GREATER HAMILTON’S INDEPENDENT VOICE AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 VOL. 25 NO. 33

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05 LITERARY INSIDEROBIN ZEE THIS ISSUE AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 08 COVER WOOLY MANTIS FORUM FOOD 05 PERSPECTIVE Joe Biden 10 Dining Guide 05 LITERARY Boarderline Me MOVIES MUSIC 16 REVIEW Good Boys 08 Hamilton Music Notes 17 Movie Reviews 11 Live Music Listing ETC. MUSIC 18 General Classifieds 07 THEATRE Twelfth Night 18 REAL ESTATE 1 Billion 07 THEATRE No Change In The... 19 Free Will Astrology 19 Adult Classifieds 370 MAIN STREET WEST, HAMILTON, L8P 1K2 HAMILTON 905.527.3343 FAX 905.527.3721 VIEW FOR ADVERTISING INQUIRIES: 905.527.3343 X102

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4 AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 VIEW [FEATURE] by MICHAEL TERRY This is already looking to be an man at this point, and you can hear him that will present the biggest difficulties BIDEN BEGINS TO BREAK untenable approach. As time marches using crutches of speech like ‘look, here’s to Joe making it all the way to the gen- on, Biden gets older, somehow rapidly the deal’ on the countless occasions he eral election. Like Trump, he keeps AS THE WEEKS mercifully tick by in the Biden’s campaign for him, and he moves aging as the days go by. His blunders are loses his train of thought. His campaign demanding that we all come to see that embarrassingly long race for the back into a seemingly comfortable unlike Trump’s, in that they don’t has decided they need to start limiting the old days really were great. He speaks Democratic Presidential nomination, front–runner status. This is happening embolden Biden supporters, but rather his public appearances, particularly in of a bipartisanship that hasn’t existed for Joe Biden’s lead has somehow managed for a lot of reasons. First, the length of make them cringe. Trump is chaotic by the later hours of the day, a telling move decades, and speaks of it as though it to hold up. The pattern goes a little the campaign makes this sort of inconse- design, Biden is just slipping, and we can that will be incredibly costly as attention actually benefited most Americans. His something like this; Biden polls some- quential shuffling inevitable. Most peo- all see the results. He closed the latest ramps up in the new year. belief that America simply has to go where just above 30 percent, then, peo- ple simply cannot pay attention for long debate by trying to get people to his Despite what the numbers suggest, it back in time is in keeping with the fact ple actually see the man, and his poll enough. Biden and his team (and his website, only to speak out a number peo- already feels like Biden’s campaign is that he, like many of us when we age, numbers go down. This is at its most friends in the media) relentlessly bang ple could text to donate. Days later, he running on fumes. That might go some react to being out of step with the times pronounced in the immediate aftermath the drum of electability, claiming Joe is proclaimed that ‘poor kids are just as distance to explain why the leaks are by leaning on nostalgia. Things weren’t of the latest round of debates. First, he the safe bet. This works in concert with bright as white kids’. Attempting to coming fast and furious. In recent days, better Joe, you were. Of course you was bodied by Kamala Harris over his the constant fear of Trump, to help work a crowd into a frenzy he bleated we’ve heard that Obama actively tried remember the days when you’d call up opposition to school busing. In the most Biden, through no work of his own, that Americans want ‘truth over facts’. to talk Biden out of running for office. your GOP brethren for a favour roman- recent round, he suffered more through appear to be the surest way to move on Politics aside, Biden truly does not look When that failed, he reached out to tically. You were younger, you had the his own incoherence. His numbers dip from the Trump disaster. For now, this like he knows what he is doing. He can Biden’s advisers to plead with them to energy for , the ability to play for a time, and then weeks of looks like the only thing approaching a barely string a thought together. Any not let Joe embarrass himself. His wife the game, the ability to get through a far–too–rosy press coverage stabilizes strategy from the former Vice President. type of complexity is utterly beyond the basically raised the white flag on any sentence, maybe even a full paragraph. attempt to make people enthusiastic To be clear, this isn’t simple ageism. [LITERARY] by ALLISON M. JONES about the prospect of her husband as Opponents like Bernie Sanders and President. She so much as admitted that Elizabeth Warren are both also in their other candidates were better, but begged seventies, but go watch them speak. BORDERLINE ME, BEYOND THE EDGE voters to fear the polls, and just accept Honestly compare their ability to think, that all that matters is Trump’s defeat. explain, make connections, to what Mommy’s Cigarette, the one woman show resonating as a possi- His brain surgeon took to Twitter to let Biden is able to bring to the table. The bility for Zee’s own storytelling. Marshall connected her with everyone know that Joe’s brain is in tip gap is so severe, it’s honestly embarrass- Tracey Erin Smith of ’s SoulOTheatre and, some time top shape. Always a good sign! Already ing to watch. If this keeps up, America later, Robin mustered the courage to enroll in a series of Smith’s having to come out and say something may well find that Biden was actually workshops. They helped Zee make some key breakthroughs in like, ‘look we know you might be wor- the least electable of the top tier candi- framing her story. ried about Joe’s cognitive capacity, but dates. They may have to cringe–watch Then came the Hamilton Fringe Festival’s gallery minis- let me tell you it’s fantastic!’ Does not as he stumbles to the finish line, closing eries, and “there was no turning back. I hired my long time bode well. out his years of service with a humiliat- friend Learie McNicolls to direct and had an absolute blast Ultimately though, it will be the ing defeat to the man he’s come to think rehearsing. David [Brace] at B Contemporary Gallery was just combination of his horrible campaign- of as his nemesis. Hopefully, we won’t so wonderful. We had great audiences, mostly sold out, and I ing and his deadeningly cynical message have to find out. V met so many other performers along the way.” She went on to write another solo show, No Dick Pics Please, that she performed Photo by: at the 2017 Fringe. Sammy Birkett Five years later, Robin has performed BorderLine Me many times over. “One of the things I contemplated was extending VIVACIOUS, QUIRKY, AND frankly undeniable, Robin Zee was the play, but I decided to leave it alone and shift into writing born in Montreal to an ‘artistic, dysfunctional’ family. Her own [the book],” a process she says took over a year. “I went over art, encompassing mixed media, theatre, comedy, has been a many notes, tackled the writing of my life in chunks, working practice of self expression and a conduit for healing. She was daily on it for months and months.” named Emerging Artist in Performance at the 2015 City of “I [felt] as if I opened Pandora’s box sometimes, and [that] I Hamilton Arts Awards, not long after premiering her first solo must have been nuts to take this on. However, if I didn’t, I think show, BorderLine Me, at the Hamilton Fringe. That show has I would have felt I let myself down. This was by no means an been transformed into a new, eponymous book to be launched easy undertaking; unpacking left me flooded with new and old August 30th at The Staircase Theatre. memories, flashbacks, panic and all the aftermath from my first Her life’s journey has included a laundry list of trauma, 34 years on the planet. There were times when it was harder to including childhood sexual abuse, human trafficking, prostitu- write what happened than it was to have lived it because back tion, street involvement, addiction and mental health issues. then I was numb and totally disassociated.” Through it all, art was always there to help her cope and, even- She credits a circle of family, friends and mentors for help- tually, her daughter Skye, whose birth Robin calls, “the bridge ing her though, and says she found her ‘perfect fit’ in the guid- between dark and light.” She became a Certified Addiction and ance of Rebel Spirit Publishing. Mental Health Counsellor and a Life Skills Coach, working as “I wanted to share my experience as a way of connecting, a case manager, facilitator and consultant with her own private encouraging, educating and empowering others that anything is practice. possible, though I didn’t see this coming,” Robin says. “If you “On one hand I feel this pull to apologize for the heaviness, had told me some twenty or thirty years ago, well, I may not but I’m really not one for sugarcoating and the fact is that it was have believed it...but then here I am and here it is.” She’s ‘toy- my reality, bare bones,” she explains.“I think it’s an empowering ing with the idea’ of writing a sequel. story for anyone who is feeling stuck, who is dealing with their The launch will include a reading and Q&A session with own issues...I survived and, in fact, I went beyond surviving and the author. There will be food and drink, and musicians Jessica transformed the ugliness of my past into the strength and Compton, Susan Edwards and Jesse Macrae will perform. Zee courage of my present and future.” As she describes it, “the one also hopes to incorporate wellness resources. woman play touches the surface, and the book peels back the “This being my first book launch, I am super stoked, nerv- layers.” ous, and tempted to yell out!” Robin Zee says. “Pinch me, just The gestation process for both versions of BorderLine Me in case I’m dreaming.” V was arduous. “For years, people suggested I write my story. For years I attempted it... So often I’d write a bit and have to take a BORDERLINE ME, BEYOND THE EDGE step back to process the aftermath of writing even parts of my Book Launch story. Months would pass [and] I wasn’t really able to pick up Friday, August 30, 7 - 9 PM where I left off, leaving me with many random pages reflecting Doors open at 6:30pm fragmented pieces of my life and all the emotions that go with Staircase Cafe Theatre that.” Still, “I felt my story was and is one of triumph, courage, 27 Dundurn St. North empowerment, strength and drive.”. Books available: $25 She was inspired when she saw Shelley Marshall’s Hold www.robinzee.com

VIEW AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 5 6 AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 VIEW [THEATRE] by BRIAN MORTON NO CHANGE IN THE WEATHER

NO CHANGE IN the Weather, is an original musical unheard of month long run in St. John’s and created by Walter Schroeder and Bernardine Corner Brook, so we feel like we are on the right Stapleton. The play is produced by , track!” one of the core members of the popular band, Clearly then, this production has hit all of the , and the play features eighteen right notes, back home in Newfoundland. The songs, some of contemporary and others tradition- question is, will local audiences give it a chance? I al, creating a “jukebox musical” with music that is think, that it certainly deserves to be seen, by the rooted in the folk music tradition of rest of . And a production like this, getting Newfoundland. a local staging, is a rare event. After a month long run in St John’s, “Many of the people involved in the show — Newfoundland, this past July, No Change in the Bob Hallett, Berni Stapleton, Kelly Russell — Weather is now beginning a seven city Canadian have been at the forefront of Newfoundland cul- tour that will take the company to Kitchener, ture for decades. We also all live and work within Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary, before the province, and are steeped in its unique musical finishing up the run with two weeks in Toronto at storytelling tradition. The music reflects an the St Lawrence Centre, the first two weeks of authentic sound, based on the songs, melodies and October. Unusually, for such a large touring musi- instruments of traditional Newfoundland music, so cal, there will be a local Hamilton showing — they that sensibility is a huge part of the show. In fact, have found a week long berth up at the Zoetic Bob Hallett, the show’s producer and arranger was Theatre. and remains one of the founders and the musical This is a large scale musical, with a fully profes- engine room of Great Big Sea, Newfoundland’s sional cast of eleven actors, and a six piece band foremost cultural export. His band wrote the book which includes within it, the legendary fiddle play- on translating the deep character and energy of TWELFTH er Kelly Russell, who is a member of the Order of Newfoundland music for a much wider audience. Canada, and has for forty years, exported the east Bob has ensured that every note, joke and line of coast music of the outport communities, as the this show will speak to both Newfoundlanders and musical foundation of groups like The Wonderful theatre lovers anywhere.” NIGHT Photo by: David Galway Grand Band, Figgy Duff, The Irish Descendants I am a fan of theatre, that has a specific point and The Planks. of view and that is rooted in something that mat- THIS IS NOT your Grandmother’s version of Feste, the clown character, in Spadafora’s adapta- I will confess that it was Kelly Russell’s involve- ters to a community. This production certainly fits Shakespeare. tion, becomes a drag queen, who asks the audi- ment in this