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the urban suburban divide

VIEWS YELLING AT WINDSOR Windsorites should be screaming. Screaming from rooftops and through open windows. Screaming at their neighbours, friends and family.

Residents should be screaming about the city, their surroundings and the issues that matter to them most.

There’s more than enough people who say there’s something wrong with this city.

Groups oppose bike paths while others demand more; a group opposed to making Willistead Park more accessible while other levels of government are demanding more accessibility. There’s council candidates who believe that many decisions that our current mayor and council made were wrong and boneheaded.

And that’s great. It’s great because they’re engaging.

What we need is more civic engagement. We need to hear the good and the bad. We need to start to look at the ugly head on.

It’s 2014 and whether you want to believe or engage with the notion, Windsor is changing, and rapidly. This is a pivotal year and it’s time residents start to realize the power they collectively wield.

It’s looking like we’re going to see somewhat of a house cleaning at city hall. Mayor Eddie Francis and Coun. Fulvio Valentinis and Coun. Ron Jones are definitively on their way out. There are rumours other councilors are either not seeking re-election or are looking to higher office.

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I look around and see a very different city than what it was 10 to 20 years ago. I see a downtown that is focused more on upscale establishments and catering to patrons, not drinkers. I see a completely reimagined University of Windsor campus that is both transformative in how it looks and impressive in geographical scope. I see a city that is becoming more than it is.

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Just last week there were two events, both ruan simultaneously, to engage with young residents to seek ways to improve our city through new and innovative processes.

At the crux, it seems that there’s a total paradigm shift. And it needs to keep occurring, it can’t stop.

Whatever is happening, we need to make sure that we help it along.

For too long it seems as if ideas stagnated in Windsor, that they were imposed upon us externally and not from within.

Now, however, Windsorites are coming up with new and innovative ways to change their collective community, ways that challenge the status quo. I’m excited to see what we can do when we put our minds to it.

It’s time to start yelling about Windsor. It’s time to shout from the rooftops.

Will you join in?

— JON LIEDTKE

Hell, at the provincial level we’ve seen what many refer to as an ‘orange crush’ and federally we’re seeing region and NDP titan Joe Comartin not seek reelection.

And while the times are changing politically, they’re also changing socially and economically.

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The urban suburban divide How Windsor shapes up from the core to suburbia

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WALTER PETRICHYN Canada is a suburban nation.

With any Canadian city, there are suburbs that surround the urban core. Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal all have dominant automobile dependent suburban communities with a higher number of people living there than in the city’s active cores.

A study of 33 census metropolitan areas

by Queen’s University Planning Director David Gordon reveals that 66 per cent of the nation lives in suburbia.

From Gordon’s study, the Windsor CMA boasted an active core population of 49,855, a suburban population of 234,835 and an exurban population of 38,700 in 2006.

These areas are further categorized in transit dependent (1,100 people) and automobile dependent suburbs (233,735 people).

This translates to nearly 73 per cent of the region’s population living in suburbs — higher than the national average.

Gordon defines exurban as a low density rural area where more than half of the population commute to the city. The active core is a neighbourhood with a 50 per cent higher rate of recreational commuting than the whole census metropolitan area.

The Windsor CMA data includes LaSalle, Amherstburg, Tecumseh and Lakeshore.

Spread out among these towns, as well as through south and east Windsor, it’s clear people here prefer a suburban lifestyle.

A high dependency on the automobile may be problematic depending on how far the closest amenities are located.

“For the suburbs, driving to most places instead of walking is a dynamic change. For traditional neighbourhoods like Walkerville, it is more service based and walkable than major, commercial centres,” said Adam Coates, city planner for the City of Windsor.

Walkscore.com collects data to determine how walkable North American neighbourhoods are. Windsor is considered to be a car dependent city with a walkable score of 49 out of 100. Downtown, Walkerville and South Central are cited to be the most walkable areas in the city.

The suburban experience is occurring right across the border as well. From the 2013 U.S. Census Bureau, the suburban metro counties of Wayne, Macomb and Livingston are showing increased population growth while the core of Detroit continues to see decreases.

“I think historically and given that we were the auto town and still are to a large degree, we’ve tended to be like most North American cities where we’ve catered a great amount of public investment to a single mode of transportation, sometimes at the expense to other modes,” said Thom Hunt, executive director and city planner for the City of Windsor. “... the more progressive the city is, the more it spends on the other modes. The more inclusive your city, the greater place it is to live. … That’s what we are trying to do and that’s what most cities are trying to do to attract people and investments.”

According to Gordon, suburban growth has

been occurring since the mid-19th century.

Urban critics have attacked the suburbs for decades for aesthetic and sustainability reasons, but there has been a long desire for this type of living in Canada despite the fact that suburban planning demonstrates further distance from amenities that are often found in well established neighborhoods.

“People have different wants or needs ... and it is market driven,” said Coates about why people prefer to live in the suburbs.

“That’s what people want and that is what they get. However, there seems to be an urban shift in living and hopefully we get to see that happening in the next 10 or 20 years.”

David Moore, an architecture and urban planning professor at the University of Windsor, said urban cores are necessary for suburban citizens.

“Core locations are typically the more accessible locations in any metro area. This is based on freeway access as well as from major thoroughfares and transit systems.

From towns such as Belle River, Tecumseh, Lakeshore, LaSalle or Amherstburg, the core is the most easily accessed part of the area.”

Moore said there are solutions for creating urban growth.

“There should be a concentrated effort on emphasizing the advantages of living in the core of the city. The availability of amenities in the core will increase its value as a place to locate or relocate,” he said.

Gordon encourages plans for infrastructure, environmental sustainability, public health, land use and community design for all suburban areas in Canada to help close the gap between the urban suburban divide.

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Once in a generation political change is currently happening in the Windsor-Essex region. This turnover of political leadership arguably began with Sandra Pupatello announcing her intention to walk away from electoral politics prior to the 2011 provincial election (kinda). It will continue through the 2014 municipal election that will see a new mayor and at least two, potentially as many as four, new councillors elected-guaranteed and perhaps (maybe even likely) more if any incumbents are not re-elected.

Why are so many of our political leaders choosing now to move on and who else could (or perhaps should) be next to walk away from electoral politics?

Rino Bortolin With a change in the mayor’s chair, it’s not surprising that many councilors are deciding not to run again in the upcoming municipal election. This council has been seen as a unified council, which essentially means they have followed the mayor’s lead on many issues, hence rendering many 10-1 or 9-2 votes.

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The mayor has had many councilors on his side and it has resulted in his agenda being front and centre. As Eddie Francis exits and a new mayor is on the horizon, many see this as a time to get out. Aside from the fact that many councilors are quite old and may be looking to really retire, they see a new mayor as uncertain and potentially unstable. This has resulted in two recent announcements, both Coun. Ron Jones and Coun. Fulvio Valentinis not running. This leaves Ward 1, 2 and 3 open (assuming Coun. Drew Dilkens runs for mayor) and I suspect another two to three wards will potentially open as well.

It would not be surprising to see Coun.

Jo-Anne Gignac and potentially Coun. Ed Sleiman decide not to return. This would result in the largest turnover on council in over a generation. This is exciting as last fall’s Ward 7 by-election proved that residents are craving young, energetic members of the community to step up. Instead of choosing older retired bureaucrats, people will have strong choices where new fresh ideas can propel us into a different era in the WindsorEssex region.

Rino Bortolin

Husband, father (of three), chef/co-owner Rino’s Kitchen & Ale House. Rino Bortolin is a passionate advocate for all things local especially local food. Bortolin’s community activism focuses on local municipal issues, having run for city council in 2010. He’s contributed on many local campaigns at all three levels of government.

While change always brings uncertainty, I see this upcoming municipal election as an exciting time in Windsor’s rebuilding, with a slate of candidates that will no doubt bring a fresh perspective to council chambers. The only questions remain: who will be in the mayor’s chair and will they be able to embrace that perspective and work with council to bring about real change?

Paul Synnott Why are political leaders walking away is a question that will keep pundits like us busy for months before and after the election.

