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Soaring 20th century choral masterworks
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Adults $20 / Seniors $18 in advance ($22 / $20 at the door)
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LONDON, ON
A
consortium of business leaders in the London
region have a salty proposal that could inject
signifi cant revenue into the local economy.
The members of the newly formed Salt Reclamation
League of Ontario (SRLO) have been crafting a draft
document that they plan to present to city council
sometime before the beginning of the summer.
According to SRLO spokesperson Malcolm Fauxbono,
the consortium’s proposal will offer to buy any
road salt the municipality has in its stores after the
winter driving season has concluded.
“There’s nothing to lose here. Really, it’s a ‘win-win’
situation,” Fauxbono said during a recent interview
with SCENE.
“SRLO is deeply invested in the global salt trade.
These people have developed relationships with customers
all over the world. Year over year, demand for
Canadian rock salt has been on the rise, and there’s
no reason think it will decline any time soon,” he
said.
One of those customers is Selana, an autonomous
island nation located among the thousands of islets
that comprise the Micronesian archipelago in the
western Pacifi c Ocean.
Selana’s government has requisitioned as much
salt as SRLO can provide, since the country’s unorthodox
economy actually uses salt as currency,
Fauxbono said.
“It’s strange to us in the modern West, but it’s hardly
without precedent,” he said.
“Did you know that the word ‘salary’ comes from
the Latin word ‘salarium’? It’s derived from the practise
of paying Roman soldiers in salt. And ancient
Celts traded salt and salted meats with both Romans
and Greeks, receiving luxury goods in return,” Fauxbono
explained.
“It’s just a different way of measuring wealth. We
save our currency in banks; ‘salted away’, as were.
Selanians use their currency to preserve food, and
have an elaborate trading system to barter for goods
and services.”
Fauxbono said that the Selanian government was
willing to pay better than cost for London’s leftover
salt, and that they would also assume all the risk and
expense associated with the mineral’s transportation.
Salt usage for snow and ice removal has been top
of mind in recent weeks for both residents and city
workers. Closer-to-average seasonal temperatures
and regular precipitation at or near freezing has left
roads slippery, and in need of regular salting.
For cash-strapped city hall, the sale of excess salt
could represent a lucrative new revenue stream. But
does it mean local taxpayers can expect trucks to
lighten-up on salt next winter, so the city can cash-
FEATURES
WORTH ITS SALT:
NEW BUSINESS FOR
LONDON?
in on the leftovers? Not likely, Fauxbono said.
“The Selanian government has been absolutely,
100 percent scrupulous in all their international salt
dealings,” he said.
“Before the actual buy, SRLO will actually interview
a cross section of London’s residents to assure
Selanian leadership that snow removal service levels
in the Forest City were up to snuff during the winter
season,” he added.
In 2009, London allocated 45,000 tonnes of salt for
use on municipal roads and sidewalks. A warmer season
in 2014 could mean a big windfall for city coffers
- something Fauxbono said was only the beginning.
“SRLO’s proposal is just one of the exciting things
that I will be bringing to the mayor and councillors
before the end of the year,” Fauxbono said, adding
that he had other revenue-generating ideas for London
as well, including a radical plan to dig a toll
moat around city hall.
Commenting on his recent visit to Selana with
SRLO to fi nalize the road salt proposal, Fauxbono
gushed about the natural beauty of the remote island
and its native population.
“After the cold, Ontario winter this year, I was
pumped to hit the beach, and drink Mojitos until I
went toes up,” Fauxbono laughed.
SHOULD LONDONʼS EXCESS ROAD SALT
BE SOLD TO INTERNATIONAL INTERESTS?
“I’ll never forget the trip. The food, the music, the
sand - it’s like alabaster! And the service - to die for.
Selana really is a place that the world is going to hear
about in the next few years. Luckily, London will have
a front row seat,” he said, smiling.
“These people are, quite literally, the salt of the
Earth.”
~ Chris Morgan
Publisher’s Note: Please turn to the bottom of
page 27 at the back of this edition for a special
update on this story.
Skating in London is a part of our history, for generations to come!
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LONDON, ON
Kathleen Wynne has been Ontario’s
premier for about eight
weeks, and in that time, she has
emerged as a conciliatory voice seemingly
intent on building consensus in
the provincial legislature.
If there was any question, the new
premier’s agenda was made plain in
the Liberal Speech from the Throne delivered
at Queen’s Park on February 19.
“Your government intends to work
with opposition parties, in a spirit of
renewed cooperation, to get the people’s
business done. It does not believe
that we are irreparably divided, or that
the challenges we face cannot be overcome,”
the speech said.
Wynne’s done her share of glad-handling
since her elevation to the premiership
in late January - with party
faithful, with opposition leaders Tim
Hudak and Andrea Horwath, with the
heads of Ontario’s various public sector
unions, and with sundry provincial
and municipal offi cials, who all want a
few minutes of her time.
Much of the goodwill being spreading
around is intended to defuse the
possibility of a spring election, a prospect
which is still very much in the
cards until after the provincial budget
is delivered in the second half of April..
Progressive Conservatives have already
made it clear that they will
not be supporting the Liberal fi scal
London’s homelessness
strategy gets boost
The Lawson Health Research Institute has been
granted more than $70,000 to examine effective
ways to reduce homelessness in London. The funding,
which comes from the federal Homelessness
Partnering Strategy program, was announced by
London North Centre MP Susan Truppe on March
14. Researchers will review the work that has been
undertaken by the London Community Addiction
Response Strategy (CAReS) project over the past
several years. “We are very happy to partner with
the city of London and the government of Canada
to evaluate an innovative approach to reducing and
preventing homelessness with a very vulnerable
population. The collaborative community approach
of London CAReS will be rigorously evaluated to
provide clear answers on useful strategies and the
associated costs,” said Dr. Cheryl Forchuk, assistant
director of the Lawson Health Research Institute.
WYNNE’S WORLD
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plan, regardless of what measures
it contains. The NDP has been more
charitable and open to compromise,
but have made signifi cant demands
regarding the implementation of a
provincial auto insurance system, as
well as a number of new employment
programs.
Hudak’s infl exibility has been baffl
ing to Wynne, since she had hoped
an amiable personal relationship with
the PC leader outside the legislature -
they live a few blocks apart in North
Toronto - would translate to a more
constructive professional one.
But for Hudak and the Tories, who
are pushing major public sector
spending restraints, the only way forward
involves toppling the Liberals to
make way for a new era in Conservative
fi scal management.
“I made it clear that we need to not
just slow the growth in spending but
actually reduce government spending,”
he told reporters on March 14.
Although the threats to her minority
government are very real, Wynne has
remained sanguine.
Her positive tone and approach has
already helped end the labour impasse
over extracurricular activities in Ontario
high schools, although negotiations
with representatives for the province’s
elementary school teachers have
been less productive.
As well, the cancellation of gas plants
in Oakville and Mississauga - estimat-
ed to have cost taxpayers hundreds of
millions of dollars - is a scandal that
keeps giving, at least as far as the opposition
is concerned.
And with the provincial auditor general’s
report expected in the not-toodistant
future, there’s likely to be more
bad news for Liberals when the document
is released.
Wynne has acknowledged that the
gas plants remain a black eye for the
Liberals. But she believes her admission
of error and the transparency of
her approach on the issue will earn
her some public trust.
Through it all, the new premier has
remained positive about the legacy
of the provincial Liberal government
she’s served since her election to the
Ontario Legislature in 2003 as the
MPP for Don Valley West.
She has not deviated from core Liberal
policies introduced by her predecessor,
Dalton McGuinty. On major issues
like the economy, health care, education
and energy, Wynne has stayed the
course.
But the new premier has also cultivated
a different public image than
McGuinty. She speaks inclusively in
the legislature, and by doing so, has
acknowledged the reality of the minority
government, something her
predecessor struggled to do after winning
back-to-back majorities in 2003
and 2007.
Wynne’s precarious position as pre-
mier has elicited comparisons to another
female politician who had a
groundbreaking career.
Observers have suggested that Wynne’s
inheritance of a government-under-fi
re evokes parallels to the administration
of former national PC leader
Kim Campbell, Canada’s only woman
prime minister, who took over for Brian
Mulroney in 1993.
Like Campbell, Wynne has been
handed an unpopular government in
shambles and rocked by scandal. But
unlike the former prime minister, On-
LOCAL & PROVINCIALDIGEST
London:
4th best large
Canadian city
London has been ranked as the 4th best large city
in MoneySense Magazine’s eighth annual edition of
Canada’s Best Places to Live. The magazine factors in
many aspects that contribute to overall quality of life,
such as incomes, employment, job prospects, access
to good health care and education, housing prices,
crime rates, and weather. More than 30 categories in
total are considered in determining rankings. London
also climbed to 15th place in the magazine’s best cities
overall scorecard – welcome news considering
London was at 36th place last year. Mayor Joe Fontana,
however, thinks London actually fares higher.
“I am pleased to see London in the number four spot
on the MoneySense list, however, come and see us in
person and meet our people. I guarantee we’ll move
to the top spot.”
London’s top fi ve
iconic buildings
Five London buildings have been selected by
masonry experts as the best examples of local
heritage architecture. MasonryWorx, a provincial
association of brick, block and stone masonry
professionals, took into account a list of buildings
as supplied by the London Branch of the Architectural
Conservancy of Ontario. The top-ranking
buildings include the Middlesex County Building,
(built in 1829, before London was even incorporated
as a city), the Dominion Public Building
(1936), St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church
(1902), London Normal School (1898-99), and
the Robert D. McDonald House (471 Waterloo
Street, built 1910). Durability, craftsmanship,
aesthetic appeal, and the best use of masonry
products in the architectural design were among
the factors MasonryWorx professionals looked at
in their evaluations.
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THE BIGGEST TEST OF KATHLEEN WYNNEʼS LIBERAL GOVERNMENT WILL BE
THE PASSAGE OF THE PROVINCIAL BUDGET LATER THIS SPRING
tario’s new premier seems content to
put-off an election by addressing the
needs of her partners in the minority
legislature.
“I don’t believe there’s one person
who’s got all the answers,” Wynne said
in a recent interview.
“I really believe that if you bring
everyone to the table, they bring their
own experience and it may not be the
same as my experience, but that’s a
good thing,” she said.
~ Chris Morgan
THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY BUILDING HAS BEEN NAMED
ONE OF LONDONʼS ICONIC HERITAGE BUILDINGS
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Massive hydroelectric
project completed
It’s the largest hydroelectric project of its kind to be built in Ontario, and
now it’s online. The completed Niagara Tunnel Project - an addition to
the Sir Adam Beck hydroelectric generation complex - is more than 10
kilometers in length, and channels water at a rate of 500 cubic metres per
second. The energy generated by the water will supply Ontario with enough
electricity to power the homes and businesses of a city the size of Barrie.
The project is part of the provincial government’s green plan, a long-term
initiative to replace carbon-based power generation with renewable forms
like hydroelectric, solar and wind. During peak construction time, the project
employed nearly 600 labourers, technicians, engineers and electricians.
The passage itself was carved out using the world’s largest tunnel boring
machine, a behemoth known affectionately as “Big Becky” (in honour of
Adam Beck).
2013 Worlds: Home ice
proved lucky for Canada
For one week London was on the world stage as the city pulled out all
the stops to host the ISU 2013 World Figure Skating Championships at
Budweiser Gardens. In many ways Londoners are still abuzz with the excitement
that took place from March 11-17, especially considering that
Canada won three medals –more than any other country. Patrick Chan
won his third consecutive world title – an astounding feat that hasn’t been
pulled off in the men’s singles category in 13 years – surpassing 19-year-old
Denis Ten of Kazakhstan. The victory came even after the Toronto native
Salvia, Izms: Buyer beware
London Police have recently issued a warning about two drug-related
products that are available in stores and online. Izms, marketed since 2011
as ‘legal marijuana’, and Salvia, an herb used for many years in shamanic
rituals, are drugs that do not come without risks, police caution. Analysis
of Izms by Health Canada has identifi ed the existence of synthetic cannabinoids
in the product, thus rendering it an illegal substance. Don’t be
fooled by the candy-like packaging. Police remind the public that it is indeed
a criminal offence to possess, traffi c, import or export a cannabinoid.
Salvia is also advertised as a type of ‘natural high’ and is not currently a
controlled substance in Canada. However, when it is smoked it can be 100
times more potent than if you consumed the leaves. The London Middlesex
Health Unit advises that smoking Salvia can cause extreme hallucinations
LOCALCRIMEREPORT
COLLAGE OF POLICE SUPPLIED PHOTOS
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: SALVIA PLANT, PACKAGED SALVIA EXTRACT,
PACKAGED IZMS, AND A VARIETY OF ʻFLAVOUREDʼ PACKAGED IZMS
PATRICK CHAN PERFORMS HIS RECORD-BREAKING
SHORT PROGRAM IN LONDON ON MAR. 13
fell twice, staggered out of another jump and downgraded a planned triple
Lutz on his free skate. His record-setting short program three days earlier
gave him the advantage of seven points over Ten, a surprise star of the show.
Local heroes Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir took the silver for their steamy ice
dance routine, second only to the American duo Meryl David and Charlie
White, who earned 189.56 points for their program set to Notre Dame de
Paris – 4.52 points over Virtue and Moir. Another Canadian ice dance team,
and can cause smokers to lose control of their physical movements. In
some cases Salvia may cause suicidal tendencies. Police are asking anyone
who knows of any business selling these products in London to contact
the London Police Criminal Investigation Division at 519-661-5674 or by
email at CID@police.london.ca. Any criminal proceedings related to these
products will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Police ask the public to
be aware of the dangers of consuming these products and the effects they
may have on their health.
Call leads to arrest of man with
concealed weapon
A man was found to be carrying a gun after a concerned citizen notifi ed
police of suspicious behavior in the wee hours of March 20. Police were
alerted to a man walking in and out of traffi c in the area of Wellington
Road and Scotland Drive just after 2 am. Offi cers searched the man and
found him to be in possession of a Virginian Dragoon .44 calibre revolver,
13 rounds of .44 calibre ammunition, and a small quantity of hyrdomorphone.
Richard Weinstein, 47, of Talbotville, has been charged with carrying
a concealed weapon, careless storage of a fi rearm, careless storage
of ammunition, possession of a restricted weapon knowing its possession
is not authorized, breach of undertaking, and possession of a controlled
substance.
London man arrested
for child porn
A 40-year-old London man was arrested on March 15 following a cyber
crime-related investigation of a residence on King Edward Ave. Donald
Findlay is charged with possession of child pornography, accessing child
pornography, and making child pornography available. The charges stem
from an investigation which began last month. LPS is a member of the
provincial strategy to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation
on the Internet, made possible by a grant from the Ministry of Community
Safety and Correctional Services.
Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, placed fi fth despite a major injury sustained
by Weaver last December. Canada also fared very well in pairs, as
Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford skated their way to the bronze. The
Canadian team will send 17 skaters (just one shy of the maximum) to the
Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia in 2014. There were also many ancillary
events taking place in London over the March Break. A grandiose Tree of
Light show was projected onto the outside wall of the arena several times
over the course of the week, and some of London’s fi nest arts groups, choirs
and bands were on hand to entertain the masses. As far as how many of
those tourist dollars trickled down into London’s businesses, those fi gures
are still coming in. Some shops and eateries in the downtown area reported
a spike in business while others saw less traffi c than usual.
Cops for Cancer
Once again this year, London Police Services are joining forces with other
area police detachments to raise funds and awareness for cancer. Watch
members of the London Police, St. Thomas Police, OPP, Strathroy Police,
as well as Fanshawe College Special Constables get their heads shaved April
6 at Masonville Mall during this year’s Canadian Cancer Society Cops for
Cancer event. Registration is at 11:45am; the hair will fl y at noon until
around 2:15pm. Participants form teams and gather pledges prior to the
event. Money raised supports cancer research, provides information services,
and advocates for public policies that prevent cancer and helps those
fi ghting it. To date, the Cops for Cancer program has raised more than $45
million across Canada. Make a pledge or learn more at copsforcancer.ca.
Man sought on numerous charges
Police are requesting the public’s help in locating a man wanted on several
charges. Terrance French, 38, of London, is wanted for assault, assault causing
bodily harm, forcible confi nement, criminal harassment, uttering threats
to cause bodily harm, and being
unlawfully in a dwelling
house.“These offences were
directed at victim(s) known
to the accused. Out of concern
for safety of the victim(s), police
are seeking the immediate
arrest of French,” Constable
Ken Steeves said. To protect
the identity of the victims, no
further information has been
given. Anyone with information
as to French’s whereabouts
is asked to call 911 or
police at 519-661-5680. Info
can also be submitted anonymously
at 1-800-222-8477 or
londoncrimestoppers.com.
Woman bitten by dog
Police are looking for the owners of a dog who bit a woman downtown on
the evening of March 21. The 26-year-old woman was standing on the corner
of Adelaide Street and Queens Ave, waiting to cross at the lights, when
she was bitten by a dog being walked by two people at around 7:15 pm. The
dog is described as large and light brown, resembling a pit bull. Police are
looking to speak with the owners to confi rm their dog’s vaccination records.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call police at 519-
661-5680. Info can also be submitted anonymously at 1-800-222-8477 or
londoncrimestoppers.com.
~ Amie Ronald-Morgan
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~ Amie Ronald-Morgan& Chris Morgan
ANYONE WHO KNOWS THE WHEREABOUTS OF
TERRANCE FRENCH IS ASKED TO CALL 911

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONALDIGEST
96th Anniversary of Vimy Ridge
April 9, 2013 will mark the 96th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy
Ridge, in which nearly 100,000 Canadian troops stormed what was
seen as an impregnable ridge in northern France. The victory swelled
national pride at home and was the fi rst time all four Canadian military
divisions had fought together, signifying a coming of age for the
country. 3,600 Canadians were killed in the assault and several thousand
more were injured. Celebrations are planned across the country,
and at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in northern France, to
commemorate the battle and those who lost their lives there. Students
from a number of Ontario high schools will travel to France to attend
ceremonies at the Vimy Memorial.
Treatment of women
in India and the Maldives
Police in India arrested fi ve men who confessed to the rape and robbery
of a 39-year-old Swiss tourist near the town of Orchha. Only three
months previously, a 23-year-old student was raped and murdered in
Delhi, sparking national outrage and demands for action from authorities.
In nearby Maldives, a 15-year-old rape victim was sentenced
to 100 lashes for engaging in pre-marital sex, while the alleged rapist
- her step-father - has yet to face trial. The government disagreed with
the punishment and says it may change the law.
Hoping to improve the lives of women and girls, Western and Muslim
nations agreed on March 16 to a declaration by the United Nations setting
standards for combating violence against women and girls.
Australia apologizes
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard gave a historic apology for the
“legacy of pain and suffering” caused by government adoption policies.
Between World War II and the early 1970’s, thousands of unwed
mothers were pressured or deceived into giving their babies to be adopted
by married couples, believed at the time to be in the children’s
best interests. Gillard also promised $5 million Australian to services
AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER JULIA GILLARD APOLOGIZED FOR FORCED
ADOPTION POLICIES IN THE 1950ʼS, 60ʼS AND 70ʼS
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that help affl icted families and to help reunite biological families. A
number of state governments and hospital groups have previously
apologized for forced adoption practices, which one health organization
called “regrettably common” at the time.
Election day in Kenya
On March 9, Kenya’s Deputy Prime Minsiter Uhuru Kenyatta was
confi rmed as winner of the nation’s presidential election, winning
50.07 percent of the vote and narrowly avoiding a run-off ballot. Although
the Kenyan election supervision commission said the election
was credible and transparent, both Kenyatta and his main rival, Prime
Minister Raila Odinga, have alleged voting irregularities.
Kenyatta is also set to face trial at the International Criminal Court
(ICC) in The Hague for his role in violence following Kenya’s 2007 elections
that saw more than 1000 killed and 600,000 forced from their
homes. Other nations, including the US and UK, have hinted that Kenyatta’s
victory could impact relations with Kenya.
Nigeria: hostages killed and
pardon for governor
A Nigerian militant group announced it had killed seven foreign hostages
seized in a raid last month, a claim Western governments believe
to be true. The group, known as Ansaru, said the deaths were the result
of a failed rescue attempt by British and Nigerian forces, although both
nations deny any rescue attempt was made.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has pardoned Diepreye Alamieyeseigha,
who was convicted of stealing millions of dollars during his
tenure as governor of Bayelsa state. Jonathan once served as deputy to
the former governor and critics say the pardon indicates the president
is no longer committed to ending corruption.
Accused Congolese
commander to face ICC charges
Congolese war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda arrived in The Hague,
Netherlands on March 22 to face International Criminal Court (ICC)
charges. Ntaganda - known in the Congo (DRC) as ‘the terminator’
is accused of 10 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The court says that as leader of an armed group in the eastern DRC,
Ntaganda was criminally responsible for the use of child soldiers, and
acts of murder, rape and sexual slavery. Ntaganda turned himself in
at the US embassy in Kigali, Rwanda on March 18, after his faction
of the Congolese rebel group M23 was routed by fi ghters under a rival
commander. His fi rst court appearance was scheduled to take place on
March 26.
