU’s latest and most aggressive move in its campaign to have multinationals pay a fair tax rate.
United Continental rose $4.04, or 8.6 percent, to $50.99 after the company announced it was hiring a former American Airlines executive, Scott Kirby, to become president and take over day-to-day operations.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude oil fell 63 cents to $46.35 a barrel. Brent crude, used to price oil internationally, fell 89 cents to $48.37 a barrel. In other energy commodities, heating oil fell 1.5 cents to $1.471 a gallon, wholesale gasoline fell 1.9 cents to $1.448 a gallon and natural gas fell 7 cents to $2.827 per thousand cubic feet.
Bond prices were mostly unchanged. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note edged up to 1.57 percent.
The dollar rose to 102.97 yen from 101.98 yen late Monday. The euro slipped to $1.1139 from $1.1187.
In metals, gold fell $10.60 to $1,316.50 an ounce, silver fell 19 cents to $18.67 an ounce and copper fell less than 1 cent to $2.077 per pound. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/30/u-s-stocks-mostly-lower-investors-wait-jobs-report-2/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/31986d3fc52bd15c0c996c003474bd9f260eca7448ec03b314b7a9cf68df192c.json |
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"Shimon B. Lifkin"
] | 2016-08-30T20:50:00 | null | 2016-08-30T16:18:29 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fenergean-transform-israel-energy-sector%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/Energean-Could-Transform-Israel-Energy-Sector-300x202.jpg | en | null | Energean Could Transform Israel Energy Sector | null | null | hamodia.com | Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 4:18 pm |
Workers on the Tamar gas processing rig 18 miles off the coast of Ashkelon, where Noble Energy and Delek are the main partners. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
YERUSHALAYIM - The entry of the Greek oil and gas company Energean could transform the Israeli market from a duopoly into an open competition, according to an industry source quoted by The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
Energean’s expected purchase of the Karish and Tanin gas reservoirs will signal a change; it “opens the sector,” the source said. “The signal to the market is given: there’s something going on in Israel. You used to have a [duopoly]. Now you have a potential market.”
Pending government approval, the $148.5 million deal was signed by Athens-based Energean Oil & Gas in mid-August to purchase the gas reservoirs from two Delek Group subsidiaries.
Until now, Delek and Noble have controlled the Israeli oil and gas reservoirs, and development stagnated due to prolonged wrangling over regulations governing the state’s share in revenues.
Another sign of change: a week and a half before the signing, the National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Ministry announced that 24 blocks in Israeli Mediterranean waters will be opened up in an international tender.
“It’s very important that ahead of this tender regarding the 24 blocks, that there’s a newcomer that gets in the Israeli market,” the source said. “It’s not just Delek and Noble as we’re used to.” | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/30/energean-transform-israel-energy-sector/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/ca390f58ec432c08a1de9d9ccbbe28f1b0290a8fbbcd1a8afdff2849d7eab553.json |
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[] | 2016-08-30T10:49:53 | null | 2016-08-30T05:27:07 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fu-s-india-to-discuss-business-ties-tensions-with-pakistan%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/2016-08-04T163456Z_816173398_S1BETTNMEAAA_RTRMADP_3_ARGENTINA-USA-300x215.jpg | en | null | U.S., India to Discuss Business Ties, Tensions With Pakistan | null | null | hamodia.com | Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 5:27 am |
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. (Enrique Marcarian/Reuters)
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker began two days of talks on Tuesday with the Indian government to boost business ties, and to encourage dialogue with Pakistan over the disputed region of Kashmir.
Kerry arrived in New Delhi on Monday night for the annual U.S.-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue after a one-day stop in Bangladesh where he discussed increased terror attacks.
The situation in Indian-ruled Kashmir and concerns over Afghanistan will be raised in talks on Tuesday with National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, and on Wednesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a senior U.S. official said.
Kashmir is at the center of a decades-old rivalry between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. The latter rules northern Kashmir and backed an insurgency in the late 1980s and 1990s that Indian security forces largely crushed.
Dozens of people have been killed in violent protests in Kashmir since July 8, when security forces killed a field commander of a Pakistan-based Islamist terror group who enjoyed widespread support in the Muslim-majority region.
Modi has said India would not bow to terrorism and accused neighbor and archrival Pakistan of glorifying it in his annual Independence Day speech on Aug. 15, in which he also raised the rhetorical stakes by highlighting concerns about human rights in restive regions of Pakistan.
New Delhi has rejected Pakistan’s invitation to hold talks on the future of Jammu and Kashmir, India’s northernmost state, saying it is an integral part of the nation. It also says any talks should address cross-border terrorism in Indian-ruled Kashmir – something Pakistan denies any role in.
A senior U.S. State Department official said Kerry will encourage dialogue between Pakistan and India during the discussions.
“We have a long-standing policy of encouraging and advocating for greater dialogue between the two countries on addressing areas of difference, and that continues to be our position,” a senior State Department official said.
“But we have also underscored that combating terrorism is a high priority for the United States in its bilateral relations with all of the countries in the region,” the official added.
The situation in Afghanistan will also be discussed, the official said, amid closer ties between India and Afghanistan, which is likely to aggravate fears in Pakistan of being wedged between two hostile neighbors.
India has provided a little over $2 billion in economic assistance to Afghanistan in the last 15 years and said recently it will deliver more arms to Afghanistan. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/30/u-s-india-to-discuss-business-ties-tensions-with-pakistan/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/64177c36dfc19e65bcc89569bf5b120cf48619b05b806cfd676e854a80ad629d.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:52:17 | null | 2016-08-26T04:06:52 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fpolice-arrest-cellphone-thief-who-preyed-on-do-gooders%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2016/08/phone-716964_1920-300x268.jpg | en | null | Police Arrest Cell-Phone Thief Who Preyed on Do-Gooders | null | null | hamodia.com | Friday, August 26, 2016 at 4:06 am |
YERUSHALAYIM - A 34-year-old Ramle man who stole dozens of cell phones in recent months was arrested, police said Thursday. According to police, the man was in addition responsible for a series of fraud-related crimes, break-ins to homes and businesses, and other crimes. He was arrested earlier this week and has confessed to his crimes.
Police in recent months received dozens of complaints of the theft of their cell phones, with most of the reports centered on the city of Lod. Many of the victims described a similar scenario: A stranger stopped them and frantically asked to use their phone to make an emergency call, and when they responded positively, the thief took the phone and started running. In most cases the victims were in no physical shape to pursue the thief.
In other cases, the thief would simply grab phones out of purses or bags that owners had left unatteded for a few moments.
In the wake of the reports, police increased their patrols and eventually caught the thief in action. Police plan to seek an extension to his remand. He is to be indicted on dozens of counts of fraud, theft, and other related charges, police said. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/26/police-arrest-cellphone-thief-who-preyed-on-do-gooders/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/2c3629aebd9e548237ac2501f43eba99b8a3adf7d58e08cb62f109e69e6da948.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T16:49:54 | null | 2016-08-30T12:42:01 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fspacex-gets-taker-1st-flight-recycled-rocket%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/wp-content/themes/hamodia/favicon.png | en | null | Spacex Gets Taker for 1st Flight of Recycled Rocket | null | null | hamodia.com | Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 12:42 pm |
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - SpaceX has a taker for the first flight of one of its recycled rockets.
The Luxembourg-based company SES (S-E-S), a longtime SpaceX launch customer, said Tuesday it will send its next communications satellite up on a previously flown Falcon rocket. It will be the first true reuse of a rocket previously used for an orbital mission. The launch will take place this fall.
Every time its Falcon flies, SpaceX attempts to land the first-stage booster on an ocean barge or back at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The company says it can save considerable time and money by reusing the big, expensive parts normally left to sink at sea. Since December, SpaceX has recovered six boosters following liftoff.
The first recovered booster now stands outside the company’s Southern California headquarters. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/30/spacex-gets-taker-1st-flight-recycled-rocket/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/4e9355b6a6f386b6933b0f077fb4a0a1276c86a11012a8daa73bc932fae06269.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T14:49:21 | null | 2016-08-29T09:39:46 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fhamodia.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Finternational-experts-in-egypt-to-inspect-metrojet-wreckage%2F.json | http://hamodia.com/hamod-uploads/2015/12/Egypt-Russian-Plane-C_Gold1-300x192.jpg | en | null | International Experts in Egypt to Inspect Metrojet Wreckage | null | null | hamodia.com | Monday, August 29, 2016 at 9:39 am |
Egyptian military approach the tail at the wreckage of a passenger jet bound for St. Petersburg in Russia that crashed in Hassana, Egypt, on Nov. 1, 2015. (Maxim Grigoriev/Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations via AP)
CAIRO (Reuters) - Experts from Russia and Germany are in Egypt to inspect the wreckage of a Russian passenger plane that crashed in Sinai last year killing all 224 people on board, the Egyptian-led investigating committee said on Monday.
Irish, American and French experts will join the inspection team which will seek to pinpoint the area where the plane began to break up, the committee said in a statement.
“Representatives from Russia and Germany have arrived today to inspect the wreckage of the doomed Russian Metrojet plane which crashed over the Sinai Peninsula last October,” the committee said.
Parts of the wreckage had been previously gathered and moved to Cairo International Airport. The experts will attempt to reconstruct the plane.
The Airbus A321, operated by Metrojet, had been returning Russian holidaymakers from the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Sheikh to St. Petersburg when it broke up over Sinai, killing all on board. The Islamic State terror group said it brought down the plane with a bomb smuggled inside a fizzy drink can.
Russia and Western governments quickly confirmed a bomb brought the plane down and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi later said the cause was terrorism. Britain and Russia suspended flights to Sharm al-Sheikh as a result, devastating Egyptian tourism, a lifeline of an already battered economy.
Russia is participating in the investigation as the airline’s country of origin, Germany as the manufacturer’s, Ireland because the plane was registered there, France because that is where it was designed, and the United States as the engine maker’s country of origin. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/29/international-experts-in-egypt-to-inspect-metrojet-wreckage/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/c53e4a180a540c632d193b109c244034ee5e3ab500b6f6b41c095a40316f5a97.json |
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The exterior of the Belfast Jewish Community shul. (Belfast Jewish Community)
A group of young thugs vandalized graves in the old Jewish cemetery in Belfast, Northern Ireland, over the weekend, in what authorities are investigating as an anti-Semitic attack.
“I think this has been a very targeted and systematic attack on the Jewish graves,” Councilman Michael Long said in an interview posted on BBC. “I think it’s important that [the perpetrators] are apprehended, so that similar future incidents won’t happen. And I think it’s important that the city of Belfast, people all speak out to say that it’s not done in our name, that we are utterly opposed to this, and that it’s utterly unacceptable.”
According to British media reports, local government officials said the attack was carried out by eight youths, who smashed 13 graves with hammers, cheered on by a larger crowd of youths. The perpetrators destroyed and knocked over tombstones, and in some instances smashed the concrete that covers the coffins. No arrests have yet been made.
“The vandalism of Jewish graves in Belfast City Cemetery was wrong and I condemn it totally,” said MP Paul Maskey, of Sinn Fein.
“Visiting cemeteries can bring great comfort to grieving relatives and friends, and it would be very distressing for anyone to have the grave of a loved one desecrated in this way,” said the MP. “All graves and graveyards should be treated with respect.”
The interior of the Belfast Jewish Community shul. (Belfast Jewish Community)
The kehillah was informed of the desecration on Friday afternoon.
“We believe it was an anti-Semitic attack,” Michael Black, chairman of the Belfast shul, called Belfast Jewish Community, told Hamodia on Sunday.
The desecrated, old Jewish cemetery is a locked-off section of the larger Belfast municipal cemetery, and the municipality is responsible for its upkeep. The last burial there took place more than 50 years ago.
It is believed that the attack may have been perpetrated by a few fans of the local soccer team, Celtic, Mr. Black told Hamodia. “Some supporters of that team support Palestinian causes,” said Mr. Black. “A few days ago, Celtic played a match against an Israeli team; that kicked off anti-Jewish feelings. Afterward, there were postings on the internet saying things like ‘Fly the flag for Palestine.’ ”
“This is the first time I can recall anti-Semitic vandalism of the cemetery,” Rabbi Avraham Citron told Hamodia. Rabbi Citron, former Rav of the Belfast shul, is currently Rav of a shul in London’s Stoke Newington neighborhood. He had been back in Belfast during the past couple of weeks serving as visiting rabbi, because the kehillah’s Rav, Rabbi David Singer, had been out of town.
The cemetery used to be open for anyone to walk inside, visit and daven, but it has been closed off in recent years, as “it is bordering a pretty shady area,” said Rabbi Citron. “Gangsters often come and drink beer, and throw their bottles over the fence.”
After learning of the vandalism, Rabbi Citron went to the cemetery on Sunday.
“The general cemetery was open, but the Jewish part was locked,” he said. “So I didn’t actually see the vandalized portion; I just davened a bit, outside the locked gate.”
Rabbi Citron says that while the vandalism is a sad incident, the local non-Jewish community recently brought about a positive and uplifting initiative involving the old Jewish cemetery.
“Several months ago, a group of Catholic school students from Belfast were taken on a trip to Auschwitz,” related Rabbi Citron. “The trip so inspired them that when they returned, they decided to take it upon themselves to clean up the old Jewish cemetery in Belfast.
“When I went today, even though it was locked and I could only peer through the gate, I saw mowed grass, no broken bottles, and a cemetery that looked nice and clean.”
A view inside the Belfast Jewish Community shul building. (Belfast Jewish Community)
Belfast Jewish Community has a history that reflects the wider history of Jews in Europe. Belfast Synagogue was founded in 1871 by German Jewish linen merchants who settled in that city, and the cemetery opened at the same time. In 1904, the synagogue moved to another neighborhood, near where new Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe were living. For the first time, it became an Orthodox congregation. The new building was dedicated by Sir Otto Jaffe, the first lord Mayor of Belfast, whose father, Daniel Jaffe, had founded the original synagogue in 1871.
In the early 1920s, a new Jewish cemetery opened, and for the next four decades, Jewish burials took place in both the new and old cemeteries. In 1964, the shul moved to its present location, 49 Somerton Road. Around that time, burials ceased in the old cemetery, which was in a bad neighborhood that would see much violence during the Troubles, three decades of violence in the late 20th century regarding the status of Northern Ireland.
Around 15 years ago, the shul changed its name from the Belfast Hebrew Congregation to the Belfast Jewish Community. Under the leadership of Rabbi David Singer, the shul – the only synagogue in all of Northern Ireland – has around 80 members. Of the country’s total population of around 1.8 million people, there are approximately 350 Jews. | http://hamodia.com/2016/08/28/old-jewish-cemetery-belfast-vandalized/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | hamodia.com/ebe2499f18539e21c1c73527caa195163c75cdab9add84941a2b97f5e6d77516.json |
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2 Stanford University 2 73.3 40.7
3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 3 70.4 68.2
4 University of California, Berkeley 4 69.6 65.1
5 University of Cambridge 1 68.8 77.1
6 Princeton University 5 61.0 53.3
7 California Institute of Technology 6 59.6 49.5
8 Columbia University 7 58.8 63.5
9 University of Chicago 8 57.1 59.8
10 University of Oxford 2 56.6 49.7
11 Yale University 9 54.5 47.6
12 University of California, Los Angeles 10 50.7 29.5
13 Cornell University 11 50.5 42.0
14 University of California, San Diego 12 48.7 19.2
15 University of Washington 13 47.8 21.2
16 Johns Hopkins University 14 46.3 37.7
17 University of Pennsylvania 15 46.1 31.6
18 University College London 3 44.5 28.1
18 University of California, San Francisco 16 44.5 0.0
20 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 1 43.7 29.5
21 The University of Tokyo 1 42.0 30.8
22 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 17 41.7 34.4
23 The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine 4 41.5 14.5
24 University of Wisconsin - Madison 18 41.1 30.8
25 University of Toronto 1 40.6 19.9
26 Kyoto University 2 38.9 31.6
27 New York University 19 38.8 28.1
27 Northwestern University 19 38.8 15.4
29 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 21 38.6 29.9
30 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 22 38.5 29.5
31 Duke University 23 38.0 15.4
32 Washington University in St. Louis 24 37.4 22.9
33 Rockefeller University 25 36.5 17.0
34 University of Colorado at Boulder 26 36.0 12.6
35 University of Copenhagen 1 35.7 21.8
36 Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 1 35.0 33.6
37 The University of Texas at Austin 27 34.8 16.2
38 University of California, Santa Barbara 28 34.6 14.5
39 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 29 34.4 8.9
40 University of British Columbia 2 34.1 15.4
41 The University of Manchester 5 33.6 18.5
41 University of Paris-Sud (Paris 11) 2 33.6 30.3
43 University of Maryland, College Park 30 32.8 19.2
44 The University of Melbourne 1 32.3 17.0
44 The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas 31 32.3 18.5
46 Heidelberg University 1 32.2 19.9
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48 Karolinska Institute 1 31.9 22.4
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50 University of California, Irvine 33 31.0 0.0
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52 University of Munich 3 30.3 25.6
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54 University of Zurich 2 30.1 5.1
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58 University of Geneva 3 29.4 27.1
58 University of Oslo 1 29.4 28.1
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61 Uppsala University 2 29.2 17.8
64 McGill University 3 28.5 32.8
64 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick 39 28.5 10.3
66 University of Bristol 8 28.3 7.3
67 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1 28.2 32.0
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67 University of Helsinki 1 28.2 12.6
70 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Campus 41 28.1 18.5
71 Ghent University 1 27.8 5.1
72 Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris 3 27.6 48.9
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75 Brown University 43 27.0 14.5
75 University of Groningen 2 27.0 0.0
77 Nagoya University 3 26.7 29.0
77 Stockholm University 3 26.7 24.1
77 Technion-Israel Institute of Technology 2 26.7 23.5
77 The Australian National University 2 26.7 13.6
77 The University of Queensland 2 26.7 12.6
82 Leiden University 3 26.5 17.8
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84 Rice University 45 26.0 16.2
85 Osaka University 4 25.7 8.9
86 Moscow State University 1 25.3 41.4
87 The University of Western Australia 4 24.9 13.6
87 University of Basel 4 24.9 19.2
87 University of Strasbourg 4 24.9 25.1
90 KU Leuven 2 24.7 0.0
90 University of Arizona 46 24.7 14.5
92 University of Warwick 9 24.6 0.0
93 Arizona State University 47 24.5 0.0
93 University of California, Santa Cruz 47 24.5 0.0
93 University of Utah 47 24.5 0.0
96 McMaster University 4 24.4 12.6
97 University of Bonn 4 24.3 15.4
98 VU University Amsterdam 4 24.2 0.0
99 Michigan State University 50 24.0 8.9
100 Texas A&M University 51 23.9 0.0
101-150 Aix Marseille University 5-6 13.6
101-150 Baylor College of Medicine 52-65 0.0
101-150 Case Western Reserve University 52-65 30.3
101-150 Emory University 52-65 0.0
101-150 Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) 3 19.9
101-150 Georgia Institute of Technology 52-65 12.6
101-150 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 52-65 0.0
101-150 Indiana University Bloomington 52-65 10.3
101-150 London School of Economics and Political Science 10-17 19.9
101-150 Lund University 4 21.2
101-150 Mayo Medical School 52-65 0.0
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101-150 National University of Singapore 1 0.0
101-150 Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU 2 13.6
101-150 Peking University 1-4 0.0
101-150 Radboud University Nijmegen 5-7 16.2
101-150 Seoul National University 1 0.0
101-150 Shanghai Jiao Tong University 1-4 0.0
101-150 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne 5 0.0
101-150 Technical University of Denmark 3 5.1
101-150 The University of Glasgow 10-17 7.3
101-150 The University of New South Wales 5-7 0.0
101-150 The University of Sheffield 10-17 17.8
101-150 The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center 52-65 0.0
101-150 Tohoku University 5 14.5
101-150 Tsinghua University 1-4 10.3
101-150 Tufts University 52-65 18.5
101-150 University of Alberta 5-6 11.5
101-150 University of Amsterdam 5-7 5.1
101-150 University of Birmingham 10-17 18.5
101-150 University of California, Riverside 52-65 12.6
101-150 University of Frankfurt 5-8 30.3
101-150 University of Freiburg 5-8 18.5
101-150 University of Goettingen 5-8 30.8
101-150 University of Leeds 10-17 17.0
101-150 University of Liverpool 10-17 17.0
101-150 University of Massachusetts Amherst 52-65 13.6
101-150 University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester 52-65 0.0
101-150 University of Montreal 5-6 11.5
101-150 University of Muenster 5-8 19.2
101-150 University of Nottingham 10-17 11.5
101-150 University of Rochester 52-65 24.6
101-150 University of Sao Paulo 1 0.0
101-150 University of Southampton 10-17 0.0
101-150 University of Sydney 5-7 14.5
101-150 University of Virginia 52-65 0.0
101-150 University of Wageningen 5-7 0.0
101-150 University Paris Diderot - Paris 7 5-6 11.5
101-150 Weizmann Institute of Science 3 17.8
101-150 Zhejiang University 1-4 0.0
151-200 Cardiff University 18-21 0.0
151-200 Catholic University of Louvain 4 10.3
151-200 Erasmus University 8 0.0
151-200 Fudan University 5-7 0.0
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151-200 Hokkaido University 6-7 11.5
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151-200 Joseph Fourier University (Grenoble 1) 7-8 0.0
151-200 King Abdulaziz University 1-2 0.0
151-200 King Saud University 1-2 0.0
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151-200 Oregon State University 66-78 10.3
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151-200 Sun Yat-sen University 5-7 0.0
151-200 Tel Aviv University 4 0.0
151-200 The Chinese University of Hong Kong 1-2 0.0
151-200 The University of Adelaide 8 14.5
151-200 The University of Georgia 66-78 0.0
151-200 The University of Hong Kong 1-2 0.0
151-200 Tokyo Institute of Technology 6-7 12.6
151-200 Trinity College Dublin 1 10.3
151-200 University of Barcelona 1 0.0
151-200 University of Bern 6 12.6
151-200 University of Buenos Aires 1 14.5
151-200 University of Delaware 66-78 10.3
151-200 University of Exeter 18-21 0.0
151-200 University of Gothenburg 5 0.0
151-200 University of Hamburg 9-13 11.5
151-200 University of Hawaii at Manoa 66-78 0.0
151-200 University of Illinois at Chicago 66-78 0.0
151-200 University of Iowa 66-78 0.0
151-200 University of Kiel 9-13 10.3
151-200 University of Koeln 9-13 0.0
151-200 University of Miami 66-78 0.0
151-200 University of Milan 1-5 17.0
151-200 University of Padua 1-5 0.0
151-200 University of Paris Descartes (Paris 5) 7-8 11.5
151-200 University of Pisa 1-5 13.6
151-200 University of Science and Technology of China 5-7 0.0
151-200 University of Sussex 18-21 0.0
151-200 University of Tennessee - Knoxville 66-78 10.3
151-200 University of Tuebingen 9-13 22.4
151-200 University of Turin 1-5 15.4
151-200 University of Vienna 1 13.6
151-200 University of Wuerzburg 9-13 19.2
151-200 Virginia Commonwealth University 66-78 10.3
201-300 Autonomous University of Barcelona 2-5 0.0
201-300 Autonomous University of Madrid 2-5 0.0
201-300 Beijing Normal University 8-13 15.4
201-300 Brandeis University 79-102 19.2
201-300 Charles University in Prague 1 8.9
201-300 City University of Hong Kong 3-4 0.0
201-300 Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 9-15 10.3
201-300 Colorado State University 79-102 0.0
201-300 Complutense University of Madrid 2-5 19.2
201-300 Curtin University 9-11 0.0
201-300 Dalhousie University 7-16 0.0
201-300 Dartmouth College 79-102 17.8
201-300 Delft University of Technology 9-10 11.5
201-300 Durham University 22-28 0.0
201-300 Ecole Normale Superieure - Lyon 9-15 0.0
201-300 Florida State University 79-102 0.0
201-300 Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) 5-6 13.6
201-300 Harbin Institute of Technology 8-13 0.0
201-300 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 8-13 0.0
201-300 Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis 79-102 0.0
201-300 Jilin University 8-13 0.0
201-300 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 14-21 0.0
201-300 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 2-5 0.0
201-300 Korea University 2-5 0.0
201-300 KTH Royal Institute of Technology 6-7 0.0
201-300 Kyushu University 8-9 0.0
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201-300 Maastricht University 9-10 0.0
201-300 Macquarie University 9-11 0.0
201-300 Medical University of Vienna 2-3 8.9
201-300 Nanjing University 8-13 0.0
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201-300 Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse 3) 9-15 0.0
201-300 Polytechnic Institute of Milan 6-8 7.3
201-300 Pompeu Fabra University 2-5 0.0
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201-300 RWTH Aachen University 14-21 0.0
201-300 Simon Fraser University 7-16 0.0
201-300 Stony Brook University 79-102 0.0
201-300 Sungkyunkwan University 2-5 0.0
201-300 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 6-7 0.0
201-300 The George Washington University 79-102 11.5
201-300 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 3-4 0.0
201-300 The University of Auckland 1-2 13.6
201-300 The University of Calgary 7-16 0.0
201-300 The University of Dundee 22-28 0.0
201-300 The University of New Mexico - Albuquerque 79-102 0.0
201-300 The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston 79-102 0.0
201-300 Toulouse School of Economics 9-15 0.0
201-300 TU Dresden 14-21 0.0
201-300 University at Buffalo, the State University of New York 79-102 0.0
201-300 University of Aberdeen 22-28 0.0
201-300 University of Alabama at Birmingham 79-102 0.0
201-300 University of Bergen 3 0.0
201-300 University of Bologna 6-8 0.0
201-300 University of Bordeaux 9-15 0.0
201-300 University of Cape Town 1-2 18.5
201-300 University of Cincinnati 79-102 0.0
201-300 University of East Anglia 22-28 13.6
201-300 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 14-21 0.0
201-300 University of Florence 6-8 0.0
201-300 University of Guelph 7-16 0.0
201-300 University of Houston 79-102 0.0
201-300 University of Innsbruck 2-3 0.0
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201-300 University of Kentucky 79-102 10.3
201-300 University of Lausanne 7 0.0
201-300 University of Leicester 22-28 0.0
201-300 University of Leipzig 14-21 11.5
201-300 University of Liege 5-6 7.3
201-300 University of Lisbon 1 0.0
201-300 University of Lorraine 9-15 11.5
201-300 University of Mainz 14-21 0.0
201-300 University of Marburg 14-21 10.3
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"Dan Savage",
"R Matt"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:31 | null | 2016-08-24T17:00:00 | Plus: hand jobs do it for me | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Flifestyle%2Fadvice%2Fsavage-love-don-t-wait-to-dump-him%2F.json | en | null | Savage Love: Don't wait to dump him | null | null | nowtoronto.com | Dear readers:
This is the final week of my summer vacation - but you've been getting a new column every week I've been gone, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me.