production, that immediately piqued the bill, as it explores the financial hardships of Although Shakespeare penned this particular ence to see this brave new world, through their my interest in it, I own a dozen CD’s that were Newfoundland and Labrador — saddled with an play, way back in 1601, the production that is eyes. Choreography by Trevor Copp, adds an released on his label Pigeon Inlet Productions, fea- impossible debt load, a structural deficit of over $1 being presented by Tottering Biped, out at the essential element, that keeps the audience turing the music of Rufus Guinchard and his con- billion annually, a declining economy, a popula- Rock Garden at the RBG, feels like it was written engaged. temporaries. In folk music circles, this is like dis- tion 15% older than the Canadian average, outmi- just last month. Also of note, in this production are the covering that Paul McCartney is quietly playing gration of over 3,000 people a year, 15 percent Don’t get me wrong, almost all stagings of “clown unit” of Sir Toby (Michael Hannigan), Sir bass, in the pit band of a touring production of unemployment, limited tax capacity, and finally contemporary productions of Shakespeare, are Andrew (Zach Parsons), and Mariah, (Nada “Les Mis”. Trust me, this is the real deal — some- the Muskrat Falls fiasco, which is at the centre of essentially adaptations for a modern audience. Abusaleh) — they in a significant sub–plot create thing authentic and important to experience. the story. Only, in London, England, at the reconstructed great mirth in their “gulling” of the Master of the The story centres on a cantankerous matriarch “Newfoundlanders always punch well above Globe theatre on the South Bank, will you see a household, Malvolia, here played as a woman by of a family, who recalls the moment, that their weight in the Canadian cultural scene, and version of one of the Bard’s plays in production Alma Sarai. Newfoundland joined Confederation in 1949. No Change in the Weather manages that trick once circumstances that match the 17th century, when Of all of the plays that Shakespeare wrote, The play speculates on how things might have again. Blessed with great songs from the the plays were first performed. Twelfth Night is the most musical of them, with turned out, if history had gone in a different direc- Newfoundland songbook, along with the trademark Hamilton these past few months, has been at half a dozen original songs in the script. Only one tion. provincial wit and charm, this show will warm your the centre of a great deal of controversy, with of those songs has survived in this new version, No Change in the Weather is directed by Ruth heart, fill your soul with melody, and even leave you right wing conservative groups attacking other, more contemporary songs have been Lawrence, who has deep roots in the fertile cre- thinking. That’s as good as it gets.” V LBGTQ2S+ citizens, at the Hamilton Pride cele- added, including one that recalls the Stonewall ative soil of “the rock”. brations at Gage Park. How astonishing then to Riots of 1969. “The theatre scene in Newfoundland and NO CHANGE IN THE WEATHER find a production running, in the city soon after, The ending of the play, which I will not spoil Labrador is very removed from audiences in A Newfoundland Musical that catches this precise moment in the zeitgeist. for you, adds a very significant difference to the Stratford, Toronto, Ottawa or Montreal, so local Presented by Terra Bruce Productions Claudia Spadafora, is the heart and soul production of the play. theatre companies and producers have become At the Zoetic Theatre, behind this Queer reimagining of Twelfth Night. It is rare to get to write a “rave review” — but adept at producing great dramatic works that speak 526 Concession Street Shakespeare’s text is full of examinations of gen- here at last is my chance! All too frequently, I sit to Newfoundlanders. This show has great ambi- August 28, 29, 30, 31, at 7:30pm der, and as a classic romantic comedy, is full of through local theatre productions, that have very tions, however, and wants to speak to people all Tickets: 905-902-5683 or online at music, clowning, and shenanigans, that still little to say about the world that we all live in. over the world, while still retaining the values of www.nochangeintheweather.com/ amuse us. They serve no purpose beyond frittering away a Newfoundland culture. The show sold out an see-the-show Viola, (here played by Paige Louter), is a few hours, in the dark watching a play. female twin who finds herself shipwrecked on a But Tottering Biped’s production of Twelfth foreign shore. She impersonates a man, named Night is everything that I seek in an evening at Cesario, and enters the service of the Duke of the theatre. It is well produced, well acted and Orsino, (Jesse Horvath), who is in love with a performed by a committed company of players, wealthy land owner, Olivia, (Rebecca Durrance and it has something meaningful and vital to say. Hine). There are a another week of performances left Orsino, sends Viola in disguise as Cesario to over the next two weekends, and I urge you to woo her, and she falls in love with a man, who is attend. Trust me, this is what great theatre is thus, in fact a woman. The plot unfolds when meant to be. V Sebastian (Phillip Krusto), Viola’s twin brother arrives upon the scene — hilarity ensues over this TWELFTH NIGHT confusion of identities — when Sebastian marries Presented by Tottering Biped Theatre Olivia, and fights a duel against a coward, Sir At the RBG Rock Garden Andrew. 1185 . So what has changed in this version? Well for Performances - Mondays through one, it is set in a nightclub in Miami in the ’80s. Fridays at 7:00pm Dance club music, thus becomes the literal “beat” August 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 of the drum that moves this production forward. Tickets: www.rbg.ca/shakespeare

VIEW AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 7 [HAMILTON MUSIC NOTES] by RIC TAYLOR with those early Yes and Genesis the last two decades. She’d be a regu- While funded though government WOOLY MANTIS influences shining through but with lar at the Forgotten Rebels, Lorrainas, programs, JohnsonP hotocan by: Mikeattest Thoang that an indie rock vibe that gives the songs Vapids shows and more... but real life making sure the NWC continues pro- just a little more edge. oft guides people in different direc- viding this much needed service “We all write and we all collaborate tions. After getting married, Johnson depends on donations and the gen- so we’ve tried to come of one mind,” would be less of a constant but with erosity of the community. As such, says Woodcroft. “There’s some Neil her current day job, she's now afford- Johnson felt the need to fundraise and Young, Led Zeppelin, Rush and ed the opportunity to bring her music with her previous life experiences, Supertramp influences. We wanted to fan and social worker lives together Johnson had friends that were willing take some of the music we enjoyed with a fundraising concert. to help out. from the past and make it more “I’ve always had a love for music “Knowing all of the people I’ve met decently modern that can relate to going all the way back to high school from going to shows over the years, it’s everyone. We don’t want our music with concert band but as you get amazing the rolodex of names you col- just to be accessible to people who older, you go out to see some bands lect,” says Johnson. “Because the artist only like progressive rock. With and that ends up encompassing your community is so strong and are always Mantis, we want to put out a message life,” offers local music fan and now willing to help and have softer hearts, and have a lot of people hear it.” crisis support worker Sabrina Johnson. they’re more willing to jump on the With the recordings ready to go and “I’d gone to school for social services train and help out. I just put the call the core band coming together for the and now work at the Native Women’s out, ‘we’re going to do a benefit to first time in a year or so, this week- Centre. There are three programs run- raise some money, who wants in?’ end's release party for Wooly Mantis is ning through the place where I work. There were an amazing amount of like a new start on the next phase of A transitional residence program people that raised their hand and their musical journey. helps house people with very low rent wanted to be a part of this. “Nik and I had the opportunity to for a year to get them back on their “The Music Valley Boys are from play music on cruise ships so we took feet. I’m with the Healing Sisters pro- the reserve and they’re my co–work- that to make some cash but I’ve quit gram and basically my role is doing er’s husband’s band but a lot of the my job now to focus on the band,” crisis intervention and get them away performers are ones that I know from says Woodcroft. “We could have from dangerous situations as well as a Shady Grove Lukaya Cafe on Upper released the album technically a while homeless shelter. Just having the Wellington as well,” adds Johnson. ago but David wouldn’t have been chance to work with these women “They have a Tuesday open mic night here for it so we didn’t want to release and the privilege to serve is awesome.” with Brennagh Burns that has a really it and present it the way that it should The Native Women’s Centre is an amazing energy. Michelle Morra is a be. Joyner is in a good place right now, organization that provides emergency pianist songwriter that performs there WOOLY MANTIS' “THE pening at Mohawk — there are so he’s coming back to Hamilton to shelter for all women regardless of age, and the same with folk artist George many people there who want to be in study business and we’ve arranged the culture or otherwise with or without C. Douglas. Hadihawis is another co- COSMIC VENTURE” bands,” adds Woodcroft. “A lot of EP release around that. children who are experiencing crisis worker who will be playing some IT’S BEEN FIVE years since the members people have started a lot of projects “This weekend is the start of the in their lives due to family violence, songs on his guitar and we have of Wooly Mantis came together as and learning jazz was a big part of that. new chapter for Mantis,” adds homelessness, or conflict with the law. budding music stu- Taking our craft a bit more seriously Woodcroft. “We’ve got these record- CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 dents and the journey has not been with theory, there’s a lot of value to ings and we’re ready to go now. it’s without setback. But this weekend, all that. A lot of people are investing a been a slow burn up to this point but GEORGE C. of their years of hard work and friend- lot of time into quality product and come this weekend, there is going to DOUGLAS ship culminate with the release of while jazz is the foundation, there are be a lot of content, music, video and their debut EP, The Cosmic Venture. a lot of people listening to rock music more coming from us. This is the “We started the band in first year at as well. For my band, I wanted the strongest we’ve ever been and all of Mohawk — I knew Daniel Walton best musicians at the school. I wanted the adversity is behind us and we’ve (guitar, vocals) in passing but he was to make this super group from every- got a decent plan into 2020. This hanging out with Vincent Bérubé lis- one available and with Wooly Mantis release party is going to be an exciting tening to a lot of Yes and Genesis and we’ve got that.” show. When you come to a Wooly they formed the band,” says drummer, While the band has had a few Mantis show, you're going to see a full vocalist Matthew Woodcraft. “In the recording session over the years, much band that takes themselves seriously beginning I wasn’t in the band but I of the older material has been deleted as musicians but we also care about heard them jamming in classrooms from the Internet to focus on the new each other on stage. We’re trying to and I pleaded my case to be in the music. While an EP has been assem- push some limits and really put band. We didn't have a bass player but bled, the actual recordings were done Hamilton on the map. The whole per- the two guitarists would switch to bass some time ago but do to some health formance is going to be a journey and depending upon the song. That's how concerns and otherwise, the official we really expect you to feel different it started but David Joyner then release of the official debut from when you see us play. We’ve been joined the band as an effects guitarist. Wooly Mantis has been delayed. working for five years on this and this Vince left the band after a year and we “Being in this band has been kind show is going to be the pinnacle. were like to do we get a bass player or of crazy really — it’s been awesome We’re hoping this show is going to be someone who can do guitar and bass. but also super dark at times,” says one of our best.” James Reich was in our favourite Woodcroft. “At the beginning it band, Gung Ho Catalyst, so he slid seemed like we were really good at Wooly Mantis play this Friday into the band and continued to do the writing tunes and things should August 23 at Mills Hardware with swap. The EP we’re releasing was progress really fast but then we’ve had guests Shy Harry and The recorded with James but shortly after a lot of adversity and member Ollivanders. Doors open at 8pm the recordings he left the band. We changes. Joyner got sick with Colitis and tickets are $15 in advance $20 picked up keyboard player Nik Hirst and that was a major thing. He’s abo- at the door. Click on but since then we’ve been on the riginal, from a town half way up facebook.com/woolymantisoffi- quest for a bass player and luckily we Hudson Bay seventeen hours away. cialº know a lot of friends that can help out When he got sick, he went home to from Mohawk like Spencer be with his family and Joyner started FUNDRAISER FOR Bridgewater. For me it’s been an teaching music and doing tremendous enjoyable ride and I’ve just been things up there over the last year. NATIVE WOMEN’S rolling with everything and having a We’ve tried to keep the bus going CENTRE good time but theoretically I guess it's since he’s been gone.” Sabrina Johnson was one of those been quite a journey. The Cosmic Venture is a psychedelic constants encouraging local music “There’s really a movement hap- and progressive art rock extravaganza and musicians for the better part of