Militants get no
foothold in Mali...yet
French and Malian military forces repelled a rebel attack on the
northern Mali city of Timbuktu on March 21, resulting in the death
of 10 militants. The attack followed a suicide bombing one day earlier
that claimed the life of one Malian soldier and injured two others. The
bombing was the fi rst attack to take place in Timbuktu since a Frenchled
offensive drove militants from their strongholds in Northern Mali
in January. The country was thrown into crisis last year when Malian
soldiers deposed the president, allowing al-Qaida-linked militants to
seize control of the north. A harsh form of Islamic law was imposed
on the region, and eventually, France was compelled to intervene
when militants began moving towards the capital city of Bamako in
the south. Some observers fear the militants could return to northern
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Mali’s cities and towns after Paris withdraws its 4,000 troops from the
country. The Malian army remains weak, and an African Union force
meant to take over from the French lacks funding and training.
There’s a new pope now
Newly installed Pope Francis celebrated his fi rst Palm Sunday Mass
in St. Peter’s Square, Rome on March 23, just ten days after his election
by papal conclave on March 13. Holy Week celebrations - during
which Christians of all denominations conduct ritual observances
commemorating the life, death and resurrection of a historical Jesus
- are the fi rst major events over which the new pope will preside. Formally
known as Jorge Mario Bergoglio - the Archbishop of Buenos Aires
- Francis is the fi rst Jesuit pope, the fi rst from the Americas and the
fi rst from the Southern Hemisphere. Bergoglio chose the papal name
POPE FRANCIS WAS ELECTED BY PAPAL ENCLAVE ON MARCH 13
Francis in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi, and has adopted the saint’s
mission of aiding the poor and custodianship of the environment. Pope
Francis’ affi rmation as Bishop of Rome followed the unexpected resignation
of Pope Benedict XVI on February 28.
AFRICOM’s new commander
AFRICOM - the US combat command for all of Africa (except Egypt) -
has a new chief offi cer. General David Rodriquez, who formally headed
US Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, NC, will replace outgoing
General Carter F. Ham when he retires later this year. During his twoyear
tenure, Ham presided over AFRICOM’s fi rst major engagement - US
military actions in support of Libyan rebels during the recent coup that
toppled former leader Muammar al-Gaddafi . American attention has
also focused on the rise of Islamic militant groups on the continent,
ranging from al-Qaida affi liated cells operating in Mali, to homegrown
militants out of Nigeria and Somalia. With those terrorism networks
showing signs of overlapping and collaboration, Rodriquez will likely
have no shortage of concerns for the duration of his command.
DPRK threats,
cyber attacks continue
In a release issued on March 22, the Canadian federal government
advised against all travel to North Korea (DPRK) “due to the
uncertain situation caused by [the country’s] nuclear weapons
program and highly repressive regime.”
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The warnings come as Pyongyang has grown increasingly belligerent and
threatened to attack numerous jurisdictions, including US bases in the region,
which were targeted for retaliatory actions after American training missions with
the South Korean military. The DPRK has been subjected to punishing sanctions
from the international community, a consequence of their reconstituted nuclear
program and defi ant testing regime.
But Pyongyang’s ambitions aren’t only nuclear. On March 20, screens and bank
machines across South Korea failed en masse when a suspected DPRK cyber attack
paralyzed the country’s major fi nancial institutions and television broadcasters.
Dispatches from China
Desert sand and air pollution from China recently blanketed a US naval base and
much of southwestern Japan in a haze of unhealthy air that’s expected to last for
most of the spring. “I’ve never seen it like this,” Sasebo naval base spokesman Charles
Howard said. Howard - a retired offi cer - has been at the base for the better part of
the past 16 years. The conditions originate from wind-blown sand in China’s deserts
and a pollutant, known as PM2.5, that attaches itself to the sand, according to Japan’s
Fukuoka District Meteorological Observatory. The sands are lifted by ascending air
currents in sandstorms, and carried to Japan by subtropical westerly winds.
A civilian defense contractor who works in intelligence at US Pacifi c Command has
been charged with giving national security secrets to a 27-year-old Chinese woman he
was dating, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on March 18. The contractor
- Benjamin Pierce Bishop, 59 - is alleged to have told the woman about the deployment
of American strategic nuclear systems and about the US’ ability to detect other
nations’ low- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
Karzai relents, lets soldiers stay
On March 20, Afghan President Hamid Karzai withdrew his demand that all US
special forces withdraw from the strategic Wardak province east of the country’s
capital, Kabul. Karzai and US commander General Joseph Dunford agreed to a compromise,
which allowed troops to remain, save for one group of soldiers implicated
in controversial abuse allegations. The tensions surrounding the fragile agreement
AFGHAN PRESIDENT HAMID KARZAI WITHDREW HIS DEMAND THAT
US SPECIAL FORCES LEAVE WARDAK PROVINCE
underscore the diffi cult security and political situation in Afghanistan, as Karzai
seeks to consolidate his power base ahead of the withdrawal of Western military
forces at the end of 2014.
Federal budget short
on spending, tax cuts
The Canadian government released its spring budget on March 21, which most
commentators agreed was a “stay-the-course” document intended to keep focus on
eliminating the defi cit by 2015. There were no new tax cuts announced, and program
spending was limited. Money for skills development initiatives were prominently featured
in the fi scal plan, as was a new program to recover $6.8 billion in lost or hidden
taxes by 2018. The feds will spend a record $70 billion on infrastructure projects
across the country, including roads, bridges, subways, rail lines and ports. New tax
breaks were offered for Canadians who give to charity, adopt a child or rely on homecare
services, and import tariffs were eliminated on everyday items like baby clothing,
sports gear and exercise equipment. The Federal Economic Development Agency for
FINANCE MINISTER JIM FLAHERTY PRESENTED HIS BUDGET
TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON MARCH 21
Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) received a fi ve-year, $920-million renewal starting
April 1, 2014. The budget earmarked $200 million from that money for a new
Advanced Manufacturing Fund in Ontario, also stretching fi ve years and starting on
April 1, 2014. The provincial Liberal government lauded the steps the federal budget
took to combat the underground economy and invest in skills development and infrastructure,
but complained that Ottawa was meddling too much in areas of provincial
jurisdiction. “Today’s budget suggests that the federal government thinks it is better
placed to design programs that meet the needs of Ontario’s workers. We believe Ontario
has the best understanding of the labour market requirements in this province,
and how best to meet them,” Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa said after the
budget was released. Locally, Mayor Joe Fontana welcomed news of new money for
building and employment programs. “People continue to be the focus of need in this
budget, and ongoing funding for infrastructure and housing address this, as does support
for skills development,” Fontana said in a press release.
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WESTERN FAIR DISTRICT (900 King St.) - Friday Night
Likes, every Friday. All-You-Can-Eat Top of the Fair Buffet
plus Yuk-Yuk’s Comedy Show plus Slots & Raceway
Gaming Vouchers. Cost: $45. Call 519-438-7203 x 252
to reserve.
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LONDON & AREA (543
Ridout St.) - Be a part of something BIG! Be a mentor!
The need for mentors in our community is growing! By
spending three to four hours a week together, Big & Little
Brothers& Sisters form lifelong friendships that help
provide care, stability & support for young people in
their developmental years. Text “BigImpact” to 45678
to donate $10. Call 519-438-7065 x 6200.
LONDON BLOOD DONOR CLINIC (840 Commissioners
Road East) - Canadian Blood Services, Whole Blood
Clinic Hours: Mon & Thurs 3 –7 pm, Tue 9 am – 1 pm,
Wed noon – 8 pm, Fri & Sat 9 am – 1 pm; Plasma Clinic
Hours: Tues & Wed 12:30 - 7:30 pm, Thurs & Fri 7 am
– 1:30 pm, Sat 9 am – noon. Platelet Clinic Hours: Call
519-690-3929.
DUNDAS ST. CENTER UNITED CHURCH - Self-help
Meetings, every Mon, 11:30 am–1:30 pm. Group meetings
to help people cope with anxiety, stress & mood
disorders. Call 519-679-0804.
HILLSIDE CHURCH OF LONDON (250 Commissioners
Rd. E) - Shades of Harmony, every Mon, 7 – 10 pm. Experience
& ability to read music is an asset but not a requirement
for ladies a cappella singing. Voice audition
for placement required. You could be part of this unique
singing adventure. Call 519-290-0948.
BEACOCK LIBRARY (1280 Huron St.) / NORTHBRAE
HUB (335 Belfi eld Dr.) -Shared Beginnings Program,
Beacock Library, Tues./ Northbrae Hub, Thurs, 9:30 –11
am. Shared Beginnings is a family literacy program for
adults & their infant, toddler, preschool & kindergarten
aged children (0-6 years), crafts, stories, songs, rhymes
& fun in a safe & caring setting.Email:resource@lusocentre.org.
VICTORY LEGION (311 Oakland Ave.) – Euchre, every
Tues, 1 pm; Cribbage, every Thurs; Bridge, every Wed &
Thurs. An afternoon for seniors 55 & older. Cost: $3. Call
519-649-2910.
ST. LUKE’S CHURCH (104 Richmond St.) - North London
Fellowship Group, every Tues. We are a small, lighthearted
& informal group which meets for conversation
& company. We play euchre & fun Scrabble, some sew or
knit. Open to all. Call 519-673-1164.
ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL (472 Richmond St.) - Adult Discussion
Group, every Thurs, noon. Led by Ken Lumpkin,
this series explores a variety of topics within the Anglican
faith. Call 519-434-3225.
LONDON CITY HALL (300 Dufferin Ave.) - Toastmasters
Meeting, every Thurs, noon–1 pm. Come visit us & see
how we hone our Communication & Leadership Skills
& utilize them in our work life, home life & social life.
Admis. Fee: $40 initiation, plus $72 yearly. Call 519-661-
2500 X 4879.
LONDON CENTRAL LIBRARY (3/F Arts Dept.) - Forest
City Backgammon Club weekly meeting, every Thurs,
5 – 9 pm. New or experienced players, young or old, all
are welcome! Call 519-719-4615.
IMPACT CHURCH OF LONDON (220 Adelaide St.) -
Healing Rooms, every Thurs, 7:30–9 pm; Sat, 10:30
– noon. Come & be healed physically, emotionally &
spiritually by a group of well trained, caring people. Call
519-438-7036.
ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL (472 Richmond St.) - Knitting
for Peace, every Sat, 10 am–2 pm. This group will create
a number of knitting projects intended to provide
warmth & comfort for those in need in our community.
Knitters of all abilities are welcome. Call 519-434-
3225.
ACFO DE LONDON-SARNIA (495 Richmond St., Suite
200) - English Conversation Group, Sat, once a month,
10 am – 11:30 am. Open to people interested in learning
& improving their English speaking, all levels. Vol-
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unteers needed. Practice French or help newcomers to
integrate in the community. Call 519-850-2236 x 223.
LONDON HOME BUILDERS’ ASSOCIATION GREEN
HOME (1511 North Wenige Dr.) Green Home, every
Sat. & Sun (to end of March), 2 – 4 pm. The London
Home Builders’ Association Green Home is open to the
public to demonstrate that going green can be aesthetically
pleasing by showcasing green technologies along
with locally sourced & recycled materials. Call 519-686-
0343.
ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL (472 Richmond St.) - Celtic Way
of Evangelism - Led by Dean Kevin Dixon, every Sun till
end of June, 9 – 9:45 am. Call 519-434-3225.
UNITY OF LONDON (4026 Meadowbrook Dr. Unit 137)
- A Positive Path for Spiritual Living, Sunday Service:
10:30-11:30 am (Appreciation Sundays: 1st Sunday of
each month; Celebration Sundays: 2nd Sunday of each
month.
ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL (472 Richmond St.) – DivorceCare,
to Apr. 15, 7 – 9 pm. A special weekly seminar
& support group for people who are separated or
divorced. Call 519-434-3225.
Maundy Thursday - Mar 28
BEST WESTERN LAMPLIGHTER INN (591 Wellington
Road South) - Rock for Dimes, Mar 28, 7pm. The Ugly
Step Sisters, 40 Paces, Second Pass, The Collins Barrow
Hard at Tax, Accrued Interest, Short Fiction, Duty Calls
and Oui B. Jamon vie to win top honours in this major
fundraising event.
ROCKY’S HARLEY-DAVIDSON® (900 Wilton Grove
Road) - Garage Party, Mar 28. Exclusively for Women,
there will be a talk about how to get started, how to
design a bike as unique as you are, how to pick up a
motorcycle and you can even ride a Harley-Davidson on
our Jump Start Harley Simulator. There wll be a Harley-
Davidson Fashion Show, Silent Auction to benefi t Breast
Cancer Research, Free Jewelery Cleaning, Live Music,
Great Food, and so much more . Call 519-438-1450.
MICHAEL GIBSON GALLERY (157 Carling St.) - Wine
Tasting Events, Mar. 28, 3-5 pm Trade Event (free); 7-9
pm Consumer Event ($25/person). Enjoy some wine
samples from new vintages & new suppliers of Noteworthy
Wines. Call 519-719-1538.
MUSEUM LONDON - Creativity &Change: The First Annual
Public Matters Lecture, Mar. 28, 7 pm.
Good Friday - Mar 29
EAST PARK (1275 Hamilton Rd.) - East Park Open Easter
Long Weekend, Mar. 29-Apr. 1, 1 – 9 pm. Call 519-
451-2950.
Holy Saturday - Mar 30
CITI PLAZA (355 Wellington St) - Easter Hunt in the
City, Mar 30, 10am to noon. Meet the Easter Bunny and
participate in an Easter scavenger hunt with 8 stations
around Citi Plaza. Collect all 8 stamps to receive an Easter
goody bag! There will be Easter crafts, music, prizes,
discounts and more! Donations for the local food bank
will also be accepted.
MARCONI CLUB OF LONDON (120 Clarke Rd.) - Whoa
Mama! Mom-to-Mom Sale, Mar. 30, 8 am – noon. Come
hunt for Fantastic deals on gently-used children’s items
for your little one! Early Bird Sale 8 – 10 am is $2/person;
regular admission 10 am - noon is FREE! Email:
info@whoamama.ca.
WESTERN FAIR GROUNDS AGRIPLEX BUILDING (316
Rectory St.) - Thames Fatales vs. Lunch Ladies & FCDG
Timber Rollers vs. Death Track Dolls (TORD), Mar. 30, 5
pm doors open, 1st game at 6 pm, 2nd game at 8:30 pm.
Full Contact Roller Derby-Forest City Derby Girls Cost:
Advanced tickets $12, $15 at the door, children under 10
free. Email: sufferjet@gmail.com.
MARCONI CLUB (120 Clarke Rd.) - Rockin’ 4 Kidz, Mar.
30, 7 pm – 1 am. A night to honour & celebrate the life
of Jennifer Mott-Miffl in & raise funds for Arts for all
Kids, a local organization providing music lessons &
instruments to children from low income families. Cost:
$25 in advance & $30 at the door. Call 519-914-5240.
Easter Sunday - Mar 31
Easter Monday - Apr 1
Last day of Passover - Apr 2
CENTENNIAL HALL – Enjoy a Night of Heaven & Mirth
with Holy Humor Palooza, Apr. 2, 7:30 – 9:45 pm. Inspirational
Comedy Tour. Five clean comedians from
across North America! Featuring Canada’s Premier
Clean Comedian- Leland Klassen. Dedicated to stroke
awareness & Hypertension Prevention In proud support
of the Salvation Army & Heart & Stroke Foundation.
Tickets: $33.50/ $39.50 /$47+sc .
THE ARTS PROJECT (203 Dundas St.) - The Dog Show
II & Friends, Apr. 2 – 6, noon – 6 pm. Eleven artists who
love dogs & other two- & four-legged wonders are ready
to share their latest inspirations, front row & centre or
as part of a larger scene. Come join us for a range of
paintings, wearable art & creatures in our Dog Show II
& Friends show. Email: jongkinds@rogers.com.
MASONVILLE BRANCH LIBRARY (30 North Rd.) - Get
Out There: A Series of Presentations on the Great Outdoors,
Apr. 3 – May 1, 7 – 8 pm. A 5-part series of talks
about places to go & things to do out of doors; Algonquin
Park, Kains Woods, outdoor photography, running
& cycling. Call 519-660-4646.
OAKRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (970 Oxford St.)
- Musicking Tots, every Wed, Apr. 3 – May 15, 5:15 –
6 pm. A designer ‘singing & movement program’ for
(18 months to 3+ yrs. old) toddlers, accompanied by
a parent/caregiver, taught by an early years singing
specialist. Cost: $100 for 7 once-a-week sessions. Email:
dcanton@rogers.com
LONDON CONVENTION CENTRE (300 York St.) - Wm.
A. Stewart Lecture & Reception, Apr. 4, 7 pm. Former
GMO activist turned GMO supporter Mark Lynas will
be the keynote speaker. Cost: $100/person. Call 519-
826-4204.
THE BERKSHIRE CLUB (500 Berkshire Dr.) – 1st senior’s
information event, Apr. 5, 10 am – 2 pm. A group
of businesses in the community wanted the opportunity
to share information with seniors in a relaxed & fun
environment. Call 519 471-4590 x 302.
427 LONDON WING (2155 Crumlin Side Rd.) – Royal
Canadian Air Force 89th Anniversary Celebration, Apr.
5, doors open at 10:30 am. Hot Roast Beef Dinner & Anniversary
cake to follow. Cost: $15. Call 519-649-7607.
Uniform or appropriate civilian attire is requested.
WINDERMERE MANOR (200 Collip Circle) - Breast
Show in London: 24hr Pajama Party, Apr. 5 – 6. Community
Fundraiser offering free holistic products &
services for women in need of breast health. Call 226-
239.1121.
MICHAELITE HOUSE (2751 Sunningdale Rd. W) - Upping
Your WOW for Life! 2nd Annual Weekend Retreat,
Apr. 5, 6 pm; Apr. 7, 1 pm. This weekend retreat offers
you the time to discover “your power within” through
creative expression, journaling, silence, meditation &
a labyrinth walk. Taught & spiritually directed by Rev.
Lori Hisson & Prayer Chaplain Mary Hagan, this retreat
takes place within the quiet & comforting beauty of the
countryside to help you relax & get in touch with your
inner self. Call 519-652-9294.
MASONVILLE MALL (1680 Richmond St.) - Cops for
Cancer, Head Shave Event, Apr. 6, registration starts at
11:45 am; haircuts commence around noon - 2:15 pm.
Committee members of the law enforcement & emergency
services across Canada support children with
cancer & their families through Cops for Cancer in all
the provinces. Call 226-919-5560.
LONDON UKRANIAN CENTRE (247 Adelaide St. S.) -
FREE
London Spring Doll & Teddy bear Show & Sale, Apr. 7,
10 am – 4 pm. What a fun way to celebrate spring by
coming out to the London Doll & Teddy bear Show &
Sale where you can feast your eyes on a fabulous array
of dolls & bears of all ages, sizes & mediums as well as
doll making supplies & accessories. Cost: $6, children
under 12 $2. Call 519- 433-8888.
SALONS ACROSS LONDON - Cut-A-Thon for Parkinson’s,
Apr. 7, 10 am – 4 pm. Get a fresh new haircut &
help someone living with Parkinson’s disease. Book an
appointment at 1-888-851-7376. Cost: $40.
FIRST-ST ANDREW’S UNITED CHURCH (350 Queens
Ave at Waterloo) - Mom’s the Word, Apr. 7, 10:30 am. Add
value to your theatrical experience by listening to our
sermon on Mom’s the Word, the current Grand Theatre
production. Call 519-679-8182.
Yom HaShoah - Apr 8. Jewish holiday
Vimy Ridge Day - Apr 9
THE GRAND THEATRE (471 Richmond St.) - Fifty
Shades of Grape, Apr. 9, 7 – 10 pm. The Grand Theatre
is thrilled to announce its fi rst ever wine-tasting soirée,
Fifty Shades of Grape (A Grand Wine Tasting Event).
The incredible success of Arts & Draughts (A Grand Beer
Tasting Event) & Taste: Scotch & Chocolate has made
us giddy for grape juice, & we invite you to share our
appreciation for wine. Cost: $50.Call 519-672-9030.
RICHARDS RETIREES (360 Edgeworth Ave.) - Evening
of Entertainment with the Broadway Singers, Apr. 10, 6
pm. Choir of 35 men & women entertaining the audience
with Broadway tunes from early years to recent
Tony Awards. Admis. Fee: $10/person. Call 519-686-
0033.
COVENT GARDEN MARKET (130 King St.) - Chronic
Diseases: are they an effect of the environment or your
genetic destiny?, Apr 11, 5pm. Join us for an informal
discussion with Canadian experts and hear the latest
on how environmental and genetic make-up infl uence
chronic disease. rsvp denisehaggertyinmd@gmail.
com.
HELLENIC CENTRE (133 Southdale Rd. W.) – Clothing-
Works 5th Annual Fashion Show, Apr. 11, 5:30 pm. This
year’s event will include the latest fashions from La Jolie
Jupe Boutique, Kingsmill’s, Studio Style Ladies Apparel
& Accessories, Sharon’s of Hyde Park & Elizabeth Noel.
Cost: $55/person or $400 table of 8 - Sit-down Dinner,
Silent Auction & Fashion Show. Call 519-672-3780.
MERCEDES-BENZ LONDON (35 Southdale Rd. E) - The
Fisher Gibson Nash Affair @ Mercedes-Benz London,
Apr. 11, 7 – 9 pm. The Ultimate Spring Party in Fashion,
Art & Bling. Live DJ spinning tunes. Live Runway Models.
Sip on our signature “Nashtini” Cocktail & savour
mouth-watering catered delectables. Fisher & Company
presents models in the hottest New York looks by designers
including: Elizabeth & James, Helmut Lang, Kate
Spade, Hugo Boss & Stuart Weitzman. Enjoy beautiful
contemporary artwork selected by Michael Gibson Gallery.
