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Karla Dalnoki teaches Sunny Blackstone hoop skills during her choreography hoop class in Saskatoon.

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COVER — 4 Hula hooping in Regina and Saskatoon IN THE CITY — 8 Michael Bell’s Moment in Time snapshot captures the opening day of Milky Way INVENTORY — 10 Put your feet first at Soleman Footwear PARENT TO PARENT — 11 The art of choosing your baby’s name FASHION — 14 Regina couple is conservatively dressed SPACES — 19 Dining room gets a makeover CITY NEWS — 20 East Reginans get to know their new neighbours at celebratory event

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Most people come back because they couldn’t do it as a kid. — Beve Gardner

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Sport meets art in hula hooping

Beve Gardner displays her hula hooping skills. QC Photo by BRYAN SCHLOSSER

By Ashley Martin Before a friend invited her to a hoop jam in May 2011, Karla Dalnoki had never considered hula hooping.

“When a person says hula hooping, you just don’t know. It just doesn’t sound as good as it really can be,” said Dalnoki.

Living in Ottawa with her husband and three daughters, Dalnoki decided to give it a try anyway. One time was all it took.

“Just looking at this universe of ability and possibility, and some of

them have two hoops, some girls have one hoop, some are doing back-toback partner work in pairs of twos and just so much stuff that I’m like immediately, ‘I’m onto something here. This is really neat.’”

When the family moved back to Saskatoon that August, Dalnoki brought her hoops with her and set out on a mission to foster a hoop community.

She met up with other hoopers like Kate Lovenote and also started teaching classes. She wanted to share the hoop love with others.

“The hoop, when you first experi-

ence it, it has such a strong impact of just good, great, wonderful things that it just does feel like I want other people to know about this and experience it. Because why not spread the good?” said Dalnoki. “The satisfaction it can bring, in a physical way but also in an emotional way, is just so rewarding that I do want to share it with other people.”

A dancer all her life, Dalnoki has done everything from tap to ballet to contemporary. She now incorporates hula hooping into dance, or vice versa.

“That’s what hooping really is, it’s just a combination of dancing with your hoop mixed in with these illusion tricks,” said Dalnoki.

“A lot of people think it’s all about (moving your hips), but it’s not — it’s about engaging your core and moving your knees. A lot of people don’t realize it’s a really controlled movement to keep it up. Keeping your pelvis tucked and all that kind of stuff.

Your posture is really important,” added Beve Gardner, a hula hooper from Regina.

Gardner discovered hula hooping

six years ago. As a dancer (modern and belly dance, primarily) and program specialist for the City of Regina, she was looking into some new options for recreational classes the city could offer, and also wanted to broaden her own skill set.

“I was looking for something that was fun that I could do, and I couldn’t hula hoop as a kid,” said Gardner, who now teaches hooping classes through her dance company, Aschera Rose. “Most people come back because they couldn’t do it as a kid.”

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The hoop, when you first experience it, it has such a strong impact of just good, great, wonderful things that it just does feel like I want other people to know about this and experience it. — Karla Dalnoki

Karla Dalnoki hula hoops at the Free Flow Dance Centre in Saskatoon, where she teaches a choreography hoop class. qc photo by Michelle Berg

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Of course, this isn’t the hooping you do as a kid. The basics are the same — around the waist is among the first things you learn — but advanced hooping is tricky.

“There’s so much you can do with it, it’s just mind-boggling actually. It’s pretty inspirational,” said Dalnoki.

“Some people do more of a dance and movement approach with the hoop and then there are others that

do it more as a weight-training prop … instead of using weights you use your hoop as a weight and then you also do waist hooping as well for the cardio,” said Gardner, who has more of a movement-cardio approach.

Dalnoki, on the other hand, focuses more on tricks and choreography. She sees hula hooping as an art form.

“It’s a really great tool because there’s so much,” she said. “Say I feel like I’ve mastered everything ...

well then you can have two hoops and there’s a whole world of exploring there, or you can go with three hoops and on and on.”

The versatility can extend to meditation, too.

“I might put something like ‘love’ into the hoop and then we meditate on ‘this tool is just full of love’ and as we’re hooping it’s just layers of love wrapping you up and just covering you in this. Some people hoop for just purely that, a meditative tool

to help them be a healthier person,” said Dalnoki.

Because hula hooping is so versatile, everyone can achieve something different, and it attracts a variety of people — men and women, young and old. Dalnoki and Gardner have each had students in their 70s.

“I see them develop their selfesteem, their self-confidence, their creativity; all that stuff gets challenged and I know they feel better about themselves and that’s the most

important to me. They’re all shapes and sizes. My students aren’t all 20to 30-year-olds in great shape,” said Gardner.

“I think it’s a really good motivator ... because there’s so, so, so many different little tricks, like maybe you can’t get one but … you’ll be able to get something. Usually you won’t just hit a dead end like ‘this is impossible,’” added Dalnoki. “It’s a really big accomplishment.”

