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IN THE CITY — 2 A moment in time: Photographer Michael Bell’s shot that defines the week

OUTSIDE THE LINES — 13 A weekly colouring creation for kids of all ages by artist Stephanie McKay

MUSIC — 4 Pandacorn prepares for gruelling tour and sheds their skin

CROSSWORD/SUDOKO — 15

ON THE COVER — 6 DJ Chris Merk’s music connects tradition and innovation

READ MY BOOK — 17 A look at Entangled Roots: The Mystery of Peterborough’s Headless Corpse

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Pandacorn shedding their skins

By Sean Trembath Pandacorn was named for a pair of fun costumes, but as the Moose Jaw band prepares for their most intense tour to date, their eponymous getups are taking a back seat to the music.

“It was fun to dress up as a unicorn for the first few years, but then I just got lazy. I just want to get up on stage and be a boring old human,” says Megan Nash, who plays synth and sings.

Pandacorn started three Halloweens ago, according to guitarist Brodie Mohninger. Nash was performing as a solo act, with Mohninger backing her up. In the spirit of the holiday they dressed up, Nash as a unicorn and Mohninger as a panda. Someone at the show told them about pandacorns, a mythical combination of the two beasts.

“That was the day we said, ‘You know, this is a really interesting thing.’ ” Mohninger says.

They started writing and performing as Pandacorn. Three years later, they’re promoting an album and getting ready to launch a new video and a tour of Western Canada with a show at Amigos on April 24.

The album, Synthesis of Opposites, features the group’s trademark synth-dance-rock style, with Nash and Mohninger sharing vocal duties. They picked up drummer Ryan Schnell, formerly of Short Stories, as a third piece two years ago, but Nash and Mohninger still do the songwriting.

The tour starts in earnest April 30 in Medicine Hat, Alta., the first of 13 shows in 16 nights. Everyone in the band has experience with long tours, but Nash says there’s always challenges.

“It’s a very strange lifestyle to live. People tend to romanticize touring, but it’s quite the opposite.

It can be quite a gruelling, stinky, exhausting endeavour.” she says.

With her and Mohninger being

busy with other projects, this tour could be the last for some time.

“I think we’ll be taking a break.

I’ve been telling some friends in Saskatoon this will probably be our last show for a very long time, so come out for it. We may not play again in Saskatoon for about a year,” Nash says.

Whatever break they take, both Nash and Nohninger say the band will be back, and look to tour Eastern Canada next year.

The costumes that earned the band its name have been through a lot. Nash recalls her unicorn head getting lost for five hours after a set at Ness Creek. People kept telling her they had seen it on various other people’s heads.

“It has seen a lot of things,” she says of the hat, laughing.

A set at this year’s LUGO celebration at the Mendel may have been the death of the costumes.

The theme for the party was gold, and they spray painted their costumes for the occasion. Now Nash says they look brown and gross.

Mohninger said the costumes have been both good and bad, depending on who you talk to. Some people gave the band a chance they might not have otherwise, while others think it’s a gimmick and pay less attention because of it.

“When you get to the point where people throw the word gimmick at you, you start to think maybe you should rebrand. But then you get people who really love that we do it,” he says.

They’ll never completely abandon the theme, but it may become less literal. He says he will sometimes wear a black-and-white suit, for example, rather than a full panda costume.

“It’s always been more of a theme-based thing. We never made the promise we were always going to dress up in panda and unicorn costumes. But we’re keeping the theme,” Mohninger says.

It’s not to say the old costumes — or others like them — will never

make appearances, but Nash says the band doesn’t need them as much as they used to.

“The point, at the time, was we wanted a way to differentiate from our other musical projects. Now I think people know,” she says.

If anyone is truly bothered by a show without them, she won’t mourn their loss as fans.

“I don’t worry about losing fans for not wearing costumes. If they were only into us for the costumes, that’s not really the point of making music.” strembath@thestarphoenix.com twitter.com/strembath

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I kind of feel like it chose me rather than I chose it somewhat. — Chris Merk

ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Merk’s focus is teaching and sharing

By Ashley Martin Merky Waters has got a flow.

Working the turntables, it looks like the music is moving through him. He gently rocks as the fingers of his right hand scratch a vinyl record in time to the beat.

“With the vinyl, you have more of a feel for the (music); it’s more tangible,” says Chris Merk, playing at a ’90s hip hop mash-up of Brand Nubian and Da Brat.

“There’s lots of different intricacies with (turntablism) but you don’t really think of it while you’re doing it, while you’re in the flow of it. It’s just kind of more like a feeling.”

