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COP TALK: A NEW 

DETACHMENT COMMANDER 

FOR MIDDLESEX OPP 

LONDON, ON 

If you haven’t heard the name Tony Cristilli, you 

may sometime soon. 

But just because you hear the name of the 

new detachment commander for Ontario Provincial 

Police (OPP) in Middlesex County, it doesn’t mean 

you’re in trouble with the law – necessarily. 

In fact, you’re more likely to have been at an event, 

seen or heard an interview featuring inspector Cristilli, 

since he offi cially took charge of Middlesex OPP 

detachment at the beginning of 2012. 

“I welcome it, and I expect to do more,” Cristilli told 

SCENE when asked about his role engaging the public. 

The conversation with the inspector came just following 

a primary school event that had him fi elding 

questions from kindergarten students. 

INSPECTOR TONY CRISTILLI 

TOOK COMMAND OF THE OPP MIDDLESEX 

DETACHMENT IN JANUARY 2012 

“It is important to be out there, projecting a positive 

image for the OPP, for this detachment certainly, and 

for policing in general,” he said. 

Born and raised in the Toronto area, Cristilli applied 

to the OPP as a young man. His earliest stationing 

would give the future detachment commander a 

real sense of what his duty to the provincial police 

force would entail. 

“It’s rather comical story. I applied to the OPP and 

received a phone call that I had been successful, and 

was being offered a position - I was very excited to 

jump at that opportunity,” Cristilli recalled fondly. 

“However, I was cautioned, because I didn’t yet 

know where I was being posted. So I asked, ‘Where 

am I being posted?’ And the recruiter said, ‘Minaki.’ 

“‘Minaki?’ I said, ‘How many hours north of Toron- 

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to is Minaki?’ And the recruiter said, ‘Two days.’ Cue 

the audience laughter. 

Yet despite any initial reservations Cristilli might 

have had serving the Northwestern Ontario community, 

they soon dissolved – like the frost on a windshield 

in the mid-March sun. 

He ended up spending three years on his initial contract 

in Minaki – and went on to serve throughout the 

region for the next 14 years. 

“I was fortunate to work with some great people, 

and not just in Minaki. I also spent considerable time 

in Kenora, and throughout Northwestern Ontario 

conducting criminal investigations. Eventually, I was 

supervising the criminal investigations unit in the 

Kenora area for the OPP,” Cristilli recalled. 

“After about 13-and-a-half years, I took a transfer 

down to Southwestern Ontario – from Northwest Ontario 

to Southwest Ontario, Kenora to Essex detachment,” 

he said. 

While in Essex, Cristilli took charge of the detachment’s 

crime unit. From there, he worked towards the 

rank of inspector, which he received offi cially in 2007. 

For the next four years – as the OPP’s manager for 

criminal operations in Southwestern Ontario - Cristilli 

oversaw the management of the region’s crime 

program. Then, in January 2012, he offi cially took 

command of the OPP’s Middlesex detachment. 

Cristilli’s career trajectory gave him opportunities 

to work in various capacities for the province’s police 

force, mixing practical, frontline experiences with 

more administrative duties. 

“Of course, we tend to learn more as the years go 

on. But I’ve been fortunate to see the organization 

from different perspectives,” the inspector said. 

“In fact, even as a detachment commander, I had – 

prior to taking this position - the chance to temporarily 

run three other detachments for short periods of 

time. It was defi nitely an advantage to have had that 

experience [before taking command here],” he said. 

Although Cristilli has only been in the position offi 

cially for two months, it’s been long enough for the 

new detachment commander to form some pretty 

defi nite ideas about his new role and the people that 

help him to fulfi ll it daily. 

“I think what stands out – and what is such a signifi 

cant reminder – is the hard work that our folks do 

every single day on the frontlines,” Cristilli said. 

“It truly is a rewarding experience to see the exceptional 

police work that is being done every single day. 

One of my priorities is supporting these folks, so they 

can continue to do the best they can do out there, 

helping and protecting our communities.” 

~ Chris Morgan 

NOT THE DESTINATION, 

BUT THE JOURNEY: THE 

SPEED & CUSTOM CAR SHOW 

LONDON, ON 

With warmer temperatures in the offi ng 

and April just around the corner, automobile 

enthusiasts eagerly await the numerous 

car shows that typically attend spring’s arrival. 

Get a jump start on event season with the Speed 

& Custom Car Show at Western Fair District. The 

largest exhibition of its kind in Southwestern Ontario 

takes place at 

the Agriplex Building, 

March 23-25. 

The origins of 

this particular automotive 

show date 

back some fi ve decades, 

said Western 

Fair District event 

services manager 

Andrew Kitt. 

Initiated by local 

car clubs, the show 

has undergone numeroustransformations, 

promoted 

under different 

names and by various 

organizers. This year, responsibility for managing 

the event was assumed by the district, along 

with a group of dedicated car club members. 

Even though the show is largely intended for fans 

of classic and restored automobiles, many of the 

city’s car dealerships will also be on site promoting 

special incentives for people interested in buying a 

new vehicle. 

“We have a section with a lot of our big dealers 

in town – BMW, MINI, Scion, Nissan, London City 

Chrysler – and they’re going to be exhibiting some 

of their really show-worthy models, as well as offering 

some great deals and incentive programs,” 

Kitt said. 

In addition to car enthusiasts and prospective 

automobile buyers, anybody interested in custom 

car culture will fi nd something to see at the show. 

“We have a whole ‘pin stripers panorama’ going 

on this year, which is a bunch of guys who do the 

pinstripe painting on the cars, as well as the Rat 

Fink-inspired, hotrod artwork. Lots of cool drawers 

and painters are going to be here showcasing their 

work,” Kitt said. 

“All of the artists are from Southwestern Ontario,” 

he added. 

Other elements of the show include the Classic 

Car Corral, which will house hotrods, vintage automobiles 

and feature vehicles, like the Anaconda 

THE SPEED & CUSTOM CAR SHOW 

TAKES PLACE AT THE WESTERN FAIR DISTRICT AGRIPLEX 

FROM MARCH 23-25 


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Truck – “a huge truck that’s made to look ‘reptileish’ 

with the bodywork and the paint job.” 

Another fantastical vehicle jumps off the pages of 

the comics, and into the Classic Car Corral. Local 

car enthusiast Andrew Murray will display his recreation 

of the famous Batmobile from the 1960’s 

Batman television series for attendees to enjoy. 

“[The Batmobile] looks just amazing,” Kitt said. 

“We’ll also have 

Batman and Batgirl 

onsite all 

weekend, too,” he 

added. 

The other major 

component to the 

show is the Racing 

Zone, presented by 

Delaware Speedway 

in conjunction 

other local race- 

ways. 

“You’ll be able to 

see every type of car 

there is to race out 

there. If it has four 

wheels and goes 

fast, you can race it – from stock cars to dragsters 

to even lawnmowers,” Kitt said. 

Among the wide variety of displays and services 

offered, there’s certainly something at the Speed & 

Custom Car Show for everybody. Whether the goal 

is to pimp out your ride, or make it operate optimally, 

the exhibition will likely have the solution 

for you. 

“Anything to detail your car, make your car run 

more smoothly. We have a lot of custom painters 

and bodywork guys in this year, and even representatives 

from automotive magazines,” Kitt said. 

A new lounge will also add a degree of comfort to 

the year’s proceedings, he added. 

“The BMW/MINI lounge will feature a great local 

oldies cover band named Radio, as well as some 

classic car footage. We’re going to broadcast the 

NASCAR race on Sunday,” Kitt said. 

“It adds a whole new element to the show – a 

place to gather, hang out, enjoy some cold beverages 

and have a good time.” 

The 2012 Speed & Custom Car Show takes place 

at the Western Fair District Agriplex Building (845 

Florence Street), March 23-25. Admission is $10 

online or in advance, $12 at the door. For more information, 

call 1-800-619-4629. 

~ Chris Morgan

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In the Market for 

Western Heads East 

Western Heads East - a Western University-led initiative to establish 

pro-biotic yogurt programs in East Africa in response to 

the HIV/AIDS crisis - is about to hold one of their biggest events 

WESTERN HEADS EAST WELCOMES DONNE ROBERTS MAR. 22 

of the year. On March 22 from 4pm to 6:30pm, the Great Hall 

at Somerville House will be transformed into a lively African 

market – complete with food and wine pairings, guest speakers, 

multimedia presentations and live musical entertainment by 

Juno Award winner Donne Roberts. The evening will also feature 

a silent auction of artwork by African crafters and packages 

generously donated by local sponsors including the Toronto International 

Film Festival, Labatt Brewery, Stratford Shakespeare 

Festival, Johnston’s Cranberry Marsh and Muskoka Lakes Winery, 

plus many more. Maimuna Kanyamala, executive director of the 

Kivulini Women’s Rights Organization in Mwanza, Tanzania, will 

be the evening’s keynote speaker. The event celebrates the work 

done by the Western Heads East community and the successes 

of the women-led enterprises in Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda and 

Uganda that produce the pro-biotic yogurt and provide it for free 

to people living with AIDS who cannot afford to buy it. Tickets 

for In the Market are $55 general and $20 for Western students. 

Please call 519-661-3548. 

New guide excludes 

drain water recovery 

A Kitchener-based manufacturer of drain water heat recovery 

systems claims the provincial government is doing nothing to 

promote its green technology and the benefi ts of including it in 

new building projects. RenewABILITY Energy Inc. held a press 

conference at its manufacturing facility on March 1 to expose 

what they call inaction and stonewalling by the Ministry of Mu- 

nicipal Affairs and Housing regarding proposals to add drain 

water heat recovery to its 2012 Compliance Guide. Many home 

builders consult the guide to ensure they are meeting the terms of 

tougher energy performance levels in Ontario. Drain water heat 

recovery captures water that goes down the drain, heats it, and 

uses it to heat incoming cold water. This saves energy used by hot 

water heaters, and money for homeowners. The option to include 

the technology is absent from the guide, contrary to supporting 

green energy and related jobs, RenewABILITY Energy Inc. said. 

March is ‘tapping 

of the trees’ month! 

Nothing says spring in Canada like a visit to a sugar bush. The 

Kinsmen Fanshawe Sugar Bush is open to visitors every weekend 

in March for horse-drawn hayrides, historical guided tours, pancakes, 

and more. Sugar Bush operators provide a complete maple 

syrup tour – starting with the discovery methods to the modern 

evaporator – and have plenty of sweet samples of maple products. 

Visitors can enjoy a pancake, sausage and pure maple syrup meal 

ENJOYING PANCAKES AT KINSMEN FANSHAWE SUGAR BUSH 

in the Pancake Pavilion (a tradition since 1972), and buy syrup 

to take home (cash only) at the Sugar Shack. The Kinsmen Fanshawe 

Sugar Bush is located at 21201 Lakeside Drive, Thorndale. 

Hours of operation are 9am to 4pm; admission is $3 for adults, 

$2 for kids 12 and under ($10 max per family). All of the funds 

raised go back to the London and area community. Group tours 

are available in six different languages. For more information, 

call the Kinsmen Club of Greater London at 519-461-1073. 

Lear labour contract 

takes new approach 

A contract reached with union members working for a Southwestern 

Ontario auto parts manufacturer may provide the template 

for future labour agreements in the sector. In early March, 

Lear Corporation announced a deal with workers in their Kitchener 

plant which will see wages reduced from an average $28 an 

hour to $19.50. But offsetting the dramatic pay cut, workers will 

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get a $40,000 lump sum payment while transitioning to the lower scale. As well, wage increases in the last two 

years will see hourly rates rise to around $20 an hour. “It’s a blueprint that really could change our overall 

competitiveness in this province; it is that important,” said Steve Rodgers, president of the Automotive Parts 

Manufacturers Association, the national organization representing parts makers. “I would be so bold as to call 

it a game changer. It is exactly what is needed in this sector and it is very encouraging.” While the deal has support 

across company and union lines, critics warn the Lear agreement may signal the beginning of a dangerous 

precedent. “In four years, [the company’s owners] may want more; they may want parity with their plants in 

Mexico. What is to stop them from asking for that?” McMaster University labour professor Charlotte Yates said. 

“I am not sure this is a sustainable solution for the manufacturing sector as a whole.” There are currently more 

than 80,000 workers in the automotive parts sector nationwide, but in 2007 there were more than 100,000. Over 

90 percent of the work force is employed in Ontario. 

Your summer job is out there 

The provincial government is assisting young people in fi nding summer employment through Ontario’s Summer 

Jobs Strategy. At ontario.ca/summerjobs, those interested can fi nd helpful tips for securing work in a wide 

variety of fi elds, including public service, outdoors/ranger programs, law, aboriginal law, and aboriginal work 

exchange. A workplace skills program for youth ages 15 to 19 from selected communities is offered to give teens 

valuable work experience (in London, those communities include Limberlost, Carling, Huron Heights, White 

Oaks/Southdale). Applications are still open for students ages 15 to 29 who want to try their hand at running 

their own small business. Chosen applicants will receive hands-on business coaching, training and mentoring, 

as well as $1,500 on start-up, and $1,500 upon successful completion of the program (application deadline is 

May 7). Furthermore, private, not-for-profi t or broader public sector employers operating and offering a summer 

job in Ontario to students age 15 to 30 who are returning to school in the fall are eligible for a $2 per hour 

hiring incentive from the government. 

Home for teen 

moms needs 

$1.5 million 

BETHESDAʼS MOST FAMOUS FORMER RESIDENT: 

JUSTIN BIEBERʼS MOM PATTIE MALLETTE 

The Salvation Army’s Bethesda 

Centre needs $1.5 million in donations 

or else it will close on 

June 30, the centre announced 

last month. Details about the 

future viability of the centre – 

which houses teenage mothers in 

crisis and teaches them parenting 

and life skills – were made on 

March 9 by Lieutenant-Colonel 

Lee Graves of the Salvation Army. 

The money must be raised by May 

31 in order to halt the closing 

deadline in June. Lt. Col. Graves 

cited long-term operational defi - 

cits as the reason for the closing 

risk. Pattie Mallette, mother of 

pop superstar Justin Bieber, has 

gone on record as a supporter of 

the centre. Mallette was a Bethesda 

resident while pregnant with her 

son in 1994. In operation for 57 years, Bethesda can accommodate 18 mothers and babies, and includes the 

Cantara Childcare and Parenting Resource Centre. It currently houses six moms and their babies. Since 1882, 

the Salvation Army has provided hope and support to vulnerable people in hundreds of communities across 

Canada, and more than 120 countries around the world. Donations can be made at salvationarmy.ca/savebethesda. 

Should they not achieve their fundraising goal, all monies will be returned to donors. 

Action Plan at work in London 

Ontario’s recently launched Action Plan aims to transform the health care system, address demographic challenges, 

and the province’s defi cit. A few of the key areas outlined in the plan include how the province plans 

to provide Ontarians with better access to family doctors and nurse practitioners, support seniors who want 

to live independently at home by providing more home care supports, and new measures to prevent illness. 

In the London region, the programs already underway include The South West Self-Management Program, 

which assists those living with diabetes and other chronic illnesses; Three ‘Family Health Teams’ who take care 

of 120,000 patients; and the Salvation Army Day Program, which provides services to those with Alzheimer’s 

Disease and dementia. 

Tori’s mother takes stand in Rafferty trial 

The London-based trial of Michael Rafferty, accused in the April 2009 murder of eight-year-old Victoria ‘Tori’ 

Stafford, got underway in early March with a recounting of the grim details of the case. Rafferty, 31, is charged 

with fi rst-degree murder, kidnapping and sexual assault causing bodily harm in relation to Stafford’s death. 

He has pleaded not guilty to the charges. On March 7, the court heard testimony from Stafford’s mother, Tara 

McDonald. McDonald admitted that she twice visited the home of the only person convicted in Tori’s murder 

case so far – Rafferty’s then-girlfriend, Terri-Lynne McClintic. According to court transcripts, McDonald and her 

partner went to McClintic’s house to buy OxyContin pills from McClintic’s mother in early 2009; a second meeting 

was set up shortly thereafter to discuss the possibility of breeding their dogs. McDonald also said that - while 

she was currently not using Oxy - she was high on the drug the day her daughter disappeared. She described 

the last time she saw Tori, lovingly nicknamed ‘Princess Chubs Chubs’, and broke down when she talked about 

Stafford’s favourite things: art, dogs, lip-gloss, dance movies and her older brother Daryn. The eight-year-old’s 

abduction triggered the largest police investigation in Ontario history. Her body was found in garbage bags 

under a rock pile near Mount Forest, ON in July 2009. In April 2010, McClintic pleaded guilty to fi rst-degree 

murder in Stafford’s death. She is serving a life sentence with no chance of parole for at least 25 years, and is 

also scheduled to testify in Rafferty’s trial. 

Monckton to speak at Western 

The Right Honourable Lord Christopher Monckton will give a lecture at Western University as part of his 

speaking tour of Canada and the United States. The Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley will speak on 

‘The Courtier’s Conundrum,’ on March 19, 7:30pm, at Conron Hall. Monckton graduated from Cambridge’s 

Churchill College and Cardiff University and acted as a special advisor to Margaret Thatcher as UK Prime Minister 

from 1982 to 1986. Widely consulted by governments on climate issues, he was among the fi rst to advise 

Thatcher that the prospect of global warming caused by CO2 should be investigated. Interestingly, Monckton 

is the inventor of the million-selling Eternity puzzles, as well as the Sudoku X puzzles. He is also an autodidact 

mathematician, classical architect, trained public orator, and has worked as a newspaper editor and consultant 

on technical advice to corporations and governments. The Nerenberg Lecture is organized by Western’s Department 

of Applied Mathematics and sponsored by numerous departments and faculties. 

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~ Amie Ronald-Morgan and Chris Morgan

Have you seen Vanessa? 

Police are asking for the help of the public in locating a missing woman. 

Vanessa Fotheringham, 24, was last seen on February 16 in London. Police 

and her family are concerned for her welfare. She is white, 5’ 3” tall, 110 lbs, 

with long brown hair and brown eyes (see photo). She may have been riding 

in a 2002 grey Saturn Vue SUV on the evening of February 16 or the early the 

next morning, possibly in the area of Dundas Street East, Wharncliffe Road 

North, Oxford Street West, or elsewhere within the city or just outside the city 

limits. The SUV has black steel rims and no hubcaps. Anyone with information 

about Fotheringham, or who may have seen her in the vehicle, is asked to 

VANESSA FOTHERINGHAM (PICTURED) AND AN SUV SIMILAR TO THE 

ONE SHE MAY HAVE BEEN IN ON THE NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED 

call 519-661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). You can also 

provide your tips anonymously online. Police have clarifi ed that they have 

already identifi ed the Saturn Vue and are no longer looking for it; they are 

asking to speak to anyone who may have seen Fotheringham or the vehicle 

on the night she went missing. 

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LOCAL�CRIME�REPORT 

Cigarettes stolen 

Police are asking for the public’s assistance with their investigation into a 

recent break-in and robbery of a South London grocery store. The suspects 

entered the National Grocers Cash and Carry, located at 1055 Hargrieve Road, 

on Sunday, February 19 at approximately 11:45pm. Once inside, the suspects 

stole a large quantity of cigarettes and 20 of the store’s red metal two-tier 

(or ‘truck’) inventory carts. The carts had been loaded with the cigarettes. 

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call 519-661-5670 

or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). You can also provide your tips 

anonymously online. 

Four nabbed in 

pharmacy robbery 

Police have laid a total of 28 charges against four people in connection 

with the armed robbery of a downtown pharmacy on February 24. Two men 

wearing balaclavas entered the pharmacy, located at 458 Central Ave, just 

before 7pm and demanded money and drugs. One of the men was carrying a 

handgun and assaulted a pharmacist, leaving him with minor injuries. The 

suspects then fl ed with a quantity of cash. Police were able to locate and arrest 

one of the suspects shortly after the incident occurred. A subsequent investigation 

led police to enact searches of three London addresses and one vehicle 

where they recovered property related to the robbery. Charged with numerous 

Criminal Code and drug-related offences are Joseph Kennedy, 41, Troy Wolfe, 

23, and Jessica Kelly, 21, all of London. An arrest warrant for Justin Ninham- 

McConnell, 19, of London, has been issued. More charges are expected to be 

laid; the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information about this incident 

is asked to call 519-661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS 

(8477). You can also provide your tips anonymously online. 

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Teen dead after Belmont crash 

Elgin County OPP were called to a fatal two-vehicle collision that occurred 

shortly after 6pm on March 10, just south of London. A Pontiac Sunfi re carrying 

four teens between the ages of 16 and 17 was travelling southbound on 

Belmont Road south of Crossley Hunter Line when it travelled onto the west 

shoulder and veered abruptly across the centre line into the path of a northbound 

Pontiac Firebird. The Sunfi re was struck broadside on the passenger 

side of the vehicle. Nick Taylor, 16, who was travelling in the front passenger 

seat, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the Sunfi re and one 

rear passenger were taken to St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital and treated 

for minor injuries; one rear passenger escaped unharmed. The driver and 

lone occupant of the Firebird was also taken to hospital with minor injuries. 