Experience Nash Jewellers & all they have to offer
including: Rolex, TAG Heuer, Forevermark, Lazare &
Mikimoto. Proceeds support local VON Middlesex-Elgin
Home Care & Support Services. Cost: $100. Call 519-
672-6060.
ORCHESTRA LONDON (156 Wellington St.) - 2013
Spring Rummage Sale, Apr. 11 – 17, 10 am – 4 pm; Apr.
12 & 19, 10 am – 7 pm. Call 519-439-7619.
CENTENNIAL HALL (550 Wellington St.) - Shock Stock
Horror Movie Convention & VHS Tape Show, Apr. 12, 4 –
10 pm; Apr. 13 & 14, 11 am – 6 pm. Ontario’s only Horror
Movie convention returns for 3 solid days of Thrills
& Chills. Shock Stock also features a giant vendor room
full of horror movie related memorabilia & rare VHS
tapes. Cost: $20. Email: info@shock-stock.com.
FANSHAWE COLLEGE (1001 Fanshawe College Blvd.) –
Harlem Ambassadors Charity Game, Apr. 12, 7 pm. The
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Harlem Ambassadors Comedy Basketball Team play
against the Slam Dunk Sallys, a group of Fanshawe students,
media partners & friends of the Salvation Army in
support of programs & services. Cost: (advance) adults
$9, seniors/students $7, under fi ve free. Call 519-433-
6106.
MUSEUM LONDON (421 Ridout St. N.) – Unbound 13,
Apr. 12, doors open at 7 pm, show at 8 pm. Fanshawe
College’s Fashion Design graduating class of 2013 showcases
their fi nal collection in an industry level runway
experience. Cost: $40. Call 519-452-4430 x 2986.
COVENT GARDEN MARKET (130 King St.) - Hunt for
Heart Fitness Challenge, Apr. 13, 9:30 am – 2 pm. Teams
of 5 or 6 will race through downtown London to different
fi tness centers to perform activities ranging from
Zumba & Yoga to Martial Arts. We welcome anyone
ready for a great fi tness challenge to get a team together
& support critical Heart & Stroke research. Prizes for
best team theme, top pledge earner & fastest team will
be awarded. To register or for more info please contact
Denise at the Heart & Stroke Foundation London offi ce
at 519-679-0641.
CALVARY UNITED CHURCH (290 Ridout St.) - Rain Barrel
Sale, Apr. 13, noon – 2 pm. Order your 220 L rain
barrel for $55. Call 519-681-6677.
LONDON WALDORF SCHOOL (7 Beaufort St.) - Watercolour
Painting & Pencil Drawing Workshop, Apr. 13, 20
& 27, 9:30 – 11 am. 3-part adult workshop for working
with colour through wet-on-wet & veiling techniques,
enhanced by coloured pencils. Cost: $55 all materials
supplied. No experience necessary. Register by calling
519- 858-8862.
Yom HaAtzmaut - Apr 16. Jewish holiday
LONDON PUBLIC LIBRARY CENTRAL BRANCH - Science
Here & Now, Apr. 16, 7 – 8 pm. Science Here & Now is a
series of talks aimed at letting Londoners know about
some of the fascinating science research happening at
Western. Computer Scientist, Dr. Stephen Watt explores
what computers might ultimately do now & in the future
& what will be forever beyond their reach. Call 519
- 661-4600.
THE WINDERMERE MANOR HOTEL & CONFERENCE
CENTRE/WESTERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARK
(200 COLLIP Circle) - Ignite Your Sales Potential; Create
a Differentiated Customer Experience, Apr. 17. Keynote
Speaker, Laurie Hawkins. A great networking opportunity.
Call 519-858-1414 x 430.
CITY HALL
Public and Political
Input Meetings
• Civic Works Committee, Apr. 8, 4 pm
• Community & Protective Services
Committee, Apr. 8, 7 pm
• Corporate Services Committee,
Apr. 9, 1 pm
• Planning & Environment Committee,
Apr. 9, 4 pm
• Strategic Priorities and Policy
Committee, Apr. 15, 4 pm
• Council Meeting, Apr. 16, 4 pm
• Civic Works Committee, Apr. 22, 4 pm
• Community & Protective Services
Committee, Apr. 22, 7 pm
• Corporate Services Committee,
Apr. 23, 1 pm
• Planning & Environment Committee,
Apr. 23, 4 pm
• Investment and Economic Prosperity
Committee, Apr. 29, 4 pm
• Council Meeting, Apr. 30, 4 pm
Call 519-661-2500 x 4937
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LONDON, ON
While still in his 30’s, suave Burnaby,
B.C. crooner Michael Bublé appeared
to have it all. The good looks, thousands
of adoring fans around the world, and
a successful recording career that’s generated
over 35 million record sales. Looking back,
Bublé now realizes that he let fame go to his
head and he didn’t handle it particularly well.
“I’ve messed up relationships because of
success. All the attention turned me into
someone selfi sh. I enjoyed the spotlight and
the fame, but boy did it change me. Before,
I wasn’t present. I didn’t love myself enough
and I allowed my insecurities to get the better
of me,” Bublé told Life & Style Magazine. “For
years I tried too hard. I wanted to be some hip
guy, or cool. But as soon as I realised that Michael
Bublé is nerd, then I became cool. Well,
cool at being a dork! I met a lot of girls who
were hoping I wanted something deeper but I
was just being reckless and misleading them.
I was immature.”
In 2008, everything changed for Bublé when
he met Argentinean model/actress/singer Luisana
Lopilato backstage at one of his shows.
The following year, they became engaged and
the pair wed in April 2011 in two ceremonies,
one in Buenos Aires and one in his home town
of Vancouver. Bublé credits Lopilato with helping
him turn his life around and realise what
was important.
“Thankfully, Lu has changed me. I’m really
content – and lucky. She’s amazing. I used to
be a professional jerk. A lot of that came from
insecurity and not being able to live in the
moment,” he told British newspaper The Sun.
MICHAEL BUBLÉ’S BABY BOY JOY
“When my last relationship ended I had to
ask myself a whole bunch of questions. The
difference is some people will know it and
want to change, others won’t, but I thought
if I don’t I’ll probably end up alone with long
fi ngernails.”
Bublé shared more good news with his
fans earlier this year when he announced
the couple were expecting their fi rst child in
August 2013.
“We are so excited. We have just come from
the hospital, and the sonogram was pretty
clear — it’s a boy!” the singer told Page Six.
The couple found out their child’s gender the
same day the Catholic Church elected its new
patriarch, Pope Francis from Lopilato’s native
Argentina. “She said, ‘It is a sign!’” Bublé
added. “But there’s no way we are going to call
him Frank, even if it did work well for Frank
Sinatra.”
This April, Bublé will release his latest album,
To Be Loved (Warner Music), that fi nds him
covering songs by the Bee Gees, Dean Martin
and Elvis Presley, as well as collaborating with
Reese Witherspoon on a cover of Frank and
Nancy Sinatra’s top hit, ‘Something Stupid.’
It also features four original songs, including
a tribute to his wife called ‘Close Your Eyes.’
While Bublé is happy with the new record, he
feels his wife’s pregnancy has given him a new
outlook on his career and family.
“I used to worry about how the single would
do and how the record would sell. And the
truth is, I love this record. I’m so proud of it.
But, at the end of the day, if it sells 10 million
or 10 copies, I’ve got bigger fi sh to fry. I used to
go for a month and a half or a month and then
MICHAEL BUBLÉ IS SCHEDULED TO PERFORM 10 DATES AT LONDONʼS 02 ARENA
FROM JUNE 30, 2013 IN PROMOTION OF HIS NEW CD, TO BE LOVED
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I would take a week off. And now the schedule
is three weeks on, two weeks off. I just don’t
want to look back and say, ‘God, I should have
been there more,’ because I have a feeling that
I’ll never look back and say, ‘Jeez, I should have
worked more.’”
During the same month his new album is
released, Bublé will host the annual Juno
Awards on April 21 at the Brandt Centre in Regina.
Although Bublé has hosted network TV
specials and also appeared on Saturday Night
Live in comedy sketches, this year marks the
fi rst time the 11-time Juno Award-winner has
hosted the event.
“It’s a huge honour to be the host of a show
that has done so much for Canadian talent, in-
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cluding myself,” Bublé, 37, said in a statement.
“I am going to do my very best to make it a
great night. I’m nervous because I’ve watched
past hosts. I’ve watched Russell Peters, William
Shatner, and Nelly Furtado and they were all
really good. I mean really good. I’d just like to
keep up the standard that they’ve left. “
~ John Sharpe

LONDON, ON
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REO SPEEDWAGON
KEEPS ON ROLLIN’
REO Speedwagon have long enjoyed
a reputation as a band who
are musicians and singers with
no axe to grind and no agenda other than
to write and perform songs about reallife
situations and events that many of
their listeners and fans have experienced
themselves.
Although their sales peak came with
1980’s 10 million-selling blockbuster album,
Hi-Infi delity (Sony), they have released
many recordings containing chart
hits since then and remain an in-demand
live act to the present day. Headed by
founding member Kevin Cronin on lead
vocals and guitar, the band still regularly
tour to appreciative audiences.
One of the latest REO projects is the
band’s recent release of their concert
DVD ‘Live At Moondance Jam,’ a fi lm of
their 2010 concert in Walker, Minnesota
that has been broadcast numerous times
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by Viacom and is due to be shown
regularly on the VH1 network over the
next while. Cronin and his fellow band
members feel the DVD shows what Kevin
refers to as ‘REO II’ at their best.
“That was a very unique and special
concert, which is why we chose to put it
out on a DVD. For one reason or another,
I feel we’ve never really captured the band
at its best on video. So, this particular
night, at the Moondance Jam, it fi nally
all came together for us. There were over
30,000 people there, we hit the stage at
midnight and people were just primed. It
was, I think, televised once back in 2010
or 2011 and we kind of thought, ‘Oh,
that’s great’, but then we kind of felt like,
‘Well, wait a minute, that’s not enough.’
They only showed about 15 minutes of
the concert and we played for an hour
and a half, so there was a lot of material
that didn’t make it on TV.”
The band are also about to kick off the
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second annual Midwestern Rock ‘n’ Roll
Express Tour featuring REO, Styx and
Motor City Madman Ted Nugent. Last
year’s effort received acclaim as a great
value for fans of classic rock and the
gate receipts bore this out with the tour
becoming the most successful one of its
kind in the summer of 2012. The band,
however, were not prepared for some of
the other kinds of notoriety the Midwestern
Rock ‘n Roll Express would generate.
“When I talked to (Styx singer/guitarist)
Tommy Shaw about it his fi rst inclination
was to call Ted. Ted is like one
of the greatest rock guitarists of all time
and we’re connected, we’ve known each
other for a long time. But as soon as the
initial thrill of ‘REO/Styx/Nugent, that’s
going to be an awesome tour’ wore off,
we realized that it was an election year.
I’ve known Ted as a great guitarist and
his political thing is kind of something
that’s happened since I’ve known him
so I don’t really relate to that side of him
all that much. Of course within a week
of the tour being announced he made a
Moura Redefi nes Fado
Portuguese vocalist Ana Moura is regarded by many as a leading voice
of traditional fado, a genre that originated from the culture of working
class people. As Moura explains, “It’s very special because it’s all about
emotions and feelings. It’s kind of Portuguese soul music. It’s usually
related to sad feelings. It needs no translation.” With her fi fth studio album,
Desfado, the 33-year-old Portuguese singer attempts to expand the
boundaries of traditional fado music to give it more crossover appeal.
Desfadoi features three tracks sung in English, including a fi ne cover of
Joni Mitchell’s ‘A Case of You.’ “I think it’s the singer who can transform
something. This album, I just wanted to do something a bit different
statement that was kind of infl ammatory,
kind of taken out of context, but it got
him in trouble. The Secret Service took
him in and interviewed him and we were
like, ‘Ah geez Ted, we just want to do a
rock tour here.’”
Cronin knows that he speaks for his
band mates when he says that REO
Speedwagon are intent on changing public
perception of the band as holdovers
from the Eighties. He feels that REO’s
down-to-earth quality has always been
the mainstay of their appeal and the reception
that the new DVD and tour are
enjoying are confi rmation that they are
far from being a nostalgia act.
“We are the quintessential Midwestern
boys. When you see a concert by The Po-
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REO SPEEDWAGON ARE (L-R) DRUMMER BRYAN HITT, BASSIST BRUCE HALL,
FRONTMAN KEVIN CRONIN, GUITARIST DAVE AMATO, AND KEYBOARDIST NEAL DOUGHTY
lice, you see Sting and you think, ‘Wow,
that guy’s amazing, he sings his ass off,
he’s in perfect shape, he’s 60 years old,’
you know, and people kind of look up to
Sting. And there’s a lot of artists that are
just so kind of above the fray, whatever it
is that makes them special, is just amazing.
And I think with REO Speedwagon,
when people see us, it’s like they look at
us and go, ‘Yeah! I think I could do that!’
and they kind of feel they can relate to
us. Since the very beginning, we have always
said that the audience is the sixth
member of REO Speedwagon, and that’s
the way we look at it.”
~ Rod Nicholson
SCENE&HEARD
ANA MOURAʼS UNMISTAKABLE SINGING STYLE PUSHED FADO BOUNDARIES
musically to show people who follow me what I have been doing behind
the scenes. Producer Larry Klein had challenged me to sing this song. I
was a bit surprised but very happy because it’s one of my favourite songs
ever. Coming from her producer I had to do it,” Moura told SFGate.com.
Moura’s performances at major festivals and concert halls include an
appearance with the Rolling Stones, a date she found rather challenging.
“I was very nervous. I crossed the huge stage and met Mick Jagger in
the front. People went crazy.” Sunfest and the Aroma Restaurant present
Ana Moura at the Aeolian Hall on Saturday, April 6, 8:00 p.m. Call (519)
672-7950 for tickets.
Enter The Haggis
Based in Toronto, indie/folk rock world-fusion band Enter The Haggis
is well known for a sound that’s a mixture of diverse and unusual
elements, brought together to create something new. “We like to ex-
ENTER THE HAGGIS PLAYS PROGRESSIVE AND LYRICALLY DRIVEN
MUSIC THATʼS STRONGLY ROOTED IN CELTIC TRADITION
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periment musically, pushing the boundaries of what people
think of as Celtic music,” said vocalist and guitarist Trevor
Lewington on the band’s Website. “Some of our grooves,
melodies and lyrics are quite different from other bands
that we play with.” Currently, Enter The Haggis are promoting
their upcoming release, The Modest Revolution, a
record based on the contents of one day in one newspaper.
“The basic idea came about talking about all of the towns
and places that we visit,” fi ddler/guitarist Brian Buchanan
told Gazette.net. “Every town has its own story Trevor had
the idea of kind of picking the newspaper. A print newspaper
has more space and tends to pay a little more attention to
things that wouldn’t make splashy front headlines. There is
always news, there are always stories going on. Some songs
were more directly literal and others are more just inspired
by the overall mood of the newspaper that day,” said Buchanan.
Enter The Haggis defrayed the cost of the recording
via funds raised through Kickstarter, a crowd-funding
platform that allows people to make donations. Enter The
Haggis visits London’s Aeolian Hall on Sunday, April 7, 7:30
p.m. Call (519) 672-7950 for tickets.
Carrington At Centennial
Rodney Carrington is a multitalented comedian whose
upfront, in-your-face, totally irreverent humour often
crosses the boundaries of political correctness. Naturally,
the Texas funny man says his comic shtick is not meant
to offend. “Everything I say during my show is harmless,”
he told the Tri-City Herald. “I have no hidden agenda. It’s
just me talking about the same things all people talk about.
Only difference is I do it in front of an audience. I prefer a
more honest approach to saying what’s on my mind.” In
addition to his stand-up work, Carrington has starred in his
own TV sitcom titled Rodney, which ran for two seasons on
ABC. He also co-wrote the feature fi lm, Beer For My Horses,
RODNEY CARRINGTON IS FAMOUS FOR HIS
COUNTRY-TINGED, FAUX-REDNECK RIBALDRY
with Toby Keith. While his career is going strong, things are
not all fun and games for Carrington. Recently, he went
through a divorce after 18 years of marriage, something he
jokes about onstage. “I don’t want to start over. What are
you going to do? Meet some girl and say: ‘Listen, I take 20
milligrams of Lipitor. I take one Prilosec a day. I like to be
left alone about seven hours a day. If you’re OK with what
I’m telling you so far, we can fi nish this salad and order
an entrée,’ “ Carrington told the Las Vegas Journal. Rodney
Carrington performs at Centennial Hall on Friday, April 12,
8:00 p.m. Call (519) 672-1967.
Bieber’s Boo-Boos
Music mega-stars enjoy fabulous lives fi lled with untold
riches, adoring fans and worldwide adventures. But if they
slip from their pedestals just a little, the whole world soon
knows about it. Such was the case when Justin Bieber travelled
to London, England for a series of shows at the O2
Arena. The 19-year-old pop sensation was booed by fans
who accused him of taking the stage almost two hours late
for his fi rst concert at the O2, struggled to breathe midperformance
and fainting backstage, and then was caught
on camera clashing with the paparazzi. “Sometimes when
people r shoving cameras in your face all day and yelling
THE INTENSE MEDIA SPOTLIGHT THAT FOLLOWS JUSTIN
BIEBER AROUND THE WORLD SEEMS TO HAVE UNNERVED HIM
the worst thing possible at u...well I’m human. Rough
week,” he wrote on his Twitter site. “Everyone in my team
has been telling me, ‘keep the press happy,’ but I’m tired of
all the countless lies in the press right now.” Bieber continued:
“I know my talent level and i know i got my head on
straight. ... I’m a good person with a big heart and i don’t
think I deserve all this negative press. I’ve worked my ass
off to get where I am and my hard work doesn’t stop here.”
Bieber’s Believe World Tour continues across Europe, the
Middle East, South Africa and North America until August.
Country Music Awards
All the big country stars will be out when Luke Bryan and
Blake Shelton co-host the 48th Academy of Country Music
Awards live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas
on Sunday, April 7, 8:00 p.m. on the CBS Television Network.
Eric Church leads the fi eld with seven nominations,
while young newcomer Hunter Hayes is close behind with
six nominations. “It’s amazing. That puts it in perspective,”
Hayes said in a recent press release. “I’m kind of feeling like
HUNTER HAYES RECEIVED SIX ACM NOMINATIONS,
INCLUDING NEW MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
AND VIDEO OF THE YEAR
I’m part of the family now, especially now, with this. That’s
such an honour, such a huge compliment. This is serious.
This is for real. This says that my music’s been accepted by
this community and it’s unbelievable — and that’s one of
the best feelings in the world.” Miranda Lambert and Taylor
Swift each received fi ve nominations. Lambert is up for
Entertainer of The Year and Female Vocalist of The Year,
while Swift, the two-time reigning Entertainer of The Year,
received her fourth consecutive nomination for the award,
and is also up for Female Vocalist of The Year. Carrie Underwood
is also nominated for Female Vocalist of The Year.
Kenny Chesney, Eric Church, Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift,
Carrie Underwood, Lady Antebellum, Kelly Clarkson, Hunter
Hayes, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, George Strait
and The Band Perry are just some of the artists scheduled
to perform during the show.
Moody At Aeolian
Best known as one-third of the award-wining trio, The
Wailin’ Jennys, singer-songwriter Ruth Moody has also
forged a strong solo career for herself. In 2010, she released
her solo album, The Garden, to rave reviews, but fans of
the Jennys need not worry that this means the end of that
group. “The Jennys are alive and well! Heather [Masse] recently
had a baby so we’ve been taking some time off the
road. We’ll be back out there starting this summer,” said
Moody. During Jennys’ hiatus, Moody has been working on
the follow-up to The Garden and says it’s almost ready to go.
“The album is fi nished and it comes out on April 23. I am
thrilled with how it turned out. It’s quite varied thematically.
There is a lot of darkness in it, as well as a lot of light and
there are both universal and personal themes. It deals with
featuring
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love and joy, loss and sadness. Mostly it’s about growth and
going deeper into our fears and letting go.” On Thursday,
April 11, 8:00 p.m., Ruth Moody will preview her new CD
during her concert at the Aeolian Hall. “I played the Aeolian
Hall on my release tour for The Garden and the Jennys have
played there numerous times...it’s a wonderful venue with
great acoustics… one of my favourite places to play. After
the Canadian release tour we are heading to Europe to open
12 shows for the great Mark Knopfl er!” Call (519) 672-7950
for tickets and info.
~ John Sharpe
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Fisher’s Bad Enough
As Indie Beat spoke with London country singer Genevieve Fisher,
she was preparing for her show at the Aeolian Hall to celebrate the
release of her new CD, Bad Enough. “I’m really excited about the
show. I had an interview with BX93 today and as I was driving to the
station a friend of mine text me and said, ‘I just went to the Aeolian
Hall to get tickets for your show and they’re sold out.’ That’s how I
found out about the show,” said Fisher. Although some local artists
have trouble getting exposure and radio airplay in their hometown,
Fisher is relatively happy with the support she’s received. “A number
of my songs have enjoyed airplay in London from BX93. They were
playing ‘Shut Down This Day’ from the new album but they had to
take it down to put another artist in. Radio is a tough business and
it’s hard to get your songs played, so I’ve been really lucky in that
regard. It’s great that I’ve been on the radio and people are now
starting to recognize who I am.” More people will surely recognize
Fisher when she appears on the cover of the April issue of Vervegirl
magazine. “The magazine is mainly designed to appeal to young
women from 14 to 24 years of age. It’s all about fashion and other
stuff girls enjoy, I don’t think it’s geared toward men.” While Fisher
is working hard on her music career, she’s also trying to concentrate
on her schooling at the Don Wright Faculty of Music where
she’s studied songwriting, creating cover songs, and the music of The
Rolling Stones. “I’ve got three weeks left in my third year, so it’s getting closer to the end. I’ve got all my fi nal papers that are going to
be due, so I’m very busy right now. I’m trying to get as much done as I can but it’s hard because I’m excited about my show and new
album.” As for her future plans, Fisher hopes to get around and meet the people who have helped her along the way. “I want to get out
and visit the stations that have been so supportive. I’d also like to do some touring around the country. We’re hoping to do that this
summer and once I fi nish school that will be much easier.”