It’s a Thursday night at the University of Regina. In the basement of the Riddell Centre, Merk is at the Interactive Media and Performance (IMP) Labs. He’s a research assistant there, during his off-hours as a fulltime arts education student. He also DJs; he released his latest album, Swim, in December.

In his work at the IMP, Merk introduces people to alternative musical creation. There are no band instruments here. The IMP Labs have 10 sets of turntables and 12 beat machines.

Merk teaches beatmaking and turntablism here, and expands to rapping and beatboxing during visits to Regina classrooms.

“He’s a great ambassador for not just hip hop but also for thinking about hip hop as pedagogy, and getting young people excited about learning through the hip hop art,” said Charity Marsh, Canada Research Chair in Interactive Media and Performance and creator of the IMP Labs, which opened in April 2008.

■ ■ ■ ■ When Merk was 10, a Kool Moe Dee cassette from the library started it all. He fell in love with hip hop, even though it wasn’t popular among his friends.

The rhythm hooked him.

Chris Merk works on cutting it up on the turntables in the Interactive Media and Performance classroom at the University of Regina.

“It was always on my mind and it stayed in my life and eventually I was just like, yeah, I need to do this myself.”

He started making pause tapes in high school, recording from CDs onto cassettes: releasing the pause button to loop sections, half-pressing the record button to double up sounds.

He ruined two stereos jamming the pause buttons.

“I thought it was kind of original.”

When he was 18, he invested in his first turntable. He had his first gig at 19, mixing and scratching records.

Then he started making his own music.

“I kind of feel like it chose me rather than I chose it somewhat.”

He started performing as DJ Merkules. After a couple of years,

blues legend Muddy Waters inspired his new moniker for three reasons.

1) “He really was the one who started the electric guitar thing and turning it up and distorting it.”

2) “I’m an Aquarius.” The symbol for that star sign is the water bearer.

3) “The kind of music that I make I find is rather dark, not too shiny, I would say, it’s not too clear.” Murky.

His record collection numbers

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close to 1,000, a fraction of its former glory. He estimates he’s given away 5,000 albums in moves over the years.

He’ll dig through “the dustiest parts of garage sales and thrift shops” for old and obscure records to sample. “I’ll find a drum sample from here or piano notes from over here and bass from all over . . . kind of beefing it up a little bit.”

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He’s a great ambassador for not just hip hop but also for thinking about hip hop as pedagogy, and getting young people excited about learning through the hip hop art. — Charity Marsh

He manipulates the music to make it his own. “That’s kind of a new thing, the whole idea of appropriation, using something that exists and remixing it, which I think is a huge thing in art right now.”

He works with local musicians and formats their live recordings.

Classical guitarist Ramses Calderon is featured on two tracks on Swim.

“The idea of fusing in such a way to me is one of the richest things of combining both styles,” said Calderon, who spent a couple of hours improvising in Merk’s home recording studio. “You have some electronic and then you have something that is purely acoustic with a sound that is coming right from the wood.”

“To me, music is a very personal and human thing,” said Merk. “Most of my connections are from being in the same place at the same time with the same frequency. I think that kind of brings something out of it, where you’re in the same place at the same time and it’s very human.”

He bridges cultures in his songs, like on New Moon, which features Ukrainian singer Yana and Farsi rapper Ali Dehesh. “So that’s a combination of those two worlds on that one beat.”

Merk’s language expertise doesn’t extend past English, so “I ask a lot of questions. A lot of checking back with them to make sure what I’m chopping together makes sense. And I’ve never had it come back.”

He’s a thoughtful creator. And that’s one reason he doesn’t do many gigs anymore.

“A lot of people assume you’re just playing a record,” he said, like a wedding DJ. He doesn’t want to take requests.

“I’m doing it to share what I like.”

■ ■ ■ ■ It’s not only through performing that he’s sharing.

For four years, Merk has taught the basics of electronic music to preteens in Regina Public Schools through the CREATE program.

In Connecting Regina Educators & Artists Through Expertise, through which teachers can bring in a variety of artists for in-class sessions, Merk teaches grades 4 to 6 students how to

Chris Merk, left, with colleagues Charity Marsh and Ben Valiaho in the Interactive Media and Performance classroom at the University of Regina.

make beats, beatbox, sing and rap.

This term he’s gone to six classes in four schools, doing three sessions with each class.

He said the kids love it.

“I find after classes it’s hard to get them out of the classroom because they just want to stick around and keep trying things and keep talking to me and what my experience is.”

The uniqueness of DJing and hip hop is what appeals to them, Merk said.

“It’s a brand new thing; you’re not

locked down to the past and the tradition,” he said. “It has its connections with jazz and blues but it totally just kind of steps away into a whole new art form,” repurposing an object (the turntable became an instrument), a voice (rapping and beatboxing instead of just singing) and a body (through b-boying/breakdancing).