Everyone involved in the accident are from Belmont. 

Western elections hacker charged 

A Western grad behind the botched 2012 University Students’ Council (USC) 

online elections is now facing four charges related to cyber crime. Keith Horwood, 

23, turned himself into Western’s Community Campus Police within 

days after breaching the election website on February 14. Western’s IT department 

reported the changes made to the site to police the following day, and 

the elections were ruled invalid. The hack consisted of a number of changes 

to the site that were meant to be humorous; Horwood took to YouTube to post 

an apology. Damage to the site was pegged at just over $14,000. The investigation 

was turned over to the London Police Cyber Crime Unit on February 24. 

On March 2, Horwood was charged with mischief to computer data, altering 

computer data, intercepting computer functions, and use of a computer with 

intent contrary to the Criminal Code of Canada. A new student vote was held 

online between February 29 and March 1. 

~ Amie Ronald-Morgan 


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LONDON BLOOD DONOR CLINIC (840 Commissioners 

Road East) - Canadian Blood Services, 

Whole Blood Clinic Hours: Mon & Thurs 4 – 8 

pm, Tue 10 am – 2 pm, Wed noon – 8 pm, Fri 

& Sat 9 am – 1 pm; Plasma Clinic Hours: Tues 

& Wed 12:30 - 7:30 pm, Thurs & Fri 7 am – 1:30 

pm, Sat 9 am – noon. Platelet Clinic Hours: Call 

519-690-3929. 

DUNDAS ST. CENTER UNITED CHURCH - Selfhelp 

Meetings, every Monday, 11:30 am– 1:30 

pm. Group meetings to help people cope with 

anxiety, stress & mood disorders. Call 519-679- 

0804. 

VICTORY LEGION (311 Oakland Ave.) – Euchre, 

every Tues, 1 pm; Cribbage, every Thurs; Bridge, 

every Wed. & Thurs. An afternoon for seniors 55 & 

older. Cost: 3.00. Call 519-649-2910. 

LONDON CITY HALL (300 Dufferin Ave.) - Toastmasters 

Meeting, every Thursday, noon – 1 pm. 

You are invited to come visit us & see how we 

hone our Communication & Leadership Skills & 

utilize them in our work life, home life & social 

life. Admis. Fee: $40 initiation, plus $72 yearly. 

Call 519-661-2500 X 4879. 

IMPACT CHURCH LONDON (220 Adelaide St.) - 

Healing Rooms of London, every Thurs., 7:30 – 9 

pm. Come & be healed physically, emotionally, 

spiritually by a group of specifi cally trained individuals!! 

Call 519-438-7036. 

METHODIST CHURCH (402 Commissioners Rd. 

W) - The London Camera Club Meetings, every 

Thurs, to May, 7:30 pm. The Camera Club provides 

a variety of interesting programs, competitions 

& fi eld trips to help members improve the 

quality of their photographs. Cost: $80/year. 

REGIONAL HIV/AIDS CONNECTION (30-186 King 

St.) - Hepatitis C Lunch & Learn, second Fri. of 

every month, 12:30 -1:30 pm. For anyone living 

with or affected by hepatitis C, come out for 

a free lunch & some interesting information on 

different topics related to hepatitis C. Call 519- 

434-1601. 

SUGAR SHACK and PANCAKE PAVILION (21201c, 

Lakeside Dr., Thorndale) - Kinsmen Fanshawe 

Sugar Bush 2012, March 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, 25, 

9:00 am - 4:00 pm. We provide a complete maple 

syrup tour, starting with the discovery methods, 

to the modern day evaporator; maple products 

available to sample; group tours available; gravel 

parking lot. Adults $3.00 Children 12 and under 

$2.00 Max: $10 per family. Sugar Bush Hotline: 

519-461-1073 

FLAGSWIPE PAINTBALL (529 Philip St.) - March 

Break All Day Ticket, to Mar. 18, noon – 6 pm. 

Cheap Paintball all week long at Flagswipe! Admis. 

Fee: $10 (includes rental!) Call 519-642- 

0908. 

RICHARDS MEMORIAL UNITED CHURCH, DUR- 

RANT HALL (360 Edgeworth Ave.) - O’Richards 

Shamrock Shindig, Mar. 15, 1 – 2:30 pm. Irish 

music provided by Michael Kelly Cavan, refreshments, 

Free Will Offering, All Welcome. Call 519- 

455-3470. 

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WINDERMERE MANOR GRAND HALL (200 Collip 

Circle) - Discover Ireland, Mar. 16, 6:30 pm. Irish 

Music, dancing, food, draught Guinness & Oysters. 

Admis. Fee: $50. Call 519-673-3700. 

CHAPTERS BOOKSTORE CONFERENCE ROOM 

(86 Fanshawe Park Rd.) - How Past Lives Affect 

Your Relationships Today, Mar. 16, 7:30-9 pm. 

Open discussion on reincarnation sponsored 

by the London Spiritual Experiences Meetup 

Group. 

ST. PATRICK’S DAY: Mar 17 

BYRON BRANCH LIBRARY (1295 Commissioners 

Rd. W) - St. Patrick’s Day Ceilidh, Mar. 17, 2 – 4 

pm. Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with live music 

by Celtic Knot, crafts for the children, & refreshments. 

Call 519-471-4000. 

427 (LONDON) WING, ROYAL CANADIAN AIR 

FORCE ASSOCIATION (2155 Crumlin Rd.) - St. 

Patrick’s Day Dance, Mar. 17, doors open at 7 pm; 

dance 8-11 pm. Music by Dr. Energy aka Nippy 

Watson. Wing Lunch 11: 30 am – 1pm. Call Jack 

at 519 686-1301. 

CONRON HALL, UWO (Rm 224 University College) 

- The Courtier’s Conundrum, Mar 19, 730 

pm. The Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, 

the Right Honourable Lord Christopher Monckton 

will speak. He is the inventor of the millionselling 

Eternity puzzles, as well as the Sudoku 

X puzzles; widely consulted by governments on 

climate issues, he was among the fi rst to advise 

Thatcher that the prospect of global warming 

caused by CO2 should be investigated. 

SPRING BEGINS: Mar 20 

BEST WESTERN LAMPLIGHTER INN (591 Wellington 

Rd. S) – ClothingWorks 4th Annual 

Fashion Show & Silent Auction, Mar. 20, 5:30 pm. 

The Fashion Show will feature the latest spring 

fashions, a silent auction, gourmet tapas & entertainment. 

Emcees are Ken Eastwood, BOB FM 

morning host & ofdaytimeat Rogers TV with cohost 

Sabrina Pierson. Admis. Fee: $45 or table of 

8 for $320. Call 519-672-3780. 

ONTARIO EARLY YEARS LONDON WEST (1019 

Viscount Rd.) - What’s Up With Boys & Girls? 

Bringing out the best in both 0-7 years old, Mar. 

20, 6:30 – 8:30 pm. This session will explore research 

based information on differences in brain 

development & an individual’s preferred learning 

style; trategies to help children of both genders 

reach their fullest potential will be provided. Call 

519 473-2825 to register. 

BEACOCK PUBLIC LIBRARY (1280 Huron St.) - 

Literacy Working Group, Mar. 21, 6 – 8 pm. Lend 

us your voice for planning community-based 

literacy initiatives in northeast London. Childminding 

& homework help available. Call 519- 

476-2187. 

UNITY OF LONDON (4026 Meadowbrook Dr.) - 

Open Mic Night for Peace, Mar 21, 7 pm. Show 

off your vocal stylings, poetry skills or whatever 

you’d like to share with our Unity community. 

Love offerings of $5 will be accepted & shared 

with Open Closet, a non-for-profi t social support 

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group for youth between 14 & 18 years of age who 

identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, 

two-spirited, queer & questioning their sexual 

orientation. 

GREAT HALL (Somerville House, Western University) 

- In the Market for Western Heads East, 

March 22, 3:30-6:30pm. A lively East African 

market-style celebration of the University’s community 

response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. 

Food & wine pairings, guest speakers, silent auction 

& live music from Juno award winner Donne 

Roberts. Tickets: $55 or $20 for Western students. 

Call 519-661-3548. 

GREAT HALL SOMERVILLE HOUSE - (UWO) - In 

the Market for Western Heads East, March 22, 

4-6:30 pm. A lively East African market-style celebration 

of the University’s community response 

to the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. Food & wine pairings, 

guest speakers, silent auction & live music 

from Juno award winner Donne Roberts. Tickets: 

$55 or $20 for Western students. Call 519-611- 

2111 x 83548. 

BOSTON PIZZA BAR SECTION (1275 Fanshawe 

Park Rd. W) - So a Bishop Walks into a Bar, 8-10 

pm. Bishop John Michael Sherlock, retired bishop 

of the Roman Catholic Diocese of London, will 

talk to young adults, ages 19-35, as part of a series 

of talks in a bar each Thursday evening during 

Lent. Topics: Sexual Abuse Scandals - You’ve 

got questions, We Have Answers, Mar. 25; Homosexuality 

& Gay Marriage - Why Can’t we Just Accept 

Them?, Mar. 22, and Abortion - How Can we 

Respond After the Fact?, Mar. 29.Free parking & 

appetizers. Cash bar. Call 519-433-0658 x 227. 

WESTERN FAIR DISTRICT AGRIPLEX (845 Florence 

St.) - The Speed & Custom Car Show, Mar. 

23, 4 – 10 pm; Mar. 24, 10 am – 10 pm; Mar. 25, 

10 am – 4 pm. Get revved up over modifi ed, restored, 

classic & new automobiles from past to 

present. Admis. Fee: $10 in advance, $12 at the 

door. Call 519-438-7203. 

DOWNTOWN KATHY BROWN’S (228 Dundas 

St.) - Court House Rocks IX – “Frontier Justice, 

Mar. 23, 6 – 10 pm. Fundraiser for the London 

Lawyers Feed the Hungry Program. Cost: $25. Call 

519-679-7046. 

RICHARDS MEMORIAL UNITED CHURCH, DUR- 

RANT HALL (360 Edgeworth Ave.) - Gospel Music 

Night, Mar. 23, 7:30 pm. Gospel Music, refreshments 

to follow. Tickets at door $10/person, children 

12 & under free. Call 519-455-3470. 

LONDON CONVENTION CENTRE (600 York St.) - 

Women’s Lifestyle Show, Mar. 24, 9 am – 5 pm; 

Mar. 25, 10 am – 4 pm. 10th anniversary of this 

fab event - fun, fi tness, fashion, food, wine, shopping! 

Meet CTV’s Marilyn Denis! Admis. Fee: $10. 

Call 519-263-5050. 

CENTRAL LIBRARY (251 Dundas St.) - Cafe: Occupy, 

Mar. 26, 7 – 8:45 pm. Can there be faith in 

the age of Facebook? Do religion, the Internet 

& civil disobedience mix? Rabbi Debra Dressler 

(Temple Israel), Dean Bill Danaher (Huron Univ. 

College) & Dr. Wael Haddara (Muslim Assoc. of 

Canada) weigh in, moderated by Larry Cornies of 

the London Free Press. Q & A to follow. Call 519- 

661-5122. 

BOWLERAMA ROYALE (2086 Dundas St.) - 2nd 

Annual Roll & Bowl Tournament, Mar. 26, 5:30-8 

pm. Teams of 5 will compete for fun prizes while 

supporting people with spinal cord injury & other 

physical disabilities in this community. Admis. 

Fee: min. $25 in pledges/person. Call 519-433- 

2331 x 223. 

WINDERMERE MANOR (200 Collip Circle) - 

Cruise Travel Talk, Mar. 27, 2 or 7 pm. Please be our 

personal guests to hear the Regent Seven Seas Cruises, 

& AMA Waterways stories. Call 519-660-6966. 

ROCKYS HARLEY DAVIDSON (900 Wilton Grove 

Rd.) - Ladies Only Garage Party, Mar 29. Learn 

everything there is to know about the art of motorcycling 

from a woman’s perspective – the metal, 

the road, the fashions, and the social network. 

Call (519) 438-1450 

CENTRAL PUBLIC LIBRARY, STEVENSON HUNT 

ROOM (251 Dundas St.) - Creatively Speaking: 

Improve Your Presentation & Communication 

Skills, Mar. 29, 7 – 8:30 pm. Presented by the 

London Arts Council & London Talbot Toastmasters, 

improve both prepared presentations & 

impromptu speaking skills. Admis. Fee: $12 in 

advance, $15 at the door (or $5 for Toastmasters 

members). Call 519-931-3167. 

SMOKE N BONES (855 Wellington St.) - Rock for 

Dimes London! Mar. 29, 7 pm. Corporate Battle of 

the Bands in support of March of Dimes Canada’s 

programs & services for children & adults with 

disabilities. Admis. Fee: $15/person. Call 1-800- 

263-3463 x 7380. 

VARIOUS LOCATION- Daffodil Month, Mar. 29 – 

Apr. 1, various shift times. Volunteers from the 

Canadian Cancer Society will be promoting Daffodil 

Pins by donation. Wear a pin & show your 

support for those living with cancer! Who will you 

wear your pin for? Call 519-432-1137. 

LONDON CONVENTION CENTRE (300 York St.) 

- 4th Annual Latin American Leadership Awards 

2012, Mar. 30, 7 pm. This year, important personalities 

will be in attendance to celebrate the 

merits & contributions of the Latino community 

to the advancement of our society. $60/person; 

Tables: $600. Call 519-933-3299. 

LONDON CENTRAL SECONDARY SCHOOL AUDI- 

TORIUM (509 Waterloo St.) - Evening in India, 

Mar. 30, 7 – 9 pm. An evening of Cultural Dance. 

Silent Auction. Hosted by India Health Initiative, 

a Western University student-run global health 

initiative All proceeds will be donated to Families 

for Children, the Comprehensive Rural Health 

Project, & Amar Seva Sangam in India. Cost: 

Gold (tax receipt issued) $40, adult $20, students/ 

seniors $15, children (12 & under) $10. Email: 

indiahealth@gmail.com. 

MARY CAMPBELL CO-OP (587 Talbot St) - Pagan 

Coffee Social, Mar. 30, 7 – 10 pm. Topic presented 

will be ‘Introduction to Chakras’. Cost: $2 min. 

donation. Call 519-433-7673. 

BRESCIA AUDITORIUM (1285 Western Rd.) - 

Take the Lead, Brescia’s annual high school public 

speaking contest, Mar. 31, 9 am – 3 pm. Take 

the Lead, an annual high school public speaking 

contest hosted by Brescia University College, empowers 

women in Grades 11 & 12 to speak boldly 

about women in leadership. Registered participants 

research & prepare a fi ve minute speech 

about women who are catalysts for change for a 

chance to win a full one year fall/winter scholarship 

to Brescia University College. Call 519-432- 

8353 x 28280. 


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COLBORNE STREET UNITED CHURCH (711 Colborne 

St.) - 100 Years of Fashion & Music, Mar. 

31, 1:30 pm & 7 pm.: A variety show featuring 

the 1870 to 1970 vintage fashion collection of 

Marion Kernighan with musical accompaniment 

by Angus Sinclair. Admis. Fee: $20. Call 519-432- 

4552. 

LONDON CONVENTION CENTRE (300 York St.) - 

CAISA Fashion Show 2012: IMPULSE, March 31, 

doors 6 pm; show 7 pm. Admis. Fee: $30, VIP - 

$45. Canada’s largest student run fashion show 

together with London fashion designers & professional 

dancers, will present an exotic mixture of 

the seven deadly sins. Email: cfs.mediadirector@ 

gmail.com. 

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE (536 Huron St 

@ Adelaide) - London Community Hebrew Day 

School Presents Yuk Yuk’s Stand Up Comedy, 

Mar. 31, 9 pm. The whole community is invited 

to an evening of Yuk Yuk’s comedy featuring 3 of 

Canada’s top comedians: Dylan Mandlsohn, Jen 

Grant & Lawrence Morgenstern. Door Prizes, Nibbly 

Noshes, Cash Bar & Silent Auction. Admis. Fee: 

$36. All proceeds will support the London Community 

Hebrew Day School. Call 519-709-8046. 

PALM SUNDAY: Apr 1 

EAST LONDON LIBRARY (2016 Dundas St.) - 

Community Family Literacy Night, Apr. 4, 5:30 – 8 

pm. Bring the whole family! Enjoy fun activities 

including comic books & healthy activity. A light 

meal to start & the evening wraps up with prizes. 

Call 519-476-2187. 

WOLF PERFORMANCE HALL (London Central 

Library, 251 Dundas St.) - Linda McQuaig speaking 

on “The Trouble with Billionaires: Gluttony 

& Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality, Apr. 5, 6:30 

pm. Linda McQuaig well known journalist & author 

of the book The Trouble with Billionaires 

which relates to today’s Occupy Wall Street will 

be speaking about the current fi nancial crisis & 

copies of her books will be available. Call 519- 

439-4015. 

CITY HALL 

Council and 

Committee 

Meetings 

• Civic Works Committee, Apr. 23, 

4 pm 

• Community Services Committee, 

Apr. 23, 7 pm 

• Strategic Priorities and Policy 

Committee, Apr. 30, 4 pm 

• Council meeting, May 1, 5 pm. 

• Finance & Administrative Services 

Committee, May 7, 1 pm 

• Planning & Environment Committee, 

May 7, 4 pm 

• Investment and Economic Prosperity 

Committee, May 14, 1 pm. 

• Civic Works Committee, May 14, 

4 pm. 

• Community Services Committee, 

May 14, 7 pm. 

Call 519-661-2500 x 4937

NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL�DIGEST 

Repurposing living space in 

downtown Vancouver 

Representatives from the Canadian federal government and the province 

of British Columbia recently announced a private-public partnership – a 

so-called ‘P3’ agreement – to renovate and restore provincially owned Single-Room 

Occupancy (SRO) hotels in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Once 

completed, the new residences will provide access to clean and safe social 

housing in a city where the need always seems to be rising. “This project is 

an excellent example of how the private sector can leverage greater value for 

public dollars and deliver infrastructure that matters to Canadians,” said 

Vancouver South MP Wai Young. “By retrofi tting these historic buildings, we 

will give those in need a place to call home, provide a lasting benefi t to the 

community, and create jobs and growth for Canadians.” Under the terms of 

the agreement, the feds will contribute up to $29.1 million through the P3 

Canada Fund towards eligible construction and implementation costs, while 

the province will kick-in a substantial $87.3 million, as well as funding the 

project over a 15-year maintenance period. The 13 provincially owned SROs 

are over a century old with structural, plumbing and electrical infrastructure 

defi ciencies that require refurbishment. In addition to the upgrades, the 

aging hotels will be restored, preserving their heritage features that add to 

the historic character of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. 

Treasury Board faces heat over 

new litigation unit 

The federal government’s willingness to circumvent collective bargaining 

processes and impose deals on public and semi-public sector employees has 

come under increased fi re recently. One of the more incendiary criticisms 

to be levied concerns the creation of a new litigation management unit by 

the Treasury Board. The unit is intended to handle the growing number of 

constitutional challenges that unions and others have initiated against the 

federal government - largely over collective bargaining rights - between 2006 

and 2011. Nine of are lawsuits address the constitutionality of the Conservatives’ 

omnibus budget legislation in 2008; specifi cally, the Expenditure Restraint 

Act. Two other lawsuits are aimed at overturning the Public Service 

Equitable Compensation Act - also buried in the 2008 omnibus budget bill 

- to overhaul pay equity, effectively killing workers’ rights to equal pay for 

work of equal value. The last two lawsuits include the long-standing battle 

over whether RCMP have the right to form a union and engage in collective 

bargaining; the other challenges the constitutionality of certain federal laws 

that forbid unions from bargaining pensions, staffi ng and job classifi cations 

for their members. With ‘austerity’ already a buzz word for the 2012 Canadian 

budget, critics say the creation of a new $16 million agency to defend 

the government against its own employees is poor use of the public’s money. 

Young and unemployed, 

full-time 

It’s great to be young and Canadian – unless you’re looking for a job. According 

to numbers released by Statistics Canada in recent years, Canadians 

between the ages of 15-24 have consistently scored low on their ability 

to break into regional employment markets. For the youth demographic 

nationwide, prospects for work remained largely unchanged between 2008 

and now – a remarkable fi nding considering the country and the world 

experienced a recession during the interim period. A paper released by TD 

Bank economist Francis Fong affi rms this perspective, showing how employment 

in the youth demographic is still 250,000 positions below prerecession 

levels. In contrast, all other employment cohorts have recovered 

from the 430,000 jobs lost during the recession, and workers over 25 have 

added another 400,000 besides. Economic downturns have traditionally 

been hard on the young, but that isn’t the only barrier to employment they 

face in the 21st century. A recent analysis of the national job market found 

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that Canadians over 55 were increasingly joining the labour force and taking 

jobs traditionally done by young people, particularly in the retail and 

service sectors. Since the recession, one-third of all jobs created have come 

in this older age category, while other cohorts experienced losses. 