Our final guest Dan Savage is an independent designer, illustrator and animation director based in Brooklyn, New York. He created Yule Log 2.0 (watchyulelog.com), a collaborative art project where animators around the world reimagine the famous Yule log fireplace. He has worked with the New York Times, Herman Miller and Google, he's taught design and animation at NYU and SVA, and he's won a bunch of design industry awards you probably haven't heard of.
"I was excited to do this, even though I have no authority on the topic," said Daniel Savage, award-winning independent designer. "But I surprisingly felt pretty confident in my answers, as ridiculous as they may be."
Don't wait to dump him
I'm a 41-year-old straight woman who stayed a virgin way longer than I should have (thank you, church and cultural slut shaming). I wasn't 100 per cent "good," i.e., I was one of those "not PIV = not really sex" girls, so I indulged in outercourse and other "cheats." When I finally realized that "not until marriage" wasn't working for me and did the real thing, I discovered I loved it. Go me, right? Unfortunately, I'm not good at dating, so I usually go a long time between relationships. The relationship I'm in now is the first I've had in two years. "Guy" is nice to me - calls me beautiful, sticks up for me, comes to watch me play with a community orchestra. (My own family and friends don't even come to my shows.) But we don't have much in common (hobbies, political outlook, religious beliefs) and sometimes our conversations feel laboured. But that's okay, right? At least I'm getting my sexual needs met, right? Well, no. Every single time we've tried to have sex, Guy either can't get hard or stays hard for only a few minutes. I've tried going down on him, using my hands, different positions - nothing works. He's never had an orgasm with me. We don't even kiss that much. I don't say anything because I don't want to hurt his feelings and because I'm really grateful to him for wanting to be with me and being nice to me. He says sorry and that he's asked the doctor about it, but we don't get anywhere. It feels lonelier than when I was single. To be blunt, I don't want to date him any more. But I feel too guilty to break up with him. He really cares about me, and he didn't do anything wrong. We've dated for four months, and I don't know if I'm giving up too soon. Where would I be if previous boyfriends had ditched me for being inexperienced instead of showing me the ropes? Don't I owe Guy the same thing?
Too Down To Be Witty
First off, I think a long time between relationships is good. I also think not having things in common can be okay if you create new hobbies and experiences you can share. Having said that, TDTBW, four months is plenty of time to know if it's working. He sounds super-boring. The sooner you break it off with him the better.
You don't want to hurt him any more than you have to, especially if he's really into you, and the longer you draw it out, the more it's going to hurt. No amount of "training" is going to get this dude hard. The only rope being shown here is his flaccid ding-dong. It doesn't seem like you even want to be his friend if you break up.
I wouldn't feel guilty at all about dumping him. Sometimes you gotta think about number one.
Buy your own strap-on
My girl and I are both 26, and we opened up our marriage. Now I've got a girlfriend with whom I am getting to have some of the kinky fun that was lacking at home. Here is my question: Things are really casual between me and this new girl. I want to do some pegging, but I don't know who should buy the strap-on? Me, because it's my ass and my idea? Or her, because she would wear it and would also think it was super-hot? Should I buy the dildo and she buy the harness? Going halfsies on the whole rig? What is the equitable way of doing this?
Purchasing Erotic Gear Good Etiquette, Dan?
You're 26 years old, PEGGED, buy the damn thing. How much could it possibly cost? I know if I were in your situation I would want full control over what goes up my ass. If she owns it, would she use it while you weren't around? With strangers? No thanks. Plus, if you split the cost, who gets to keep it when you break up? Just buy it and enjoy. If you struggle with picking it out, might I suggest starting small?
Hand jobs do it for me
I've always enjoyed reading your column - maybe I just get turned on by other people's sexual endeavours, or maybe reading about other people's sexual frustrations makes my situation seem better in comparison. So what am I writing about? Well, I suppose the question is this: When does one just become blatantly ungrateful? I've been in a two-year mixed relationship (she's Native and 24, I'm white and 29), and we fight a lot. She cheated on me a couple of times early in the relationship. She says I pressured her into getting into a relationship when she wasn't ready to "settle down," which I suppose I could see. My problem is that I have a hand job fetish and my girlfriend has a disinterest in it, to the point where she just won't do it. But why am I bitching? I get laid every day for the most part - surprise blow jobs, 69ing, you name it. Should I accept this as fate? But just this morning we went for round two, I was having a hard time coming, and out of nowhere she pops up and jerks me off till climax. It really took me aback. Would it be bad to fake having coming issues in hopes she does it again? Is that unfair?
Tugboat Captain
It's interesting that your problem isn't the fact that she cheated on you, TG, or the relationship problems or the constant fighting. No, it's the lack of hand job enthusiasm. Honestly, man, it seems like you have much deeper issues here - but the hand job problem is the only concrete thing you point to?
The girlfriend you've got sounds super-selfish, and finding a new girl - one who wouldn't cheat on you and would be excited to jump into a relationship AND be down with a little tug - isn't going to be that difficult a task. I mean, your fetish seems like an easy one to explore.
But to answer your actual question: I would go ahead and fake it. Fuck it - lie to her. It seems like she has no issues lying to you!
Follow Daniel Savage on Twitter at @somethingsavage and visit his website at somethingsavage.com.
On the Lovecast, a special guest rant by writer Sherman Alexie: savagelovecast.com.
mail@savagelove.net | @fakedansavage on Twitter | https://nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/advice/savage-love-don-t-wait-to-dump-him/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/5c16b9cebe5dd322d9e81ea954d9fbdfc5452ecce0481fd5356048ac6e5a60ae.json | |
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"Radheyan Simonpillai"
] | 2016-08-29T18:49:33 | null | 2016-08-29T13:46:00 | Even star Jason Statham seems bored by it all | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmovies%2Freviews%2Fmechanic-resurrection-is-as-routine-as-an-oil-change%2F.json | en | null | Mechanic: Resurrection is as routine as an oil change | null | null | nowtoronto.com | MECHANIC: RESURRECTION (Dennis Gansel). 99 minutes. Opens Friday (August 26). See listing. Rating: NN
Mechanic: Resurrection aims to be no more satisfying than an oil change, and no one seems more bored by that prospect than Jason Statham.
The actor with the furious brow could enliven the most primitive action vehicles, flashing a devious smile and classy British accent garbled up by a warthog’s grunt.
But here, he only has a dead dry stare – for Jessica Alba’s perpetual pout and contractual affections; for the henchmen he plucks off like they’re poultry coming up on a conveyor belt; for a nemesis who cooks up such a cockamamie scheme that Statham’s hitman Arthur Bishop should be chuckling at such wasted efforts.
The nemesis is Crain (Sam Hazeldine), Bishop’s cohort from a traumatizing orphanage who’s a little pissed off because he has abandonment issues. He dispatches Alba’s Gina to win Bishop’s heart, just so he can then kidnap her and use her as leverage, forcing the hitman to come out of retirement and take out three high-priority targets.
Don’t consider these spoilers, because Bishop is wise to that plan from the get-go. And even though at any moment he could just go and napalm the villain and his empire, which he eventually does, Bishop decides he’ll just jump through these hoops anyways. There wouldn’t be a movie otherwise.
A couple of decent fight scenes where Statham grills a man’s face or shoots from a spinning life boat ensures that Mechanic: Resurrection delivers on the most basic expectations. | https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/mechanic-resurrection-is-as-routine-as-an-oil-change/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/ca0a45a22030ffb94492f7c28e2b64e67d8393f69013dbc00686478162f6ca2a.json | |
[
"Radheyan Simonpillai"
] | 2016-08-26T13:05:49 | null | 2016-08-24T17:30:00 | Try speaking out against sexual assault and you'll be tailed by the cops | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmovies%2Freviews%2Fhooligan-sparrow-how-cops-shut-down-anti-rape-activists-in-china%2F.json | en | null | >>> Hooligan Sparrow: how cops shut down anti-rape activists in China | null | null | nowtoronto.com | HOOLIGAN SPARROW (Nanfu Wang). Subtitled. 84 minutes. Opens Friday (August 26). See listing. Rating: NNNN
In 2013, six girls between 11 and 13 were taken by their principal and an accomplice to a hotel in China’s Hainan province where they were raped.
But this raw and startling doc isn’t about young rape victims in China and the institutions that enable the culprits. Instead, it’s about the methods used to silence the activists who draw attention to those problems.
Ye Haiyan, dubbed Hooligan Sparrow, organizes protests to publicize the plight of vulnerable girls, and once worked without pay in a sex shop to shed light on the deplorable conditions of prostitutes in China. If she barely gets a chance here to speak to the corruption involved on the Hainan case, it’s because thugs and police are constantly chasing and intimidating her and director -Nanfu Wang.
The film takes the shape of a fugitive thriller, giving us glimpses on the run of the networked law enforcers and their helpers trying to keep things quiet, often resorting to assault and unlawful arrests. The surviving footage, smuggled out of China, is a victory for activism. Subtitled. 84 minutes. | https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/hooligan-sparrow-how-cops-shut-down-anti-rape-activists-in-china/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/b97cfb3e663c0721b429bb864342d65e7762be3c2ff885c6fb948b488c3efeba.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T20:48:41 | null | 2016-08-26T16:43:00 | Advertising feature: Discover your local restaurants, shops, galleries and more! | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Flifestyle%2Fneighbourhood-focus-harbord-street%2F.json | en | null | Neighbourhood focus: Harbord Street | null | null | nowtoronto.com | Harbord Village is a slightly grittier cousin of Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood, nestled between Spadina and Bathurst, and sprawling south from Bloor to College.
From the 1920s to the 60s, it was a Jewish nexus, and by the 60s and 70s, the strip had evolved into a haven for nearby University of Toronto students. Indie cafes, restaurants and shops popped up in the Village and stretched further west all the way to Ossington. But it has lost many of its iconic bookstores since, like the Toronto Women’s Bookstore, which closed in 2012 after a tremendous 39-year presence in the neighbourhood.
Now, the area around Harbord is decidedly upper-middle class and family-friendly, with 1,100 students at Harbord Collegiate – the first major building constructed in the area, in 1892.
It also has one of the best east-west cycling routes in the city, and a huge dog-loving community that takes advantage of Bickford Park’s popular off-leash area.
Parameters
Harbord, from Ossington to Spadina.
Elected representatives
City Councillors:
Joe Cressy, Ward 20 (elected in 2014), and Mike Layton, Ward 19 (elected in 2010)
MPP Han Dong,
Liberal, Trinity-Spadina
MP Chrystia Freeland, Liberal, University-Rosedale
Languages spoken at home
Portuguese 6.35%
Spanish 5.40%
Cantonese 4.72%
Italian 4.55%
Mandarin 4.20%
German 2.83%
Hebrew 2.49%
Korean 2.32%
Unspecified Chinese 2.14%
Vietnamese 1.29%
Economic profile
Average individual income
$36,000 to $45,000
Without income
1.4 to 1.6%
Under $5,000
12.3 to 14.7%
$5,000-$9,999
5.5 to 11.6%
$10,000-$14,999
10.4 to 13.9%
$15,000-$19,999
7.5 to 9.8%
$20,000-$29,999
9.4 to 15.2%
$30,000-$39,999
7.7 to 8.5%
$40,000-$49,999
6.5 to 7.4%
$50,000-$59,999
4.4 to 4.5%
$60,000 and over
17.6 to 30.1%
Where to Shop
There are three things you notice when you walk the full length of Harbord: laneways, graffiti and bicycles.
Harbord is a cyclist’s dream. There are bike lanes running along its entire length, and that means bike stores. Check out the Bike Joint (290A Harbord) and Riders Cycle & Board (386 Harbord).
Though several long-standing bookstores have shuttered (R.I.P. Toronto Women’s Bookstore), Harbord remains the home of Bakka-Phoenix books (84 Harbord, ), the iconic science fiction retailer, and Parentbooks (121 Harbord), which specializes in planning a family, everyday parenting issues and everything else related to family and kids.
Harbord is also home to indie fashion and beauty retailers. Upside Apparel (209 Harbord), run by Raffael Iglesias and his wife, Krista Ozolins, has seriously stylish clothes for cyclists. The duo have creative backgrounds – his in art and hers in fashion. Iglesias says they were inspired by Amsterdam bike culture. We spotted a sharp baby blue coat and a so-Kate Moss faux fur coat.
At Zade Jones Studio (295 Harbord), a customer and Ms. Jones were vacillating between two summer dresses. Further along, there’s nanopod: Hybrid Studio (322 Harbord), which lives up to its name, offering jewellery-making and entomology courses.
If you love cult brands Tata Harper and Ilia, you could buy them at Net-a-Porter or you could go to Health Hut (171 Harbord). The tiny store is a jewel box of natural products. Things Japanese (128 Harbord) can satisfy your Hello Kitty urges or provide you with a beautiful tea set that will add colour to your home.
Continuing on the theme of beautiful things that give you pleasure, Good for Her (175 Harbord) is a must. This famous, friendly store not only sells sex toys but also hosts a long-running series of workshops covering everything you ever wanted to know about sex but were afraid to Google.
Where to Eat
Though it’s sandwiched between the Annex and a bustling stretch of College, Harbord Village still has a sleepy, tucked-away feel, with its picturesque homes and trees dotting the area.
But the strip’s ever-changing culinary scene is also a big part of its appeal.
You can’t talk about dining on Harbord without mentioning Cory Vitiello, whose Harbord Room (89 Harbord, 416-962-8989) was the toast of Toronto upon opening in 2008, and still boasts a top-notch house burger, cocktails and a lovely patio. Down the road is an outpost of Vitiello’s fledgling lunch chain, Flock (97 Harbord, 647-748-7199), where the rotisserie-chicken-obsessed chef piles perfectly roasted poultry atop fresh salads and sandwiches.
Speaking of patios, nothing on Harbord tops Harvest Kitchen (124 Harbord, 416-901-5901), a two-floor spot that features a stunning rooftop deck sheltered by spreading trees – and vegetarian-friendly, occasionally gluten-free menus at brunch, lunch and dinner.
Beloved Jewish bake shop Harbord Bakery (115 Harbord, 416-922-5767) supplies the neighbourhood with braided challah and mandelbrodt, while gluten-free folks can load up on picture-perfect cupcakes and sweets at Almond Butterfly (100 Harbord, 416-792-7994).
The laid-back neighbourhood features plenty of casual eats. Harbord Fish & Chips (147 Harbord, 416-925-2225) does British-style halibut and haddock in a super-retro takeout setting, while Smoke Bourbon Bar-B-Q House (291 Harbord, 647-342-1840) specializes in Southern eats. Long-running spot Boulevard Cafe (161 Harbord, 416-961-7676), meanwhile, is one of the few places in town for Peruvian cuisine.
The area is equipped to handle all manner of beverage cravings: the
original Sam James (297 Harbord, 647-341-2572) for coffee; Bean & Baker Malt Shop (326 Harbord, 416-536-7632) for floats and shakes; Bampot (201 Harbord, 416-537-5959) for tea, served with a side of dozens of board games; and the new and notable Her Father’s (119 Harbord, 647-347-7747) for a lengthy list of ciders.
For bigger-ticket dinners, there’s Piano Piano (88 Harbord, 416-929-7788), where ex-Splendido chef Victor Barry does wood-fired pizzas and excellent pastas; bring the kids to their Piccolo Piano upstairs dining room. In the industrial-yet-intimate dining room at Rasa (196 Robert, 647-350-8221), local culinary jacks-of-all-trades the Food Dudes dish out upscale, globally inspired fare like truffle gnudi and a gochujang-laced burger.
But the strip’s real undiscovered gem is Yunaghi (538 Manning, 416-588-7862), a stunning
little omakase spot where the multi-course tasting menus are as exquisitely plated as they are delicious.
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Thursday, August 25
Cineforum Jew Suess (1940, Veit Harlan) at 5 pm, Ghetto Theresienstadt: Deception And Reality (2006, Irmgard von zur Mühlen) at 7 pm, Kurt Gerron’s Karussell (1999, Ilona Ziok) at 8 pm, The Fuehrer Gives The Jews A City (1944, Kurg Gerron; film fragments) at 9 pm, Harlan: In the Shadow Of Jew Suess (1999, Felix Moeller) at 9:30 pm. $5-$10 donation. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.
A Fat Wreck Screening of the punk doc about music label Fat Wreck Chords. 9:15 pm. $10-$13 (eventbrite.ca). Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles. afatwreck.com.
Feedback Toronto: Family/Animation Festival Screening of short films from all corners of the world in different genres and formats, followed by audience feedback. 7 pm. Free (RSVP to reserve). Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. wildsound.ca/torontofilmfestivals.html.
A Hard Day’s Night Outdoor screening of Richard Lester’s 1964 film starring The Beatles. Music by tribute band The Rattles from 8-9 pm, film 9-11 pm. Free. St James Park, 120 King E. oldtowntoronto.ca.
Head Retropath presents the 1968 film featuring The Monkees. 8 pm (pre-screening show from 7:30 pm). $8 adv. Royal Cinema, 608 College. universe.com/royalhead.
In Season: Surf Film Screening & Fundraiser Indie film about the growing surf community around the Great Lakes in Ontario. 7 pm. $20 (includes a digital download of the film). Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst. eventbrite.ca/e/27039110708.
Kino T.O. Screening Night Independent short films from the Kino T.O. community. 8 pm (doors 7:30 pm). Pwyc. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. fb.com/KinoTO.ca.
Mission To Mars Screening of the 2000 film as part of Split/Screen: The Cinema Of Brian De Palma series. 9:15 pm. $14, srs/stu $11.50. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net.
OSC Omnimax Films Screenings of A Beautiful Planet and America Wild: National Parks Adventure. Daily, see website for times. $9-$13. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. -ontariosciencecentre.ca.
Poison Berry In My Brain Screening of the 2015 comedy by Yûichi Satô. 7 pm. $12. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond. jccc.on.ca.
Reel Asian Retro Summer Screenings Au Revoir Taipei (2010, Arvin Chen) at 6 pm; Better Luck Tomorrow (2002, Justin Lin) at 8:30 pm. $12/film. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. reelasian.com.
Rio 2 Screening of the 2014 adventure comedy by Carlos Saldanha. Outdoors at the Barry Zukerman Amphitheatre. 9 pm. Free. Earl Bales Park, 4169 Bathurst. 416-392-3846.
Friday, August 26
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Outdoor screening. 8 pm. Free. Liberty Village Park, 71 E Liberty. libertyresidents@gmail.com.
Saturday, August 27
Cineforum Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2004, Don Alexander) at 5 pm, The Salvador Dali Film Fest at 7 pm, The Sex & Violence Cartoon Fest at 9 pm. $5-$10 donation. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.
Film Job Connect Gathering for filmmakers to network with a musical showcase of local bands and an actors’ workshop. Noon. Free. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388, socap.ca.
The Free Screen: Of Shadows Filmmaker Yi Cui introduces her documentary about a group of shadow-play puppeteers in the Loess Plateau in northwest China. 1:30 pm. Free. Free. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net.
Sister Act 2: Sing & Quote Along Outdoor film screening. Pre-show music, snacks, photo booth and more. Doors 6 pm, screening 8 pm. Free. Bring your own blanket, some chairs available. St Peter’s Church, 840 Bathurst. goo.gl/SH5keV.
Sunday, August 28
Cineforum Barrie Schwortz: The Shroud Of Turin, 3 pm; Alice In The Wall (1951 Alice In Wonderland set to music of Pink Floyd), 5 pm; Oz Darkside (1939 The Wizard Of Oz set to music of Pink Floyd), 7 pm; Kid Dracula (1922 Nosferatu set to music of Radiohead), 9 pm. $5-$10 donation. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.
Japanese Musicals At The Revue The Japan Foundation, Toronto presents Oh! Bomb (1964, Kihachi Okamoto) at 1:30 pm, and The Stormy Man (1957, Umetsugu Inoue) at 4 pm. Japanese w/ English subtitles. Free. Pre-register. Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles. jftor.org.
Monday, August 29
Cineforum The Night Cry (1926, Herman C Raymaker) at 5 pm, Underworld (1927, Josef Von Sternberg) at 7 pm, Love (1927, Edmund Goulding) at 9 pm. $5-$10 donation. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.
Toronto Film Society Summer Screening Series Double feature screening: The Penguin Pool Murder (1932) at 7 pm; Topkapi (1964) at 8:30 pm. $15, stu $10. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. torontofilmsociety.org.
Tuesday, August 30
Cineforum Hoppity Goes To Town (1941, Max Fleischer) at 5 pm, UPA Animation Fest (1945-55) at 7 pm, Boogie 3D (2009, Gustavo Cova) at 9 pm. $5-$10 donation. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.
City Cinema: Airplane! & Dracula: Dead And Loving It Outdoor film screening of the 1981 film and the 1995 Mel Brooks comedy, both starring Leslie Nielsen. At sunset (9 pm). Free. Yonge-Dundas Square, 1 Dundas E. ydsquare.ca.