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Some people hoop for just purely that, a meditative tool to help them be a healthier person.

— Dalnoki

Karla Dalnoki teaches “hooping how to and tricks” at North Park Wilson School in Saskatoon during a gown-themed evening. qc photo by Michelle Berg

The hoop itself — which many hoopers make themselves, out of irrigation tubing and tape — dictates what you can do with it. For waist hooping, go for a wider, heavier hoop.

For upper-body tricks, a lighter, thinner hoop works better.

“There’s always the right hoop for the right job,” said Dalnoki.

LED hoops make whatever you’re doing look that much cooler. The fire hoop also looks cool, but provides an

element of danger if you don’t know what you’re doing.

Gardner and Dalnoki agree it doesn’t take long to learn the basics.

“It’s actually really surprising how quickly people move through the hoop a lot of times,” said Dalnoki. “Even before an hour of class is over, those girls that at the beginning were like, ‘I don’t know, I can’t get this,’ just in one class they excel and people get better. I’m always

shocked at how quickly people can catch on.”

When Gardner started hooping, it took her a while to let go — after years of dancing, working with a prop was an adjustment. But “once I got the waist hooping down and started getting more comfortable with the hoop, I picked up the tricks fairly quickly,” she said. “With a prop, the more you practise the better you get.”

But time is of the essence with any busy person. As Gardner works parttime with the city, teaches seven different fitness and dance classes and works on her master’s degree in psychology, she doesn’t have much time to work on hula hooping. Likewise, Dalnoki teaches four hooping classes per week and is raising three young daughters, ages nine, four and two, so it’s hard to carve practice time out of her routine.

But when they get into the groove, hula hooping elicits a sense of joy.

For Gardner, that comes out in teaching, too.

“It just makes me feel good about what I do, because I’m sharing something that I’m good at and love with people and they become good at and love it too,” she said.

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Beve Gardner works with an LED hula hoop in Regina. QC PHOTO BY BRYAN SCHLOSSER

TRICKS OF THE TRADE There are countless different moves you can do with a hoop. Here are some of them:

you lift it up and then it’s over your head like a lasso. ... The hoop looks so neat.” — Dalnoki

“A vortex is where the hoop’s going from the highest point, in my hand above my head, all the way down to the lowest point like around my knees and then I bring it back up again. It’s like the hoop’s going up and down and you’re in the centre.” — Dalnoki

“An isolation, it’s like the hoop’s kind of floating in air as though it’s like a steering wheel ... The hoop’s turning and my hand’s turning it but it’s staying exactly where it is in air.” — Dalnoki

“If it’s on my neck, I might pull my head out and pop my one shoulder up and the hoop will hoop around my shoulder and you can actually pass from one shoulder over to your other shoulder with your head out of the hoop. It’s pretty tricky stuff.” — Dalnoki “Front hand lift, that’s where the hoop’s on your waist and you get your hand in there between your body and your hula hoop and

“I can take the hoop from waist to above head, do jump-through, I can put the hoop on and off my body and keep moving — that’s probably one of the harder tricks. … Doing different angles like limbo and putting your body in different positions. Basic throwing up and catching it, under the legs, hop-throughs.

I can do a little bit of floor work … Across the shoulders, roll it across the shoulders or roll it across the chest. Those are all kinds of cool tricks that you can do.” — Gardner

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Library theatre makes screen dreams come true

By Andrew Matte Elan Morgan of Regina has an appreciation for good movies, so it stands to reason she is also a fan of the downtown library theatre, where she can see movies that are usually different from the typical Hollywood blockbusters drawing people to suburban theatres week after week.

Morgan enjoys a night out that includes dinner with her husband and a walk to the Regina Public Library Theatre, where she often discovers titles she hasn’t heard about anywhere else.

Q: Why do you like the library theatre so much?

A: It brings in films that aren’t showing at the other theatres in town. They are often films that I might not have heard of otherwise.

But it does bring in bigger films, which some people don’t realize.

Q: Like what?

A: For instance, it brought in The Master. It’s the one about Scientology and had Joaquin Phoenix in it.

It was nominated for an Academy Award, and it wasn’t shown in the bigger theatres.

Q: Of the movies you’ve seen there, which one is your favourite?

A: Morvern Callar. It’s about a Scottish girl who kills her boyfriend, dismembers him and skips the country. It’s a very interesting film.

Q: I heard someone complain once about the seats. Are they comfortable?

A: The seats are pretty comfortable. I would say they come second in comfort to the seats at the Galaxy. I come from Saskatoon, where I used to go all the time to the Broadway Theatre. And before they upgraded those seats, they had a big box full of cushions that you could take to your seats if you wanted. So I think the seats here are just fabulous.

Elan Morgan at the Regina Public Library (RPL) Theatre. QC Photo by Don Healy

Q: What else do you like about it?

A: The theatre is smaller and it’s cozier. … You get a real community feel when you go there.