Marsh sees hip hop as an accessible art form for young people to engage in.

“There’s so many entry points with hip hop, so many different ways

young people can connect,” she said.

“You might write poetry, you might paint, you might be drawn to making beats, you might be drawn to the turntables, you might be drawn to dancing.

“It’s a way for young people to connect with the world in perhaps a larger way.”

Merk sees value in teaching electronica because it can be a gateway into music. It was for him.

“I don’t know traditional forms. I don’t read western notation music. I

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produce electronically, so I wouldn’t fit in with the band/choral models, and that’s pretty much all that exists right now.”

While more schools are getting into Garage Band-style production software, Merk said only a handful of schools have a beat machine.

Electronic music served as a gateway for Merk to get more comfortable with instruments, even though he only dabbled on keyboard and drums as a kid.

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To me, music is a very personal and human thing. Most of my connections are from being in the same place at the same time with the same frequency. — Merk

Chris Merk is a research assistant at the Interactive Media and Performance (IMP) Labs at the U of R during his off-hours as a full-time arts education student. QC PHOTO BY TROY FLEECE

Scratching vinyl is like strumming a guitar. Learning tempo on a beat machine translates naturally to drums.

“There’s that connection that I don’t think many people see yet. So that’s kind of what I’m trying to push to education and to schools is that you have to see that connection, that it’s all music and that one isn’t better than next and it all kind of leads to a musical understanding that can benefit on all formats of musical production.”

He doesn’t have traditional music training like some other people he works with, but “we’re on an even playing field, so I’m seeing the equal benefits and the equal result coming from different angles of music. I don’t see why one side should have a hierarchy over the other.”

Calderon agrees there’s value in learning both.

“You can use the band, you can use what ever other instruments you have, infuse it with the other genres . . . beatbox on top of it; you can improvise but you’re rapping on top of it, just to deconstruct those archetypes

and that traditional form,” he said. “It just gives a different option, give different opportunities.”

When he completes his degree in April 2016, with a double major in education and visual arts and a minor in music, Merk hopes he can continue to apply his philosophy in the classroom.

“It’s the sharing aspect of it. That’s the reason why I became a DJ as well, just to share this music that I loved and that many people didn’t have access to,” said Merk, who got bit by the teaching bug when his nephew Isaiah, now 11, was little.

“I found a joy in teaching him art and drawing and music, so the more we did stuff like that, the more I kind of hinted towards maybe this is really suited for me and something that I could be really good at.”

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His work at the IMP Labs is also devoted to sharing the music.

“It’s kind of the alternative to the traditional musical landscape,” said Merk.

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I find after classes it’s hard to get them out of the classroom because they just want to stick around and keep trying things and keep talking to me and what my experience is. — Merk

Its two rooms — one with beat machines, the other with turntables — are open to the public three evenings a week so people can explore new sounds. Merk and fellow research assistant Ben Valiaho are there to help show people the ropes.

It also hosts public workshops and university classes.

“In Regina, we really have a unique experience,” said Merk. The IMP Labs, now seven years old, are unique in North America.

Marsh credits the U of R for supporting her vision. Compared to universities in Toronto, where she came from, “I had the support at U of R to do the kinds of things I want to do but I was left alone enough to let it develop.

“The composting is done and it’s ready; we’re ready to grow it,” added Marsh.

TRADITIONAL VS. DIGITAL

When he’s DJing, Merk’s method of choice “depends on the environment I’m in.”

The advantage of working digitally is music won’t skip if people are dancing near the DJ

booth.

“When I’m doing vinyl, I kind of have to tell people around me to settle down,” Merk said laughing, “which is kind of what you don’t want to do in a club.”

The disadvantage to just working digitally is “(it) bypasses that whole process that I think is valuable to DJing”: Learning to mix manually and getting a good sense of tempo from having to count beats-per-minute.

“With vinyl you have to do it by ear, and that’s a valuable skill that I would promote to DJs,” said Merk “You can actually get to a point where you feel the groove on the vinyl because it’s actually engraved into the material, whereas when you have digital, it’s more of just a flat line. But you do have a lot more options such as looping certain parts of songs and finding cues within the songs where you can kind of just immediately bounce back to, whereas vinyl you have to pick up the needle and move it back, so it has a lot more options.” amartin@leaderpost.com

Chris Merk’s record collection numbers close to 1,000 and he estimates he’s given away 5,000 albums over the years. QC PHOTO BY TROY FLEECE

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Wednesday, A p r il 15 Wednesday Night Folk: Ryan Hicks Bushwakker, 2206 Dewdney The Alley Dawgs Leopold’s, 2330 Albert St. Open Jam 6-10 p.m. Eastview Community Centre, 615 6th Ave. Into Eternity O’Hanlon’s, 1947 Scarth St. Thursday, A p r il 16 Live music Fat Badger, 1852 Scarth St. Chris Henderson The Pump, 641 Victoria Ave E. Piano Bar Artful Dodger, 1631 11th Ave. Friday, A p r il 17 Weekly Drum Circle Instruments provided 7:30-9 p.m., The Living Spirit Centre, 3018 Doan Dr. Call Mike, 306-550-3911.