Wednesday, August 31
Alfie Screening of the 1966 film by Lewis -Gilbert, starring Michael Caine. 2 pm. Free. Beaches Library, 2161 Queen E. 416-393-7703.
Beach Village Outdoor Movie Nights Family-friendly movies in the park, Wednesdays at dusk until Aug 31. Venue is either Ivan Forrest Gardens (131 Glen Manor) or Kew Gardens, see website for info. Free. Kew Gardens Park, Queen E & Lee. thebeachvillage.com.
Free Flicks: Audience Choice Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, Alfonso- Cuarón’s Gravity or Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire (voting ends Aug 24). At dusk (approx 8:45 pm). Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com/freeflicks.
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade Summer movie night outdoor screening. 8 pm. Free. Union Station-, 65 Front W. torontounion.ca.
Film Festivals
Studio Ghibli Festival Toronto Anime Film Festival presents three Studio Ghibli movies directed by Hayao Miyazaki: Princess Mononoke (Fri 8:30 pm); Howl’s Moving Castle (Sat 9 pm); and Spirited Away (Sun 3 pm). In Japanese w/ English subtitles. $15 (advance $14), 3-day pass $40. Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema, 506 Bloor W. facebook.com/TorontoAnimeFilmFest. Aug 26 to 28 | https://nowtoronto.com/movies/film-fests-and-screenings/special-screenings-star-wars-force-awakens/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/f0be41def4f153398102e93f1667345e6109dc7f53e47f7d89074bb661662283.json | |
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[
"Jonathan Goldsbie"
] | 2016-08-26T13:08:47 | null | 2016-08-25T15:05:00 | No longer facing an extortion charge for his efforts to obtain the Rob Ford video, the former mayor's mysterious pal opens up just a crack | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fnews%2Fsandro-lisi-gives-an-interview%2F.json | en | null | Sandro Lisi is ready to speak to you now | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand Jonathan Goldsbie Sandro Lisi stands behind lawyers Domenic Basile and Seth Weinstein, as they field questions from reporters after their client's extortion charge was dropped. Lisi himself didn't speak during this media availability.
Asked to point out Sandro Lisi in the courtroom, witness Elena Basso made a show of it on the stand.
"I think that's him," she said on April 14, 2015, indicating a wooden desk at the far side of the room, where Lisi was indeed sitting. "I see his bald head!"
Alexander "Sandro" Lisi is not in fact bald. Nor is he balding to any noticeable degree. This was Basso's way of sticking it to him at his own preliminary hearing on a charge of extortion related to his efforts to obtain the first Rob Ford crack video.
In his three-plus years in the public eye — from being spotted by NOW tailing Ford in his Range Rover on the May 2013 morning after the video story broke, to leaving the courthouse in the same vehicle upon the extortion charge being dropped on August 11 — Ford's former driver had allowed himself to be defined by other people.
He didn't take the stand in his separate trial on (peripherally Ford-related) drug charges and, save for a few brief words after being acquitted on those, never spoke on record to the media. In the absence of any narrative to the contrary, his legend grew as a fearsome figure with a questionable relationship to the mayor (and assault charges related to multiple women) who potentially held the key to all relevant mysteries.
Now that he is no longer subject to prosecution, however, Lisi is interested in speaking.
And so it is that just a couple of hours after the Crown has withdrawn the extortion charge and released him on a peace bond, I find myself sitting opposite Lisi in a third-floor boardroom at the Bedford Road offices of Greenspan Humphrey Lavine, one of just a handful of journalists (the others being the Sun's Sam Pazzano and Joe Warmington) to be granted an audience.
There are dozens of questions I want to ask, and for the most part I do. But Lisi is not always interested in answering. He is, on the one hand, the most open he has ever been with the press, and, on the other, just as closely guarded as you might expect. Some queries he defers to his lawyers, Seth Weinstein and Domenic Basile, who are also in the room. Some he simply declines. And there are a handful of specific allegations — that he wields bedbugs as a biological weapon against his enemies; that he was the mayor's drug dealer; that Ford once beat him up — that he outright and explicitly denies.
So what was his relationship with the mayor?
"I was his driver and good friend."
Whenever the subject turns to Ford, who died in March, Lisi warms and becomes genuinely wistful.
"Rob got me engaged in politics," he says with apparent sincerity. He helped Ford on the summer 2013 by-election that saw deputy mayor Doug Holyday elected to represent Etobicoke-Lakeshore at Queen's Park and says it was one of the mayor's proudest moments.
And what was it he liked about his politics?
On this point, his response is hardly different from that of any number of Ford adherents: "His style of getting along with people. No one could beat it."
Lisi once put a Ford sign on his lawn, but he bristles when I mistakenly recall that he later replaced it with a John Tory one. (I was thinking of the Bassos' residence.)
To hear Lisi's lawyers tell it, his pursuit of the video — and subsequent legal ordeal stemming from his warning to Liban Siyad that the Dixon neighbourhood would face consequences if it weren't turned over — was merely his attempt to be a good and loyal friend to the mayor. And while that may be an oversimplification at best, in talking to Lisi, I do find myself caught off guard by the degree of his affection for Ford.
But he won't say how long he'd known him or how they met. (Though in an interview immediately after mine, he tells the Sun's Pazzano he met Ford 25 years ago via friends Ford was coaching in football.) He won't say when he last saw Ford in person.
He will, however, offer that he spoke to him on the phone shortly before he died. And that he has seen Brownie, the puppy whom Ford's wife and children got not long after.
Asked if he was self-conscious about being seen with the mayor in public after being charged in October 2013, Lisi is defiant.
"We were friends," he says. "We weren't gonna hide the fact we were friends."
Normally cautious and wary of surveillance (and, according to police documents, a practitioner of counter-surveillance), he doesn't seem too bothered about having been videotaped with the mayor at Steak Queen in January 2014, on the same night as Ford's infamous "patois" rant. There was "nothing to hide," he says, because they "did nothing wrong."
He acknowledges that he still gets recognized once in a while and that, at least within Etobicoke, there were two questions he'd typically get: "Is your case still in court?" and "Why were you charged and not them?"
The "them" in the second question were the people he was accused of extorting: Liban Siyad and Mohamed Siad, the latter of whom shot the crack video and whose name was eventually removed from Lisi's charge. Police wiretaps suggest that Siad may have tried to blackmail the mayor in an attempt to profit from the video. (Siad would later be stabbed in the back, chest and cheek in an altercation in the Don Jail.)
Lisi asked me what I thought of the second video that police recovered, in which Siad boasts to his own camera about having just surreptitiously recorded the mayor smoking crack. I told him I thought it was very funny and that I believe it shows a man who was riding the incredulous, giddy high of having accomplished something wildly improbable. Siad clearly knew he had created an item of value, but, to my mind, hadn't yet had a chance to think ahead to what it would mean.
Lisi takes a darker view of its implications.
"I think the public will see," he says.
He declines to elaborate.
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jonathang@nowtoronto.com | @goldsbie | https://nowtoronto.com/news/sandro-lisi-gives-an-interview/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/d3d1f2e473a237dc069824d58205a4c95014c2d78a0879164071ac931614c46a.json | |
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"Natalia Manzocco"
] | 2016-08-30T18:49:43 | null | 2016-08-30T14:33:11 | Lamesa team opens Lasa on St. Clair West | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Ffood-and-drink%2Ffood%2Ffilipino-fast-casual-lasa-lamesa-toronto%2F.json | en | null | Toronto gets a Filipino fast-casual spot | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand Instagram/@lasabylamesa Fast-casual spot Lasa offers fresh takes on Filipino recipes.
Filipino food is enjoying a mini-boom in Toronto. On Queen, Lamesa Filipino Kitchen has been lauded as one of the city's more inventive eateries. And recently, Platito and Tito Ron's translated the Philippines' national cuisine into hip small plates and fun takeout.
Its latest incarnation: affordable fast-casual dining, thanks to Lamesa owner Les Sabilano and chef Daniel Cancino. The pair opened Lasa this month at 634 St. Clair West, where Sabilano's parents' grocery store, Kaibigan, once stood.
"They were looking to retire, and we were faced with the decision to either sell the business or do something with it," Sabilano says. "I decided that we wanted to do traditional Filipino, but more a sort of quick-service, made to order style."
Instead of chef Cancino's fantastically-plated, modern takes on classic dishes, Lasa is all about simply-prepared homestyle eats. "At Lamesa, we’re always faced with the question – is this what Filipino food really is? And the answer is no, not really – it's a bit modern, a bit more stylized. Now we can point them in this direction."
× Some highlights from last nights tasting - classic pork Lumpia, lechon Kawali, beef Caldereta, 5 spice tofu. All available on our regular menu @lasabylamesa A photo posted by LASA 🍴 (@lasabylamesa) on Jul 30, 2016 at 3:18pm PDT
The menu's divvied up into four sections – fried, grilled, fresh, and stewed – and features a thorough rundown of Filipino staples like fried pork belly, kare-kare (peanut oxtail stew), chicken adobo stewed in vinegar and soy sauce. For dessert, there's sweet lumpia (spring rolls), rolled in a purple ube crepe, plus bowls of the Filipino national dessert, halo-halo. Most things are sized for two, but solo diners can grab a bilog combo meal with milkfish, fried chicken, tofu or BBQ pork skewers in a 7-Up marinade.
Sabilano says that while they've had to break the loss of Kaibigan gently to a couple of the neighbourhood regulars, they've also been able to introduce some new folks to Filipino cuisine. More locations are down the road: "We’re trying to identify growing Filipino communities, or ones familiar with Filipino food. Even the suburbs – Mississauga, Ajax, places where the community could use another option."
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"Glenn Sumi"
] | 2016-08-29T20:49:34 | null | 2016-08-29T15:43:48 | Fede Alvarez has lots of gleeful fun in stylish heist film set in Detroit | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmovies%2Freviews%2Fdon-t-breathe-breathes-new-life-into-the-thriller-genre%2F.json | en | null | >>> Don’t Breathe breathes new life into the thriller genre | null | null | nowtoronto.com | *DON’T BREATHE (Fede Alvarez). 88 minutes. Opens Friday (August 26). For listings. Rating: NNNN
Fede Alvarez’s follow-up to his splatterific Evil Dead remake is further proof that he’s one of the most brilliant genre directors around.
Three directionless young friends break into the home of a blind man after they get a tip that he’s sitting on $300,000. What they don’t know is that the man, an Iraq War vet, is no pushover. Soon they’re the ones being pursued.
Alvarez and his co-writer, Rodo Sayagues, have a blast with the skeevy premise, letting our feelings about the trio and the vet (known in the credits as The Blind Man) change with each narrative jolt.
Alvarez adores the conventions of the thriller genre, his camera panning and gliding around the house – over mantels, beneath beds – as soon as they enter so we know what’s in store.
He also gets great use of the setting: economically depressed Detroit (parts of which were filmed in Hungary), where no one can hear you scream – or see if you if you’re running down the street.
And he’s well served by his cast, who suggest a lot with minimal dialogue. Jane Levy, the drug addict sister in Evil Dead, beautifully embodies her morally conflicted thief, and she’s well supported by Dylan Minnette’s fearful good boy who holds a torch for her.
Stephen Lang, meanwhile, plays his put-upon vet with punishing, resolute determination, even when he’s carrying a kitchen implement in one of the film’s most sure-to-be-talked-about scenes. | https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/don-t-breathe-breathes-new-life-into-the-thriller-genre/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/d6e2aa37ad74539c75a65fd2b46e34a3daa29b58a31f362cf61c4721f60eb80b.json | |
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"Michelle Da Silva"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:52 | null | 2016-08-24T15:23:00 | The controversial exotic animal zoo refunding tickets to this weekend's event | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmusic%2Fjustin-bieber-is-giving-the-bowmanville-zoo-its-swan-song%2F.json | en | null | Update: Justin Bieber and family not appearing at Bowmanville Zoo | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand Justin Bieber Instagram
Update: Aug. 26, 2016
The Bowmanville Zoo is now refunding tickets after Justin Bieber's father, Jeremy, tweeted that the family has no involvement in this weekend's event.
× My family is in no way affiliated or supports any zoo. Nor are we apart of or the host of any fundraiser. — Jeremy Bieber (@JeremyBieber) August 24, 2016
While on a break from his Purpose world tour, Ontario’s favourite son Justin Bieber has found a new purpose. The singer and purported animal enthusiast is helping throw a fundraiser for the Bowmanville Zoo on August 28.
The event is being advertised as Bieber Family Fun Day – of BFF Day, if you prefer. It’s purpose is to raise money to “help fund the care of the animals during the rehoming process,” the Bowmanville Zoo website reads. Want to see Justin Bieber and pretend you care about animals for a few hours? It’ll cost you $295 a ticket.
North America’s oldest privately-owned zoo, located 76 kilometres east of Toronto, announced earlier this year that it would close October 10, just three years shy of its centennial. The zoo is shuttering amidst abuse allegations. A video released by PETA in January appeared to show Bowmanville Zoo owner Michael Hackenberger whipping a Siberian tiger while explaining his methods for training animals.
“I can throw out a lash whip and I can have it caress the animal,” Hackenberger says in the video. “I can carve my initials in their side.”
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The zoo, however, blamed declining attendance, which reportedly fell by more than 65 percent, as its reason for closing at the end of the season. Hackenberger maintains his innocence and says he was misrepresented in the video.
“The untrue allegations made by PETA in regards to a tiger incident have created a climate in which the zoo can no longer operate,” Bowmanville Zoo spokesperson Angus Carroll stated to the media in June. “People are staying away because they believe PETA’s allegations.”
Bieber has also courted his fair share of animal-related controversy this year. In April, he attended his dad Jeremy Bieber’s engagement party. The lavish Toronto event reportedly included things like Batman with his Batmobile, Nyotaimori (the Japanese art of eating sushi off naked women) and a Bengal tiger. The tiger was one of several animals on loan from the Bowmanville Zoo.
That close encountered must have deepened Bieber’s growing interest in big, exotic cats because less than a month later, the singer was photographed holding a white lion cub backstage at his Toronto concert. He never publicly addressed either incident.
× Expand Alex Haditaghi Instagram
It’s unclear whether Bieber’s appearance at the Bowmanville Zoo was arranged by himself or his dad. Jeremy will be there along with his fiancée Chelsey Rebelo and Justin’s two half-siblings Jazmyn and Jaxon. “And who knows, maybe a few other big celebrities will make an appearance that day too,” states the zoo.
According to DurhamRegion.com, streets around the zoo will be closed from 7 am to 8 pm on BFF Day, although whether Bieber will perform for attendees or simply do a meet and greet is unconfirmed. If he does choose to thrill the crowd with an impromptu performance, as he’s been known to do in the past, might we recommend the Biebs sing Sorry.
michelled@nowtoronto.com | @michdas | https://nowtoronto.com/music/justin-bieber-is-giving-the-bowmanville-zoo-its-swan-song/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/20f7d88110f30a012b3cdfb6b9578da6f9d8455aac3af10fb09bb95f06448a24.json | |
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"Kevin Ritchie",
"The Great Hall"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:11 | null | 2016-08-24T08:00:00 | The newly renovated venue at Queen and Dovercourt wants to diversify programming with an expanded capacity and upgraded sound and lighting | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmusic%2Fthe-great-hall-to-reopen-in-september%2F.json | en | null | The Great Hall is branching out from indie rock | null | null | nowtoronto.com | Queen West venue the Great Hall will officially relaunch on September 21 after two years of renovation.
After Marioca Properties took ownership of the 126-year-old building at Queen and Dovercourt, Triangle Developments began a $3.5-$4 million overhaul to fix accessibility and capacity issues and restore its Victorian-era architectural details.
Port Perry-based company Adamson installed a new sound system and lighting rigs with moving fixtures in both the Main Hall and the downstairs venue formerly known as the Black Box. (A new name will be announced next month.) The builders have added more exits and washrooms, expanding the capacity from the 200s to roughly 500 people in the Main Hall and 420 in the Black Box.
An elevator has been installed to carry both patrons and equipment from street level to both rooms.
“There was a time when someone booking a show would go, ‘Oh my god, I’m gonna play on this mediocre sound system with a few LED lights,’” says Lina Beaudin, head of business development and programming at the Great Hall. “They would have to bring in all this equipment to make a show amazing. Now it’s ‘Come on in and play.’”
Beaudin hopes the upgrade will attract a wider array of acts. In addition to working with big outside promoters like Live Nation and hosting indie rock events such as Long Winter, she wants to diversify programming with world-music events, bistro-style jazz shows and intimate, multi-night concerts with higher-priced acts that usually play larger venues.
"This venue can host a lot more than indie rock," she explains. "The goal is also to foster the community that we have and continue doing events like Long Winter. There was a time when a lot of parties were happening here, like Loving in the Name Of. We can bring those back because our capacity is where it needs to be."
On September 21, the Great Hall will receive heritage status from Heritage Canada as well as a legacy plaque in honour of 1907 Boston Marathon winner Tom Longboat. The First Nations long-distance runner trained in the building when it was the original West End YMCA. The track he used on the lower level was uncovered during the restoration and will serve as a balcony.
A day later, the venue will host an invite-only event to showcase the reno and new audio/visual set-up to industry and media. Upcoming public concerts booked at the Great Hall include New York no wavers James Chance & The Contortions on September 7 and 8, soul/funk singer Selah Sue on September 12, the inaugural Forms Festival featuring Lauren Halo and Arcade Fire's Jeremy Gara on September 28 and pianist Jean-Michel Blais on November 19.
During the renovation, Triangle also installed a new HVAC system, stripped and repaired the staircase, replaced the glass entrance doors on Queen Street, added a catering service area, restored the original Victorian metal radiators and built a gourmet presentation kitchen in the Drawing Room, among many other changes.
kevinr@nowtoronto.com | @kevinritchie | https://nowtoronto.com/music/the-great-hall-to-reopen-in-september/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/3bf948882ee364fa81bb2559c1fd7f538ca304e4fc0ce7270aa29330dff5197d.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:11:23 | null | 2016-08-24T09:55:00 | Win a pair of tickets to see Band of Skulls on September 8th at The Opera House! | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fcontests-and-promotions%2Fband-of-skulls%2F.json | en | null | Band of Skulls | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand bandofskulls
Enter to win a pair of tickets to see Band of Skulls on September 8th at The Opera House!
Check out our 3N review of Band of Skulls album Himalayan (Psychocollective) here!
Sponsored By: Collective Concerts
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"David Fancy"
] | 2016-08-30T14:49:41 | null | 2016-08-30T09:17:00 | Canada's premier cultural institutions need to be more aware of how seemingly innocent choices around diversity may end up perpetuating long-standing historical and racial stereotypes | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fnews%2Fshaw-festival-s-sweeney-todd-how-not-to-cast-diversity%2F.json | en | null | Shaw Festival's Sweeney Todd: how not to cast diversity | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand Emily Cooper Marcus Nance plays Judge Turpin in Shaw Festival's Sweeney Todd.
Ever since it was called out by playwright Andrew Moodie in 2008 for its poor record on cultural diversity, the Shaw Festival has increasingly taken race and ethnicity seriously in its programming and casting.
This year, for example, the festival includes The Adventures Of The Black Girl In Her Search For God, and Master Harold... And The Boys. Both shows, appearing on the Shaw’s smaller stages, involve actors of colour playing characters of colour in productions dealing specifically with stories about racialization.
But it’s a different story on the festival’s main stage, where Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, a dark and deeply sardonic musical exploring issues of class violence and cannibalism, opened last month.
The casting appears to be colour blind in the sense that nothing in the script of this play calls for an actor of colour in a particular role, and the production features actors of colour in a number of key parts.
That said, numerous Euro-American colonial tropes expressing fear and diminshment of Black bodies are seen throughout.
The two protagonists (Sweeney, the evil barber, and his accomplice, Mrs. Lovett) are played by white actors. While they do abominable things, they have many opportunities to sing and joke about their deeds and schemes. The audience develops an affinity with them and a sense of the deep ironies and contradictions of their actions. Not so for the characters played by Black actors.
When young blond heroine Johanna is raped by an anonymous perpetrator in a scene early in the show, almost all of the approximately 20 company members onstage are white. It’s the Black actor among them who is cast as the rapist.
Then there is Judge Turpin, who is the captor of young Johanna, who is also played by a Black man. He's cast as a jealous, sexually possessive latter-day Othello. The audience sympathizes with the much nastier white characters scheming his demise when his throat is ultimately slit. In that moment, the production shows us the stereotype of the desirous Black male.
In a remarkable feat of contemporary minstrelsy, the duped “slow” assistant to the white lead character, Tobias Ragg, who is regularly referred to as “boy” in the script, is also played by a Black actor.
He plays “stupid” throughout and, of course, idiot and racial degenerate that he is, commits the final act of murder, which is unleavened by the irony and comedy of the previous murders.
Art always necessarily intersects with politics. Artists need to be aware of how our seemingly innocent choices around diversity, end up perpetuating long-standing historical and racializing stereotypes. Good intentions don’t cut it.
In the era of Sammy Yatim, Ferguson and #BlackLivesMatter, Canada’s premier cultural institutions need to be sure they end up meaning what they want to mean when they create work to share with thousands of spectators.
David Fancy is associate professor in the department of dramatic arts at Brock University.
news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto | https://nowtoronto.com/news/shaw-festival-s-sweeney-todd-how-not-to-cast-diversity/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/2c26c2228fb4d41774733d777586876fa92f24d9c966d59227077122795f3671.json | |
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"Michelle Da Silva"
] | 2016-08-26T13:04:29 | null | 2016-08-24T10:09:00 | Don’t know which films to see at TIFF? Ask TIFFBOT for suggestions | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmovies%2Flet-a-bot-decide-what-you-should-watch-at-tiff-this-year%2F.json | en | null | Let a bot decide what you should watch at TIFF this year | null | null | nowtoronto.com | The Toronto International Film Festival can make you feel a lot of things: excited, starstruck, annoyed and tired, to name a few. For many people, especially in the weeks leading up to the festival, that feeling is overwhelmed. With nearly 400 films on offer this year, TIFF isn’t lacking in variety. But for members of the public hoping to attend just a handful of screenings, deciding which ones to buy tickets for is daunting.
That’s where TIFFBOT comes in.
TIFFBOT recommends films depending on the criteria you provide. It was created by two Toronto companies, digital product agency TWG and creative communications firm 88 Creative, and launched on August 23 to coincide with the online release of TIFF’s film schedule.
“The problem with most things these days is curation,” says Rob Kenedi of TWG. “There’s so much content coming at you, and you have to decide what you want to do. It gets overwhelming and TIFF for me has always been like this. I want somebody who has bothered to go through all the work to tell me what I should go see.”
So Kenedi and his colleagues built TIFFBOT. A bot is basically a computer designed to understand what you’re trying to say, figure out your intention, wade through all the information out there and give you an answer back. They’re typically conversational, as in, they talk to you in a humanistic sort of way. Apple’s Siri is a voice-triggered example. If you ask Siri a question about anything, she’ll try to give you the answer.
TIFFBOT works similarly, but only for films being shown during TIFF.
“You can talk to it in terms of genre,” Kenedi explains. “You can also mention if there are stars you want to see. If they’re not in the picks of the movies we selected, it’ll show you a nice little GIF, and we’re going to improve it to offer you other selections.”
For now, TIFFBOT only works on Facebook Messenger, which can be used without a Facebook account on the app. The bot introduces itself and asks, “What kind of film would you like to see?” It understands words like: horror, comedy, drama, documentary, scary and funny. It also recognizes words like “subtitles” and names such as Werner Herzog and Nate Parker.
When I ask it for a horror movie, TIFFBOT tells me about the Midnight Madness program and suggests Greg McLean’s The Belko Experiment. It also provides links to other useful resources, such as movie trailers, director interviews and TIFF’s ticketing site.
When I say I want to see a drama that’s also a foreign film, the helpful TIFFBOT recommends Graduation by Romanian director Chrstian Mungiu. “Mungiu’s previous two films were brutal experiences that brought the struggles of his Romanian homeland to the world stage. Expect more of the same ruthlessness here, I suppose.”