US employment improves 

over pre-recession levels 

The American labour market has been picking up steam since the beginning 

of 2012. Recently released numbers from the US Bureau of Labour Statistics 

indicated that February was the third consecutive month of job growth over 

200,000, capping a 12-month run in which employment nationwide jumped by 

just over two million positions. Private employment is 2.8 million jobs higher 

than it was at the end of the recession, and government employment is nearly 

600,000 jobs less than the level reported in June 2009. The drag from government 

job losses continues, but at a much slower pace than the past several 

years. In the fi rst two months of 2012, 7,000 public-sector jobs were cut, while 

local governments actually added 2,000 workers during the same month. 

Undercover hacker 

turns state’s evidence 

A group of expert hackers who attacked governments and global corporations 

were busted recently after its ringleader - one of the world’s mostwanted 

and most-feared computer vandals - turned against the group and 

secretly became an FBI informant. According to court papers unsealed 

in New York federal court on March 6, fi ve people have been charged in 

a number of high profi le cybercrimes, including virtual attacks on Visa, 

MasterCard and PayPal servers, the US Senate, PBS, Fox News Corp. as well 

HECTOR XAVIER MONSEGUR HAS IMPLICATED A NUMBER 

OF ASSOCIATES IN SERIOUS CYBERCRIMES 

as government computers in Tunisia, Algeria, Yemeni and Zimbabwe. Authorities 

revealed that a sixth person who had headed the group, Hector 

Xavier Monsegur - a legendary fi gure known in the hacking underworld 

as “Sabu” - had pleaded guilty as well. Authorities said Monsegur and his 

followers embarked on a dastardly stream of deeds against numerous business 

and government entities under the group handle “LulzSec”, resulting 

in the theft of confi dential information, the defacing of websites and attacks 

that temporarily put victims out of business. 

Joe Biden talks drugs in 

Mexico and Honduras 

American Vice President Joe Biden recently visited Mexico City to meet with 

the three main contenders in Mexico’s upcoming elections. Although current 

Mexican President Felipe Calderon did not raise questions about the legalization 

of drugs, other leaders did. When asked, Biden reiterated the US 

position that there was “no possibility that the Obama-Biden administration 

will change its policy on legalization.” Many Latin American leaders blame 

American drug prohibition policies for generating violence throughout the re- 

�news 

AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN TALKED ABOUT US DRUG POLICY 

WITH MEXICAN POLITICIANS 

gion, such as in Honduras, which currently has the highest murder rate in the 

world, the next stop on Biden’s diplomatic tour. The Organization of American 

States and other critics warned that drug gangs posed a threat to democracy, 

and that tackling the drug trade in one country only pushes it somewhere else. 

Biden, in an unprompted statement, seemed to admit this last point was true, 

but remained fi rm on the American position. Issues of drugs and prohibition 

are likely to arise again next month when regional leaders including President 

Barack Obama will attend a Summit of the Americas in Colombia. 

Fukushima: one year later 

It’s been one year since Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi reactor melted down 

after sustaining heavy damage from a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and the 

resulting tsunami. Local Japanese offi cials, now wary any nuclear reactor, 

have been using their legal power to prevent any reactor shut down 

for maintenance from being restarted. By the end of next month, the last 

two of Japan’s nuclear reactors will be shut down. So far, the government 

has made up for the loss of nuclear energy by importing fossil fuels and 

enforcing extreme energy conservation, although these measures are not 

sustainable. Leaving nuclear plants idle has also lowered tax revenues, left 

many unemployed and raised electricity costs. The Japanese people remain 

deeply distrustful of the nuclear program, but also of the government and 

how they managed nuclear plants in the wake of the tsunami. It’s since 

been revealed that offi cials withheld information from the public, and 

fi red an offi cial who used the word “meltdown” a day after the tsunami. 

The Japanese government’s only solution at the moment is to continue 

importing expensive fossil fuels, and to reassure the Japanese people that 

nuclear reactors are safe. 

Iraq still facing daily violence 

Although violence in Iraq has decreased since it reached its post-war peak 

in 2006, security continues to be an issue. On March 5, a particularly vicious 

and coordinated attack resulted in the deaths of 25 police offi cers in the Western 

Iraqi city of Haditha by gunmen disguised as SWAT teams. Local police 

said two vehicles used in the attacks contained materials suggesting ties to Al 

Qaeda. On March 11, nine people were killed, and several others injured, in 

two separate attacks north of Baghdad. These attacks raise worries that political, 

economic, and security conditions in Iraq, generally improving since 

2006, will begin to decline, plunging the country back into sectarian violence. 

Despite concern that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is consolidating 

power and moving towards a one-man rule, his popularity among 

Shiites continues to improve, with many in favour of his tough approach to 

political and security threats. Among Sunnis, approval is much smaller, but 

as one Sunni journalist noted, even with all the problems Iraq faces, they still 

have much more freedom than they did under Saddam Hussein. 

~ Adam Shirley and Chris Morgan 


music� 

COVER�STORY 

GEORGE CANYON 

ENTERTAINS AND 

HELPS IN MANY WAYS 

LONDON, ON 

George Canyon is a busy man. At present, the 

Nova Scotia native is deeply involved in all 

the workings and responsibilities of an entertainment 

career that not only encompasses his 

achievements as one of Canada’s best-loved country 

singers but his steadily growing recognition as a TV 

and fi lm actor. 

Canyon’s achievements certainly aren’t confi ned 

to his career successes. Diagnosed at age 14 with 

Type 1 diabetes, he refused to let the disease keep 

him from pursuing his dreams and managed to 

tame it through diet, lifestyle and insulin pump 

technology. He has taken his life and held it up 

as an example to the many diabetic children he 

reaches out to each year in his duties in service of 

the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). 

While Canyon’s successful recording career affords 

him great visibility, he has also gained signifi 

cant face recognition for himself as an actor 

with recurring roles in the CBC series Heartland 

and Showcase’s Trailer Park Boys. Juggling his two 

careers with his work with JDRF has necessitated 

Canyon becoming a past master at time management, 

but being a working musician remains his 

primary artistic outlet. 

“I know that music is and will always be my priority. 

Music has taken me a lot of places around 

the world and it’s given us a home and a life, so 

it’ll always be a priority. I defi nitely get more out of 

playing music. The acting thing is not live theatre 

so you don’t have an audience there. A live audience 

is responsible for breathing life into our show 

and in acting you don’t get that. It’s a fun thing to 

do and something to work at. I’ve got a long way to 

go, let’s put it that way.” 

Canyon is in pre-production discussions regarding 

his next recording project, slated to be the 

follow-up to his successful 2011 release, Better Be 

Home Soon (Universal). Produced with his friend 

Richard Marx, the album’s title track and hit single 

was a country-tinged cover of the late-80s Crowded 

House tune, a hit for the Down Under band at the 

time of its original issue. George sees no incongruity 

in taking a pop tune and doing it his own way. 

“It’s always been one of my favourite songs. I 

loved the band when I was a kid. It’s just a song 

I’ve always played. I never thought about cutting 

it until my piano player and I talked about it. I’m 

i 

GEORGE CANYON HAS WON MULTIPLE JUNO, EAST 

COAST MUSIC AWARDS AND CANADIAN COUNTRY MUSIC 

AWARDS INCLUDING “HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR 

AWARD” FOR HIS PHILANTHROPIC ENDEAVOURS 

always just about the song. If it’s a good old country 

song or it’s a good old rock song or a good old folk 

song, it doesn’t matter to me what the genre is, a 

good song is a good song. That’s kind of where I 

come from.” 

Canyon is looking forward to continuing his series 

of musical performances and motivational 

speaking engagements this year at several JDRFsponsored 

events now in the planning stage. He 

fi nds both personal satisfaction and an ongoing 

sense of purpose in using his talents to help kids 

dealing with the same disease that might have held 

sway over his own life. 

“The whole thing is encompassed in doing what I 

can to help out kids with Type 1 diabetes, so we’ve 

got a bunch of plans this year to go to diabetic 

camps. When we’re on tour we’re always meeting 

diabetic kids and their families as much as we 

can to discuss diabetes and try to lead by example. 

Hopefully, we’re going to do another successful 

event where we do four or fi ve nights where myself 

and a few other diabetics who are living their 

dreams get together and we talk to kids about our 

diabetes and sort of show the kids that hey, there 

are other people out there who are living a successful 

life with Type 1 diabetes.” 

~ Rod Nicholson 

BOTHWELL, ONTARIO. GEORGE CANYON PLAYS THE BOOTHILL COUNTRY JAMBOREE ON 

SUNDAY, AUGUST 5. FOR MORE INFO, CALL (519) 678-3434 


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COVER AND PHOTO CREDIT: NEVILLE PALMER 

World Music & Jazz Series 2012 

Direct from Niger… 

titan of the African guitar 

BOMBINO 

Friday, April 13th, 8:00 pm 

$25 Advance ~ $30 Door 

UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED, ALL SUNFEST CONCERTS ARE 

PRESENTED AT THE ACCLAIMED AEOLIAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE 

�� 

TICKETS NOW FOR SALE AT THE FOLLOWING OUTLETS 

Aeolian Box Office (519-672-7950), Centennial Hall Box Office (519-672-1967), 

Chapters North (Masonville), Village Idiot (Wortley Village), 

Belle Air Music (2 London outlets), Walters Music Centre (1680 Richmond St. N.), 

and online at www.aeolianhall.ca. 

Please note: Only The Aeolian, Centennial Hall and aeolianhall.ca accept Visa & MasterCard. 

London Arts Council 

GENTICORUM 

Traditional Music from Ireland 

CALADH NUA 

(Presented in conjunction with The Aeolian 

& Acoustic Muse Concerts) 

Sunday, March 25th, 7:30 pm 


Ensemble & Trad. Album of the Year Winners - 

Canadian Folk Music Awards 2011 

Thursday, March 22nd, 8:00 pm 


ENSEMBLE VIVANT 

with legendary bassist Dave Young 

“ Latin Romance – Homage to 

Astor Piazzolla” 

Friday, March 30th, 8:00 pm 


INFO: www.sunfest.on.ca 

info@sunfest.on.ca ~ 519-672-1522 

Group of the Year 

(Live Ireland Music Awards 2012 

& the TIR Irish Music Awards) 

THE 

OUTSIDE TRACK 

Saturday, April 14th, 8:00 pm 

$20 Advance ~ $25 Door

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LONDON, ON 

On February 29, everyone in 

the music community was 

shocked to learn that Davy 

Jones of The Monkees had died 

from a massive heart attack at age 

66. Jones, who had proven his stage 

chops before The Monkees by starring 

in a British production of Oliver! 

became a teen idol and heartthrob 

almost overnight when he 

assumed the role as the frontman 

of the pop-rock quartet. One person 

who has fond memories of Jones is 

noted Canadian singer/songwriter 

Andy Kim. 

“It’s was a very, very sad occasion. 

He was the spirit of The Monkees. You 

just look at his smile and his face 

and that’s who you got when you met 

Davy. It was never anyone other than 

the person you saw on television, the 

person that you heard on record or 

the person you saw in an 8X10 in 

one of those magazines that kept 

showing his pictures all the time and 

on posters in everyone’s bedrooms 

around the world. He was a very special 

spirit. A lot of people say he was 

to The Monkees what Paul McCartney 

was to Beatles’ fans and that was 

the sexy one, the sweet one, the one 

with the smile. In the end, he was just 

a wonderful person.” 

Kim had the good fortune to meet 

the ex-Monkees’ vocalist while Jones 

was working on an album with 

bandmate Micky Dolenz. Kim had 

always been a fan of the group and 

was thrilled when Jones and Dolenz 

asked him to contribute work for 

their new project. 

“I was lucky enough to get a 

phone call to see if I had any songs 

or could write any for Davy and 

Mickey. They were going to continue 

recording and they wanted 

to continue the spirit of their musical 

journey. My anxiety was that I 

would meet Davy and he wouldn’t 

live up to my expectations, but he 

far superseded my expectations and 

continued to do so whenever we 

would meet in subsequent years. 

They didn’t say write anything and 

we’ll accept it, but I did write a few 

songs and they chose to put three 

on their album. I came in as they 

were trying to establish a career 

that wasn’t under the Monkees’ 

umbrella.” 

Once The Monkees became a huge 

success, critics began knocking the 

group because at the time they began 

their TV show they did not play 

or write their own music. Kim feels 

that the criticism was unwarranted. 

“By the time I met them they 

were kind of an open book, everyone 

knew the story. Here were four 

individuals who auditioned for a 

television show, not to become part 

of a band. That was not the intent. 

I think the biggest curse was the 

fact that the songs they recorded 

became such international hits. 

When you have that kind of success, 

people start saying ‘Well, you 

didn’t write your songs.’ Elvis didn’t 

write his songs and Sinatra was not 

a songwriter, but people wanted it 

to be real. Whatever course it took, 

you can’t take away ‘I’m A Believer,’ 

‘Last Train To Clarksville’ and ‘Hey, 

Hey We’re The Monkees.’ That’s part 

of the history of the 60s.” 

As far as Kim’s career is concerned, 

many of his songs have become 

classics and staples heard on radios 

throughout the world. 

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�FEATURE 

ANDY KIM REMEMBERS 

DAVY JONES 

DAVY JONES APPEARED ON THE ED 

SULLIVAN SHOW THE SAME NIGHT 

THE BEATLES MADE THEIR FIRST 

APPEARANCE. JONES SAID, 

“I WATCHED THE BEATLES FROM THE 

SIDE OF THE STAGE, I SAW THE GIRLS 

GOING CRAZY, AND I SAID TO MYSELF, 

THIS IS IT, I WANT A PIECE OF THAT.” 

CANADIAN MUSICIAN ANDY KIM 

WROTE SEVERAL SONGS FOR DAVY 

JONES AND MICKY DOLENZ AFTER THE 

MONKEES DISBANDED 

“So many people come up to me 

and ask why ‘Sugar, Sugar’ continues 

to be this iconic song four decades 

later. The truth is, I have no 

idea! I’m a child of radio and I love 

it, so whenever I hear ‘Rock Me Gently,’ 

or ‘How’d We Ever Get This Way,’ 

or ‘Baby, I Love You’ or ‘Sugar, Sugar’ 

a smile comes to my face. The thing 

is, when I wrote ‘Rock Me Gently’ I 

took it around to all the major labels 

and none of them wanted it, so 

I started my own label and was lucky 

enough to get another No. 1 with it. 

I’m proud that I had enough courage 

to travel from Montreal to New 

York to see if anyone would listen 

to me and I was lucky enough that 

someone did.” 

After a very long hiatus, Kim released 

Happen Again in March, 2010. 

It is his fi rst new album in over 20 

years. 

“I went into the studio with some 

very talented musicians in Los Angles 

and I was lucky enough to have another 

kick at the can. That’s what 

Happen Again is all about. I do disappear 

from time to time because 

it’s my way of being at peace. At this 

time in my life it’s nice to know that 

people are listening to some of my 

new music. I have no expectations 

but I have a heart that’s so grateful 

to so many people who have helped 

me along the way.” 

~ John Sharpe 


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Ensemble Vivant Returns 

The Sunfest World Music & Jazz Concerts series presents Ensemble Vivant at 

the Aeolian Hall on Friday, March 30, 8:00 p.m. Led by pianist/Artistic Director 

Catherine Wilson, Ensemble Vivant also features Erica Beston (violin) and 

Sybil Shanahan (cello), along with Dave Young (bass) and Norman Hathaway 

(violin/viola). “Our program this time is called Latin Romance, which 

will feature music by the Argentine Tango master Astor Piazzolla, as well as 

music by Venezuelan composer Aldemaro Romero, and Brazilian composers 

Ernesto Nazareth and M. Carmargo Guarnieri and others,” said Wilson. “But 

our featured composer of the evening will be Astor Piazzolla. We will per- 

ENSEMBLE VIVANT IS LED BY 

PIANIST/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CATHERINE WILSON 

form selections from Ensemble Vivant’s recent CD release, Homage To Astor 

Piazzolla. Our unique genre-diverse concert programs and recordings always 

include a mixture of beautiful and exciting but contrasting repertoire, some 

of which is familiar, and some of which is unknown.” Always on the lookout 

for eclectic music to record and perform, Wilson says she was thrilled 

to discover Piazzolla’s compositions. “A few years ago I heard a recording 

of Piazzolla’s band performing his composition, ‘Milonga For Three.’ I was 

just mesmerized by this work, and jazz great Rick Wilkins, who has arranged 

many works for Ensemble Vivant throughout our career, wrote a fabulous 

arrangement of this piece for us. As with all the repertoire we perform, we 

are very passionate about Piazzolla’s music and about all the music on this 

program.” For tickets and info, call (519) 672-7950. 

J.P. At The Aeolian 

Born in London, Ontario in 1969, bluegrass/Folk/Celtic singer-songwriter 

and multi-instrumentalist J.P. Cormier began playing guitar around age fi ve 

and won a guitar contest at age nine, feats that amazed everyone. “I was 

a bit of a freak,” Cormier recalled in a recent interview. “I used to wander 

out in the living room and playing whatever I heard on the turntable. That 

kind of threw everybody for a loop.” Over the past few years, J.P. Cormier has 

performed for fans up to 250 nights a year in theatres, at festivals, and with 

symphonies as guest performer. Unfortunately, after decades on the road, 

Cormier has decided to retire from touring and dedicate his creative ener- 

J.P. CORMIER (CENTRE) WITH THE ELLIOT BROTHERS – 

BASSIST MIKE (LEFT) AND GUITARIST BILL 

SCENE&HEARD 

gies to composing and record production. “After celebrating 30 years on the 

road, I have decided to essentially retire from touring and live performance. 

We have a small handful of dates that were contracted prior to this decision 

and they will honoured. Other than those, however, we will not be pursuing 

any further live work. Instead, I have decided to throw all my effort into more 

challenging arenas: My recording studio, Ranson House, where I will continue 

to make my own records and produce other artists and their music.” 

London fans have a last chance to catch J.P. Cormier & The Elliot Brothers 

when they play the Aeolian Hall on Friday, March 16, 8:00 p.m. For tickets and 

info, call (519) 672-7950. 

Adele Wins Big 

Buoyed by her recent multiple wins at this year’s Grammy Awards, Adele’s 

recent album, 21, has now spent over a year on the charts, half that time in 

the No. 1 spot. In a recent interview, the feisty Brit singer explained that her 

music career began at a young age in a rather familiar fashion. “It all comes 

from impersonating The Spice Girls and Gabrielle. I did little concerts in my 

room for my mum and her friends. My mum’s quite arty; she’d get all these 

lamps and shine them up to make one big spotlight.” Later, when her dad’s 

ADELE RECENTLY ADDED TWO BRIT AWARDS 

TO HER COLLECTION OF SIX GRAMMY AWARDS 

best friend, a dance producer, rightly declared Adele’s voice ‘wicked’ he invited 

her to record a cover of ‘Heart Of Glass.’ “As soon as I got a microphone in my 

hand, when I was about 14, I realised I wanted to do this. Most people don’t 

like the way their voice sounds when it’s recorded. I was just so excited by the 

whole thing that I wasn’t bothered what it sounded like.” At the end of February, 

Adele added two Brit Awards – Best British album and Best British female 

– to her trophy case. “Nothing makes me prouder than coming home with six 

Grammys and then coming to the Brits and winning album of the year,” she 

said. “I’m so proud to be British and to be fl ying our fl ag.” 

McGraw’s Country 

American country singer Tim McGraw has been a very busy man over the 

past few years. His albums and singles have topped the country music charts 

with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, and he recently 

released his eleventh studio album, Emotional Traffi c. McGraw enjoys recording, 

but he says nothing gives him a bigger thrill than performing live for 

his fans. “It’s as fun as it ever was,” said McGraw in a recent interview with 

the Orlando Sentinal. “For me I don’t think any artist gets into this business 

and thinks about making records. The main reason to do it for a living is 

to be in front of 15,000 to 20,000 people a night, playing your big hit songs 

with everybody singing along. Luckily, we’ve had a long career, with plenty 

of records that have done well, so we never have the same set lists. Putting 

together the list is the biggest deal. You only have time to do 15 or 20 songs 

and you’ve got hundreds of songs there. So you can’t even get all the hits in, 

TIM MCGRAW, THE SON OF FORMER MAJOR LEAGUE 

RELIEVER TUG MCGRAW, WILL PERFORM AT BAMAJAM 2012 IN JUNE 

but you also want to get the new stuff out there. You can’t cover it all, but you 

can come back next year and do something different.” Fans can catch Tim 

McGraw, along with Kid Rock, the Zac Brown Band and others, at BamaJam 

2012, to be held Thursday, June 14 through Saturday June 16, 2012 in Enterprise, 

Alabama. 

Marianas Trench Go Deep 

Recently, Canadian rock group Marianas Trench -- Josh Ramsay (vocals/ 

guitar), Matt Webb (guitar/vocals), Mike Ayley (bass/vocals) and Ian Casselman 

(drums/vocals) -- released their third studio album, Ever After, the 

follow-up to Masterpiece Theatre. Produced by Ramsay and recorded at his 

studio, Umbrella Factory, in Richmond, BC., Ever After has no breaks between 

songs and contains an overarching theme of a “pop-rock symphony based 

around a fairytale concept.” In an interview with muzikdizcovery.com, Casselman 

explained how the album’s theme evolved over time. 