Crestwood, Carter Powley The Lancaster, 4529 Gordon Rd. Walter Ostanek & The Western Senators Casino Regina Show Lounge 1880 Saskatchewan Dr. Sun K O’Hanlon’s, 1947 Scarth St. Synergy ft. Mr. Bill The Club at The Exchange, 2431 Eighth Ave. Slow Motion Walter McNally’s, 2226 Dewdney Ave. Chris Henderson The Pump, 641 Victoria Ave E. S aturday, A p r il 18 Open Acoustic Jam 3:30-8 p.m. Broadway’s Lounge, 1307 Broadway Ave. Live music jam All types of music welcome.

Hosted by Erroll Kinistino.

4-8 p.m. The Sip, 306 Albert St.

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Behind the Songs Belle Plaine, Blake Berglund and Amy Nelson 8 p.m. Creative City Centre 1843 Hamilton St.

Tricia Middleton: Joy is just melancholy with a really strong sense of purpose An immersive installation

by Montreal-based artist Tricia Middleton. An uneasy marriage of materials and process, Middleton’s practice incorporates castoffs and debris from consumer culture, organic elements, byproducts from studio production, and utilitarian building and craft supplies.

Until April 22. Dunlop Art Gallery — Sherwood Village Branch, 6121 Rochdale Blvd.

Walter Ostanek & The Western Senators Casino Regina Show Lounge 1880 Saskatchewan Dr. Chris Henderson The Pump, 641 Victoria Ave E. Slow Motion Walter McNally’s, 2226 Dewdney Ave. S u n day, Ap r i l 1 9

Quixotic Susan Bozic and Evan Tyler’s two-person show of performative photography. Both artists use store mannequins, which they animate as actors in dramas that each directs and then visually records.

Until April 24. 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Monday to Friday.

U of R University Club, College West room 215.

Open jam 3-8 p.m. Mojo, 639 Victoria Ave. Friendly Folk concert 2:30 p.m. RPL Film Theatre, 2311 12th Ave. La Belle Epoque Regina Symphony Orchestra Mosaic Masterworks 3 p.m. Conexus Arts Centre, 200 Lakeshore Dr.

Annual Salon Show Until April 25.

Art Gallery of Regina, Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre, 2420 Elphinstone St.

Leaf Rapids, Slow Leaves The Exchange, 2431 Eighth Ave. M o n day, Ap r i l 2 0

Joe Fafard: Mes Amis With a determination to pay homage to fellow artists, Fafard has taken on the challenge of 16 bronze portraits.

Until April 29. Slate Fine Art Gallery, 2078 Halifax St.

Monday Night Jazz & Blues: Jeff Mertick & Mark Muehr Bushwakker, 2206 Dewdney Burton Cummings Casino Regina Show Lounge 1880 Saskatchewan Dr. Open Mic Artful Dodger, 1631 11th Ave. Tu esday, Ap r i l 2 1 Karaoke McNally’s, 2226 Dewdney Ave. Mark Mills, Windmills O’Hanlon’s, 1947 Scarth St. Karaoke Artful Dodger, 1631 11th Ave.

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Walter Ostanek takes the stage at Casino Regina on Friday and Saturday. alleyways of Regina, and his work is a record of how the city has changed across more than 40 years. The evening will also include a showing of the short documentary The Alley Man by Jan Known-Zarzycki, with a reception to follow.

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April 15, 7:30 p.m.

Darke Hall, 2155 College Ave. Open Session Life Drawing No formal instruction and all skill levels are encouraged. The model will be nude with the exception of a few special costumed sessions.

Please bring your own drawing materials. $12 per drop-in session.

Thursday, 7-10 p.m.

Creative City Centre, 1843 Hamilton St.

Erin Ross: Hold Steady Until April 17. Assiniboia Gallery, 2266 Smith St.

Light Passing Through Glass Michael Bell’s photographs display a highly technical and inquisitive pursuit of light refraction through coloured glass marbles.

Until April 15. Hague Gallery, Creative City Centre, 1843 Hamilton St.