Rock ‘n’ Country At Eastside
Kick off your long weekend in rock ’n’ roll style with a visit to the Eastside Bar & Grill (750 Hamilton Rd.) to catch Ribbed on Thursday,
March 28. On March 29, popular London-area band Bender will perform classic rock from the 70s and 80’s for your entertainment.
The classic rock hits just keep on comin’ at the Eastside with an appearance by Dirty Little Secret on March 30. The Smashtones -- Jeff
Kikut (guitar), Shawn Smith (bass/vocals), Brian Burnett (vocals)
and James “Chummy “ Baird (drums) -- take the stage on Friday, April
5. “We’re basically a tribute to the best in classic rock. We’re starting
to get a bit of a following in London and the Eastside is a great place
to play. They’ve got great sound and lighting systems and we always
have a good time there,” said Kikut. In addition to their work with The
Smashtones, Kikut and Smith also play in After The Lounge. “They
are two different bands because After The Lounge plays more original
material. All the guys in The Smashtones have a lot of experience
playing in rock bands. Shawn Smith used to be in The Joys, I played
with Brian Vollmer in Alliston Flyte, James played with West Memphis
Suicide, and Brian Burnett is just a great vocalist.” For a change of
pace, the Eastside presents the country sounds of Hamilton’s Shanya
Lynn Dawson & Homegrown on Saturday, April 6. “Music and performance
have always lived at the roots of my very soul. Growing up in a
small town of less than 2000 people, my parents were members of “the
town band” and my house was always full of musicians and a passion
for country music. When it comes to music, I like to be involved on
a personal level so I have either written or co-written each of the 11
songs on our new album, to be released later this fall,” said Dawson.
And don’t forget, The Eastside hosts an Open Jam Nite on April 3 & 10
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GUITARIST JEFF KIKUT LEADS THE SMASHTONES
INTO THE EASTSIDE ON APRIL 5
GENEVIEVE FISHER RETURNED TO NASHVILLE TO
RECORD HER LATEST CD, BAD ENOUGH
(8pm) and Karaoke on March 30 & April 6 (6pm). For more info, call
(519) 457-7467.
~ John Sharpe
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THELISTINGS
CONCERTS/LIMITED
ENGAGEMENTS
(SEE ALSO HOUSE BANDS,
DJS, KARAOKE)
THURS. MAR. 28
APK-Kestrels/Ell V Gore/S.M.
BEST WESTERN LAMPLIGHTER INN-Rock For Dimes
w/The Ugly Step Sisters/40 Paces/Second Pass/Collins
Barrow Hard At Tax/Accrued Interest/Short Fiction/Duty
Calls/Oui B. Jamon (7pm)
BLACK SHIRE PUB-Lord Thunderin’ Thursday
(8pm)/Esben Svane/Pilots Of Dawn/Katlina Cowan
CLUB LG-Konshens/King C/Urban DK/Fire Kid Steenie
DAWGHOUSE PUB-Smokin’ Dave
EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL-Ribbed
FORWELL HALL-Oh Geronimo (Noon)
FOX & FIDDLE-Three Penny Piece
LAVISH-DJ Eddy
LONDON MUSIC CLUB- The Big Rock Electric Jam
(8pm)/The Kards (8:30pm)/Sharon Nutzati/Courtney
Lynn (9pm)
MOLLY BLOOM’S – The Mike O’Brien Band
NORMA JEAN’S –Live Band Karaoke w/Nasty Alex
(9:30pm)/Cherry Dogs
OUT BACK SHACK-Country Pub
RICHMOND-Billy Paton
ROOT CELLAR-Blake Berglund (7pm)
SMOKE-N-BONES-No Bones
TOWN & COUNTRY –Karaoke w/Dion Ford
WINKS EATERY-Kyle Leistner
WITS END PUB-Karaoke w/DJ Tatz
WORTLEY- Shelly Rastin
FRI. MARCH 29
APK-Patrick The Bunny/Boyfriend Material
BACKDRAFTS-The Larry Myles Band
BLACK SHIRE PUB-Paul Langille (6-9pm)/Starbucket/The
Jiggawatts/T.H.E.
BYRON LEGION-Karaoke (8pm)
CALL THE OFFICE-The Baxters/Texas King/OL’CD/
The Human Orchestra
EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL-Bender
EAST VILLAGE ARTS CO-OP-Octoberman/The
Abrahmson Singers/Jess Hill (8:30pm)
FITZRAYS-Backline Revival
HONEST LAWYER-Jeffy B.
JACK’S-Verbal Karate
LAVISH-DJ Eddy
LONDON MUSIC CLUB- Acoustyle Open Mic (9pm)/
Irish Folk Club Ceili (8pm)
MOLLY BLOOM’S – The Mike O’Brien Band
NORMA JEAN’S-In My Defence/Zen Blender/The
Creekside Strays
RICHMOND-Synthetic Lout/Chachi On Acid/Scum
Runners/Kynesys
ST. REGIS TAVERN-D.L.S.
SCOTS CORNER-Sonny Wails
WESTERN FAIR DISTRICT ANNEX-Two-Man Advantage
WINDERMERE MANOR-Bill Savage (5-9pm)
WINKS EATERY-Smokin’ Dave
WITS END PUB-Dark In The Glow
WORTLEY-Soul Medix
YUK YUK’S- Bryan O’Gorman/Dini Damakos/Andrew
Johnson
BLACK SHIRE PUB-Open Mic
ST. REGIS TAVERN-Cotton Mouth
CALL THE OFFICE-Rosedale/The Living Satellites/ SCOTS CORNER- Drunken’ Nights
Dividing The Skyline
SMOKE-N-BONES-Mr. E
SAT. MARCH 30
APK-Motown Party w/DJ Fawn BC
CALL THE OFFICE-Sinclaire/Grey Kingdom/Organ
Thieves
NORMA JEAN’S-Karaoke w/Maggie
VICTORY LEGION-Don Thornton (8pm)
WED. APRIL 3
APK-Oh Geronimo/Alex Mason/Olivia Borkosky
TOWN & COUNTRY – Karaoke w/Dion Ford
WESTERN FAIR DISTRICT ANNEX-Colonel Flanders
WINKS EATERY-Toast & Jam
WITS END PUB-Dark In The Glow
CANADIAN CORPS.-Acoustic Jam (3-6pm)
BLACK SHIRE PUB-Hey Lorretta (8pm)
WORTLEY-AutoPilot
CLUB LARGE-Stone Love/Neutron/Black Nation/Urban
DK/Soul Star
CROSSINGS-Justin Plet (8pm)
DAWGHOUSE PUB-Stacey Zegers
EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL- HooDoo2 (3-6pm)/Karaoke
(6pm)/Dirty Little Secrets
BUDWEISER GARDENS-Billy Talent/Sum 41/Hollerado/Indian
Handcrafts (7pm)
CALL THE OFFICE-Indie Underground w/DJ Aaron
McMillan
CHAUCER’S PUB-Alex Richmond Trio
EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL-Open Jam (8pm)
YUK YUK’S- Chuck Byrn/Terry Clement/Tim Rabnett
SAT. APRIL 6
AEOLIAN HALL-Ana Moura (8pm)
BLACK DIAMOND PUB- Runnin’ With Scissors
BLACK SHIRE PUB-Bizz Varty & Guy Miskelly
FITZRAYS-The Malachi Brothers
GROOVES- 8-Bit Ghost (3pm)
HONEST LAWYER-Comet
FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Karaoke w/Bruce Almighty
JACK’S-Canal Street
MOLLY BLOOM’S-The Al Rowe Band
CALL THE OFFICE-The Allens/Black Frame Spectacle/Tournament
CANADIAN CORPS.-Jim Chapman & The Incontinentals
(3-6pm)
JACK’S-Jason Mercer
O’MALLEY’S-Karaoke w/Music Central (8pm)
CROSSINGS GRILL-Chris Schramek
KUBBY’S BAR & GRILL - Jennifer Johnson & The Big
Savage Band
LONDON MUSIC CLUB- Samantha Hooey/Josh Geddis
(7:30pm)/Aidan Hilborn/Gareth Bush/Dave Usselman
(8:30pm)
MOLLY BLOOM’S – The Mike O’Brien Band
NORMA JEAN’S-Karaoke w/Maggie (4-8pm)/Monster
Truck
POACHER’S ARMS-Open Mic w/J-Me
ST. JAMES WESTMINSTER CHURCH-Tim Eriksen &
Trio de Pumpkintown (7:30pm)
SCOTS CORNER-HooDoo2
TOWN & COUNTRY –Karaoke w/Dion Ford
THURS. APRIL 4
APK-Cursed Arrows/Brews Willis/Baseball Furies
DAWGHOUSE PUB-Larryoke
DUCHESS OF KENT-Tim Woodcock & The Thunderkings/Cheryl
Lescom (8pm)
EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL- Karaoke (6pm)/Shanya
Lynn Dawson (Mat: 3-6pm)
FITZRAYS-The Mammals
FOX & FIDDLE-Three Penny Piece
ONYX-DJ Energy
BLACK SHIRE PUB- Lord Thunderin’ Thursdays/ FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Karaoke w/Bruce Almighty
RICHMOND- Nihility/Decibel Chamber/No Honour
Amongst Thieves/In The Act Of Violence
FITZRAYS-Drew Leith & The Foundation/Stacey Zegers
JACKS-Jason Mercer
LONDON MUSIC CLUB-Fred Eaglesmith (7pm)/Jenn
ST. REGIS TAVERN- Kevin’s Bacon Train
FOX & FIDDLE-Three Penny Piece
Marino (9pm)
SMOKE-N-BONES-No Bones
LAVISH-Karaoke
MOLLY BLOOM’S- Half Hour City
SWAG LOUNGE-Orangeman
TABU-Justin James
TOWN & COUNTRY –Karaoke w/Dave
VICTORY LEGION- CW Country (2-6pm)/U-Turn
(8pm)
WINKS EATERY-The Tall Cans
WORTLEY- Soul Medix
YUK YUK’S- Bryan O’Gorman/Dini Damakos/Andrew
Johnson
SUN. MARCH 31
APK- Coalshed Wilies (5pm)
CHAUCER’S PUB-Chaucer’s Jazz Jam (4-8pm)
LONDON MUSIC CLUB- The Big Rock Electric Jam
(8pm)/AFOS/Haviah Mighty/Luke Austin/Rat Crown
(8pm)
MOLLY BLOOM’S- The Mike O’Brien Band
NORMA JEAN’S –Live Band Karaoke w/Nasty Alex
RICHMOND-Karaoke w/Billy Paton
TOWN & COUNTRY –Karaoke w/Dion Ford
WINKS EATERY-Greg Lirette
WITS END PUB-Karaoke w/DJ Tatz
WORTLEY-Mark Henning Duo
YUK YUK’S-Chuck Byrn/Terry Clement/Tim Rabnett
FRI. APRIL 5
NORMA JEAN’S-Karaoke w/Maggie (4-8pm)/Full
Moon Fever
ONYX-DJ Energy
POACHER’S ARMS- Iain Maries
RICHMOND-Drophanger/Door To Door Human
Gore/Great White Shark/Sewer/Calculate
ST. JOHN THE DIVINE PARISH-Amabile Men’s &
Women’s Choirs (7:30pm)
ST. REGIS TAVERN-Jay Allan (3pm)/Psycho Daisies
TABU-TJR/Fernando D’Oria
TOWN & COUNTRY –Karaoke w/Dave
UP ON CARLING-Dolla The Paperchaser/Beefwelli/
Halfbreed/DJ Fresh Czzz
CONNIE’S BAR & GRILL-Frank Ridsdale (3:30pm)
FITZRAYS-Sweet Leaf Garrett
LONDON MUSIC HALL-Masta Ace/Stricklin/Wordsworth/The
Bundies/Ill Tone & The Kids/DJ Ruckus/
Arkhive
PLAYERS ATHLETIC-Smokin’ Dave (4-8pm)
RICHMOND- Karaoke w/Lizzy
SHOELESS JOE’S-Mike Fagan & Michelle (6pm)
TOWN & COUNTRY –Karaoke w/Dave
WINKS EATERY-Karaoke w/The A-Train
WORTLEY-Village Blues Band (4pm)
MON. APRIL 1
BLACK SHIRE PUB-Quiz Night (8:30pm)
CALL THE OFFICE-The Bronx/Single Mother/Beards
Of Prey (8pm)
FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Karaoke w/Bruce Almighty
MOLLY BLOOM’S- Karaoke
OLD EAST STUDIOS-Southern Ontario Ukulele Players
(7-9pm)
RICHMOND-Karaoke
SMOKE-N-BONES-Pub Stumpers Trivia (7:30pm)
TOWN & COUNTRY –Open Mic
TUES. APRIL 2
BARKING FROG-Murray Snelgrove w/Karen Emeny
APK-Doldrums/Sean Nicholas Savage/New Zebra
Kid/Digits
BACKDRAFTS- Doug Varty
BLACK DIAMOND-The Black Diamond Jazz Trio (7-
10pm)
BLACK SHIRE PUB-Rick Taylor (6-9pm)
CALL THE OFFICE-The Bicycles/So Young/The Abbreviations
COBRA-Alex Metric
DAWGHOUSE PUB-The Warlocks
EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL-The SmashTones
EAST VILLAGE ARTS CO-OP-Larra Skye/Gareth Bush
(8:30pm)
FITZRAYS-B.A. Baracus
FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Karaoke w/Bruce Almighty
HONEST LAWYER-Bill Savage
JACK’S-Verbal Karate
LONDON MUSIC CLUB- Acoustyle Open Mic (9pm)/
Shut The Front Door Comedy (7:30&10pm)/Andy
Sheppard (8pm)
MOLLY BLOOM’S- Half Hour City
NORMA JEAN’S- Dave’s Not Here
POACHER’S ARMS- Spoonmen
RICHMOND- Balding
VICTORY LEGION-The Kebobs (2-6pm)/Southbound
(8pm)
WINKS EATERY-Brother Time
WORTLEY-AutoPilot
YUK YUK’S- Chuck Byrn/Terry Clement/Tim Rabnett
SUN. APRIL 7
AEOLIAN HALL-Enter The Haggis (7:30pm)
APK- Coalshed Willies (5pm)
CANADIAN CORPS.- Acoustic Jam Session (3-6pm)
CHAUCER’S PUB-Chaucer’s Jazz Jam (4-8pm)
CONNIE’S BAR & GRILL-Frank Ridsdale (3:30pm)
FITZRAYS-Sweet Leaf Garrett
FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Karaoke w/Bruce Almighty
LONDON MUSIC HALL-Alesso (7pm)
LONDON TAP HOUSE-DJ Everfresh
MOLLY BLOOM’S- Karaoke w/Axle
NORMA JEAN’S- Drophanger/The Truth Today/The
Walls Of This Chamber/Our Place Or Yours/Invitation
To Die (5pm)
PLAYERS ATHLETIC-Smokin’ Dave (4-8pm)
RICHMOND- Karaoke w/Lizzy
TOWN & COUNTRY –Karaoke w/Dave
& Roxanne Andrighetti
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Enter The Haggis
Sunday April 7
Viola Dana
Direct from Australia
Wednesday April 10
Ruth Moody
Thursday April 11
Jenn Grant & Erin McKeown
Singer/Songwriter Double Bill
Sunday April 14
from The
Wailin’
Jennys
Martha Wainwright
Thursday April 25
PAVLO
Mediterranean Guitar Virtuoso
Friday May 3
The Bills
Folk Quintet From British Columbia
Monday May 6
Connie Kaldor
Juno Award Winning Folk Singer
Friday May 31
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THE LISTINGS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15
LA BELLA VITA RISTORANTE-Kevin Love (6:30-
9:30pm)
WINDERMERE’S CAFÉ-Kevin Love (10:00am -
2:00pm)
VICTORY LEGION-Victory Jamboree (1-5pm)
TOWN & COUNTRY –Open Mic
LAVISH- DJ Lady Finesse
MONDAYS
WINKS EATERY-Karaoke w/The A-Train
TUES. APRIL 9
LONDON TAP HOUSE-Ladies Night
CAREY’S BAR & GRILL-Open Mic
WORTLEY-The Village Blues Band w/Chuck Jackson
(4pm)
MON. APRIL 8
BLACK SHIRE PUB- Quiz Night (8:30pm)
FITZRAYS-DJ Everfresh
FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Karaoke w/Bruce Almighty
MOLLY BLOOM’S- Karaoke
NORMA JEAN’S- Open Band Nite w/Shepherds Pie
OLD EAST STUDIOS-Southern Ontario Ukulele Players
(7-9pm)
RICHMOND-Karaoke
SMOKE-N-BONES-Pub Stumpers Trivia (7:30pm)
Smales Pace
Change of Pace
Reunion
Concert #3
BLACK SHIRE PUB-Open Mic
BARKING FROG-Murray Snelgrove
CALL THE OFFICE-Suuns/The Darcys
FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Karaoke w/Bruce Almighty
NORMA JEAN’S- Karaoke w/Maggie
VICTORY LEGION-Don Thornton Band (8pm)
WED. APRIL 10
AEOLIAN HALL-Viola Dana (8pm)
APK-The Dyadics/Bloody Diamonds/The Freemasons
BLACK SHIRE PUB-Hey Lorretta (8pm)
CHAUCER’S PUB-Alex Richmond Trio
EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL-Open Jam (8pm)
FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Karaoke w/Bruce Almighty
JACK’S-Canal Street
MOLLY BLOOM’S-The Al Rowe Band
O’MALLEY’S-Karaoke w/Music Central (8pm)
POACHER’S ARMS-Open Mic w/J-Me
SCOTS CORNER-HooDoo2
MONGOLIAN MARTINI BAR-DJ Lazy Dukes
O’MALLEY’S-Karaoke w/Music Central (9pm)
ROCKS ON KING-DJ TQ
ROXBURY-DJ Hex
SILVER’S GRILL HOUSE & BAR - Karaoke w/Jenney
Bee
SILVER SPUR-Karaoke w/TDG Entertainment
SWAG LOUNGE-DJ
TIGER JACKS - DJ Sebastian
TOWN & COUNTRY – Karaoke w/Dion Ford
UP ON CARLING –Pachanga Latin Band/DJ Conguita
WITS END PUB-Dark In The Glow
WRECK’D ROOM-DJ Ronin
SATURDAYS
A.N.A.F. – Karaoke w/Leeann
BARKING FROG – Seduction Saturdays
BARNEY’S-The Fairmonts
CEEPS-DJ
CLUB LARGE-Dancehall/Soca Saturdays
COATES OF ARMS-Pauly Fagan
FITZRAYS-DJ Everfresh
FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Karaoke w/Bruce Almighty
JIM BOB RAY’S-Indie Mondays
MONGOLIAN MARTINI BAR-DJ Shawn Bassoo
MORRISSEY HOUSE-Team Pub Quiz
NORMA JEAN’S- Stripper Mom Open Band
SCOTS CORNER-Greg Lirette
SMOKE-N-BONES-Pub Stumpers Trivia Night
(7:30pm)
SPOKE & RIM-Live Band Karaoke w/Nasty Alex
TUESDAYS
BARKING FROG-Murray Snelgrove
BLACK SHIRE PUB- Open Mic
CAREY’S BAR & GRILL-Karaoke
CLUB LARGE-DJ Everfresh
FITZRAYS-Nasty Alex Live Band Karaoke
HONEST LAWYER- Karaoke w/DJ Adrian Keet
(10pm)
Valdy, Lynn Miles,
TOWN & COUNTRY –Karaoke w/Dion Ford
HOUSE BANDS/DJS/KARAOKE
COATES OF ARMS-Lonny Chicago
COBRA-DJ Lady Finesse
NITE OWL LOUNGE-Music Trivia Night
NORMA JEAN’S- Karaoke w/Guy
Ian Tamblyn, Liam Titcomb, Brent Titcomb, THURSDAYS
COWBOYS RANCH-BX93 Night w/Heidi Reichert OLD EAST STUDIOS-Ruby Tuesdays (7:30pm)
David Bradstreet & Carl Keesee,
John P. Allen, David Woodhead, and more!