Q: Do you attend movies alone or with someone else?

A: I usually take a friend. But it’s the sort of theatre where I’d feel comfortable going alone. You see lots of people there who are by themselves.

Q: Is parking an issue?

A: Actually, I walk. I live just a few blocks from there. But there’s lots of parking on the street and elsewhere

within a couple of blocks. We usually go to a movie and we usually have dinner before or after. There are so many great restaurants downtown now.

Q: Have you always been a fan of films that aren’t Hollywood blockbusters?

A: I have always loved those sorts of films, but I find that I love them more as I get older. I love stuff that makes me think. I like the fact that this theatre supports small films, which I think are far more interesting than what Hollywood usually puts out.

They are just regurgitating old stories. They are not doing new dramas.

All they seem to be doing usually are remakes and sequels.

Q: What are the admission prices like?

A: My husband usually pays. But it’s not very expensive. It’s only $9 for a double feature and admission for kids is just $3. I would encourage families to go. There are usually great family movies playing.

Q: Do they still occasionally offer free admission to movies?

A: They usually have free movies on Wednesdays. But for some reason, I never go then.

Q: Are you a fan of the library too?

A: Yes. I don’t think the library gets enough good press. A lot of people don’t realize that you can look at books online and they will order books for you if they’re at other libraries from across the province.

You can also borrow e-books, which a lot of people don’t realize.

Q: What sort of changes would you make to the library theatre?

A: It would be great if they served food. And if they updated the sound system, that would be great, even though they are not likely to do that.

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By Ashley Martin Kristy Lee and Chad Ehman make a cute but conservative couple.

Ehman, a realtor, and Lee, an interior designer, are always conscious of looking professional — “even if we’re just going grocery shopping,” says Lee with a laugh. “You never know when you’re going to run into someone.”

“In a city where you know so many people ... I think when you’re going out in public you just want to look presentable all the time, especially if you’re in a type of profession that meeting people is important,” adds Ehman.

“In design too, a lot of people look at what you’re wearing and they judge based on, ‘What’s she going to do to my house if she’s (dressed) crazy?’” says Lee. But conservative doesn’t mean boring: Both Ehman and Lee keep tabs on what’s new in fashion so their looks stay current. And neither of them is much into business wear.

“I used to be in finance, so I had a whole closet full of suits. Now that I’m 3. in design, I haven’t worn a pair of dress pants in a year, which is awesome. It’s a lot more fun and a lot more colourful than it was before,” says Lee. With so much in common style-wise, do they share fashion advice with one another? Not exactly.

“I don’t have a really good sense of women’s fashion. I can say, ‘Yes, that looks better than this,’ but don’t say, ‘What should I wear?’ because I won’t know where to start,” says Ehman. “When she goes shopping, I kind of just veer off somewhere.”

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Get physical for quality, healthy years (NC) — Canadians are living longer on average. But research shows there’s a 10-year gap between how long we live and how long we live in health. This gap is largely due to heart disease, stroke and other chronic conditions.

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To reduce that 10-year gap, the Heart and Stroke Foundation recommends being physically active, eating well, being smoke-free, reducing stress and avoiding excessive drinking.

Get moving to make health last Physical activity can be a lifesaver — literally. Inactivity can shave over two years off a person’s expected lifespan and results in nearly four quality years of life lost.

Yet 85 per cent of Canadian adults don’t get the recommended 150 minutes of physical activity each week.

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As part of an international campaign to create a stress-free and violence-free society, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will be visiting Regina, providing Saskatchewan residents with the opportunity to meet — and experience the wisdom of — this humanitarian leader, spiritual teacher and ambassador of peace. Sri Sri will be at the Conexus Arts Centre on April 15 from 7 to 9 p.m., offering his teachings and leading a meditation.

Sri Sri founded The Art of Living, an international, non-profit, educational and humanitarian organization to promote wellness, peace and a stress-free environment. Sri Sri’s vision has united millions of people across the world through events such as the huge gathering that was held in Argentina in 2012. Included in the Canadian campaign will be visits to Calgary and the North American Art of Living Centre in Quebec. A similar campaign has been launched in the U.S. as part of a world-wide wave of awareness that has included events in, Croatia, India and Germany.

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By Jennifer Jacoby-Smith Of SP Creative Features Everybody’s favourite condiment is going mainstream. Thanks to the tireless efforts of the Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission (SMDC), this lowly crop is being revered as more than just a tangy topping for your hotdog.

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Adele Buettner from the SMDC suggests adding it to your next seed bread for extra texture and taste.

The familiar zesty flavour of this ancient seed isn’t the only reason to add it to your cooking. With just five calories in a teaspoon of mustard powder, mustard packs a punch nutritionally speaking, as well. Loaded with essential minerals and vitamins, mustard is a great way to add flavour without any fat, cholesterol or sodium.