Martha Cole: Patterns of Excitation Until April 18. Mata Gallery, 106—2300 Broad St.

HeARTland Artists’ Guild Annual Show/Sale April 17, 3-9 p.m.

April 18, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

April 19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Argyle Park Community Center, 35 Davin Cr.

Moving Forward, Never Forgetting This exhibition creates a space for intercultural dialogue and storytelling, encouraging sharing, empathy, and deeper understanding of what it means for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to co-reside in these territories.

Until April 19. MacKenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St.

Landscape and Sky: Contemporary Canadian Fine Art The Artists of Scott Nicholson Fine Arts Until April 30. Regina Centre Crossing, 1621 Albert St. --Neutral Ground #203-1856 Scarth St. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Nouveau Gallery 2146 Albert St. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Oakland Gift and Fine Arts Oil and ink paintings by Chinese artists Lingtao Jiang and Huaiyi Tian.

2312 Smith St. Open Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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The Laugh Shop Live standup every Saturday night, 9:30 p.m.

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Cathedral Village Freehouse, 2062 Albert St.

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Much Ado About Nothing Regina Little Theatre April 15-18, 7:30 p.m.

Regina Performing Arts Centre, 1077 Angus St. Dinner Theatre Featuring comedy/mystery Out of Sight … Out of Murder.

Call 306-543-2626 for tickets.

April 16-18 St James United Church, 4506 Sherwood Dr. Word Up Featuring Mute Banshee April 17, 7:30 p.m.

Creative City Centre 1843 Hamilton St.

DANCING

Friday Night Dancing Hosted by Adult Social Dance Group. $5 per couple includes tea and coffee.

Every Friday, 8-10 p.m.

St Mary’s Anglican Church, 3337 15th Ave.

The Globe Theatre’s presents Gunmetal Blues until April 26.

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A Date With the Night April 16-25 Globe Theatre, 1801 Scarth St. FadaDance Roundup Supper, silent auction, plus performances by Jack Semple & the Gene Pool and the FadaDance Youth Company.

For tickets, $30, call 306-

570-1691 or 306-551-5122. In support of FadaDance Youth Company.

April 18, 5 p.m.

Carrefour des Plaines, 3850 Hillsdale Ave. The Vertigo Series April 20, 7:30 p.m.

Crave, 1925 Victoria Ave.

Bake A Difference Combat bullying through baking; spread kindness with a cookie.

Wednesday, 5-7 p.m.

Sweet Ambrosia Bakeshoppe, 230 Winnipeg St. N.

Holy Child Parish Hall, 2636 7th Ave. E. 50-Plus Dance Music by Prairie Ramblers. $7.50. Phone Eldon at 306775-1594.

April 19, 2-5 p.m.

Austrian Club, 320 Maxwell St.

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Minus One Club Dance Featuring Leon Ochs.

April 17, 8 p.m.-midnight Regina Senior Citizens Centre, 2134 Winnipeg St.

For Those About to Rock: Women’s Curling in Saskatchewan Try interactive curling in the wheelchair curling display, scavenger hunt, play in the sports simulator.

April 15-17 Sask. Sports Hall of Fame, 2205 Victoria Ave.

Relay for Life Fundraiser Dance Music by Cornerstone. $20.

April 18, 8 p.m.-midnight

Stars and Strollers Wednesday, 1 p.m.

Cineplex Odeon Southland Mall, 3025 Gordon Rd.

Drop-in crafts and gym Free event for youth aged 5-18. Thursday, 4-6 p.m.

Eastview Community Centre, 615 6th Ave. Drop In Indoor Playground Friday, 9-11:45 a.m.

South Leisure Centre, 170 Sunset Dr. Mom and Tot Bored Meetings Hosted by Kate Murray, 306216-2511.

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EVENTS Clothing & Toy sale Hosted by Regina Parents of Multiples Association.

April 18, 9:30 a.m.-noon Caledonian Curling Club, 2225 Sandra Schmirler Way Build and Grow Clinics Build a special feature project.

For children age 5 and up.

Saturday, 10 a.m.

Lowes, 4555 Gordon Rd. Michaels Kids Club Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon 2088 Prince of Wales Dr. Family Favourites films Enjoy a favourite film for just $2.50.

Saturday, 11 a.m. Galaxy Cinemas, 420 McCarthy Blvd. N. Family activities Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m.

Saskatchewan Science Centre, 2903 Powerhouse Dr. Family Fun Night

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Eastview Community Centre, 615 6th Ave.

5-18. Tuesday, 4-6 p.m.

Eastview Community Centre, 615 6th Ave.

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MacKenzie Art Gallery, 3475 Albert St. Parent and Preschooler Jungle Gym Monday, 9:30-11 a.m.