Friday, April 26, 8:00 pm
Aeolian Hall, 795 Dundas St., London
Tickets at The Aeolian, Centennial Hall, Chapters North,
Grooves, Village Idiot & online at aeolianhall.ca
Acoustic Muse Concerts 519-672-7950
BARKING FROG – Thirsty Thursday
BLACK SHIRE PUB-Lord Thunderin’ Thirsty Thursdays
w/Tara Dunphy & Jim McGinley (8-11pm)
BUCK WILD-Karaoke
CAREY’S BAR & GRILL-Live To Air w/106.9FM (8-
10pm)/DJ Ruckus
CEEPS-DJ
CLUB LARGE-All Request Video Party
COATES OF ARMS-Lonny Chicago
DOWNTOWN KATHY BROWN’S-Vogue Saturdays w/
DJ Satellite (103.1 Fresh FM)
EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL- Karaoke (6-9pm)
FOX & FIDDLE-Various DJs
FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Karaoke w/Bruce Almighty
JIM BOB RAY’S-Musiq Saturdays
KUBBY’S BAR & GRILL-Bill Savage (8pm)
LAVISH-Seductive Saturdays w/DJ Pablo Ramirez
ROCKS ON KING-DJ Everfresh
ROXBURY- Karaoke w/DJ Tatz
SCOTS CORNER-Open Mic w/Vinnie Vincenzo
SPOKE & RIM-Samurai Night Fever
WEDNESDAYS
BARKING FROG – Pachanga Latin Band/DJ Conguita
CALL THE OFFICE – Indie Underground w/DJ Aaron
McMillan
COBRA-Top 40 & Hip-Hop
LONDON TAP HOUSE-Ultimate Dance Party CAREY’S BAR & GRILL- DJ All Request Night
DAWGHOUSE PUB-Smokin’ Dave
MONGOLIAN MARTINI BAR- DJ Yahohyah
COATES OF ARMS-Trivia Night
Wed. April 3, 7:30 pm
St. James Westminster Church
GRAD CLUB (UWO)-Rick McGhie (8pm)
JIM BOB RAY’S-Country Night
JOE KOOL’S-Sweet Leaf Garrett
LAVISH-Karaoke w/DJ Amy
LONDON TAP HOUSE-Student Nights
MONGOLIAN MARTINI BAR-DJ Everfresh
NITE OWL LOUNGE-Vinyl Night w/Justin Chasty
NORMA JEAN’S- Live Band Karaoke w/Nasty Alex
POACHER’S ARMS-The Fairmonts
SCOTS CORNER-The Whiskey Sinners
SPOKE & RIM-Trivia Night
TOWN & COUNTRY – Karaoke w/Dion Ford
UP ON CARLING-Animal House Thursdays
VICTORIA TAVERN-Open Mic w/Vinnie
WITS END PUB-Karaoke w/DJ Tatz
WRECK’D ROOM-Techno-Industrial w/DJ Phoenixx
FRIDAYS
BARKING FROG – Frog Fridays
BARNEY’S- Samurai Night Fever
CANADIAN CORPS.-Karaoke w/DJ Cowboy Shea
(8pm)
COATES OF ARMS-Pauly Fagan
CELLO SUPPER CLUB-DJ EverFresh
CEEPS-DJ
CLUB LARGE-R&B/Hip-Hop Fridays
COWBOYS RANCH-DJ Dani
FATTY PATTY’S-Karaoke w/Sharpe Sound
FOX & FIDDLE-Karaoke w/Joe Brunet (8:30pm)
NITE OWL LOUNGE-Howl At The Owl w/Justin
Chasty
ONYX LOUNGE-DJ Everfresh
ROCKS ON KING-DJ Doran
ROXBURY - DJ Mystic
SCOTS CORNER-Karaoke
SILVER SPUR-Karaoke w/Michael Micks
SWAG LOUNGE-DJ
TABU-House Music
TIGER JACKS - DJ Sebastian
TOWN & COUNTRY – Karaoke w/Dave
UP ON CARLING-Amnesia
WRECK’D ROOM-DJ Karnage
SUNDAYS
BARKING FROG- Showcase Sundays
APK- The Coalshed Willies (5pm)
CALL THE OFFICE – RayGun (9pm)
CAREY’S BAR & GRILL-Comedy Night
CLUB LARGE-Old School Sundays
FITZRAY’S-Sweet Leaf Garrett
FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Karaoke w/Bruce Almighty
JIM BOB RAYS-Guest DJs
LONDON ALE HOUSE-Karaoke w/DJ Adrian Keet
(10pm)
NITE OWL LOUNGE-DJ Brandon Eedy
ROXBURY- Karaoke w/DJ Tatz
TOWN & COUNTRY – Karaoke w/Dave
EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL-Open Jam Nite (8pm)
FITZRAY’S-Shaun Sanders
FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Karaoke w/Bruce Almighty
GRAD CLUB-Open Mic (8-11pm)
JACK’S- Jerzy & Stirling
JIM BOB RAY’S-DJ Chaos/DJ Hush/DJ Markeey
JOE KOOL’S-Black Belt Jones
LONDON ALE HOUSE-Karaoke (10pm)
MONGOLIAN MARTINI BAR-Wayne Holden & Robbie
Antone
O’MALLEY’S-Karaoke w/Music Central (8pm)
POACHER’S ARMS-Open Mic w/J-Me
ROCKS ON KING-Karaoke
SCOTS CORNER- HooDoo 2
SPOKE & RIM-Rick McGhie
TOWN & COUNTRY – Karaoke w/Dion Ford
VICTORIA TAVERN-Karaoke w/Mallory
WRECK’D ROOM-The Grim Brothers
WRECK’D ROOM-The Grim Brothers VENUE•INDEX
AEOLIAN HALL 795 DUNDAS ST. 672-7950
AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION 2155 CRUMLIN RD. 657-1381
A.N.A.F. 797 YORK ST. 432-0104
APK 347 CLARENCE ST. 858-9900
BACKDRAFTS 1101 JALNA BLVD. 649-7110
BARKING FROG 209 JOHN ST. 850-3764
BEST WESTERN LAMPLIGHTER INN 591 WELLINGTON RD. S. 681-7151
BLACK DIAMOND PUB 1440 JALNA BLVD. (226) 663-3263
115 Askin St., London - Tickets $15
Tickets at Centennial Hall, Chapters North, Grooves,
St. James Westminster, Village Idiot & www.ticketscene.ca
519-615-2210 Acoustic Muse Concerts 519-473-2099
FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Karaoke w/Nerria
HUSTLER BILLIARDS-Karaoke w/Pepsi Pete
JIM BOB RAY’S-FootWork Fridays w/DJ Hush
JOE KOOLS-DJ Jamie Allen
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Please Include: Venue Name, Address, Event Title, Date, Time, Brief Description,
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BLACK SHIRE PUB 511 TALBOT ST. 433-7737
BUCK WILD 722 YORK ST. 226-268-2766
BUDAPEST RESAURANT 348 DUNDAS ST. 439-3431
BUDWEISER GARDENS 99 DUNDAS ST. 667-5700
BYRON LEGION 1276 COMMISSIONERS RD. W. 472-3300
CANADIAN CORPS. 1051 DUNDAS ST. 455-7530
CAREY’S BAR & GRILL 1569 OXFORD ST. E. 951-6886
CASEY’S BAR AND GRILL 310 CLARKE RD. 455-4392
CEEPS AND BARNEY’S 671 RICHMOND ST. 432-1232
CELLO SUPPER CLUB 99 KING ST. 850-8000
CHRISTINA’S PUB 1131 RICHMOND ST. 660-8778
CLUB LARGE 335 RICHMOND ST. 697-4144
CLUB MANSION 89 KING ST. 434-2888
COATES OF ARMS PUB 580 TALBOT ST. 432-1001
COBRA LONDON 359 TALBOT ST. 661-0761
CONNIE’S BAR & GRILL 411 HAMILTON RD. 660-4032
COWBOY’S RANCH 60 WHARNCLIFFE RD. N. 679-0101
CRAVE 1737 RICHMOND ST. 645-8886
CROSSINGS GRILL 1269 HYDE PARK RD. 472-3020
DAWGHOUSE PUB 699 WILKINS ST. 685-0640
DOWNTOWN KATHY BROWN’S 228 DUNDAS ST. 433-4913
EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL 750 HAMILTON RD. 951-6462
EAST VILLAGE ARTS COLLECTIVE 757 DUNDAS ST.
EAST VILLAGE COFFEEHOUSE 785 DUNDAS ST.
FATTY PATTY’S 390 SPRINGBANK DR. 473-5521
FITZRAYS 110 DUNDAS ST. 646-1119
FOX & FIDDLE 355 WELLINGTON ST. 679-4238
FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS 391 RICHMOND ST. 672-5050
GROOVES 353 CLARENCE ST. 640-6714
HONEST LAWYER 228 DUNDAS ST. 433-4913
HOT DOG MUSIQUE 256 RICHMOND ST. 850-3903
HUSTLER BILLIARDS 1116 DEARNESS DR. 649-2138
JACK’S 539 RICHMOND ST. 438-1876
JACK ASTOR’S 660 RICHMOND ST. 642-0708
JIM BOB RAY’S 585 RICHMOND ST. 663-5665
KUBBY’S BAR & GRILL 312 COMMISSIONERS RD. W. 472-9455
LA BELLA VITA RISTORANTE 1288 COMMISSIONERS RD. 474-0033
LAVISH NIGHTCLUB 238 DUNDAS ST.
LOCKER ROOM 1286 JALNA BLVD. 680-5001
LONDON ALE HOUSE 288 DUNDAS ST. 204-2426
LONDON CONCERT THEATRE 60 WHARNCLIFFE RD. N.
LONDON MUSIC CLUB 470 COLBORNE ST. 640-6996
LONDON MUSIC HALL 185 QUEENS AVE. 432-1107
LONDON TAP HOUSE 545 ½ RICHMOND ST. 936-0268
MOLLY BLOOM’S 700 RICHMOND ST. 675-1212
MONGOLIAN 645 RICHMOND ST. 645-6400
MORRISSEY HOUSE 359 DUNDAS ST. 204-9220
MUSIC BOX 1472 DUNDAS ST. 226-373-6607
MUSTANG SALLY’S 99 BELMONT DRIVE 649-7688
NITE OWL LOUNGE 353 TALBOT ST. 438-6483
NORMA JEAN’S 1332 HURON ST. 455-7711
O’MALLEY’S IRISH PUB 99 BELMONT AVE. 649-7688
OLD EAST STUDIOS 755 DUNDAS ST. 434-5499
OLD SOUTH VILLAGE PUB 149 WORTLEY RD. 645-1166
ONYX LOUNGE 153 CARLING ST. 601-3463
PLAYERS ATHLETIC LAGER CO. 1749 DUNDAS ST. E. 452-1030
POACHER’S ARMS 171 QUEENS ST. 432-7888
RICHMOND TAVERN 370 RICHMOND ST. 679-9777
ROCKS ON KING 93 KING ST. 204-4044
ROOT CELLAR 623 DUNDAS ST. 719-7675
ROXBURY BAR & GRILL 1165 OXFORD ST. E. 951-0665
RUM RUNNERS 176 DUNDAS ST. 432-1107
ST. JOHN THE DIVINE PARISH 390 BASELINE RD. W. 641-6795
ST. REGIS TAVERN 625 DUNDAS ST. 432-0162
SCOTS CORNER 268 DUNDAS ST. 667-2277
SHOELESS JOE’S 805 WONDERLAND RD. S. 474-9505
SILVER’S GRILL HOUSE & BAR 1050 KIPPS LANE 438-0103
SILVER SPUR 771 SOUTHDALE RD. E. 681-5161
SMOKE-N-BONES 855 WELLINGTON RD. 649-1103
SWAG LOUNGE WESTERN FAIR DISTRICT 438-7203
TABU NIGHTCLUB 539 RICHMOND ST. 438-1876
TIGER JACKS 842 WHARNCLIFFE RD. S. 690-0292
TOWN & COUNTRY SALOON 765 DUNDAS ST. 433-4741
UPFRONT BAR & GRILL 130 KING ST. 675-1020
UP ON CARLING 153 CARLING ST. 434-6600
VICTORY LEGION 311 OAKLAND AVE. 455-2331
VICTORIA TAVERN 466 SOUTH ST. 432-7303
WINDERMERE MANOR 200 COLLIP CIRCLE 858-1414
WINKS EATERY 551 RICHMOND ST. 936-5079
WITS END PUB 235 NORTH CENTRE RD. 850-9487
WOLF PERFORMANCE HALL 251 DUNDAS ST. 661-5120
WORTLEY ROADHOUSE 190 WORTLEY RD. 438-5141
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LIGHTS, CAMERA, FASHION:
UNBOUND SASHAYS TOWARDS
MUSEUM LONDON BOUND
LONDON, ON
For one magical evening each year,
the normally serene interior of
Museum London is transformed
into a fashion mecca, pulsing with all of
the excitement and energy of a big city
runway show.
The graduating students of Fanshawe
College’s fashion design program are
set to unveil their collections for springsummer
2014 at Unbound, taking place
April 12. The show has become one of
the key fashion events of the year, certainly
in London, but also beyond.
“The minute you walk in, you’re going
to be surrounded by an exact environment
that you would fi nd if you
went to Montreal Fashion Week,” said
Loren Carriere, professor of fashion
merchandising at Fanshawe and show
coordinator.
“There is full cocktail reception, a
cool bar, fabulous decor, and the theme
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BY ANDREA KUNTZ
PHOTO CREDIT: JOHN SAYER-WHITE (DETAIL)
matches what the students are doing
with their collections in terms of the
season. Plus, we’re switching up our
expected runway environment because
we’re always trying to keep things fresh
and new,” she added.
Not only is the event a gala showcase
of work by the next generation of Canadian
designers, it’s also a great chance
for those in the arts community to
network. There’s even some highlights
planned in recognition of the 40th anniversary
of the fashion program at
Fanshawe.
“It’s Unbound, so you can expect to
have a fantastic, high-end evening, but
what you can also expect is to be surprised,”
Carriere teased.
With representatives from Flare
Magazine, Entertainment Tonight, to
Fashion Television in attendance, guests
are apt to think that they are indeed in
Toronto.
This year’s show welcomes a starstudded
line up of guests, including emcee
Glen Baxter of Fashion Television,
red-hot fashion blogger Ainsley Kerr,
and judges Franco Mirabelli and David
Dixon – two icons of the fashion world.
“One of the things we always say is to
make it in the fashion industry, you absolutely
have to compete on an international
scale, and in today’s online community
it doesn’t really matter where
you are geographically as long as you
have the talent,” Carriere said.
“Toronto, Montreal and New York are
major urban centres, but there’s no reason
why our students can’t compete in
those arenas.”
In a sense, having done their education
here in London, Fanshawe students
enjoy the best of both worlds, she added.
“We pride ourselves on the kind of intimate,
friendly London atmosphere we
have for these students to thrive in, and
yet we’re close enough to all those areas
that we can take them to that kind of
inspiration.”
The program has been structured
in such a way that when students leap
out into the working world, they hit the
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ground running.
“The students themselves are the
worker bees behind the entire Unbound
machine. Other schools will hire outside
producers or they will have their
merchandising program who specialise
in event planning do the show. But what
we’ve found is if you are going to go out
there and market your product, you
need to understand every aspect of the
puzzle,” Carriere said.
The students have all of their core
learning done when the fi nal semester
begins so that they can focus on just two
things: their collections and producing
the show, which includes preparing Unbound
Magazine, which will be bundled
with the October issue of Flare.
“Cutting, sewing, pattern-making,
marketing, from the business to the
creative, to the production, they get to
go through all of it,” Carriere explained.
“This helps them fi gure out which
part of the business is a good fi t for
them.”
What show-goers will see on the models
on the night of April 12 is a juried
selection of designs. The collections of
all graduating students will have been
presented to a team of buyers prior to
the show, and only the ones buyers feel
are the strongest make the cut for Unbound.
This year’s theme is the industry-forecasted
trend known as the New Digital
Aesthetic.
“It’s futuristic, technology, minimalism,
refl ective surfaces, transparencies,
robotics, all that kind of elemental sensory
stuff which will be captured in the
interior decor of the space, the presentation
of the music, and the collections,”
Carriere explained.
“The students are really pushing for
their own identity for this show, and
they are doing a fantastic job,” she
added.
Don’t wait to get your tickets to this
popular event. Doors open at 7pm; the
show starts at 8.
~ Amie Ronald-Morgan
THE FANSHAWE COLLEGE FASHION DESIGN PROGRAM PRESENTS
UNBOUND 2013 AT MUSEUM LONDON (421 R IDOUT ST. N.),
A PRIL 12 AT 8PM. TICKETS ARE $40. CALL 519-472-8800.
A BRUSH WITH GREATNESS:
BRUSH & PALETTE CLUB
RETURN TO ST. PAUL’S
LONDON, ON
In the months leading up to the Brush and Palette
Club’s landmark 40th anniversary show and sale
last year, it had become apparent that the large artists’
group had outgrown their regular exhibition space
at the Byron Branch Library.
A move was necessary, and it proved to be a smart one.
The club’s 2012 show took place at St. Paul’s Cathedral,
drawing a whole new crowd of art lovers in addition to
the devoted crew who come out year after year to see all
the latest work.
“The Byron Library served us well over the years and
we enjoyed the location, but as we got more and more
members and many more submissions, it simply got to
the point where we were at capacity. So, reluctantly, we
looked around for another location,” club president Len
Hughes explained.
Last year there were over 500 works submitted for the
show, more than 200 of those framed.
“As you can imagine, trying to get all of those into the
Byron Library would be a real challenge,” Hughes said
with a chuckle.
“Fortunately, St. Paul’s was open to us being at the cathedral,
and since it was our 40th anniversary last year,
it was an auspicious occasion to move there. The location
turned out to be very good for us so we decidedly to
stay there,” he said.
The Brush and Palette Club returns to St. Paul’s on
April 4 for three days. Guests can view a large selection
of high quality artwork; the majority of pieces will be for
sale. Cards will also be available for purchase.
“We have a wide range of mediums that we see in our
shows and also a wide range of subject matter – everything
from landscapes to photo realistic to expressive
non-representational work,” Hughes said.
Watercolour, oil, acrylic, pastel and collage are among
the mediums represented in the show. The group may be
called the Brush and Palette Club, but the artists are not
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limited solely by those tools of the trade.
“We have one member, Auke van Holst, for example,
who is very accomplished with wire sculpture in addition
to paint. He does amazing work,” Hughes said.
Members meet once a month at St. Aidan’s Church and
invite guest speakers to come and discuss various aspects
of art, bring samples of their work, and talk about different
techniques. Workshops are offered several times a
SARAH COWLING, ʻWESTCOAST INLETʼ (COLLAGE ON WATERCOLOUR PAPER) & SUSAN MOORE, ʻSTART WITH ONIONSʼ
(PASTEL), TWO OF THE WORKS SUBMITTED TO THIS YEARʼS BRUSH AND PALETTE CLUB SHOW
year, and some members still convene in the basement
of the Byron Library to paint together on Thursdays.
Furthermore, the group has organized trips to major
galleries outside of London, and have a long history of
awarding scholarships to promising young art students.
An impressive gallery of members’ work can be viewed
on the club’s website. But the members are not satisfi ed
with resting on their laurels.
“One can always improve and that’s what our members
strive to do. They are always working to develop
their artwork, and consequently the level of quality of
the work done rises considerably. We are at the stage now
that we have people in our club who are very practised,”
Hughes remarked.
One of those members is Wyn Slemon, who has been
with the club for all of its 41 years.
“We are very pleased that Wyn is still with us. She’s
very enthusiastic and outgoing and a delightful person,”
Hughes mused. The club’s membership is currently
capped at 100 men and women of all ages.
The new venue location is ideal for anyone enjoying
the theatre and restaurants downtown over the show’s
three-day run. Admission is free and also includes a tea
room.
“We invite anybody who wants to come see some wonderful
art,” Hughes said.
“They are more than welcome to feast their eyes on
what we will have on display.”
~ Amie Ronald-Morgan
THE 41ST ANNUAL BRUSH AND PALETTE CLUB SHOW AND SALE TAKES PLACE AT
ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL (472 RICHMOND STREET), APRIL 4, 5PM-9PM; APRIL 5,
10AM-9PM; AND APRIL 6, 10AM-7PM. ADMISSION IS FREE.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS

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Oooh baby!
Fifty Shades of Grape
at the Grand
Mark your calendars now, wine afi cionados. Fifty Shades of Grape,
a Grand Wine Tasting Event, is coming to the Grand Theatre. Taking
place April 9, the soiree is a fi rst for the theatre, explained Lia Karidas,
development co-ordinator at the Grand and organizer of the
event. “We had such great success with (last October’s fundraiser)
Arts and Draughts, and our Scotch and Chocolate events are always
very popular, so we’re excited to be doing something featuring wine
now as well. After all – wine goes hand-in-hand with the theatre
experience,” she said. Six wine distributors are set to bring a wide
range of fi ne wines which can be enjoyed among several booths in
the theatre’s lobby space. Both international and local wineries will
be represented. Your $50 ticket buys three tastings (with the option
to purchase additional tastings), fabulous appetisers by Blackfri-
Spend an evening
with delilah
Those who caught Len Cuthbert’s play delilah during
the 2011 London One Act Festival (LOAF), or at
last year’s Fringe Festival, can soon enjoy the fullyrealized
version when the tragicomedy is remounted
at YFC London Youth Centre from April 3 – 6. For
those who have never seen the acclaimed play, well
– it’s high time you did. Thanks to a grant from the
Ontario Arts Council, the Mt. Brydges-based playwright
was able to transform what was originally a
one-act play into a full-length script. “Some people
had asked, what’s the story behind this character?