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All three types of mustard thrive on the Canadian prairies. In fact, Saskatchewan is the world’s largest exporter of mustard seeds, shipping seeds all over the globe. Pick up any jar of prepared mustard — no matter what kind or where it was produced — and there’s a strong possibility the mustard seeds were grown right here in Saskatchewan.

The reach of the SMDC does indeed stretch across the world. The SMDC has partnered with the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley. The region may be known for their vineyards, but mustard plays a very important role in wine production in the area. Mustard

plants grow between the rows of vines — providing ground cover for water retention, weed control, reducing pests and attracting beneficial insects. As a result, food events in the valley often include food with mustard as an ingredient.

Of course, the Great Canadian Mustard Festival in Regina each September continues to attract visitors ready to sample appetizers, entrees and even desserts created by using the fiery punch of mustard.

The SMDC also sponsors a chef at the Golden Plates culinary competition. This year, Moe Mathieu took bronze at the contest with his mustard-inspired recipes. The commission continues to work with food bloggers and chefs willing to test their creativity with mustard as an ingredient.

“We encourage our consumers when they’re looking at enhancing their recipes or creating their own recipes or adding a little punch to something to make it different,” said Buettner. “Think about adding mustard to your dips, to your breads. It adds colour, it adds flavour. It adds some interest.”

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A dollop packs a wallop • Based on a 2,000-calorie reference diet, one tablespoon of yellow mustard provides five per cent of daily values of protein; six per cent of dietary fiber, calcium and iron; eight per cent of magnesium; nine per cent of phosphorous; 10 per cent of manganese; and 21 per cent of selenium.

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By Ashley Martin WHO? Kim Ferguson, a pharmacy technician, her husband Ryan, an electrician, and their two sons, ages four and six.

WHAT? The dining room of their 1,700-squarefoot Lakeview bungalow.

WHEN? The house was built in 1949 by a man from Texas, who built it to his own unique needs: The basement was complete with a bomb shelter/ cold storage room, and the walls were covered in cedar panelling.

When the Fergusons bought the house nine years ago, it had seen better days.

“The listing of the house said ‘basement needs some TLC’ and all along this north wall there was a horizontal crack ... This house was not going to remain standing much longer,” said Kim Ferguson.

Faced with the alternatives of having their home condemned or bulldozed, the newly married couple decided to lift the house and replace the foundation — a big job that met with reactions like, “That’s a horrible thing to do to a marriage!” — and then update the interior.

WHY? Ferguson is a fan of old houses because she believes in preserving history. That’s why in her own renovation project, she kept as true to the house as possible, including hanging onto the original cedar panelling. “Some of our contractors were like, ‘Ugh, just drywall it all!’ but I love it and it’s original to the house,” she said.

“The only things we really removed were things that were absolutely breaking, falling apart, you had no choice, or things that were bad ’70s remodels.”

That included the north wall in the dining room, which was covered in “really ugly” angled panelling.

“If you’re going to take care of an old house it has to be a labour of love, so you need to respect that it had stories before you got here and you’re kind of just a temporary caretaker of it and then somebody else is going to have their memories in this house,” said Ferguson. One story about this house includes its 1980s party days; she’s heard that musician Colin James made an appearance or two.

HOW? The biggest change in the dining room is the floor-to-ceiling built-in-look bookshelves that replaced the ’70s wall. The shelves surround French doors that lead out to a sunroom.

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“not exactly historical colours by any means but not especially contemporary.” It is orchestrated around some fabric Ferguson bought in Phoenix, where her dad lives. Two co-ordinating fabrics make up the curtains and tablecloth; from those, Ferguson chose her paint colours.

The original hardwood floor is intact, as is the checkerboard ceiling.

The room’s decor is largely antique and natural.

“We’ve got a hunk of wood and we’ve got a piece of metal that got struck by lightning and quirky things like old bullets from (Ryan’s)

grandpa ... I do like the natural things because I think they’re not going to go out of style,” she said.

As a craft-lover, she’s chosen many decorative touches that are handmade, including her own crossstitch projects.

The initial plan was to open up the dining room and kitchen to be more open-concept, as in their last home, but Ferguson is glad she decided against it.

“I do like that it gets to be more formal. I don’t have to look at my dirty dishes when we’re having a dinner party.”

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By Andrew Matte Omid Mazaffari met many of his new neighbours in Glencairn on March 24 at an event celebrating the community’s growing number of immigrants.

The 14-year-old Grade 9 student volunteered to help welcome the public by asking people about their birthplace. He distributed little red stickers and pointed to a large world map hanging at the Glencairn Community Centre.

“Where were you born?” a curious Mazaffari repeated to guests arriving for the March 24 event.

“You’re supposed to put your sticker on the map to show everyone where you’re from.”

Red stickers dotted the map to represent birthplaces from every corner of the world including Russia, China and several African and Middle Eastern countries.