“I think we were thinking of doing a concept album. I’m not sure if we 

were going to do an opener, closer, and interlude like we did in Masterpiece 

Theatre, but it turns out that it ended up working out that way. As the album 

was being written, things started taking shape and we decided to for sure go 

MARIANAS TRENCH ARE 

(L-R) IAN CASSELMAN, MATT WEBB, JOSH RAMSAY AND MIKE AYLEY 

with the opener/closer kind of thing. Josh is the main writer, and from the 

beginning he wanted to have one long continuous piece. The idea of having 

all the interludes between all the songs was there from the beginning.” Some 

observers felt that releasing an album consisting of one long continuous piece 

might be a risk, but Casselman disagrees. “A lot of the time these days, bands 

just do singles and a lot of the other songs on the record are just fi ller, but we 

wanted to make sure that there wasn’t any fi ller on this album, that each song 

was strong on its own and can stand on its own merit.” 


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~ John Sharpe

Rock For Dimes 

Rock For Dimes, a fundraising event in aid of the March of Dimes Canada’s 

Stroke Recovery Canada program and the Conductive Education program, 

will be held at Smoke ‘n’ Bones (855 Wellington Rd.) on Thursday, 

March 29, 7:00 p.m. Stroke Recovery Canada offers post-recovery support, 

education and programs for stroke survivors, their families and health care 

providers, while Conductive Education combines physical rehabilitation 

LONDON POLICE SERVICE BAND, DUTY CALLS 

HAS HELPED RAISE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR LOCAL CHARITIES 

and education to help children and adults with motor-neuro disabilities 

improve their physical mobility. This year’s Battle Of The Bands format will 

feature the talents of Second Pass, Oui B. Jamon, Short Fiction. The Collins 

Barrow Hard At Tax, Ugly Step Sisters and Duty Calls. The members of Duty 

Calls -- Geordie Campbell (vocals), Brendan Hicks (guitar), John Matthews 

(guitar), Dan McCoy (drums/vocals), Rob Weatherstone (bass/vocals) and 

Michelle Kasper (keyboard) – are all serving members of the London Police 

Service. “We have been performing at events for local charities, and Police 

events since 1997,” said Campbell. “We perform a mix of classic, 80’s and 

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LONDON’S�INDIE�POP�BEAT 

current rock. Our goal is to portray a unique image of Police to the public 

by showing a different side to policing. Although some of the band members 

have changed over the years, we are currently celebrating our 15th anniversary 

as a band.” Phone (519) 649-1103 for more info. 

Get Inspired 

On Friday, March 23, 8:30 p.m., Barefoot For Orphans presents Inspire, 

an acoustic styled benefi t concert, at the London Music Club (470 Colborne 

St.). Barefoot For Orphans, a non-profi t, student organization, is dedicated 

to providing fi nancial assistance to orphanages throughout India. The organization 

supports children by supplying orphanages with donations to 

LONG LIVE THE KIDS WILL PERFORM AT THE 

BAREFOOT FOR ORPHANS BENEFIT CONCERT AT THE LONDON MUSIC CLUB 

help cover the costs of education and basic necessities of 

life. Their goal is to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to 

invest directly into orphanages. “Barefoot For Orphans was 

founded in October, 2010 by Bipin Dhinza. I became involved 

when I saw an advertisement looking for volunteers 

and I read about what they offered to the children of India 

and other areas,” said Jenny Lee Graham, a student intern 

with Barefoot For Orphans. “I thought I would like to be a 

part of something that tries to help underprivileged children, 

especially when myself and many other people have 

never had to experience this before. Bands for this year’s 

event are ones that have performed for BFO in the past. We 

are trying to target students to get involved, so all the artists 

are either in University or College.” Entertainment at the 

Inspire event will be provided by Kelsie Canning, The Sea 

And City, Falling For The Pacifi c and Long Live The Kids. 

Please call (519) 640-6996 for more info. 

Varty’s Feelin’ Free 

Long regarded as one of London’s most versatile and 

talented musicians, guitarist/vocalist Doug Varty recently 

released his latest indie CD, Feel Free. Infl uenced by classic 

rockers like ZZ Top, Bad Company, Thin Lizzy, and The 

Who, Varty says his new album fi nds him doing what he 

does best. “I didn’t fi gure that anything I would write or record 

would sell or be a hit of any kind, so my only plan was 

to do music that meant something to me. I love pulsating 

rock, it stirs my blood, and I’ve always been a huge fan of 

Bon Scott’s lyrics. If I like AC/DC, why not write a song that 

sounds like AC/DC? Turns out I wrote a whole bunch of ‘em. 

They don’t sound like a copy, mind you, there’s a lot of me 

in there, but you can certainly see who I’ve been infl uenced 

by.” Although Varty is thrilled with his new CD, completing 

it was often a long and diffi cult process. “I started writing 

DOUG VARTY SAYS HE WRITES, RECORDS AND PLAYS 

MUSIC “BECAUSE THATʼS WHATʼS INSIDE YOU, 

THATʼS WHAT YOU NEED TO EXPRESS.” 

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the CD in January 

‘09, fi nished in April. 

I started recording 

at my home in June, 

but then there was 

a long wait while 

we had personnel 

changes, studio 

breakdowns, remixes, 

more breakdowns, 

more remixes, 

etc. etc. up to the 

fall if 2011. I always 

felt this recording 

had something very 

special to it, and it 

has kept me going 

up to now.” Doug 

Varty will perform 

at the London Music 

Club on March 15 

and 22. Call (519) 

640-6996. 

London’s Theme Song 2.0 

When Mayor Joe Fontana gave his annual state-of-the-city address on January 11, 

he attempted to add a little pizzazz to the speech by including a song titled ‘London 

Is The City of Opportunity’ performed by Jim Chapman’s Incontinentals. The next 

day, critics and those in the social-media world slammed the tune as being an embarrassment 

to the Forest City. Looking to capitalize on the controversy, Newstalk 

AM 1290 decided to sponsor a contest whereby aspiring songwriters could submit 

their own London theme songs that better refl ected the Forest City. London musician 

Chris Morgan was one 

of several people who submitted 

a tune prior to the 

contest’s March 9 deadline. 

“I submitted to the AM1290 

contest because I’d wanted 

to write a song about London 

for quite a while. The 

contest seemed like a good 

excuse to get it done,” said 

Morgan. “The song that catalyzed 

the whole event - Jim 

Chapman’s ‘London Is The 

City of Opportunity’ - really 

seemed to upset a lot of 

people. There are so many 

talented musicians in London, 

but writing a song - an 

affecting, positive song - 

about community is not an 

easy thing to do.” The best 

song will be voted by Newstalk 

1290 listeners and the 

winner will receive $1000 cash plus studio recording time at Charterhouse Studios. 

Voting ends on March 16 and the winner will be announced on March 19 on London 

In The Morning with Steve Garrison. 

~ John Sharpe 

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CONCERTS/LIMITED 

ENGAGEMENTS 

(SEE ALSO HOUSE BANDS, 

DJS, KARAOKE) 

THURS. MAR. 15 

APK LIVE-The Ballroom Babies 

BLACK SHIRE PUB-Lord Thuderin’ Thursday/The Schotts 

BRASS-The Shanks 

BRENNAN’S BEER BISTRO- Open Mic w/Carole Allison 

CENTENNIAL HALL-Danny Bhoy (7:30pm) 

CHAPTERS-The Schotts (3-5pm) 

COBRA-Tommy Trash 

FORWELL HALL- DJ Rick O’Shea 

FOX & FIDDLE-Three Penny Piece 

LONDON MUSIC CLUB- Intercordia Canada Fundraiser 

(6:30pm)/The Big Rock Electric Jam w/Doug Varty (9pm)/ 

Justin Lacroix/Brent Jones/Emily DeGroot 

LONDON MUSIC HALL LOUNGE-James Armstrong (7pm) 

MASONVILLE LIBRARY-Suburban Presence (7pm) 

MOLLY BLOOM’S –The Mike O’Brien Band 

NITE OWL LOUNGE-Vinyl Nite w/Justin Chasty 

NORMA JEAN’S –Live Band Karaoke w/Nasty Alex 

PLAYERS ATHLETIC LAGER CO.-Pipe & Drum Band (Noon) 

RICHMOND-Billy Paton 

WINKS EATERY-Paul Langille & David Wright 

WITS END PUB-Karaoke 

WORTLEY- The Julian Fauth Band 

YUK YUK’S-Scott Faulconbridge/Dan Guiry/Dylan Gott 

FRI. MARCH 16 

AEOLIAN HALL-J.P. Cormier & The Elliot Brothers (8pm) 

APK LIVE- After Funk/Tear Away Tusa/Greggy Clypse/Shadow 

Giants (8pm) 

BLACK SHIRE PUB- Paul Langille (6pm)/Zachary Lucky 

BRASS-Loaded Dice 

BUCKING BULL SALOON-Karaoke w/Rockin’ Rory/Country 

Video w/DJ Doran 

CALL THE OFFICE-Catl 

COBRA-Congorock 

DAWGHOUSE PUB-Larry-oke 

DUDE RANCH-Arkham Dispatch/Jean-Paul De Roover/Thousand 

Young/The Black Frame Spectacle 

EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL-Bender 

EAST VILLAGE COFFEEHOUSE-Jo-Ann Lawton/The Wingnuts/ 

Dave Dillon/Mark Henning/Margo Does (7-11pm) 

FITZRAYS- Shaun Sanders 

GIGS GRILLHOUSE-Lonny Chicago 

HONEST LAWYER-Justin Plet 

KELSEY’S EAST-Three Penny Piece (5-9pm) 

LONDON MUSIC CLUB-Acoustyle Open Mic (9pm)/London 

Poetry Slam (8pm) 

MAGGIE’S- Sonja Gustafson/Johnny Noubarian & Darryl 

Stacey 

MOLLY BLOOM’S – The Mike O’Brien Band 

MUSIC BOX-Odium/The Tide Will Take Us 

NORMA JEAN’S- Wicked Lies/Dirty Little Secret 

OUT BACK SHACK-Rich Kidd/Smash Brovaz/Haviah Mighty/ 

Sound Minds 

POACHER’S ARMS-Loud Noises 

RICHMOND- Deathcharger/Reasons Lost/Psychopathy/After 

Ashes 

SCOTS CORNER-Rock N Roll 

TOWN & COUNTRY – DJ Rus-L 

VICTORIA TAVERN-The Malachi Brothers 

WINDERMERE MANOR-Murray Snelgrove (5-9pm)/Irish Music 

(6:30pm) 

WINKS EATERY-Sarah Smith 

WITS END PUB-Wits End House Band 

WORTLEY– The Geoff Masse Band 

YUK YUK’S- Scott Faulconbridge/Dan Guiry/Dylan Gott 

SAT. MARCH 17 

AEOLIAN HALL-Strunz & Farah (8pm) 

APK LIVE- Meligrove Band/Lewis Gayfi eld/Raccoon Wedding/ 

The Hamptons/DJ MediaFrenzy 

BLACK SHIRE PUB-Pilots Of Dawn/Skyway Fades/Remembering 

Apollo/Backline Revival 

BRASS-Redinger/Black Joseph 

BRENNAN’S BEER BISTRO-Carole Allison & Dave Wahl 

CALL THE OFFICE-63 Monroe/Teenage X/Radio Delete 

CANADIAN CORPS-Open Mic w/Raisin’ Cain (3-6pm) 

CAROUSEL ROOM-The Mighty MacGowens (8pm) 

DAWGHOUSE PUB-Smokin’ Dave (2pm)/Doug Varty (5pm)/ 

Johnny North (9pm) 

EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL-Dr. Delaware & The Malpractice (3- 

6pm)/Karaoke (6pm)/IN2U 

FITZRAYS-B.A. Baracus/Black Belt Jones/Mike Todd (8pm) 

GIGS GRILLHOUSE-Maids Of Music 

HONEST LAWYER-Fisted Sister (7pm) 

HUSTLER BILLIARDS-Chuckee & The Crawdaddies 

KELSEY’S EAST-Larry Smith & The Fiddler (5-8pm) 

LONDON MUSIC HALL-Salads/Staylefi sh/Dodger/Two Crown 

King 

MAGGIE’S- Sonja Gustafson/Johnny Noubarian & Darryl 

Stacey 

MOLLY BLOOM’S – The Mike O’Brien Band 

MUSIC BOX-The Rock Collection/DJ Johnny Classic 

NORMA JEAN’S-The Mahones/Murmur 

POACHER’S ARMS-St. Patrick’s Day Party 

RICHMOND-The Dependables (4-6pm)/K.R.A.W./Swim 

ROXBURY- Code 7 (7-10pm)/DJ Mystik 

ST. REGIS TAVERN-Open Blues Jam (8pm) 

SMOKE-N-BONES-Cork & Kerry 

TOWN & COUNTRY –DJ Rus-L 

VICTORY LEGION-County Road (2-6pm)/Still Kickin’ 

WINKS EATERY-Jay Davis 

WITS END PUB-Wits Rovers/The Big Eight Band/The Tomato 

Soup Band 

WORTLEY-The O’Swilligans (3pm)/The Geoff Masse Band 

YUK YUK’S- Scott Faulconbridge/Dan Guiry/Dylan Gott 

SUN. MARCH 18 

BRASS-Karaoke w/Dave 

BRENNAN’S BEER BISTRO-The Coalshed Willies (5-9pm) 

CONNIE’S BAR & GRILL-Frank Ridsdale (3:30pm) 

NITE OWL LOUNGE-Big Shiny Sundays w/DJ Eedy 

VICTORIA TAVERN-Rev. Freddie & The Distillers (4-7pm) 

VICTORY LEGION-Jamboree (1pm) 

WINKS EATERY-Karaoke w/The A-Train 

WORTLEY–The Village Blues Band w/Robbie Antone (4pm) 

MON. MARCH 19 

BLACK SHIRE PUB-Quiz Night (8:30pm) 

BRASS-Open Stage 

FITZRAYS-DJ Everfresh 

FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Karaoke w/Bruce Almighty 

MOLLY BLOOM’S- Karaoke 

NITE OWL LOUNGE-Dub Pub 

NORMA JEAN’S- Open Band Nite w/Shepherds Pie 

OLD EAST STUDIOS-Southern Ontario Ukulele Players w/June 

Cole (7-10pm) 

RICHMOND-Karaoke 

TOWN & COUNTRY –Open Mic 

TUES. MARCH 20 

AEOLIAN HALL-John K. Samson & The Provincial Band/Shotgun 

Jimmie (7:30pm) 

BLACK SHIRE PUB-Open Mic 

CALL THE OFFICE-Sidney York/Redbird/Portage & Main 

JOHN LABATT CENTRE-Tommy Hunter (6:30pm) 

THE�LISTINGS 

MUSTANG SALLY’S- Karaoke (8pm) 

MAGGIE’S- Jennifer Thorpe/Johnny Noubarian & Darryl Stacey TOWN & COUNTRY – DJ Rus-L 

NITE OWL LOUNGE-T’n’T Metal Night 

MOLLY BLOOM’S- Labyrinth 

VICTORY LEGION-Allen James (2-6pm)/Country Classics (8pm) 

NORMA JEAN’S-Karaoke w/Guy 

NITE OWL LOUNGE-Salvation Fridays w/DJ Andy Capp 

WINKS EATERY-Matt Ridder 

SMOKE-N-BONES-Anthony Gomes (8pm) 

NORMA JEAN’S-The Reason 

WITS END PUB-Wits Rovers 

VICTORY LEGION-Open Jam Night (8pm) 

OUT BACK SHACK-Shane Philip 

WORTLEY- The Hot Tub Hippies 

WED. MARCH 21 

POACHER’S ARMS-Spoonmen 

YUK YUK’S- Richard Lett/Jo-Anna Downey/Ben Miner 

BLACK SHIRE PUB-Hey Loretta 

RICHMOND-Nothing Left For Tomorrow/Vimena SUN. MARCH 25 

BRASS-Acoustic Surprise w/Andy 

ST. REGIS TAVERN-Bender 

AEOLIAN HALL-Caladh Nua (7:30pm) 

CALL THE OFFICE- Flatfoot 56/The Filthy Radicals/DJ Dustin SCOTS CORNER-Howzat 

BRASS-Karaoke w/Dave 

EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL-Open Jam Nite (8pm) 


JOHN LABATT CENTRE-Orchestra London: Video Games Live 

(8pm) 

LONDON MUSIC HALL-The Trews/Poor Young Things/The 

Stanfi elds 

MAGGIE’S- Charlie Rallo & Darryl Stacey (8pm) 

MOLLY BLOOM’S-The Barbs 

NITE OWL LOUNGE-Punk’d w/DJ Eedy 

OUT BACK SHACK-Acoustic Open Mic Night 

O’MALLEY’S-Karaoke w/Music Central (8pm) 

POACHER’S ARMS-Open Mic w/J-Me 

SCOTS CORNER-Teddy Leonard & Frank Ridsdale 

THURS. MARCH 22 

AEOLIAN HALL-Genticorum (8pm) 

APK LIVE-Rococode/The Sam Allen Band/The Congratulated 

Strangers/Colours Collectiva 

BLACK SHIRE PUB- Lord Thunderin’ Thursdays/Xprime The 

Band 

BRENNAN’S BEER BISTRO-Open Mic w/Carole Allison 

FOX & FIDDLE-Three Penny Piece 

SPOKE (UWO)-Builder Refused/Fun Fact/Papa’s Delicate 

Condition 

TOWN & COUNTRY – DJ Rus-L 

VICTORIA TAVERN-The Kards 

WAVE (UWO)-Dean Brody 

WINDERMERE MANOR –Tam Duong (5-9pm) 

WINKS EATERY-Smokin’ Dave 

WITS END PUB-Karaoke w/Tatz 

WORTLEY-In My Defence 

YUK YUK’S- Richard Lett/Jo-Anna Downey/Ben Miner 

SAT. MARCH 24 

APK LIVE-The New Cities/The Scenario/Moondog Uproar 

BLACK SHIRE PUB-The Mountain, The Forest, The Earth/Dead 

City Beat/The Spooky ScareCrows 

BRASS-Ralf Wiggum/Disgusticons/Hooker Spit 



BYRON LEGION-The Comos 

CALL THE OFFICE-Barrio Tiger 

CENTENNIAL HALL-Orchestra London & Jeans n’ Classics Tribute 

To Michael Jackson (8pm) 

BRENNAN’S BEER BISTRO-The Coalshed Willies (5-9pm) 

CONNIE’S BAR & GRILL-Frank Ridsdale (3:30pm) 

LONDON TAP HOUSE-DJ Everfresh 

MOLLY BLOOM’S- Karaoke w/Axle 

NITE OWL LOUNGE- DJ Eedy 

presents... 

JP Cormier: 

Farewell Tour 

Friday March 16 

Intersection: 

Jazz & Classical Series 

Alex Ernewein & 

Vladimir Soloviev 

Sunday March 18 

John K Samson and 

The Provincial Band 


DAWGHOUSE PUB-Larry-oke 

Tuesday March 20 

LONDON MUSIC CLUB-The Big Rock Electric Jam w/Rick Taylor 

(9pm)/The Doug Varty Trio (8pm)/The Art Of Streaming 

(8:30pm) 

LONDON MUSIC HALL-The Trews/Poor Young Things/The 

Stanfi elds 

MOLLY BLOOM’S- The Mike O’Brien Band 

NORMA JEAN’S- Live Band Karaoke w/Nasty Alex 

RICHMOND-Jeffy B 

SOMERVILLE HOUSE (UWO)- Donne Roberts (4-6:30pm) 

EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL-Karaoke (6-9pm)/Entropy (Mat: 

3-6pm) 

FITZRAY’S-Spinal Cracker Band 


GIGS GRILLHOUSE-Cork & Kerry 

HONEST LAWYER-UFC 

LONDON MUSIC CLUB-The Sea & City/Tam Duong (7pm)/ 

Joelle Westman/Maria MacDonald (8pm)/Samantha Martin & 

The Haggard/The Woody Allens (10pm) 

Direct from Ireland: 

Caladh Nua 

Sunday March 25 

El Sistema Aeolian 

Thursday March 29 

Shayne Koyczan and 

WAVE (UWO)-Dragonette/Eric Solomon & Young Empires/ 

Zorba & Luke 

MAGGIE’S- Jennifer Thorpe/Johnny Noubarian & Darryl Stacey 

The Short Story Long 

Monday April 2 

WINKS EATERY-J-La 

MOLLY BLOOM’S- Labyrinth 

WORTLEY-Parallax 

YUK YUK’S-Richard Lett/Jo-Anna Downey/Ben Miner 

FRI. MARCH 23 

APK LIVE- Kidstreet/New Zebra Kid/Greggy Clypse/DJ Loot 

BLACK SHIRE PUB- Tim Woodcock & Jenny MacDonald 

(6pm)/Matt Alveraz 

BRASS-The Merves 

BRENNAN’S BEER BISTRO-In Our Favour 

CALL THE OFFICE-Murder By Death/Big John Bates 

CENTENNIAL HALL-Orchestra London & Jeans n’ Classics Tribute 

To Michael Jackson (8pm) 

MUSIC BOX-This Or The Apocalypse/The World We Knew/Beheading 

Of A King 

BidiniBand 

NITE OWL LOUNGE-Acres Of Lions 

wsg Henry Adam Svec 

Thursday April 5 

NORMA JEAN’S-ThunderStruck 

POACHER’S ARMS-Loud Noises 

The Aeolian Box Office 

795 Dundas St 

RICHMOND- Always A New Day/Malignant Theory/A Faster 

Now/Invitation To Die 

519.672.7950 

ST. REGIS TAVERN-Open Blues Jam (8pm) 

www.aeolianhall.ca 

438-5141 

the 

COBRA-Adam K. 