8 AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 VIEW [HAMILTON MUSIC NOTES] Budweiser Stage. I was thinking this was Photo by: DEAD TIRED Vanessa Heins too big and it’s not going to work but in the end... it worked and it worked per- fectly. The shows were incredible and lots of fun but after that we all scattered. We had a collective sigh of relief that those shows are done and there was such an emotional build up to those shows, it’s nice to be basking in the afterglow since they went so well but it’s also a lit- tle bit of a relief to have some down- time.” While Pettit and his family may have enjoyed some down time spent at the cottage this summer, it eventually became time to revisit his Hamilton based band Dead Tired featuring Franz Stefanik, Chris Whetstone, Nick Ball and Marco “Sparky” Bressette. Between 2015 and 2016, a series of new Dead Tired music was released on individual 7–inch vinyl recordings and this passed March, New Damage Records completed the project with the release of the full length vinyl recording that compiles the three previously released singles as well as three new songs into Full Vol.. Their hometown return is a Pettit curated show that will CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 THREAT SIGNAL world. Band members were barely out of featuring Howard, guitarists Travis be a welcome return for Dead Tired’s harpist Rachael Constance. And then CELEBRATE TEN YEARS high school when they were thrust into Montgomery and Oswin Wong, bassist hardcore Hamilton fans. we have Deeps who is an incredible the international spotlight and touring Ryan Miller and drummer Joey Muha. “I’ve found it plays quite well as an singer and songwriter. He used to host OF "VIGILANCE" the world. For most of the band, the “But I’ve tried to stay in touch with all album,” says Pettit on Full Vol.. “When the open mic and I met him there and Jon Howard is in a good place right experience was too much. of the former band members, there are we first laid out the tracks in order, it mentioned I was doing this benefit now. Since starting Threat Signal some “We had gotten a lot of attention but no hard feelings for me, so this show in made a lot of sense to us and we’ve had and what we were trying to do. He sixteen years ago, the vocalist has by the time we released our second Hamilton is going to be a little bit spe- a good response to the album so far,” says told me that those people w’re trying weathered the international metal album, Under Reprisal, I wasn’t sure if cial. We’re going to bring Adam [Weber, Pettit. “I’m always a little cautious — I to help were his people, his neigh- scene and thrived. And not just with the band could continue as it was,” says rhythm guitar] and Pat [Kavanagh, bass] feel you write an album and maybe four bourhood. He lives in the Barton Threat Signal. When Howard. “We did a lot of touring and for a couple of songs and we’re going to or five songs rise to the surface and other Street area and what he said was so (, ex–) on some members couldn’t take it and I had throw that out for a tribute to Norm. I songs fall to the wayside. By putting out true. They are our people and our guitars, Brian ‘Beav Waddell (ex–The to reform the group. Somehow I did it hope everyone comes out to celebrate.” singles, you give every song its own neighbourhood and that’s why this Project) on guitars, and we ended up recording Vigilance. It chance to hear it more and focus in on event should happen.” (ex–Strapping Young ended up being the most fun recording Threat Signal play this Saturday it but really, this is Dead Tired. The Bolstered by the response of her Lad/) on bass and Ryan Van and touring this record. It was the best August 24 at Club Absinthe with band and the music is more of an excuse musical friends, Johnson is excited for Poederooyen (ex–The Devin Townsend times of my life.” Lutharo, Snake River Redemption, to for me to get some aggression out, get the musical fundraiser she’s assembled Project) on drums, were putting togeth- This week, Howard takes a break Death Perception and more. Doors drunk with the boys and hang out. to raise money and awareness for the er the supergroup known as Imonolith, from Imonolith and tours Ontario with open at 9pm and tickets are $10 in That’s what makes it so important for important work done at the Native Howard was tapped to front the band. a clutch of shows for Threat Signal fans advance. Click on threatsignalmu- me. Women’s Centre. Now spending a lot more time in to celebrate the album from ten years sic.com “But we all have schedules that have “The fundraiser is an avenue for Vancouver, Howard has a lot on his ago. The Hamilton showcase that ends to be worked out so if something comes people to show their support of the plate but the lifelong Hamiltonian the tour will be extra special for Howard DEAD TIRED'S up for Dead Tired it has to be fun and issue and of women,” says Johnson. remains steadfast to his roots and with a for a few reasons. relatively easy to do,” says Pettit. prominent anniversary on the horizon, “We’re doing these Ontario shows "FULL VOL." “We have an exciting line up of musi- It’s been a couple of years since we “Playing Hollywood for us is easy and cians but there may be more coming it was time to bring Threat Signal back and having a blast — we’re writing some fun so it’s really cool that we get to do for Ontario fans. new material and who knows what’s had the opportunity to chat with out as well. We will have a booth set George Pettit of Dead Tired as some that again after a long break. We had up to explain our programs and how “We speed up, we slow down but going to happen from here for Threat the chance to play with Pretty Boy in we’ve never given up,” says Howard on Signal,” says Howard. “My first tattoo time off and a renewed focus on his this benefit will be helping. I hope other little band, Alexisonfire, has kept Montreal and they were so great that everyone can come out for the fun but the career arc of Threat Signal who was Threat Signal and that’s not going I’m excited that they’re playing. We’ve released their fifth album, Disconnect in anywhere so I’m certain we’ll be doing him busy with other things outside even if you can’t make it because of Hamilton. This weekend, Petit and known Matt Ellis for a long time with timing you can always donate by 2017. “The members all have their own the band until I’m in the ground. It’s his other Hamilton bands and he’s a lives and do other projects and then we always fun to get together for this music. Dead Tired return to play their first going to the website nativewomen- hometown show in two years with a live local musician we all appreciate and the scentre.com. We’re calling out to get together and do Threat Signal when Playing Absinthe is always a good time new Plasticheads record is spectacular. we can. If a good opportunity comes and I’m excited to be doing it again. show to celebrate their latest LP, Full everbody out to support. We embrace Vol. First Base I haven’t seen live yet but I’m the native spirit but I’m mot indigi- together or a tour, we take it but music Along with celebrating the tenth a big fan of their bubblegum, sugary doesn’t always pay the bills. We used to anniversary of Vigilance, we will be cele- “I’ve had one toe in the music indus- nous and we help people from all try and my feet firmly in Hamilton sweet power pop. It’s a stacked line up walks of life. If you can help out I push the band hard with multiple tours brating the life of our brother Norman that’s just going to be great and then of a year but band membership has Killeen. Norm was a major part of hanging out with the family and work- hope you do. I really believe this ben- ing,” assures George Pettit on what’s course, Dead Tired is going to go up efit is a good one and at the shelter we switched up a lot and we do what makes Threat Signal between roughly 2007 there and we’ll probably drunkenly slop sense for us now. and 2010. He was the drummer on kept him busy over the last couple of really need the help.” years. While we helped document the around on stage and do the thing that “They were looking for a singer and Vigilance and also designed the artwork we usually do — which is usually pretty my name popped up, they tried me out for the album. Sadly, Norm chose to rise, finale and even temporary reunion The Fundraiser for Native of his former band, the members of fun.” V Women’s centre happens and I made the band,” adds Howard on leave this world August 25, 2016 and it’s his other musical project. “I went out to still hard for me. I tell everyone, if you Alexisonfire have recently come Saturday August 24 at the Casbah together to record their first new music Dead Tired plays this Friday August from Noon to 7pm. Tickets are Vancouver, we tracked a record and I’m are struggling with depression of any 23 at This Ain’t Hollywood with First excited that the record will be coming kind please reach out to someone. You in years and even played a summer tour $15 in advance via cas- this year. Base, Plasticheads , Prettyboy and bahlounge.ca or $20 at the door. out in the new year.” are not alone. Dj sweet Dave. Doors open 9pm and About a decade ago, the wheels start- “We’re playing all of these shows with “The shows were amazing and it Click on keeps getting better,” says Pettit on $15 gets you in. Find the band on nativewomenscentre.com. ed coming off the Hamilton based the current line up,” says Howard on the Twitter or Instagram Threat Signal as they were touring the current incarnation of Threat Signal Alexisonfire. “There were a lot of nerves for me especially doing two shows at the @zDEADTIREDz

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[7:30PM] comic – Ben Guyatt. • Aug. 23-24: Larry Smith. • SATURDAYS W/SCARYOKE MONSTERS [10PM] [9:30PM] ROCK | FOLK | COUNTRY RUMAK KARAOKE SATURDAYS [9:30PM] Aug. 30-31: Sean Walton. • Sept. 6-7: Paul AUGUSTA HOUSE|OPEN MIC W/ANTHONY VAUGHN BLACK SWAN KARAOKE SATURDAYS W/MARK O [9PM], MATTSON & CO. TIFF & THE TWO FIVES [7PM] ST. LOUIS BAR AND GRILL KARAOKE SATURDAYS McCallum. //3345 Harvester Rd., Burl. [8PM] TRIVIA WEDNESDAYS [7PM] W/DONNY OSBORNE [10PM]m] LAUGH AT THE JUDGE • Stand up comedy, COACH & LANTERN|SINGALONG WITH JUDY BO’S KARAOKE EVERY OTHER TUESDAY [8:30PM] SLYE FOX TRIVIA WEDNESDAYS [7:30PM], KARAOKE upstairs at the Winking Judge. Sundays, 8:30pm. DJ | ELECTRONIC | HIP HOP CORKTOWN OPEN MIC JAM W/DAVE GOULD BOBBIE’S KARAOKE SATURDAYS [7PM] THURSDAYS W/NICHOLAS BALKOU [8:30PM] //25 Augusta St. CLUB 54|DJ KEITH - MAIN ROOM [10:30PM], DJ LAZY FLAMINGO BONNIE & THE MIDNIGHT BOSTON PIZZA-BARTON TRIVIA MONDAYS W/HUB OF STONEWALLS PUBSTUMPERS TRIVIA WEDNESDAYS LEVITY COMEDY CLUB & LOUNGE • Aug. 23-24: CESAR - LATIN ROOM [10:30PM] DREAMERS [9PM] THE HAMMER. [7:30PM]. “THE OFFICE” TRIVIA NIGHT LAST [6:30PM] Kate Davis. Aug. 30-31: Eric Johnston. • Every CLUB 77|MATRODA MASQUE TIM GIBBONS [9:30PM] WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH /HUB OF THE HAMMER. TAPS KARAOKE FRIDAYS [9PM], KARAOKE SUNDAYS Wednesday at 9pm is Amateur Night. • For more LOU DAWG’S JOOCE [10PM] REBEL’S ROCK OPEN JAM [7PM] NEXT DATE AUG. 28. [6PM] info and tickets visit levitycomedyclub.com. //120 SHAOLIN UNDERGROUND DJ BIGTRBL [10PM] King St. W. BOSTON PIZZA-MAIN ST. W. TRIVIA SECOND THIS AIN’T HOLLYWOOD FRIENDS OF KARAOKE AUG. STAIRCASE THEATRE • Every Monday is Improv JAZZ | BLUES | CLASSICAL WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH W/HUB OF THE HAMMER 8 [9PM] Fundamentals at 7pm. Learn the basics of Improv CASBAH-LOUNGE SOUL-JAZZ, CONSCIOUS HIP HOP, [7:30PM] TRACIE’S PLACE KARAOKE EVERY NIGHT [7PM-2AM], SUNDAY 25TH in a fun and supportive environment. $8. • Every HOSTED BY GORDON LEVERTON [8PM] BRASSIE PUB KARAOKE SUNDAYS HOSTED BY "RUBY & FRIDAYS [5PM-2AM], KIDS WELCOME UNTIL 9PM Tuesday is Master Class Improv at 7pm. The pub- ROCK | FOLK | COUNTRY CAT ‘N’ FIDDLE JAZZ JAM [9:30PM] KARAOKE"[8:30PM], TRIVIA TUESDAYS HOSTED BY "RUBY TWISTED TAPS KARAOKE THURSDAYS [10PM] AUGUSTA HOUSE|ANTHONY VAUGHN [7PM] lic is welcome to watch, but participation is by invi- MAX’S AVERY RAQUEL TRIO PUB TRIVIA [8PM] UPTOWN SOCIAL HOUSE TRIVIA MONDAYS CARRIGAN ARMS|EDDY SYKES [2PM] tation only. $10. • Wildcard Wednesdays at 7pm. CADILLAC JAX KARAOKE THURSDAYS AND SUNDAYS [7:30PM]| CAT ‘N’ FIDDLE STRUMMERS UNION [9PM] W/SCARYOKE MONSTERS [9PM], KARAOKE FRIDAY AND Join us for a jam night, a specialty workshop night DJ | ELECTRONIC | HIP HOP WEST END KARAOKE WEDNESDAYS [10PM] or a show and a jam night. Prices vary from $10- DICKEN’S|JOHN BROSSEAU [2PM], BRAD SUMAK, MIKE SATURDAYS W/BIGGIE ENTERTAINMENT [9PM] ABSINTHE|MOTOWN WEDNESDAY [10PM] WINDJAMMER KARAOKE TUESDAYS [8PM] $20. Savings for registering online. Dundurn St. N. OLIVIERI (10PM) CALEDONIA LEGION KARAOKE FRIDAYS W/DJ WOBBLEY SCOTSMEN KARAOKE FRIDAYS THE UNCLE LOUIE VARIETY SHOW WORLD FIRTH’S PAUL MALLARD [6PM] SHELLEY W/CHEFBOYRDJ, KARAOKE SATURDAYS W/SEÑOR WES TOUR 