Some will tell you it’s because there are “hidden bombs” awaiting the next council after years of holding the line on taxes. This line of thought has people walking away before all these hidden things come to light. Outside of some of the pull aheads in financing for the mayor’s Enhanced Capital Budget, I don’t really subscribe to this line of thought.

At the end of the day, sometimes people are just tired of politics. It’s a never ending grind that now, unfortunately, includes attacks not only on yourself but your family, business, livelihood and close associates. The Internet

has been good and bad to politics.

Should others walk away? As tempting as that is to answer, it’s also trickier. I think it’s possible Coun. Jo-Anne Gignac may decide to call it a day and follow Mayor Eddie Francis out the door. I don’t think it’s a secret that I think Coun. Al Maghnieh should hang his head in shame and slink away, but that’s something he should have done a long time ago.

The estimates right now range anywhere from four to possibly seven seats changing hands. In Windsor, that’s a once in a 100year change. That can be frightening in an incumbent heavy town. I choose to see it as a good thing. Every once in a while the stables need a good mucking out.

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Paul Synnott is a committed small ‘c’ conservative with libertarian influences, community activist and co-host of Rose City Politics. He has worked on many federal, provincial and municipal campaign in various aspects including campaign management. No dogs, cats or kids, his passion is politics and the City of Windsor.

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The imaginary battlefield of Ingress JON LIEDTKE There’s a global war happening around us, all day, every day, being waged by two opposing factions — the Enlightened and the Resistance — and no one seems to notice.

Mysterious exotic matter has appeared across the globe and while nobody knows exactly what it is, members of the Enlightened believe that whoever deposited the exotic matter want to lift humanity towards enlightenment, and the resistance believes that they’re humanity’s last defence against an impending alien threat.

Taking culture hot spots with an arsenal of Android devices

Battles are waged in public, at landmarks and attractions in cities across the globe, and both sides are actively fighting to establish portals on these landmarks to better their respective chances in battle.

Of course the fictional war is as engaging as you want it to be, and while the battle’s are being waged via smartphones, there’s a more meaningful purpose than what appears to just be a game: just beneath the surface, Google is improving the way we interact with the physical and digital world through

Ingress, an augmented reality game for smartphones and tablets.

Anderson Lunau plays as the Resistance in Windsor. He’s met at least 30 Windsor residents — some of which have turned into friendships — that he wouldn’t of he had not been playing.

“Get off your couch and play a videogame,” is how Lanau describes Ingress. “[Google is] just literally trying to find out [about cities] and help people discover the world around them.”

Doug Sartori is a local app developer whose company, Parallel 42 Systems, recently launched the ExploreWE app to help urban residents explore their surroundings. He is impressed by Ingress and its potential.

“There’s so many different threads converging around Ingress,” said Sartori. “I was really impressed with [how] many different of Google’s goals they are accomplishing with one app and I expect we’ll see more apps like this in the future.”

Sartori identified data collection, the ability to influence Google Place Rank and developing a marketing tool as Google’s three main goals with Ingress.

“The tracking of the users as they move around their communities playing Ingress gives Google insight into how people move around on foot, and that includes a lot of the data that Google Maps aren’t great at (obtaining), like alleys and trails,” he said.

Top 5 benefits of playing Ingress:

1. Exploration 2. Social engagement 3. Friendly competition on the way to work 4. You can pick on people that you don’t have to look at 5. Exercise Lunau understands that Google is using the data generated through the game for their own purposes and he is okay with the data collection.

“A lot of people are very afraid, there’s a culture in North American society that everybody is watching what you do and everybody is concerned about privacy, but I don’t think that we can really control it in the end of the day, because we’re the ones using the devices,” he said.

“So Google’s gonna use that too when I have Google Now on and it says I’m 11 minutes from home and there’s traffic on the way, and it actually helps me. I don’t see the downside of that because they’re going to get the data regardless, and I would like to think that they would at least use it for a healthy positive purpose.”

This kind of data collection raises legal questions for Sartori, namely regarding the kind of legal controls that should and can be put on this type of big data collection.

Much like Google Pagerank for the internet, Google Place Rank is the way Google determines which physical places are popular and should appear higher on local search results.

“Finding out what local landmarks attract foot traffic is an important goal for Google as well.”

“I think we need to raise public awareness about how this data is used and have a good public debate about how data should be used before we’re going to be able to build the political will to get some kind of rules. Right now, it’s really the wild west.”

Sartori studied Ingress’ Terms of Service and found it was bound to Google’s privacy policy, which means the company aggregates data from all users playing the game and then uses that data for their own purposes.

Sartori explained that “big data” and the ability to “aggregate massive amounts of data is going to enable research and provide a deeper understanding of human behaviour and the world around us than we’ve ever been able to accumulate before.”

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Thinking ouside of the big box

William’s Grocery returns to the simple art of the local greengrocer JAY VERSPEELT Sprawling suburban landscapes are dotted with large, impersonal supermarkets as natural as the apple pies lining their shelves. However, William’s Grocery is putting the ‘pro’ back in produce.

William’s Grocery, which opened its doors June 17, is a tiny store on Wyandotte Street East in Walkerville. It’s located in a former convenience store which some may remember had a large Kit-Kat sign that hung above the door. The tenants fell behind on their rent were evicted, leaving a vacant storefront.

Co-owner Louise Jones has owned Jones & Co. Vintage clothing store next door and

the building it sits in for around a decade.

After the former convenience store tenants left last year, she and her husband Bill Hucker started to put together the community grocery store. On a micro budget, Hucker built all the parts for the store himself. “[The store] probably ends up having a bit of a vintage look or something but it wasn’t really intended,” said Hucker. “There’s been a lot of people who [helped] in designing [the layout].”

It’s not an expansive store; customers can get a view of just about everything from the entrance.

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“I just feel like our food, our relationship with our food, is so fucked up with what we’re eating and not eating. … We need to bring it back to that daily routine. We’re talking, you get a couple things and off you go,” said Jones.

It’s a “perimeter-only” type of store, explained Jones. Produce is supplied from Brander Farms, bread and pastries from Blak’s Bakery, fresh fish from Leamington’s Dockside Fisheries and gelato from Gennaro’s. The shelves are also lined with gluten free and vegan products. Soon they will carry Hung Handcrafted Charcuterie meats prepared by Mark Dutka.

While it appears that everything is running like a well oiled deli slicer, Jones said the learning curve has been huge but she’s moving fast. She admits she has no experience dealing with produce or deli suppliers, but has been receiving referrals to different vendors and suppliers.

“I wanted an approach that could support everybody,” she said.

William’s Grocery is open seven days a week and is located at 1767 Wyandotte St. E.

The grill of your dreams Yakitori Chicken Kabobs 6 chicken breasts, cut into pieces 1/3 brown sugar 2/3 cup of mirin sauce 2/3 cup soya sauce 4 cloves of garlic, crushed 1-inch fresh ginger, finely chopped 1 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp cracked black pepper

Grilled Corn with Lime Chili Butter

Directions

6 ears of corn on the cob 1/2 cup butter, room temperature 1/2 tsp red chili, finely chopped 1/2 tsp fine red chili sauce 1 tbsp lime juice 1/4 tsp salt

In a saucepan on medium heat, warm olive oil and add garlic and ginger. Cook for 2 minutes or until fragrant. Stir in sugar, and once dissolved add mirin and soya sauces and brown pepper. Reduce to low heat and cook for 3 minutes.

Remove from heat and cool sauce.

Combine sauce with chopped chicken breasts and marinate 2 hours, stirring occasionally. Thread chicken on bamboo skewers (make sure to pre-soak the skewers in water for 1 hour beforehand). Preheat barbecue on high, then reduce heat to medium. Cook chicken for 5 to 8 minutes on one side, rotate skewers and brush with more marinade.

Serves 6.