Mazaffari marvelled at the variety of locations people claimed as their homeland. Asked about a sticker curiously placed over the south Atlantic Ocean just north of Antarctica, Mazaffari answered: “I’m not sure if there is a little island there or not. If there is, there is probably not much technology.”

This informal education of places and people was the focus A Celebration of Cultures, an annual event organized by the Dewdney East Community Association meant to help welcome new residents and encourage longtime Reginans to meet their new neighbours. Several hundred people attended the event.

As people took turns performing to music from places like the Philippines, Scotland and India, newcomers from places like Africa and Saudi Arabia enjoyed Chai tea and snacked on pastries and dried mango.

For Mazaffari, the modest, threehour afternoon event further cemented his appreciation of Regina, as well

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as the freedoms and privileges he enjoys as a Glencairn resident.

“For me, it is like being born again,” the Balfour Collegiate student said. “It is like starting over.

And it is so great here. I love it.”

Mazaffari had experienced life as an outsider before he arrived in Regina three years ago with his mother and brother. The son of parents from Afghanistan, he was born and attended elementary school in Iran before his mother left his father and accepted an opportunity for a new life in Canada when Mazaffari was 11.

Today, he absorbs everything he can about Canadian life. He participates in all opportunities that come his way, whether it’s enjoying free access to the Glen Elm branch of the Regina Public Library, accepting

advice his family receives from volunteers who help new immigrants adjust to life in Regina, or attending a free neighbourhood event to hand out stickers and learn a little about geography.

“In my old school, you had to buy your books. It was expensive. But here, they let all kids use books.”

Mazaffari says he’s sometimes looked at differently by Reginans, but he said he has experience being an outsider. Life in Iran isn’t exactly perfect for a family from Afghanistan, he said.

“I understand what racism is.

But I experience it only a little,” he said. “In Iran, people left you out of things. People thought about us differently.”

Mazaffari said it helps when he

meets people from countries outside Canada and attends classes at a high school where there is a growing number of students whose parents weren’t born in Canada.

“I would say there is racism here and in Iran, but it’s only a little bit.

And it’s different.”

Mazaffari’s biggest Canadian challenge was English. Today, he chats as confidently as any Regina teen, something he wasn’t able to do when he arrived.

“I didn’t know any English. I didn’t know one word. I didn’t know the alphabet. I didn’t know what the alphabet was,” he said. “When I was in elementary school, my friends would want me to come with them to gym class. But I had to say no. I had to tell them I needed to study my

English.”

With a grasp of English and an enthusiasm for education, Mazaffari is already considering a career as a pilot, in part because of the uncertainty and fascination with his flight across the Atlantic. A career as a pilot would allow for more opportunity, he said.

“When we were in the plane, you could see the water that we were flying over. It was scary because I didn’t know if we were going to crash. I didn’t know what Canada was going to be like. I couldn’t even imagine it,” he said.

“I’d like to be a pilot because I could someday go to my home country. I have never been to Afghanistan where my parents are from. I’d like to go and see for myself.”

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Thursd ay, M a rch 28 Little Big Town Conexus Arts Centre 200 Lakeshore Dr. Stars with Said the Whale The Orr Centre 4440 4th Ave. Bend Sinister and The Fortunate Isles O’Hanlon’s 1947 Scarth St. Third Branch and Dan Silljer Band McNally’s Tavern 2226 Dewdney Ave. Binder Twine and the Balers, The Ben Winoski Project and Amy Nelson Casino Regina Show Lounge 1880 Saskatchewan Dr.

Dangerous Cheese The Sip Nightclub 306 Albert St. Chris Henderson The Whiskey Saloon 1047 Park St. Rend O’Hanlon’s 1947 Scarth St. S a t u rday, M a rc h 3 0 Kerri Senkow 2 p.m., The Artful Dodger 1631 11th Ave. April Wine Casino Regina Show Lounge 1880 Saskatchewan Dr. Yana The Lancaster Taphouse 4529 Gordon Rd. Volbeat and Danko Jones Brandt Centre 1700 Elphinstone St.

Stephanie Thomson The Pump Roadhouse 641 Victoria Ave E.

Method 2 Madness McNally’s Tavern 2226 Dewdney Ave.

Chris Henderson The Whiskey Saloon 1047 Park St.

Stephanie Thomson The Pump Roadhouse 641 Victoria Ave E.

Portage and Main The Artful Dodger 1631 11th Ave.

Chris Henderson The Whiskey Saloon 1047 Park St.

Vibe: DJ Noor and Flatland Funk Gabbo’s 2338 Dewdney Ave.

Dangerous Cheese The Sip Nightclub 306 Albert St.

Friday, M arc h 29 Soilwork, Jeff Loomis, Blackguard, The Browning, Wretched The Exchange 2431 8th Ave. Method 2 Madness McNally’s Tavern 2226 Dewdney Ave. Stephanie Thomson The Pump Roadhouse 641 Victoria Ave E.