There was a lot of interest there. So that initiated
the thought, what exactly IS the back story of all
these characters?” Cuthbert explained. “The original
theme in the 10-minute version was one of supporting
your friends in whatever circumstance, and now
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the primary theme is abandonment,” he added. The
story explores the confl icting relationships between a
young girl, her brother, his former foster sister, and
her best friend. Earlier versions of delilah have been
produced in Toronto, Detroit, New York City, and at
other American venues. The cast is headed by Tammy
Vink, who won an award for her role as Jade at the
2011 LOAF, Heather May as Jade’s best friend Delilah,
THE CAST OF DELILAH: RYAN COLE, HEATHER MAY, ELLENA GRANT, AND TAMMY VINK
ars Bistro, and musical entertainment by hot indie act Olenka and
the Autumn Lovers. Guests can also bid in an all-new Bag Auction.
“Handbags, functional bags, gift bags – we have all sorts of bagthemed
packages for people to check out. It’s a different, fun way
to participate in a silent auction,” Karidas added. As with the other
Grand fundraising events, proceeds from Fifty Shades of Grape support
ongoing youth programming and operations at the theatre,
such as The High School Project, subsidizing ticket costs for school
groups, theatre intensives and workshops, day camps, and student
clubs. The event starts at 7 pm. For tickets call 519-672-8800; act
soon as these types of events have sold out in the past. Guests must
be of legal drinking age.
Calling all artists!
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PHOTO CREDIT: LEN CUTHBERT
Ryan Cole as the girls’ friend Mick, and 12-year-old
Ellena Grant as Mick’s little sister Dee-J. Desiree Baker
directs. Cuthbert, whose other credits include Oz in
a Closet, The Maladroit Romeo, and Return Flight,
counts delilah as among his most favourite pieces.“I
have totally loved this one, the characters, the story –
it’s the most complex story I’ve ever done. There’s a
‘wow’ factor along the way. People will be surprised,
and really taken in by the cast –they are just fantastic,”
he said. Show times are April 3, 5, 6 at 7pm, also
at 2pm on April 6. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at
the door (YFC London Youth Centre is located at 254
Adelaide St. S.) and can be purchased at delilah.ws.
Take a Pathway to
Paradise with KSS
Karen Schuessler Singers continue their 20th anniversary
season with the presentation of two choral
works seldom heard in London: Maurice Durufl e’s
Requiem and Francis Poulenc’s Gloria, which will be
performed on April 6 as part of the Pathways to Paradise
concert. “The more we dig into them, the more
beautiful and exciting they become,” artistic director
Karen Schuessler said. “The choir loves the music.
They are moved when they are singing it and the
music is utterly, utterly gorgeous,” she added. Durufl e
wrote his Requiem using Gregorian chant, giving
the work an otherworldly feel. “The chant connects
it back for thousands of years, yet it’s got really lush
20th century harmonies and beautiful string writing
and orchestration. Great climaxes and really lovely
lyrical lines as well,” Schuessler explained. The Requiem
is contrasted with a piece that will take the audience
on a different kind of journey. “Poulenc made
every movement sound like a different part of Paris.
It’s very funky, part it feels like you’re in the Latin
Quarter of Paris. Then you’re in a cathedral, and then
in another part, you’re in the Moulin Rouge. It’s very
rhythmic and writhing and piquant and saucy! The
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WILL BE A LOT OF WINE
writing is a lot like Vivaldi in that it is sparkling,” she
explained. The choir is pleased to welcome soprano
Virginia Hatfi eld as their guest soloist and will be accompanied
by orchestra and organ. “For this one, you
really get a feel for the ancient sound of humanity.
It all unfolds and is quite thrilling,” Schuessler remarked.
The concert starts at 8pm at Wesley-Knox
United Church in the heart of Wortley Village. Check
the arts listings for ticket details.
London Artists
Studio Tour 2013
The annual London Artists Studio Tour is a unique
opportunity to visit local artists in their personal work
environments, view their art, and chat with them
about the creative process. This year marks the 20th
anniversary for the event and includes 27 studios
around London. Participating artists include Beth
Turnbull Morrish, Jayne Cornelis, Richard Sturgeon,
Doug Magrath, arts collective Acme Animal, and represents
a wide range of artistic mediums. The tour
takes place April 12, 7pm-9:30pm; April 13, 10am-
5pm; April 14, 12pm-5pm. Brochures are located at
Museum London, libraries, and can be downloaded
at londonstudiotour.com. The tour is self-guided and
free of charge.
~ Amie Ronald-Morgan
Do you have a new recording, an upcoming show or newsworthy story?
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VISUAL ARTS
AEOLIAN HALL (795 Dundas St) – Aeolian Spring
Group Art Exhibition featuring Albert Adilli, Patti
Fisher, Gilles Gauvin, Jiana, Joanne Vegso, and Pam
Wilkinson. Until May 24. 519-672-7950.
ARTLAB (John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, Rm 128,
Perth Drive, Western University) – 2012/2013
Bachelor of Fine Arts Practicum Class: I Know
What I Said. Until Apr 9. 519-661-2111 x 85855.
THE ARTS PROJECT (203 Dundas St) – A Love Affair
with London: 60th anniversary show and sale
of the Gallery Painting Group, until Mar 30. The
Dog Show II... and Friends, Apr 1 – 6. Reception
Apr 2, 6pm-9pm. Anna Kliorikaitis, Mark Lisson,
Paul Purifi cati, Jason Riva: Four More Views, Apr
24 – 27. Reception Apr 23, 6:30pm-9:30pm. 519-
642-2767.
ART WITH PANACHE (Talbot Centre, 465 Richmond
St) – Skating and Scenes Art Show featuring
Audrey Cooper, Ilona Burghardt, Sheri Cappa,
Susan Donati, Roxanne Jervis, Joanne Maddeford,
Toni Poole, Franca Smith. Until Mar 31. 226-378-
2587.
BELLAMERE WINERY (1260 Gainsborough Rd) –
Mad Hatter Craft Show: 40 crafters and artisans
exhibit in a unique Alice in Wonderland-themed
event. Apr 27, 10am-4:30pm. $5 admission/kids
free. 226-236-1980.
FOREST CITY GALLERY (258 Richmond St) – Steve
deBruyn: Rolls Through, until Apr 5. Richard Ibghy
& Marilou Lemmens: Everyone Else is a Robot,
Apr 19 – May 24. Reception Apr 19, 7pm-10pm.
519-434-4575.
HUTTON HOUSE (654 Wonderland Rd N) – ARTworks
Show & Sale: Apr 9 – 19. Reception Apr 9,
5:30pm-8:30pm. 519-472-6381.
LAMBETH UNITED CHURCH (4268 Colonel Talbot
Rd) – Lambeth Art Association Annual Art Show
and Sale: Apr 25, 6pm-9pm; Apr 26, 10am-9pm;
Apr 27, 10am-4pm. Refreshments/free admission.
519-452-2093.
LAMBTON HERITAGE MUSEUM (10035 Museum
Road, Grand Bend) – Paint Ontario 2013: Competition,
sale, and exhibition celebrating the spirit
and beauty of the area. Over 200 pieces of art. Until
March 31. 519-243-2600.
LANDON BRANCH LIBRARY (167 Wortley Rd) – Art
Exhibit: Julia Hansford. Original paintings, magnets,
greeting cards and more. Apr 6, 11am-4pm.
519-439-6240.
LITTLE RED ROASTER (71 King St) – The KoLyfe
Art Group presents T.J. Coles, until Apr 30. 519-432-
1255.
LONDON ARTISTS’ STUDIO TOUR 2013 (Various
locations) – A self-guided tour of 27 studios
of professional London artists working in media
Custom Mini
Paintings
By Nick White
Turn your cherished
pet photograph into a
ONE-OF-A-KIND
piece of artwork
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ranging from clay, glass, metal and fabric to oil,
acrylic and watercolour paint. Meet artists in their
working environments. Apr 12, 7pm-9:30pm; Apr
13, 10am-5pm; Apr 14, 12pm-5pm. Maps are available
at Museum London and all library branches
throughout the city. Free. 519-438-4217.
LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN’S MUSEUM (21
Wharncliffe Rd S) – The Brush Off - Live Artists
Competition: 1 Night, 20 Artists, 4 Rounds of Competition,
38 Original Works and 1 Champion! Apr
25, 5:30pm-10pm. $50/Gen. 519-434-5726.
MCINTOSH GALLERY (Elgin Drive, Western University)
– Germaine Koh, Allyson Mitchell, Payton
Turner, Kelly Wood: Secret Stash. Until Apr 6. 519-
661-3181.
MERCEDES-BENZ LONDON (35 Southdale Rd E) –
The Fisher Nash Gibson Affair: The Ultimate spring
party in fashion, art and bling. DJ, models, artwork
display, see jewellery and the Mercedes-Benz lineup.
Apr 11, 7pm-10pm. $100/Gen. Proceeds to
support VON Middlesex Elgin. 519-670-6422/519-
439-0451.
MUSEUM LONDON (421 Ridout St N) – Events -
Fanshawe College Fashion Design Program: Unbound
2013, Apr 12, 8pm. $40/Gen. 519-472-8800.
Third Thursdays: Meet every third Thursday for live
music, pop-up bars, art making and tours. Apr 18,
7pm-10pm. $5/Gen. Exhibitions - Iain Baxter: A
Year at Labatt, Apr 13 – Jun 30. Imaging Disaster:
until Mar 31. Wind Work, Wind Play: Weathervanes
and Whirlings, until Apr 7. Under the Weather: An
Inclement History of London, until Apr 7. The Art
of Work: A Student Exhibition, until June 2. London
Works: Labouring in the Forest City, until Sept 22.
Stories of War, a personal 1812: until Nov 24. 519-
661-0333.
ST. JAMES WESTMINSTER CHURCH (115 Askin St)
– Canadian Embroiderers’ Guild Textile Showcase,
Apr 24 & 25, 2pm-8pm. $2/Gen ($3 for cafe). 519-
432-1915.
ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH (377 Oakland Ave) – The
Three Cantors in Concert: Apr 17, 7pm. $10/Gen.
519-451-4600.
ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL (472 Richmond St) –
Brush & Palette Art Show & Sale: Apr 4, 5pm-9pm;
Apr 5, 10am-9pm; Apr 6, 10am-7pm. Free admission.
519-432-3475. Knitting for Peace: Meet to
knit projects to provide warmth and comfort for
those in need in our community. Knitters of all
abilities are welcome. Saturday mornings 10am-
Noon. 519-434-3225.
THIELSEN GALLERIES (1038 Adelaide St N) –
Group exhibition featuring new work by Frank
Caprani. Until Apr 20. 519-434-7681.
WILLIAMS ON WONDERLAND (3030 Wonderland
Rd S) – Williams Artist of the Month Series - Elissa
Contact: pencilportraitsbynick@gmail.com
THELISTINGS
Sisco: More Trees. May 1 – 31. Reception May 18,
7pm-10pm. 519-649-6767.
WOODSTOCK ART GALLERY (449 Dundas St,
Woodstock) – Inventive Women: Re-Interpreting
the Canadian Landscape, until Mar 30. 519-539-
2382.
PERFORMING ARTS
AEOLIAN HALL (795 Dundas St) – Ana Moura: Apr
6, 8pm. $30/Adv; $35/Door. Enter the Haggis: Apr
7, 7:30pm. $20/Adv; $25/Door; $15/Sr&St. The Aeolian
Trio: Apr 14, 1:30pm. $20/Adv; $25/Door; $15/
Sr&St. 519-672-7950. Kiwanis Music Festival Piano
Competition ($1,000 award): Apr 24, 8pm. $3/Gen;
$10 Fest VIP Pass. At door.
THE ARTS PROJECT (203 Dundas St) – Scorched:
Apr 3 – 6, 7pm & Apr 6, 2pm. $15/Gen; $12/St.
Stars and Hearts: Underbelly, Apr 10 – 12, 8pm.
$10/Gen. 519-642-2767.
BISHOP CRONYN MEMORIAL CHURCH (442 William
St) – CentreSpace for the Arts Series - Red
Maple, Apr 12, 8pm. $20/Gen; $15/St&Sr. $25 for
catered dinner at 6:30pm. 519-432-5718.
BYRON UNITED CHURCH (420 Boler Rd) – The
Plumbing Factory Brass Band: Celebrating Canada
- Our Home and Native Land, Apr 17, 7:30pm. $15/
Gen; $10/St. 519-471-1250/519-659-3600.
CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL (450 Dundas
St) – Romeo and Juliet: Apr 10 – 12, 7pm. $10/
Gen. 519-675-4431.
CENTENNIAL HALL (550 Wellington St) – Fanshawe
Chorus London & Gerald Fagan Singers:
Mozart’s Requiem, Mar 29, 7pm. $30/Gen; $15/
St. 519-433-9650. Holy Humour Palooza: An Inspirational
Comedy Tour, Apr 2, 7:30pm. $39.50-$47.
In support of the Salvation Army & the Heart and
Stroke Foundation of Canada. 519-672-1967. Orchestra
London Masterworks Series: Tchaikovsky’s
Violin Concerto , Apr 13, 8pm. $41 - $64. 519-679-
8778. Kiwanis Music Festival: Secondary School
Bands, Apr 17, 10am. Challenge Class Secondary
School Bands, Apr 17, 12pm. $3/Gen per event;
$10 Fest VIP Pass. At door. Orchestra London Red
Hot Weekends Series: The Piano Men: The Music
of Elton John & Billy Joel, Apr 19 & 20, 8pm.
$37-$60. 519-679-8778. Kiwanis Music Festival:
Secondary School Orchestras, Apr 23, 10am. Elementary
School Orchestras, Apr 23, 12pm. $3/Gen
per event; $10 Fest VIP Pass. At door. Kiwanis Music
Festival Stars of the Festival Awards Concert: May
28, 7:30pm. $10/Gen; kids 12 & under free. At door.
CENTRAL SECONDARY SCHOOL (509 Waterloo
St) – Kiwanis Music Festival: Piping & drumming
competition, May 11, 8:30am-3:30pm. $3/Gen per
event; $10 Fest VIP Pass. At door.
DUNDAS STREET CENTRE UNITED CHURCH (482
Dundas St) – Kiwanis Music Festival: Class A Sec-
5" x 7" stretched canvas
Easel included
ondary School Choirs, Apr 9, 10am. Challenge
Class Secondary School Choirs, Apr 9, 11am. $3/
Gen per event; $10 Fest VIP Pass. At door. London
Community Orchestra: Schostakovich & Sibelius
featuring violinist Annette-Barbara Vogel. Apr 28,
3pm. $18/Gen; $15/St; $12/St; $5/12 and under.
Tix online or at door.
ELMWOOD AVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (111 Elmwood
Ave E) – Kiwanis Music Festival: Commercial
Contemporary Voice Award, Apr 20, 9pm. $3/
Gen per event; $10 Fest VIP Pass. At door.
FIRST-ST. ANDREW’S UNITED CHURCH (350
Queens Ave) – Kiwanis Music Festival of London
Rose Bowl Competition ($500 awards, $1,000
award): Apr 26, 8pm. $3/Gen per event; $10 Fest
VIP Pass.
FOUR POINTS SHERATON (1150 Wellington Rd)
– Loudly Let the Trumpet Bray: A fundraiser for
London Pro Musica featuring Orchestra London
and guest Darryl Edwards. Tea, British snacks,
sandwiches, desserts will be served. Apr 28, 2:30pm.
$40/Gen. 519-679-8778.
GERMAN CANADIAN CLUB (1 Cove Rd) – Concert:
Great Favourites of the German Art Song, Operetta
& Opera Repertoire featuring Theodore Baerg &
singers from the Don Wright Faculty of Music. Apr
7, 3pm-5pm. $15/Adv; $18/Box offi ce. 519-433-
2901.
GRAND THEATRE (471 Richmond St) – Mom’s
the Word, For Crying Out Loud: Until Apr 6. Dance
Legends, Apr 16 – May 18. $31.64 - $59.89. A
Grand Tasting Event: 50 Shades of Grape, Apr 9,
7pm-10pm. Wine tastings, entertainment, silent
auction. $50/Guest (19+). Student Club: Sneak
peek behind the scenes, see the MainStage productions
and meet cast and crew following the shows.
Thursdays, 6:30pm – 10:15pm, until Apr 25. Now
booking onstage auditions and backstage interviews
for Legally Blonde (2013 Fall High School
Project), students must be in high school in 2013-
14. Please contact kquayle@grandtheatre.com for
bookings. 519-672-8800/1-800-265-1593.
HILLSIDE CHURCH (250 Commissioners Rd E) –
Find your voice! Join the Shades of Harmony every
Monday, 7pm-10pm. Experience and ability to
read music is an asset but not a requirement for
ladies a cappella singing. Voice audition for placement
required. Share the joy of harmony and see if
we are a good fi t for you. Call 519-290-0948/519-
660-4695.
LANDON BRANCH LIBRARY (167 Wortley Rd) – AlvegoRoot
Theatre: 4th Annual Story Evening featuring
Karen Schuessler, Kevin Bice, Patricia Black,
Bill Paul, Tom Siess, Chris McAuley, Gerry Adam,
Adam Corrigan Holowitz, Donna Creighton, Stephen
Holowitz and Dave Nuttall. Apr 19, 7:30pm.
$15/Gen. At door. 519-439-6240.
LONDON CONVENTION CENTRE (300 York St)
– The It Factor: Talent search giving contestants
the opportunity to showcase their artistic talents
in front of leading industry VIPs. Modelling/ TV/
Dance/ Vocal/ Musical theatre and more. Apr 20,
10am-9pm. Registration fee $195. 1-866-906-
0158.
LONDON DISTRICT CHRISTIAN SECONDARY
SCHOOL (24 Braesyde Ave) – Flowers for Algernon:
Apr 12, 13, 19, 20, 7:30pm & Apr 17, 1pm. $12/Gen.
519-455-4360.
LONDON MUSIC CLUB (470 Colborne St) – Shut
The Front Door Improv: Valentino’s Revenge, Apr 5,
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FREE
arts
7:30pm & 9:30pm. $10/Gen. 519-640-6996.
MCMANUS STUDIO THEATRE (471 Richmond St,
Inside the Grand Theatre) – High School Project:
The Taming of the Shrew, Apr 23 – 27. $22.60/
Gen; $16.95/17 & under. 519-672-8800/1-800-265-
1593.
MERCEDES-BENZ LONDON (35 Southdale Rd E) –
The Fisher Nash Gibson Affair: The Ultimate spring
party in fashion, art and bling. DJ, models, artwork
display, see jewellery and the Mercedes-Benz lineup.
Apr 11, 7pm-10pm. $100/Gen. Proceeds to
support VON Middlesex Elgin. 519-670-6422/519-
439-0451.
MUSEUM LONDON (421 Ridout St N) – Fanshawe
College Fashion Design Program: Unbound 2013,
Apr 12, 8pm. $40/Gen. 519-472-8800. Third Thursdays
Series: Mar 21, 7pm-10pm. Meet every third
Thursday for live music, pop-up bars, art making
and tours. $5/Gen (advance tickets recommended).
519-661-0333.
PALACE THEATRE (710 Dundas St) – Mighty Uke:
Apr 7, 7pm. $15/Gen. Musical Theatre Productions:
Zorba! Apr 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 8pm & Apr
7, 13, 14, 2pm. $28/Gen; $20/MTP members; $20/
St; $15/Kids 13 and under. London Poetry Slam Finals:
Apr 21, 7pm. $10/Gen. 519-432-1029.
SILOAM UNITED CHURCH (1240 Fanshawe Park
Rd E) – Forest City Singers: North - Lights, Camera,
Action! May 7, 7:30pm-9:30pm. $15/Gen; Kids
12 and under free. 519-455-9201.
SPRIET FAMILY THEATRE (Covent Garden Market,
130 King St) – Original Kids Theatre Company:
Cinderella the Musical: Apr 18 – 21. Monty Python’s
Spamalot: Apr 24 – 28. $11/Kids, stud; $16/
Gen. 519-679-8989.
ST. JAMES WESTMINSTER CHURCH (115 Askin St)
– Brassroots & Primus: The Sounds of Music, Apr
27, 7:30pm. $20/Gen; $15/St. 519-439-0101/519-
432-7683.
ST. JOHN THE DIVINE PARISH (390 Baseline Rd
W) – Amabile Prima & Primus in concert: Apr 6,
7:30pm. $20/Gen; $15/St; $5/Alumni. info@amabile.com
or at door.
ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL (472 Richmond St) – Orchestra
London Classics and Beyond Series: Mahler:
Songs of the Earth, Apr 24, 8pm. $46/Gen; $19.15/
St. 519-679-8778. Noon Hour Organ Recital Series:
Every Tuesday at 12pm - Mar 29: Paul Merritt. Apr
2: Andrew Keegan Mackriell. Apr 9: Joel VanderZee.
Apr 16: Michael Bloss. Apr 23: Brent Fifi eld. Apr 30:
John Vandertuin. All free. 519-432-3475 x 225.
WESLEY-KNOX UNITED CHURCH (91 Askin St) –
Karen Schuessler Singers: Pathways to Paradise,
Apr 6, 8pm. Adv: $20/Gen; $18/Sr; $10/St. Door:
$22/Gen; $20/Sr; $10/St. Kids 6 – 12 free with
adult. 519-439-0101/519-432-7683. Kiwanis Music
Festival: Pipe Organ Solos, Gerald Bales Award Paul
Westermeyer Service & Hymn Playing Awards, Apr
17, 1pm. $3/Gen per event; $10 Fest VIP Pass. At
door.
WINDERMERE CAFE (200 Collip Circle) – Live
classical guitar by Kevin Love during brunch: Sundays,
11am-2pm. 519-858-5866.