2 racks of pork side ribs Rub: 1/2 cup espresso coffee grounds 3 tbsp smoked paprika 1 tbsp salt 1 tbsp garlic powder 1 tsp cayenne pepper Sauce: 1/2 cup ketchup 1/4 cup mirin sauce a hefty pour each of spiced rum and tequila 3 tbsp soya sauce

Dressing: juice, 1 lime 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar 1 tsp granulated sugar pinch salt

4 large portobello mushrooms 4 slices havarti cheese 4 whole grain ciabatta buns 1/4 cup prepared pesto 1/8 cup mayonnaise olive oil salt and pepper, to taste 1 red pepper, roasted 2 leaves kale, torn

Directions

Directions

Boil corn in a pot of water for five minutes. Remove the corn and grill on the barbecue at medium heat for three minutes.

In a bowl, combine remaining ingredients. To serve, top each corn on the cob with a dollop of lime chili butter. Serves 6.

BBQ Pork Spare Ribs Directions

Combine ingredients for rub in a bowl and rub over pork side ribs. In a shallow roasting pan, place the ribs, meaty side up, on the pan in a single layer. Place in oven at 325°F (160°C) and cook for one and a half to two hours.

Combine remaining ingredients for barbecue sauce and set aside. Remove ribs from oven and finish cooking on the grill. Preheat barbecue on high, then reduce heat to medium. Place ribs on the grill and baste with barbecue sauce. Turn and baste occasionally for about 20 minutes. Serves 4.

For more great summer recipes check out urbanitenews.com/summer » Words Natasha Marar; photos Jon Liedtke

Portobello Pesto Mushroom Burgers

In a bowl, stir together pesto and mayonnaise. Set barbecue to medium heat. Grill bun slices, cut side down, until lightly toasted. Remove from grill and spread with pesto mayonnaise. Brush mushrooms on both sides with oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Grill for 4 minutes on each side until mushrooms are tender, about 4 minutes. Place mushrooms on rolls and top each red pepper slices, havarti slices and kale leaves. Serves 4.

Farmer’s markets’ finest vendors Holding farmer’s markets is one of the oldest traditions practised in communities around the world. They allow people to get an authentic taste of local produce, economy and culture.

Originally, most farmers’ markets consisted of local meats, fruits and vegetables, but some vendors at Windsor’s markets are giving a fresh spin on market fare.

The Crazy Recyclers

One man’s trash is another market booth when Connie Machin, Sharon and Bob Dann are involved. The vendors recycle old local material into new products selling everything from bracelets, hats, aprons, purses, quilts, dish cloths, wine holders and coffee can organizers. Bob crafts hand made wooden buttons and shawl pins made from local Ontario wood such as maple, pine and cherry. He also smiths tin lanterns that replicate patterns dating back to the 1700s, and are the perfect add on to light up any garden.

Price range: $2 to $70 Where to find them: Downtown Windsor Farmers’ Market

Oh My Goodness Food Co.

Small batch, hand made, local and seasonal are the four things Melissa Taylor uses to describe her focus for Oh My Goodness Food Co. O.M.G.F. sells pickles, preserves and granola using fresh seasonal ingredients. Taylor uses local and Ontario grown produce to celebrate her love of food with unique flavour combinations. She said instead of making a plain strawberry jam she likes to give it a twist by using local red wine and black pepper.

Price range: $5 to $8 Where to find them: Downtown Windsor Farmers’ Market, Walkerville Night Market

Log Home Body Soap

Founder Kelly Flaming creates handcrafted personal care products that are 100 per cent natural, chemical and toxin free, with no artificial colouring, synthetic additives or preservatives. The products, which include soaps, body butters, deodorants, lip balms and safe detergents, are from organic, natural or botanical ingredients. Flaming uses old school techniques such as natural colouring from ingredients like clay, herbs, seeds, flower petals, fruits, peels and spices.

Price range: $3 to $20 Where to find them: Riverside Farmers’ Market

Zone 6 Gardner’s

Grace LaSorda and husband Frank zoned in on a way to give their merchandise a twist, by infusing liquor into many of the products to heighten the flavour. They create homemade jams, jellies, bread dippers and baked goods from ingredients found in Zone 6.

LaSorda said they produce certain foods on their own property such as figs and walnuts, not to mention only buying non-local ingredients when it involves produce that can’t be found in the area. Jelly flavours include champagne, curacao, mimosa, sweet red pepper, blood orange bourbon, mint and chive.

Price range: $3 to $9 Where to find them: Downtown Windsor Farmers’ Market

Stay’s Stuff

Stacie Teasdale’s creative, witty and cute handmade cards may make your own attempts look like a right handed person made it with their broken left arm. With a background in architecture and graphic design, she specializes in creating designs/graphics for cards, digital invitations and lunch box notes for both kids and spouses. Teasdale said she likes to keep her creations simple with a modern twist.

Price range: $3 to $20 Where to find them: Midtown Farmer’s Market

Atmosphere Fine Foods

Atmosphere Fine Foods are winners of the Food Networks’ Dinner Party Wars, the 2013 Windsor Essex Burgerfest champions in the professional category and the Windsor Harvest Moon soup champions. Created by partners Nav Sehmbi and Rita Horbatiuk, the customized caterers and competition cooks specialize in homemade sauces and speciality meats. Best sellers include sweet n’ spicy Habanero, Argentinian chimichurri and triple play explosion hot sauce.

Price range: $5 to $10 Where to find them: Downtown Windsor Farmers’ Market, Riverside Farmer’s Market

Rallis Olive Oil

Theo Rallis and his wife Jen create the only raw ice pressed olive oil in the world. The award winning oil has a refreshing natural taste due to the rare process that makes a raw, enzyme and antioxidant rich olive oil. The Rallis family own land in Greece where they live three months out of the year to do the harvesting. Packaged and handmade in Windsor the vendors sell olive oil, canned olives, bug repellent and soap made with the oil. The soap can also be used as shampoo, moisturizer and make-up remover, and they’ll soon be making sunscreen.

Price range: $15 to $20 Where to find them: Walkerville Night Market

Ask a brewer...

What is an IPA

with brewmaster Paul Brady

What is an IPA and what makes it so damn good?

IPA stands for India Pale Ale. It’s named after the country, India, and the style of beer, pale ale. The true origins of the style are that the English used to occupy India and part of an English soldier’s pay was that he’d get so many pints of beer a day. … It was difficult to brew beer in India because the ingredients weren’t indigenous there, so they had to ship beer to India, and the only way to do that then was down and around the coast of Africa and back up into India. By that time beer would spoil, I mean just foul, and nobody would want to drink that.

It took them a bit of time, but they figured out that hops are a natural preservative ... and as they would travel and get all the way to india soldiers could drink it. However that also made the beer a lot more bitter, so these soldiers got used to drinking this bitter beer and when they returned to England and started drinking the beer there [it wasn’t similar to their IPA]. So the IPA turned into a style of its own, not just used to ship beer to India, but a drinking style. It was a style borne of necessity is the best way to describe it, and now its been taken and turned into something even more wild.

What different types of IPAs are there?

Traditionally the English their IPAs were bitter, they didn’t have a lot of hop floral notes, and that’s how they are today [still]. If you get an English Special Bitter, ESB, or even an IPA [in Europe] sometimes from other places [they’re] more European in nature, they’re much more subtle.

In the last 20 years, the craft market in the Americas has really taken the IPA and turned it into an APA or an American Pale Ale, although they’re still called IPAs often. We Americans have put a bit of a twist on it, which predominantly means adding hops throughout the entire process.

Initially hops was just put it in at the beginning and we boil it off for bitterness and stability, now guys are adding hops every five minutes for an hour and a half, and that’s why IPAs are so rich and floral.

Why IPAs usually have a higher alcohol content?

IPAs traditionally nowadays are a higher alcohol content and a higher hop content as well, so we usually use more grain in the mash and a lot more hops throughout the process.

With the robust body and flavour, you can put a bit of a stronger ale behind it, and it balances well. But a new trend is a Session IPA, a lower alcohol content, almost like a 4.5 per cent … you can drink more of it and still enjoy the full flavour of the IPA. What can you pair IPAs with?

IPAs often go well with rich foods, spicy foods, I like to have a bowl of jambalaya and an IPA — there’s a lot going on in both and they kind of fight and balance … I like red meats also with IPAs, it’s personal taste. But I’d go for something robust for sure.