Dr. Bird and Blue Beat CD release The Artful Dodger 1631 11th Ave. S u n day, M a rc h 3 1 The Express & Company with Brass Buttons Creative City Centre 1843 Hamilton St. Mo n day, Ap r i l 1 Monday Night Jazz & Blues Bushwakker 2206 Dewdney Ave.

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Tuesday, A pril 2 Tuesday Night Troubador jam night Every Tuesday, 8 p.m.

Bocados, 2037 Park St. Wednesday, A pril 3 Wednesday Night Folk Bushwakker 2206 Dewdney Ave. Jam Night Every Wednesday McNally’s Tavern 2226 Dewdney Ave. July Talk The Exchange 2431 8th Ave.

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Art by Women Opening Reception Thursday, March 28, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Nouveau Gallery, 2146 Albert St. Repent. Print. Repeat Print artwork by Karli Jessup Until March 31 Eight Track Gallery, The Exchange, 2431 8th Ave. Jon Sasaki: Good Intentions Until March 31 Dunlop Art Gallery — Central Branch, 2311-12th Ave. Arresting Images: Mug shots from The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Museum Until March 31 RCMP Heritage Centre, 5907 Dewdney Ave. Big Bang Theory Until March 31 MacKenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St. Annual Salon Show & Sale Until April 6 Art Gallery of Regina, 2420 Elphinstone St. The Synthetic Age University of Regina Fine Arts

Faculty and First Nations University of Canada Until April 14 MacKenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St. Da Vinci Inventions: An Inspirational Exhibition Until April 28 Saskatchewan Science Centre, 2903 Powerhouse Dr. Spread: Carmela Laganse Until May 23 RPL Sherwood Village Gallery, 6121 Rochdale Blvd.

The Artists of Scott Nicholson Fine Arts Until Aug. 16 Regina Centre Crossing, 1621 Albert St. --Assiniboia Gallery 2266 Smith St. Open Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mysteria Gallery 2706 13th Ave. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Neutral Ground #203-1856 Scarth St. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

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Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession featuring Renee Brade The Golden Apple Theatre Cabaret Series Friday, March 29, 8 p.m.

The Artesian, 2627 13th Ave. The Big Bang Thesis Until June 1 Applause Dinner Theatre, 1975 Broad St.

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New Trees and Shrubs with D’Arcy Schenk

Thursday, March 28, 7:30 p.m.

Neil Balkwill Centre, 2420 Elphinstone St. Regina Farmers’ Market Saturday, March 30, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Cathedral Neighbourhood Centre, 2900 13th Ave. Sustainable Gardening for Beginners Saturday, March 30, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Creative City Centre, 1843 Hamilton St. Come One Come All Trade Show Saturday, March 30, 11 a.m.4:30 p.m.

Grant Road School, 2501 Grant Rd. The Double and David Cronenberg Presentation by Christine Ramsay Tuesday, April 2, 7 p.m.

MacKenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St. Weldon the Wacky Wizard Wednesday, April 3, 2-2:45 p.m.

Regina Public Library Central Branch, 2311-12th Ave. Word Up Wednesday Wednesday, April 3, 7 p.m.

Creative City Centre, 1843 Hamilton St. Heritage Lecture: Yesterday’s Memories are the Cornerstone for Tomorrow Presented by Jean Freeman and Lyn Goldman Wednesday, April 3, 7:3010:30 p.m.

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Comedy Grind Every Saturday night Gabbo’s 2338 Dewdney Ave.

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation Captain Duke Hauser (Channing Tatum) and his G.I. Joe team are set up as traitors — the U.S. president gives orders to have them terminated — due to Cobra spy Zartan.

But the surviving members of the G.I. Joe team join forces with Joe Colton (Bruce Willis) to bring Zartan down and save the world.

The Host Most humans have become hosts for invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact. Melanie (Saoirse Ronan), one of the few remaining “wild” humans, is captured and an invading soul, Wanderer, is given her body.

There was one difficulty Wanderer didn’t expect: The former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind. When outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off on a dangerous search for the man they both love.

Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counsellor A unhappily married marriage counsellor, who has been feeling neglected by her husband, finds herself falling in love with one of her patients, a womanizing social media mogul. The two enter into a passionate love affair behind her husband’s back. Then her husband finds out.

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Buffy Sainte-Marie: It’s My Way Buffy Sainte-Marie has been an inspiration to many people around the world, especially aboriginal people, since the 1960s.

I recall during my university days how rousing her protest songs, like Now That the Buffalo’s Gone and the popular anti-Vietnam war anthem Universal Soldier, were to students.

When I realized no one had yet written the biography of this Saskatchewan-born icon from nearby Piapot First Nation, I thought what a wonderful project this would be.

When I finally asked her about writing the biography, she said she was flattered. I had to tell her she was wrong — I was the one who was flattered.

I was fortunate to be the one Buffy decided to entrust with her story. I had only met her in passing before, but as I got to know her more, I found a very humble, down-to-Earth personality.