DAWGHOUSE PUB- The Rail City Kings 

EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL- Blue Mojo 

EAST VILLAGE COFFEEHOUSE-Jo-Ann Lawton (7-9pm) 

FITZRAYS-Decade Of Sleep 

GIGS GRILLHOUSE-Acoustic Showcase 

GROOVES-Young Coconut & Friends (2pm) 

HONEST LAWYER-Steven Branchaud 

LONDON MUSIC CLUB- Acoustyle Open Mic (9pm)/The Sea 

& City/Long Live The Kids/Falling For The Pacifi c (8:30pm) 

LONDON MUSIC HALL-Down With Webster/Stereokid/Matthew 

Johnston 

LONDON MUSIC HALL LOUNGE-The Wooden Sky/Daniel Romano/Graham 

Nicholas 

roadhouse 


Where the Village Meets 

THE JULIAN FAUTH BAND 


FRI. MAR. 16 

PARALLAX 

THE GEOFF MASSE BAND 

FRI. MAR. 23 

SAT. MAR. 17 

IN MY DEFENCE 

THE O’SWILLIGANS (3PM) 

SAT. MAR. 24 

/THE GEOFF MASSE BAND 

THE HOT TUB HIPPIES 

SUN. MAR. 18 

SUN. MAR. 25 

THE VILLAGE BLUES BAND THE VILLAGE BLUES BAND 

W/ ROBBIE ANTONE (4PM) 

W/ JOHNNY MAX (4PM) 

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WINKS EATERY-Karaoke w/The A-Train 

WITS END PUB-Brian Barber 

WORTLEY-The Village Blues Band w/Johnny Max (4pm) 

MON. MARCH 26 

BLACK SHIRE PUB-Quiz Night (8:30pm) 

CALL THE OFFICE-Benjamin Francis Leftwich/Donovan Woods 

CEEPS – The Big Mix w/Matt Webb 


MOLLY BLOOM’S- Karaoke w/Axle 

NITE OWL LOUNGE-Dub Pub 

NORMA JEAN’S- Open Band Nite w/Shepherds Pie 

OLD EAST STUDIOS-Southern Ontario Ukulele Players w/June 

Cole (7-10pm) 

TUES. MARCH 27 

BLACK SHIRE PUB-Open Mic 

CALL THE OFFICE-Jordan Klassen/The Mountains & The 

Trees/Andy Shauf 

NITE OWL LOUNGE-T’n’T Metal Night 

NORMA JEAN’S- Karaoke w/Guy 

VICTORY LEGION-Open Jam Night 

WED. MARCH 28 

BLACK SHIRE PUB-Hey Loretta 

BRASS-Acoustic Surprise w/Andy 

CALL THE OFFICE-Yukon Blonde/Library Voices/Great Bloomers 

CENTENNIAL HALL-City And Colour/The Low Anthem (8pm) 

EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL-Open Jam (8pm) 

MAGGIE’S- Charlie Rallo & Darryl Stacey (8pm) 

NITE OWL LOUNGE- Punk’d w/DJ Eedy 


PIT STOP- Nasty Alex Live Band Karaoke 


SCOTS CORNER-HooDoo2 

VICTORY LEGION-Karaoke (7pm) 

WINKS EATERY-Lonny Chicago & Smokin’ Dave 

HOUSE BANDS/DJS/ 

KARAOKE 

(SEE ALSO CONCERTS / 

LIMITED ENGAGEMENTS) 

THURSDAYS 

BARKING FROG – Thirsty Thursday 

BLACK SHIRE PUB-Lord Thunderin’ Thirsty Thursdays w/Tara 

Dunphy & Jim McGinley (8-11pm) 

BUCK WILD-Karaoke 

CEEPS-DJ Vinyl 

CHAUCER’S PUB-Alex Richmond Trio 

CLUB LARGE-All Request Video Party 

CLUB ROUGE-Rouge Thursdays 

COATES OF ARMS-Lonny Chicago 

DAWGHOUSE PUB-Smokin’ Dave 

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FIRESIDE RESTAURANT-Karaoke w/Maggie 

FOX & FIDDLE-Three Penny Piece (8:30pm) 

GIGS GRILLHOUSE-Maids Of Music 

GRAD CLUB (UWO)-Chris Norley 

JIM BOB RAY’S-Country Night 

LAVISH-Karaoke w/DJ Amy 

LONDON TAP HOUSE-DJ Hollywood Lines 

MAGGIE’S –Don DiCarlo/Paul Stevenson/Peter Hysen (8pm) 

POACHER’S ARMS-The Fairmonts 

ROXBURY- DJ Angelo 

SCOTS CORNER-The Whiskey Sinners 

TOWN & COUNTRY – Karaoke w/DJ Rus-L 

UP ON CARLING-Next Level Thursdays w/DJ Calvera 

WITS END PUB-Karaoke w/DJ Tatz 

WRECK’D ROOM-Techno-Industrial w/DJ Phoenixx 

FRIDAYS 

BARKING FROG – Frog Fridays 

BARNEY’S-The Dan Slingers 



CANADIAN CORPS-Karaoke (8pm) 

CAREY’S BAR & GRILL-Karaoke 

CEEPS-Finally Famous 

CELLO SUPPER CLUB-DJ EverFresh 

CLUB LARGE-R&B/Hip-Hop Fridays 

CLUB NOIR- DJ Ruckus 

CLUB ROUGE-DJ Rick O’Shea 

COWBOYS RANCH-DJ Danny 

FATTY PATTY’S-Karaoke w/Sharpe Sound 

FIRESIDE RESTAURANT-Live Entertainment 

FOX & FIDDLE-Karaoke w/Joe Brunet (8:30pm) 


JIM BOB RAY’S-FootWork Fridays w/DJ Hush/DJ Mar Keey 

JOE KOOLS-DJ Jamie Allen 

LAVISH- DJ Lady Finesse 

LOCKER ROOM- Pepsi Pete & Friends 


MONGOLIAN MARTINI BAR-DJ Yahohyah 


ROXBURY-DJ Hex 

SILVER SPUR-Karaoke w/TDG Entertainment 

SWAG LOUNGE-DJ 

TIGER JACKS - DJ Blair 

UP ON CARLING –DJ Jacoby & Joe Keep De Pace/Cosella 

WITS END PUB-Wits End House Band 

WRECK’D ROOM-DJ Karnage 

SATURDAYS 

A.N.A.F. – Karaoke w/Leeann 

BARKING FROG – Seduction Saturdays 

BARNEY’S-The Fairmonts 



CEEPS-DJ Matty 

CELLO SUPPER CLUB-DJ Everfresh 

CLUB LARGE-Dancehall/Soca Saturdays 

CLUB ROUGE-Black & Yellow 

COWBOYS RANCH-BX93 Night w/Heidi Reichert 

DOWNTOWN KATHY BROWN’S-Vogue Saturdays w/DJ Satellite 

(103.1 Fresh FM) 

EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL- Karaoke (6-9pm) 

FIRESIDE RESTAURANT-Karaoke w/Maggie 


JIM BOB RAY’S-Musiq Saturdays 

KUBBY’S BAR & GRILL-Bill Savage (8pm) 

LAVISH-Seductive Saturdays 


MONGOLIAN MARTINI BAR- DJ D-Red 

ROXBURY - DJ Mystik 

ST. REGIS TAVERN-Open Jam (8pm) 

SCOTS CORNER-Karaoke 

SILVER SPUR-Karaoke w/TDG Entertainment 

SWAG LOUNGE-DJ 

TIGER JACKS - DJ Blair 

UP ON CARLING-Up At Night Saturdays 

WRECK’D ROOM-DJ Karnage 

SUNDAYS 

BARKING FROG- Showcase Sundays 

BRASS-The Flying Tigers 

BRENNAN’S BEER BISTRO- Carole Allison & Kerry-Jane Voth 

(4pm) 

CALL THE OFFICE – RayGun (9pm) 

CLUB LARGE-Old School Sundays 

EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL-Sweet Leaf Garrett 

JIM BOB RAYS-Guest DJs 

LONDON ALE HOUSE-Karaoke (10pm) 

NORMA JEAN’S-Nasty Alex Live Band Karaoke (8pm) 

RICHMOND- Karaoke w/Dave & Missy 

ROXBURY- Karaoke w/Amy 

SAHRAT CAFÉ & GRILL-Karaoke w/TDG Entertainment (7- 

11pm) 

TOWN & COUNTRY – Karaoke w/DJ Russell & Jennifer 


WINDERMERE’S CAFÉ-Kevin Love (11:00am - 2:00pm) 

MONDAYS 

BRASS-Open Mic w/Donnie Ivey 



GRAD CLUB-Open Mic (8-11pm) 

JIM BOB RAY’S-Indie Mondays 

MONGOLIAN MARTINI BAR-DJ Yahohyah 

MORRISSEY HOUSE-Team Pub Quiz 

NORMA JEAN’S- Stripper Mom Open Band 

OLD EAST STUDIOS-Southern Ontario Ukulele Players (7pm) 

SCOTS CORNER-Greg Lirette 

SPOKE UWO-Open Mic Night 

TUESDAYS 

BLACK SHIRE PUB- Open Mic 

BRASS-The Kings 

CLUB LARGE-DJ Everfresh 

COATES OF ARMS-Celtic Roots (7-9pm) 

FITZRAYS-The Quiz 

FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS-Amateur Stand-Up Comedy 

GIGS GRILLHOUSE-DJ Godgillah 

MAGGIE’S-Eli Passic (6-7:30pm) 

MOLLY BLOOM’S –The Hoffs 

NORMA JEAN’S- Karaoke w/Jeffy B 

OLD EAST STUDIOS-Ruby Tuesdays w/Jake Levesque (8pm) 

PIT STOP-Open Mic/Jam Night 

ROXBURY- Karaoke w/DJ Tatz 

SCOTS CORNER-Open Mic w/Vinny Vincenzo 

SPOKE UWO- Nasty Alex Live Band Karaoke 


WEDNESDAYS 

BARKING FROG – We Like To Party 

BRASS-Alternative Cinema 

BRENNAN’S BEER BISTRO-DJ Sexy Hara$$er 

CALL THE OFFICE – Punk Rock Juke Box 

EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL-Open Jam Nite (8pm) 

FITZRAYS-Jim McGinley 

FOX & FIDDLE-Open Mic w/Chris Trowell (8pm) 


GIGS GRILLHOUSE- Open Mic 

JIM BOB RAY’S-DJ Chaos 

JOE KOOL’S-Black Belt Jones 

LONDON ALE HOUSE-Karaoke (10pm) 

MORRISSEY HOUSE- Traditional Celtic Session 


PIT STOP-Nasty Alex Live Band Karaoke 


ROXBURY-DJ Mystic 

SAHRAT CAFÉ & GRILL-Karaoke w/TDG Entertainment (2- 

6pm) 

SCOTS CORNER- HooDoo 2 

SPOKE UWO-Rick McGhie 


VICTORIA TAVERN-Karaoke w/Jeffy B. 

VICTORY LEGION-Karaoke (7-11pm) 

WRECK’D ROOM-The Grim Brothers 

VENUE•INDEX 

AEOLIAN HALL 795 DUNDAS ST. 672-7950 

AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION 2155 CRUMLIN RD. 657-1381 

A.N.A.F. 797 YORK ST. 432-0104 

APK LIVE 340 WELLINGTON ST. 601-5483 

BARKING FROG 209 JOHN ST. 850-3764 

BLACK DIAMOND BAR 1440 JALNA BLVD. (226) 663-3263 

BLACK SHIRE PUB 511 TALBOT ST. 433-7737 

BRASS 186 KING ST. (226) 777-7327 

BRENNAN’S BEER BISTRO 347 CLARENCE ST. 858-9900 

BUCK WILD 722 YORK ST. 226-268-2766 

BUCKING BULL SALOON 333 RICHMOND ST. 601-9333 

BYRON LEGION 1276 COMMISSIONERS RD. W. 472-3300 

CALL THE OFFICE 216 YORK ST. 432-2263 

CANADIAN CORPS. 1051 DUNDAS ST. 455-7530 

CAREY’S BAR & GRILL 1569 OXFORD ST. E. 951-6886 

CEEPS AND BARNEY’S 671 RICHMOND ST. 432-1232 

FREE 

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CELLO SUPPER CLUB 99 KING ST. 850-8000 

CHAPTERS 1037 WELLINGTON RD. 685-1008 

CHRISTINA’S PUB 1131 RICHMOND ST. 660-8778 

CLUB LARGE 335 RICHMOND ST. 697-4144 

CLUB MANSION 89 KING ST. 434-2888 

CLUB NOIR 183 KING ST. 317-0990 

CLUB ROUGE 50 PICADILLY ST. 433-3636 

COATES OF ARMS PUB 580 TALBOT ST. 432-1001 

COBRA LONDON 359 TALBOT ST. 661-0761 

CONNIE’S BAR & GRILL 411 HAMILTON RD. 660-4032 

CONNOLLY HALL 523 FIRST ST. 455-5630 

COWBOY’S RANCH 60 WHARNCLIFFE RD. N. 679-0101 

DAWGHOUSE PUB 699 WILKINS ST. 685-0640 

DOWNTOWN KATHY BROWN’S 228 DUNDAS ST. 433-4913 

DUDE RANCH 829 WHARNCLIFFE RD. S. 

EASTSIDE BAR & GRILL 750 HAMILTON RD. 951-6462 

EAST VILLAGE ARTS CO-OP 757 DUNDAS ST. 

FATTY PATTY’S 390 SPRINGBANK DR. 473-5521 

FIRESIDE RESTAURANT 1166 COMMISSIONERS RD. E. 680-9899 

FITZRAYS 110 DUNDAS ST. 646-1119 

FOX & FIDDLE 355 WELLINGTON ST. 679-4238 

FRIDAY KNIGHT LIGHTS 391 RICHMOND ST. 672-5050 

GIG’S GRILLHOUSE 420 TALBOT ST. 601-4447 

GROOVES 353 CLARENCE ST. 640-6714 

HONEST LAWYER 228 DUNDAS ST. 433-4913 

HUSTLER BILLIARDS 1116 DEARNESS DR. 649-2138 

JACK’S 539 RICHMOND ST. 438-1876 

JACK ASTOR’S 660 RICHMOND ST. 642-0708 

JIM BOB RAY’S 585 RICHMOND ST. 663-5665 

JOHN LABATT CENTRE 99 DUNDAS ST. 667-5700 

KELSEY’S EAST 900 OXFORD ST. 455-9464 

KUBBY’S BAR & GRILL 312 COMMISSIONERS RD. W. 472-9455 

LAVISH NIGHTCLUB 238 DUNDAS ST. 

LOCKER ROOM 1286 JALNA BLVD. 680-5001 

LONDON ALE HOUSE 288 DUNDAS ST. 204-2426 

LONDON MUSIC CLUB 470 COLBORNE ST. 640-6996 

LONDON MUSIC HALL 185 QUEENS AVE. 432-1107 

LONDON TAP HOUSE 545 ½ RICHMOND ST. 936-0268 

MAGGIE’S JAZZ LOUNGE 478 RICHMOND ST. 434-5545 

MOLLY BLOOM’S 700 RICHMOND ST. 675-1212 

MONGOLIAN 645 RICHMOND ST. 645-6400 

MORRISSEY HOUSE 359 DUNDAS ST. 204-9220 

MUSIC BOX 1472 DUNDAS ST. 226-373-6607 

MUSTANG SALLY’S 99 BELMONT DRIVE 649-7688 

NITE OWL LOUNGE 353 TALBOT ST. 438-6483 

NORMA JEAN’S 1332 HURON ST. 455-7711 

O’MALLEY’S IRISH PUB 99 BELMONT AVE. 649-7688 

OLD EAST STUDIOS 755 DUNDAS ST. 434-5499 

OLD SOUTH VILLAGE PUB 149 WORTLEY RD. 645-1166 

PIT STOP 1631 OXFORD ST. E. 455-1163 

PLAYERS ATHLETIC LAGER CO. 1749 DUNDAS ST. E. 452-1030 

POACHER’S ARMS 171 QUEENS ST. 432-7888 

RICHMOND TAVERN 370 RICHMOND ST. 679-9777 

ROXBURY BAR & GRILL 1165 OXFORD ST. E. 951-0665 

RUM RUNNERS 176 DUNDAS ST. 432-1107 

ST. REGIS TAVERN 625 DUNDAS ST. 432-0162 

SAHRAT CAFÉ & GRILL 769 SOUTHDALE RD. E. 601-6622 

SCOTS CORNER 268 DUNDAS ST. 667-2277 

SILVER SPUR 771 SOUTHDALE RD. E. 681-5161 

SMOKE-N-BONES 855 WELLINGTON RD 649-1103 

SWAG LOUNGE WESTERN FAIR GROUNDS 438-7203 

TIGER JACKS 842 WHARNCLIFFE RD. S. 690-0292 

TOWN & COUNTRY SALOON 765 DUNDAS ST. 433-4741 

UP ON CARLING 153 CARLING ST. 434-6600 

VICTORY LEGION 311 OAKLAND AVE. 455-2331 

VICTORIA TAVERN 466 SOUTH ST. 432-7303 

WINDERMERE MANOR 200 COLLIP CIRCLE 858-1414 

WINKS EATERY 551 RICHMOND ST. 936-5079 

WITS END PUB 235 NORTH CENTRE RD. 850-9487 

WORTLEY ROADHOUSE 190 WORTLEY RD. 438-5141 

WRECK’D ROOM 335 1/2 RICHMOND ST. 434-5698 

YUK YUK’S 900 KING ST. 936-2309 

LISTINGS IN SCENE ARE FREE ~ Email: music@scenemagazine.com. 

Please Include: Venue Name, Address, Event Title, Date, Time, Brief Description, 

Admission Fee and Phone Number. 