TIFFBOT has a pretty good sense of humour, too.
Kenedi says the team at TWG is actively working on the app. They’re monitoring the keywords users are typing and adjusting the bot accordingly. By the end of the week, a total of 55 films will be included. The curated list of movies came from TWG’s resident film buff Peter Strauss, who makes it a point to sort through all of TIFF’s offerings each year.
“At its core, we still needed some human curation to whittle down the list,” Kenedi admits. “Maybe next year, we’ll partner with TIFF, expand the bot and do it in a broader, deeper way. This year, it’s just a fun way to get people interested and offer something of service.”
michelled@nowtoronto.com | @michdas | https://nowtoronto.com/movies/let-a-bot-decide-what-you-should-watch-at-tiff-this-year/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/a1147cbb76b8f22db01b443f2c887fb0c3c53261bd265656e39e52406fae7658.json | |
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"Norman Wilner"
] | 2016-08-26T13:01:05 | null | 2016-08-24T17:30:00 | Actor's directorial feature debut – an adaptation of Amos Oz's memoir – is thoughtful but not always effective | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmovies%2Freviews%2Fnatalie-portman-shines-in-a-tale-of-love-and-darkness%2F.json | en | null | Natalie Portman shines in A Tale Of Love And Darkness | null | null | nowtoronto.com | A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS (Natalie Portman). Subtitled. 98 minutes. Opens Friday (August 26). See listing. Rating: NNN
Oscar-winning actor Natalie Portman makes her feature directorial debut with A Tale Of Love And Darkness, and shows herself to be as thoughtful a filmmaker as she is a performer, though that doesn’t always serve this particular work.
Amos Oz’s memoir of growing up in Israel in the tumultuous years after that nation’s establishment is an internal drama playing at several removes from its subject matter, and Portman’s adaptation never quite finds a way to make the young Amos (Amir Tessler) active in his own life.
He drifts from one situation to the next, a spectator of the national turmoil around him and of his mother Fania’s slow disintegration from clinical depression – which at the time was little understood. It’s all hushed interiors and closed characters, and the result is a static experience.
Portman gives a great performance as Fania, but as the director she seems worried about letting the character take over the movie; she’s so respectful of Oz’s melancholy, observational book that she winds up preserving it rather than translating it to cinema. | https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/natalie-portman-shines-in-a-tale-of-love-and-darkness/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/2872f2c7983aaed81acc412d85b5438b7e533e93f74744839414af01c5f64b20.json | |
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"Michelle Da Silva"
] | 2016-08-30T16:49:45 | null | 2016-08-30T11:58:03 | The retail space includes juice and coffee bars, a community hub, art gallery and yoga studio | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Flifestyle%2Ffashion%2Finside-lululemon-new-queen-west-concept-store%2F.json | en | null | Inside Lululemon’s new Queen West concept store | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × 1 of 5 Expand Michelle da Silva Vancouver-based yogawear brand lululemon has opened a new "concept store" in downtown Toronto. × 2 of 5 Expand Michelle da Silva The men's section at the new lululemon store. × 3 of 5 Expand Michelle da Silva The Hub offers a living-room style retreat from Queen West. × 4 of 5 Expand Michelle da Silva Yoga classes and other events are held in the Attic space above. × 5 of 5 Expand Michelle da Silva Toronto's Village Juicery sells raw, organic cold-pressed juice. Prev Next
Lululemon Athletica is the epitome of laidback west coast style, but after two rough years for sales, the Vancouver-based yogawear brand is hitting the reset button in Toronto. The company recently relocated to a new location down the block at 318 Queen West. This new space is larger, multifunctional and what the brand is calling a “concept store.”
The airy, 4,000 square-foot space carries the full range of Lululemon’s women’s and men’s lines. And if you haven’t been inside a store lately, their current clothing collection extends beyond black, stretchy pants into high-end leisurewear. For men, that means polo shirts ($98) and long-sleeved crewneck tops ($108) – made from their signature Luon fabric – that work just as well at the office as they do for a night out.
× Expand Michelle da Silva In the womenswear department, pants are sorted by activity, from low-impact yoga to high-intensity running.
In the womenswear department, wraps and blanket scarves ($58 to $98) are sold in addition to the brand’s popular hoodies, and the new Jet Crop Luxtreme pant ($108) – gently tapered trousers that feel but don’t look like sweats – are a smart city alternative to ubiquitous black leggings.
The concept goes beyond retail. Beyond the shopping area and fitting rooms is the Hustle, a community gathering space that’s free to use and open to the public.
× Expand Michelle da Silva In front of the new "Toronto" mural is a place for lululemon seamstresses to work on alterations. The brand offers free hemming on pants.
A “Toronto” mural painted by artist Victor Ving of Greetings Tour dominates one wall and photography by Adeyemi Adegbesan (who goes by Soteeoh on Instagram) hangs on the other. With plush leather sofas, large tables and free WiFi, the room is ideal for quick meetings or as a place to chill and take a breather from busy Queen Street.
Upstairs is the Attic, a 1,000-square foot dance and yoga studio, where Lululemon and its partners will offer classes. Guests can register online, and this week’s offerings include Vinyasa yoga at night and a beer-meets-yoga event hosted by the Brew Gentlemen Beer Co.
× Expand Michelle da Silva Stop by the store for a cold coffee or fresh-pressed juice.
Near the entrance to Lululemon also contains the Residency, a small gallery area for showcasing local artists and entrepreneurs. There’s also a Station Cold Brew Coffee Co. pop-up with java on tap, and a Village Juicery cold-pressed juice bar for those looking for a healthier alternative.
It’s clear that with the new concept store, Lululemon is trying to establish connections to its Toronto clientele that go beyond high-end activewear. But for Lotus Land expats and dreamers in this city who want nothing more than to wear yoga pants and sip on green juice, Lululemon’s here for you, too.
michelled@nowtoronto.com | @michdas | https://nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/fashion/inside-lululemon-new-queen-west-concept-store/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/2767271472f35d02d586ef41e61092c96a14cd16edf65fde6243482ab3a21927.json | |
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"Kevin Ritchie"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:01 | null | 2016-08-24T19:00:00 | A recap of the sweltering season's music news and trends in five songs | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmusic%2Ffeatures%2Ftoronto-s-songs-of-summer-2016%2F.json | en | null | Toronto's songs of summer '16 | null | null | nowtoronto.com | DRAKE
Summer Sixteen (Universal)
It's not a stretch to say the biggest name in Canadian hip-hop is now the biggest name in hip-hop. Period. Drake vowed to be everywhere in 2016 in his combative one-off, Summer Sixteen, and has since made good on his lyrical bravado. Unimpeded by lukewarm reviews, his Views album went triple-platinum in the U.S. and spawned four chart hits, including the number-one pop single One Dance. He's in the midst of a 60-date North American tour that included four star-studded nights at New York City's Madison Square Garden. If you feel left out, the 6ix God returns to Toronto for a victory lap this fall.
At the Air Canada Centre (40 Bay) with Future, dvsn and Roy Woods on October 8 and 9. $49.50-$179.50. livenation.com.
FEIST
Flamenco
The Tragically Hip have been another inescapable name in Canadian music this year, for bittersweet reasons. The band embarked on what was likely their final tour after announcing that lead singer Gord Downie had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Goodwill morphed into fan frustration when tickets sold out instantly, leading to a backlash against Ticketmaster. But when the band took the stage for the first of three gigs at the ACC, the mood of fans was emotional and celebratory. Of all the tributes this summer, Leslie Feist's acoustic cover of the Hip's 1996 Flamenco sticks out for the direct and pointed way it highlights the enduring power of Downie's songwriting.
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TORY LANEZ
Luv (Interscope/Universal)
One of the biggest musical trends of 2016 has been the popularity of dancehall and soca in mainstream pop. Caribbean music is ubiquitous in Toronto, but reggae has been considered too niche for radio play south of the border. Not the case this year: Beyoncé, Justin Bieber, Meghan Trainor, Drake and Rihanna have all scored hits with dancehall- or soca-influenced songs. The breeziest of the breezy is perhaps Toronto MC Tory Lanez's Luv, which climbed the pop charts with the help of a sample from Tanto Metro & Devonte's infectious 90s dancehall hit Everyone Falls In Love.
At the Sound Academy (11 Polson) with Jacquees and Kranium on November 30. $36.50. ticketmaster.ca.
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KING REIGN
Killer (CLK Creative Works/Reign Music)
Black Lives Matter polarized Toronto by staging a protest action during the Pride parade, but agree or disagree, the movement has effectively kept racial inequality top of mind for the better part of the summer. Earlier this year, BLM released a mixtape that included this 2014 track by Toronto MC King Reign, who passed away at 40 in June. Originally recorded and released in the wake of former mayor Rob Ford's crack video scandal, Killer looks at the collision of political spin and racial stereotypes and demonstrates why Reign was considered one of this city's freshest and most incisive lyricists.
BADBADNOTGOOD
In Your Eyes feat. Charlotte Day Wilson (Arts & Crafts)
While Drake and his OVO crewmates dvsn and PARTYNEXTDOOR are leading the R&B renaissance, a new wave of soul musicians favouring more nostalgic and analog sounds have been bubbling up over the past few years. Tanika Charles, River Tiber, Daniel Caesar and Charlotte Day Wilson have all put out solid releases recently. A connector for many of these acts is quartet BADBADNOTGOOD, whose repertoire has expanded from jazzy hip-hop covers to encompass vintage soul sounds with distinctly 70s influences. A standout cut from their recent IV album is the dusty ballad In Your Eyes, with Day Wilson on vocals.
kevinr@nowtoronto.com | @kevinritchie | https://nowtoronto.com/music/features/toronto-s-songs-of-summer-2016/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/e181228016bce53b3c2f7bdb35a77af560662fb5d711594ef4f778fc8c960463.json | |
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"Radheyan Simonpillai"
] | 2016-08-26T13:08:24 | null | 2016-08-24T17:30:00 | Beautiful tale of a teen trapped on a plantation tell troubling truths | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmovies%2Freviews%2Flove-that-java-jolt-ixcanul-might-sour-the-taste%2F.json | en | null | >>> Love that java jolt? Ixcanul might sour the taste | null | null | nowtoronto.com | IXCANUL (Jayro Bustamante). Subtitled. 92 minutes. Opens Friday (August 26). See listing. Rating: NNNN
Two recent films used mountains and the women stuck between them as symbolic sites for the struggle between tradition and modernity: Israel’s Mountain and Kyrgyzstan’s Heavenly Nomadic. Look them up and then check out Guatemala’s Ixcanul, a stunning debut by writer/director Jayro Bustamante about a teen stuck on the wrong side of a volcano.
María Mercedes Coroy gives a hauntingly still performance as Maria, who dreams of life in the U.S., beyond the volcano, but is arranged to be married to the foreman at the coffee plantation her family works on. She’s the prisoner of old customs, putting on a strong face for the sake of her doting parents.
Whether we’re closely gazing at Maria or watching her stride along the ashy volcano’s side from a distance, Bustamante lets images linger long enough for their beauty to fall away, giving us a compelling and tragic look at where our coffee comes from. | https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/love-that-java-jolt-ixcanul-might-sour-the-taste/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/5acb69c84de89c548101b31eb189e16e35c3d795550ba0e2283b2f84604174f2.json | |
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"Now Staff"
] | 2016-08-31T04:49:47 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | Catch Absolutely Free, Soupcans and more at Intersection | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmusic%2Favant-garde-music-fest-takes-over-yonge-dundas-square-this-weekend%2F.json | en | null | Avant-garde music fest takes over Yonge-Dundas Square this weekend | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand Soupcans
Arty and experimental music fest Intersection is back this weekend for a two-day run.
The annual event – which focuses on the nexus between contemporary classical and rock – begins Friday (September 2), with an intimate show at DIY space Soybomb (156 Bathurst) featuring New York-based no wave/punk guitarist and composer Elliott Sharp, who will be backed by local collective Thin Edge New Music. Punk group Soupcans are also on the bill, and the show will be preceded by a panel on the role classical music plays in pop and rock (and vice versa) featuring Sharp and members of Thin Edge.
On Saturday (September 3), the avant-garde action will move to Yonge-Dundas Square (1 Dundas East) from 2 to 10 pm. Local Krautrockers Absolutely Free will perform with contemporary classical ensemble Contact. Other acts on the bill include saxophonist Kyle Brenders and his electro-acoustic group, Cory Latkovich’s Imaginary Flesh ensemble, which features members of Hooded Fang, L CON and The Holy Grasp, and Canadian art stalwart Michael Snow.
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Get more Toronto show listings here.
music@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto | https://nowtoronto.com/music/avant-garde-music-fest-takes-over-yonge-dundas-square-this-weekend/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/94efd632d99fd0e25d24bc9dbeb21d5d2e35077cfa73c155068699320075066d.json | |
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"Susan G. Cole"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:22 | null | 2016-08-24T21:17:00 | Margaret Atwood & Johnnie Christmas collaborate for Angel Catbird | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fart-and-books%2Fart%2Funlikely-collaborators-get-litter-ary-with-new-graphic-novel%2F.json | en | null | Unlikely collaborators get "Litter-ary" with new graphic novel | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand Johnnie Christmas
MARGARET ATWOOD and JOHNNIE CHRISTMAS at Fan Expo Canada, Metro
Toronto Convention Centre (255 Front West), September 3 at 4 pm. $60 all-day pass. fanexpocanada.com. See listing.
He's young, she’s not. She’s a cat lover, he’s a dog lover. He’s a modest, relatively unknown graphic novelist, she’s one of the world’s best-known writers and a Canadian icon.
The collaboration between Johnnie Christmas and Margaret Atwood is one of the least likely you could imagine. Yet they’ve produced a small marvel of a comic book project, the first installment of Angel Catbird ($14.45, Dark Horse), about a gene-splicing experiment gone wrong and the superhero who emerges from the accident to fight the evil half-rat Dr. Muroid.
It’s the first time Atwood’s been involved with a graphic novel, but she’s the one who dreamed it up, sending the idea to comic book historian Hope Nicholson, who connected her to Christmas and then to publisher Dark Horse Comics. In certain ways it’s vintage Atwood, full of clever wordplay (“catastrophe,” for instance, and “ratify”), all with an eco-positive edge.
But how does a self-described megalomaniac control freak, someone usually involved in the most solitary of creative processes – writing novels, poetry and more – adjust to having to lose some personal power over the creative process?
“You mean I didn’t have total control?” Atwood asks slyly while smiling at Christmas, who’s in his Vancouver apartment and with whom we’re Skyping in the Penguin/Random House offices.
“It’s like writing for films and television – only better, because in film and television you have producers with a lot of money who want to put their oar in. This is more like working with a director and going back and forth with ideas and exchanging pictures, which we could do thanks to the technology.”
Christmas, whose popular Sheltered series has movie producers sniffing around it, says he was never intimidated by the literary legend.
“I just didn’t know what to expect. And originally we communicated only through email, and email has no tone. I only knew her by her work, so in the end I was surprised by how funny she was.”
Atwood readily admits she’s always been an inveterate comic book reader. That may sound counter-intuitive, at first – brainy writer reading Superman? But she says comics were a fundamental part of the culture she grew up in. The dailies were rammed with comic strips (they were called the funnies then), and enjoying them wasn’t as nerdy a pastime as it became later.
Now comics, via graphic novels, have come back into the mainstream, and artists like Alison Bechdel in the U.S. and Seth here in Canada- are almost household names. Christmas agrees that a new wave is washing in, some of it not funny at all. Remember – Maus, the Pulitzer-winning serialized graphic novel by Art Spiegelman that pioneered the form in the 1980s, took as its subject the Holocaust.
Christmas reminds me that it’s only in North America that superheroes and sci-fi have dominated the comic book landscape. He says Superman spawned a raft of cookie-cutter character, the way westerns took over American cinema for a period of time. But that changed.
“After the 80s, there was a boom of black-and-white comics that were very serious, and it took some time for that wave to catch up with pop culture,” says the amiable Christmas. “New creators were saying, ‘Hey, I don’t have to do superheroes. I don’t have to do that any more. I can do that quirky story that’s been in the back of my mind for year.’”
He’s very aware of storytelling craft. His deepest influences – Jaime Hernandez, Katsuhiro Otomo and Mike Mignola – are all unique talents.
“Hernandez tells stories about 80s punkers, Otomo has post-apocalyptic stories, and Mignola does simple graphic folk tales.”
Atwood, of course, has done all of the above except 80s punk characters, and could do that, too, if she wanted to. But here she mines her love of the superhero, one-third cat, one-third bird, one-third human.
She gives credit to Christmas for solving an essential narrative problem. It’s all about Angel Catbird’s pants, carefully selected from six design options.
“We needed an origin story for the pants,” says Atwood. “Otherwise, we would have had the problem of the Superman clothes. What happens to Superman’s clothes when he goes into the phone booth? It always bothered me and I don’t think it was ever resolved satisfactorily. People who get into these comics are sticklers for details. If there’s a gap that isn’t filled, you have to fill it in. Like, when Superman eats the kryptonite sandwich, why doesn’t his head explode?”
There’s something gobsmacking about a Booker Prize-winning author pondering these things, but Angel Catbird sticks to Atwood’s better- known sweet spot – her environmental concerns. The book has an activist bent, positing a way to save cats and birds at the same time.
She’s partnered with Nature Canada, which supplied statistics tied to key tidbits of dialogue. So when love interest Cate Leone says she has trouble with monogamy, there’s data at the bottom of the page pertaining to cat population growth.
The storyline makes allies of birds and cats, which are natural antagonists (cats snack on birds, after all) for good reason.
“How do you deal with the large numbers of migratory neo-tropical birds being eaten by cats,” asks Atwood, who’s acutely aware that making cats the villains would be a problem for fans of the feline. “Then there’s the fact that people are passionately devoted to cats – you can’t say, ‘Cat monster flushed down toilet.’ What better way to blend cat interests and bird interests than in a cat-person?”
On the other hand, rat as villain makes perfect sense.
“Rats, particularly on islands like New Zealand, are very destructive of bird life, so if you were going to have a super-villain, it would be a rat, is the enemy of both cats and birds.”
Christmas and Atwood have just started out on the interview circuit. They’re appearing at Fan Expo Cana-da on September 3 and have just returned from ComicCon in San Diego, where Christmas learned to appreciate Atwood’s deftness at dealing with interviews.
“A lot of times you get questions and they’re kind of duds. Margaret has this way of elevating them in her answers, tying them to something bigger and then figuring out a way to bring things back to the original question.”
Atwood just smiles and says, “There’s no such thing as a bad question – only bad answers.”
susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole | https://nowtoronto.com/art-and-books/art/unlikely-collaborators-get-litter-ary-with-new-graphic-novel/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/2fe302ff334f7957606bbbfec05c15e7c4fa7ba774f4577e2fe63f919b8c0dc2.json | |
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"Adria Vasil"
] | 2016-08-29T04:49:24 | null | 2016-08-28T23:10:00 | When did BC start sucking so bad on the environment? | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fnews%2Fecoholic%2Fcarbon-bubble-bursts-on-bc%25E2%2580%2599s-climate-plan%2F.json | en | null | Carbon bubble bursts on BC’s climate action plan | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand BC premier Christy Clark's new climate action plan has come under withering attack from environmentalists.
There was a time when British Columbia was a beacon in the smog, showing the rest of Canada how bold climate action is done, even while the country was being dragged into the ecological gutter by the Harper government.
Then Christy Clark took over from BC’s environmentally progressive Liberal premier, Gordon Campbell, and froze Campbell’s historic carbon tax, the first in North America, in 2012, which was about when the rest of Canada stopped paying attention.
BC seemed to be up to some good despite its zeal for supporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, which most Canucks still believe is clean energy thanks to years of not so subliminal advertising. Didn’t the province give the world the historic Great Bear Rainforest agreement? Isn’t Vancouver, like, the greenest city on earth?
The bubble burst on August 18, when the Christy government finally released its long-awaited “climate leadership plan.” It’s official: after months of foot-dragging, BC is walking away from its pledge to slash greenhouse gas emissions by one-third below 2007 levels by 2020. The government says it’s now “committed” to getting emissions down to 80 per cent below 2007 levels but by 2050 at the earliest, leaving the heavy lifting for another day, and another government in another decade, even while carbon pollution is on the rise in BC.
The government has turned its back on its own blue ribbon committee of advisors on climate change. Not one of 32 recommendations proposed by its so-called climate leadership team of environmental and First Nations leaders aimed at stimulating a clean tech economy has been adopted in full.
Tzeporah Berman, who along with Pembina Institute’s Matt Horne and Clean Energy Canada’s Merran Smith sat on the committee, called the government’s new plan “pathetic and cowardly. So when Christy Clark is 85 we might see if her plan works?”
The West Coast Environmental Law Association’s Andrew Gage says that besides missing the 2020 target, the new plan “will make it all but impossible” to achieve the 2050 goal.
“It’s a fudge-it carbon budget,” says Gage.
Sierra Club BC communication director Tim Pearson describes the BC plan as “an elaborate Trojan Horse designed to provide cover for the government’s destructive LNG pipe dream. There are currently 22 LNG proposals in various stages of development in the province.
“It’s a fraud,” says Pearson, pointing out that a proposal to plant trees as an antidote to climate change won’t pay real dividends for decades to come.
Enviro group Stand’s national director, Karen Mahon, says that “the actual policies outlined will likely lead to an increase in CO2 emissions over the next decade.”
Between 2010 and 2014, carbon pollution in British Columbia has increased by the equivalent of adding 500,000 cars on the road. The province is expected to have the highest emissions growth of any province, according to one recent assessment.
The key missing ingredient in the government's plan, says Josha MacNab, BC director at the Pembina Institute, continues to be a strengthened carbon tax “and the province-wide incentive it would provide to invest in clean energy and energy efficiency.”
David Suzuki Foundation's director for Western Canada, Jay Ritchlin, calls BC's shift a disappointment, that puts its greenhouse gas reduction efforts behind other provinces. "Ontario, Quebec and Alberta recently introduced stronger plans that are much closer to meeting climate targets," Ritchlin says.
All in all, a dismal turn for anyone hoping BC might be back to lead the pack on climate action.
ecoholic@nowtoronto.com | @ecoholicnation
Some of what BC's climate plan is promising to do
• Reduce upstream methane emissions from natural gas by 45 per cent.
• Expand government support for zero emission vehicle charging stations in buildings.
• Avoid emissions from burning logging debris.
• Mandate 10-year emissions reduction plans for provincial public sector operations.
What the plan won’t do
• Raise the carbon tax
It has been frozen since 2012 thanks to a Clark election promise, despite the fact that more than 130 BC businesses signed a letter to Clark in May 2016 asking her government to raise the tax. Clark says she's waiting to see if other province's "catch up" with similar levies first.
• Meet 2020 emissions targets
Alberta, Ontario and Quebec’s plans are all projecting decreases of 20 to 25 per cent. BC? Likely none at all by 2030, says Berman.
• Legislate greenhouse gas targets for BC’s key sectors, including a target for 2030. | https://nowtoronto.com/news/ecoholic/carbon-bubble-bursts-on-bc%E2%80%99s-climate-plan/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/ff40d3546297136a1a91b8bca92d507abf28ce190ee51a5fd92ac4d7d4947e37.json | |
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"Carla Gillis"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:06 | null | 2016-08-24T18:30:00 | "I've always dressed a little bit strange and like things that are flamboyant and large, so why not insert that into the music and videos?" | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmusic%2Ffeatures%2Fon-the-set-of-a-music-video-with-weaves%2F.json | en | null | On the set of Weaves' new music video | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand Tanja Tiziana
WEAVES with SHE-DEVILS and POSTER BOY at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (August 27), 8:30 pm. $10-$12. ticketfly.com. See listing.
The day is hot, hot, hot – and there's no air conditioning in the cramped live/work loft near Bathurst and King where Weaves are shooting a video. It's for their forthcoming single, Shithole, from their long-awaited debut album, which dropped in June via Buzz.