2019 • From stand-up comedy acts, origi- THE LIONSHEAD|SHARI & JONNY [9PM] CARRIGAN ARMS KARAOKE FRIDAYS W/RANDY AND THURSDAY 29TH nal songs, and entertaining sketches, this Italian- MAX’S SARAH MILLS VICKI [9:30PM], TRIVIA MONDAYS W/KEN OAKLEY American comedy duo can do it all. Sept. 21, 8pm. MILL ST. & 5 LAKESHORE BOYS DUO [2PM] ROCK | FOLK | COUNTRY [7:30PM]][99pm] VIEW LIVE MUSIC INDEX EMAIL [email protected] DEADLINE: Monday at 4pm ABSINTHE 38 KING WILLIAM 905.529.0349 CORKTOWN TAVERN 175 YOUNG 905.572.9242 LAZY FLAMINGO 19 HESS S. 905.527.0567 SLYE FOX PUB 4057 NEW, BURL 905.639.3900 ACOUSTIC BLEND CAFE 86 HOMEWOOD AVE. 905.522.1323 CULANTRO 537 MAIN ST. E. 905.777.0060 LEANDER BOAT CLUB 50 LEANDER DR. 905.527.7377 SNOOTY FOX 1011 KING W. 905.546.0000 AIR FORCE CLUB 128 KING ST. E., DUNDAS 000.000.0000 THE DICKENS 423 ELIZABETH, BURL. 905.333.4991 THE LIONSHEAD PUB 137 JOHN S. 905.522.7090 SOUS BAS 145 MAIN ST. E. 000.000.0000 ALE HOUSE 802 UPPER GAGE AVE. 289.755.0518 THE DIPLOMAT 43 KING WILLIAM ST. 905.523.4343 LITTLE GRASSHOPPER 37 BARTON ST. E. 905.393.7641 SOUTHCOTE 53 534 GARNER RD., ANC. 289.239.8888 ARMY & NAVY CLUB 95-96 MACNAB ST. N. 905.527.1000 THE DOORS PUB 56 HESS S. 905.540.8888 LOU DAWG’S SOUTHERN BBQ 116 GEORGE ST. 289.389.3227 SPICE FACTORY 121 HUGHSON ST. N. 905.662.1112 ARTWORD ARTBAR 15 COLBOURNE 905.912.9083 DUNAS VERDES 253 JAMES N. 905.522.4818 LUKAYA CAFE 592 UPPER WELLINGTON ST. 905.383.2533 SPURS ROADHOUSE 188 BARTON ST. E., STONEY CREEK 905.522.1227 AUGUSTA HOUSE 17 AUGUSTA 905.525.0367 EDENS 1548 MAIN W. 289.389.6493 THE MASQUE 13 HESS S. 289.700.5595 THE STAIRCASE 27 DUNDURN N. 905.529.3000 AVLYN’S LOUNGE 627 KING ST. E. 905.522.5111 EMERSON 109 109 EMERSON 289.425.2005 MATTSON & CO. 225 LOCKE ST. S. 905.525.0225 STONEROAD’S 533 CONCESSION ST. 905.545.8816 BARBARA CAFFE 387 BARTON ST., STONEY CREEK 905.664.7316 THE END ZONE BAR & GRILL 1305 MAIN ST. E. 289.246.9663 MAX RESTO LOUNGE 102-2180 ITABASHI WAY, BURL. 905.336.1500 STONEWALLS 339 YORK BLVD. 905.577.0808 69 JOHN S. 905.393.6233 ESSENCE 422 BARTON ST. E. 289.396.5116 MELANHEADZ VAPE LOUNGE 303 YORK BLVD. 289.527.1420 THE STUDIO 1 SUMMERS LANE 905.546.3100 BARRA FION 1505 GUELPH LINE, BURL. 905.319.3466 FAIRWEATHER BREWING CO. 5 OFIELD RD. 289.426.2983 MILL ST. & FIVE 324 DUNDAS ST.E., WATERDOWN 905.690.1058 SUPREME BAR & GRILL 5111 NEW ST., BURL 905.333.5282 BARTON TOUCHDOWN 912 BARTON ST. E.. 905.544.6031 FIDDLE & FOX 999 UPPER WENTWORTH ST. 905.385.8555 MILLS HARDWARE 95 KING E. 905.777.1223 TAILGATE CHARLIE’S 69 JOHN S. 905.526.6666 THE BINBROOK GRILL 3020 BINBROOK RD. 905.692.0909 FIONN MACCOOLS 2331 APPLEBY LINE, BURL. 905.332.9990 MODRN NIGHTCLUB 15 HESS ST. S. 289.389.3561 TAPS BAR & GRILL 128 PARKDALE AVE. N. 905.393.8805 THE BLACK BULL 2475 MOUNTAINSIDE DR, BURL. 905.332.4282 FIONN MACCOOLS 119 OSLER DR. 905.627.4729 MOSAIC 431 BARTON ST. E. 000.000.0000 THIRSTY CACTUS 2 KING ST. E., DUNDAS 905.627.8488 BLACK SWAN 4040 PALLADIUM WAY, UNIT #1, BURL. 289.313.9999 FIONN MACCOOLS 1786 STONE CHURCH RD. E. 289.919.2422 MULBERRY COFFEE HOUSE 193 JAMES ST. N. 905.963.1365 33 BOWEN 33 BOWEN ST. 289.396.8865 BO’S SPORTS BAR 419 DUNDAS ST., WATERDOWN 905.690.3133 FIRSTONTARIO CENTRE 101 YORK 905.546.4040 MUSTANG’S 301 FRUITLAND RD., STONEY CREEK 905.643.7679 THIS AIN’T HOLLYWOOD 345 JAMES N. 289.396.3911 BOBBIE’S BAR & GRILL 2965 HOMESTEAD DR. MT HOPE 289.759.2002 FIRSTONTARIO CONCERT HALL 1 SUMMERS LANE 905.546.3100 MY NEIGHBOURHOOD BAR & GRILL 794 CONCESSION ST. 905.385.9999 TIN CUP 1831 WALKER’S LINE, BURL. 905.315.7727 THE BRASSIE 73 WILSON W. 905.304.8935 FIRTH’S CELTIC PUB 543 UPPER JAMES 905.318.4277 THE PEARL COMPANY 16 STEVEN 905.524.0606 TOAST WINE BAR 10 JOHN ST. N. 289.389.5480 THE BROWN BARREL 1515 UPPER OTTAWA 905.575.4606 5 WEST BREWPUB & KITCHEN 3600 DUNDAS ST., BURL. 905.315.8782 PEPPERWOOD BISTRO 1455 LAKESHORE RD., BURL 905.333.6999 TRACIE’S PLACE 592 UPPER JAMES 905.538.0795 BUDDY’S ROADHOUSE 1360 KING E. 905.545.1456 THE FOOL AND FLAGON 2255 BARTON E. 905.573.7430 THE PHEASANT PLUCKER 20 AUGUSTA 905.529.9000 TURTLE JACK’S 1180 UPPER JAMES 905.389.6696 BURLINGTON PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE 440 LOCUST 905.681.6000 THE FOX AND FIDDLE 999 U. WENTWORTH (LIMERIDGE MALL) 905.395.8555 PLUCKER’S 335 PLAINS RD. E., BURL. 289.337.9454 THE VICAR’S VICE 2251 RYMAL E., STONEY CREEK 905.560.1586 CAPRI RESTAURANT 25 JOHN N. 905.525.7811 THE GALLEY PUMP 365 WENTWORTH ST. N. 905.522.5225 THE POUR HOUSE 1115 FENNELL E. 905.389.6602 THE UNDERGROUND 41 CATHARINE ST. N. 905.527.7488 CARNEGIE GALLERY 10 KING ST. W. DUNDAS 905.627.4265 THE GASWORKS 141 PARK N. 905.719.6396 THE POWERHOUSE 21 JONES 905.930.7381 UPTOWN SOCIAL HOUSE 1900 WALKERS LINE, BURL. 905.331.4700 CARRIGAN ARMS 2025 UPPER MIDDLE RD., BURL 905.332.6131 GATOR TED’S 1505 GUELPH LINE 905.336.3133 PRIME TIME SPORTS BAR 218 KENILWORTH N. 905.544.6488 WATERDOWN LEGION 79 HAMILTON ST. N., WDWN 905.689.6112 CASABLANCA WINERY INN 4 WINDWARD DR., GRIMSBY 905.309.7171 THE GEORGE HAMILTON 152 KING W. 905.381.9820 PUB FICTION 1242 GARNER RD. W., ANC. 905.304.9990 THE WEE DRAM 1831 MAIN ST. W. 905.920.8180 THE CASBAH 306 KING W. 905.741.7625 GET TOGETHER BAR & GRILL 253 KENILWORTH N. 905.544.1950 PURPLE PEAR 946 BARTON E. 905.527.7179 WEST END PUB 151 EMERSON 905.524.3655 THE CAPITOL BAR 973 KING E. 289.389.1001 GLADSTONE TAVERN 1385 MAIN E. 905.393.9842 THE QUEEN’S HEAD 400 BRANT, BURL 905.632.1300 THE WESTDALE 1040 KING ST. W. 905.577.0074 CAT ’N’ FIDDLE 174 JOHN S. 905.525.3855 GOWN & GAVEL 24 HESS ST. S. 905.523.8881 RADIUS 151 JAMES ST. S. 905.393.1658 WINDJAMMER BY THE LAKE 5353 LAKESHORE RD. BURL 905.632.2333 CAVALLO NERO 370 WILSON ST. E., ANC. 905.648.8888 GRAIN & GRIT BREWERY 11 EWEN RD. 905.769-1320 REBEL’S ROCK IRISH PUB 537 KING E. 905.777.1771 THE WING 3210 HOMESTEAD DR., MOUNT HOPE 289.280.0157 CIRCA GALLERY 112GEORGE 905.921.1237 HAMILTON AIR FORCE ASSOC. 128 KING ST. E., DUNDAS 905.628.6697 THE REC ROOM 2732 BARTON E. 289.389.1395 WINCHESTER ARMS 120 KING ST. W., DUNDAS 905.627.8016 CLANCY’S PUB 4490 FAIRVIEW, BURL. 905.333.6805 HAVN 26 BARTON ST. E. 000.000.0000 ROCK ON LOCKE 320 CHARLTON AVE. W. 905.522.0602 WOBBLEY SCOTSMAN 309 CROCKETT 905.389.8224 CLIFFORD BREWING CO. 398 NASH RD. 905.560.5444 HAMILTON LEGION BR. 163 435 LIMERIDGE 905.387.4515 R.C.L. BRANCH 622 12 KING ST E, STONEY CREEK 905.662.4171 YE OLDE SQUIRE 550 FENNEL AVE. E. 905.388.7770 CLUB 54 3345 HARVESTER ROAD, BURL. 905.634.5454 HONEST LAWYER 110 KING ST. E. 905.522.5297 R.H.L.I. CLUB 1353 BARTON E. 905.545.4611 YE OLDE SQUIRE 875 MAIN ST. W. 905.528.7822 CLUB 77 77 KING WILLIAM ST. 905.527.7488 HONEST LAWYER 1070 STONECHURH RD. E. 905.385.9797 ST. LOUIS BAR AND GRILL 450 APPLEBY LINE, BURL 905.333.8118 YE OLDE SQUIRE 1508 UPPER JAMES ST. 905.575.7821 COACH & LANTERN 384 WILSON E., ANC. 905.304.7822 INNSVILLE 1143 HWY. 8,STONEY CREEK 905.643.1244 SASSO 1595 UPPER JAMES ST. 905.526.4848 YE OLDE SQUIRE 3537 FAIRVIEW, BURL 905.333.6627 COLLECTIVE ARTS BREWERY 207 BURLINGTON ST. E. 289.426.2374 INTO THE ABYSS 119A LOCKE ST. S. 905.518.7609 SEEDWORKS 126 CATHARINE ST. N. 905.523.7425 THE ZOETIC 526 CONCESSION 905.902.5683 COOLERS SPORTS BAR 558 UPPER GAGE 905.574.4664 JAYS SPORTS BAR 558 UPPER GAGE 905.574.4664 SHAOLIN UNDERGROUND 229 JAMES ST. N.. 289.389.9525 ZYLA’S 299 JAMES ST. N. 905.818.7141 COME BY CHANCE 78 MELVIN AVE. 905.547.3994 JERSEYS BAR & GRILL 1450 HEADON RD. 905.319.0525 SHAWN & ED BREWERY 65 HATT ST., DUNDAS 289.238.9979 COPPER KETTLE 312 DUNDAS ST. E., WATERDOWN 905.690.3696 KING’S LANDING 1900 KING ST. E. 905.544.7766 SHOELESS JOE’S 1183 UPPER JAMES 905.383.5637

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Entertainment line-up - Aug. 22: Tiff and The Two Veggie Village to learn more about tasty plants Fives. Aug. 23: The George Amone Big Band. Aug. that are easy to grow and use in a wide variety of 27: Aubrey Wilson Quartet. Aug. 28: The dishes. Local chefs present cooking demonstra- Kirkendolls. Aug. 20: Midnight Hombres. Aug. 30: tions on Sunday afternoons, while recipes are Rae Billing & Crybaby. • For more details go to available at the Discovery Cart all weekend. Aug. downtownhamilton.org 24-25: Discover Cereal. • Shakespeare at the HAMILTON PUBLIC LIBRARY • Board Games Rock. The historic Rock Garden provides the per- (Adults). July 4-Aug. 29, 6pm. //Terryberry. • Chair fect atmosphere for a night of inspiring theatre Yoga (Older Adults & Seniors Programs) under the stars. Aug. 22-23, 26-30, 7pm. Event Wednesdays, 1pm. //Sherwood. Wednesdays, tickets required. • Escarpment Train Exhibit. 2:15pm. //Concession. • Craft Night (Adults)**. RBG’s newest train experience takes you on a Aug. 22, 6:30pm. //Terryberry. • Photoshop journey through four seasons of whimsical Intro.** Aug. 24, 10am. //Central. • Explore Water Canadian landscapes while telling the story of Colouring (Older Adults & Seniors Programs)** how railroads shaped our history. Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Aug. 26, 11am. //Turner Park. • Meet The //Rock Garden. • RBG After Dark: On the Rocks. Blooms, Brews & BBQ. Grab a cold one while our Greyhounds. Aug. 22, 2:30pm. //Dundas. Aug. 27, house DJ provides a rock n roll soundtrack to an 2:30pm. //Kenilworth. • Memory Café (Older unforgettable evening at the legendary Rock Adults & Seniors Programs)**. Aug. 27, 10:30am. Garden. 19+ event. Event tickets required. Sept. //Sherwood. Aug. 28, 2pm. //Ancaster. • 19, 7:30pm. • Cootes to Escarpment EcoPark Meditation Circle (Adults).** Aug. 27, 6:30pm. System BioBlitz and Plant Sale. Join an enthusi- //Ancaster. • Podcast Club. Aug. 28, 6:30pm. astic team of EcoPark System partners, friends //Stoney Creek. • **Registration required. For info and the public for our third annual Cootes to visit hpl.ca Escarpment EcoPark System BioBlitz to docu- MUSIC IN THE CITY 2019: JACKSON STREET ment the biodiversity in the area. Become a citizen ROOFTOP GARDEN SERIES • Monday to Friday scientist for an afternoon, join local experts a (except as noted for holidays), noon-2pm. • Aug. guided hike. Sept. 20-21. //Arboretum. • For 22-23: Michael Maguire. • Aug. 26-30: Loralee details, costs, tickets and to register for events, SUZIE VINNICK McGuirl. • //Lloyd D. Jackson Square Rooftop visit www.rbg.ca //RBG Centre, 680 Plains Rd. W., Garden, 2 King St. W. Burl. Aug 28, MUSIC ON THE WATERFRONT • Free concert. GHOST WALKS • Hamilton’s Dark History Tour. Mississippi Queen Join us every Thursday evening through Aug. 29. History too dark for schools. Only stories of crime, 7–9pm. Weather permitting. Don’t forget to bring murder and public executions in this unique city. Southern Supper Series a lawn chair! Line up: Aug. 22: Toronto All-Star Starting from an alleyway. We take you you to 635 King Street East Jazz Band. Aug. 29: Paul M. Benton. • For more places of dark energy. Our ridiculous reputation info go to hamiltonwaterfront.com| for executions, Hamilton’s mafia past rivals the mississippiqueenfoods.com ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS • Sculpture Social. Godfather and stand in the location our city’s most The unveiling of our newest addition to The Dan violent assassination. Stories of the infamous. Lawrie International Sculpture Collection: School Like murderess Evelyn Dick and Canada’s own Al of Fish by Kakkee Negeoseak. Meet the artist For tickets visit coreentertainment.ca //The coreentertainment.ca //FirstOntario Concert Hall Capone, Rocco Perri. Aug. 23, 7:30pm. • Ghost from Cape Dorset, Nunavut and check out the Studio, 1 Summers Lane Walks of The Hermitage Ruins. A tour starting in a YUK YUKS BURLINGTON • Aug. 23-24: Tim EVENTS•• special exhibition by Hamilton’s Nanooq Inuit Art WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? • Showcases some of the lit gatehouse before abandoning that light for Steves, Eric Andrews, Jeff Elliott. • Aug. 30-31: ARTPARK • Artpark Ampitheater Concerts: • Gallery. Enjoy live music and take a tour exploring darkness. To the ruins of a haunted mansion in improv games made famous on the long-running Pete Johansson, Andrew Albert, Pat MacDonald. • Aug. 22, 6:30pm: Plasticiens Volvants w/The the fascinating RBG art collection. Indulge in the woods, and a place steeped in generations old TV show as well as some exciting new ones. Cast Sept. 6-7: Rob Pue, Dave Burke, Ben Bankas. • Machine Performs Pink Floyd. • Aug. 27, 6:30pm: locally sourced culinary delights along with one ghost history. The perfect atmosphere for stories members Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Jeff B. Davis, Sept. 13-14: Martha Chaves. • Sept. 20-21: Dom Foreigner. • For info and tickets visit artpark.net • complimentary drink, and gather around a late- of a doomed coachman, shadows following the and Joel Murray will leave you gasping with the Pare. • Sept. 26-27: Jason Rouse, Sam Walker, 450 South 4th St, Lewiston, NY, USA night fire pit. Aug. 23, 7-9pm. $20. //Hendrie Park. tour, security guards vs cults and Ancaster’s infa- very witty scenes they invent before your eyes. Danny Martinello. • For info tickets visit GORE PARK SUMMER PROMENADE • Enjoy live • Garden Music Nights. Tuesdays and mous legend. Aug. 31, at multiple times. • Ghost Audience participation is key to the show so bring yukyuks.com. //380 Brant St., Burl. entertainment, games and grab a snack or meal Wednesdays in August, 6:30-9pm. //Hendrie Park. Bus Tour of Hamilton. Travel in comfort on a lux- your suggestions and you might be asked to join in the park, Tuesday through Friday, 11am-4pm • Edible Weekends. • Visit our Discovery Cart in ury coach. Stories of voodoo, insanity and a visit to the cast onstage. Sept. 18, 7:30pm. For tickets visit until Aug. 30. Live entertainment from noon-2pm.