Deadline for March 29, 2012 edition~March 23, 2012 ~ John Sharpe 

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POP�CD&DVD�REVIEWS 

NEW�RELEASES 

THE BRAINS • DRUNK NOT 

DEAD (STOMP) 

It’s obvious from their ghoulish 

visual vibe that The Brains wish to 

present themselves to the public as 

another rocka/shocka/horror-billy 

band. The sonic evidence on their 

new album, Drunk Not Dead, indicates otherwise. This Montreal 

trio manages to catch a live feel in the studio and they 

deliver a series of songs that fl irt with some sophisticated oldtime 

jazzy pop hooks (albeit in triple-time), smooth production 

and a band sound that at times reminds more than a 

little of the distracted vocals and spacey whirlwind rock of 

late-period Queens Of The Stone Age. Mention must also be 

made of the fact that the musicianship is excellent throughout 

with not a note or beat out of place despite the semi-insane 

tempos these guys traffi c in here. – Rod Nicholson B+ 

WILLIE NELSON • LIVE AT THE US 

FESTIVAL (UNIVERSAL) 

The subtitle of this DVD is ‘June 4, 1983’, 

referring to Country Day at the massive US 

Festival then being held in San Bernadino, 

California. Outlaw Country legend Willie Nelson 

was, almost by default, the headliner that 

day and his fi ne set includes ‘Whiskey River,’ 

‘Night Life,’ ‘My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys’ 

etc. Nelson is later joined by partner in crime Waylon Jennings 

for performances of ‘Good Hearted Woman’ and ‘Mamas Don’t Let Your 

Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys.’ The sound quality is not bad keeping in 

mind the vintage of the recording, but visually there are problems with 

a muddy image at times during the fi rst few tunes, although it’s great to 

have a video issue of this historic Willie Nelson gig. – Rod Nicholson B- 

RINGO STARR AND THE ROUNDHEADS 

• LIVE (EONE ENTERTAINMENT) 

Recorded at the Genessee Theater in Waukegan, 

Illinois in 2005, this concert DVD presents 

a show performed by the ex-Beatle that was 

later broadcast as part of the PBS Soundstage 

series. Ringo is at his charming best here with 

renditions of ‘I’m The Greatest,’ ‘Act Naturally,’ 

Photograph’ and others, fi nishing with the 

much-loved ‘With A Little Help From My Friends.’ Anyone looking for 

a fl ash of the old Starr brilliance behind the drums will be left wanting 

as he works the front of the stage for most of the show. Shot in HD, the 

visuals are well-done although the sometimes overly-busy camera-work 

is a little distracting at times. All in all a nice diversion for longtime fans 

of his solo work and easygoing stage presence. – Rod Nicholson B+ 

TOTAL CHAOS • BATTERED AND 

SMASHED (STOMP) 

After over 20 years as respected members of 

L.A.’s peace-punk/anarchist scene, Total Chaos 

continue to soldier on as if it’s still 1977. Battered 

And Smashed is another by-now familiar 

salvo of double-time drums, chant-along vocal 

choruses, buzz-saw guitars and tons of attitude. What makes this 

record rise above the built-in clichés are the often humorous lyrics 

croaked/roared at full-volume by front-man Rob Chaos that swivel back 

and forth between political invective (‘Social Crimes’) and indignantly 

sarcastic takes on suburban living (‘Waste Away My Life’). The only false 

step here is the ill-advised foray into cod-reggae on ‘Going Down’ but 

overall, anyone who hankers for the good old days when punk was a 

movement instead of a genre and Johnny really was Rotten will enjoy 

this. – Rod Nicholson B+ 

WAYLON JENNINGS • LIVE AT THE 

US FESTIVAL (UNIVERSAL) 

Along with his crony Willie Nelson, Waylon 

Jennings shared the lineup of Country Day at 

the 1983 US Festival with artists such as Alabama, 

Emmylou Harris and Hank Williams, 

Jr. By all accounts Jennings’ set was one of the 

highlights of the day and it’s easy to see why 

as the man is clearly enjoying himself and his 

band as he runs through hits such as ‘Are You Sure Hank Done It This 

Way’ and ‘I’ve Always Been Crazy.’ Musical pleasures to be had on this 

concert DVD include the fi ne work by steel guitar great Ralph Mooney 

and Waylon’s vocals with wife Jessi Colter on ‘Storms Never Last.’ Audio 

and visuals are good for this recording’s vintage. Includes a brief preshow 

interview with Jennings. – Rod Nicholson B+ 

REAL MCKENZIES • WESTWINDS 

(STOMP) 

The whole Celt/punk thing has been by now 

beaten to death by bands who discovered that 

you can take an Irish reel, speed it up and then 

run it through some Marshall amps and by golly, 

look what you’ve got! Real McKenzies must take their share of the blame 

along with several other bands who won’t be named here who took what 

The Pogues did with real style thanks to the genuinely rebellious Shane 

McGowan and messed it up with repetition, pretension and too much volume. 

And so here we are with Westwinds, a stereotypically hearty serving 

of by-rote rabble-rousing (‘The Message’), anthems for the dead-drunk 

but not out yet crowd (‘My Luck Is So Bad’) and nods to high-speed punk 

rebellion (‘Fools Road’). Predictable. – Rod Nicholson C- 

THE ROLLING STONES • SOME GIRLS 

LIVE IN TEXAS ’78 (EAGLE) 

Recorded at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in 

Fort Worth, Texas six-weeks after the release of Some 

Girls, this DVD captures the Stones in peak form. The 

band kicks of their 17-track set with a rousing version 

of Chuck Berry’s ‘Let It Rock,’ followed by wellknown 

originals like ‘Brown Sugar,’ ‘Beast Of Burden,’ 

and the disco-tinged ‘Miss You.’ The concert 

ends with Mick Jagger’s rousing performance on the classic ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash.’ 

Although the footage was originally shot on 16mm fi lm, it has been carefully 

restored and the sound remixed and remastered by Bob Clearmountain from 

the original multitrack tapes. Bonus features include a colorful and informative 

8-page booklet, and an extra DVD that contains an interview with Mick Jagger, 

an appearance on Saturday Night Live and an ABC News 20/20 interview with the 

Stones. All in all, an important document from the group often referred to as the 

“World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band.” – John Sharpe B+ 

HOT�INDIES 

VARIOUS ARTISTS • GRAND 

OLD OPRY CLASSIC HITS 

(CRACKER BARREL) 

In their continuing series of releases 

featuring live recordings that 

have languished in the Grand Ole 

Opry vaults for years, Cracker Barrel 

have provided a service to fans of the original Nashville 

sound. Classic Hits features a strong cast of country music royalty 

performing their best-known hits in a live setting on the 

famous Opry stage. Highlights include Johnny Cash and June 

Carter (‘Ring Of Fire’), Tammy Wynette (‘Stand By Your Man’), 

Patsy Cline (‘Crazy’), George Jones (‘The Race Is On’), Marty 

Robbins (‘El Paso’) and Ray Price (‘For The Good Times’). The 

only off-note may be the inclusion of latter-day New Country 

chart-topper Garth Brooks amongst such celebrated company. 

A great listen for classic Nashville fans and a fi ne historical 

recording as well. – Rod Nicholson B+ 

PETER APPLEYARD AND THE JAZZ 

GIANTS • THE LOST 1974 SESSIONS 

(LINUS) 

Following a performance at the Ontario Place Forum, 

vibraphonist Peter Appleyard somehow managed 

to talk six of the fi nest musicians in jazz to 

accompany him for a late-night jam session at Toronto’s 

RCA Studio. Working in a relaxed setting, Appleyard and The Jazz Giants 

turn in superb takes on a swingin’ set of jazz standards that have the feel 

of an informal jam at a New York night club. Appleyard has even included 

snippets of the in-studio dialogue between the musicians and the engineer, 

which adds to the album’s “you are there” atmosphere. As one would expect, 

Appleyard’s all-star sidemen -- pianist Hank Jones, bassist Slam Stewart, tenor 

saxophonist Zoot Sims, trombonist Urbie Green, cornetist Bobby Hackett, 

and drummer Mel Lewis – are in fi ne form and deliver tasty solos throughout. 

Highly recommended. – John Sharpe Performance: A/Production: B+ 

DOUG VARTY • FEEL FREE (INDIE) 

All you need to know about veteran London guitarist/vocalist 

Doug Varty’s new album is encapsulated 

on the opening track, ‘Kickin’ Ass.’ Throughout 

the course of 10 original compositions Varty, along 

with Rob Allen (bass) and Dale Penney (drums/ 

background vocals), delivers solid, straight ahead rock ’n’ roll that display 

an obvious debt to classic rockers like AC/DC and Bad Company. Highlights 

include the pounding ‘Misfi t,’ the dark humour of ‘Make My Day’ and the 

leader’s tale of nasty teenage seduction on the bluesy title track. The latter 

track benefi ts from the fi ne work of Big Sugar’s Kelly Hoppe on harmonica, 

one of two tracks he appears on. Kudos as well to producer Bob Breen who 

manages to clearly capture the kind of high-voltage energy Varty is capable 

of. – John Sharpe Performance: B+/Production: B+ 

THE COUNTERS • THIS DOESN’T 

MEAN WE’RE FRIENDS 

(COLONEL MUSTARD) 

From track –to-track you’re never sure what The 

Counters are going to come up with next. Led by 

London guitarist/songwriter Rupert Heath, The 

Counters’ debut release is an intriguing mix of styles and infl uences -- part 

rock ’n’ roll, part country folk. Throughout, Heath gets excellent support 

from local musicians like The Mongrels’ guitarist Robert Charles-Dunne on 

pop-rockers like ‘When You Come Round’ and ‘Border Line,’ while Martin 

Horak’s mournful violin on ‘Cowboy Song,’ ‘Roses’ and ‘Death Wont Slow 

Me Down’ adds much to their melancholy mood. Recorded and engineered 

by Andy Magoffi n at the House of Miracles, This Doesn’t Mean We’re Friends 

is a fi ne showcase for Heath’s wry sense of humour and creative storytelling. 

– John Sharpe Performance: B-/Production: B- 

CANARY MINE • BETWEEN A ROCK 

AND A HEARTBREAK (INDIE) 

Canary Mine often bills itself as a “folk-hop” 

band but the group’s new full-length and seventh 

independent album, Between A Rock And A 

Heartbreak fi nds them touching on rock, country, 

honky-tonk and blues. The album’s eclectic 

program kicks off with the rockabilly sounds of ‘I Gotta Say, I Kinda Wish’ 

and it’s a good indicator of the kind of energy the group displays throughout. 

Comprised of London resident Carl Welch on drums, along with Mim Adams 

(keyboards), Joe Arnup (bass) and James Lanbro (guitar), Canary Mine are 

not above having a little fun from time to time as their rendition of ‘Walk My 

Dog’ and ‘The Bombizzle Blues’ demonstrates. Inserting a doo-wop interlude 

at the end of a straight-ahead rocker like ‘Get Out Of Your Head’ shows this 

is one group that isn’t afraid to experiment. – John Sharpe Performance: 

B/Production: B Editor’s Note: Canary Mine play The Black Shire Pub on 

Saturday, April 21. 


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OF FARMS AND 

BEAUTY QUEENS: 

MISS CALEDONIA AT 

THE MCMANUS 

LONDON, ON 

The year is 1953, and on a family farm in rural 

Caledonia, Ontario, there’s work to be done. Hay 

needs to be baled, barn stalls beg to be cleaned, 

and cows wait to be milked. For 15-year-old Peggy Ann 

Douglas, this spells utter drudgery. For Peggy Ann yearns 

for the bright lights and glamour of Hollywood. 

But how – the teen wonders – does one achieve this? 

Become a baton-twirling pageant queen, of course. 

Such is the premise of Miss Caledonia, a new production 

coming to the McManus Studio Theatre from March 

21 to 24. The play is a true story written and performed 

by Peggy Ann’s daughter, Melody Johnson. Funny and 

heart-warming, the show follows the youthful Peggy 

Ann on her grand quest for the tiara. 

“My mom had such a hard time on the farm, not 

wanting to do that kind of work, she just wanted to get 

off the farm and get into the city and be a movie star. 

And in the ‘50s, if you wanted to be a star, doing the pageant 

circuit seemed to be the route to take to get there. 

She would read about these movie stars that did that, so 

that’s what she decided to do too,” Johnson said. 

With the help of 4H, Peggy Ann picked up some new 

skills to better her chances in the competitions. “She 

started entering pageant after pageant and gained some 

momentum and started winning and broadening her 

horizons. She actually had the Miss Canada application 

form in her hand, but she opted to stop there and get 

married and have some kids. It’s a coming of age story, 

a ‘who am I’; ‘how do I fi t into the world’-type story,” 

Johnson added. 

She may not have been destined for Hollywood, but 

Peggy Ann did win some rather glamorous prizes, one 

time even landing a date with country crooner Tommy 

Hunter. Johnson has all of her mother’s sashes, trophies, 

and other memorabilia from her pageant circuit days. 

The play wraps up shortly after Peggy Ann competes in 

the Miss Caledonia pageant in 1956. The one-hander is 

complemented by live fi ddle, played with gusto by Alison 

Porter. Rick Roberts and Aaron Willis direct. 

Miss Caledonia is a long way from the type of pageant 

culture popularized in shows such as TLC’s Toddlers in 

Tiaras, Johnson explained. 

“People tend to focus on the negative aspects of pageants, 

but this play really shines a light on the positive 

aspects. At that time in the ‘50s, it was such a bonding 

experience for the young women involved. They met 

other young women from across the country, developed 

meaningful relationships, honed their skills and 

learned things beyond what they would have normally 

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GRAND THEATRE (471 RICHMOND STREET) 

PRESENTS TEMPTING PROVIDENCE UNTIL MARCH 

31. FOR TICKETS CALL 519-672-8800. 

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MELODY JOHNSON STARS AS PEGGY ANN, 

A GIRL WITH A DREAM OF ESCAPING FARM LIFE, 

IN MISS CALEDONIA 

been exposed to. That lifestyle expanded my mom’s way 

of thinking,” Johnson said. 

After her pageantry days, Peggy Ann became a member 

of a sorority and kept a strong social connection with 

other women throughout the years. “It’s funny, but I’ve 

had women come up to me after the show and say things 

like, ‘I was Miss Deer Island out in Nova Scotia in 1957’ 

– an interesting thing to come out of doing the show. 

They seem to get a kick out of it,” Johnson said. 

Peggy Ann and her husband, Bob, moved to nearby 

Brantford to raise their family. Though Peggy Ann never 

forced her daughter to follow in her footsteps, traces of 

her beauty pageant past would sometimes surface. 

“It was always a part of my life, if we would go have 

a family portrait taken, my mom would say, ‘turn your 

thigh out,’ or ‘remember to point your toe,’ which I always 

kind of bristled at as a young kid. I went the other 

way and became a tomboy. I did dance, tap, baton – but 

I didn’t have the inclination for beauty pageants,” Johnson 

recalled with a laugh. 

Peggy Ann provided many of the ideas for Miss Caledonia, 

so much so that Johnson considers her the dramaturge 

of the play. Thankfully, Johnson added, Peggy Ann 

was able to see the play before she passed away last April. 

Johnson hopes audiences will come out and enjoy a 

new perspective of life on the farm. 

“It’s been a while since we’ve had a new farm story. 

The Wingfi eld series keeps going, which is such an 

amazing thing, and it’s important to keep supporting 

farmers,” she said. “I think it’s also important to hear 

a female voice about the farmers’ life, and have some 

fun doing it.” 


LONDON, ON 

The music produced by master guitarists Jorge Strunz 

and Ardeshir Farah is so timeless, so impossibly 

seamless, that it is hard to believe that it originates 

from two very different parts of the world. 

Born in Costa Rica and Iran, Strunz and Farah brilliantly 

meld the cultural infl uences of their native lands into one 

enduring sound that critics repeatedly refer to as ‘magical.’ 

A local audience will be treated to this singular music 

experience on March 17 when the duo takes to the stage 

at Aeolian Hall. 

To fully understand how these worlds collided, we must 

travel back to 1979 when the pair met. Ardeshir Farah had 

come to Los Angeles to further his studies in architecture 

and civil engineering. The young musician had come from 

a family of civil engineers who played music as a hobby, 

except for an uncle who played violin with the Teheran 

Symphony. 

The home where he spent his formative years was often 

fi lled with the sound of his uncle playing. At the age of 11, 

Farah received his fi rst guitar and began experimenting 

with pop music and improvisation. It wasn’t long before he 

became a sought-after player. 

One evening in Los Angeles Farah attended a concert by 

Caldera, a well-known Latin jazz group on the circuit at 

the time. Farah was drawn to the technique of the band’s 

guitarist, Jorge Strunz, and thought he might like to get together 

with him to play. 

A mutual friend gave 

him Strunz’s phone 

number and they arranged 

to jam. From 

that fi rst meeting, it 

was obvious to both of 

them that theirs was 

a rare collaboration 

worth building on. 

Playing in tandem 

– and unbeknownst 

to the young men at 

the time – a signifi - 

cant milestone was 

occurring; the meeting 

marked the fi rst time that Latin American and Middle 

Eastern music had come together on the guitar. They found 

that they could play with rapid-fi re speed, fl awlessly and in 

perfect harmony. 

Born into a long line of career diplomats, Strunz picked 

up the guitar at the age of six and began playing professionally 

as a teenager, dashing his family’s expectations 

for him to enter politics. The travels of his diplomat father 

took him to Columbia, Spain, Mexico, England, Canada, 

and eventually the United States. He arrived in Los Angeles 

in 1973 and began searching for the band mates who 

would eventually become Caldera. The group met with a 

fair amount of success, recording four albums for Capitol 

and embarking on two national tours. 

Strunz’s greatest achievements, however, were yet to 

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THREE DECADES OF 

STRUNZ AND FARAH 

GUITARISTS JORGE STRUNZ AND ARDESHIR FARAH 

PLAY AEOLIAN HALL MARCH 17 

come. Fluent in numerous genres of what was later to be 

dubbed ‘world music’, Strunz and Farah recorded their debut 

album in 1980, laying bare their infl uences from their 

respective backgrounds as well as a prodigious facility for 

improvisation. The self-produced album, Mosaico, was released 

in 1982. 

“We have a lot of fl amenco infl uence in our melodics, we 

are admirers of many fl amenco guitar players... but our 

music is really a mixture of different elements including 

fl amenco, classical, Latin folk, Middle Eastern music and 

jazz in the sense that we like to improvise within the structure 

of our music,” Strunz explained. 

With this unique harmonic blend of infl uences, delivered 

with immaculate technique, the duo quickly distinguished 

themselves as two of the most gifted acoustic guitarists performing 

today. 

Over the next three decades, the pair released 17 albums, 

including Primal Magic (1990) and Américas (1992), 

which won Billboard’s World Music Album of the Year and 

a Grammy nomination, respectively, and spent months in 

the top of Billboard’s World Music chart. Another album, 

Heat of the Sun (1995), spent four months in the top 10 of 

the World Music chart. Their most recent album, Journey 

Around the Sun (2011), has earned them some of their 

most glowing reviews to date. Their albums have sold in 

excess of one million copies. 

After three decades together, Strunz and Farah are still 

in rare form. Guitar 

lovers will not want 

to miss their Aeolian 

Hall concert, where 

they will be backed by 

an international ensemble 

of world-class 

musicians. The show 

begins at 8pm. including 

Japan, Chile, Columbia, 

Venezuela, and 

numerous European 

countries. He has performed 

at the crème 

de la crème of venues; 

Caesars Palace, Tropicana 

and Flamingo Hilton, all in Las Vegas; Showboat in 

Atlantic City; Crystal Palace Casino in Nassau, Bahamas; 

and the Genting Resort in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

Frewin has been able to reach an even wider audience 

through 40 television appearances. He starred in an hourlong 

special entitled Magic Man: Home for the Holidays 

aired on CBC Television in December 2009, and has also 

appeared on ABC’s Champions of Magic and NBC’s World’s 

Greatest Magic. He is currently developing a special with 

The Discovery Channel that will air later this year. 



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CUNTRERA PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS AN EVENING 

WITH STRUNZ & FARAH AT AEOLIAN HALL 

(795 DUNDAS STREET EAST), MARCH 17 AT 8PM. 

DOORS OPEN AT 7:30PM. FOR TICKETS, 

CALL 519-672-7950.

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PIANO 

ORCHESTRA 

ORCHESTRA 

CLASSICAL�CDS 

PIANO MUSIC FROM KOREA 

KLARA MIN (PIANO) 

NAXOS, 2011 

Western and Eastern ideas of aesthetic beauty merge on this 

recently released Naxos compilation of piano pieces by Korean 

composers. Although the expositions presented here have been 

infl uenced in some way by schools of modern European composition 

– and by Schoenberg’s twelve-tone technique - they 

also retain stillness, clarity and purpose, all qualities pervasive 

in Asian culture and art. The opening piece on the CD 

– Younghi Pagh-Paan’s ‘Pa-mun’ exemplifi es the Koreans’ 

collective approach to composition, demonstrating a style 

that resonates thematically within the pastoral tradition of the 

West while retaining the nuance and sense of stark natural beauty that characterizes many Asian 

musical works. “On a quiet lake, and when one throws small stones one after another, the surface 

makes circles and those circles create another ‘pa-mun’. After a while, the lake fi nds its peace,” 

Pagh-Paan writes, articulating the central insight that inspired his work. Allusions to the natural 

world are also evident in Isang Yun’s ‘Five Pieces for Piano’, as well as the lumbering opening 

movement of Chung Gil Kim’s abridged suite, ‘Memory of Childhood’. This last piece concludes 

with a tentativeness that belies the composition’s fi nality; yet it is pianist Klara Min’s impeccable 

performance here – and throughout the recording - that subtly suggests to listeners nothing in 

nature ends without something else being born. Profoundly affecting. 

ALFREDO CASELLA – SYMPHONY NO. 3 

ORCHESTRA SINFONICA DI ROMA, FRANCESCO LA VECCHIA (CONDUCTOR) 

NAXOS, 2011 

The ambitious works of Alfredo Casella are more palatable 

if one avoids the fact that the composer was a vocal supporter 

of Italian fascism – and by extension, anti-Semitism - during 

the fi rst half of the 20th century. However, the music’s sublime 

appeal is evidenced by the fact that it outlasted the dubious 

political proclivities of its creator. For example, the two sprawling 

orchestral pieces presented here retain all the hallmarks 

of high romanticism fused with the sombre gravitas of a world 

at war. Casella was inspired to compose his Op. 29 – ‘Elegia 

eroica’ or ‘Heroic elegy’ – while refl ecting on the sacrifi ces 

made by soldiers during WWI. The piece was intended to evoke nationalist sentiment; Casella even 

described the rondo fi nale as “an image of our country as mother, cradling her dead son.” Powerful 

stuff, indeed - the sort of music that provokes an authentic response from listeners, regardless 

of whether or not they know the story of its origin. The other piece on the recording – Symphony 

No. 3 – was written during the fi rst year of WWII. Opening with a solo oboe, the composition 

evolves organically through four thematically interconnected movements, in a style reminiscent 

of Russian master symphonists Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofi ev. Made to live again by 

the efforts of the Rome Symphony Orchestra under the baton of renowned conductor Francesco 

La Vecchia, this music assumes the consequential tone of historicity Casella always intended, while 

remaining blissfully unfettered by the composer’s unfortunate prejudices. 