She appeared on Sesame I also discovered that there Street for several years, as are many more facets to this well as acting in Hollywood remarkable performer’s talent. movies. Amazingly, at 71 she She rose to fame during the continues to produce albums Greenwich Village folk singing and recently completed a revolution alongside famous world tour to promote her names like Bob Dylan and Leonlatest CD, Running with the ard Cohen, and she helped to Drum. Her backup band of line up then-budding singer young aboriginal guys from Joni Mitchell with the agent Winnipeg noticed that even that eventually enabled Joni they have a tough time keepto achieve fame. Buffy is still ing up with her gruelling friends with all of them, crossschedule. ing paths and getting together Buffy continues to inspire with, for example, Dylan, who Blair Stonechild and I expect will continue to she bumped into during a tour in Australia a year ago. Buffy has branched do so for many more years to come.

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HOTDOGS

Confessions of a birthday weenie

By Andrew Matte How can a meal be so wonderful but also dangerous?

Asking someone about hotdogs is as risky as starting a conversation about gay marriage or marijuana: Be prepared for an impassioned explanation that makes perfect sense.

That’s because hotdogs have been around for more than a century and have been prepared in so many ways that it’s difficult for two people to agree on issues such as barbecue time, the use of mustard or whether to toast the bun.

There is also danger in the dog itself. We all worry about ingredients processed-food makers use before their mystery goo is pressed into forms to create thousands of wieners identical in shape, size and flavour. We used to joke that hotdogs were made with the sweepings from the floor of meat plants.

Steve Martin talked about them in an old standup routine: “Don’t eat hotdogs; they have really weird things in them,” he said, quoting warnings from friends. “But it doesn’t bother me because I love animal lips.”

Thankfully, a human body normally fuelled by a healthy diet can withstand the digestive challenges of an occasional frankfurter crammed with salts, preservatives and other ingredients with long, consonant-filled names.

Readers of this newspaper don’t need a reminder that hotdogs aren’t good for you. Following an old rule that says you should only eat them on your birthday is the best way to go.

And before anyone asks, sausage dogs count.

Over the past few years, I’ve decided that a well-prepared hotdog is one of my favourite birthday meals. I prefer them to burgers or pizza, but only if they’re prepared the way I like.

The best hotdogs I’ve eaten are prepared in my kitchen, but if I can coax my wife out for a meal at the Press Box in Regina, it means I’m enjoying Saskatchewan’s best restaurant hotdog. My opinion on this, of course, is

Marcy White holds a foot-long hotdog at the Press Box Sports Bar. Putting a little cheese on your hotdog and melting it in your oven (inset picture) is the best way to prepare hotdogs at home, says reporter Andrew Matte. QC Photos by TROY FLEECE and Andrew Matte

immaterial, because I’m an expert in only the things I like.

At a Blue Jays game years ago, I got into a heated dispute over hotdogs and condiment selection after a friend became genuinely upset with me for handing him a hotdog I had dressed without mustard.

I prefer the Press Box hotdog because it’s a foot long and can be ordered with a long list of ingredients including chili, grilled onions, sauerkraut, spicy beef and cheese. I’m a middle-of-the-road hot-dogger, which means I usually prefer a toasted bun and toppings like ketchup and relish, but nothing more for fear of camouflaging the hotdog’s original flavour. I

like a dog topped with chili or cheese for those REALLY special occasions.

Many people like their hotdog warmed over a campfire or grilled on a barbecue, and preferences vary from slightly crispy to blackened.

Warming a wiener in an oven or in a pot of boiling water works for most of us. A high-school chum once prepared a hotdog by jabbing it with a fork and warming it under a stream of hot water from the tap. Microwaving a hotdog just doesn’t cut the mustard — it risks turning unbearably hard and dry.

When I was a kid, my mother made hotdogs the way my dad preferred, which meant she’d slice a hotdog ver-

tically, put it in a pan butterfly-style and fry it with onions.

There’s also something to be said for the simplicity of a hotdog, which only requires removing a dog from the package, tucking it into a bun and heating it. If you’ve ever enjoyed a hotdog from the old Forum in Montreal, you know what I mean. The dogs were put into a stubby, toasted bun and placed in deep metal trays heated with steam, where they waited in tightly-made rows to be served in waxed paper to Canadiens fans, usually with a cup of warm O’Keefe. At a Pink Floyd concert at the famed hockey arena in 1987, I ate about a half-dozen of them.

When I make them myself, I start by heading to the grocery store to buy jumbo beef hotdogs that come in a package of six. For buns, I head to the bulk baked-goods section. At home, I warm the dogs in shallow water boiled in a pot while waiting for the broil setting of my oven to fire up. I put the dogs in the buns on a cookie sheet and sprinkle them with bits of raw onion, red pepper and grated cheddar. After about four minutes, the cheese is nicely browned, the bun is toasted and the peppers and onions have cooked a little but are still slightly crunchy.