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what was the darkest town in Canadian history. out. Sept. 8, 1-5pm. $110. For tickets visit May through September. Rain or shine. • Sept. 20 sketches, and musical performances celebrating wood into a boat form, embedded with a steelcut With stops outside Auchmar Mansion, Century eventbrite.ca. //385 Jerseyville Rd. W. Line-up: TBA. • For more info visit concession- the themes of peace, love, equality and culture. text message, creating an environment for both Manor, Battlefield House, and the lot HAMILTON PAGAN PRIDE DAY /HARVESTFEST • street.ca. Awards will be presented for those who best cap- active engagement and reflection. Until 2020. • where all this started. Aug. 24, 6:30 & 8:30pm, Come on out for some great entertainment FRANK AND DEAN’S MATINEE LUNCHEON ture the themes. Youth will also be presented with Antiquities. The Museum's Togo Salmon Gallery Sept. 13, 6:30 & 8:30pm. • Dark Trolley Tour at the including the Dragon Ritual Drummers, lots of SHOW • A tibute to Frank Sinatra and Dean prizes, including certificates from David has been rededicated as a space to showcase Harbour Front. Take a calm ride along the pictur- vendors and fantastic workshops. Sept. 8, 9am- Martin. Sept. 25. To reserve call 905.643.1244. Christopherson, MP for Hamilton Centre to add to exclusively McMaster's collection of antiquities. esque waterfront, at night… with only haunting 5pm. For details visit ppdhamilton.org //Gage //The Innsville, 1143 Hwy. 8, Stoney Creek their portfolios. This event is free for all to attend, Ongoing. • Susan Detwiler: Seed Pack. Ongoing. • stories for company. Relax as our as stories are Park DOORS OPEN BURLINGTON • Visit heritage sites, food and refreshments will also be provided. Aug. The Vishniac Coin Collection - Numismatic told over the mic of Hamilton’s open-air BINBROOK FALL FAIR • Sept. 13-15. A full sched- noteworthy buildings, and interesting locations 22, 5-8pm. //Central Public Library, 55 York Blvd. Traditions from Antiquity to Present. Ongoing. • Harbourfront Trolley. Free and easy parking in ule of events will be available at binbrookfair.org. free of charge. Many of these buildings and loca- ARTCRAWL • Second Friday night of every month Admission to all exhibitions and events is free. For Bayfront Park. Sept. 21, 7pm & 8:30pm. • Details //Binbrook Fairgrounds, 2600 Highway 56, tions will offer special activities during the day. @ 7pm, all galleries in the area display their new more info call 905.525.9140x23241 or visit muse- and reservations at ghostwalks.com Binbrook|| Sept. 28, 10am-4pm. For info visit art. For more info visit jamesstreetnorth.ca• MENTALIST RYAN EDWARDS: TRUTH OR DARE? 2019 • Annual festival showcasing doburlington.com B CONTEMPORARY • Hosts monthly exhibitions um.mcmaster.ca //McMaster Museum of Art, • An evening of mentalism and magic. Ryan the intrinsic charm and cultural character of OTTAWA ST. BIA EVENTS • Sidewalk Sale. featuring established and emerging Guest Artists. 1280 Main W.• attempts to use his intuitive knowledge of human James Street North and host to music, art, dance Blocks of extended storefronts and street vendors, Openings are held the second Friday of each MIXED MEDIA • Mixed Media/King W. Books, 1060 behaviour to beat the odds and escape the conse- and theatre from Hamilton and around the world. offering days filled with live entertainment, family month during Hamilton’s Art Crawl: 7pm-11pm. • King St. W., Westdale quences of a wrong move along the way. Will you Includes art, fashion, vendors, food trucks, family, fun, end of summer sales, and more. Sept. 28, bcontemporary.wordpress.com //226 James N. PAUL ELIA GALLERY • paulelia.ca. 905.96.8850. //1167 Cannon St. E. win his money or take his pride, only time will tell. circus spectacle, talks and after-parties. • 9am-5pm. //Ottawa St. N. 289.389.3949 • SEATON STUDIO & GALLERY • Exhibits: Birds Aug. 23, 8pm. For tickets visit thezoetic.ca //The Headliners will include Bahamas, Buffy Sainte- TESLA ELECTRIC CITY FESTIVAL • Hosted at the BOLD ARTISTE • Featuring the original artworks Adapted for Flight or Fancy, Juried Show. Until Zoetic Theatre, 526 Concession St. Marie, Bettye LaVette, Stars, Fateh, and Hamilton Museum of Steam & Technology. An all-ages of Nancy Winlove-Smith. boldartiste.com //Bold Oct. 26. Artists Reception and Awards for First & DR. DISC RAISE THE ROOF CONCERT SERIES Blues All-Stars. Supercrawl will again be collabo- gathering of commercial exhibitors, tech enthusi- Artiste, 6 Bold St.••• Second Place: Sept. 7, 1-4pm. • Gallery features SPECIAL SESSION • A live concert performance rating with partner venues This Ain't Hollywood, asts, hobbyists, science clubs, artists and stu- CARNEGIE GALLERY • Main Gallery Exhibits: Red Teresa’s newest stained glass creations as well as Club Absinthe and Mulberry Coffeehouse to pro- dents. The event will feature demonstrations of Hot Carnegie Artist Members’ Show. Showcasing by Harrison Kennedy and guest which will be film some of the best regional artists on a two month gram even more great music in the week leading products from across the spectrum of Tesla’s ed and featured in a Canadian documentary the latest work of its talented artist membership, rotating basis. • Open Weds-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun- up to Supercrawl. • Sept. 13-15. For details visit innovations with electricity, tech exhibitors, musi- series called The Life-Sized City. Aug. 23, 7:30pm. this exhibition will feature fine art and craft by over Tues by appointment. For info visit supercrawl.ca //James N. cal entertainment and fun for the whole family. Free. //Dr. Disc, 20 Wilson St. 50 artists and will include painting, printmaking, teresaseaton.ca, 905.510.5030. //652 Spring BOLLYWOOD BLUES • Raga Music School in col- Families can also enjoy a free self-guided muse- WILD WATERWORKS • Superhero Day. Meet your photography, ceramics, woodworking, textiles, Gardens Rd., Burl. favourite superheros like Spiderman and the laboration with St. Andrews United Church pres- um tour and catch a ride on the popular miniature jewelry, and glass. Until Aug. 29. • Painting TRUE NORTH GALLERY/THE MUSIC GALLERY • Ninja Turtle. Test your knowledge with trivia and ents an evening of Indian music featuring steam trains presented by the Artists. Works by Lorne Towes. Sept. 6-29. On display and available for sale are over 100 one- avoid brainfreeze with an ICEE eating contest. Bollywood. Sept. 14, 6pm. $20. //Saint Andrews Live Steamers. Food trucks and vendors will also Opening Reception: Sept. 6, 7-9:30pm. • TBA United Church, 479 Upper Paradise Rd. of-a-kind original, and rare limited edition art by Aug. 23, 11am-7pm. • Rock N’Roll Day. Air band be on site. Sept. 29, 11am-5pm. Free. For more Artspace Exhibits: Works by local artists. Painting BURLINGTON PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE • both world famous, and not so famous musicians, contest for kids, guitar colouring, contest, games info visit hamilton.ca/steammuseum. //900 the Town: Dundas in Plein Air. Paintings. • Events: Southern Ontario Lyric Opera-The Marriage of whose creativity is equally evident in their art as it and more! Sundown admission rate all day. Aug. Woodward Ave. Carnegie Concert Series. Sept. 21, 8pm.: Lynne 30, 11am-7pm. • Labour Day. Enjoy the last day of Figaro. Sept. 15, 3pm. • BPAC Cultural Diversity is in their music. Access to the gallery is by invita- Hanson. • Lecture: Rubens Revealed. An illustrat- summer at Wild Waterworks. Sun down admis- Festival. Mammalian Diving Reflex: Haircuts by tion or appointment only. //Griffin House-Arts ed talk by Regina Haggo. Sept. 26, 7-8pm. • For sion rates all day long. Sept. 2, 11am-5pm. • For Children. Sept. 28 & 20, 12-4pm. Free. ARTS•• Culture & Innovation Business Centre, 23 Griffin tickets and info visit carnegiegallery.org //The more info visit wild-waterworks.com. //Van //Community Studio Theatre. • Tales and Dances ART GALLERY OF BURLINGTON • Exhibits: The St., Waterdown• Wagners Beach Rd. Around the Baobob. Sept. 28 & 29, 12pm. Free. Gender Conspiracy. Artists: Cassils, Michèle Carnegie Gallery, 10 King W., Dundas, WORKERS ARTS & HERITAGE CENTRE • WINONA PEACH FESTIVAL • Live entertainment, //BPAC Plaza. • Amai Kudad et Les Bois. Sept. 28, Pearson Clarke, Dayna Danger, Raven Davis, Jah 905.627.4265 Exhibits: They Built for Eternity. A group exhibition arts & crafts vendors, commercial exhibits, mid- 2pm. Free. //BPAC Plaza. • The PepTides. Sept. Grey, Samra Habib, Manghoe Lassi, Kama La CENTRE3 FOR PRINT AND MEDIA ARTS • that shares the stories of migrant construction way, food court, Peach of a Car Show, Grand 28, 4pm. Free. //BPAC Plaza. • A Conversation Mackerel, Kent Monkman, Wynne Neilly & Kyle Exhibits: Applause/Everything Is Meaningless. workers and laments the human cost of labour in Peach Ball, draw lottery, pageant. Aug. 23, 5- with Dr. Terri-Lynn Brennan on the Land and Lasky, Jocelyn Reynolds, Chase Joynt & Kristen Adam Stutz, Jarrett Heckbert. Until Sept. 3. • cen- the global economy.Sept. 13- Dec. 13. Opening 11pm, Aug. 24, 10am-11pm and Aug. 25, 10am- Waters We Share. Sept. 28, 6pm. Free. Schilt, Vivek Shraya, Adrian Stimson, Chase Joynt tre3.com • Centre3 Gallery, 173 James St. N.• Reception: Sept. 13, 7-9pm. • Permanent 6pm. Details and full entertainment schedule will //Community Studio Theatre. • Tom Wilson: & Tanja Tiziana, and Syrus Marcus Ware. The DUNDAS VALLEY SCHOOL OF ART • dvsa.ca Galleries. All Together Now! Banners From the be available at winonapeach.com //Winona Park| Beautiful Scars. A Symphonic Literary Recital. Gender Conspiracy is an Open Letter to the Trans //DVSA, 21 Ogilvie, Dundas•• Permanent Collection. • Nine to Five: A History of STRANGE DAY AT THE BAY 2019 • A full day of Sept. 28, 8pm. $34.50-$60.50. //Main Theatre. • and Gender Diverse communities in the GTHA to EARLS COURT GALLERY • Exhibits: Pigments. Office Work. • Custom House History & The Hall special music, special art, and special people. For Osob Adus: Unity in Diversity-The Common express allyship in furthering the discourse on Wendy Boyd, Grace Croughan, James Paterson, of Hamilton Labour. • Punching the Clock: details visit strangewaves.ca. Aug. 24, 2-11pm. Culture. Sept. 29, 2pm. Free. //Community Studio gender fluidity and identity, sexual orientation, Clarence Porter, Ester Pugliese. Until Sept. • For Working in Canadian Factories from the 1840s to Free. //Bayfront Park Theatre. • Halton Dance Network presents: same-sex relationships, and consent to promote more info visit earlscourtart.com //Earls Court the 1980s. • Gateway to the Workers City & Made UNITED NATION INTERNATIONAL PAGEANT • heartBEATZ 2019. Sept. 29, 3pm. Free. //BPAC the mental health and safety of all LGBTQI2S* Gallery 215 Ottawa N.• in Hamilton Industrial. • For more info, tickets, or The United Nation Pageant has a category for Plaza. • Sultans of String with Burlington communities. Aug. 31-Dec. 31. • Permanent FACTORY MEDIA CENTRE • Exhibits: to register for events visit wahc-museum.ca every women because we believe every woman Symphony Orchestra: A World of Music. Sept. 29, Collection Corridor: Quebec: A Different Convenience Stores, Space Flowers, and Other //WAHC, 51 Stuart St. has a voice at any stage of her life. Our pageant 4pm. $34.50-$39.50. //Main Theatre. • For more Drummer. Ongoing. • Events: Night of Cabaret. Spinning Objects. • For more info visit factory- YOU ME GALLERY • Whirlygigs. Until Sept. 5. • has four areas of competition; national costume, info visit burlingtonpac.ca. //BPAC 440 Locust St. Celebrate the opening of The Gender Conspiracy mediacentre.ca or call 905.577.9191. //228 James Gallery hours: Wed-Sun 12-5pm. youmegallery.com, 905.523.7754. //330 James St. fashionwear, evening gown and interview. Aug. 24, 905.681.2551 with a night of performances and storytelling. St. N. S.• 7pm. $10. For tickets visit thezoetic.ca. //The TELLING TALES 2019 • Telling Tales Festival is Sept. 6, 7pm. Free. • Family Sunday Open Studio. 