WOLF PERFORMANCE HALL (Central Library, 251
Dundas St) – Jeffery Concert Series: Ariel Quartet,
Apr 6, 8pm. $30/Gen; $25/Sr; $15/St. 519-672-
8800. Spring Concert of Hope featuring Denise
Pelley, Charmaine Bailey, Hey Yah Movement, Duty
Calls. A fundraiser for Educate the Children. Apr 20,
time TBA. $20/Gen. 519-641-7765/519-681-4986.
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LONDON’S LARGEST GENERALLY WELL-READ NEWSPAPER! MARCH 28 TO APRIL 10 • 2013

physical reviews
BIG BAND
CHAMBER MUSIC
KEYBOARD CONCERTOS
CLASSICALCDs
Duke Ellington
Black, Brown and Beige
The music of iconic American composer, arranger, pianist and
band leader Duke Ellington is like a rainbow of colour in a grey
world. This recent release from Naxos brings together a dozen of
the 1000+ compositions that the prolifi c Ellington wrote during his
50 year career, providing an excellent cross-section for the casual
fan, as well as the serious student of his music. Among the standout tracks, the third movement
of Ellington’s unfi nished ballet masterpiece, ‘Les Trois Rois Noirs’ - or ‘Three Black Kings’ - is particularly
evocative. The fi nal section of the piece is a powerful, uplifting dirge for civil rights leader
Martin Luther King, which - despite expressing profound pathos with the insistent repetition of the
main phrase - retains an irrepressible joyfulness throughout. In addition, the effectiveness of the
piece is due in no small part to the accomplished soloing of clarinetist Sal Andolina, whose lyrical
performance imbues Les Trois Rois Noirs with verve and vital personality. Other compositions
of note include the CD’s opening track, ‘Harlem’, Ellington’s tribute to his musical roots and the
place where he made his name, and ‘Take the “A” Train’, the Duke’s world-famous arrangement
of Billy Strayhorn’s classic jazz standard. An American treasure.
~ Chris Morgan
> Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta (conductor)
> Naxos, 2013
Dvorak - Piano Trios
Impossibly beautiful and charged with the indigenous melodies of his
people, the music of Antonin Leopold Dvorak is a study in contrasts.
Firstly, his primary interest and perennial inspiration - the folk songs
of Bohemia and Moravia - tends to be pastoral, lyrical and mysterious,
in an ‘East-meets-West’ kind of way. The mood of his music, brilliantly
summarized in the two piano trios performed on this recent release
from Bridge Records, has an intimacy and immediacy that resists bombast,
deploying precise melodic phrases to realize Dvorak’s aims. In paradox to the intimate world
created with his music, Dvorak was an orchestral composer, a genre which abhors tiny gestures in
favour of the grand and ineffable. So it makes sense that his writing would fi nd appropriate expression
in smaller ensembles and chamber music. Of the pieces presented here, Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor,
op. 90 - universally known as ‘Dumky’- is the most famous, and also the most unusual, in terms of
defying the orthodox writing structure the composer had applied during his artistic career. From the
opening lament of Alexis Pia Gerlach’s cello, through the rejoinder of Maria Bachmann’s violin and
the steady, expressive hands of Jon Klibonoff, the members of acclaimed US instrumentalists Trio Solisti
demonstrate why they have been praised as “the most exciting piano trio in America” by New Yorker
magazine. Dvorak’s work lives and breathes as a consequence of the players’ instrumental acumen, and
this seminal recording is a testament to their efforts. Excellent.
~ Chris Morgan
> Trio Solisti
> Bridge Records, 2013
Bach - Keyboard Concertos
The name Bach is synonymous with music, and in the German state
of Thuringia between 1540 and 1840, there were 77 Bachs who were
musicians. The most revered of them, Johann Sebastian is regarded
by many scholars as a key fi gure in the development of the Western
music, enriching German style with his innovations in counterpoint
and harmonic organization, as well as his integration of rhythms,
melodies and textures from Italy and France. But as this new recording
from Ondine reveals, Johann Sebastian’s children achieved as much acclaim in their day
as their well-known father, and in some cases, even more. A concerto by Carl Philipp Emanuel
Bach - JS’ fi fth child - opens the CD with a breathtakingly fl uid cascade of unbroken notes, played
without pause, fi nessed by the remarkable performance of pianist Anastasia Injushina. Another
son of JS, Johann Christian, who embraced Italian musical traditions - opera specifi cally - composed
the second piece on the recording, whist JS himself wrote the third. An excellent tribute to
the cultural impact of a family dynasty.
~ Chris Morgan
> Hamburger Camerata, Anastasia Injushina (piano)
> Ondine, 2013
Husk: a novel
When death fi rst comes to Sheldon Funk, it is beautiful: “I was all. There
was no I. There was only all.” The scene that follows is the highlight of Corey
Redekop’s Husk, written with simmering wit and detail as Sheldon is wrenched
into zombie consciousness, awakening in the middle of his own autopsy. It
would make for a gripping short story. Instead, the scene is stitched onto a
novel that reads like a zombie’s paperback romance: “I gently pushed away,
separating our bodies as my appetite commanded me to shove a letter opener
into the dimple beneath his Adam’s apple and siphon out the sap.” The absurdities
are stacked gleefully one atop the other. Sheldon pursues his acting
career with the help of plastic surgeon Dr. Rhodes who tells him, “I zink you
are like, who iz it, Typhoid Mary? Do I haff zat right?” He continues to visit his
hateful mother in a nursing home and care for his cat Sofa; he cannibalizes
his boyfriend and preaches at length on issues of politics and morality. The
comedic episodes take on a slapstick fl avour, with zany two-dimensional characters and buckets of intestines and
gore. Husk is written for those serious consumers of horror and zombie fare, and provides food for thought to
readers who don’t mind losing their appetites.
~ Amy Andersen
> Corey Redekop
> ECW Press, 2012 • 307 pages
The Iron Bridge
The protagonists of The Iron Bridge are among the 20th century’s cruelest tyrants
and dictators: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, Pol Pot, Idi Amin,
and Rafael Trujillo. But Anton Piatigorsky gives readers a glimpse of what these
men might have been like as teenagers, lacking the absolute power and erratic, or
even insane behaviours they would later come to possess. Referring to characters
by a short form or nickname, the author does an excellent job getting inside the
minds of his young men and allowing a reader to move past their well-known
history for a short time. Through internal dialogue and actions, the narrative
allows readers to understand something of how and why relatively normal young
men were able to gain power and perform the deeds that made them infamous.
In one story, a young Joseph Stalin, known as Soso, discusses Darwin and Marx
at the monastery where he attends school, while beginning to use methods he
would perfect to maintain power. A young Adolf Hitler fantasizes about a girl and
his future as an artist before making his fateful decision to attempt entry into a
Viennese art school. The tales are historically accurate in their wider details, and Piatigorsky’s imagination effortlessly
fi lls the gaps with realistic ideas and characters. An award-winning playwright, Piatigorsky takes advantage of
our culture’s morbid fascination with his protagonists while leading readers to wonder what these young men could
have become in another time and place. The Iron Bridge displays Piatigorsky’s excellent storytelling ability. His narrative
is fast-paced and absorbing for both history buffs and readers with only a surface knowledge of these six men
responsible for millions of deaths.
~ Adam Shirley
> Anton Piatigorsky
> Goose Lane Editions, 2012 • 270 Pages
Notebook M
Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection has ignited passionate debates
for over a century. Gillian Sayigny’s Notebook M is a recently released
poetical offering that invites readers to take a fresh look at the subject
by stepping outside of the traditional scientifi c-religious dichotomy.
Instead of pitting god against nature, Sayigny takes fragments from
Darwin’s original notebooks and stitches them together for a more
personalised perspective on the topic. The poet’s lyrical phrasing brilliantly
captures a sense of the scientist as he may have been, both as
a child and as a man. Although the work is pure imagination, readers
may still fi nd themselves pondering the authenticity of the history
presented. Sayigny tosses together a mix of general science, logic,
rules and ideals and melds them into dream-like stanzas that seem to
emerge from the recesses of Darwin’s mind and memory. While staying
true to her own convictions, Sayigny’s fi rst poetic outing remains a
playful and profound sojourn into the thoughts and theories of a man
who was daring enough to live outside the conventions and rules of his time. An enjoyable read that just
might spark a little evolution in your own life.
~ Lauren Rushton
> Gillian Savigny
> Insomniac Press, 2012 • 112 pages
MARCH 28 TO APRIL 10 • 2013 LONDON’S LARGEST GENERALLY WELL-READ NEWSPAPER!
21
FICTION
FICTION
POETRY
BOOKS

DAVID BOWIE •
THE NEXT DAY (SONY)
After a ten-year hiatus since 2003’s
Reality that saw layer upon layer of
second-guessing, innuendo and rumours
of ill-health and/or imminent
demise fi lling the gap created by his
absence, David Bowie casually released ‘Where Are We Now?’ on
his 66th birthday this past January. In the blizzard of online celebration
that greeted his return to recording, many long-time
fans wondered if the album itself would match the beauty of the
single. The Next Day is a welcome return to form although the
mix of Reality-era sonic forms and some of his darkest, angriest
lyrics in many a year require repeat listens before the record begins
to offer up its hidden charms. As always the musicianship
and production work are solidly up to Bowie’s ever-stringent
standards. – Rod Nicholson A
ERIC CLAPTON •
OLD SOCK (FAB DISTRIBUTION)
As he approaches his 68th birthday, Eric Clapton
shows no signs of letting up just yet and although
his new album’s title, choice of material and the
self-shot album photos that seem themed toward
autumn and winter images could be interpreted
as hints that he’s noticed the shadows are starting to get long, Old Sock
rolls along with plenty of style and spirit. Anyone looking for his trademark
burning blues turnarounds won’t fi nd much traction here, however Clapton
doesn’t miss a chance to show off his unmistakeable growth as a singer
as he comes up with some very stylish takes on chestnuts like ‘Our Love Is
Here To Stay’ and ‘The Folks Who Live On The Hill’ that totally transcend
any tendency toward schmaltz. Recommended. – Rod Nicholson B+
SOUND CITY • REAL TO REEL
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (SONY)
This soundtrack from Nirvana/Foo Fighters
mainstay Dave Grohl’s loving documentary lookback
at L.A.’s tatty little Sound City recording studio
where everyone from Johnny Cash to Cheap Trick
to Neil Young to Nirvana recorded ground-breaking
albums is a fi ne companion to the fi lm itself, which has garnered overwhelmingly
positive reviews in its own right. Utilizing the diverse Sound City
Players, a communing of musicians as diverse as Stevie Nicks, Trent Reznor,
Rick Springfi eld, Krist Novoselic, Rick Nielsen, Pat Smear, Josh Homme, Jim
Keltner and Paul McCartney and the vintage Neve recording console rescued
from the premises before the studio closed awhile back, Grohl has come up
with a strong collection of performances and material that recall the glory
days of pre-digital recordings at Sound City itself. – Rod Nicholson A
CHARTTOPPERS
NEWRELEASES
WILD BELLE •
ISLES (SONY)
Brother and sister duo Wild
Belle (Elliot and Natalie Bergman)
have come up with a
sound that’s a long way from the
Chicago environs they hail from.
On their debut album, Isles they manage to take an intriguing
mix of electro-reggae, vintage beatbox grooves,
early 80s synth-pop, stir in the lazy hazy vocals from
Natalie that remind of a sleepy Macy Gray and create a
little sonic world all their own. You can either drop in,
order a drink and be late for your bedtime or pass this
one by at your own risk. A word to the wise would be to
check out this little vacation in sound if you’re looking
for something new and fun to add to the soundtrack of
your life. -- Rod Nicholson A
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MEGAN HILTY •
IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME (SONY)
Having proved her talents on Broadway and
in the TV series Smash, Megan Hilty has released
a debut solo album that should gain
her some new fans as she moves into a recording
career that will match her acting
success. Although she doesn’t move predictably into a dramatically
emphatic singing style that one might expect after her stage shows,
Hilty deals with the material from a host of established songwriters
for hire in a more nuanced fashion, ducking some of the more generic
moments here and there while bringing genuine emotion to the lyrics
and overall ambience of the record. The end result being that It Happens
All The Time has a polished, classy feel to it from beginning to
end. A promising fi rst effort. – Rod Nicholson B+
JOCELYN DRAINIE • THIEF:
MOODS IN D (INDIE)
While the area of ambient music
has produced a great number of forgettable
and pretentious works of ‘art’
over the last few decades, there have
been times when all the wispiness
and intellectuality drops away, emotion takes over and something
special happens. Fans of anyone from Terry Riley to Brian
Eno to Bill Laswell will certainly be able to fi nd some purchase
in the gorgeous sonic landscapes Jocelyn Drainie conjures here.
Although the pieces on Thief – Moods In D were inspired by the
loss of her husband, Drainie somehow manages to express both
her grief and her love in equal measure and there are points
where this music takes on a quality that manages to be almost
cinematically widescreen and intimately introspective at the
same time. -- Rod Nicholson Performance: A/Production: B+
JOHANNES LINSTEAD •
TALES OF A GYPSY (INDIE)
One of the most popular (and populous)
areas of the ‘world music scene’ is the lone
performer and his trusty nylon-string Spanish
guitar. Buzzwords like ‘gypsy’, ‘passionate’,
‘sultry’ and the like get thrown about by label execs, promo folks and
such like who keep the music business stumbling around from day to
day. So here’s another contender in the person of Johannes Linstead,
who fi ts the profi le nicely: fast fi ngers, lots of swaying rhythms, he’s
even got the word ‘gypsy’ in the title of his album. And for those who
like their music to remain agreeable wallpaper, Tales Of A Gypsy delivers
the goods. One can just imagine listening to this and wondering
what might be a nice after-dinner wine before calling the waiter
over…-- Rod Nicholson Performance: C+/Production: B
HOTINDIES
CHRIST VS. KRISHNA •
MOVE AND SCALE (INDIE)
Toronto-based pop-rockers Christ vs. Krishna
are the brainchild of frontman Pank Bagga, who
takes early Eighties UK pop stylings and mixes
them with a slightly more modern ambience to
achieve a fresh sound using the jangly guitars of The Smiths and sonic
touches familiar to fans of Tears For Fears and The Cure without necessarily
heading into the darker corners those bands sometimes explored lyrically.
The bright sonic ambience on this seven-song EP draws the listener
in with its fi ne vocal harmonies, chorus hooks and clean production values
while the lyric content often tends toward introspective thoughts on relationships
and how they affect our lives. Move And Scale is an encouraging
step forward and a further refi nement of their particular brand of light
and shade. – Rod Nicholson Performance: B+/Production: B+
physical reviews
RAVENSCODE •
DISTRICT OF BROKEN HOPE (SLR)
Based in Windsor, Ravenscode formed in 2011 and
to date have released two self-fi nanced EPs. According
to their online bio, their songs have also been heard
at almost every OHL hockey game, as well as at the
home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings. And much like
the game of hockey, many of the tunes on the band’s full-length album, District of
Broken Hope are fast, aggressive and full of energy, starting with the album opener,
‘Hero.’ In spite of the fact that the band has been together for a relatively short
time, this four-man unit has already established a solid rapport with each other.
Brian Daniel and Justin Bezaire share vocal/guitar duties and are ably supported
by Michael Davidson’s bass lines and Drew Larsh’s impressive drum licks. In contrast
to the CD’s opening track, the album ends with the soft sounds of a piano and
strings on the ballad, ‘My Escape.’ -- John Sharpe Performance: B/Production: B
JAMES DANDERFER • THE HUMMING
BIRD BRIGADE (REIGNING PARADE)
Vancouver-based clarinetist/composer James
Danderfer has a great affi nity for the music of the
Crescent City, as evidenced by his latest release, The
Humming Bird Brigade. In fact, Danderfer refers to
the CD’s sound as “New Orleans brass band-inspired” and indeed it is. Working
with a rollicking 10-piece band, Danderfer runs through a program fi lled
with joyful exuberance and fabulous solo efforts from most of the group’s
members. Things get off to a rockin’ start with a rendition of the traditional
‘South Rampart Street Parade,’ the only cover tune on this 9-track collection.
Mixing New Orleans sounds with more traditional and contemporary big
band infl uences, Danderfer has come up with a fresh approach to a familiar
genre. Unafraid to experiment, Danderfer even manages to incorporate Kia
Kadiri’s hip-hop/soul vocals into the funky original, ‘Flash.’ -- John Sharpe
Performance: B+/Production: B+
SUUNS • IMAGES DU FUTUR
(SECRETLY CANADIAN)
Montreal post-punk/futurist/minimalist sonic
aggregate Suuns explore darker, less noise-oriented
terrain than on their 2010 debut Zeroes QC. While
that album often strayed into territory more likely
to be trodden by bands like Godspeed You! Black
Emperor, the sounds on Images Du Futur are more often, as the title suggests,
a kind of off-kilter, sometimes muted dream-trip through obscure images and
impressions. On tracks like ‘Powers Of Ten,’ things do crank up and that whole
whisper to a scream crescendo thing comes into play, while ‘Edie’s Dream’
trundles along in a strangely compelling way as it wanders up and down the
aisles of some supermarket of nightmares somewhere. By turns spooky, emotional
and cold as ice, this album continues to intrigue and reward with repeat
listens. – Rod Nicholson Performance: B+/Production: B+ Editor’s Note:
Suuns, wsg The Darcys, play Call The Offi ce on Tuesday, April 9.
BUTTONFLY • THE BODIES WE LEAVE
(INDIE)
Recorded at Andy Magoffi n’s House of Miracles
studio in Cambridge, Ontario, The Bodies We Leave
is the latest four-track EP from the London-based
pop-rock collective known as buttonfl y. It’s helpful
that the group has included lyrics among the liner
notes because these are tunes that deviate from the classic ‘moon-June-swoon’
formula of songwriting. Referencing a poem by David McFadden called ‘The
Death of Greg Curnoe,’ the centrepiece of the EP is ‘Be In The Now,’ a tune
inspired by the tragic death of the noted cyclist/artist in 1992. The EPs closing
track, ‘Suspended In Mid-Air’ is a rather bitter ballad about a former band
member – real or imagined – that has gone astray. Word is that buttonfl y are
getting closer to releasing the full-length album they’ve been working on for a
number of years. If it’s half as interesting as this EP, it will be worth the wait. –
John Sharpe Performance: B+/Production: B+ Editor’s Note: buttonfl y, wsg
Gypsy Ghosts and DJ Media Frenzy, plays the APK on April 13.
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The Math To True Love
You need to tell men to never be the
fi rst to say those “three little words.” A
woman will tell you she’s ready to hear
them by telling you fi rst. It seems the
dating gurus agree: When a man says
“I love you” fi rst, he throws the attraction
physics all off because he lowers
his value in the woman’s subconscious.
--Concerned Guy
When you’re looking into a woman’s
eyes and there’s that awkward moment
of silence, there are plenty of things you
can say besides “I love you” -- like, “I was
going to say something, but now I’m not”
or “Have I told you I’ve started drinking
the blood of freshly killed unicorns?”
It is wise to avoid spewing mush all
over a woman on, say, the third date. The
premature “I love you” tends to translate
as “I really don’t know you, beyond how
you like your steak, but I love any woman
who doesn’t block my calls or spot
me coming down the sidewalk and duck
into a real estate offi ce and beg them to
hide her.” Of course, what really lowers
a man’s “value in the woman’s subconscious”
is being someone who needs a
“dating guru” to help him be calculating;
he can’t just be. Women value men who
don’t seem to be living by others’ dictates
-- men who are spontaneous and fun and
don’t have a faraway look in their eyes
because they’re trying to recall something
they heard on some dating webinar.
Now, a lot of men have childhoods that
don’t exactly lead them to walk the planet
feeling like they own the place. So, it’s
understandable if you began your dating
life as a wimpy, approval-seeking suckup,
but if you continue along those lines,
you’re a lazy, wimpy, approval-seeking
suckup. Having value in a woman’s eyes
takes having value in your own, which
takes doing the work to develop self-respect
instead of just fencing off that huge
sinkhole in your self so no squirrels or
neighborhood dogs fall in.
Once you have self-respect, it’ll seem ri-
?
diculous to pull out some dating calculus
book to fi gure out what to say to a woman
and when. The right words will just
fl ow at the right time out of genuine feeling
that’s developed between you. Sure,
there’s always that chance that some
woman who seemed into you will have
an attack of the commitment heebies
or decide that she doesn’t feel the same
way. If you’re more of a man’s man than
a worm’s worm, this won’t be a statement
on your worth. It’s just a sign that you
need to look for a woman who wants
you as much as you want her. If you’re
secure, chances are you’ll eventually fi nd
a partner who won’t want to leave you --
and not just because you always open the
door for her when she gets that look in
her eye that says, “I can’t wait one more
moment to pee on the neighbors’ rosebushes.”
Overthinking Of You
My fi ance and I split up three months
ago. Our relationship was serious and
lovely, but we just weren’t feeling it
anymore. We are friendly and communicate
frequently but avoid awkward
topics -- like dating other people. We’re
in the same industry, and I would hate
for someone to snap a picture of me
and a date and put it on Facebook for
him to stumble on. Wouldn’t it be better
if he learned I’m seeing somebody
else from me, and vice versa?
--Tiptoeing Forward
Can’t you just let him get his information
about you the old-fashioned way,
by sneaking over with a tall ladder and
peering through your blinds? Dating other
people after ending an engagement
is an awkward topic -- which seems the
perfect reason to continue to avoid discussing
it with your now ex-fi ance. But
say somebody does snap a picture of you
and a date and toss it up on Facebook.