Tips for getting into IPAs? Start with craft. Don’t take what the mainstream calls an IPA because that won’t be true to what you should be experiencing. Dont be afraid of flavour.

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Twenty years of Media City Windsor’s globally celebrated festival of experimental film and video art roll the tape on their 20th edition

» Photos courtesy Media City Film Festival

CLARA MUSCA Windsor is rolling out the avant-garde red carpet in preparation for Media City Film Festival’s 20th anniversary.

Established in 1994, Media City Film Festival returns to Windsor and Detroit July 8 to 12. Each year the festival showcases international talents in filmmaking and experimental video and art.

“It is recognized all over the world as a leader in the field,” said co-program director Jeremy Rigsby, who has worked for the festival since 1996. “It used to be very regional but the festival has grown to being global.”

Rigsby’s director counterpart, Oona Mosna, said there are new things happening this year.

“As part of an art project by Melanie Janisse called Ship of Fools, we are sailing a sailboat during the festival,” said Mosna. “But the main thing is celebrating cinema from all over the world including Brazil, France, Germany, Tunisia, Austria and much more.”

as a symbol being expressed in literature, poetry and art.

“There is no post-production, it’s just the moon represented in each stage,” said Szlam.

As in previous years, the festival is stretching beyond Windsor.

“We’ve recently been able to expand into Detroit,” said Rigsby. “It’s great to build our audience across the border and we’ve received a lot of support from them.”

Hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Detroit, opening night will feature American experimental composer and sound installation artist Alvin Lucier. His work explores the physical properties of science and sound, emphasizing auditory perception.

special relationship between the characters and the local geography, while also emphasizing a specific look at African American life. He is currently shooting a film in Windsor as part of Mobile Frames: International Filmmakers in Residence, and is excited to be visiting the city once again.

start something that would really put Windsor on the map.

“I like it here because it’s unassuming, it’s not like other places. Windsorites are only out to impress themselves and not somebody else,” said Everson. “That comes from the social landscape, the fact that the shore way is generous to the public; every shoreline in America is privately owned.”

According to McNamara, Artcite was doing a lot of great things in Windsor since 1982, but there was no regular programming.

Everson’s film Sound That and Fe26 will be screening Wednesday, July 9 at the Capitol Theatre in partnership with Mobile Frames and Neighbourhood Spaces. Being part of the festival since 2006, Everson is excited about the anniversary.

Bruce McLure and Kevin Jerome Everson are some of the filmmakers who have contributed year-after-year to the festival.

“Every year it’s the place to be I always tell people it’s one of the best experimental film festivals.”

Part of the festival includes a Regional Artist Program in partnership with the Arts Council Windsor & Region and Windsor Endowment of the Arts. Among the international programs there will also be a Canadian one featuring works by Chris Kennedy, Charlie Egleston, Malena Szlam, John Price, David Rimmer, Alexandre Larose, Vincent Grenier and Stephen Broomer.

McLure’s Tastefully Taut Against German Satin will be featured on opening night using three modified projectors and six film loops. Awarded the Guggenheim fellowship in 2011, McLure is known for his modified projector performances. His method glamourizes the art of interference as he uses sound-effect pedals and a handmade black screen.

Mosna believes that contrary to popular belief, there’s a larger community building around film and video.

Malena Szlam, who moved to Montreal in 2006 from Chile, will show her film Lunar Almanac on July 11. This is her first time being showcased at Media City.

Everson’s film Sound That will be featured as part of the International Program, telling the story of the Cleveland Water Department searching for leaks in the infrastructure in Cuyahoga County.

“Mythologically speaking, I find the moon to be very magical and symbolic of the cycles in life,” said Szlam.

While shooting 4,000 still images of the moon throughout 2011 and 2012, Szlam said that she was fascinated with the moon

“It focuses on what’s beneath the surface of Cleveland,” said Everson, admitting it’s a metaphor symbolizing an underground approach to film.

Emerson’s body of work is known to have a

“More and more artists are coming to Windsor each year, so our reputation has definitely grown,” she said.

However, 20 years ago, all of this was just a vision. A group of artists associated with Artcite in the early 90s got together and decided to start a local event. Christopher McNamara is one of the founders.

“The Capitol Theatre seemed like an obvious fit, and at the time nobody else was talking about experimental film and video,” said McNamara.

During the formative years, organizers wanted to provide spaces and screens for film and video artists. Their vision was to

“Windsor was very topsy turvy at the time.

Downtown was in a state of flux with the casino displacing a lot of business and pushing a lot of people out of the core.”

“We thought something like Media City would be a great way to begin formally making it happen in a way that would build a sustained and engaged audience,” said McNamara.

He believes that the festival has gone through gradual evolution.

“When Jeremy and Oona got involved they were very much a part of that spirit, but they were also sharp and shrewd about how they could use technology to begin developing a greater reach.”

McNamara admits that during the early years they weren’t always sure of what they were doing, but watching the festival grow has given him the ability and inspiration to take his part in this industry more seriously.

“I remember standing outside the cinema one night during one of the festivals and I realized that I was in the midst of artists from at least three different continents.”

Media City Film Festival’s opening party will be held Wednesday, July 9 at the Capitol Theatre. This free event will feature opening speeches by artists, followed by Henry Hills’ KINO DA a collection of his films spanning from 1970s to present day.

Each screening is pay what you can and festival passes are available for $20 at the door.

More information, including the full schedule, visit mediacityfilmfestival.com.

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GENTLEMEN’S GUN CLUB LUCID DREAMS OF FUTURE ARSONS S/R

It’s more complex than meets the ear.

Gentleman’s Gun Club’s seventh album, Lucid Dreams of Future Arsons, is a masterous progressive instrumental display from Windsor musician Chris Elkjar.

Josh Karmin’s debut “Spin Cycle” has been picked up by a Turkish label and his second, “In2mate,“ droped on a Russian imprint » Photo courtesy Josh Karmin AMANDA SINASAC Windsor-based DJ and producer Josh Karmin has become a staple in the local club scene over his decade-long career, and his ability to perform nationally and the United States has set him ahead of the competition.

Living in Windsor allows Karmin to easily perform on both sides of the border early on in his career. “Not many people can say that, if they’re coming from Toronto or other larger cities. Our proximity [to Detroit] has been really good for my career,” he said.

This proximity to Detroit has not only boosted his reputation, but also helped to inspire his style. Often cited as the birthplace of techno, as well as host to huge events such as Movement Electronic Music Festival, Detroit’s thriving EDM scene is an ideal setting for a young DJ. “Being exposed to the music that’s in Detroit has really made me have a unique sound,” said Karmin.

Karmin just released his debut original single, “Spin Cycle,” June 16 through Turkish Label KP Recordings. His next recording, “In2mate,” was released June 30 on a compilation album through the Russian progressive house label Green House Records. Both tracks are available through iTunes and other major music portals.

Karmen is also crafting a remix of local singer Jody Raffoul’s hit “Light of Day” that has been picked up Washington D.C. music label.

Since last December, Karmin has been gigging weekends as the resident DJ at ELYX Lounge, located within Caesars Windsor. When not performing locally, he tours across North America, with appearances spanning from Montreal to Florida. He has shared the stage with numerous well-known artists, including Nicky Romero, Avicii, Steve Aoki and Benny Benassi.

Karmin, who began DJing at the age of 16, claims he didn’t plan on becoming a professional DJ, but always knew he wanted a career in music.

“I always had this one desire to play music for people, so it kind of came about naturally,” he recalled.

Karmin stated, however, that his chosen career comes with certain challenges.

“You’re not only a DJ, you’re also doing communications, logo design and social media. There are so many more aspects to it today than 10 or 15 years ago. Now you have to be really well-rounded in what you’re doing.”

Karmin has vast aspirations, stating that he’d eventually like to be signed to a major label, travel the world, and perhaps even win a Grammy.

“Short-term, I would love to move to a big city where the dance floor is always packed,” he mused.