ALWYN – CONCERTO GROSSI NOS. 2 AND 3 

ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, 

DAVID LLOYD JONES (CONDUCTOR) 

NAXOS, 2011 

Prolifi c British composer William Alwyn died in 1985, leaving 

behind a substantial body of work written in almost every 

musical genre imaginable – opera, ballet, orchestral, chamber, 

instrumental and song. On this new Naxos collection, the instrumentalists 

of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 

bring together a delicious sampling of Alwyn’s oeuvre, including 

world premiere recordings of Seven Irish Tunes – Suite 

for Small Orchestra, Serenade, and the CD’s opening number, 

Dramatic Overture: The Moor of Venice. Based on the events of 

the Shakespearean play Othello, the overture was commissioned by the BBC Light Programme in 

1956. It’s a sombre, slow-burning affair with expectant brass and a muted classicism in line with 

the theme of the piece. In contrast, the bustling mood of the next track - Alwyn’s second concerto 

- is at turns serine and ebullient, setting the stage for the remainder of the recording; a program 

which is certain to appeal to students and collectors of English symphonic music. 

~ Chris Morgan 

BLOODLINE: A HAUNTED CRIME STORY • BY STAN ROGAL 

INSOMNIAC PRESS, 2011 • 269 PAGES 

Peter Donaldson is a pretty nondescript kind of guy; approaching middle 

age, sells hardware supplies, married with kids and living a predictable – if 

not somewhat drab – life. Peter also travels a lot for work, resulting in ample 

time to do serious thinking. Early in the story we meet Lynda, a streetwise, 

somewhat punky teen hitchhiking along the highway that Peter frequently 

travels. Given Peter’s somewhat staid existence outlined later on in the novel, 

it’s not surprising why he would be compelled to stop and pick her up. Around 

the two characters, activity is swirling. Police are investigating a series of 

murders, all of teenage girls found in ditches along the roadside. Peter believes 

he’s being a Good Samaritan for picking up Lynda – who knows what 

evil is lurking around, waiting for a victim with an outstretched thumb? Then, 

another body is found; belonging to a different girl that Peter had also given 

a ride to, and allegedly dropped off, alive and well. As the evidence stacks up against him, we want to believe 

Peter is innocent – just a man with a fatherly sense of duty in getting these girls out of harm’s way. There 

are just enough personality quirks to keep us guessing, however, as his home life starts falling apart. Then 

comes a bizarre twist in the form of a costume Peter unearths from a dusty trunk in his basement. From it 

he pulls a black cape, top hat, and a decorative sword cane belonging to an ancestor rumoured to have been 

a serial killer during the Victorian era. There is a serious cliff-hanger at the end of the story – so much so 

that it may mystify or downright annoy many readers – leading them to wonder if, in fact, Peter himself is 

the victim of a cursed bloodline. 


FAR AND AWAY, A PRIZE EVERY TIME • BY NEIL PEART 

ECW PRESS, 2011 • 296 PAGES 

This author of this particular volume is internationally acclaimed musician 

Neil Peart, lyricist and drummer for the Canadian band Rush. Some years ago, 

Peart began blogging his experiences as he lived and traveled; what started out 

as an experiment gradually became an enjoyable hobby and grew into this 

book. Combined with breathtaking photos taken by the author and friends, 

Peart’s stories follow him around the world on his motorcycle. Riding solo or 

with companions, through cities, rural areas, and sometimes in the middle of 

nowhere, Peart has encountered some interesting people and places. Through 

all kinds of weather and over all sorts of terrain, he’s had near-death experiences, 

mechanical trouble, and apparently a lot of fun. With a unique ability 

to turn a phrase and create memorable captions and colorful prose, Peart shares four years of his life with the 

reader. His adventures from the road as he travels on vacation and between concert locations, personal stories 

of love and family, humour and a zest for life come together to create a special collection. Although not just for 

Rush fans, those familiar with the band will certainly catch more of the nuances. The photos are a wonderful 

addition - landscapes, animals, architecture, concerts, motorcycle cam, and self-portraits - these truly make 

the stories live. “A prize every time” is a phrase taken from Peart’s childhood; one which the author has invested 

with a deeper meaning. He looks at life and each experience as a gift, and this written offering is his gift, or 

prize, for the reader. 

~ Merry Hakin 

THE MALADJUSTED • BY DEREK HAYES 

THISTLEDOWN PRESS, 2011 • 203 PAGES 

The Maladjusted is an enjoyable and unpredictable collection of short stories by Londonborn 

author Derek Hayes. His characters range from relatively normal to complete misfi ts, 

and he writes with compassion about issues of mental health, anxiety and depression. 

As the title suggests, his protagonists have diffi culty adapting to their circumstances, but 

Hayes’ empathetic writing style makes them easy for readers to identify with, especially 

since the stories take place in very normal settings. A woman who thinks herself unattractive 

obsessing over a new waiter at her favorite restaurant; a college student worried 

about fi tting in at university; and even a teacher frustrated by the lack of interest and effort 

from students in a history class – something with which Hayes, a high school teacher, 

is undoubtedly familiar. Hayes is never shy in his descriptions, and doesn’t disguise the 

faults, vulnerabilities or unpopular thoughts of his characters. This makes them seem 

both more realistic and understandable. Although Hayes has been writing professionally for nearly a decade, this is his 

fi rst Canadian publication. Great care has been taken to make each story excellent and engaging. Hayes puts the reader 

directly into the shoes of often deeply fl awed characters, and they will fi nd themselves at times disappointed, saddened, 

overjoyed, or even proud. 


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MYSTERY 

PHOTO/MEMOIR 

SHORT STORY 

BOOK�REVIEWS 

~ Adam Shirley

THE POWER OF ONE: TEMPTING 

PROVIDENCE AT THE GRAND 

LONDON, ON 

She was known as the ‘Florence Nightingale of the North,’ and her story is 

one that all Canadians should hear. 

At long last, local audiences have the chance to take in one of the past 

decade’s most buzzed about plays. Opening on the Grand Theatre main stage is 

Tempting Providence, an intimate and powerful portrait of Myra Bennett and 

how she helped transform Canada’s east coast. 

In 2000, Theatre Newfoundland Labrador commissioned Robert Chafe to research 

and write a play based on the true story of Bennett, a nurse who came 

to Canada after the Great War. She arrived in Newfoundland from her native 

England in 1921 after learning about the desperate need for trained health care 

providers in rural areas. 

“Myra arrived at this very small community of Daniel’s Harbour, which is basically 

the middle of nowhere, with no running water and no electricity, and becomes 

the only medical help for 600 miles of coastline,” explained Willow Kean, 

who has multiple roles in the play. 

“She did it all. She walked through winter storms to pull teeth and deliver 

babies, taking care of all sorts of medical emergencies and needs. She established 

herself in the community and then became a part of it by marrying into it,” Kean 

added. It was a community she would be part of as the area’s only nurse for over 

50 years. Bennett was 100 years old when she died in 1990. 

Kean is the newest addition to the cast, coming on board in April of 2011. The 

Labrador native was a fi xture of Theatre Newfoundland Labrador’s Gros Morne 

Theatre Festival when she was tapped to join the long-time cast of Tempting 

Providence. One of Kean’s best friends, Deidre Gillard-Rowlings, who plays Nurse 

Myra, has been with the production since its inception; the two other cast members, 

Darryl Hopkins and Robert Wyatt Thorne, have had their roles for ten years. 

At fi rst Kean was intimidated to join such a well-established cast, all of whom 

are close friends who have travelled the world with the production. 

“It was terrifying actually because the three other cast members are dear 

friends of mine, we’ve all known each other for 15 years. The two women who 

played my part previous to me are both dear friends as well. The Canadian the- 

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8 pm Wesley-Knox United Church 

91 Askin Street, London 

Adults $20 / Seniors $17 in advance ($22 / $19 at the door) 

Students $10 / Children 6 - 12, accompanied by an adult, free 

Tickets from Tuckey Home Hardware, Chapters, Long & McQuade (formerly Belle Air) 

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atre scene is fairly tight-knit, and in Newfoundland it’s especially tight-knit, so I 

had two very big pairs of shoes to fi ll,” she said. 

Furthermore, the show’s quick pace and exacting choreography meant that 

there was no room for script reading during the rehearsal process. 

“I had to be off book from day one and these are three of my good friends, 

three of my peers who have been doing the show for ten years – I didn’t want to 

let them down. But they were all so incredibly supportive and a huge help, and 

our director Jillian Keiley is great. Everybody was very patient with me and after a 

couple of weeks I felt that the part was really my own,” she added. 

Kean plays over a dozen characters aged seven to 87, a feat in itself. “I’m pretty 

busy onstage but it’s the best challenge you could possibly have. It’s a great showcase 

as what you can do as a performer,” she said. Robert Wyatt Thorne, who 

also plays multiple roles, was especially helpful in acquainting Kean with the 

set’s few props. 

“Everything is done with a table, four chairs and a sheet. The sheet becomes 

everything from a baby to a tablecloth to a boat. The play is very specifi c; the 

sheet has to be tied a certain way, or the chair has to be placed just so. It’s really 

very elegant and a treat to watch,” Kean said. 

The cast will mark the 500th performance of the play during the London run, 

and Kean hopes people will come out and connect with what is essentially a 

universal story. 

“It is a story about Newfoundland, but it’s also the story of the struggle against 

illness, against the weather, and it’s about a community coming together. People 

everywhere get that. I hope the audience walks away with a sense of pride in 

Canadian history and knowing this woman, who really should be more familiar 

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NURSE MYRA BENNETT (PICTURED) IS THE SUBJECT OF TEMPTING 

PROVIDENCE, ON STAGE NOW AT THE GRAND THEATRE 

than she is. It’s a story we are all really excited to be a part of,” Kean said. 

“Newfoundlanders have been so proud of it – of the story and the way it’s told 

– and we’ve gotten great responses from it. We’re so pleased to fi nally bring it 

to London.” 


LONDON’S�INDIE�ART 

KAREN SCHUESSLER SINGERS BRING THE PASSION OF THE OPERA TO WESLEY-KNOX ON MAR. 31 

A night at the opera with the 

Karen Schuessler Singers 

For their upcoming concert at Wesley-Knox United Church, the 

Karen Schuessler Singers will take on a genre they haven’t explored 

up until this point – opera. “We’re doing the famous choruses from 

well-known operas, and they are famous for a reason,” choir director 

Karen Schuessler explained. “The choruses come in at the peak 

of the action; composers bring the chorus in when things are exciting. 

The music is fantastic and the melodies – we’ve all heard them 

many times. We’re singing at least half of them in English, so everyone 

can be pulled into the drama. There will be short introductions 

before each piece so people have a feel for what the chorus is all 

about and where it is in the story. People will be grabbed not only 

musically, but also dramatically,” she added. The evening’s guest 

soloists are opera vocalists Rachel Weisdorf, soprano, and Sebastian 

Haboczki, tenor. Weisdorf will be singing Un bel di by Puccini from 

Madama Butterfl y and Caro Nome by Verdi from Rigoletto, while 

Haboczki will showcase his talents in Una furtiva lagrima from 

Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, and Lonely House from Street Scene by 

Kurt Weill. They will join the choir along with pianist Mark Payne 

and two percussionists for Verdi’s Anvil Chorus (Il trovatore), Verdi’s 

Va pensiero (Nabucco), Triumphal Scene (Aida) and Bizet’s March 

of the Toreadors (Carmen). “Between all of these fabulous choruses 

and our guests, with accompaniment by Mark – who’s phenomenal 

– the audience is in for just a really, really fun night at the opera,” 

Schuessler said. The concert takes place March 31, 8pm. Check the 

Arts Listings for ticket details. 


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VISUAL ARTS 

AEOLIAN HALL (795 Dundas St) – The Aeolian 

Winter Art Show & Sale featuring Jackie 

Bourns, Wendy Cakarnis, Helen Bezeau Kajan, 

Alice Martin, Monica Meunier, Beverley 

Payne, Persis Willis, Jacqueline Wojtowich. 

Until Apr 15. 519-672-7950. 

THE ART EXCHANGE (247 Wortley Rd) – 

Tim Cosens: Arboretum, until Mar 24. Ted 

Gooden: Mar 27 – Apr 14. Reception Mar 31, 

7:30pm. 519-434-0000. 

ARTLAB (John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, 

Room 128, UWO) – Mainstreaming #pomo: 

Until Mar 22. 519-661-2111 x 85855. 

THE ARTS PROJECT (203 Dundas St) – 

Marked Up: The Annual 2nd Year Fanshawe 

College Exhibition, until Mar 17. Ingrid Connidis: 

Taking Flight, Mar 20 – 31. Reception 

Mar 24, 2pm-4pm. 519-642-2767. 

FOREST CITY GALLERY (258 Richmond St) 

– Julian Forrest: In My Dreams I Was Almost 

There. Mar 16 – Apr 27. Reception Mar 16, 

7pm. 519-434-5875. 

GOOD NEWS CHRISTIAN REFORMED 

CHURCH (476 Clarke Rd) – Kisemanito 

Pakitinasuwin: The Creator’s Sacrifi ce, Mar 

18 – Apr 5. 519-451-3414. 

INGERSOLL CREATIVE ARTS CENTRE (125 

Centennial Lane, Ingersoll) – Sara Parsons: 

My Way of Seeing Things, until Mar 25. 519- 

485-4691. 

LAMBETH UNITED CHURCH (4268 Colonel 

Talbot Rd) – Lambeth Art Association 40th 

Annual Art Show and Sale: Apr 26, 7pm- 

10pm; Apr 27, 10am-pm; Apr 28, 10am-4pm. 

Free admission. 519-652-2093. 

LONDON ARTISTS’ STUDIO TOUR 2012 (Various 

locations) – A self-guided tour of the 

studios of London painters and artists. Meet 

artists in their working environments. Apr 14 

– 15. Maps are available at Museum London 

and all library branches throughout the city. 

Free. 519-438-4217. 

THE LONDON CAMERA CLUB (At Free Methodist 

Church, 402 Commissioners Rd W) 

– Camera Club meets every Thursday at 

7:30pm until Sept 15. 

MCINTOSH GALLERY (UWO Campus) – Amin 

Rehman: White Wash. Until Apr 14. 519-661- 

3181. 

MICHAEL GIBSON GALLERY (157 Carling St) 

– Stephen Hutchings: New Paintings. Mar 30 

– Apr 28. 519-439-0451. 

MUSEUM LONDON (421 Ridout St N) – Exhibitions: 

Gary Spearin: iNiFiNiTi, until 

Mar 18. Front by Front: Until Mar 18. Larry 

Towell: Danger and Aftermath, Until Apr 

1. From Family to Factory: London on the 

Home Front, until Apr 2. Battleground: War 

Rugs from Afghanistan, until Apr 8. The River 

Thames: Until Nov 3. 519-661-0333. 

NOVACKS (Alleyway behind store, 211 King 

St) – Artfusion Fest: A 2-day graffi ti and 

music festival. Mar 31 – Apr 1. Free. 519-709- 

7686. 

THE ORGANIC OSCARS (Third Floor, 236 

Dundas St) – Paintings and Prints by Rian 

Torr, Saturdays until July. 519-266-4096. 

PALACE THEATRE (710 Dundas St) – UPwithART: 

Unity Project for relief of homeless- 

FREE 

ness. Showcase and silent auction of the work 

of over 75 Unity Project artists. Apr 5, 6:30pm. 

$20/Adv; $25/Door. 519-433-8809. 

SPENCER GALLERY (Inside D. B. Weldon Library, 

UWO Campus) – Artwork by Josephine 

De Vincenzo, until Apr 27. 519-661-2111 x 

83166. 

ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL (472 Richmond St) 

– Brush & Palette Club 40th Anniversary Art 

Show and Sale: Mar 29, 7pm-9pm; Mar 30, 

10am-9pm; Mar31, 10am-4pm. Free admission, 

refreshments. 519-432-3475. 

THIELSEN GALLERIES (1038 Adelaide St N) – 

Group Exhibition featuring Ed Bartram and 

Patrick Landsley: Until Apr 14. 519-434-7681. 

PERFORMING ARTS 

AEOLIAN HALL (795 Dundas St) – Strunz & 

Farah: Mar 17, 8pm. $53/Gen. Intersection: 

Jazz with Classical Series - Alex Ernewein & 

Vladimir Soloviev, Mar 18, 7:30pm. $20/Gen; 

$15/Sr&St. Caladh Nua: Mar 25, 7pm. $22/ 

Adv; $25/Door. The Light of East Ensemble 

Presents: The Art of the Arabic Qanun, Apr 

22, 7:30pm. $20/Adv; $22/Door; $15/St. 519- 

672-7950. 

APK LIVE (The Third Floor, 340 Wellington 

Rd) – The Boneyard Man: Mar 23, 8pm. $15/ 

Gen at door; $5 under 16. 519-601-5483. 

THE ARTS PROJECT (203 Dundas St) – See 

Productions Presents: Goodness, until Mar 

17, 8pm; Mar 16, 1pm & 2pm matinees. 519- 

642-2767. 

BISHOP CRONYN MEMORIAL CHURCH (442 

William St) – Cronyn Centre Space for the 

Arts: Red Maple with Veronique Mathieu and 

Boris Kupesic, Mar 16, 8pm. $20/Gen; $15/Sr; 

$10/St. 519-432-5718. 

BYRON UNITED CHURCH (420 Boler Rd) – 

Plumbing Factory Brass Band: March of the 

Masters. Mar 28, 7:30pm. $15/Gen; $10/St. 

519-471-1250/519-659-3600. 

CENTENNIAL HALL (550 Wellington St) – 

Orchestra London Red Hot Weekends Series: 

A Tribute to Michael Jackson, Mar 23 & 24, 

8pm. $37-$60/Gen; $15/St; $76/Family of 4 

(two members must be between age 4 – 18). 

519-679-8778. Fanshawe Chorus London & 

Gerald Fagan Singers: Faure & Saint Saens 

Requiem, Apr 6, 7pm. $30/Gen; $15/St. 519- 

433-9650. Orchestra London Masterworks 

Series: Joe’s 25th, Apr 14, 8pm. $41-$64/Gen; 

$19.15/St. 519-679-8778. Cheech & Chong – 

Get it Legal Tour: Apr 18, 7pm. $59.75/Gen. 

519-672-1967. 

COLBORNE STREET UNITED CHURCH (711 

Colborne St) – 100 Years of Fashion & Music: 

Show featuring vintage fashions of Marion 

Kernighan accompanied by pianist Angus 

Sinclair. Mar 31, 1:30pm & 7pm. $20/Gen. 

519-432-4552. 

CONRON HALL (University College, UWO) – 

Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe, a play by Eric 

Coble. Mar 23 & 24, 7pm; Mar 25, 2pm. $10/ 

Adv; $12/Door. Tickets through Infosource. 

EAST VILLAGE COFFEEHOUSE (785 Dundas 

St) – The Ukellettes: Friday evenings from 

7pm-9pm. Free. 519-266-7584. 

THE GRAD CLUB (Middlesex College, lower 

level, UWO) – Thursdays Live with Chris Norley 

(rock/pop/blues/jazz/folk vocals and guitar): 

Mar 15, 9pm – 12am. Free. 519-661-2111. 

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GRAND THEATRE (471 Richmond St) – 

Tempting Providence: Until Mar 31. $26-$62. 

519-672-8800/1-800-265-1593. 

JOHN LABATT CENTRE (99 Dundas St) – 

Video Games Live: A videogame multimedia 

experience with Orchestra London, Mar 21, 

8pm. $71.75, $56.75, $36.75, $26.75. 1-866- 

455-2849. 

JOSEPHINE SPENCER NIBLETT LAW BUILD- 

ING (1151 Richmond Street, UWO Campus) 

– Where We’ve Been: Western International 

Law Student Photography Exhibition. Until 

Mar 31. 

KNOLLWOOD PARK P. S. (70 Gammage St) 

– Annie Jr. Apr 3, 1pm-7pm. Apr 4, 7pm. $7/ 

Gen; $5 each for orders of 4 or more (advance 

sales only). 519-452-8290. 

LONDON DISTRICT CHRISTIAN SECONDARY 

SCHOOL (25 Braesyde Ave) – A Midsummer 

Night’s Dream: Apr 12 – 14, 7:30pm. $12/ 

Gen. 519-455-4360. 

LONDON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE (536 

Huron St) – Yuk Yuk’s Stand Up Comedy: An 

evening of Fun & Fundraising in support of 

the London Community Hebrew Day School. 

Featuring Dylan Mandlsohn, Jen Grant & 

Lawrence Morgenstern. Plus food, door 

prizes, silent auction. Mar 31, 9pm. $36/Gen. 

519-439-8419. 

MCMANUS THEATRE (471 Richmond St - inside 

the Grand Theatre) – Miss Caledonia: 

Mar 21 – 24. Spelling 2-5-5: Mar 29 – 31. 

$22.60/Gen; $16.95/17 and under. 519-672- 

8800, 1-800-265-1593. 

METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH (468 Wellington 

St) – A Service of Lessons and Carols 

for Passiontide: Mar 18, 3pm. Freewill offering. 