A few standing fans push the humid air around.
But none of the assembled crew members, led by video director Trevor Blumas (also of Doomsquad fame), complains, especially since Weaves singer Jasmyn Burke has it worse, good-naturedly lip-synching along to the super-catchy song for hours beneath blistering lights and a series of towering, multi-coloured wigs.
During a sandwich break, and under the watch of a threatening squirrel ("Squirrels and pigeons are my number-one fear," Burke says), the hugely inventive Toronto sludge-pop band's frontperson talked to NOW about making videos in the digital age.
Why did you choose Shithole as the next single?
It's one of our favourite songs on the new record. It's easy to digest. We're only home for two weeks, and the song lends itself to a lower-budget, fun, casual video, even though we're doing these extravagant looks, from ultra-glamour to me with a nylon on my head to my face smudged with makeup. It's like a deterioration of myself.
Is it weird to be the only band member in the video?
Yes! And to not have the guys (Zach Bines, Morgan Waters and Spencer Cole) cheering me on. But they're all away right now.
In the cycle of songwriting, recording, promotion, touring, etc, where does making videos rank for you?
Kind of low. They're important, but people are going to be watching them on YouTube or on their phones, so you don't need a big budget. They're still an element, but not the focal point of a record coming out any more. Unless you're Adele, most bands aren't getting a million hits. But they do help people figure out who you are, and offer a 3D version of you. That's important to the process. Press shots don't really explain us very well.
Videos require bands to think about image whether they want to or not. What is Weaves going for?
Mostly we try to work with creative people we trust. We've seen Trevor's work with Doomsquad and trust what he'll do. For me as a woman, I care about being a confident person. And from the beginning, doing our press shots covered in various materials, we've cared about creating a world that's different than the day-to-day. I've always dressed a little bit strange and like things that are flamboyant and large, so why not insert that into the music and videos? Image is important, but it has to be natural and not gimmicky. We care about the music first and the visuals after.
Any special plans for the album release party?
I wanted to have a light show or an installation, but I don't know if I have time. Balloons, maybe? My mom has invited 40 to 50 family members, more than I'm comfortable with. It's so nerve-racking. They're aged 20 to 70. Both my grandmas are coming. They're all surprised I'm doing music, because I was an extremely shy kid – like, non-communicative. I'm still awkward in day-to-day situations, but in music and especially onstage I'm okay.
Here's the video for Tick:
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carlag@nowtoronto.com | @carlagillis | https://nowtoronto.com/music/features/on-the-set-of-a-music-video-with-weaves/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/3194f27ba4366e6e3890b3d17ec392e1f336eb71d1684f5f2bf3d0180b6b039c.json | |
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"Mark Streeter"
] | 2016-08-26T13:05:30 | null | 2016-08-24T17:30:00 | Mangy Love is resolutely contemporary on its own terms | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmusic%2Falbum-reviews%2Fcass-mccombs-mangy-love-deftly-avoids-songwriterly-traps%2F.json | en | null | Cass McCombs' Mangy Love deftly avoids songwriterly traps | null | null | nowtoronto.com | “No more cliché songs,” Cass McCombs sings on Cry, one of Mangy Love’s many standout tracks. “Nothing less than every ounce of your heart.” It’s a maxim he’s held himself to for a long time now, releasing nine albums in the past 12 years that showcase a rigorous approach to songwriting and a deep well of inspiration. “No gold for bards, no laurel enough to bushel into a bed,” he sings over an anthemic, ringing guitar riff that punctuates Cry’s low-key groove. The implication is clear: the path of the truth-seeking artist does not lead to money or fame, and the work is its own reward – or it damn well better be.
Mangy Love, his first album for Epitaph imprint ANTI, is resolutely contemporary on its own terms. It is songwriting that somehow avoids feeling songwriterly, undercutting its own sophistication with crassness, borrowing liberally from a broad range of genres, and unafraid to occasionally wander into the Jam Zone. McCombs is generous in the space he makes for others, and much of the joy of listening to the record comes from the inspired performances of the assembled cast: Angel Olsen, Lilys’ Kurt Heasley and Reverend Goat Carson; gorgeous guitar solos from Blake Mills; brilliant percussion from Joe Russo.
At a time when many musicians seem eager to gain currency from identity politics and sociopolitical events, Mangy Love satisfies by being rooted in a nuanced observer’s perspective. Run Sister Run is refreshing in its frank exploration of the limits of being a male ally to women facing systemic injustice. Bum Bum Bum meditates on the ways violence permeates mundane experiences, with a stoic humour that is both resigned and determined not to walk away. There’s a sense McCombs is both the mirror and the lamp, able to present a world view that is illu-mi-n-ating and reflective, and he draws power from a perspective that feels at a remove from the world while remaining indelibly shackled to it.
Top track: Opposite House
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Cass McCombs plays the Horseshoe on October 26. See listing. | https://nowtoronto.com/music/album-reviews/cass-mccombs-mangy-love-deftly-avoids-songwriterly-traps/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/66b7f274e91ee26220a89f9ff8823418d0af000710b6eddc51f760c3b0479c26.json | |
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"Now Staff"
] | 2016-08-31T14:50:07 | null | 2016-08-31T10:39:55 | Plus: American Lips, A$AP Ferg, Nick Carter, Trash Talk and more | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmusic%2Fjust-announced-dj-sprinkles-stands-apart-music-culture%2F.json | en | null | Just announced Toronto shows: DJ Sprinkles stands apart from the rest of dance music culture | null | null | nowtoronto.com | DJ Sprinkles is the deep house alias of Terre Thaemlitz, an American-raised, Japan-based musician, writer and activist whose DJ sets and wider work stand apart from the mindless euphoria that enthralls large swaths of dance music culture.
The reissue of her 2009 album, Midtown 120 Blues, two years ago shone a brighter spotlight on her music. However, that melancholic tribute to Manhattan’s transgender clubs of the early 90s represents only a fraction of her musical output, which also encompasses ambient, jazz and Soulnessless, a nearly 30-hour piano solo released in a single mp3 file and dubbed “the world’s longest album in history.”
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Over 15 solo albums and several singles, Thaemlitz – who identifies as queer and transgender – has pushed back against the boundaries between genre and identity by slipping in samples and sounds that disrupt club culture’s bro-noying status quo with humour, camp and queer politics.
Her upcoming gig in Toronto, a rare local appearance, sounds like a special one. Booked by Work in Progress (who recently brought Lena Willikens and organized last year’s Discwoman party), the event is a daytime garden party in a DIY loft space above an auto shop that begins in the afternoon and lasts until midnight.
With Invisible City Editions and CL. At 190 Richmond East on September 25, doors 4 pm. $15-$20. eventbrite.com.
TRADE WITH MISTER WALLACE at Black Eagle doors 10 pm. $5-$10 at the door. September 10.
BROOKE ANNIBALE, AOIFE O’DONOVAN at The Great Hall 7 pm. $16.50. September 15.
LOVEFINGERS, ROBERTO, POOYAN at Bambi’s doors 10 pm. September 16.
THE BELLE GAME, SUSTO at Horseshoe Tavern doors 8 pm. $10.50. rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com, ticketfly.com. September 19.
THE HUSTLE: EDITION 20 WITH WALDO, KAVALE, ELCEE THE ARTIST, KAYDEE at Drake Hotel doors 9 pm. $20, adv $15. universe.com/thehustle20. September 22.
JANE’S PARTY, MIDDAY SWIM at Horseshoe Tavern doors 9 pm. $7. horseshoetavern.com, ticketfly.com. September 23.
AMERICAN LIPS, ACID PRIEST, BART, ISKA DHAAF at The Silver Dollar doors 9 pm. $7. September 23.
SLOW DOWN MOLASSES, HUSH PUP at The Baby G Record release show. Doors 9 pm. $10. September 24.
HENRIK SCHWARZ, JAMIE KIDD, GERA, ALBERTO JOSSUE B2B ALEKSANDER KOJIC at Coda doors 10 pm. $25-$35 adv. coda.wantickets.com. September 24.
DJ SPRINKLES, INVISIBLE CITY EDITIONS, CL at 190 Richmond East Daytime loft party. 4 pm-midnight. $15-$20. eventbrite.com. September 25.
MICHEL PAGLIARIO at Phoenix Concert Theatre Canada Walk Of Fame Festival. Doors 8 pm. $10.70-$25. soundscapesmusic.com, rotate.com, ticketmaster.ca. September 29.
ILLENIUM at The Hoxton doors 10 pm. $15. ticketweb.ca. September 30.
ELLIOTT VINCENT JONES, CINDY LEE, BERNARDINO FEMINIELLI, JESSE FUTERMAN (DJ SET) at The Baby G 9:30 pm. $10. October 8.
JACUZZI BOYS, POSSUM, GOODBYE HONOLULU, GOOD KIDS at Silver Dollar 8 pm. $9.50. ticketfly.com. October 10.
LISA LEBLANC at Rivoli doors 8 pm. $15. masseyhall.com. October 14.
SARAH NEUFIELD, DIALECTICA at Music Gallery 8 pm. $20, adv $15, stu $10. October 15.
OOOZING WOUND, CELLPHONE, LUGE at The Baby G doors 9 pm. $8. ticketfly.com. October 16.
JUSTIN RUTLEDGE, JOSHUA HYSLOP at The Great Hall doors 8 pm. $20. soundscapesmusic.com, rotate.com, ticketfly.com. October 22.
LENNON THROUGH A GLASS ONION at Isabel Bader Theatre 8 pm. $44.50-$49.50. ticketfly.com. October 27-29.
TRASH TALK at Hard Luck doors 8 pm. $17.50. On sale September 2. rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com, ticketfly.com. October 28.
TUPPER WARE REMIX PARTY at Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm. $20. On sale September 2. rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com, ticketfly.com. October 31.
ANNA LUNOE, VINDATA, DJ SLIINK at The Hoxton doors 10 pm. $15. ticketweb.ca. November 5.
TRAP THEM, YAUTJA at Velvet Underground doors 9 pm. $15. ticketweb.ca. November 7.
NICK CARTER at Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages. $35.50-$55.50. On sale September 2. ticketmaster.ca. November 9.
NQ ARBUCKLE at Horseshoe Tavern doors 9 pm. $15. On sale September 2. rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com, horseshoetavern.com, ticketfly.com. November 11.
EMERGENTS I: VOLUR & WAPITI at Music Gallery 8 pm. $12, stu $8. November 17.
NIYKEE HEATON Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm. $22.50-$26. On sale September 1. ticketmaster.ca. November 20.
A$AP FERG, PLAYBOI CARTI, ROB STONE at Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, all ages. $32.50-$55. ticketmaster.ca. November 27.
ANIMALS AS LEADERS, INTERVALS, PLINI at Opera House doors 7 pm. $29. rotate.com, ticketfly.com. November 28.
THE HEAD & THE HEART at Massey Hall doors 7 pm. $39.50-$59.50. On sale September 2. masseyhall.com. November 30.
JAMES CHANCE & THE CONTORTIONS, RAMBUNCTIOUS at Rivoli Rescheduled from September 7 & 8. Two shows, at 8 & 11:30 pm. $30, both shows $50. rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com,ticketweb.ca. December 10.
PUP DANFORTH MUSIC HALL at Second show added. Doors 7 pm. $13.50-$18.50. rotate.com, soundscapesmusic.com, ticketmaster.ca. December 15-16.
Get more show listings here. | https://nowtoronto.com/music/just-announced-dj-sprinkles-stands-apart-music-culture/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/55426f6bea627af150337b0a7db38c190ee542d80e33f666cc3b40b9489ad45a.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:44 | null | 2016-08-24T15:51:21 | Plus: Media’s Trump fixation is misguided, Move along. No sexual assault to see here and mroe | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fnews%2Fletters-to-the-editor%2Freader-love-and-hate-aga-khan-replaced-modernist-landmark%2F.json | en | null | Reader Love and Hate: Aga Khan replaced modernist landmark | null | null | nowtoronto.com | Aga Khan replaced modernist landmark
I really enjoyed your cover story on Hidden Toronto (NOW, August 18-24). It’s great that NOW continues to highlight heritage.
A couple of points. The original Canadian Bank of Commerce building, known now as Commerce Court North, completed in 1931, and its neighbour Commerce Court West, completed in 1973, are both stunning structures. The former was designed by one of the great Canadian architecture firms, Darling and Pearson, along with their American counterparts, York and Sawyer. Commerce Court West was designed by famous modernist architect I.M. Pei. It’s a beautiful marriage.
The Aga Khan Park and Museum are a wonderful addition to the city’s museum-scape, and as NOW notes, celebrating Islamic art and culture in this nutty xenophobic atmosphere is really important.
But saying this, the Aga Khan Museum displaced a gorgeous modernist building, the Bata Shoe headquarters, designed by John Parkin, one of Canada’s legendary architects.
Andrew van Velzen, Toronto
Terracotta house has romantic history
I was delighted to see the terracotta house at 20 Jerome in your Hidden Toronto feature. This house was built by my paternal great-grandfather, John Shelley Turner. He was born in Hartfield, England, in 1844 and died in Toronto in 1930. It has been suggested that there was some family connection to Percy Bysshe Shelley, but it has never been confirmed.
Ted Turner, Toronto
Hidden joys
Hidden Toronto is a joy to read, and reread. It’s one of the best issues I’ve ever seen! Thanks very much.
Ewa Jarmicka, Toronto
Alexander Muir or less
Alexander Muir Memorial Gardens was not originally “across the street.” It was further south, between Davisville and St. Clair, opposite Mt. Pleasant Cemetery. The portal where the subway goes underground south of Davisville Station is called Muir Portal because of the park that used to be there.
Steve Munro, From nowtoronto.com
Vexing vegan claims
Letter-writer Chris Michael Burns’s claim that NOW’s choice of a thin, attractive white woman for the Vegetarian Issue cover is elitist (NOW, August 18-24) left me dumbfounded as a person of colour and a vegan for more than 25 years. If Burns is so concerned about the heavier-set, lower-income people of Toronto who long to go vegetarian, he’ll be relieved that the upcoming Vegetarian Food Festival produced by the all-inclusive Toronto Vegetarian Association at Harbourfront Sep-tem-ber 9 to 11 (veg-food-fest.com) is free for all who want to adopt a healthier eating lifestyle. To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a picture is just a picture.
Julian Bynoe, Toronto
Animal rights witch hunt
How does charging Anita Krajnc with mischief for giving water to pigs protect the greater public good (NOW, August 11-17)? Her arrest is a total witch hunt underwritten by Big Ag. If we can live healthy lives without killing animals, why wouldn’t we? Most choose to look away from the reality of slaughterhouses. The animal liberation movement is afoot, however, so to those who choose compassion over carnage, full steam ahead.
Toby Glanville, Toronto
Move along. No sexual assault to see here.
Re: How Canadian Universities Are Failing Sexual Assault Survivors (NOW, August 11-17). It’s shocking that there’s so much push-back against these young women who are saying universities need to do better. Universities are doing a fine job looking after their public relations and a lousy job looking after their students. The attitude seems to be “Sure, a few people get raped. Terrible, isn’t it?” Unfortunately, women who come forward are collateral damage. Let’s silence them, and move along.
Maureen Carrigan, From nowtoronto.com
Media’s Trump fixation is misguided
The media’s obsession with Donald Trump reveals a staggering level of cognitive dissonance (NOW, July 28-August 3).
While many wring their hands over a possible Trump presidency, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state in the Obama administration she actively encouraged or participated in the military coup in Honduras, the invasion and destruction of Libya and the arming of rebels in Syria. She also facilitated the sale of weaponry to suspect regimes abroad on behalf of the military-industrial complex. Trump is an obnoxious xenophobic blowhard, but Clinton’s hands are the ones with blood on them.
David Maharaj, Etobicoke
Send this story to PM
I was thrilled to read Peter Rosenthal’s call to the Canadian government to put the interests of the Canadian public first by ending its dangerous support of American military adventurism (NOW, August 4-10). Readers should forward this article to Justin Trudeau and Liberal MPs!
Karin Brothers, Toronto | https://nowtoronto.com/news/letters-to-the-editor/reader-love-and-hate-aga-khan-replaced-modernist-landmark/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/adc574c65f64299e6ffe1df5858d390698d8830bdecaab9e0d3d1f6cef0f68da.json | |
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[] | 2016-08-31T14:49:53 | null | 2016-08-31T10:08:25 | Win a pair of festival tickets to CaribbeanTales Film Festival! | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fcontests-and-promotions%2Fcaribbeantales-film-festival%2F.json | en | null | CaribbeanTales Film Festival | null | null | nowtoronto.com | Enter to win 2 festival tickets to one of the following CaribbeanTales Film Festival screenings (Trinbago To The Bone, Migrant Tales, LGBT Love, Love Thy Neighbour, or Animated Love)
Sponsored By: CaribbeanTales International Film Festival
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Contest Ends: September 5 | https://nowtoronto.com/contests-and-promotions/caribbeantales-film-festival/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/38c2b1cabc501b017eb6316f4e11c51b42309a4280a477c273751fe997b7cec8.json | |
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"J. Thomas Kim"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:58 | null | 2016-08-24T14:29:52 | Come sunset on October 1, Toronto will once again be transformed for one night | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fart-and-books%2Fart%2Fnuit-blanche-toronto-2016-preview%2F.json | en | null | A look ahead at Nuit Blanche Toronto 2016 | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand Sue Holland
Nuit Blanche Toronto announced this year's programming for the 11th edition of the city’s most popular contemporary art festival. To mark the occasion, participating artist and architect Philip Beesley opened his Sterling Road studio to media on Tuesday, alongside curator Janine Marchessault, Emily Scarlett of sponsor H&M and the City of Toronto's manager of cultural events programming, Kristine Germann.
This year, Nuit Blanche Toronto is a little smaller, with more than 90 art projects presented by 300+ artists, both local and international. The festival’s Special Projects will again add cachet to the event, with work by world-renowned artists such as Bruce Nauman, whose focus is the activity of walking and its relation to art. The AGO, Harbourfront and the Drake are just a few of the Major Institutions opening their doors for the night to participate.
But what makes Nuit Blanche so successful is how accessible the works are and the variety of spaces which host exhibitions. More than 50 Independent Projects will be scattered throughout the city in spaces varying from artist run-centres like Whippersnapper Gallery, who will host a "parasitic swarm of kinetic sound sculptures" by Saskatoon's Andreas Buchwaldt, to organizations such as the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, which will host a sound installation reflecting on wellness and recovery. At Tuesday's announcement, Germann likened Nuit Blanche to a laboratory which incubates collaborative artistic and curatorial projects to promote innovative and thoughtful ideas.
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Philip Beesley’s Sterling Road studio could easily be mistaken for a laboratory. Material samples and notes line the walls, with his team hard at work cutting and repurposing discarded denim provided through sponsor H&M’s Garment Collecting Initiative. Repurposing is central to Oblivion, one of four City of Toronto-produced exhibitions for Nuit Blanche.
Oblivion, featuring beloved Canadian music video directors Director X and Floria Sigismondi in addition to Beesley, is co-curated by Janine Marchessault and Michael Prokopow. Nathan Phillips Square and City Hall will be transformed with works meant to encourage existential reflection through its literal and metaphorical cosmic and elemental aspects. Marchessault conceptualizes the exhibition through Buckminster Fuller’s theory, described in his Utopia or Oblivion, that if we don't ration the Earth's resources so that 100 per cent of people on the planet can sustain themselves, we will end up in oblivion.
“[The theme is] the chance to conceive of things that completely embrace all of us,” says Beesley. His work in progress, Ocean, will be an immersive environment that not only interacts with its audience but also with itself.
Nuit Blanche Toronto takes place Saturday, October 1 from sunset to sunrise. See the full program here.
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"Michelle Da Silva"
] | 2016-08-26T13:00:11 | null | 2016-08-24T12:13:00 | Love books? Maybe you’d like a tote bag or mug to tell the world | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fart-and-books%2Fbooks%2Fbuy-book-lovers-swag-at-penguin-canada-new-toronto-shop%2F.json | en | null | Buy book-lovers swag at Penguin Canada’s new Toronto shop | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand Ryan Madill
Book lovers love to buy books, but Penguin Canada is hoping that Toronto’s literary set will also love buying things related to books. The publisher has opened a small storefront in the lobby of its downtown headquarters (320 Front West). It’s a modest 14-square-metre retail space that’s packed with a selection of Penguin titles, collectors' items and book-related gifts.
“We are continually in search of innovative ways to bring the books we are so proud to publish to readers,” says Brad Martin, president and CEO of Penguin Random House Canada. “As such, we see Penguin Shop as a research and development lab – a place where we can interact directly with consumers."
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Merchandise includes tote bags, T-shirts, coffee mugs, water bottles, pins and notebooks, all stamped with the Penguin logo. There are also books – both classics and newer titles – by Penguin authors in addition to adult colouring books, since they’re currently in vogue.
The Penguin shop is open weekdays from 11 am to 7 pm.
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"Liisa Ladouceur"
] | 2016-08-26T12:56:07 | null | 2016-08-25T13:45:00 | Dave Grohl also joined the band for a cover of MC5's Kick Out The Jams | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmusic%2Fconcert-reviews%2Fprophets-of-rage-prove-resistance-is-not-futile%2F.json | en | null | Prophets of Rage at the Amphitheatre proved resistance is not futile | null | null | nowtoronto.com | PROPHETS OF RAGE at Molson Amphitheatre, Wednesday, August 24. Rating: NNNN
By the time you read this, you will mostly likely have heard that Dave Grohl was a surprise guest at the Prophets of Rage show last night. Dave Grohl, on stage with Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford, Public Enemy's Chuck D and Cypress Hill’s B-Real. That’s a lot of 90s power. That’s not the headline. It’s a footnote to a story about the power of protest music.
“What does Zack de la Rocha do all day?” That was in my head in advance of this concert. I mean, what did the former RATM singer do while his former RATM bandmates were flying from Montreal to Toronto on their mission to “make America rage again”? Zack, voice of my generation, activist, writer of Killing In The Name, hold-out to a proper Rage Against the Machine reunion, whose last Facebook post was in 2012 – a poem for the Occupy movement. Apart from the odd guest vocal appearance, what does Zack do all day? Nobody really knows.
Prophets of Rage will tell us they, a so-called supergroup, are what we need right now. But I couldn't shake the feeling it’s Zack who we need. Especially after hearing Prophets of Rage’s first “original” track from their EP The Party’s Over. It’s essentially a cover of a 25-year-old Public Enemy party jam from which they ripped their name. There is nothing vital about it. It’s not a song of and for our times. It’s not going to light the fuse. As much as I want to feel that RATM minus Zack and plus Chuck D will be explosive, videos of their first live performances seemed like nothing more than a nostalgia trip. Last night's show was not sold out.
I thought about all this as a Molson Amphiteatre employee threatened to eject me from the venue for daring to take the cap on the bottle of water he had just sold me. That was apparently against the rules – even though it wasn’t the night before when I bought water at the Korn/Rob Zombie concert. He chased me through the crowd. He was bigger than me by a lot and really angry. Said to give him the bottle cap or he'd have security throw me out. I handed him the cap. It made me angry. But also made me laugh. As did the signs posted around the venue, asking the audience to refrain from moshing or body surfing, “due to the injuries that could occur.” #goodluckwiththat
Decades after Zack de la Rocha screamed “fuck you I won’t do what you tell me,” a RATM gig still makes authorities uncomfortable.
A banner on stage showed a raised fist. The band walked out and launched into Rage’s Guerilla Radio. On the floor the crowd exploded immediately into a mosh pit (woops!); in the seats thousands stood and saluted, their right arms raised, hands gripped into fists.
They played Bombtrack and I thought of the many tiny acts of resistance needed to make a movement. Very quickly it was clear that Prophets of Rage, even without new music, have an important job to do in 2016. They got more than 10,000 people together and showed them a raised fist. The legions of Lollapalooza bros, the woman in the home-made “Free Peltier” shirt, the eight-year-old boy with his dad in the front row. Raised fists and red stars and Take The Power Back.