The album begins with the sound of backwards guitar notes, boring themselves out of nothing, before ending abruptly in scattered patterns. It builds as static washes over the track and what sounds like Rosesdead without a singer comes through.

The album is a wall of sound all the way to the end, with complex back and forths between guitars and bass jumps in stereo through the speakers. The drums are all programmed, but you wouldn’t hear the difference if you didn’t know [Editors note: but now you do].

The song titles are curious in that they don’t seem to be a run-together of clever phrases, but rather historical references.

This is with exception the first and last tracks.

What follows are references to 1920s pulitzer prize winning journalists, English horse racing of the same era and the rallying cry for the Spanish-American war, Remember the Maine, ‘to Hell with Spain’.

The only voice on the whole record comes on Awake where a cold war era propaganda announcement crackles into oblivion just before a thunderous explosion sound pours through.

With a title like Lucid Dreams of Future Arsons, it’s hard not to wonder if it’s meaning is predicting the future through the past.

Or maybe that’s just overthinking it. The last track, “Great Wall of Ohio,” doesn’t seem to have to do with anything except possibly a Chinese restaurant in Columbus.

— JAY VERSPEELT

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You can tell that Def3, aka Danny Fernandez, spent his childhood travelling the world. His latest release Wildlif3 is a varied and encompassing album in scope, incorporating different musical styles, themes and nuances throughout this Canadian hip-hop album.

Wildlif3 starts off strong with “Recipe Destiny,” featuring Claire Mortifee. The track features a strong lyrical flow, heavy rhythm and percussive lead. The chorus by Mortifee is strong, balanced and musically appealing.

Starting off an album featuring another artist can be risky business as it casts light on the contributing artist, but Wildlif3’s inclusion of contributing artists, including Kay the Aquanaut, Ceschi, Shad & Skratch Bastid, Monka Only & Panther, Merkules & Evil Ebenezer and Krystle Dos Santos in addition to Claire Mortifee helps round out an already impressive album.

While the production on the album isn’t anything to write home about, it certainly is something to write about in a review. Produced by Factor, the album is clean where it needs to be, features deep lows and bright highs. The vocals and instruments play off of each other well and the balance is perfect for listening through headphones.

“Babyface” references the notion of being a ‘big fish in a small pond’ while the title track does a great job of building up the beat using drums and riding a strong bass thump to level it out.

Listen to “The Truth feat Shad & Skratch Bastid” simply because of its trumpet intro countered by a muted trumpet solo. The most pop influenced track is “Where Did We Go Wrong,” while “Under the Influence” has one of the sexiest bass lines I’ve heard in a while.

Lyrically, Def3 raps about travelling the world, working hard, overcoming obstacles and continually persevering, and Canada.

Whether it be talk about the west coast, living in the prairies, beaches, forests, getting through rough winters or major Canadian cities, Def3 makes it implicitly clear that he’s both Canadian and not afraid to show it.

— JON LIEDTKE

the Windsor Scene w/Jamie Greer

THE TEA PARTY

Fork & Cork fest serves up Tea Party Phog brings the funk to the Capitol and The Walkervilles play their namesake

JAMIE GREER It’s looking like another great series of music for just about everyone over the next two weeks, as summer seems to have finally decided to stick around for a while!

A new summer tradition seems to be the Fork & Cork Festival, happening this weekend, Friday July 4 to Sunday July 6, down at the Riverside Festival Plaza on the Detroit River (across from Caesar’s Windsor). Picking up where the old Epicure Festival left off, organizers have cultivated the best in local cuisine and wine and have paired it with a ‘who’s who’ of amazing local talent. Headlined by Toronto’s Cowboy Junkies on Friday (with Austin, Texas roots phenoms Seryn), Windsor’s rock and roll legends The Tea Party on Saturday (who just released their first single, “Water’s on Fire”, in over a decade), and local indie rockers Dave Russell & The Precious Stones on Sunday, this massive showcase features 28 musical acts, with 24 or the 26 homegrown. Some last minute changes sees the addition of indie folk favourites the unquiet dead (fresh off their third consecutive NXNE appearance), plus the Brit rock infused stylings of R.Y.E., rounding out a three-day local music explosion that already features James OL & The Villains, Salt of the Chief Cornerstone, Fresh Breath, Cowboys in Cardigans, Locusts Have No King, Years of Ernest, Crissi Cochrane, Diane Motel and much more.

Sunday’s events also kick off with a special showcase from Jam Space’s Jam Academy (their youth program that not only teaches music lessons to youth and kids, but helps them understand how to work in the band concept). Admission is $5 on Friday and Saturday, and $2 on Sunday. Full weekend passes are also available at The Dominion House or online.

The Walkerville area throws it’s annual Art

Walk & Rock Festival the same weekend, with events on Friday and Saturday. The big attraction is the homecoming showcase of The Walkervilles on the main stage at 8 p.m. The Walkervilles bring their “Rose City Soul” back to Windsor after finishing up their next album, recorded in Texas (at Willie Nelson’s studio) under the production helm of former Windsorite Gordie Johnson (of Big Sugar and Grady fame).

As impressive as Fork & Cork’s line-up is, due to its family centric vibe, a lot of the heavier side of the scene isn’t represented unfortunately. But Phog Lounge (157 University Ave. West) has a Night of Noise slated for Friday, July 4, featuring Isolation Order and I, Benign, experimental noise bands from London. They’re joined by four local acts, Horrible Mess, Tainted Glove, Sex Servant and Otis The Hunting Dog, plus DJs spinning between sets.

Halifax fuzz pop trio (and Sonic Unyon recording artists) Kestrels bring their Haligonian sounds to Phog Lounge on Saturday, July 5. Sounding more akin to Halifax’s early 90s indie scene that hatched Sloan, Hardship Post (featuring a young Joel Plaskett), Plumtree and Eric’s Trip (to name a few) than the more contemporary offerings from our East Coast, Kestrels are sure to put on a show that won’t disappoint. Especially when they’re backed up by the melodic intensity of Windsor’s own Silent Movie Type, fresh off back to back showcases at two prestigious Canadian music festivals (Canadian Music Week and NXNE). Opening the show is another Windsor band picking up steam, the retro post-punk sounds of Queen’s Rug. A trio of Chatham bands hit Windsor on a tour taking them up the 401 to Montreal, with a stop at the Dominion House Tavern

(3140 Sandwich St.). Grunge rockers Elastic and The Burnouts team up with punk/ ska band Sound System for a three-band bill of Chathamites. It’s an all-ages show, all for only $3.

Stomp Records recording artists East End Radicals bring their Montreal punk rock through Windsor on their Canadian tour for their new 7”, Generation Checkout, with a stop on Sunday, July 6 at The Windsor Beer Exchange (493 University Ave. West). They’ve shared the stage with such acts as The Planet Smashers, The Creepshow, The Real McKenzies and The Mahones, and they’re bringing hometown pals, Boids, with them. Sponsored by Beau’s All Natural Brewery, local support comes from busker punk darlings Thick As Thieves.

For years, Vancouver’s funk army, the massive ensemble known collectively as Five Alarm Funk, has been tearing up Windsor with shows at the intimate Phog Lounge. Well, they’re back on Tuesday, July 8, but the small hallowed halls of Phog are simply too small to contain the dance party that this group incites. Phog Lounge and The Urbanite presents a special showcase featuring Five Alarm Funk next door at the Joy Theatre in the historic Capitol Theatre (121 University Ave. West), to accommodate the cult following FAF have accrued during their Windsor stops. No more line-ups (unless you don’t get your ticket!).

Advance tickets are available at Phog now for $15 or $20 at the door.

It’s nice to see The Willistead (1840 Wyandotte St. East) begin to add live music to their nights, adding another live music venue in the Walkerville area. They have Daren Dobsky (the unquiet dead) on weekends, Pat Robitaille (The Walkervilles)

on Tuesday, and now on Thursday, July 10 they’ll have an intimate show featuring local music icon Kelly “Mr. Chill” Hoppe (of Big Sugar) with long time collaborator and guitarist extraordinaire Greg Cox. They’ll play an amazing songbook of old time roots and blues, plus all their originals.