519-432-7189 x 27. 

NOVACKS (Alleyway behind store, 211 King St) 

– Artfusion Fest: A 2-day graffi ti and music 

festival. Mar 31 – Apr 1. Free. 519-709-7686. 

PALACE THEATRE (710 Dundas St) – Musical 

Theatre Productions - The Drowsy Chaperone: 

Mar 23 – 31. $25/Gen. 519-432-1029. 

London Community Players - Enchanted 

April: May 11 – 19. $22/Gen; $18/Sr; $16/St; 

$5/Elementary & High school students. 519- 

432-1029. 

ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL (472 Richmond 

St) – Orchestra London Cathedral Series: A 

la Francaise, Mar 28, 8pm. $49-$51/Gen; 

$19.15/St. 519-679-8778. Noon Hour Organ 

Recital Series: Every Tuesday at 12pm. Mar 

20: Jeremy Tarrant. Mar 27: Daniel Norman. 

Apr 3: Andrew Keegan Mackriell. Apr 10: Joel 

Vander Zee. All free. 519-432-3475 x 225. 

UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP OF LONDON (557 

Clarke Rd) – Find Your Voice! Ladies a cap- 

Promote your unique building 

with a custom rendering! 

Great on stationary, business 

cards and in advertisement. 

pella singing, harmony style, and audition 

for voice placement weekly practises. Free. 

Mondays, 7pm – 10pm. 519-455-8653/519- 

660-4695. 

UNITY OF LONDON (4026 Meadowbrook Dr, 

unit 137) – Open Mic Night for Peace: Show 

off your vocal stylings, poetry skills, or whatever 

you’d like to share. Mar 21, 7pm. Donations 

of $5 accepted. 519-652-9294. 

WESLEY-KNOX UNITED CHURCH (91 Askin 

St) – A Night at the Opera: a concert by Karen 

Schuessler Singers. Mar 31, 8pm. Adv: $20/ 

Gen; $17/Sr. Door: $22/Gen; $19/Sr. 519-432- 

7683/519-439-0101. 

WINDERMERE CAFE (200 Collip Circle) – 

Live classical guitar by Kevin Love during 

brunch, Sundays, 11am-2pm. 519-858-1414 

x 430. 

WOLF PERFORMANCE HALL (Central Library, 

251 Dundas St) – The Jeffery Concerts presents 

The Cecilia Quartet: Mar 24, 8pm. $30/ 

Gen; $25/Sr; $15/St. 519-672-8800. 

LITERARY 

GIBRALTAR WEEKEND MARKET (1712 Dundas 

St) – London Rogues Sci-fi /Fantasy 6: 

Twelve sci-fi and fantasy groups attending 

from London and abroad, including Pam 

Rose, Thomas A. Knight; A.Jaye and Alison 

Williams, and John Bulmer. May 12 & 13, 

9am-5pm. $5/Door; Kids 12 & under free. 

FANSHAWE COLLEGE (1001 Fanshawe College 

Blvd, Lecture Theatre Rm. D106) – Author 

Terry Griggs: reading, book sale, and 

signing Mar 15, 2pm. Free. 519-452-4442. 

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO DPT. 

ENGLISH (University College) – Meet with 

UWO Writer-in-Residence Sheila Heti to discuss 

writing projects. Tuesdays until March 

27, by appointment only. No charge. Call 519- 

661-3403. 

MUSEUMS 

BANTING HOUSE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE 

OF CANADA (442 Adelaide St N) – Explore the 

Birthplace of Insulin and learn about the discovery 

that saved millions of lives. Regular 

admission: $5/Gen; $4/St&Sr; $12/Family. 

519-673-1752. 

CANADIAN MEDICAL HALL OF FAME (267 

Dundas St, Suite 202) – The only national 

organization dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments 

of Canada’s medical heroes. 

Admission by donation. 519-488-2003. 

ELDON HOUSE (481 Ridout St N) – London’s 

oldest residence is a provincial historic site 

preserved from the 1820s. Surviving infectious 

disease in 19th century London: a talk 

by Tara Jenkins, Mar 18, 2pm. Admission by 

Custom 

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donation. Sunday afternoon guided tour – 

Mar 25 at 1pm, 2pm & 3pm. Admission by 

donation. Regular admission: $6/Gen; $5/ 

St&Sr; $1/Under 13; $11/Family. 519-661- 

0333. 

FIRST HUSSARS MUSEUM (1 Dundas St) – 

Displaying the history of London’s oldest regiment. 

See artifacts from First Hussars participation 

in 20th century confl icts, including 

the D-Day Invasion during World War Two. 

Admission by appointment. Free admission; 

donations greatly appreciated. 519-455-4533. 

LABATT BREWERY (150 Simcoe St) – Brewery 

Tours. Mon - Fri at fl exible start times. 

Tours must be pre-booked. $5/Gen. 519-850- 

8687. 

LONDON REGIONAL CHILDREN’S MUSEUM 

(21 Wharncliffe Rd S) – A playful learning 

environment that engages children through 

hands-on exhibits and interactive experiences. 

Grickle Grass Festival: A fully licensed 

concert fi lls every fl oor of the museum with 

music and nostalgia for adults who remember 

what it was like to be a child: May 26, 8pm 

– 1am. $15/Adv; $20/Door. Regular admission: 

$6/Gen; members and kids under 2 admitted 

free. Free admission Friday evenings 

from 5-8pm. 519-434-5726. 

MUSEUM OF ONTARIO ARCHAEOLOGY (1600 

Attawandaron Rd) – Devoted to the study, display, 

and interpretation of the human occupation 

of Southwestern Ontario over the past 

11,000 years. Exhibition - The Inuit: Their 

Land, Their Lives, Their Art. Until May. Regular 

admission: $5/Gen; $4/St&Sr; $3/5-12yrs; 

$12/Family. 519-473-1360. 

SECRETS OF RADAR MUSEUM (930 Western 

Counties Rd) – Preserves the history, stories 

and experiences of the men and women who 

helped develop military radar in Canada and 

abroad. Regular hours: Thurs-Sat 10am- 

4pm. Admission by donation. 519-691-5922. 

THE ROYAL CANADIAN REGIMENT MUSEUM 

(701 Oxford St E) – Celebrates the achievements 

of Canada’s oldest regular infantry. 

$5/Gen, $4/Stud, $3/Child. Free admission 

for veterans, regimental family members and 

preschool children. 519-660-5102. 

MISCELLANEOUS 

AEOLIAN HALL (795 Dundas St) – London 

Opera Guild Annual Meeting: Guest speaker 

Iain Scott will give a talk on G.F. Handel’s 

opera Semele. Mar 18, 2pm. Free. 519-433- 

8701. 

MIDDLESEX COUNTY COURTHOUSE (399 

Ridout St N) – London Middlesex Historical 

Society presents a talk by Dan Brock 

on The Lawrasons of London: A Tale of Two 

Families. Mar 21, 8pm. Free. 

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The Spinster Cycle 

I’m a 32-year-old woman with a Ph.D. 

I’m beyond happy with my career path, 

but I’m not meeting men I’m impressed 

with or inspired to see again. A girlfriend 

sent me a New York Times op-ed 

by a historian named Stephanie Coontz, 

who said that highly educated women 

can fi nd a man if they drop “the cultural 

ideal of hypergamy -- that women 

must marry up.” Coontz advises women 

to “reject the idea that the ideal man 

is taller, richer, more knowledgeable, 

more renowned or more powerful.” She 

claims a woman’s marital happiness 

is predicted not by how much she looks 

up to her husband, “but how sensitive 

he is to her emotional cues and how 

willing he is to share the housework 

and child-care. And those traits are often 

easier to fi nd in a low-key guy than 

a powerhouse.” She then adds, “I’m not 

arguing that women ought to ‘settle.’” 

Really? Sounds that way to me. 

--Dismayed 

Yes, you can have it all -- a high-powered 

education, a high-powered career, and the 

perfect high-powered man to go with. Of 

course, it helps if you’re willing to relax 

your standards a little, like by widening 

your pool of acceptable male partners to 

include the recently deceased. 

I respect Stephanie Coontz as a historian, 

but as a forecaster of economic and romantic 

possibilities for women, I have to 

give her a thumbs-down. Coontz claims 

that “for a woman seeking a satisfying relationship 

as well as a secure economic future, 

there has never been a better time to 

be or become highly educated.” Actually, 

as doctorate holders “Occupying” sleeping 

bags outside city halls will tell you, that 

depends on what you’re becoming highly 

educated in. Ph.D. in fi nancial engineering? 

Hedge fund, here you come. Ph.D. in 

Tibetan gender studies? You’ll be lucky to 

be teaching the merits of pulverized lavender 

in the body oils section of the food 

co-op. 

Coontz is wrong again in deeming hypergamy 

-- women’s preference for men of 

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a higher socio-economic status -- a cultural 

construct. The preference for the alpha 

male is biological, an evolutionary adaptation 

that exists in women across cultures 

-- and species. (Do we really think the 

lady peacock wants the alpha male peacock 

because she’s been watching way too 

much “Desperate Housewives”?) 

Some feminist academics claim that 

women only want big bucks/high status 

men because they lack those things themselves. 

But, a number of studies by evolutionary 

psychologists have found that 

women with big bucks and big jobs want 

men with bigger bucks and bigger jobs. 

Even women who are feminists. Dr. Bruce 

J. Ellis writes in “The Adapted Mind” that 

when 15 feminist leaders described their 

ideal man, they repeatedly used words 

like “very rich,” “brilliant,” and “genius” 

(and they didn’t mean “genius with a baby 

wipe!”). 

So, if you’ve become the man you 

would’ve married in the ‘50s, don’t be surprised 

if your mating pool starts to seem 

about the size of the one that comes with 

Barbie’s Dream House. Biology is neither 

fair nor kind. What those pushing feelgood 

sociology don’t want to believe or 

tell you is that you increase your options 

by being hot -- or hotting yourself up the 

best you can. Obviously, looks aren’t (SET 

ITAL) all (END ITAL) that matter, but while 

your female genes are urging you to blow 

past the hot pool boy to get to the moderately 

attractive captain of industry, men 

evolved to prioritize looks in women, so 

powerful men will date powerfully beautiful 

waitresses and baristas. As evolutionary 

psychologist Dr. David Buss writes, 

“Women’s physical attractiveness is the 

best known predictor of the occupational 

status of the man she marries and the best 

known predictor of hypergamy.” 

There isn’t a person on the planet who 

doesn’t have to settle. (Maybe Brad Pitt 

farts in bed.) Want kids? You’re more likely 

to fi nd yourself a husband to have them 

with if you do as Coontz suggests -- go for 

a man who’s shorter, poorer, and not that 

intellectually exciting but who’s emotionally 

present and willing to be appointed 

vice president of diaper rash. Problem 

solved -- if you can keep from seething 

with contempt for his lack of ambition and 

intellect. A lack of respect for one’s spouse 

is defi nitely not the ground happy marriages 

are built on. That’s why settling is 

most wisely discussed not as some blanket 

policy for women, but in terms of what 

an individual woman wants and what 

she’s willing and able to give up to get 

it. Realistically assessing that for yourself 

is how you fi nd your happiest medium -- 

between possibly being in a panic to fi nd 

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a sperm donor at 42 and trying to make 

it work now with some guy who watches 

the soaps after dusting a few surfaces and 

drinking a few too many glasses of blush 

wine. 

Lard Of The Dance 

When I got married, I was a slim 6’2”, 

but I’ve gained a lot of weight. My wife 

gained about 20 pounds but recently 

lost that and more. I’ve been as high 

as 265, but I’m now at 238 and losing 

about a pound a week, which isn’t 

fast enough for my wife. When I contemplate 

going on a stricter diet, what 

comes to mind is feeling angry, tired, 

and hungry at my high-stress job. My 

wife said that I obviously love food 

more than her, and that if I won’t lose 

weight for her, maybe I’ll do it for our 

boys. She considers me self-centered 

and narcissistic because I’m not losing 

enough weight, and I consider her selfcentered 

and narcissistic for framing 

every argument in terms of what she 

wants and isn’t getting. What do you 

think? Does being overweight mean 

you don’t love your signifi cant other? 

--Fatso 

Some women just can’t appreciate their 

husband’s collections: comic books, shot 

glasses, broken-down cars, chins. 

There’s your wife, wagging a carrot stick 

at you, telling you that if you loved her 

you’d be surviving on iceberg lettuce 

sandwiches or going on the Drink Your 

Own Urine Diet -- whatever it takes to 

drop fl ab fast. Probably because weight 

loss seems easier for her, she assumes 

you’re lazy and self-indulgent. She’s now 

trying to guilt-ivate you into losing weight 

(“Picture your children fatherless…Doritobreath”), 

which is more helpful than voicing 

the other thing she’s probably thinking: 

“I don’t want to have sex with you; I 

want to harpoon you.” 

Chances are, the problem isn’t that your 

diet isn’t “strict enough” -- as in, you 

should be sniffi ng celery sticks instead of 

eating them -- but that you’ve been following 

the obesity-causing dietary “science” 

promoted by the government and much 

of the medical establishment. The “weight 

loss” diet they advise -- high-carb, low-fat 

-- is actually a weight-gain diet. Also, as Dr. 

Mary Dan Eades, co-author of “The Protein 

Power Lifeplan,” writes, “Study after study 

has shown the low fat diet to be a failure 

in treating obesity, in solving diabetes, in 

reducing blood pressure or in decreasing 

heart disease risk.” 

Investigative science journalist Gary 

Taubes spent more than a decade digging 

through the body of research on 

diet. As he writes in “Why We Get Fat,” the 

evidence shows that it is carbohydrates -- 

from sugar, fl our, easily digested starchy 

�life 

vegetables like potatoes, and juice and 

beer -- that cause the insulin secretion that 

puts on fat. So, if you want to drop pounds 

-- and not just one a week but like they’re 

stones falling off a truck -- eat low-carb/ 

high-fat foods like cheeseburgers. Even 

bacon cheeseburgers. (Just see that you 

feed the bun to the pigeons.) 

Unfortunately, it seems your love handles 

have become resentment handles. Some of 

the ill will between you may melt away 

as you lose the gut that Ding Dongs and 

Mountain Dew built, but it points to a bad 

pattern. You don’t win marital arguments 

by clinging to how right you are and how 

wrong your spouse is; you win by working 

together to make things as right as 

you can for both of you (“us fi rst” instead 

of “me fi rst”). Some problems aren’t solvable, 

but you’ll be more able to shrug off 

an impasse if you’re consistently putting 

yourselves in each other’s place. That’s the 

spirit that keeps you from striking out in 

revenge -- for example, by insisting you’re 

on the Zone diet (but not mentioning that 

it’s the zone from the outermost wall of 

Dunkin’ Donuts to the outermost wall of 

Cinnabon). 

Memory Bank Fraud 

I’m trying to start a relationship with 

a woman, but I can’t stop thinking 

about my last girlfriend. I want a family 

(eventually), so I couldn’t marry her. 

She already has two children, which is 

a dealbreaker for me, and has other 

baggage: debt and baby daddy drama. 

But, we developed a deep love, and I’m 

having a hard time getting over her. 

--Stuck 

It was the best of times, it was the best 

of times. And it’s called selective remembering. 

Your mental projector keeps playing 

this loop of your ex trying on lingerie. 

There are never any misty shots of the repo 

man or your ex emerging from the mist to 

chase the baby daddy with a big cleaver. 

And where are the little mind movies of 

her children? Or as you call them, “dealbreakers,” 

not “dealbenders.” Keeping this 

woman as your fantasy girlfriend will be 

a wedge between you and any woman 

you’re with in real life. To move on, harness 

the power of negative thinking. Sure, 

go ahead and indulge. Take that walk 

down memory lane with your ex. Just be 

sure you ask the cameraman to pull out 

to reveal the stroller you’re pushing with 

some other guy’s screaming kids in it. 

© 2012, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. 

Read Amy Alkon’s book: “I SEE RUDE 

PEOPLE: One woman’s battle to beat 

some manners into impolite society” 

(McGraw-Hill, $16.95). 


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21 Jump Street 

Two rookie cops (Channing Tatum, 

Jonah Hill), who also happen 

to be former classmates, are 

assigned to go undercover, posing 

as teenagers to investigate a drug 

ring in a local high school. But 

in order to get to the middle of 

it, they’ll have to go back to high 

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The arrival of talking pictures may 

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SUN SIGNS FOR MAR 15 APR 11 

Aries (March 21 – April 19) Like the butterfl y emerging from 

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that assures success in whatever venture is undertaken. 

Your colourful personality will be a powerful 

asset over coming weeks when used to advance 

career or creative ambitions. As the day of your birth nears, let 

the light, smells and sounds of spring be your celebration. 

Taurus (April 20 – May 20) Something big is stirring in your 

unconscious, like you’ve been fi shing on top of a 

whale. It doesn’t have any discernable form yet, but 

patterns are beginning to emerge, and pretty soon 

you can expect some life-changing events to occur. 

Although these events could be characterized as positive, they 

will be largely what you make of them. 

Gemini (May 21 – June 20) It’s a good time to make a public 

appearance since your career or reputation could use 

a boost. Friends and associates are standing-by to offer 

support and your affable charisma adds a delightful 

dimension to any social occasion. But you are far from 

an accessory, as anyone willing to hear your opinion 

will soon discover. 

Cancer (June 21 – July 22) New routines can enrich your 

daily life in unimaginable ways. Because desired 

changes will occur incrementally, the initial decision 

taken to improve your lot represents the most 

signifi cant step towards your goal. After all, the application 

of consistent effort yields nothing unless your energy is 

focused constructively. 

Leo (July 23 – August 22) Many of you would prefer to spend 

money without a net, or any kind of budgetary concerns. 

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often to the detriment of your long-term fi nancial 

status. Keep this in mind the next time you consider 

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Virgo (August 23 – September 22) There’s a time for leisure 

and there’s a time to get the job done, and a wise 

person knows the difference between the two. You 

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whatever task is at hand, but you’ll feel better once 

it’s over - so much so that you’ll probably start 

something new. 

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Libra (September 23 – October 22) You’re like a spark to 

a fl ame, Libra! You may set the workplace 

on fi re with some radical new idea of organizational 

culture or you could fan the fl ame of a hot relationship 

to see what happens. Whatever you do, it’s important 

to express this dynamic energy. If you block it off, you’ll only 

be hurting yourself. 

Scorpio (October 23 – November 21) Your job is the perfect 

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else. Taking a cue from such individuals could be one of the 

best professional decisions you’ve made in a long time. 

Sagittarius (November 22 – December 21) The dying days 

of winter may fi nd you spending a lot of time at 

home, waiting out the elements. However, more 

adventurous centaurs may be catching some air 

on the slopes with their snowboards or skiing in 

climes of rare natural beauty. Wherever you are, you feel centred 

and positive, as if all is right with the world. 

Capricorn (December 22 – January 19) Even though your 

current position may seem a little tenuous, your 

cool head and shrewd ability to size-up a position 

will win the day. If the worst thing you do is worry 

(and we both know you do!), make yourself a 

promise to be happy when everything works out for the best. 

Aquarius (January 20 – February 18) Whatever it is that 

you want, you’re ready to go get it. The 

energy is certainly available to you, as is 

the motivation to act. You are your own 

greatest enemy now. Avoid the temptation to procrastinate and 

delay initiatives you were meant to undertake. Like an old pop 

song once intoned, “All we’ve got is this moment...” 

Pisces (February 19 – March 19) 2012 may go down as 

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present themselves, allowing you to 

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and dreams. To boot, few prohibitions exist. Just be 

careful not to get carried away with the power of 

your imagination. 

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Transcending race, creed, geography, generation, and social station, 

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clergyman and former slave-ship captain, the poem was published in 

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er and little sister in what’s left of 

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all being run by the Capitol. Despite 

mastering the skill of hunting and 

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struggles to keep her family from going 

hungry. Each year, the names of 

all residents between the ages of 12 

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two names, one girl and one boy, are 

chosen at random from each district 

to compete in the televised Hunger 

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kill each other off and the last one 

standing is rewarded by the Capitol 

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John Carter 

Former military captain John Carter 

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to Mars, where he becomes 

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Dafoe) and the captivating Princess 

Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). In a 

world on the brink of collapse, Carter 

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realizes that the survival of Barsoom 

and its people lies in his hands. 

Based on the classic sci-fi novel “A 

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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 

Sean (Josh Hutcherson) goes on 

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La Sacrée 

François, a professional con artist 

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who wants children, is devastated 

to fi nd he’s infertile. Desperate, he 

returns to his Ontario hometown, 

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François has inherited an old barn. 

Martine, a restaurateur, convinces 

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Pina 

A tribute to the late choreographer 

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Filmmaker Wim Wenders opens up 

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Project X 

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Shot from the perspective of their 

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Safe House 

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A Separation 

There is one thing Nader (Peyman 

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Shame 

New Yorker Brandon (Michael Fassbender) 

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The release it provides means he can 

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Jack McCall (Eddie Murphy) is a 

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George (Paul Rudd) and Linda (Jennifer 

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