Prophets of Rage are not a very good Cypress Hill cover band. Rock Star was a misplaced mess, and they made all the PE songs sound like the Judgment Night soundtrack. But when Chuck and B-Real came down into the crowd for an extended mash-up of their respective hits (and some crowdsurfing) it was a good time and also a signal – we’re not staying in our designed box, and neither should you.
The banner dropped, revealing another raised first, bigger than the first. Young men started jumping the barricades from the stands onto the floor. I wondered how many of them were rabble-rousers in their daily lives, or was this concert ritual the first of many small acts of liberation yet to come.
“Stay awake Canada,” said Chuck D. “Nobody for President,” said Tom Morello’s guitar. “No home, no job, no peace, no rest,” sang Aaron Bruno of opening act AWOLNATION, who joined the Prophets on a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s The Ghost Of Tom Joad.
Dissent comes in many forms. Sometimes merely in assembly. This was just a rock concert. But there were raised fists and rule breakers and inflammatory lyrics and a plea from Morello to donate to tonight’s local charity, Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre.
And when Dave Grohl came out to Kick Out The Jams it didn't matter if the MC5 originally wrote that as a protest song or not, because it felt like one now. And then, of course, there will was Killing In The Name and those two songs back-to-back were as incendiary as any rock n’ roll moment could ever be. And I realized that we don’t need Zack. The songs are still here. His message is still here.
Incite. Ignite. Refuse. Resist.
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"Norman Wilner"
] | 2016-08-30T04:49:37 | null | 2016-08-29T23:02:21 | News of Wilder's death early Monday morning comes as a surprise. | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fnews%2Fin-memoriam%2Fin-m%2F.json | en | null | In Memoriam: Gene Wilder, 1933 - 2016 | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein
The news of Gene Wilder’s death earlier today (August 29) came as a surprise, but then any news about Gene Wilder, 83, would have come as a surprise; Wilder had receded from public life more than a decade ago.
Today, we found out why: the beloved actor and writer had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for years, though his family had chosen to keep that private. And that makes the loss hit even harder, somehow.
Wilder’s career was a curious one, marked by incongruous choices and personal tragedy. He started out as a dramatic actor, appearing on Broadway in Roots, Mother Courage and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and on television opposite Lee J. Cobb in Death Of A Salesman. But he had a knack for comedy, bringing a nervous energy to a small role in Bonnie And Clyde – and then Brooks cast him in The Producers, and that was that.
As Leo Bloom, the co-conspirator-cum-hostage of Zero Mostel’s manic Max Bialystock, Wilder was revelatory, shifting from nervous naïf to fully committed criminal in a handful of scenes. It wasn’t that he was funny, but that he could hold his own with Mostel, who ripped into Brooks’s script like a raging elephant. Wilder countered Mostel’s ferocity with an undercurrent of shocked indignance – his Bloom was a theoretician watching in horror as his work is corrupted by a maniac.
It is magnificent work, and it was rewarded: Wilder earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor, and a creative partnership with Brooks led to two more comedy classics and another Oscar nomination, for co-writing Young Frankenstein.
You may also remember that Wilder starred in that film. As the grandson of the mad Victor Frankenstein, Wilder started off stiff and respectable (and insisting on a different pronunciation of the family name) before gradually descending into enthusiastic derangement. The movie is a magnificent farce, and Wilder is its heart and its engine.
That same year, he also co-starred in Brooks’s Blazing Saddles as the Waco Kid, offering wise, world-weary counsel to Cleavon Little’s novice sheriff. A few years later, Wilder and one of the Blazing Saddles screenwriters – some stand-up named Richard Pryor, maybe you’ve heard of him – would form their own comic partnership, co-starring in hits like Silver Streak and Stir Crazy. And he had a blast riffing on his Blazing Saddles persona alongside Harrison Ford as a rabbi who becomes a reluctant gunslinger in The Frisco Kid.
Wilder always thrived when he was part of a team, really. His relationship with Gilda Radner was a public and professional delight – and one that ended far too soon when Radner died of ovarian cancer in 1989. Wilder’s comedy changed after that; it became hesitant, melancholy. He pulled back, worked less, eventually remarried. But it would be more than a decade before he reconnected to his natural rhythms, making a comeback on Will & Grace and winning an Emmy for it. It would be his last screen performance.
I haven’t mentioned Willy Wonka yet, because that’s guaranteed to make a bunch of you get all sobby. But yes: Wilder’s performance as Roald Dahl’s sugar-coated trickster god is one for the ages, and one on which generations of kids have grown up. And as Business Insider’s Alex Perry put it on Twitter earlier today, “the easiest way to understand just how good Gene Wilder was is to watch other actors try to play characters he made famous and fail.”
That sums it up nicely. Gene Wilder was one of a kind, and though it seems that 2016 is hell-bent on taking all of our singular talents, we’ll always have the work. As soon as we’re able to watch it dry-eyed, of course. | https://nowtoronto.com/news/in-memoriam/in-m/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/3ef02766f2958a008a6f361d25d32965c5f141fdd4f53b4225a67c4cd9e88288.json | |
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"Now Staff"
] | 2016-08-30T20:49:46 | null | 2016-08-30T16:42:20 | null | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmusic%2Flgbt-choir-singing-out-%25C2%25ADbegins-fall-rehearsals-2016%2F.json | en | null | LGBT choir Singing Out begins fall rehearsals | null | null | nowtoronto.com | Toronto’s gay community choir is starting rehearsals for its 25th season at the Regent Park Community Centre (402 Shuter)on Tuesday (September 6) at 7 pm.
Singing Out is open to people with different levels of experience, and no auditions are required. Joining the choir for a three-month term costs $112.50-$150; membership for a full season costs $225-$300. But student rates, new-member bursaries and financial assistance are available.
For more info, visit singingout.com.
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:58:34 | null | 2016-08-24T13:00:00 | Every new school year you can enhance your unique identity or try out an entirely new one. These budget-friendly back-to-school specials and shopping tips supply you with all the street-worthy style and class-ready tech you need for the year to come. | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Flifestyle%2Fback-to-school-where-to-shop-eat-and-drink-on-a-budget-in-toronto%2F.json | en | null | Back to school: Where to shop on a budget in Toronto | null | null | nowtoronto.com | YOUR LOOK
1. Camo Civilian jeans
These camouflage jeans offer comfort and durability, with enough skinny-leg style for meeting friends at the bar ($79.50, Body Blue, 724 Queen West, 416-703-7601).
2. Women’s lightweight scarves
A simple scarf can takes an outfit to a whole new level, and at this price you’ll triple your options for fall fashion looks (three for $25, online only at Le Château, Eaton Centre, 416-979-3122,).
3. Herschel Heritage backpack
This sleek backpack features an inner laptop sleeve and media pocket, plus a single front pocket with key clip (on sale for $47.99 at Te Koop, 421 Queen West, 416-348-9485)
4. Budget haircuts
Apprentice rates are the best for professional haircuts on a tight student budget ($15 male at the
Nite Owl, 3397 Lake Shore West; $40 female at Dat Salon, 984 Queen West, 416-538-8882).
YOUR GEAR
5. HP Deskjet 3755 wireless all-in-one printer
Beat the lineups on campus and print, copy or scan as much as you need to at home – all without a cable ($49.98 at Staples, 375 University, 416-598-4818).
6. Bose SoundLink Color Bluetooth speaker
Whether you’re studying inside or hanging out in a park, this USB-chargeable wireless speaker brings your tunes wherever you go ($129.95 at Bay Bloor Radio, 55 Bloor West, 416-967-1122).
7. PNY Micro Sleek 16GB thumb drives
Make your data files more mobile and take up to 16 gigs of research projects or music anywhere you go ($10 for a two-pack at Staples).
8. Acer 11.6-inch Chromebook
For students who are always connected to WiFi, Chromebooks are the most affordable way to work and do research online ($249 at Best Buy, Eaton Centre, 416-642-8321).
9. Western Digital external hard drive
You’re going to need a lot of data storage for all your research and projects this year. Will one terabyte do? ($99 at The Source, Eaton Centre, 1-844-763-0636).
YOUR ROOM
10. Morgedal foam mattress
This comfortable, resilient mattress comes rolled in a box and makes an ideal match for a slatted-base bed ($199 twin at Ikea, 1475 Queensway, 1-866-866-4532).
11. Cormac computer desk
Your desk is the epicentre of your life for the next eight or nine months, and this unit gives you plenty of options for keeping your workspace organized ($99.99 at Staples).
12. Pixie floor lamp
Turn off those blinding fluorescent dorm room lights and blast through your assigned reading with this 6-foot floor lamp ($14 at Structube, 507 College, 416-929-2423).
13. Black & Decker 6-cup rice cooker
When deadlines are looming and you can’t leave your room for a meal, this rice cooker saves you with one-pot stews, grain salads and even mac and cheese ($17.99 at Canadian Tire, 65 Dundas West, 416-979-2025).
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"Glenn Sumi"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:14 | null | 2016-08-24T17:30:00 | ENSEMBLE Canadian Youth Theatre's inaugural productions showcase a fine group of emerging actors | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fstage%2Ftheatre%2Fyoung-actors-impress-in-tough-and-dreams%2F.json | en | null | >>> Young actors impress in Tough! and Dreams | null | null | nowtoronto.com | TOUGH! by George Walker/DREAMS (REVES) by Wajdi Mouawad (ENSEMBLE Canadian Youth Theatre/Théatre Jeunesse). At the Citadel, August 9-20. canadianrep.ca. Rating: NNNN
Judging from the pair of inaugural shows mounted by ENSEMBLE Canadian Youth Theatre recently, the future of Canadian theatre acting looks sunny.
Ken Gass and his Canadian Rep Theatre put together a talented team of young artists who recently graduated from professional theatre training programs and, for a short run at the Citadel, featured them in two Canadian works: George F. Walker’s much-performed Tough! and Wajdi Mouawad’s lesser known Dreams (Rêves).
Partly because Walker’s play features characters close to the ages of those in the company, it worked better. Teenage Bobby is breaking up with his girlfriend, Tina, but she, supported by her protective friend Jill, has some news of her own: she’s pregnant.
Gass’s brilliant idea is to cast four actors as both Bobby and Tina, and three as Jill. Besides letting us see ethnically diverse actors play these roles (the company beautifully represents the city’s makeup), the concept underlines the universality of the situation, and the sense that one couple’s drama is reflected in the larger community.
The show is performed in the round, with all actors within sight. So even when one is talking, your eye goes to the other actors playing that role to see their reactions. And Gass gets some astonishing effects in climactic moments, having all the actors playing Jill, for instance, gang up on a single Bobby to get information.
Walker’s funny and psychologically nuanced script is as relevant today as it was when it premiered in the 80s.
Mouawad’s script is a tougher piece to make work. Written in 2000, just before the author’s acclaimed Scorched (made into the film Incendies in 2010), it’s a surreal play about a young writer named Willem (Neil Babcock) who holes up in a hotel room to write. His characters literally come alive in the room. Meanwhile, the -hotel’s landlady (Carmen Kruk) has her own complex history involving a son and some other ghosts who inhabit that very room.
It’s a complex, multi-layered play that explores internal and external turmoil, and I’d prefer to see more seasoned actors take it on. But there are some fine things in it, particularly the use of musical instruments and the intriguing, fragmented set (by Orly Zebak).
Gass, Canadian Rep and his ENSEMBLE take part in a production of Mouawad’s Governor General’s Award-winning play Tideline, next month as part of Hart House Theatre’s season.
Don’t miss the chance to see some fiercely talented young actors in one of Mouawad’s stronger works.
Get more Toronto show listings here.
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"Michael Coren",
"Sandra Streifel"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:56 | null | 2016-08-24T21:06:10 | Conservative Christians from the U.S. – and to a lesser extent Canada – have sent missionaries abroad to aid in what they see as an international crusade against "immorality" | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fnews%2Fhomophobia-goes-global%2F.json | en | null | Homophobia goes global | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand Benedicte Desrus / Alamy African governments struggling to stay in power cater to anti-colonial prejudice by claiming homosexuality is a Western import.
It's a contemporary version of Canada's two solitudes. Here and elsewhere in the West, the general assumption is that LGBTQ equality is advancing and it's all getting better, often much better. In the Caribbean, Russia, Africa and much of the Middle East, however, it's actually getting worse - much worse.
Events in Uganda in the past two weeks have once again underlined this fact.
A year after the overturning of a law requiring homosexuals be jailed for life, a gay pride event was raided by Ugandan police at the beginning of August and 20 people arrested. One man was seriously hurt when, justifiably terrified, he tried to escape by jumping out a window. Those detained were intimidated, interrogated and assaulted. It was in effect an official warning, a reminder from the bitingly homophobic government to "know your place" and remember that homosexuality in Uganda is detested and illegal.
When I was writing my book about Christianity and equal marriage I interviewed Bobby, a 27-year-old lesbian from Kampala. Her young lover was murdered, yet the police insisted the death was a road accident and refused to investigate. That, tragically, is entirely typical in other countries.
Kenya and Nigeria, for example, have recently introduced anti-gay legislation. It's part of a familiar pattern: African governments - many of them struggling to stay in power - cater to prejudice and play the anti-colonial card by claiming that homosexuality is a Western import. That societal prejudice is something fundamentalist Christian groups in North America and Europe are eager to aid and abet with evangelical money and other support.
Conservative Christians from the U.S. and to a lesser extent Canada have sent missionaries, advisers and money to Africa and elsewhere to aid what they see as an international crusade against "immorality." As they lose their battles here and in Europe, they transfer their energies to other continents.
Evangelical leaders claim publicly that they reject the extreme violence and persecution that take place abroad, but that's a pretty thin disavowal.
In Uganda, women are raped to "cure" them of their lesbianism. And AIDS centres have been closed down for "leading people into homosexuality." Openly gay men and women live in constant fear of attack and arrest.
Zambian priest Kapya Kaoma recently told the Independent in Britain that while homophobia always existed in Uganda, "Nobody was ever arrested or prosecuted based on those old laws." That all changed, he believes, when in 2009 the American pastor Scott Lively and a group of U.S. evangelicals began to lecture in the country about the "gay movement" and the "evil institution" of homosexuality that would "prey upon local children."
Until it was exposed in 2013, the Canadian evangelical group Crossroads Christian Communications stated on its website that homosexuality was a "sin" and a "perversion" and called for gays to "repent." It listed homosexuality with pedophilia and bestiality as "sexual sins" and argued that "God cares too much for you (and all of His children) to leave such tampering and spiritual abuse unpunished."
The organization received $544,813 in funding from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for its work in Uganda.
The page discussing homosexuality disappeared from its website almost immediately after it was discovered. But one wonders how much has really changed. Two years later, the television show 100 Huntley Street - produced by the same Crossroads Christian Communications - fired me as a guest host because of "the high public profile you have in media and social networking in relation to gay marriage."
Leading Canadian evangelicals have also spoken in Africa and the Caribbean about what they see as the "dangerous consequences" of same-sex marriage and how the freedom of Christians is limited by the advance of gay rights.
Outside Africa, the West Indies and Jamaica in particular have become vastly more homophobic in the past 25 years. And today gay teenagers are frequently thrown out of their homes, forced into prostitution to survive and find it difficult, if not impossible, to receive any medical treatment if they should become infected with STDs or AIDS. Once again, it's Western right-wing Christians who are partly responsible.
American televangelists became a major force on Jamaican TV when broadcasting was expanded in the 1970s, and their hysterical opposition to gay relationships was soon replicated by local Christian television performers and church leaders. It worked, mingling with some of the rawer elements of rap music and the hangover of British colonial anti-gay legislation to infect society.
Toronto lawyer and activist Maurice Tomlinson was born in Jamaica and spent much of his life there. He has carried out important and sometimes dangerous work for LGBTQ people on the island. In 2012 he had to temporarily flee because of death threats after a local newspaper published a photograph of his wedding to his husband.
"I have sat in courtrooms and watched and heard people I know, who know my family, using the Bible and 19th-century British sodomy laws to persecute young gay men and women," he says. "It's heartbreaking."
Refugees from this oppression are sometimes but not always accepted in Canada.
But ending homophobia requires far stronger pressure, even sanctions, from Western governments. A great deal can be achieved through Commonwealth links, tourism and economic relationships. Because anybody who thinks the struggle for gay rights is going so very well might need to look further afield.
State-sponsored homophobia
An abbreviated list of some of the most dangerous countries for LGBTQ people
Countries where being LGBTQ is punishable by death
Mauritania, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan
Countries where being LGBTQ is punishable by 14 years to life imprisonment
Guyana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zambia, parts of Somalia, Maldives, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, parts of Indonesia
Source: International lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex association ilga.org
Author, columnist and broadcaster Michael Coren's new book is Epiphany: A Christian's Change Of Heart & Mind Over Same-Sex Marriage (Signal/Random House).
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The summer wind that blew the peaches' cheeks pink has hardened to a dragon's breath. The hot breeze smells of hay - an old sweet scent, to be sure, but there's no cattle feed underfoot, only curled brown grass crackling beneath my step.
Clouds passing overhead and reflected in the glass of the GTA and asphalt underfoot dissipate in the heat. The sky is a blue burn.
Deep in the woods there's still what the kids refer to as "natural air conditioning." I'm grateful when they drag me in there and sit me on a dead log. We've turned most of the forest that all Ontario used to be into asphalt or some kind of artificial grassland. From corn to wheat to lawns, it cries for water.
Native plants do much better. Wild strawberries are still green beneath the trees. Wildflowers and weeds make little patches of blooms in the tawny waste of lawns.
With hoses, we gardeners do our triage on beloved tomatoes, some flowers we feel we can't lose: a beloved rose, an echinacea or monarda patch we've nurtured for years.
But they are lonely in this drought, in which only a tough or pampered few can thrive.
Finally, as even the leaves on native dogwoods begin to droop, comes the miracle. An overnight shower licks the ground. In the morning it builds up to a patter, then a good, soaking downpour as the baked earth softens to receive it.
As the sky clears, I walk along the forest's edge. It has exploded with scent, floral and green, laced with a surprise of cinnamon. Then, as I come in view of the grassy hill, another miracle: the once-dead land already blushing green.
One little rain, falling equally on all, gave birth to all this life, all this precious life, just waiting for its chance.
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Whether you're looking for an updated look or a last-minute cut before a friend's wedding, a solid hairstylist can be your key to staying sane and looking great. You nominated these 10 salons as the best in the city – but only one can be the winner, so vote!
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ONE Salon
Parlour - Ossington
Safiya's House of Kreation
Studio67
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"Brian Eberdt"
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In March of this year, Jimmy Brunet-Rotondo, a truck driver from Quebec, was killed when he was unable to react quickly enough to traffic that was slowing down in front of him. Michel Ferland, a coroner who attempted to determine the cause of the accident, concluded that Brunet-Rotondo’s use of a cellphone was likely the primary contributing cause of the accident. One of the most worrisome pieces of evidence in his analysis was that Brunet-Rotondo made a post to Facebook five minutes prior to the accident. In his report, Ferland called for an amendment to the Criminal Code to introduce penalties for texting and driving. Last week, Quebec’s transport minister Laurent Lessard took action on Ferland’s request. In a press conference, Lessard urged the federal government to explore the possibility of introducing criminal penalties for texting and driving.
Currently in Ontario, drivers are generally required to pay $490 (including court fees) and receive three demerit points if convicted of holding or using a “hand-held electronic entertainment device.” Demerit points remain on your driving record for two years, although automobile insurance companies are entitled to go much further back in time in assessing premiums. They can also consider traffic convictions that do not carry any demerit points. In contrast, a criminal conviction will remain with you for a minimum of five years; it will only be removed after a costly and lengthy application for a records suspension; it can make it difficult, if not impossible, to travel to other countries; it can cause you to be ineligible for various jobs; and, in certain cases, it can cause you to lose a job that you already have.
Given the contrast between the consequences of a driving record and a criminal record, it’s fair to say that criminalization of distracted driving would be an extreme measure. If our federal or provincial legislature determined that an increase in penalties were necessary, they have many other options available that don’t include criminal sanctions. Fine increases, additional demerit points or vehicle impoundment can all be achieved under the Highway Traffic Act. It is also open to local police jurisdictions to prioritize enforcement of the current laws and institute “blitzes,” as they did when the distracted driving offences were first instituted in 2009.
A further alternative that has been discussed is the implementation of technology in new vehicles and/or cellphones to impede use or make it impossible while a car is in motion. Simply put, there are many other actions that can be taken address this problem short of introducing criminal liability. While criminal sanctions might result in a significant decrease of the behaviour, it’s necessary to balance this potential against the negative and life-altering affect that they would have on individuals whose behaviour could have been just as easily changed with a larger fine or additional demerit points.
It is undisputed that incidences of vehicle collisions attributable to cell phone use are increasing in both Canada and the United States. The use of a cellphone has been found to increase the risk of an accident or a near-accident event by up to 23 times. Without a doubt, it is something that we shouldn’t do, even though surveys on the topic suggest that anywhere from one-third to one-half of drivers have done it.
The recent ad campaign launched by the Ontario Ministry of Transport that features graphic footage of accidents caused by distracted driving and their consequences is a good start to educating the public on the seriousness of the problem. Although it may be time to take a page out of the playbook on curbing drunk driving and encouraging the power of friends stopping friends from distracted driving, the use of criminal penalties is premature.
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Brian Eberdt is a criminal defence lawyer with Lockyer Campbell Posner. Reasonable Doubt appears on Mondays.
A word of caution: You should not act or rely on the information provided in this column. It is not legal advice. To ensure your interests are protected, retain or formally seek advice from a lawyer. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Lockyer Campbell Posner or the lawyers of Lockyer Campbell Posner.
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Germany’s Semer Ensemble is a world-class supergroup of Berlin-based musicians and singers who create fresh interpretations and provocative, contemporary arrangements of repertoire recorded on the Jewish-German “Semer Records” label between 1933-1938. The Semer Ensemble’s depth and virtuosity matches the entire breadth of the original Semer label recordings, with eclectic repertoire including Berlin cabaret, Russian folk songs, Yiddish theater hits, operatic arias and cantorial music. The extraordinary work of the Semer Ensemble captures a rare moment in Jewish musical history, opening a time tunnel between pre-WWII Berlin and today’s New Jewish Music scene. The Semer Ensemble is led by New Jewish Music pioneer Alan Bern (Brave Old World, Other Europeans), and includes Yiddish vocal stalwarts Sasha Lurje (Forshpil), Daniel Kahn (Brothers Nazaroff, Painted Bird), Fabian Schnedler, and instrumentalists Paul Brody, Mark Kovnatskiy, Martin Lillich.
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"Glenn Sumi"
] | 2016-08-26T13:05:08 | null | 2016-08-24T18:05:00 | Yup, they go there: revamped mainstage cast deals with fat shaming, police shootings and other hot-button topics | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fstage%2Fcomedy%2Fsecond-city-goes-to-the-dark-side-with-come-what-mayhem%2F.json | en | null | Second City goes to the dark side with Come What Mayhem! | null | null | nowtoronto.com | COME WHAT MAYHEM! written and performed by Roger Bainbridge, Kyle Dooley, Brandon Hackett, Becky Johnson, Lindsay Mullan and Ann Pornel, directed by Carly Heffernan. Presented by Second City (51 Mercer). In previews, opens Tuesday (August 30) for a limited run, Tuesday-Thursday 8 pm, Friday-Saturday 7:30 and 10 pm, Sunday 7:30 pm. $25-$52. 416-343-0011. See listing.
For a change, the punny title of Second City’s new sketch revue actually has a point.
Come What Mayhem! was developed during one of the most tumultuous periods in recent history, with terrorism and mass murders abroad and rampant police shootings south of the border, Black Lives Matters protests and women’s abuse allegations being dismissed in courts.