Kicks off at 10 p.m.

Hip-hop in Windsor is almost always the most under-represented and reported on genre in the local media, but Rose City Promotions hopes to improve on that with a showcase at The Dominion House on Friday, July 11, with A Hip Hop Summer Night. Known more for their hardcore, punk and metal showcases, Rose City Promotions is introducing some lesser known hip-hop artists from the area, Myles Kushman and 1200 Money (originally from Washington, DC), plus Toronto’s Wavy Jone$. There will also be instrumental sets from Soul Brother Stef (Stefan Cvetkovic of The Walkervilles) on his “Maschine,” E’n D and London’s Khris Jxhnsxn. It’s an all ages event kicking off at 7 p.m. Advance tickets are only $5 (or $7 at the door).

Windsor’s own roots rock kings (and queen!) The Locusts Have No King are incredibly close to dropping their eagerly awaited new album this year. But for now, we’ll have to settle for a live performance showcasing a lot of the new material.

They’re playing at Villains Beastro (256 Pelissier St.) on Saturday, July 12, and they’ll be joined by the elusive Diane Motel, a new alt. folk project featuring a slew of local veterans such as Travis Reitsma, Eric Welton, Josh Fraser (ex-unquiet dead), Caleb Farrugia (James OL & The Villains, What Seas What Shores) and newcomer Jo Meloche.

The renegades of funk

Five Alarm Funk take their nine-piece pumped up funk to The Capitol Theatre JON LIEDTKE Vancouver heavy-weight funk champions Five Alarm Funk are bringing their raucous and wild antics back to Windsor to perform at the Capitol Theatre.

The nine-member troupe has performed multiple times at Phog Lounge, every time to sold out crowds, often to those without tickets taking the show in along University Avenue dancing on the sidewalk and in the streets till their hearts’ content. The band will play for the first time at the Capitol Theatre’s Joy Theatre room, and with no seats there will be plenty room for dancing.

“We’re touring the Abandon Earth album, our concept album,” said Tayo Branston, lead vocalist and drummer for the band.

“The demise of the planet Earth by a tyrannical Ice Cream Man and a giant robot.”

The band is in the midst of a 17-show streak from Vancouver to Montreal and back again, and Branston explained that “things are cooking right now, seriously

cooking” and that the band is “on fire and ready to rock and roll.”

“It’s getting to the point where the band (members) all really believing in what we’re doing and everybody is going harder than they were before. So the mojo and the love amongst the group is at an all time high right now.”

Branston sees touring as the most freeing and beautiful experience ever and explained that while the band travels primarily via a new tour bus, that they often employ unconventional methods to get around. “We got Segways, we got boats, hovercrafts, the whole nine yards, we’re just waiting for the spaceship to come and take us out of this galaxy.”

Five Alarm Funk has been performing consecutively for 11 years and Branston said in that time they’ve come to learn the ropes of touring. “We’ve learned how to get a pretty good system going on, each

individual player has their own individual responsibility that they take care of, it’s a well oiled machine at this point.”

For a cross country tour with only eight days off, the journey is “intense,” but Branston noted that it’s what the band lives for.

“We live to be on stage, not to take nights off and goof around. It’s exactly what we want to do. That’s the only way you can survive; you’ve got to make some money right.”

The band has seen a great response on the tour so far, performing to sold out venues city to city. “It’s extremely exciting to see and just to be able to play for packed houses every night, that’s living, that’s the fun of what we’re doing. The more people there, the more energized we are, the more fun we’ve having. It’s great to see people coming out and supporting music.”

Just being in a band provides challenges, touring can compound the issue, but Bran-

ston explained that while challenges occur every day, that they’re not the end of the world. “It’s always challenging, but it’s what we live for. If life doesn’t throw you challenges, then what the hell are you doing?”

Branston always wanted to be a touring musician and to him the greatness of being a touring musician is seeing “all the sights … the sheer beauty of the country is amazing.”

“It’s really exciting to see the same friends and fans come back. Now when we got to Windsor or Winnipeg, we literally have friends that we get to go and play music for. That’s one of the wonders … you get to play and create to new people.”

The Urbanite and Phog Lounge present Five Alarm Funk, July 8 at 10 p.m. at The Capitol Theatre with The Nefidovs. Tickets are available at Phog Lounge for $15 advance, or $20 at the door.

Go jump in a lake

A quick guide to cooling off with watersport

LOREN MASTRACCI After a brutal winter like the past one, this is going to be a cherished summer. Sunbathing, swimming and outdoor sports are a popular way to unwind.

Windsor offers a gamut of water sports, so why not take advantage of the proximity to water as there are plenty of water activities that do not involve getting mercury poisoning or E. coli (the water’s are not always enticing, eh?!) So if you’re up for an adventure, plunge into the water that often goes unexplored.

A popular aquatic spot is River Canard, a hamlet about 20 km south of Windsor and one of the oldest European settlements in North America. It’s ideal for beginners or for those of you who enjoy tranquil excursions. The breezes are mild and the river is

adorned with islands and bridges.

River Canard Boating Company rents kayaks, canoes and paddle boats at affordable prices ($30 to $60, depending on the watercraft) and boaters can either paddle alone or take a guided tour in a canoe. The boat-launching is assisted by staff members and security equipment is included in the rental fee.

For an adrenaline surge, the Detroit River is a challenging yet fun experience. The current is strong, making it easy to paddle downstream but take care, those same currents can make for a difficult return trip.

Those of you fortunate enough to own a watercraft can launch at McKee Park at no cost or Lakeview Park Marina for $12.

For a more supervised experience, Pure Detroit and Detroit River Sports offer guided tours of Detroit’s East Jefferson canals and Belle Isle. The latter is strongly recommended because of its beautiful scenery planned by Frederick Law Olmsted (the landscape architect who designed New York’s Central Park.)

metre venture across the marsh and to the Northwest Beach.

The cost of the trip averages around $40 for a tandem or single kayak. The organizers are flexible and open to reservations.

This business is also a good place to rent Sea-Doos and get a temporary license, although the price is not exactly cheap ($90 an hour.)

For a complete eco-tourism experience, Point Pelee is a birding haven and a kayaking hotspot. Canoes and kayaks can be rented at Friends of Point Pelee for $12 an hour. Beginners can paddle an eight kilometre loop through the marsh, while the more seasoned can go for a 17 kilo-

If you don’t want to travel too far or you feel like you need to master some new skills, Riverside Watersports on Lake St. Clair offers a variety of classes in wakeboard, wakeskate, wakesurf and boating.

Urban Surf Co. in Tecumseh offers Stand Up Paddle Boarding courses and rentals. And if you want to funk up your yoga practice, try SUP yoga — traditional yoga poses on a paddle board in the water.

Still looking for more to do in your own backyard? We’ve got you.

JEN MCMULLAN Exploring your own city and neighbouring areas is a little like digging through your grandparent’s closets: we may write it off as old, out dated and boringly familiar, but once we check the back corner we realize its unique, vintage potential. Check out these things to do in your own backyard.

Physical feats It’s never a good idea to drink and drive, but there’s nothing to stop you from drinking and riding. Adding some exercise to the long loved adult pastime of great wine tasting is the perfect blend for the well aged.

Windsoreats Wine Trail Rides – this cycle to three different wineries of the area includes tastings, tours, a guide and a dinner produced from local foods in the area.

Price: $75

Yoga on the Beach – a pop up yoga studio that brings you on a wine tour of the county while stopping to do yoga at each location. Hosted by Jayne Cichon, owner of Eastside Yoga, the tour ends at Sprucewood Winery for music, wine and munchies.

Price: $25

Detroit – Motown Museum (Hitsville U.S.A.) Built inside Motown’s first recording studio where such legends have stepped foot in as Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and The Jackson 5.

Price: $12 - $15

Feather Bowling at Cadieux Café This is the place to go for a taste of Belgium and America’s version of curling. Located on Cadieux Road in Detroit’s historic lower east side, the café offers music, Belgium inspired foods, more than a dozen Belgian beers and feather bowling. Cadieux café is the only place in North America where you can play feather bowling, a game which originated in the 13th century in Flanders, Belgium. Played with wooden balls shaped like cheese wheels, the game is similar to that of curling and bocce.