541 EATERY & EXCHANGE • Punching the Clock Zoetic Theatre, 526 Concession St. recognized as one of the key annual events in Every Sunday, 1-4pm. Free. All welcome. • For - Working to Wrestle in Hamilton. Art by Dave MISSISSIPPI QUEEN SOUTHERN SUPPER Canadian publishing, dedicated solely to chil- more info visit artgalleryofburlington.com //AGB, Kuruc. Curated by Tara Bursey. Until Nov. 1. //541 1333 Lakeshore Rd. THEATRE| SERIES • Features a set, southern menu paired dren’s literature. The 11th Annual Telling Tales Barton St. E. with the musical talents of blues, and ‘American Festival connects top Canadian artists with chil- • Exhibits: Gallery FIRSTONTARIO PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE • THE GALLERY ON THE BAY • Please note gallery Come To The Edge. An immersive and participato- Roots’ musicians. • Aug. 28: Suzie Vinnick. • Sept. dren and youth on September 15, 21 & 22. • Level One • My Back Pages: The Art of Zines. and is undergoing renovations and annual inventory 4: Joe Murphy. • Sept. 13: Danny Brooks & Lil Telling Tales Main Event features 10 performance Indie Publishing. Until Nov. 10. • This is Moving: ry performance featuring local emerging artists until Sept. 5 and will be open by appointment only with complex disabilities that have explored inno- Miss Debi. • Sept. 19: Steve Groves. • Sept. 25: stages—each designed to appeal to different audi- Illustration on Screen. Until Sept. 8. • The during this time. • galleryonthebay.com. Greg Brisco. • Sept. 28: Jack De Keyzer. • $45 for ences, with music and puppet stages for the very Collection Continues: A Quarter Century of vative new modes of expression, story creation 905.627.4265 //231 Bay N. and improvisation. Aug. 24-25, 12:30pm. Free, but meal and show. For more info, including menu young, storytelling, visual storytelling, tweens, Collecting. Until Jan. 5, 2020. • THIS IS SERIOUS: HAMILTON ARTISTS INC. • Exhibits: Narhî details, visit mississippiqueenfoods.com or call teens, illustration, talks, and workshops. Sept. 15, must reserve tickets online. //Robertson Theatre. Canadian Indie Comics. Until Jan. 5, 2020. • Level Wasagabiich. Catherine Blackburn. Until May • For tickets visit firstontariopac.com 905.526.0909. //635 King St. E. 10am-4pm. Free admission, however donations Two • Navigating Progress: Hind vs. Hind. Until 2020. • Domestic Brew: Craft Beer Garden. PARIS FAIR • Entertainment, exhibition and to literacy will be gratefully accepted. Please visit MURDER MYSTERY THEATRE • Join us for a 4 Sept. 29. • Milli: A Celebration of Style. Until Feb. Ongoing. • For more info visit theinc.ca //155 course meal while enjoying our Murder Mystery attraction details will be available soon at paris- website for information on free shuttle buses, and 9, 2020. • In Residence: Reitzenstein. Until Mar. James St. N.• the parking situation. //Westfield Heritage Village, Theatre. Sept. 14 & 28, Oct. 12, Nov. 3. Doors open fair.com. Aug. 29-Sept. 2. //Paris Agricultural 29, 2020. • The Collection. Permanent Installation. HAMILTON CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS • 1049 Kirkwall Rd., Rockton. • Celebrating Graphic at 6:30pm, event starts at 7pm. • Call for reserva- Society, 139 Silver St. Paris • Kim Adams: Bruegel-Bosch Bus. Permanent VASE-HCA Visual Arts Student Exhibition. Until CANADA’S LARGEST RIBFEST • Family-friendly, Novels. Sept. 21, 1-3pm. Free. Geared towards tions at 905.643.1244 //The Innsville Restaurant, display. • The Jean and Ross Fischer Gallery. Sept. • For more info visit hcarts.ca. 905-528- four-day food extravaganza! Ribfest has a fantas- youth aged 1-3pm. //Hamilton Public Library- 1143 Hwy. 8, Stoney Creek Milli: A Celebration of Style. Until Feb. 9. • 4020. 126 James Street S. //126 James St. S. tic line up of live bands, daily kids’ activities, and a Central Branch, 55 York Blvd. • Nature Tales. For NO CHANGE IN THE WEATHER: A NEWFOUND- Admission to this gallery is free courtesy of Orlick HAMILTON PUBLIC LIBRARY • Central Library crafters’ Artisan Fair. Aug. 30-Sept. 2. For details ages 3 to 10. The theme of nature-literacy has 1st Floor August: Prem Karthik Nagabhatla. LAND MUSICAL • The show takes place in God’s go to canadaslargestribfest.com //Spencer Smith been interwoven with our programming, where Industries. • Tours: Enjoy a free guided tour by Back Pocket, where family and friends have gath- one of our specially trained Docents. For individu- September: Dave Gould. • Central Library Park, Burl. authors, artists, performers and RBG Gallery4 Annex August: Summer Seen. ered together on a wet and foggy night for the FESTITALIA • A festival that shares and promotes Ambassadors will engage with families in nature als and groups smaller than 10. Tours last approx- wake of their beloved matriarch. Aug. 28-31 8pm, imately 40 minutes. Every Wednesday, Saturday, September: Arts of August. • Gallery Barton Italian culture and heritage. Events run through- walks, crafts, and author readings. Sept. 22, August: Fortunée Shugar. September-November: and Aug. 31, 2pm. For tickets visit thezoetic.ca Sunday & Statutory Holiday at 1:00 pm. • Free out September. Details will be available at festi- 11am-4pm. Free access to the RBG grounds with Victoria Martin. • Gallery Dundas August: Barbara //Zoetic Theatre, 526 Concession St. talia.ca. a PWYC optional donation. //Royal Botanical Friday Night On the first Friday of every month, Galway. • Gallery Stoney Creek August: Linda THEATRE ANCASTER • Mousetrap. Agatha Gardens, 680 Plains Rd. W., Burlington. • For full FIRST ONTARIO PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE admission to the Gallery Level One exhibitions is Joyce Ott. • Gallery Turner Park August Dr. Bob Christie’s famous thriller will leave you guessing festival line-up go to tellingtales.org Down The Dirt Road: Origin and Evolution of the free from 4-8pm, with free guided tours with an Kemp Hospice. until the very end. $30 Adults/$27 Seniors/$12 Blues. Sept. 6, 7:30pm. //Partridge Hall. • THE ANCASTER FAIR 2019 • Sept. 19-22. For AGH docent at 6pm. • For details and tickets visit KIRKLAND LYNCH STUDIO GALLERY • Original details visit ancasterfair.ca //Ancaster Student. Sept. 13, 14, 20, 21, 7:30pm, and Sept. 15, Masterworks 1: Jewels in the Crown. Sept. 22, artgalleryofhamilton.com //123 King W. stained glass designs by Siobhan Lynch, oil paint- 22, 2pm. • Tickets at TheatreAncaster.com or call 2:30pm. //Partridge Hall. • Roman Clarke with Fairgrounds, 630 Trinity Rd. 905.527.6610 ings and drawings by Peter Kirkland. • Gallery 905.304.7469 //Old Firehall Arts Centre, 334 Guests. Sept. 22, 8pm. //Recital Hall. • For tickets THE HAMILTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA • ART IN THE WORKPLACE 30TH EXHIBIT OPEN- Hours: Tues-Sat 11am-5pm. • sio2creations.com, Wilson St. E., Anc. visit FirstOntarioPAC.ca //FOPAC, St. Catharines. Seniors’ Talk & Tea. Enjoy a late morning tea and ING • Our feature artist, Eileen Romaker, and the peterkirkland.com //654 Spring Gardens Rd., THEATRE AQUARIUS • Renovations for Six by • For tickets visit FirstOntarioPAC.ca //FOPAC, St. scrumptious treat while exploring the stories works of over 120 local artists have transformed Burl. behind the famous composers and music fea- Norm Foster. Sept. 18-Oct. 5. • For tickets visit Catharines The Atrium @ McMaster Innovation Park. On dis- MCMASTER MUSEUM OF ART • The Museum of tured in HPO’s mainstage concerts. Join theatreaquarius.org or call 905.522.7529. //190 STEEL CITY ROVERS IN CONCERT • Hosted by play until Oct. 29 with free admission on weekdays Art will be closed for Physical Plant Updates Hamilton Irish Arts. Sept. 7, 7:30pm. $20. For tick- Composer-in-Residence Abigail Richardson- from 8am to 6pm. • artintheworkplace.ca //175 King William St. Schulte for these fascinating talks. Then, make through August 23. • Exhibits: The Levy THEATRE BURLINGTON • The Last Of The Red ets contact [email protected]. Longwood Rd. S. 905-667-5500 Collection. Aug. 24-Dec. 14. • Peripheral Vision(s). //Corktown Pub, your way to the orchestra level of the Great Hall for Hot Lovers by Neil Simon. The sexual revolution ART SHOW: SELF OBSESSION • The show is Perspectives on the “Indian” image by 19th centu- AUTUMN STROLL 2019 • 22nd annual wine, craft, a behind-the-scenes peek at an HPO rehearsal. aimed at teaching individuals to love themselves was in full swing back in 1960, when Barney ry Northern Plains warrior-artists, Leonard beer & food tasting event. Join us as we stroll Sept. 20: Radiant Ravel. $12. • For more info, reg- rather than being obsessed with trying to be Cashman felt he was missing out on something. through the beautiful trails of Dundas Valley istrations and tickets visit hpo.org| someone else. Sept. 24, 2-9pm. //66 James St. N. Baskin, and Fritz Scholder. Aug. 24-Dec. 20. • Never unfaithful before, Barney decides to join the Conservation Area, sipping award winning wines SIDEWALK SOUNDS ON CONCESSION STREET • ART SHOWCASE FROM LIVING ROCK MIN- Artist Garden: The Boat Project/everythingwillbe- revolution. Sept. 13-14, 20-21, 27-28, 8pm. • For and sampling some of the finest cuisine this dis- A family friendly event featuring free live music ISTRIES • Featuring more than 50 pieces of art on fine. Canadian artist Ernest Daetwyler will build a tickets visit theatreburlington.on.ca //Theatre trict has to offer. Tickets are limited and 2018 sold performances in 5 locations, local vendors and exhibit, including paintings, poetry, sculptures, site-specific work in the Museum’s Artist Garden Burlington’s Drama Centre 2311 New Street, great food. The 3rd Friday of every month, 6-9pm, this summer. He will transform pieces of drift- Burl.| 14 AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 VIEW

Dundurn’s Kitchen Garden. A free, drop-in pro- Burl. group discussions, and literature on support ven- PERIPHERAL VISION(S) gram in Dundurn’s Kitchen Garden. Participants ANCASTER FARMERS MARKET • Wednesdays ues. Find hope and knowledge among peers on will work alongside Dundurn’s Gardeners in a from 3-7pm through October 16. //37 Halson St. your journey to wellness. Free to attend. Second on exhibit at McMaster variety of seasonal tasks, which range from har- (behind St. John’s Anglican Church) Tuesday of each month 7-9pm @ St. Joseph’s Museum of Art vesting and washing produce, arranging flowers, ARTISAN MARKET • A show and sale by artists, Hospital, Charlton Campus, Juravinski Tower, 2nd Alvin A. Lee Building weeding, pest control or pruning. All skill levels featuring paintings, pottery, wood work, jewellery, Floor, Miller Theatre; third Tuesday of every are welcome. For ages 10 and up. Children garden art, glass work, metal work, photography month 2-4pm @ St. Peter’s HARRRP, 705 Main St. McMaster University between 10-13 years of age require adult accom- and art cards. Meet the artists in person. Food E., and the fourth Tuesday of each month 2-4pm @ 1280 Main St W paniment. Free. Aug. 28, 10-11:30am. • Adults trucks on site. Sept. 8, 10am-4pm. Free admis- First Pilgrim United Church, 200 Main E. August 24 – $11.50/Seniors, youth $9.50/Children $6/Infants sion. For info visit artisanmarketdundas.com. MOONLIT MEMORY WALK FUNDRAISER • Free/Family $30. For more info visit hamilton.ca. //Dundas Driving Park, Dundas Included in the registration fee: Pasta and meat- December 20, 2019 Open Tues-Sun, noon to 4pm. //610 York Blvd. ARTS AND CRAFTERNOONS • A crafty happy ball dinner, keepsake lantern, beverages and museum.mcmaster.ca 905.546.2872 hour sponsored by Collective Arts. Great tunes. dessert, live music by Chad Pilon, memorial walk ERLAND LEE MUSEUM • For info visit Supplies on hand. Thursdays, 4-7pm. Free. //This after dinner, tributes, fundraising prizes. Sept. 12, fwio.on.ca/erland. //552 Ridge Rd., Stoney Creek. Ain’t Hollywood, 345 James St. N. 6-9pm. $25. Registration required. For more info FIELDCOTE MEMORIAL PARK & MUSEUM • BINBROOK CRUISE NIGHTS • Classic cars, food, and to register visit moonlitmemorywalk.org. Exhibits: Stories From The Edge. A new exhibit door prizes and music. Every Thursday through //Knights of Columbus Hall, 222 Queenston Rd. showcasing stories and artifacts of Ancaster’s his- August 29, 5-8pm. Free admission. //South Brook NAR-ANON MEETING • Family support group. tory. Until Dec. 24. • Events: • Ontario Golf Course, 4349 Hwy 56 S., Binbrook “Never alone-hope in Hamilton”. We carry the Archaeological Society Monthly Lectures. Sept. BURLINGTON MANSION TOASTMASTERS • Gain message of hope throughout the world to those 19, 7:30-9pm. • For info visit hamilton.ca. Open confidence, leadership skills and learn the art of affected with addiction of someone near to them. Tues-Sat, 1-5pm. //64 Sulphur Springs Rd., Anc. public speaking. Everyone is welcome and the first All welcome. Mondays at 7pm, except holidays. GRIFFIN HOUSE • The Griffin House is recognized three visits are free. Every Wednesday, 7:30- //HARRRP Community Centre-St. Peter’s, 705 as an important Canadian Black History site. Visit 9:30pm. For more info visit mansiontoastmas- Main St. E. & St. Clair. St Clair entrance, lower this preserved early 19th century home, set on a ters.com //Cumis Room, Paletta Mansion, 4250 level. hilltop overlooking the beautiful Dundas Valley. Lakeshore Rd. E., Burl.