“When we were writing, we’d show up, and there was this weeks-long stretch when there was something horrendous happening almost every day,” says Roger Bainbridge.
“We’d look at each other open-mouthed and ask, ‘Is this actually happening?’ This isn’t funny. How in god’s name do we make this funny?’”
But Bainbridge, one of four new mainstage cast members, thinks they’ve found a way. There will be laughs, he says, but there will also be uncomfortable moments when the audience questions whether it’s okay to laugh.
“Comedy should be unsettling, but that’s okay, because there are unsettling things happening in the world,” says the writer and actor best known for his work with Tony Ho, a troupe definitely familiar with comedy’s dark side.
New member Ann Pornel, who’s an Asian-Canadian woman of size, is especially proud of one of those is-it-okay-to-laugh sketches.
“It’s a scene I’ve always wanted to do, one I’ve never seen done at Second City,” she says. “It’s about saying the word ‘fat’ and how that’s not allowed, even though if I am fat why can’t I say it? You can feel the audience’s discomfort, and in the end there’s some release for them. The whole joke is flipped on its head.”
Pornel, who logged five years with comedy troupe the Sketchersons before joining Second City’s TourCo and then making mainstage, feels lucky to be able to bring this kind of comedy to a broad audience.
“We’re getting a chance to talk about xenophobia, Islamophobia and Black Lives Matter,” she says. “Where else in live theatre in Toronto does an actor get to do that?”
The fact that Tony Ho, the Sketchersons and Pornel’s other sketch troupe, the Flirty Boys (which consists of women who mimic macho guys), normally play alternative clubs like Comedy Bar and Bad Dog means they’re often aiming their jokes at people with pretty liberal politics.
“But with the Second City audience,” says Pornel, “you might have people who don’t necessarily think like you. They might think, ‘Oh yeah, racism doesn’t exist.’ And we’re here to say, ‘Oh yes, it is very much in existence.’”
Besides sporting one of the more diverse mainstage casts in recent memory – new company member Brandon Hackett is Black – the Second City is currently making history. The show’s director is a woman (Heffernan), and so is the touring company’s (Leslie Seiler) and the house company’s (Karen Parker). Second City’s education company is being directed by alum Nigel Downer, who’s African Canadian.
All of that, especially having a woman at the helm, feeds into the product onstage.
“There’s a difficult scene in the show that deals with sexual assault,” says Pornel. “I don’t know how it would have been handled by a different director. But with Carly we are able to really hit hard because, as a woman, she’s coming from a place of knowing what it feels like to walk down a street and not feel safe.”
Pornel wants to land her jokes, of course, but as a fanatical Jays fan she also wants Second City’s neighbours from the Rogers Centre to see the show. A few weeks ago Kevin Pillar was in the audience and she cried in the green room for five minutes.
“If José Bautista or Josh Donaldson or Devon Travis came, I’d be hysterical,” she says. “I want all the Jays to come. I want to collect them like Pokémon.”
Get showtimes here.
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Heavy metal has a bad rep when it comes to gender issues. Stories keep surfacing of women on and off the stage being subjected to aggressive sexist and racist behaviour at shows and festivals. (Google Pentagram's Bobby Liebling for a recent example.) There's still much work to be done.
So what's it like being a woman playing heavier music? As the vocalist for Toronto doom metal/heavy rock band NLP (at Hard Luck Bar as part of Doom Over T.O. on Friday, August 25), I've found solace in this music. And a number of people who are part of the Toronto doom scene have become my friends. As a non-white woman, I feel lucky to be able to speak highly of my experiences so far.
For me, Toronto's doom scene is centred on mutual respect and camaraderie. We are there for the music and appreciate that the fans are, too. I try not to think about gender when I'm onstage. That said, I'm usually the only woman on the bill, performing for a mostly male audience, so it's hard not to notice that imbalance.
But I sense a change on the horizon. There is a groundswell of strong women contributing to the local heavy rock/doom/metal scene, and together we're kicking down the doors.
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Alyssa Axeworthy, guitar/vocals for Astral Witch
Axeworthy is a veteran of all-women ensembles and one of the first women I met playing in the doom scene. She says doom has been a refreshing change from the punk scene that she's accustomed to. "I get to talk shop about the newest or best vintage amps and pedals without hearing, 'Wow, it's like you're one of the guys' every time."
Astral Witch play Cherry Colas on September 3.
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Tamara Rayan, bass/feedback for Horse Lung
Rayan straddles the border between noise and tone-worship. She's played bass for more than 10 years but still feels there's an added pressure to perform well as a woman: "You're always judged and critiqued twice as much. But I'm always proud to expose [the fact] that gender has nothing to do with skill."
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Alia O'Brien, vocals/flute/organ for Blood Ceremony
O'Brien is no stranger to the scene. For a decade now her band, Blood Ceremony, has brought doom metal to the masses in Toronto and beyond. "I feel fortunate that most of the tours and bills I've been on have been very inclusive and supportive," she says. "Infrequently, I've had negative experiences that I can safely say are attributable to sexism - from the way I've been treated and questioned by some interviewers to offensive audience heckling."
Blood Ceremony play Lee's Palace on September 2.
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Jess Carter, heavy metal promoter/concert producer and radio host, Heavy and Humble
Carter began her career organizing the first Headbanging For A Cure in 2011 and now runs her own production company, Heavy and Humble. She also hosts a two-hour radio show, also called Heavy And Humble, Sundays from 5 to 7 pm on CFRE 91.9FM, where she plays sub-genres of metal for the first hour and prog rock for the second. She says the biggest challenge has been trying to be assertive while not sounding aggressive or weak. Her advice to other women: "Network and build solid, meaningful relationships."
Karina Davydova, heavy metal/alternative promoter, Neurotic Entertainment
As one of the few female promoters dedicated to the heavy music scene, Davydova still views metal as a boys' club. But that hasn't deterred her. "I have bands messaging me, and they usually start the conversation with 'Hey, bro, can you help me out with a gig?' Sometimes I correct them; most times I don't. I just enjoy seeing their shocked faces at the gig when they find out that Neurotic is run by a girl."
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"Zach Ruiter"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:45 | null | 2016-08-24T21:15:17 | After failed community attempts to shut it down, GE's uranium pellet plant on Lansdowne has
just been bought by U.S.-based nuclear weapons manufacturer BWX Technologies | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fnews%2Fwmds-in-the-west-end-of-toronto%2F.json | en | null | WMDs in the west end of Toronto? | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand Activists have warned about safety issues posed by derailments on the CP rail line near GE Hitachi's uranium-processing plant.
Toronto's west end has a new nuclear neighbour. General Electric Hitachi announced August 19 that it plans to sell its Canadian nuclear operations, including its uranium pellet plant on Lansdowne, to BWXT Canada Ltd., a subsidiary of Lynchburg, Virginia's BWX Technologies, which operates one of only two facilities in the U.S. licensed to process highly enriched uranium.
BWX Technologies is the prime contractor in charge of the U.S. Department of Energy's 13,000-hectare nuclear weapons testing laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Among the "recent accomplishments" listed on the company's website: the manufacturing of the grapefruit-size plutonium cores used in the W88 thermonuclear warhead designed for the Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
If BWXT acquires the necessary licence and regulatory approval from the federal government, it will take over GE Hitachi's operations and 350 employees at three plants in Toronto, Peterborough and Arnprior. BWXT's Cambridge plant was recently awarded a $103 million contract to supply the first eight of 32 steam generators for the refurbishment of the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station in Tiverton.
The GE Hitachi plant at 1025 Lansdowne, north of Dupont, processes 53 per cent of all the nuclear fuel used in Canada's nuclear reactors. Drums of yellowcake uranium dioxide powder are trucked into Toronto and transformed into ceramic pellets for use in fuel rods at the Pickering and Darlington reactors.
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), the nuclear industry's regulatory agency, permits the plant to release up to 9,000 kilograms of uranium waste into the sewer system and 760 grams into the air annually.
Community concern about whether pollution from the plant poses a health threat led to a series of public meetings in 2012. A campaign to shut down the plant, including a blockade of the CP rail line running a couple of metres south of it, led to a community consultation at the Holiday Inn Yorkdale in 2013 that was attended by representatives from the CNSC, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Toronto Public Health. Reassurances were made that the plant posed no significant health risk.
Mohawk Six Nations activist Sigrid Kneve, who worked on the campaign to shutter the plant, says the August 21 derailment in the Annex, on the same CP line, will only renew safety concerns. "We have been warning for years that an accident could happen," Kneve says.
General Electric, which manufactures drones for the U.S. military efforts in Pakistan and the Middle East, has its own history with nuclear weapons; it manufactured them in the U.S. until 1993 but got out of the business after a consumer boycott launched in 1986 successfully pressured major retail stores, including Safeway and Target, to stop stocking their light bulbs.
Candyce Paul of the Committee for Future Generations, a group of Dene, Cree, Metis and settlers who oppose the effects of uranium mining and the proposed burial of high-level nuclear waste on Indigenous land, says there are many overlaps between the commercial and military uses of nuclear power.
"They always say the uranium is used for peaceful [commercial] purposes," Paul says. "So if some part of it has become radioactive waste and it is reprocessed to make plutonium, it is not their problem."
The CNSC has approved shipments in the past of tritium - a nuclear-power byproduct that's also used as a detonating component in nuclear bombs - to Iran from SRB Technologies in Pembroke, Ontario.
In fact, the CANDU reactor, Canada's first nuclear reactor, was built to produce plutonium for bombs. The design was later retooled to allow for the production of electricity.
In his book Atomic Accomplice, Paul McKay writes that the military origin of the reactor design "explains why the CANDU reactor typically produces 2.6 grams of plutonium per kilogram of used uranium fuel - the highest ratio among all commercial reactor designs."
From uranium mining on Indigenous land to highly radioactive nuclear waste, Canada's nuclear power chain has global links. For Torontonians, and west-end residents in particular, GE's sale of its plants to BWXT means having to reconsider whether it's safe, or appropriate, to have a uranium processing plant in a residential neighbourhood, says Angela Bischoff of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.
"Toronto is a nuclear-weapons-free zone," Bischoff says. "We created a Peace Garden at Nathan Phillips Square, and we signed the Mayors For Peace declaration. By welcoming this company into the middle of our city we are actually contravening the declaration."
Zach Ruiter was an organizer of the campaign to shut down GE Hitachi's Lansdowne plant.
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"Carla Gillis"
] | 2016-08-26T12:56:35 | null | 2016-08-24T17:30:00 | Intelligent songwriting is the record's through line | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmusic%2Falbum-reviews%2Ftuns-debut-delivers-east-coast-indie-rock-pedigree%2F.json | en | null | TUNS' debut delivers on its east-coast indie rock pedigree | null | null | nowtoronto.com | Followers of East Coast indie rock have been anticipating this debut self-titled album since last October, when the group made up of Chris Murphy (Sloan) on drums and vocals, Matt Murphy (Super Friendz/the Flashing Lights; unrelated to Chris) on guitar and vocals and Mike O'Neill (the Inbreds) on bass and vocals revealed itself at a surprise show at Massey Hall.
We've been hearing regularly from Chris via long-running power-pop four-piece Sloan and intermittently from O'Neill, who has released a number of solo records and written film soundtracks. Matt, however, has been mostly quiet and greatly missed. It's a thrill, then, that he contributes many of the songs.
His blistering, bright, savvy guitar solos are here in full force - usually coming near a song's end in a blast of elastic flash and dazzle. His familiar voice, too, remains strong, his songs smartly crafted and stacked with harmonies.
Intelligent songwriting is the record's through line. (Chris's Look Who's Back In Town Again is perfectly late-Beatles and exceptionally gorgeous.) Melody is everywhere, tempos are peppy, and the three voices blend in intricate harmonies and sometimes play relay. On Throw It All Away, O'Neill begins, Matt takes over in the chorus, then Chris and O'Neill handle the second verse together.
Occasionally things suffer lyrically, when someone falls back on a rote rhyme ("Rain, rain, go away / come again some other day," Chris sings on Mixed Messages, or "You learn to mind your business / to mind your P's and Q's" on Mind Your Manners), or the songwriters' sentiment seems simplistic or on the nose. See first song Back Among Friends, about, well, how nice it is to be playing music together again.
O'Neill's songs, especially Lonely Life and I Can't Wait Forever, are appreciated for allowing some melancholy to seep in. Matt's Mind Over Matter stands out by digging in a little harder tonally and rhythmically, adding some grit to all the sweetness. And it has such a classic Matt Murphy chorus and guitar licks that our nostalgic hearts go a-flutter.
Top track: Mind Over Matter
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Book now! These shows will sell out fast
Roseanne Barr The iconic stand-up brings her groundbreaking act to JFL42. September 23. 7 pm. Sony Centre. See listing.
USS The Parkdale alt-dance duo behind radio hit Work Shoes are doing six shows in six venues in November: at the Cameron House, Adelaide Hall, the Mod Club, the Rivoli, the Danforth Music Hall and a secret location. All are sold out except the secret one on November 16. Doors 7 pm. $25. More info.
Thursday 25
Robert Sawyer The sci-fi author talks about his new novel, Quantum Night, alongside Sylvain Neuvel (Sleeping Giants) as part of IFOA at the CNE’s Enercare Centre. 6 pm. FREE with CNE admission. See listing.
Arctic Home Oscar-winning actor Emma Thompson tells the stories of defenders of the Arctic in a benefit for Greenpeace Canada. $25. 5-9 pm. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. See listing.
Friday 26
Matthew Santoro Canuck YouTube star and listmeister signs his new book, Mind = Blown: Amazing Facts About This Weird, Hilarious, Insane World, at Indigo Eaton Centre. 7 pm. FREE . See listing.
Sasheer Zamata The SNL cast member does stand-up tonight and tomorrow at Comedy Bar. 8 and 10 pm tonight. $25. See listing.
Saturday 27
Weaves The Toronto sludge-pop act finally – finally – throws a record--release party in town. Horseshoe. Doors 8:30 pm. $10-$12. See listing. [Don't miss: On the set of Weaves' new music video]
Cityfest Canoe Landing Park plays host to a smorgasbord of artists, vendors, food trucks and fun activities. Noon to 9 pm. FREE . See listing.
Sunday 28
Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Monthly celebration of car-free living is marked with music and street theatre. Noon-7 pm. FREE . Augusta south of College.
Monday 29
Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts I, II, III) ( NNNN ) Don’t miss Soulpepper’s strong production of the first three parts of Suzan-Lori Parks’s epic cycle, which closes September 1. 7:30 pm. $32-$96. 416-866-8666. See listing.
Tuesday 30
Kanye West Yeezy hits the Air Canada Centre for the first of two nights as part of his Saint Pablo tour. Thanks to the opening of Kanye's Pablo Pop-Up last week, outfits for the night should be a no-brainer. 7 pm. $29.50-$199. See listing.
Wednesday 31
Death Of A Salesman Arthur Miller’s classic gets a Yiddish-language production as part of the Ashkenaz Festival. With surtitles. To September 10. Toronto Centre for the Arts. 8 pm. $18-$36. See listing.
Next week September 1-7
Fan Expo Canada Fans get to feed their obsessions at the convention of pop-culture stars and creators, including Stan Lee, George Takei and more, at the Metro Convention Centre. All-day passes $25-$60, autographs and photo ops not included. Hours vary. More info on page 38. September 1-4. Don't miss our preview here.
The Glass Menagerie Philip McKee directs an intimate production of Tennessee Williams’s classic play, continuing at the Theatre Centre Incubator. 8 pm and some 2 pm. $25-$30. To September 11. See listing.
NOW'S EVENT CALENDAR
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] | 2016-08-26T13:06:59 | null | 2016-08-24T17:00:00 | Virgo: I have some experiments for you to try out this week. | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Flifestyle%2Fadvice%2Ffreewill-astrology-week-of-august-25%2F.json | en | null | Freewill Astrology: week of August 25, 2016 | null | null | nowtoronto.com | Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 In the coming weeks, I hope you won't scream curses at the rain, demanding that it stop falling on you. Similarly, I suggest you refrain from punching walls that seem to be hemming you in, and I beg you not to spit into the wind when it's blowing in your face. Here's an oracle about how to avoid counterproductive behaviour like that: the near future will bring you useful challenges and uncanny blessings if you're willing to consider the possibility that everything coming your way will in some sense be an opportunity.
Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 Oh how I wish you might receive the grace of being pampered and nurtured and entertained and prayed for. I'd love for you to assemble a throng of no-strings-attached caretakers who would devote themselves to stoking your healing and delight. Maybe they'd sing to you as they gave you a manicure and massaged your feet and paid your bills. Or perhaps they would cook you a gourmet meal and clean your house as they told you stories about how beautiful you are and all the great things you're going to do in the future. Is it possible to arrange something like that even on a modest scale, Taurus? You're in a phase of your astrological cycle when you most need this kind of doting attention - and when you have the greatest power to make it happen.
Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 I invite you to dream about your true home... your sweet, energizing, love-strong home... the home where you can be high and deep, robust and tender, flexible and rigorous... the home where you are the person that you promised yourself you could be. To stimulate and enhance your brainstorms about your true home, experiment with the following activities: Feed your roots, do maintenance work on your power spot, cherish and foster your sources, and refine the magic that makes you feel free. Can you handle one more set of tasks designed to enhance your domestic bliss? Tend to your web of close allies, take care of what takes care of you, and adore the intimate connections that serve as your foundation.
Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 It'll be one of those rapid-fire, adjust-on-the-fly, think-on-your-feet, go-with-your-gut times for you - a head-spinning, endorphin-generating, eye-pleasing, intelligence-boosting phase when you will have opportunities to relinquish your attachments to status quos that don't serve you. Got all that, Cancerian? There'll be a lot of stimuli to absorb and integrate - and luckily for you, absorbing and integrating a lot of stimuli will be your specialty. I'm confident of your ability to get the most of upcoming encounters with cute provocations, pleasant agitation and useful unpredictability. One more tip: be vigilant and amused as you follow the ever-shifting sweet spot.
Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 At the risk of asking too much and pushing too hard, my Guerrilla Prayer Warriors have been begging God to send you some major financial mojo. These fierce supplicants have even gone so far as to suggest to the Supreme Being that maybe She could help you win the lottery or find a roll of big bills lying in the gutter or be granted a magic wish by an unexpected benefactor. "Whatever works!" is their mantra. Looking at the astrological omens, I'm not sure that the Prayer Warriors' extreme attempts will be effective. But the possibility that they will be is definitely greater than usual. To boost your odds, I suggest you get more organized and better educated about your money matters. Set a clear intention about the changes you'd like to put in motion during the next 10 months.
Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 Suggested experiments: 1. Take a vow that from now on you won't hide your beauty. 2. Strike a deal with your inner king or inner queen, guaranteeing that this regal part of you gets regular free expression. 3. Converse with your Future Self about how the two of you might collaborate to fully unleash the refined potency of your emotional intelligence. 4. In meditations and dreams, ask your ancestors how you can more completely access and activate your dormant potentials.
Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 I hope you are not forlorn, shivery, puzzled or obsessive right now - unless being in such a state will mobilize you to instigate the overdue transformations you have been evading. If that's the case, I hope you are forlorn, shivery, puzzled and obsessive. Feelings like those may be the perfect fuel - the high-octane motivation that will launch your personal renaissance. I don't often offer this counsel, Libra, so I advise you to take full advantage: now is one of the rare times when your so-called negative emotions can catalyze redemption.
Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 From what I can tell, your vigour is peaking. In recent weeks, you have been sturdy, hearty, stout and substantial. I expect this surge of strength to intensify in the near future - even as it becomes more fluid and supple. In fact, I expect that your waxing power will teach you new secrets about how to wield your power intelligently. You may break your previous records for compassionate courage and sensitive toughness. Here's the best news of all: you're likely to be dynamic about bestowing practical love on the people and animals and things that are important to you.
Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 The odds are higher than usual that you will be offered a boost or promotion in the coming weeks. This development is especially likely to occur in the job you're doing or the career plans you've been pursuing. It could also be a factor at work in your spiritual life. You may discover a new teacher or teaching that could lift you to the next phase of your inner quest. There's even a chance that you'll get an upgrade on both fronts. So it's probably a good time to check on whether you're harbouring any obstacles to success. If you find that you are, destroy those rancid old mental blocks with a bolt of psychic lightning.
Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 The cosmos seems to be warming up to your charms. The stinginess it displayed toward you for a while is giving way to a more generous approach. To take advantage of this welcome development, you should shed any fear-based beliefs you may have adopted during the recent shrinkage. For instance, it's possible you've begun to entertain the theory that the game of life is rigged against you, or that it is inherently hard to play. Get rid of those ideas. They're not true, and clinging to them would limit the game of life's power to bring you new invitations. Open yourself up wherever you have closed down.
Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Are any of your allies acting like they've forgotten their true purpose? If so, you have the power to gently awaken them from their trances and help them refocus. Is it possible you have become a bit too susceptible to the influences of people whose opinions shouldn't really matter that much to you? If so, now is a good time to correct that aberration. Are you aware of having fallen under the sway of trendy ideas or faddish emotions that are distorting your relationship with your primal sources? If so, you are hereby authorized to free yourself from their hold on you.
Pisces Feb 19 | Mar 20 Now would be a favourable time to reveal that you are in fact a gay socialist witch who believes good poetry provides a more reliable way to understand reality than the opinions of media pundits - unless, of course, you are not a gay socialist witch, etc, in which case you shouldn't say you are. But I do advise you to consider disclosing as much as possible of your true nature to anyone with whom you plan to be intimately linked in the future and who is missing important information about you. It's high time to experiment with being more completely yourself.
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"Adria Vasil",
"Anne Moses"
] | 2016-08-26T13:02:28 | null | 2016-08-24T11:19:00 | Nestlé pays just $3.71 for every million litres of water it pumps out of the aquifer system in Ontario, but ours isn’t the only drought-stricken jurisdiction the bottled-water giant
is tapping for free H2O | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fnews%2Fecoholic%2Fheaded-for-a-water-catastrophe%2F.json | en | null | Headed for a water catastrophe | null | null | nowtoronto.com | Why, during the driest summer in recent memory, is Nestlé Canada being allowed to pump water out of Ontario aquifers with an expired permit?
It’s a question Wellington Water Watchers has been asking since the multinational was granted a permit extension without public consultation on July 31. The company taps millions of litres of water per day from its three wells in Ontario for a nominal fee – roughly what it costs to buy a few 500-millilitre bottles of its water at the corner store.
The Guelph-based non-profit has joined the Council of Canadians and other environmental groups in calling for an end to what many see as Nestlé’s decade-plus free ride in Ontario. And they want the company’s proposal to take 1.6 million litres a day from a newly purchased well in Elora denied.
Wellington Water Watchers chair Mike Nagy says the group ultimately wants to see this kind of water-taking permit for bottlers phased out entirely by the province. “They need to get moving on this and close the loophole.”
“The reality is, all the money in the world isn’t going to create more water,” adds Nagy, with drought conditions around the globe expected to spike as a result of climate change.
Nestlé pays the government just $3.71 for every million litres of water pumped out of the aquifer system. The company is allowed to take 3.6 million litres a day from its Aberfoyle well and 1.1 million litres from Hillsburgh.
Nestlé says it’s been a good corporate citizen and reduced its water takings this summer by 20 per cent as per regional restrictions. (The company fought to be exempt from similar restrictions in 2013 and lost.)
But Ontario’s not the only jurisdiction that’s essentially giving its water away to corporate interests. (See sidebar.) Council of Canadians’ national chair Maude Barlow tells NOW that in Quebec, Nestlé pays just $70 for 1 million litres. “In BC, they were getting it for free,” she says. The introduction of a new water act in BC last year now means the company pays just over a toonie for a million litres. “A steal, considering what they charge for that water,” says Barlow.
Ontario collects about $1 million in water fees from a variety of industries, recovering little of the $16.2 million it costs to manage its industrial water permit system, says Barlow.
“We are a planet headed for water catastrophe,” she says. “Nestlé is a water predator. We need to tell them to leave.”