Amherstburg - North American Black Historical Museum Resides in a 160-year-old log cabin and connected church built by escaped slaves.

Price $5 - $7.50

A day at the museum Anyone who enjoys watching reruns of Saved By the Bell and rummaging through old boxes of kindergarten macaroni art understands the appeal of examining the past. Museums are the perfect day trip to experience the richness of history at a cheap price.

Grand Rapids – Grand Rapids Public Museum Inside is a professional LEGO display recreating some of the most famous architectural structures in the world.

Price: $3 - $8 Amherstburg – Fort Malden National Historic Site A time capsule to the war of 1812 this site is one of the oldest forts in Upper Canada.

Price: $1.90 - $3.90 Detroit – The Henry Ford Museum The museum holds 300 years of history and 26 million artifacts with national treasures such as John F. Kennedy’s limousine,

Rosa Parks’ bus and Abraham Lincoln’s chair.

Price: $13.50 - $18

Drinking in history Both Windsor and Detroit are filled with historical landmarks, monuments and great booze; adding all three together is just a no-brainer.

Drinks of Walkerville Walking Tour – Windsoreats takes you through historic Walkerville learning about the architecture, neighbourhood folklore, tales of Al Capone and prohibition-era rum-running history.

Price: $45 (every first Saturday monthly) Scofflaws and Speakeasies: Detroit Prohibition Tour – Run by the Detroit Bus Company, the tour takes you through historical spots during prohibition. Stopping at such sites as where the Milaflore’s Massacre took place. The illegal jazz club masqueraded as an orphanage and was host to a bloody murder. As well as, the site where a world-famous radio broadcaster was shot down in public.

Price: $35 (tour dates vary)

SAVAGE LOVE

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» Unicorn Hunters

Q:

II am a single woman, 31, in LA, and on OkCupid. (We all are.)

I’ve gotten a number of unicorn requests. (Maybe because I mention being a subscriber to the Savage Lovecast magnum version in my profile?) I’ve never responded—until the other day. One unicorn request stood out. I wrote back. They seem like cool, smart, interesting people (a 40-year-old liberal married couple). Their profile is funny, and they’re quite attractive! And here I am, not doing anything else or anyone else… and I’m thinking… this could be cool. It could be an awesome experience. Why not play around while everything is still slim and perky?

But! I have some concerns!

1. Uh… what now? I gave them my number, but I can’t say that I’m definitely a YES on this. I’m also not a NO. What happens now? We meet for drinks? Then what?

2. I’ve never even had a one-night stand. I’ve pretty much always had boyfriends. I don’t know what my question is here, it’s just something I’ve been turning over in my head.

I just don’t want to feel like a hooker! (Not that there’s anything wrong with being a sex worker!)

3. I’m not bi. I don’t say that I’m bi on my OkCupid profile. I cannot imagine a scenario in which I would want to put my face in

someone’s twat. (I know you understand the feeling.) But I don’t think I have any issue with being on the receiving end. (Maybe? I’ve never been a unicorn!) I’ve done the college playing-around-withgirls thing—topless make-outs for a boyfriend’s viewing pleasure— but nothing crazy.

I think, if I meet them, and if it goes well, I should ask them what their thoughts are about this, if they’ve done it before, what their boundaries are, etc. I would confirm that if anyone feels uncomfortable, everyone involved has the green light to call a stop to the whole thing. I’d also lay out my limitation in regards to the wife.

But… should I go for it? What should I do or say?

Future Unicorn Nervously Guessing At Logistics

A:

1. Meet, have drinks, and talk, FUNGAL— and be sure to tell that nice, funny, attractive couple everything you’ve told us. And then do what any sane person would do: Fuck ’em if it feels right, don’t if it doesn’t.

2. Refuse to accept money in exchange for sex—don’t let the nice couple pay you—and you won’t be a sex worker. (Not that there’s anything wrong with being a sex worker.) And if you’ve only ever had sex in the context

of a relationship, and if you want it to stay that way, then make that clear to the nice couple.

Developing a relationship with you is a requirement before you can all jump into bed together.

And they’ll probably be up for it, FUNGAL, as most couples who are out there looking for unicorns—which is hard work—are seeking a regular, reliable third, i.e., someone they see again and again, someone they can get to know better and come to trust and rely on. A couple with a regular third that they’re emotionally invested in may not be what comes to mind when people hear the word “relationship,” but it is a relationship, and it can be a fun and rewarding one.

3. Again, tell this couple everything you’ve told us. The only reason you hesitate, FUNGAL, is that you fear rejection. Your fear is thoroughly common, completely understandable, and totally irrational. I mean, think about it: The reason you’re hesitating to tell them that you’re not bisexual—that you have no interest in putting your face in a twat (but you’re up for having her face in yours if she’s cool with no-recip oral)—is that you worry you’ll be rejected. What if you’re not what they want? But if they have their hearts set on a unicorn that wants to go facedown in twat, then you’re the wrong uni-

corn for them. More importantly, FUNGAL, they’re the wrong couple for you. Better to have a nice, clean, honest rejection over cocktails—a mutual recognition that you’re not a match—than to find yourself in bed being pressured to do something you don’t wanna do.

Q:

Straight couples looking for a bi female third—someone both partners can share and enjoy—call that person a “unicorn,” a mythical beast, because bi females open to playing with straight/bi couples are so damn rare. What do gay couples looking for a third call the beasts they seek?

Frustrated Longtime Unicorn Seekers Taking Early Retirement

A:

We gays don’t have a special term for a guy open to sleeping with a male couple. But if we were going to give that guy an affectionate nickname, FLUSTER, I would go with “horse.” Because a horse, while a magnificent and majestic beast in its own right, is a whole lot easier to come by—and in and on and over—than one of those nearly-impossible-to-find bi female unicorns.

Q:

I’m a producer with a Chicago-based production company started by a handful of former

Oprah show producers. We specialize in developing unscripted/ reality show concepts. We are thinking of producing a show about unicorns, those bisexual women who wish to be “thirds,” and I thought you could possibly help us find women who identify as unicorns and could be potential characters. I look forward to hearing from you!

Hoping Unicorns Not Television Averse

A:

You have two hurdles to clear, HUNTA, as you’re not just looking for unicorns, which are hard enough to find, but unicorns who wanna go on television and talk about being unicorns. (And you’ll probably want telegenic unicorns, too, which would be hurdle number three.) But I’m here to help: On the off chance that there are any telegenic unicorns out there reading this who want to be on TV—or any women who want to be on TV so bad that they’ll pretend to be unicorns—send me an e-mail with “TV Unicorn” in the subject line, and I will forward your e-mail on to the unicorn HUNTA. On the Lovecast, Dan “Asks Amy” for a Second Opinion: savagelovecast.com.

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EVENTS

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COMING UP WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 Goo Goo Dolls w/ Daughtry & Plain White T’s DTE Energy Music Theatre | 7 p.m. | $25-$59.50 THURSDAY, JULY 3 Bike for Lunch Riverfront Trail | 11:30 a.m.-12 p.m. d.i. July (Reception) Phog Lounge 8 p.m.

Comedy Night Live Villains Beastro | 8 p.m.

Brian Burke Quartet Phog Lounge | 8-10 p.m.

Motown Throwdown w/ DJ Double A Phog Lounge | 10:30 p.m.

Exhibition: Derek Cerovski (Reception) Rino’s Kitchen & Ale House | 8:30-11 p.m.

FRIDAY, JULY 4 WWE Superstar Autograph Session Windsor Crossing | 4-5 p.m.

Santa Clause Pub Crawl Villains Beastro | 6 p.m. | $10

THE URBANITE » URBANITENEWS.COM » JULY 2-15 2014 » 15 PWYC THURSDAY, JULY 10

Julianne Hough & Derek Hough Caesars Windsor | 8 p.m. | $15

Job Fair WFCU Centre | 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Mask-Making Workshop Kordazone Theatre | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | $300/four days

Bike for Lunch Riverfront Trail | 11:30 a.m.-12 p.m.