Al Ritchie Family Wellness Centre, 445 14th Ave. Science Time for Tots Interactive workshop aimed at early learners.

Tuesday, 9:30-10 a.m.

Saskatchewan Science Centre, 2903 Powerhouse Dr. Drop-in crafts and gym Free event for youth aged

1450B 4th Ave. Open daily, 1-4:30 p.m.

Royal Saskatchewan Museum 2445 Albert St. Open 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.

SPORTS

WCP Cup Soccer April 15, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

April 16, 6-9:30 p.m.

April 17, 6-10 p.m.

April 18, 12:30-7 p.m.

Credit Union EventPlex, Evraz Place Regina Pats vs. Brandon WHL Playoffs April 15, 7 p.m.

Brandt Centre, Evraz Place Regina Pats vs. Brandon WHL Playoffs April 19, 6 p.m.

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Alex Youck School Museum 1600 Fourth Ave. Tours by appointment only

Saskatchewan Military Museum 1600 Elphinstone St. Open Monday and Thursday, 7-9 p.m., or by appointment (306-347-9349).

Catch WCP Cup soccer at Evraz Place through Saturday.

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Civic Museum of Regina 1375 Broad St. Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday noon-4 p.m. Closed Sunday and Monday.

Government House Museum & Heritage Property 4607 Dewdney Ave. Tuesday to Sunday, 9 a.m .-4

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RCMP Heritage Centre 5907 Dewdney Ave. Open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.

Regina Firefighters Museum 1205 Ross Ave. Tours by appointment (306777-7714).

Regina Floral Conservatory

Saskatchewan Science Centre 2903 Powerhouse Dr. Tuesday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Saturday-Sunday and holidays, noon-6 p.m.

Closed Mondays.

Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame 2205 Victoria Ave. Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Closed weekends.

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After Grad.

April 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Thom Collegiate, 265 Argyle St. N.

explores some of the most extraordinary historical sites in the region.

Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch.

Prayer Breakfast Guest speaker Matt Dominguez.

April 15, 8 a.m.

Conexus Arts Centre, 200 Lakeshore Dr.

Potluck lunch Alumni welcome to celebrate 100 years of Canadian Girls in Training.

Lunch will be followed by entertainment and time for sharing memories.

For more information, call 306-5850557 or 306-585-0841.

April 18, 12:30 p.m.

Wesley United Church, 3913 Hillsdale St.

Kramer Imax 2903 Powerhouse Dr. 306-522-4629

RCMP Sergeant Major’s Parade Weekdays, 12:45 p.m.

RCMP Depot Division, 5600 11th Ave. Tansley lecture Down the social media rabbit hole, presented by Toronto Star national affairs columnist Chantal Hebert.

Tickets $55.

April 15, 5-9 p.m.

Ramada Hotel, 1818 Victoria Ave. Spargelfest Four-course fresh asparagus dinner.

For tickets, $40, call 306-352-5897.

April 16-17, 7 p.m.

German Club, 1727 St. John St. Science Pub Let’s Talk Trash: The Use of Landfill Technology, presented by Dr. Kelvin T. W. Ng from the U of R Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.

April 16, 7 p.m. (arrive early to secure a seat) Bushwakker Arizona Room, 2206 Dewdney Ave. Drop-in community improv April 16, 7:15-8:45 p.m.

Heritage Community Association, 100-1654 11th Ave. The Wren’s Handmade Spring PopUp Shop Three day pop-up featuring contemporary handmade goods.

April 17, 4-9 p.m.

April 18-19, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Naked Bean, 2505 Broad St. Left For Dead In Kenya Missionaries John and Eloise Bergen share their amazing story of survival after being attacked in Kenya. Free admission Friday. Tickets required Saturday; call 306-924-1985.

April 17 and 18, 7:30 p.m.

Travelodge Hotel, 4177 Albert St. S. Regina Farmers’ Market (indoors) Saturday 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

2065 Hamilton St. Spring Rummage & Bake Sale April 18, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Westminster United Church lower hall, 3025 13th Ave. (Use the Cameron Street entrance.)

Spring Fling Rummage sale, craft sale and trade show. $1 admission supports Thom

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Child 44 Thriller Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a series of child murders leads an MGB officer down a path of exile and terror. Agent Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) is a loyal, ideological member of the Communist Party, carrying out every order without question. Everything changes when a number of children turn up dead and he is sent to arrest a man he knows is innocent. He risks his life in order to track down a ruthless serial killer.

Victorian Tea Hosted by Government House Historical Society. Reservations are required and must be made by noon Friday. Call 306-571-7123 to reserve.