Nestlé’s big gulp
Other jurisdictions Nestlé’s emptying of H2O to quench our thirst for bottled water
ARIZONA
Nestlé is planning to drain 264 million half-litre bottles a year from the Arizona desert despite the fact that the state has officially been experiencing a drought since, oh, 1999.
CALIFORNIA
While the rest of Cali was asked to slash water consumption, Nestlé managed to pull 36 million gallons from 12 wells in the San Bernardino National Forest last year. Nestlé’s water permit expired in 1988, but since the company continued to pay $524 a year, the licence was considered legit by the U.S. Forest Service. Last fall, three enviro groups sued the Forest Service.
OREGON
When Nestlé proposed setting up a water-bottling plant in Cascade Locks, Oregon, citizens rallied to vote the idea down in a -local referendum. But Cascade Locks city council vetoed that vote and opted to support the plant.
FLINT, MICHIGAN
Democracy Now’s February headline summed up the situation neatly: “Nestlé pumps millions of gallons for free while Flint residents pay for poisoned water.” While many Flint residents are paying some of the highest utility bills in the country for brown, lead-tainted water, Nestlé is permitted to pump up to 1.5 million litres of water per minute from aquifers running into Lake Michigan at no charge.
BC
As wildfires raged across drought-stricken BC last summer and residents were asked to take shorter showers and stop watering their lawns, the provincial government was giving millions of litres of water to Nestlé for nothing. After a public backlash, BC started charging industrial users, including Nestlé, a pittance: $2.25 per million litres.
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"Jon Kaplan"
] | 2016-08-26T12:58:57 | null | 2016-08-24T17:30:00 | Lisa Codrington's clever adaptation of Shaw's short story provides lots of food for thought for fest's lunchtime show | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fstage%2Ftheatre%2Fthe-adventures-of-black-girl-search-for-god-review%2F.json | en | null | >>> The Adventures Of Black Girl In Her Search For God shows Black Lives Matter at Shaw Festival | null | null | nowtoronto.com | THE ADVENTURES OF THE BLACK GIRL IN HER SEARCH FOR GOD by Lisa Codrington, adapted from the story by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). At the Court House Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. Runs to September 11. $35. See Out-of-town, this page. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. See listing. Rating: NNNN
Here’s a theatre pre-show you’ll see only once in a lifetime: George Bernard Shaw handing out party hats to audience members.
Everything that follows is just as unexpected in Lisa Codrington’s The Adventures Of The Black Girl In Her Search For God, adapted from a short story by Shaw.
The lunchtime show at this year’s Shaw Festival, the play is an iconoclastic romp that touches on racism, feminism, religion, colonialism, a number of other heady subjects and Shaw’s reputation (both the man’s and the festival’s).
The Black Girl of the title (Natasha Mumba) has confounded her white missionary mentor (Tara Rosling) for years with endless questions about life and religion, finally sending the bibulous nun fleeing back to England on the Black Girl’s birthday.
Before leaving, she gives her a Bible as a present, telling her to seek God and discover His true nature, something about which the Black Girl is always pondering.
The Black Girl proceeds to meet various deities, including the self-impressed- Lord of Hosts (Guy Bannerman), the Almighty, seemingly more rational (Graeme Somerville), the Conjuror (Jonathan Tan), who has an affinity with God’s Only Begotten Son and some other religious figures, among them a less than devout King Solomon and a minor saint, Micah the Morasthite (both played by Ben Sanders).
She also encounters a Black Mamba Snake (Kiera Sangster) who disputes the Bible’s judgment on serpents and a Black Bearer (André Sills) who has some clear ideas about the role of whites in the lives of Black people.
The play, splendidly directed by Ravi Jain and performed by a first-rate ensemble, is an exhilarating theatrical hour with a touch of slapstick; it’s as exciting to watch on Camellia Koo’s inventive set, lit by Louise Guinand, as it is to listen to.
Add a fight between the Black Girl and Shaw (Bannerman) over whether to include Shaw’s original preface in the play and a rant on theatre festivals named for dead white dudes and you have a fully packed, entertaining hour. Less than an hour, in fact, since the Black Girl knows that the audience wants to sample fudge-flavoured- ice wine before their next -matinee.
Regardless of its brevity, this is the most delightful, inventive show at this year’s Shaw Festival.
Get more show listings here.
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"Norman Wilner"
] | 2016-08-26T13:00:36 | null | 2016-08-24T17:30:00 | Adrien Brody is decent, but this contemporary noir is a hard-boiled mess | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmovies%2Freviews%2Ftake-a-pass-on-this-manhattan-night%2F.json | en | null | Take a pass on this Manhattan Night | null | null | nowtoronto.com | MANHATTAN NIGHT (Brian DeCubellis). 113 minutes. Opens Friday (August 26). See listing. Rating: NN
The best noir films are as dry as their heroes; the self-consciousness of Manhattan Night makes it awfully hard to appreciate the things it does well.
Brian DeCubellis’s adaptation of Colin Harrison’s 1996 novel Manhattan Nocturne is a contemporary take on a classic premise. World-weary newspaper columnist Porter Wren (Adrien Brody) is approached by a beautiful widow (Yvonne Strahovski) to investigate the mysterious death of her filmmaker husband (Campbell Scott, seen in flashbacks).
Naturally, nothing is what it seems, and before long our married hero is sleeping with his sultry source and being threatened by powerful men who want their secrets kept.
Nifty, right? But Manhattan Night is undermined by DeCubellis’s purplish presentation, which keeps drawing attention to itself.
Brody works hard to sell his character’s hard-boiled dialogue (and even more clichéd voice-over), but you can feel the strain. It also doesn’t help that DeCubellis has encouraged composer Joel Douek to drench every scene in portentousness. | https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/take-a-pass-on-this-manhattan-night/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/b7bf14ec55bc5a067ad9f05481890c42835caeb491acd7d04083f51c31e296bd.json | |
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"Now Staff"
] | 2016-08-26T20:48:42 | null | 2016-08-26T16:19:00 | Relive the joys and pains of summertime hijinks with these top rated picks from last year's fest | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmovies%2Fdvds-downloads-and-streaming%2F5-tiff-films-to-cure-your-end-fo-summer-blues%2F.json | en | null | 5 TIFF films to cure your end of summer blues | null | null | nowtoronto.com | Sleeping Giant
Writer/director Cividino expanded a short film for this study of three teenage boys (Jackson Martin, Reece Moffett, Nick Serino) bonding and fighting in cottage country, and the padding occasionally shows. But Sleeping Giant is still a particularly -assured and beautiful first feature, observing the ugly awkwardness of male adolescence against the gorgeous, indifferent backdrop of Lake Superior. (See full review).
Rating: NNNN
Available to watch: iTunes
× Expand Harvey Keitel (front) and Michael Caine are at the top of their game in Youth.
Youth
Two old friends, retired composer Fred (Michael Caine) and film auteur Mick (Harvey Keitel), meet at a swanky Swiss resort and muse about aging and their fears of diminishing creative powers.
Sounds like a cliché - and potentially creepy given the nubile young women cavorting all over the place - but in the hands of the great Paolo Sorrentino (of The Great Beauty, last year's foreign-language film Oscar winner), it's a wonder. (See full review).
Rating: NNNN
Available to watch: Netflix
Summertime
Captivating performances by Izïa Higelin and Cécile de France carry a lesbian romance that’s sexy and passionate but also pretty wobbly.
The pic, set in tumultuous early-70s France, is laboured in presenting how Higelin’s farm girl and de France’s Parisian feminist meet and unconvincingly brief when developing their attraction, which at first seems all about the sex. (See full review).
Rating: NNN
Mustang
Five teenaged girls living in a seaside Turkish village are having a little too much fun celebrating the end of the school year. Their punishment? The family patriarch - the uncle who's raised them since their parents' death - puts them under house arrest and starts marrying them off.
Ergüven empathetically presents the village women - especially the girls' grandmother - as more bent on protecting the girls than controlling them, but she's plainly furious with the entire system. That anger, however, never takes over or messes with the craft. She gets great performances from her cast and creates gorgeous images of the five sisters at play and in repose. (See full review).
Rating: NNNN
Available to watch: Netflix
OUR LITTLE SISTER
After their father dies, three adult sisters (Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho) invite their teenage half-sister (Suzu Hirose) to come and live with them in their home outside of Tokyo.
Kore-eda (After Life; Nobody Knows; Like Father, Like Son) may be adapting the contemporary manga Umimachi Diary, but he's working in the classical style of Yasujiro Ozu, finding entire worlds in the microcosm of one family. (See full review). | https://nowtoronto.com/movies/dvds-downloads-and-streaming/5-tiff-films-to-cure-your-end-fo-summer-blues/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/e33128c912d45ce73bf5da233a342b21e2d06496ad89ed391d3e28195cd14fbe.json | |
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"Kevin Ritchie"
] | 2016-08-26T13:08:35 | null | 2016-08-25T16:35:00 | The newly renovated Polson Street club and concert venue finally has a new name | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmusic%2Fgoodbye-sound-academy-hello-rebel%2F.json | en | null | Goodbye Sound Academy, Hello Rebel | null | null | nowtoronto.com | When nightclub mogul Charles Khabouth gave NOW a tour of the Sound Academy renovations in June, he was still sweating over a new name for the once-despised Polson Street venue.
Two months later, it's official: Toronto’s hottest club is Rebel. This place has everything: four rooms with distinct atmosphere, music and vibes, a 65-foot stage, LED video walls, a grand terrace with views of the skyline, and a central bar with a light installation hung above.
Rebel will mark its grand opening on October 1 after a year-long, $10-million overhaul. In addition to concerts, the 45,000-square-foot space will also host club nights and corporate events.
In December, Khabouth told NOW that the renovations would tackle those aspects of Sound Academy that made the isolated venue so reviled, such as the poor sightlines and shortage of toilets.
The revamped Rebel has three washrooms and three bars on the first floor, improved air conditioning and ventilation, and a heated outdoor area. The renovation also involved raising the roof by nine feet and removing the columns that blocked views of the stage. The second level is now sloped to improve views of the stage.
Although the name change does not take effect until October 1, several concerts are already booked in the venue before and after that date, including Schoolboy Q, Slayer, Action Bronson, Glass Animals, Post Malone, Tory Lanez and Tiësto.
“Rebel is a truly distinctive and transformative nightlife destination, offering guests access into the extraordinary, the unique and the unparalleled,” Charles Khabouth, who is CEO of INK Entertainment, said in a statement. “We look forward to introducing a new luxurious entertainment space with unexpected and dramatic elements of intrigue and opulence that have yet to be seen in a nightclub setting in Canada."
kevinr@nowtoronto.com | @kevinritchie | https://nowtoronto.com/music/goodbye-sound-academy-hello-rebel/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/faccfb80684598633b18b4d2e86607f7b1de82f5ebd2f8c2fdee099e16254b69.json | |
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"Adria Vasil"
] | 2016-08-26T13:07:59 | null | 2016-08-24T18:00:00 | How you can help a park or street tree survive this summer's drought | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Flifestyle%2Fecoholic%2Furban-canopy-sos-toronto%2F.json | en | null | An SOS for Toronto's urban canopy | null | null | nowtoronto.com | Toronto's trees are struggling in this summer's scorching heat. We've had a couple of downpours recently, but as LEAF's Janet McKay points out, "Much of the rain that falls during fast and intense rainfalls runs off paved surfaces and compacted ground into the storm sewers."
If our air-purifying, carbon-storing canopy is going to survive dryer summers, not to mention invasive species, the roots of our trees need a proper drink on a regular basis. That means three watering cans twice a week for young trees (applied close to their base) and a deep soak (an hour with a trickling hose) once a week for established trees. Yes, it's technically the city's responsibility, but McKay says that this summer's ultra-dry conditions show that it's time for a paradigm shift. "Watering the trees in front of your home or business, or in your local park, [should be] part of your normal summer activity, just like shovelling your sidewalk in winter," she says. To help, sign up for LEAF's Adopt-a-Park-Tree or Adopt-a-Street-Tree program at yourleaf.org.
adriav@nowtoronto.com | @ecoholicnation | https://nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/ecoholic/urban-canopy-sos-toronto/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/bc555e3caf36d5e76a04d04c45df34de249cbb15bf815cd6a240982843e75f72.json | |
[
"Norman Wilner"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:34 | null | 2016-08-24T17:30:00 | Sure, we know what happens but the discovery is lovely to watch | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmovies%2Freviews%2Fsouthside-with-you-when-barack-met-michelle%2F.json | en | null | >>> Southside With You: When Barack met Michelle | null | null | nowtoronto.com | SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU (Richard Tanne). 84 minutes. Opens Friday (August 26). See listing. Rating: NNNN
Southside With You is a small movie about a big thing – that moment when two people realize they’re going to spend the rest of their lives together.
There is, however, a twist: those people are Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson. It’s the summer of 1989, and they’re spending a day together. He thinks it’s a date; she doesn’t. Who knows where things will end up?
We do, of course, which is why Southside With You plays as a gentle comedy as well as a romance. Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter do a fine job of imagining the private, unguarded versions of the people we know. Sawyers’s Barack is watchful and equivocal, a natural politician – or is it a show of confidence, to get people to trust him? The actor doesn’t try too hard to capture Obama’s distinctive cadence, but he nails his physicality.
Sumpter, on the other hand, goes right at Michelle’s voice and the way the former Ms. Robinson’s precise diction serves as her emotional barometer. It seems like a gamble at first, but as the film goes on – and we learn to read it – it feels like exactly the right choice. We can hear her warm up to this cocky kid even before she realizes she’s doing it.
And writer/director Richard Tanne makes it awfully easy to forget the historical implications of the story we’re watching. He’s not interested in that biopic trick of using minor incidents to illustrate future importance; he sees Barack and Michelle as people spending a day together, with no plans beyond the day’s next event.
The film’s walk-and-talk structure and restricted window of time makes it kin to movies like Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy, Aaron Katz’s Quiet City, Chris Evans’s Before We Go, Barry Jenkins’s Medicine For Melancholy and Emily Ting’s Already Tomorrow In Hong Kong.
But those films leave us with a question: will this couple stay together? Will they last? In Southside With You, that question is irrelevant. What’s interesting is how these two people fit together, how they discover each other. The future comes later.
normw@nowtoronto.com | @normwilner | https://nowtoronto.com/movies/reviews/southside-with-you-when-barack-met-michelle/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/5e40975495e82c426cd515cde63c2c3ca06585991279e9fb4115cdb9e833be08.json | |
[
"Natalia Manzocco"
] | 2016-08-29T16:49:32 | null | 2016-08-29T11:48:59 | Restaurants offering pasta specials to raise funds for Amatrice | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Ffood-and-drink%2Ffood%2Ftoronto-chefs-pitch-in-to-help-earthquake-victims%2F.json | en | null | Toronto chefs pitch in to help Italy earthquake victims | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand Michael Watier Toronto chefs are offering pasta all' Amatriciana specials to raise funds for victims of Italy's devastating quake.
A devastating earthquake hit central Italy last week, killing hundreds and flattening several small cities and villages, including the town of Amatrice. You may not have heard of the name, but you've probably encountered its signature dish, pasta all' Amatrice, a staple on Italian menus worldwide.
In the wake of the disaster, Italian food blogger Paolo Campana launched a campaign (#AMAtriciana) asking restaurants to donate €2 per plate of the dish sold to the Italian Red Cross, and chefs like Jamie Oliver soon took up the cause.
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Now, the movement has spread to Toronto. The #AmatricianaTO campaign has enlisted a number of local restaurants to donate a percentage of proceeds from all' Amatriciana sales to the earthquake relief fund throughout September, including Buca King, Buca Yorkville and Bar Buca, 7 Numbers, Campagnolo, Tutti Matti, Grano and Jacobs & Co. Campaign organzier Neil Faba says more are likely to be added; visit the campaign's Facebook page for more info.
nataliam@nowtoronto.com | @nataliamanzocco | https://nowtoronto.com/food-and-drink/food/toronto-chefs-pitch-in-to-help-earthquake-victims/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/d7d26911302d0a8ca8bd5c51a79da7b2cbe488fed0171aa8b63b52dd2d000b96.json | |
[
"Michelle Da Silva"
] | 2016-08-30T20:49:44 | null | 2016-08-30T16:45:12 | Labour Day weekend is for art lovers, clearly | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fart-and-books%2Fart%2Fsupport-toronto-art-scene-at-these-events-this-week%2F.json | en | null | Support Toronto’s art scene at these events this week | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand Climb aboard the Gladstone Hotel art bus for an afternoon at McMichael Gallery.
Celebrate the last long weekend of summer with these community arts events:
AGO First Thursdays: Constituency
The Art Gallery of Ontario’s monthly party focuses on community builders and activists on September 1 from 7 to 11:30 pm. In partnership with MANIFESTO Festival and in celebration of the Theaster Gates: How to Build a House Museum exhibition currently at the AGO, the event includes performances by New York rapper, activist and performance artist Mykki Blanco, feminist collective Bonerkill, artist Jessica Karuhanga and writer Sheila Sampath. MANIFESTO’s Randell Adjei and artist Luis Jacob are featured in pop-up talks. Tickets are $13 to $16 and this is a 19+ event. See listing for details.
Farewell Summer Vintage and Arts Market
Bid farewell to the end of summer while supporting local artists at the Make Den’s September 3 event. Find vintage clothing, art and handmade goods for sale at the Make Den’s Bloordale studio (1244 Bloor West) from 11 am to 7 pm and September 4 from 11 am to 5 pm. At night, enjoy a backyard party with performances by Jaunt, Blunt Chucks, Charise Aragoza and DJ OG QT. The backyard party starts at 8 pm and admission is $5. See listing for details.
Field Trip: Art Bus to the McMichael Gallery
Visit the McMichael Gallery in Vaughan by riding the art bus from the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen West). September 4 is the final date for Field Trip, which celebrates the gallery’s 50th anniversary. See works by Jack Bush, Colleen Heslin, Sarah Anne Johnson as well as A.Y. Jackson and Tom Thomson, and enjoy the forested land and Humber River Valley surrounding the gallery. Tickets are $30, which includes round-trip transportation and gallery admission. Registration is required. See listing for details.
Waterfront Artisan Market
This open-air market takes over HTO Park (339 Queens Quay West) from September 3 to 5. Find a curated mix of over 50 artists, artisans, crafters, chefs and bakers including handmade jewellery from BB Tresors, home décor from Alulas Home, gourmet hot sauce from Spice of Life and shortbread cookies from Good Bakery. See listing for details.
Kensington Market Block Party
Raise money for the Kensington Market Refugee Project at this neighbourhood block party at Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields Church (103 Bellevue). Enjoy food from a number of Kensington Market purveyors, local craft beer from Kensington Brewery and Creekside Estates wine, live entertainment and local vendors. A silent auction that includes art pieces, gift cards and unique items is also included. See listing for details.
Get more Toronto event listings here.
michelled@nowtoronto.com | @michdas | https://nowtoronto.com/art-and-books/art/support-toronto-art-scene-at-these-events-this-week/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/a187b2ed9c098325bd79b9eafb973231fc507c72ce17c939906822fe43548b2a.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:04:49 | null | 2016-08-24T09:00:00 | Own the Blu-ray™ 8/30
Digital HD Available Now | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fcontests-and-promotions%2Fme-before-you%2F.json | en | null | Me Before You | null | null | nowtoronto.com | × Expand mebeforeyou
Young and quirky Louisa "Lou" Clark (Emilia Clarke) moves from one job to the next to help her family make ends meet. Her cheerful attitude is put to the test when she becomes a caregiver for Will Traynor (Sam Claflin), a wealthy young banker left paralyzed from an accident two years earlier. Will's cynical outlook starts to change when Louisa shows him that life is worth living. As their bond deepens, their lives and hearts change in ways neither one could have imagined.
Enter for a chance to win a copy of Me Before You on Blu-ray™!
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Contest Ends: August 28
For Rules and Regulations click here | https://nowtoronto.com/contests-and-promotions/me-before-you/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/e7eec4be4d6eee5110f3870bfa837115235e86729c1f171d6df453bd369876fb.json | |
[
"Michael Rancic"
] | 2016-08-26T13:03:21 | null | 2016-08-24T21:14:00 | What the event's move this year means for street performers | https%3A%2F%2Fnowtoronto.com%2Fmusic%2Ffestivals%2Fbuskerfest-and-busking-branches-out-toronto%2F.json | en | null | BuskerFest - and busking - branches outside of the downtown core | null | null | nowtoronto.com | BUSKERFEST at Woodbine Park (Coxwell at Lake Shore), September 2-5, various times. Pwyc. torontobuskerfest.com. See listing.
Now in its 17th year, the Toronto International BuskerFest is saying goodbye to downtown and heading east.
While previous instalments of the fundraiser for Epilepsy Toronto saw trapeze artists, magicians and troubadours delighting onlookers around Nathan Phillips Square, St. Lawrence Market and Yonge between Queen and College, this year the fest is relocating to Woodbine Park.
The reason for the move is financial, but it's related to the expense of running an event on Yonge Street, not to Scotiabank's withdrawal of its 15-year-long sponsorship late last fall. (The corporation still funds Epilepsy Toronto and its programming.) However, the relocation is also part of a larger trend toward pushing busking out of the centre of the city.
In May, Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam (Toronto Centre-Rosedale) proposed a ban on busking at Toronto's busiest, most lucrative intersection: Yonge and Dundas. She argued that buskers create accessibility problems, clogging and slowing pedestrian traffic, and are a danger to public safety.
The motion ultimately failed, and council split on how to take action. Had it passed, busking would've been banned there until the city came up with a strategy to ease pedestrian congestion after reviewing the current busking bylaws. That ban would have affected performers of all kinds, though not the street preachers who also congregate on those corners.
"How can [the preachers] get away with doing what they're doing and not also be an issue?" asks Gideon Steinberg (former drummer for Soupcans, Toronto Homicide Squad), who busks with a djembe and two small synths during the fairer months of the year under the name klnr. After a few noisy performances last year at Yonge and Dundas and Yonge and Bloor, Steinberg was told by a bylaw officer not to return until he had a permit.
A trip up to East York and $43.21 later, he was set. No audition required, unlike at subway stations or Harbourfront, which have their own licence fees. Subways in particular are a good year-round alternative for buskers, but the extra cost, audition process and lead time present barriers. (The next audition period isn't till 2018, and the current fee is $197.50.)
Steinberg compares attempts to modify the busker licensing structure to the costs that are pricing festivals like BuskerFest out of the downtown. "The city is making things like access to public spaces more difficult, be it permits for corporate ventures like BuskerFest or independent artists," he says, adding that "[Toronto] is not supportive of very many alternative forms of expression, especially ones that occupy public spaces."
Negotiating what intersections are best for performances is a balancing act all its own, says Christina Wong, a journalist and playwright with a PhD in music who specializes in underground busking programs in Toronto and London, England. Wong feels it's a boon to the city if BuskerFest can bring entertainers to a part of town they wouldn't otherwise be able to sustain themselves in.
"Obviously it's nice to have busking in the downtown core," she says. "But I also think it's nice to have it in other parts of the city; it encourages folks to explore a section of Toronto they may not have been to."
BuskerFest's organizers are optimistic, and excited to shape their own festival space with performances by Brampton's AHI, beatboxer Scott Jackson and the carnivalesque Dr. Draw & the Strange Parade.
The fest's entertainment and marketing director, Mackenzie Muldoon, likens Woodbine Park to a blank slate. "It allows us to accentuate the great performers and gives us the space to bring in food, a beer garden and fun games for kids. It means we can focus on the charity element.
"We feel our festival can stand on its own and is worth being its own destination. People will want to come to Woodbine Park just for us."
music@nowtoronto.com | @therewasnosound | https://nowtoronto.com/music/festivals/buskerfest-and-busking-branches-out-toronto/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | nowtoronto.com/399e525c9e0d64170e26d9378225bb80d9245fcae40598d570d0d52a89f185cf.json |
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