After I add a little relish and ketchup, I say hot diggity dog, happy birthday to me!

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Rookies, volunteers and athletes of all ages were honoured Saturday, March 23 at the Queensbury Convention Centre as the Saskatchewan Triathlon Awards were handed out.

The big honourees of the night were Regina couple Doug and Shelley Mackenzie, who won the builder/long-term service award. Kurt Hauser and Jackie Hatherley won the popular age-group athlete categories. Four-time Olympic coach Lance Watson was the keynote speaker.

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This wonderful claret deserves its own pitcher

By James Romanow To continue with a column started a couple of weeks ago, farmers always have their favourite bits of land.

In vineyards groups of clones are usually planted in small blocks, often under an acre, and from these best bits of land are made the best wines from any vineyard.

If you pay attention to the world of golf you will be aware the prize of the British Open is a claret jug. Back in the mid-Victorian era, if you were a gentleman, you bought your wine by the barrel and decanted it into a pitcher for serving. Gentlemen, of course, only bought wine from the Bordeaux, more usually referred to as claret. Wine deserves a good pitcher and thus a now obsolete form of tableware was invented — the claret pitcher.

La Playa, a label whose winemaker sees eyeto-eye with me, introduced a block selection reserve claret here a few years ago. Claret may still show up on labels in England but it’s not a common term on this side of the Atlantic. Traditionally, it was a blend of the grapes grown in Bordeaux, usually Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petite Verdot and a handful of other varietals.

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Aunt needs to back off on niece’s development Q: My husband’s brother and his wife have a daughter, age five, who has some developmental delay, specifically with her speech, and some unusual behaviours that sometimes seem to lean toward autistic tendencies.

I went to school for developmental disability studies and work in a developmental disability class so I’m educated on “atypical development.” I know how important early intervention is.

I’m upset, as they’ve been denying it since she was age two, when her nursery school had suggested seeing a speech language pathologist.

Now her kindergarten teacher has suggested one, as well as a school psychologist see her.

They’re reluctantly going along with it and still think their daughter doesn’t have any problems. They can’t take any feedback; they believe that it’s criticism or calling their child stupid. They’re ignoring her developmental issues and it upsets me.

But it upsets me more that they openly admit that they themselves don’t like vegetables or fruit and do not feed their daughter vegetables or fruit.

They openly admit that they feed her deepfried foods and other unhealthy things. She also smells horrible and behaves horribly, which they allow, like not eating her meals and feeding her what she wants later.

I worry for her educational and physical well-being. She’s very overweight for her age.

I feel a great deal of anger toward these parents and we cannot say anything, as they’ll blow up.

My husband’s parents have tried suggesting feeding her veggies/fruit, or taking her to the doctor to see how she’s doing with her development, but they respond angrily.

They scream, yell, call us awful names and cut us all off for weeks until they receive an apology. We always tried to say things as if we care.

I feel they’re failing this child and that it’s borderline neglect. They’re able to spend money on their hobbies, so I can’t imagine it has anything to do with money.

I’m unable to call children’s services because I feel the parents will know I did it.

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A: While I empathize with your appropriate concerns about this child, I get the feeling that you personally are over-invested in judgment.

It may be natural because of your education, but it’s counter-productive as they clearly re-

sent your opinions. They may even believe you think you’re superior and this makes them angry in response.

Fortunately, the school has moved to have the girl assessed. If you back off and let the authorities handle telling the parents what they’ve learned and what’s needed, they’ll hopefully follow through on behaviour management. The couple may also be recognized as needing family therapy.

If they ignore what’s required at school, authorities there may decide to call in child welfare officials. But you should not do this.

Unfortunately, so long as she’s not being starved, lack of healthier nutrition isn’t considered abuse. Yes, it’s careless and irresponsible — and childhood obesity easily becomes a lifelong problem — but parents still have some legal autonomy on what they feed their child.

Your interest is well founded, but intrusion is a mistake, at this point.

It’d be far wiser, and potentially helpful, to be kind and supportive of the girl when you see her and try to befriend her parents.

You may not find it easy to be around some behaviours, but you could get to know the mother away from the child. Ask about their hobbies, spend a little time together and perhaps she’d respect your views more and not take them as insults towards them.

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Q: My younger brother finished high school, has no job and mostly smokes weed while still living with our parents.

I’m often in the middle of their huge blowouts, usually about money. They give him a monthly allowance. He wants more but they’re worried he’ll spend it all on weed.

I’ve asked him why he smokes so much, but he shrugs me off or yells. I’m worried about him and my parents, but feel powerless.

Worried in Middle A: He smokes to escape, because he has nothing else and doesn’t know what to do. It’s your parents’ job, not yours, to change things.

They should get him to career testing/counselling, which can boost his confidence that he has skills or dreams to follow — and he goes or no allowance. After, he gets a job or takes courses, or moves out with enough money for rent only, for a limited period of schooling or job startup.

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