April 18-19, 1 and 2:30 p.m. sittings Government House, 4607 Dewdney Ave. Aid for Africa Rev. Blair Dixon will show a slide presentation of his recent trip to Muyinga, and Bishop Rob Hardwick will discuss his upcoming trip to Burundi. African artifacts will be offered at a silent auction. Refreshments will be provided. Goodwill offerings accepted.

April 18, 2 p.m.

St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, 2161 Winnipeg St. Cystic Fibrosis fundraiser steak night Steak, salad, potatoes. Tickets $20.

Call Tammy at 306-502-3222.

April 18, 6-9 p.m. Four Seasons, 909 Arcola Ave. E. Queen City Pride Pizza Night Family-friendly pizza buffet. $25 fundraiser.

April 18, 6:30 p.m.

Tumbler’s, 2108 Grant Rd. Annual Spring Brunch Entertainment and a number of celebrity omelette chefs. $20 for adults, $10 for children. For tickets, call 306-515-4032 or email springbrunch@saskmail.ca.

April 19, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Regina Senior Citizens Centre, 2134 Winnipeg St. Pizza and Pasta supper Regina Catholic Schools Bands and Alumni Band night. Call 306-5394726 for tickets.

April 20, 6 p.m.

Four Seasons, 909 Arcola Ave. E. Nature Regina meeting Duane Haave, Wascana Upper Qu’Appelle Watersheds Association, ecosystems between land and water.

April 20, 7:30 p.m.

Cathedral Neighbourhood Centre,

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The Academy Award-winning Polish film Ida, starring Agata Trzebuchowska, screens this weekend at RPL Film Theatre.

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Ida Drama An orphaned novitiate nun in 1960s Poland discovers a dark family secret. As 18-year old Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) prepares to take her vows, the Mother Superior insists she first visit her sole living relative.

Naive, innocent Anna soon meets aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza), a worldly and cynical Communist Party insider, who shocks her with the declaration that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey to the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism.

Amour Fou Drama Berlin, the romantic Era. Heinrich is a young poet who wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love and a suicide pact. When Heinrich meets Heniette, his fate seems assured. The story is based loosely

on the suicide of poet Heinrich von Kleist.

Regina Public Library Theatre 2311 12th Ave.; 306-777-6104 --D-Day 3D: Normandy 1944 Documentary On June 6, 1944, the largest Allied operation of the Second World War began in Normandy, France. This film provides a new, penetrating look at this moment in history, blending multiple cinematic techniques including animation, CGI, and live-action images.

Journey to the South Pacific Documentary Narrated by Cate Blanchett, this is a breathtaking adventure to the lush tropical islands of remote West Papua, where life flourishes above and below the sea. Join Jawi, a young island boy, as he takes us on a journey of discovery to this magical place where we encounter whale sharks, sea turtles, manta rays, and other iconic creatures of the sea.

Jerusalem Documentary An eye-opening tour of one of the world’s oldest and most enigmatic cities. Destroyed and rebuilt countless times over 5,000 years, Jerusalem’s enduring appeal remains a mystery. The film follows three young Jerusalemites and their families — Jewish, Christian and Muslim — as archaeologist Dr. Jodi Magness

Monkey Kingdom Documentary A newborn monkey and his mother scour the area for food and avoid death threats from higher-ranking monkeys and other predators. Their struggle to live a secure and safe life within the ranks of the animal kingdom sheds light onto the lives of wild monkeys.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 Comedy In the sequel to Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Paul Blart (Kevin James) encounters a group of art thieves while in Las Vegas for a Security Guard Expo.

Unfriended Thriller California teenager Laura Barns (Heather Sossaman) commits suicide after one of her classmates posts an embarrassing video of her online. Her suicide is also captured on video and posted online. A year later, an anonymous person uses Laura’s Skype account to contact six people, demanding a confession.

When they all claim to be innocent, frightening things begin to occur.

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Entangled Roots: The Mystery of Peterborough’s Headless Corpse Travel with me down the paper trail into a courtroom in 19th century Ontario. My book, Entangled Roots: the Mystery of Peterborough’s Headless Corpse takes one on a research adventure that lasted 40 years.

When my grandmother secretly shared with me a 1975 newspaper article published in the Peterborough Examiner and mailed anonymously to her and my grandfather in Saskatchewan, I did not know then that decades later I would publish a book about one of Canada’s most famous trials. The mysterious unexplained death of David Scollie in a house fire in Peterborough, Ont., in 1894 left the

town of reeling when his corpse was discovered the morning after, missing its head!

Hessie Gray, my grandfather’s aunt, went down in history as a possible axe murderess. Although after a lengthy investigation, inquest and trial, she was acquitted, no one knew for sure if she was really innocent and Bev Lundahl no one knew what happened to David Scollie’s head.