| NAVIGATING THE MAZE OF SELLING YOUR Explore the history of Enerals Griffin and other CHRISTIE ANTIQUE & VINTAGE SHOW • Shop HOME AS A SENIOR • Presented by Seniors Real early Black settlers, and enjoy a walk along near- hundreds of Canada’s best, high quality, antique Estate Specialist Judy Shepalo. This session will by trails. • //733 Mineral Springs Rd., Ancaster and vintage dealers. Sept. 7, 8am-5pm. $10/Kids be an info packed session regarding selling the HAMILTON CHILDREN’S MUSEUM • The ARTisan 12 and under free. //Christie Lake Conservation family home, relocating, and adapting to a chang- Market. Visitors will become artisans for the day Area, Dundas. ing environment. Space is limited. To RSVP your as they create and sell special art pieces at the DINNER WITH A VIEW-FOOD TRUCKS ON THE attendance call 905.573.4940 x108. Sept. 18, 6- museum market. Aug. 23, 10am-3pm. Terrific BROW • A gathering of local food trucks every 8pm. //New Village Retirement Residence, 490 Tuesdays. Aug. 27: Kid Karaoke. • Textile Maker Wednesday night from 5-8pm. Free parking. Hwy 8, Stoney Creek Space. Get your creative juices flowing in the //Sam Lawrence Park, 255 Concession St. NEW VILLAGE RETIREMENT RESIDENCE END museum’s mini makerspace. Aug. 28, 10am-3pm. FOOD BANK DONATIONS • An easy way to donate OF SUMMER OPEN HOUSE BASH • Guided tours, • Open Tues-Sat., 9:30am-3:30pm. For info visit non-perishable items to our local food banks. A draws, grab bags, refreshments, first time resi- www.hamilton.ca/museums //1072 Main St. E. 24/7 drop off box is located at 440 York Boulevard, dent discount. Call Adele Alfano 905.573.4940 HAMILTON MILITARY MUSEUM • Originally Sir in front of Midas (corner of Locke and York) Half a x108 for more info. Aug. 28, 1-5pm. //490 Hwy 8, Allan MacNab’s gatehouse, the museum features block east of the Mustard Seed co-op. Donations Stoney Creek many Canadian military history exhibits. • For info are delivered to the food banks at Good Shepherd, SERVE OUR CITY COMMUNITY DINNER • Every Mission Services St. Matthew’s and Salvation Until Aug. 31. • Cipher Decipher. An interactive visit hamilton.ca //610 York Blvd. Wednesday night at 6pm. Free. //Crossfire HAMILTON MUSEUM OF STEAM & TECHNOLOGY Army, Suggested food items: Baby food, tinned Assembly, 458 King St. W. (between Pearl & FILM exhibition exploring the past and present of com- Meat, Peanut butter, cereal, pasta, tomato sauce, CHOSEN NIGHT PREMIER • Aug. 31, 6-11pm. munications cryptology - what it is, how it works • The museum offers guided tours, various per- Locke) manent and changing exhibits and features spe- pet food. For more info call 905.527.0432 or email STORIES IN THE STONES • Join us for a lively, Tickets available now at ticketfly.com. • //Lincoln and how it affects our lives. Until Sept. 29. • Rush [email protected] Alexander Centre, 160 King St. E. lincolnalexandr- To Danger Book Launch. Ted Barris launches his cial events for the whole family, including Live informative tour of selective grave sites in historic Steamer Days when you can catch a ride on HAMILTON NATURALISTS’ CLUB EVENTS • . No reservations necessary. centre.com latest book Rush to Danger: Medics in the Line of Monthly Public Meetings. Sept. 9, 7pm.: Lynx and miniature trains and witness the social and Rain or shine. Hosted by Robin McKee. Saturdays ENDGAME IN WOODLANDS PARK • Join Barton Fire. Aug. 24, 1pm. • Airshow Dinner. Featuring a Landscapes: How Prey and Habitat Influence the mechanical life of Canada's early industrial revo- at 11am. • Aug. 24: Power of The City Tour. • Aug. Village and Playhouse Cinema for our final free night engine run-up of the Avro Lancaster, a B-25 Behaviour of Canada Lynx in the Yukon. Speaker: 31: Women’s Tour. • Sept. 7: Disasters Tour-Part outdoor movie night of the summer, featuring Mitchell flight draw, the CF-18 Demo close up - lution during a guided tour of the museum. From Rachael Derbyshire. //RBG, 680 Plains Rd. W., May through October. Next Live Steamer Days: 2. • Sept. 14: Art Crawl Tour-Part 2. • Sept. 28: Avengers: Endgame. Come dressed as your meet the pilot & crew. Pilot/Aircrew meet-and- Burl. • For more info visit hamiltonnature.org. Past Mayors Tour. • For more info visit hamilton- Aug. 25, Sept. 8, 11am-4pm. • Behind the Scenes favourite superhero for a chance to win. Activities greet plus one pilot/aircrew will join each table for HAMILTON NO. 1 TOASTMASTERS • Build confi- history.ca //Gatehouse [across from Dundurn kick off at 6pm with a massive back-to-school dinner. Plus silent auction for some cool items. Curator-led Tour. Discover this National Historic dence, communication & leadership skills. Castle], 777 York Blvd. book sale, games and activities, and a local ven- Aug. 27, 5:30pm. $99. • Community Charity Site from an entirely different perspective. Roll up Mondays 7-8:30pm. For info call 905.512.3516, TWISTED STITCHES FIBREARTS GATHERING • dors' market, and the movie begins at sundown. Airshow 2019. Takes place at the Brantford your sleeves, put on your hard hat, and join us contact [email protected], or visit on face- Weekly drop-in community stitching circle every Sept. 6, 6-11pm. //Woodlands Park, 501 Barton St. Airport. Free admission (donations appreciated), behind the scenes. Saturdays, August 17, 24, 31, book: @hamiltonno1 //Downtown YMCA, 79 Thursday 5-10pm. Coffee, tea, snacks. Details and E. but parking is $20. Aug. 28. Gates open 10am-12pm. All ages. $30. Pre-registration James St. S. Paddy Cline room. calendar available on FB @twistedstitcheshamont 9am/Flying show 12:30pm. • Classics of the required. • Hamilton Mini-Maker Faire. 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VIEW AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 15 [FILM] by ALBERT DESANTIS kids dealing with a problem, which in turn causes drugs as bad and have a very moralistic streak, yet another problem. Sometimes the movie sacri- thinking the girls are hopeless addicts. Lucas even GOOD BOYS fices physical realism for the sake of a gag, like them tries to hand over the drugs to cop citing that it is a running across a highway is implausible but funny. level 1 controlled substance. Also, at one point, Max unleashes a paintball gun The two girls caught up in the exchange just upon a bunch of jerk frat boys and everyone reacts seem irritated by these loudmouth kids who stole like it’s real gunfire as the scene is shot like a slow- their stash. Both Francis and Gordon have some motion action movie. choice reactions, like when Lilly sprints after the What holds this movie together is the core trio kids like the T–1000. The adults in the film are not and each member is distinct. Tremblay’s Max is sort in it much but when they are it is solid, like Forte as of the lead and he is surprisingly funny. Considering the dad who is kind of happy that is boy is growing Tremblay shot to fame as the troubled lead kid in up but his reactions just embarrass Max. Lil Rel Room he’s been in a lot of fairly maudlin roles after- Howery plays Lucas’ dad who is going through a wards. So Good Boys lets Tremblay be outsized and divorce and he gets in a funny scene where they try crazy which he is good at. Probably one of the fun- to explain it to the kid and just make things worse. niest things he does is overtly loud reactions, with The bullies and cool kids are not unique but they at one point him hollering that his hormones are make for nicely snooty antagonists. making him mad. The movie is never not funny however some The kid being named Thor is a decently, unex- bits are not as funny as it thinks it is. Sure, kids plained random gag, maybe his parents were Marvel swearing and hollering is good for a laugh but there fans, which makes his attitude funnier. While Max are diminishing returns. Some bits are impressively is obsessed with meeting the girl, Thor just doesn’t extreme like in one scene they try to sell a rare col- want to look like a dork. This leads to a harrowing lectable card to a weird stranger off the Internet. So, scene where he has to take sips of a beer to impress in case he’s a creep, they arm themselves with the cool kids which is both kind of troubling yet the weapons which, unknowingly to the kids, are adult WHILE THE SHOCk of seeing tweens spewing to an exclusive “kissing party” with the popular raunchy language can only get so much comedic kids. Max really wants to go so he can kiss a girl that movie plays it as sort of inspirational. Williams’ toys from Thor’s parents. plays mileage, Good Boys manages to keep things consis- he likes, Brixlee (Millie Davis), but his buddies are Lucas is probably the funniest of the bunch and his the guy buying the card and his reaction is gold. tently entertaining. Mostly because the chemistry just annoyed. Desperate to learn about kissing, they reactions to the illegal things happening are hilari- Good Boys straddles a line between a genuinely between the trio is fantastic. The movie is very use a drone to spy on two teenagers, Hannah (Molly ously big. truthful story about growing up and just going crazy episodic as basically the boys are rolling from one Gordon) and Lilly (Midori Francis). The girls are The three kids have such distinct personalities on kids being bad. It mostly works although it does crazy madcap event to the next. Also, there’s a bit not amused so they steal Max’s drone, which they realize they might be growing apart. This bit dip a bit too much into the same joke well through- about learning to grow up which is required in the belongs to his dad (Will Forte), so the guys steal the about emotional bond between young men, and the out. While it may have flaws, overall the movie coming of age genre. Good Boys may only have one girls backpack, which has a stash of molly in it. Now general sense of raunchiness, is what makes Good happily breezes by. V repeated trick up it’s sleeve but it’s a good one for 90 they to find drones, beer, drugs, and more all so they Boys similar to Superbad. The funny part is that GOOD BOYS minutes. can make it to the party, but the crazy day might while there is a lot of swearing and adult content, ###$$ Max (Jacob Tremblay), Lucas (Keith L. tear the buddies apart. since the kids are so young they don’t exactly know Director: Gene Stupnitsky Williams) and Thor (Brady Noon) are losers new to The movie careens throughout scenes as things what they’re talking about. Even though they are Starring: Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams, middle school, yet somehow Max scores an invite keep going wrong. It is a lot of little scenes of the running around with a stash of molly they just view Brady Noon and Molly Gordon

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(PG) FRI- TRUE GRIT (G) MON 6:30 ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD (14A) FRI- THURS 3:45, 10:10 THE WILD BUNCH (G) MON 9:15 THURS 2:20, 6:00, 9:30 YESTERDAY (PG) FRI,TUE 4:00, 6:30; SAT 6:30; SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME (PG) FRI-TUE, SUN 7:00; SUN 7:00 the idea of finding salvation in music - though it (Directed by David Leitch, runs 138) Fast & delivers the constant, ridiculous action they've when practising kissing with a sex doll. They MINI REVIEWS does so by turning its inspirational true story of a Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is basically a come to expect, along with the usual themes of encounter words like feminist and misogynist. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN British Pakistani kid in 1987 (Viveik Kalra) who movie where The Rock and The Transporter save family and friendship. It just doesn't hit the same When accused of being the latter, Tremblay's Max ###$$ finds comfort and identity in the music of Bruce the world from the plot of Mission: Impossible II. level of transcendent ridiculousness that distin- argues back: "I never massaged anyone!" There's (Directed by Simon Curtis, runs 109) The Art Of Springsteen into pure cliché. Maybe that's inten- This is not necessarily a criticism; when you guishes the franchise's best chapters. Some sub- room to explore this further, but Good Boys isn't Racing In The Rain adapts Garth Stein's novel tional since so much of Springsteen's early output think about it, it's where the globe-trotting hoods- titles. (N.W.) that kind of movie. (R.S.) about Enzo, a golden retriever bought as a pup favours raw feeling over nuance, but I doubt it. n-hot-rods franchise has been heading all along. and raised by Denny (Milo Ventimiglia), an aspir- Director Chadha has always been a broad-strokes The first film in the series was a blatant rip-off of THE GOOD BOYS ###$$ ONCE UPON A TIME IN... ing race car driver. Enzo, who narrates the film in filmmaker, depending on big, emotional gestures Point Break, so why not just keep building new (Directed by Gene Stupnitsky, runs 95) Good HOLLYWOOD ##$$$ Kevin Costner's raspy, folksy voice, is the wise, to push past wobbly plotting or thin characteriza- machines from old parts? This add-on chapter - Boys is Superbad with no pubic hairs. Jacob (Directed by Quentin Tarantino, runs 159) Once calm, loyal canine who watches over Denny as he tion. The mismatch between the bombast of the ninth film in the series - sidelines all the orig- Tremblay, Keith L. Williams and Brady Noon play Upon a Time in ... Hollywood is two hours and 41 meets his future wife (Amanda Seyfried), have a Springsteen's music and her protagonist's rela- inal characters so former antagonists Luke 12-year-olds who, on the way to a kissing party, minutes of grade-A QT fetishization: of cool cars child together and then experience tragedy. The tively modest, utterly generic goals (asking a girl Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and Deckard Shaw get mixed up with anal beads, a bottle of MDMA and TV westerns, of square-jawed matinée idols plot travels a predictable course, and even the on a date, writing an essay for the school paper, (Jason Statham) can take a turn at the wheel, and antagonistic college-bound girls. Lee and sunny blonde ingénues, of rugged stuntmen racing scenes lack horsepower. The film's appeal standing up to his controlling father) never really running around the world to keep a burned MI-6 Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky's script careens and good acid, of Los Angeles in 1969, when comes in the gentle tone director Simon Curtis resolves as either comic or dramatic, which is a agent (Vanessa Kirby) out of the clutches of a sci- from one absurd, slapstick scenario to the next, there was a movie theatre on every block and cute finds between the soapy, Nicholas Sparksian problem; much of Blinded By The Light feels like entifically enhanced baddie (Idris Elba) who piling on outrageous antics as if to fill the time. girls wore crocheted tops in the sunshine and the material and the shaggy, down-to-earth observa- it's still trying to figure itself out. Chadha seems wants the lethal virus she's injected into her sys- The comedy is much more effective when it's just music on the radio was just starting to slide from tions of a dog. The dog acting is impressive, and convinced that audiences will overlook the rough tem. It's a lot of fun for a while thanks to an ener- about the boys being pubescent, especially con- Summer Of Love bliss to Altamont rage. It's a several running jokes - one involving Enzo's TV edges as long as they care about Javed's journey, getic first act, some unexpected cameos and a sidering that their sex education is part of a whole sun-blasted, casually plotted meander through watching, the other involving his nemesis, a toy and maybe they will. But I suspect she's also script that makes the most of Johnson and new landscape. What does it mean to be "good dusty backlots and landmarks starring Leonardo zebra - keep paying comic dividends. (G.S.) counting on those audiences not to care that it's Statham's pissy one-upmanship, Kirby's exasper- boys" in a raunchy comedy set post-American Pie, DiCaprio as an aging movie star, Brad Pitt as his a journey they've seen many times before... just ated competence and Elba's gleeful villainy... post-Superbad and post-#MeToo? I'm not accus- stuntman, driver and unofficial therapist, and BLINDED BY THE LIGHT ##$$$ with a better soundtrack. (N.W.) though the film eventually succumbs to the same ing the filmmakers of thinking too hard about Margot Robbie as a starlet named Sharon Tate, (Directed by Gurinder Chadha, runs 114) Blinded crushing, outsized spectacle that ground down this. But the film does bear witness to a moment. living just up the road from Rick's place in the By The Light is an open-hearted celebration of FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: the fourth, sixth and eighth Furious movies. F&F These boys have easy access to porn, but also Hollywood Hills with her new husband, the film- HOBBS & SHAW fans won't be disappointed by Hobbs & Shaw: it respectful language. And so, they talk consent ###$$ CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 VIEW AUGUST 22 — 28, 2019 17 CONTINUED FROM PAGE17 es let the movie nod to the books' maker Roman Polanski (Rafal anthology structure while still building Zawierucha). For a very long time, a master narrative that lets Øvredal Tarantino is content to just drift along (Trollhunter, The Autopsy Of Jane Doe) CLASSIFIED ADS [email protected] with his characters over a few days in play with teen-sleuthing tropes while ASTROLOGY FLORISTS [ REAL ESTATE ] February - and while we are always also fleshing out the town's history and aware that every scene is two or three orchestrating some appropriately ASTROLOGER & PSYCHIC FLOWERS ... times longer than it needs to be, the intense set pieces. Producer/co-writer BILLION actors make the time pass pleasantly. Guillermo del Toro makes sure the tex- India’s No. 1 Spiritual Healer The Perfect Gift & Fortune Teller for hard to buy for people! But when the movie reaches its cli- ture of the film is up to his usual stan- Pandit: RAJU JI Get them a Bouquet-A-Month max, he blows it in an almost spectac- dards - that drive-in image of Night Of Palm Reading, Face Reading, for 3 - 6 months, and we’ll do DOLLARS BABY! ular fashion - not just in terms of con- The Living Dead has just the right Horoscope tempt for his characters, but for the scuzziness - while also baking some Solves Problems like Health, FREE DELIVERY! THE CITY BROKE a record with you should get in while the story he's supposedly telling. What was interesting social and political com- Love, Job, Depression, We also do custom floral a billion dollars in permits in getting is good. There are a this movie about? Who was it for? mentary into the heartland setting. Husband-wife, Jealousy, Court, arrangements. a record eight months this few projects that have not (N.W.) (The action takes place in the days Etc. REMOVES BLACK Chedoke Flowers year to beat the last year’s moved forward but these are leading up to Richard Nixon's election, MAGIC,JADOO, VODOO, 945 Garth, Hamilton record of a billion dollars in the minority — not the READY OR NOT ####$ and Garza's Latino character is OBEYA & GIVES 100% 905.387.5773 nine months. The city has norm. Years ago you would (Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, unquestionably an outsider in white- PROTECTIONS. CALL: www.chedokeflowers.com. hit this milestone in nine of see more projects stall than Tyler Gillett, runs 95) Ready Or Not is bread Mill Valley.) It's a little on the 905-379-1439 HAMILTON the last ten years. This $1 those moving forward but a gleefully complicated thriller about a long side, and most of the secondary HYPNOSIS HYPNOSIS billion milestone represents you now see more projects family that welcomes its newest mem- characters are just sketches, but when 4,719 building projects in the moving forward than ber by trying to kill her on her wedding it focuses on the spookhouse stuff - or residential, institutional, stalling. night. It's also a comedy, because how when Colletti and Garza get a chance commercial and industrial People from outside the could it not be? Grace (Samara to develop their awkward, gentle sectors. city are not just moving in Weaving, of Mayhem and SMILF) has chemistry - it's pretty satisfying. And The value of Industrial but also setting up new busi- just married board-game heir Alex when you're not bracing for the next building permits in the first nesses which has contributed (Goalie's Mark O'Brien) at the palatial scare, keep an eye out for local talent: seven months of this year is to this upswing. Some of Le Domas estate, and tradition dic- Kim's Convenience's Rodrigo up 151 per cent over the these new businesses will tates she play a random game at mid- Fernandez-Stoll pops up at that drive- average of the last three work and some won’t, but night: she gets Hide and Seek, the in, and Stephanie Belding and David years, compared to 14.4 per the fact that money is mov- mansion goes into lockdown and the Tompa work at the local psychiatric cent for the residential build- ing is the best part of the entire family takes up arms to hunt her hospital. (N.W.) ing sector. This is good news equation. The overall prices down and kill her before sunrise. (They for the residential tax payers, of rentals and sales keep play fair, giving her a head start and WHERE’D YOU GO, since it means that when growing and this will contin- turning off the security cameras. But BERNADETTE these industrial projects have ue to bring in new money even so....) Rebounding from their dis- ##$$$ (Directed by Richard been completed, they will and investment since all sec- appointing first feature Devil's Due, Linklater, runs 104) Where'd You Go, carry more of the tax burden. tors of the market are prov- the filmmaking collective known as Bernadette is a sleepwalker's adapta- In 2018 the total was $1.26 ing it is working in the city Radio Silence get amazing mileage out tion of Maria Semple's 2012 novel MEDIA MEDIA billion and I would guess that but who ever had a doubt? of the sheer absurdity of Grace's about a Seattle teenager investigating 2019 should easily surpass Everyone outside the city. I predicament, grounding everything her mother's disappearance; the whole that and hopefully beat the am not a fan of big chain that happens in her disbelief and thing feels disconnected from itself, record of $1.4 billion. stores but the fact they are sense of betrayal while also letting the swerving in tone from a comedy of The mix of projects is taking notice and slowly family members hunting her be com- manners to a midlife-crisis drama to a probably the biggest change increasing their presence also plex, interesting people who've all character study and back again. Cate in Hamilton’s landscape. shows how the city is moving talked themselves into this because of Blanchett, as the eponymous missing Industrial parks are being forward. At one time you tradition, superstition and obligation. person, does everything she can to find built and slowly being leased thought your city made it big The ensemble cast mixes "respectable" a way to integrate all of those different out. Condo projects are sell- because Starbucks finally players like Henry Czerny and Andie modes, but for the first time since his ing out and the cranes are opened but I will know we MacDowell with genre ringers like remake of The Bad News Bears, about to be in the air. have made it when we final- Wynonna Earp's Melanie Scrofano and Linklater just doesn't have a grip on Commercial space is being ly get a Chipotle! V Orphan Black's Kristian Bruun. Adam the material. Radically restructuring scooped up and new busi- by Darrin DeRoches Brody turns up as the wild card, a Semple's novel - which opened with nesses are opening up all Darrin DeRoches is a local brother who's spent decades dealing 14-year-old Bee (Emma Nelson) exca- around the city. This pace real estate and mortgage with the guilt from an earlier game vating her mom's correspondence and will hopefully keep moving broker. He can be reached night. It's all ridiculous, but the stakes her parents' relationship in the wake of in the right direction until to answer questions, com- are real, and Ready Or Not's refusal to her disappearance - the film now the States goes into recession ments or stories about real laugh any of it off gives the movie an moves in a linear fashion, starting and we will probably level estate experiences unpredictable edge that makes every- weeks earlier and simply laying stuff This space can be yours out in the next two years. through this weekly col- thing so much more interesting. (N.W.) out for us: Bernadette is prickly; hus- for only $36.00 + hst! The bank rate staying low umn at sold@uniquereal- band Elgin (Billy Crudup) is well- has helped this upswing so ty.ca. SCARY STORIES meaning but distracted; misunder- TO TELL IN THE DARK standings, deceptions and inattention ###$$ all lead to an intervention that goes (Directed by André Øvredal, runs 111) very, very badly. There's precisely one Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark scene where Linklater seems to be refashions Alvin Schwartz's children's fully present: a centrepiece interweav- books into an appealingly creepy ghost ing two separate conversations that story for youngish viewers taking their serves as both an info-dump and a first tentative steps into grown-up hor- compelling assessment of the ways in ror. Set in 1968, the film follows three which a couple that's been together for small-town pals (Zoe Colletti, Gabriel decades can utterly fail to know each Rush, Austin Zajur) and their new other. And then the scene ends, and friend (Michael Garza) who hide out the electricity just fizzles out and we from bullies in a haunted go back to wondering why we're sup- house and end up cursed to live out posed to care about what these people bespoke nightmares written for them do with their hollow, entitled lives. by an angry spirit. The individual curs- (N.W.)

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