Kestrels w/ Silent Movie Type & Media City Film Festival: Regional Bikes & Beers Cycling Tours Windsor Eats | 1:15-5:45 p.m. | Queens Rug Artists Program $60 Phog Lounge | 8 p.m.

The Capitol Theatre | 6 p.m. | PWYC Media City Film Festival: InternaMonty Scott Comedy Quarry | 9 p.m. | $12 Ask a Funded Artist Session: Art- tional Program 6 ists in the Community/Workplace The Capitol Theatre | 6 p.m. | PWYC Ron Leary Grant Taloola Cafe | 8-9 p.m.

Arts Council Windsor & Region | Machine Gun Kelly 6:30-8:30 p.m.

The Fillmore (Detroit) | 7 p.m. | SUNDAY, JULY 6 Media City Film Festival: Interna- $27.50-$40 Sunday Street Market tional Program 2 Detroit Eastern Market | 10 a.m.- The Capitol Theatre | 7:30 p.m. | Karlos Farrar w/ DJ So Hype, CDell The Boi Wonder Amazing, 4 p.m.

PWYC Kiaree & Name Brand The Shelter (Detroit) | 7 p.m. | Tye Tribbett Dharmapala w/ Marx Marston, $15 St. Andrew’s Hall | 6 p.m. | $20 Mizpah & Dizzy Dearest Magic Stick Lounge (Detroit) | 8 Aretha Franklin East End Radicals w/ Boids & p.m. | $8 DTE Energy Music Theatre Thick as Thieves (Clarkson, Mich.) | 7:30 p.m. | The Windsor Beer Exchange | 9 SNOT (Spectacular Night Of $15-65 p.m. | $5 Trivia) Villains Beastro | 8 p.m.

Media City Film Festival: InternaSMUT (Sisters Mixing Ultimate Tunes) Media City Film Festival: Interna- tional Program 7 The Capitol Theatre | 7:30 p.m.

Villains Beastro | 10 p.m. tional Program 3 The Capitol Theatre | 9:30 p.m. | | PWYC MONDAY, JULY 7 PWYC Man Forever + Sō Percussion MOCAD | 8 p.m. $8-$12 Summer Theatre Day Camp (until FRIDAY, JULY 11 July 18) Michelle Shaughnessy The Chrysler Theatre | 9 a.m-4 Media City Film Festival: CanaComedy Quarry | 9 p.m. | $10 p.m. | $350/child for two weeks dian Program The Capitol Theatre | 6 p.m. | Media City Film Festival: InternaSlow Roll PWYC tional Program 8 St. Andrew’s Hall (Detroit) | 7 p.m.

The Capitol Theatre | 9:30 p.m.

Turnpike Troubadours TUESDAY, JULY 8 The Shelter (Detroit) | 7 p.m. | $15 | PWYC

Friday Evening After Work Party w/ Max Marshall Fall Out Boy and Paramore w/ Rino’s Kitchen & Ale House | 7-11 New Politics p.m.

DTE Energy Music Theatre | 6 p.m. | $28.50-$68.50 WWE Live WFCU Centre | 7-10:30 p.m. | Media City Film Festival 20th An$16.75-$95.75 niversary Opening Night MOCAD | 8 p.m. | $5 Count Yorgi Trio Taloola Cafe | 8-9 p.m.

Cage w/ Sadistik & Maulskull Magic Stick Lounge (Detroit) | 8 Border City Birthday Burlesque p.m. | $14 ADV/$16 ATG Venue Music Hall | 8-11 p.m. | $15 ADV/$20 ATG Five Alarm Funk w/ The Nefidovs The Capitol Theatre | 10 p.m. | Monty Scott $15 ADV/$20 ATG Comedy Quarry | 9 p.m. | $12 WEDNESDAY, JULY 9 Night of Noise: Isolation Order w/ I, Benign, Horrible Mess, Journey and Steve Miller Band w/ Tainted Glove, Sex Servant & Otis Tower of Power the Hunting Dog DTE Energy Music Theatre (ClarkPhog Lounge | 9 p.m. | PWYC son, Mich.) | 5:45 p.m. | $38.50$145 SATURDAY, JULY 5 Media City Film Festival’s 20th Downtown Windsor Farmers’ Anniversary Opening Party Market The Capitol Theatre | 6 p.m. | Charles Clark Square | 8 a.m.-1 PWYC p.m.

Gary Clark Jr. Drinks of Walkerville Walking St. Andrew’s Hall (Detroit) | 7 p.m.

Tour | $29.50 Canadian Club Brand Heritage Center | 1 p.m. | $45 Media City Film Festival: Henry Hills Retrospective Nightmares On Wax w/ N.O.W. Is The Capitol Theatre | 7:30 p.m. |

The Locusts Have No King w/ Under the Sun 2014 DTE Energy Music Theatre (Clark- Diane Motel & Say Hello Villains Beastro | 10 p.m. | $10 son, Mich.) | 7 p.m. | $15-$55

WEEKLY MONDAYS Open Mic Surgery w/ James O-L Phog Lounge | doors 9 p.m.

TUESDAYS Open Stage Night w/ Year’s of Ernest Dominion House | 5 p.m.

V.O.M.I.T. (Vocal Open Mic Instrumental Talent) Villains Beastro Open Mic w/ Jamie Reaume The Manchester Pub Open Mic w/ Pat Robitaille The Willistead | 8:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAYS Wacky Wexican Wednesdays w/ Dee Russ Dominion House | 5 p.m.

P.U.K.E. (People Using Karaoke Equipment) Villains Beastro The Groove Trio FM Lounge | 8 p.m.

Vice Aerial Phog Lounge | 10 p.m.

Dave Russell Dominion House Tavern THURSDAYS Celtic Night w/ Mark Crampsie Dominion House | 5 p.m.

Funk Junkies The Manchester Pub | 10 p.m.

Open Mic w/ Anderson FM Lounge | 10 p.m.

FRIDAYS

Friday Evening After Work Party SUNDAY, JULY 13 w/ Colton Young Rino’s Kitchen & Ale House | 7-11 Mask-Making Workshop Kordazone Theatre | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. p.m. | $300/four days Media City Film Festival: InternaSunday Street Market tional Program 4 The Capitol Theatre | 7:30 p.m. | Detroit Eastern Market | 10 a.m.4 p.m.

PWYC

Crystal Head Fridays Level 3 Vodka Emporium | 10 p.m.

Rusty Waters w/ Takers and Leav- The Big sLow Down: Vol. VI Phog Lounge | 6 p.m. | $15/diners ner Villains Beastro

ONGOING

Michelle Shaughnessy Comedy Quarry | 9 p.m. | $10 Media City Film Festival: International Program 5 The Capitol Theatre | 9:30 p.m. | PWYC Fabulous Friday Night The Loop | 10 p.m. | $5 SATURDAY, JULY 12 Downtown Windsor Farmers’ Market Charles Clark Square | 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Us The Duo The Shelter (Detroit) | 7 p.m. | $15 Summer Sessions: Volume 2 w/ DJ Godfather Level 3 Vodka Emporium | 10 p.m.

MONDAY, JULY 14

Loveless Fridays w/ Daniel Victor The Loop | 10 p.m.

After Work Party

Rino’s Kitchen & Ale House | 7 p.m.

Windsor Illustrators Art Show Milk Coffee Bar | until July 31 Exhibition: Derek Cerovski Rino’s Kitchen & Ale House | until July 31 We Won’t Compete Art Gallery of Windsor | until Sept. 21 David Thauberger: Road Trips & Other Diversions Art Gallery of Windsor | until Sept. 21

Replay America w/ the Go-Go’s DTE Energy Music Theatre | 7:30 p.m. | $15-$44 WE WON’T COMPETE TUESDAY, JULY 15 TOAST Open Mic Poetry Phog Lounge | 9 p.m.

Art Gallery of Windsor | until Sept. 21

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