Unless your ex has only 12 Facebook
friends or he’s monitoring Facebook like
a bald eagle hovering over a prairie rat,
he might miss the photo. And even if he
does see it, assuming it doesn’t involve
tongue, who’s to say whether it’s you and
your next candidate for fi ance or you
and some guy who dropped by your offi
ce? Although you two “weren’t feeling it
anymore” and it’s natural that you’d both
be looking to feel it with other people,
once you’ve loved somebody, you probably
can’t help but feel a little pang at the
thought of them blithely falling into the
arms of somebody else. So, maybe consider
ambiguity a gift -- one that lets you
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believe the deadening silence between
you is the sound of him in his garage
building a drone camera to spy on your
every move.
Stammer Time
I can’t talk to really pretty girls. If
I’m talking to a girl I’m not that interested
in or a dude, I’m golden. But
if I’m attracted to a girl, my thoughts
get totally scrambled. After a party, I
walked this sweet, gorgeous girl to
her car. She said some funny or cute
thing about me, and I meant to say
something witty back. Instead, I just
said, “Huh.” Somehow, it was all I had
at that moment. It felt too awkward to
keep standing there, so I just mumbled
goodbye and walked to my car. Pathetic,
huh?
--Kicking Myself
It’s good to keep a woman guessing --
but not as to whether you want her to
go out with you or give you the Heimlich
maneuver.
A Dutch study confi rmed what you and
most of us already know -- that talking to
a hot woman can turn a man’s brain into
a pudding cup. The researchers -- a team
led by Dr. Johan C. Karremans -- did the
study after one of them was chatting up a
“very attractive girl” he’d just met, intent
on impressing her, but when she asked
him where he lived, he suddenly couldn’t
remember his street address.
University of Chicago researcher Dr.
Sian Beilock, author of “Choke” -- a book
about overcoming performance anxiety in
sports, business, and the arts -- explains
that we have different types of memory.
The type crapping out on you every time
your head says “Well, hello, beautiful!” is
“working memory,” the cognitive horsepower
that allows you to hold relevant
information in mind (and protect that
information from disappearing) while
you’re trying to do something else. Stressing
about what a woman might think of
you and overthinking things you normally
do without much thought, like tossing
around witty banter, depletes working
memory resources that would otherwise
be available -- maybe to the point where
you fi nd yourself glancing around the
bar for help recalling the simplest facts
about yourself: “My name? Uh…Bud. Bud
Light.”
You stop the pretty ladies from pulling
the fi re alarm in your head and evacuating
your every thought the same way you,
haw-haw, get to Carnegie Hall -- practice.
Beilock lays out numerous examples that
suggest that the more you practice under
pressure the less likely you’ll be to choke
when the stress is on. For example, golf-
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ers who had their putting practice sessions
videotaped and judged by coaches
did much better in competition than those
who practiced without scrutiny. You, likewise,
would probably be helped by going
out and practicing hitting on hot women
with your friends watching in the wings
or -- better yet, to raise the stakes -- with
them watching and placing bets with you
on how you’ll do. To avoid self-conscious
overthink, shift your focus from fretting
about what a woman thinks of you to
having a good time saying things you
fi nd interesting and fun. With practice,
words should stop deserting you and you
should have fewer grammatical accidents,
making you far less likely to compliment
a beautiful woman on how smashing she
looks with, “Drop dead, gorgeous.”
Speed Mating
This guy and I ended up having sex
on the fi rst date. I asked him whether
he’d done this before and still had a relationship,
and he said yes, but it didn’t
last. He said that for our next date, we
should do something not involving sex
and said we should meet for coffee on
Friday. He texted to say the sex was
great, and I told him I hope he doesn’t
feel different about me, and he said
he doesn’t. But, now he’s texting me
much less, and Friday came and went
with no mention of getting together.
--Huge Mistake?
There are two surefi re ways to see that
a guy sticks around after sex on the fi rst
date: handcuffi ng him to the headboard
or developing magical powers to control
men and small appliances with your hair.
Otherwise, you should assume that sex
on the fi rst date will be sex on the last
date. This isn’t to say it necessarily will
be. But no matter how good a man’s intentions,
he can’t reprogram male psychology,
which evolved to push him to
seek sex without commitment with as
many women as he can. (All the better
to leave lots of offspring to pass on his
genes.) What keeps a man coming back
aren’t good intentions; it takes an emotional
connection that overwhelms his
urge to be on to the next. So, whenever
it’s possible you’ll want a particular guy
in your life for more than an afternoon,
see that you take things slowly enough
for an emotional bond to develop. In other
words, if you wind up on your back on
the fi rst date, he’d better be standing over
you asking, “Oh, my gosh…you okay?”
© 2013, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved.
Read Amy Alkon’s book: “I SEE RUDE PEOPLE:
One woman’s battle to beat some manners into
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FOLLOW THE
BOURBON TRAIL
It’s the storied American land of Daniel Boone and
Abraham Lincoln, of rolling meadows, limestonefi
ltered streams, and cool hardwood forests.
It’s also the state that fi rst distilled the honey-brown
elixir the world knows as American whiskey. Welcome to
bourbon country - the Kentucky Bourbon Trail awaits!
Launched in 1999 by the Kentucky Distillers’ Association
to promote the state’s unique industry, the bourbon
trail was initiated to give visitors a fi rsthand look at
the art and science of crafting bourbon, and to provide
education about the rich history and proud tradition of
bourbon production.
The origins of bourbon - a barrel-aged distilled spirit
made primarily from corn - stretches back to 18th century
Kentucky, when farmers used excess crops to create
the liquor.
Since that time, generations of Kentuckians have continued
the time-honored tradition using a process that
THEREʼS NO SHORTAGE OF BOURBON WAITING FOR VISITORS
TO THE KENTUCKY BOURBON TRAIL
has remained largely unchanged from the one used
centuries ago.
In 2013, bourbon is a signature industry in the state
that helps create 9,000 jobs. It generates more than $125
million in tax revenue annually, and is a international
symbol of Kentucky’s cultural status
Tourism to the state is on the rise as well, with nearly
2.5 million visitors from all 50 US states and 25 countries
tripping the bourbon trail in the last fi ve years.
Bluegrass byways winding through the region make
for a great road trip. These lanes, including 31E, 52,
127, 60, among others, connect Louisville, Bardstown,
and Frankfort in a large triangle, taking in numerous
distilleries offering free tours and tastings and revealing
pockets of rich southern history.
A drive along the bourbon trail provides glimpses of
white-water rapids and grazing thoroughbred horses -
both great for riding - and even whiffs of mint growing
wild along the roadsides. Juleps, anyone?
The heart of bourbon country lies about 64 kilometres
south of Louisville, where Knob Creek winds through
shallow hills to join the Rolling Fork River. At this site in
1780, Waddie Boone - a relative to Daniel - established a
small distillery, one of the fi rst in Kentucky.
Thirty-one years later, in 1811, farmer Thomas Lincoln
moved into a farm on Knob Creek, not far from the
distillery, along with his wife, daughter, and young son,
Abraham. The cabin was the source of lasting memories
for the 16th president of the United States.
Today Knob Creek is better known as the name of one
of several boutique bourbons produced along the route
that have gained popularity over the past decade.
A trip to Bardstown is a must for those who travel the
bourbon trail. Get a walking-tour map from the Bardstown’s
Welcome Center upon arrival. The map lists 48
historic buildings in the city.
Grab a bite at the Old Talbott Tavern, where bourbon
has been served for more than two centuries. Next door,
fi nd the 1819 Nelson County Jail, once the oldest working
jail in Kentucky, but now a bedand-breakfast
called Jailer’s Inn.
One of the best meals in
Bardstown is My Old Kentucky
Dinner Train, an actual train
restaurant that departs from
the city’s stone depot for a 64
kilometre lunch or dinner excursion.
The train has three beautifully
restored 1940s dining
cars and two 50-year-old diesel
locomotives. The Eisenhower
Car, which in 1969 carried the
family of the 34th President
during his funeral procession, is
alleged to be haunted.
Of course, there are numerous
opportunities in Bardstown to fi nd out more about the
drink that made Kentucky famous. At the Oscar Getz Museum
of Whiskey History, learn about whiskey in general,
and bourbon in particular.
Then visit the Bourbon Heritage Center run by Heaven
Hill Distilleries, featuring historical exhibits and guided
tours of the Heaven Hill plant. The company also hosts
the annual Kentucky Bourbon Festival, held this year
from September 17-22.
It’s a little off the bourbon trail, but no trip to Kentucky
would be complete with a visit to Abraham Lincoln’s
birthplace at 2995 Lincoln Farm Road in Hodgenville.
That simple cabin located in a green, idyllic valley
started a lasting legacy in American politics. It’s a metaphor
for Kentucky itself, and the ideal the founders of the
bourbon trail have sought to preserve with their efforts
Distilled in time, Kentucky - like its bourbon - has
achieved greatness.
~ Chris Morgan
SHORTTAKES
Nashville skyline
and screen-time
Organizers for the Nashville Film Festival -
which takes place in its namesake city from April
18 to 25 - recently announced their special presentation
line-up, which includes fi lms that will
open and close the annual event. The festival -
now in its 44th year - will screen eight special
presentation fi lms, culled from 3,004 projects
submitted to organizers for consideration. These
MUD, STARRING MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY,
WILL BE THE OPENING FEATURE OF THE
NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL
fi lms include the opening night showing of Mud,
a coming-of-age drama written and directed by
Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter) that
stars Matthew McConaughey (The Wedding Planner,
Magic Mike) and Vanessa Redgrave (Mission
Impossible, Coriolanus). Closing out the festival
this year will be Unfi nished Song, directed by
Paul Andrew Williams (The Cottage, London to
Brighton) and also starring Redgrave, Terence
Stamp (Superman II, Star Wars: The Phantom
Menace), Gemma Arterton (Clash of the Titans,
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters) and Christopher
Eccleston (Dr. Who, Gone in 60 Seconds).
Also showing at this year’s fest: Civil War-era
drama Dead Man’s Burden, the Sundance-acclaimed
The Kings of Summer and The Spectacular
Now, a critically lauded romantic comedy.
In addition, Oscar-nominated Canadian director
Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell will be screened, as
will the Academy award-nominated picture Kon-
Tiki, and Sundance favorite, Sightseers, directed
by Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace, Kill List). “From
top to bottom, this is the best year since I’ve been
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here,” artistic director Brian Owens said. “These
are the fi lms that have caught the attention of
the industry at Sundance and the Academy. I’m
so pleased to be able to bring them to Nashville
for our festival.”
Hot Docs:
20 years young
Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary
Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
The largest event of its kind in North America,
Hot Docs takes place in Toronto from April 25 -
May 5, and showcases the best in Canadian and
international documentary fi lms. This year, Hot
Docs will screen 205 projects from 43 countries
in 11 different programs. Some of these programs
include Special Presentations, featuring awardwinning
fi lms, high profi le subjects and special
events; Canadian Spectrum, a competitive panel
of compelling Canadian stories and perspectives;
International Spectrum, a curated competition
of diverse works from around the world; and Focus
on Peter Mettler, showcasing of the visionary
Canadian’s fi lmmaking career. Canadian director
Shawney Cohen’s The Manor is slated to open
Hot Docs this year. The story about a seedy hotel
and strip club in Guelph, ON, and the family that
owns the business offers astonishingly fresh insights
into the nature of work, dependence and
love. “This is an incredible story and a stunning
fi lm. To be able to open the festival with a fi lm
by a new talent in Canadian fi lmmaking like
Shawney Cohen is a real joy,” program director
Charlotte Cook said.
SXSW 2013:
That’s a wrap!
The 20th annual South by Southwest Film
Conference and Festival (SXSW) concluded on
March 17, following the announcement of audience
fi lm award winners one day earlier. Among
the victors, Destin Daniel Cretton’s Short Term
12, a engrossing and disturbing foray into the
world of foster care, took the prize in the narrative
feature category. Earlier in the week, the
fi lm won the jury award for the same honor. E.L.
Katz’s gory thriller Cheap Thrills won the audience
award in the midnighters section, and was
one of the few movies to receive distribution out
of the festival (it was picked-up by Drafthouse
Films). The 2013 SXSW Film Festival hosted a
total of 133 features, consisting of 78 world premieres,
13 North American premieres and nine
US premieres, helmed by 76 fi rst-time directors.
A total 110 short fi lms will screen as part of ten
overall shorts programs. The nearly 250 fi lms
were selected from over 5,700 submissions, comprised
of approximately 2,100 features and 3,600
shorts.
~ Chris Morgan

G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of
Cobra (2009) and the second
production based on the popular
American toy and comic
book franchise. The fi lm was directed
by Jon Chu (Step Up 2:
The Streets, Justin Bieber: Never
Say Never) and features an ensemble
cast, starring Bruce Willis
(Twelve Monkeys, The Sixth
Sense) and Dwayne Johnson
(Snitch, The Scorpion King), with
Channing Tatum, Arnold Vosloo,
Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce, and
Lee Byung-hun reprising their
roles from the fi rst fi lm. Captain
Duke Hauser (Tatum) and his
elite team of soldiers are framed
as traitors and targeted for destruction
when the US president
(Pryce) gives orders to have
them terminated. Little do the
Joes know that it’s Cobra spy
Zartan who’s calling the shots in
Washington, and that the president
has been captured. But the
surviving members of the G.I.
Joe team join forces with Joe
Colton (Willis) to bring Zartan
down and save the world with
their top secret black op, ‘Second
American Revolution’. Also,
Snake Eyes vs. Storm Shadow in
a melee not to be missed. Rainbow
Cinemas (PG).
Jack the Giant Slayer
Fantasy-adventure fi lm directed
by Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects,
X-Men) and based on the
Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tales.
When a young farmer (Nicholas
Hoult) accidently opens the long
sealed gateway to the world of
giants, he unwittingly also restarts
an ancient war between
the giants and humans. Thought
only to have been characters of
legends, the giants attempt to
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reclaim the land they lost centuries
ago. Now the young farmer
must join the fi ght to save not
only the lives of the people of
the kingdom, but also the life
of the princess (Eleanor Tomlinson)
whom the giants have kidnapped.
Rainbow Cinemas (PG).
Olympus Has Fallen
Action thriller directed by Antoine
Fuqua (Training Day, King
Arthur) and starring Gerard Butler
(The Phantom of the Opera,
Tomorrow Never Dies), Aaron
Eckhart (Erin Brockovich, The
Dark Knight) and Morgan Freeman
(The Shawshank Redemption,
Driving Miss Daisy). When
a North Korean terrorist mastermind
(Rick Yune) kidnaps
the US president (Eckhart) and
captures the White House, disgraced
former Secret Service
agent Mike Banning (Butler)
fi nds himself trapped within the
building as well. While the authorities
attempt to respond, it’s
up to Mike to use his experience
and inside knowledge to take
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the president, and take down
the terrorist mastermind before
an even bigger disaster happens.
“[The movie] benefi ts from
Antoine Fuqua’s tense direction
and a strong performance from
Gerard Butler,” wrote one reviewer.
Rainbow Cinemas (14A).
Oz The Great and Powerful
Based on L. Frank Baum’s Oz
novels, Oz The Great and Powerful
is a prequel set 20 years
before the original Wizard of Oz
story. When Oscar Diggs (James
Franco), a small-time circus magician
with dubious ethics, is
hurled away from dusty Kansas
to the vibrant Land of Oz, he
thinks he’s hit the jackpot - fame
and fortune are his for the taking.
Then he meets three witches,
Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora
(Rachel Weisz), and Glinda
(Michelle Williams), who are not
convinced he is the great wizard
everyone’s been expecting.
Reluctantly drawn into the epic
problems facing the Land of Oz
and its inhabitants, Oscar must
fi nd out who is good and who is
evil before it is too late. Putting
his magical arts to use through
illusion, ingenuity - and even
a bit of wizardry - Oscar transforms
himself not only into the
great and powerful Wizard of
Oz but into a better man as well.
Rainbow Cinemas (PG).
Quartet
British dramatic comedy based
on Ronald Harwood’s play of the
same name and directorial debut
of acclaimed American actor
Dustin Hoffman. Three retired
members of an opera quartet -
Cissy (Pauline Collins), Wilf (Billy
Connolly) and Reginald (Tom
Courtenay) - live in Beecham
House retirement home and
perform a concert every year for
Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday. However,
when Reginald’s ex-wife
Jean (Maggie Smith) - the fourth
and most famous member of the
quartet - arrives at Beecham, old
rivalries are stirred-up and tempers
fl are, calling into question
whether the show will go on, or
if it’s time for curtain call. A celebration
of the vitality possessed
by performers whose time in the
spotlight has passed. “The fi lm
is as easy to take as a freshly
baked scone with Devonshire
cream,” reviewer Leonard Maltin
wrote. Hyland Cinema (PG).
Searching for Sugar Man
Rodriquez was a folk rock icon
who never was, but should have
been. His story is the subject of
Searching for Sugar Man, a critically
lauded documentary about
the Detroit-based musician who
wrote and recorded two commercially
unsuccessful albums
in the early 1970s, Cold Fact
(1970) and Coming From Reality
(1971). While Rodriquez’s
songs didn’t resonate with North
American audiences, the music
caught on in South Africa, inexplicably
becoming part of the
soundtrack to the growing antiapartheid
movement of the time,
and selling over 100,000 units
in the process. But in a strange
twist of fate, the man who made
the music would remain unaware
of its success overseas for
decades, until two resourceful
fans from Cape Town tracked
him down, and brought him to
South Africa for a series of sold-
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Silver Linings Playbook
Academy Award-nominated picture
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and silver linings appear in both
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The Call
Thriller directed by Brad Anderson
(The Machinist, Fringe). Veteran
911 operator Jordan Turner
(Halle Berry) is suddenly forced
to confront past fears when
she receives a call from Casey
(Abigail Breslin), a distressed
teenager who’s been abducted.
In order to rescue the girl, Jordan
must confront the horrors
she once experienced, and in
the process come face-to-face
with a deranged killer (Michael
Eklund) who’s not yet ready to
fi nish his violent game of cat
and mouse with her. Rainbow
Cinemas (14A).
The Croods
Computer-animated adventure
comedy fi lm produced by
DreamWorks, written and directed
by Kirk DeMicco and Chris
Sanders. In a prehistoric era
known as Croodacious, the creatures
and landscapes are bizarre
and alien, unlike anything in the
modern world. Earth was still
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young at that time, and Mother
Nature had yet to invent the fl ora
and fauna we know today. One
day, an earthquake strikes, and
a caveman named Grug (Nicolas
Cage) and his family are forced
to leave everything behind in
search of a new home. Things
soon go from bad to worse
when Grug and his family come
across a nomad named Guy
(Ryan Reynolds), and Grug’s oldest
daughter (Emma Stone) falls
for him. Things get even more
complicated when the nomad’s
search for “tomorrow” comes at
odds with Grug’s reliance on the
traditions of yesterday. Critical
consensus for the movie indicates
that it is solidly entertaining
for families seeking a fastpaced
and humorous cartoon
adventure. “The Croods is just
good, goofy fun, for a generation
too young to have met Bamm-
Bamm,” wrote Washington Post
reviewer Michael O’Sullivan.
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The Host
Sci-fi movie adapted from author
Stephenie Meyer’s novel
of the same name and directed
by Andrew Niccol (Gattaca,
Lord of War). The world has
been invaded by an unseen enemy,
and humans have become
hosts for these invaders - called
‘souls’. Most of humanity has
succumbed, their minds taken
over while their bodies remain
intact. When Melanie (Saoirse
Ronan), one of the few remaining
“wild” humans, is captured,
she is doomed to die. Wanderer,
the invading soul who has
been given Melanie’s body, was
warned about the challenges of
living inside humans: the overwhelming
emotions, the glut of
senses, the too-vivid memories.
But Wanderer didn’t expect the
former tenant of the body she
was given to refuse relinquishing
possession of her mind.
When outside forces make both
host and hosted unwilling al-
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lies, Melanie and Wanderer set
off on a dangerous and uncertain
search for the man they
both love. Rainbow Cinemas
(PG).
The Impossible
English-language Spanish disaster
drama thriller directed by
Juan Antonio Bayona and written
by Sergio G. Sánchez. The
fi lm is based on the experience
of María Belón and her family
during the 2004 Indian Ocean
tsunami. Maria (Naomi Watts),
Henry (Ewan McGregor) and
their three sons (Tom Holland,
Samuel Joslin, Oaklee Pendergast)
start their winter family
vacation in Thailand, looking
forward to sun and fun in the
tropical paradise. On December
26, everything changes when a
tsunami hits, destroying their
resort, and putting everybody’s
lives in jeopardy. Hyland Cinema
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Comedy loosely based on the
work of illusionists like David
Copperfi eld, Chris Angel and
- of course - Siegfried and Roy.
Popular magicians Burt Wonderstone
(Steve Carell) and Anton
Lovecraft (Steve Buscemi) are
long-time Las Vegas favorites,
but their show has become stale.
Meanwhile, an up-and-coming
street magician named Steve
Gray (Jim Carrey) is stealing
their audience. Burt becomes
cynical and jaded, but when he
bumps into his original mentor,
Rance Hanson (Alan Arkin), he
remembers why he wanted to
become a magician in the fi rst
place. With help from magic
assistant Jane (Olivia Wilde),
Rance inspires Burt to renew
his passion for illusion and win
his fans back. Rainbow Cinemas
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