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Spice mixes to help you make gourmet Indian food

By Jenn Sharp Getting the spice right in Indian cooking is an art.

So says Arati (Chatty) Chattopadhyay, the owner of Chatty’s Indian Spices.

“You need to have the right combination (and) the right amount to make that food really appealing and tasty. For people that have never eaten spices, sometimes it’s scary.”

The combination of spices in Indian food makes it different from anything else. It also makes the food incredibly attractive to Saskatchewanians — it’s like nothing many of us ate growing up. “Indian food is not a light food.

It’s filling, very filling,” adds Chattopadhyay, who, along with her husband, P.K., is from Calcutta.

No one dish is typical ‘Indian food’ as it varies throughout the country. In Calcutta, cinnamon and nutmeg are typical, whereas in the north, fried spices, onion and garlic are more prevalent. In southern India, the food is usually very spicy. “(The variety) is very attractive to people. It really is very addicting. People get used to that and they love it. And everything else seems so bland after that to them.”

Chattopadhyay started Chatty’s Indian Spices in 1996. She got the idea years before from friends who enjoyed her cooking and told her she should sell her spice blends.

“I play with it. I really do. I love playing with spices, making different combinations.”

Chattopadhyay, a nurse at the time, tested her blends on doctors at work and her daughter’s friends until she got it just right.

“I knew that if I wanted to target the mainstream Canadians, then I needed to have a perfect recipe.”

She knew she wanted her products to reach farther than Saskatoon. She worked with a company in Ontario which helped her with distribution and growing the business. Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan provided guidance as well.

In 1998, she entered a competition sponsored by the Saskatchewan Food Processors where her signature spice mixes, chicken curry, Calcutta curry and tandoori BBQ, won the award for best new food product in Western Canada.

Media exposure after winning the award helped her product get into stores across the province. She then expanded the company into Alberta and Manitoba. Chatty’s Spices are now

Arati (Chatty) Chattopadhyay makes chicken curry and roti in her kitchen.

available in Co-op, You Independent Grocer and many Sobey’s, especially in Alberta.

Chattopadhyay produces the sauces, such as rhubarb hot sauce and mango-mustard chutney, at The Food Centre in Saskatoon. Ingredients are sourced locally when possible.

At trade shows, she helps people understand how to use the spices with complementary foods.

“It was part of my duty to educate people; Indian food, in particular, (most) were not aware.

It’s good for the customers (to meet) the face of our products, particularly in the small towns.”

When Chatty first started her company, Indian food wasn’t well known in Saskatchewan.

Now, it’s easy to find good Indian restaurants, which often feature buffets that introduce

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people to new dishes. Recreating the dishes at home is hard for those who aren’t familiar with grinding and roasting spices. That’s where Chattopadhyay’s mixes come in handy.

One of the Indian spice superstars today is turmeric, which has antibacterial, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.

“Spices are good,” says Chatty of Indian cooking. “What is not good is the salt and the oil used.”

When you’re cooking Indian at home, she recommends reducing the amount of oil, upping the veggie content and marinating your meat in yogurt instead of heavy cream. jksharp@thestarphoenix.com Twitter.com/JennKSharp

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By James Romanow If you are of an inquiring mind, or just suffer from vinous ADD (my name is James and I will always be attracted to new booze), you need to be paying attention to the Italian aisle of your favourite wine store.

The current hot trend is new wines from Puglia (the heel of the boot) and Sicily. Both of these regions were impoverished in the past, but now either they are sharing in general wine wealth or this is the latest way to launder Mafia money.

In any case there are some astounding wines coming out of Sicily these days. When you see one, you need to buy it. They have a long traditional winemaking heritage that works with New World buyers (primitivo AKA zinfandel) but they are working on blends to make them more interesting to high end buyers, as well.

All of which brings me to Intensita. This is a new wine on the SLGA shelves and well worth seeking out. It’s primarily Nero D’Avolo, the black wine of Sicily that Michael Corleone drank to get to sleep after being struck by the thunderbolt. But they’ve added another local grape, Nerello Mascalese, and then some cabernet sauvignon and Merlot. These have all spent about a year in barriques (oak wine barrels) to mellow.

The oaking is just a touch apparent. I’d guess

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you could lay it down for a decade to get optimal wine. It’s still a very drinkable wine if opened tonight; a dark red, with ripe fruit bouquet and medium texture and a surprisingly elegant finish.

This is a really nice wine and a great way to start exploring grapes beyond the French varietals.

Mazzaro Intensita 2012. $18 **** More wine in Monday’s paper and on Twitter @drbooze.

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