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VIEWS MORE WOMEN NEEDED IN POLITICS Zero per cent of mayoral candidates and roughly 15 per cent of ward candidates seeking a seat on city council this October are women. Only nine women decided to seek municipal leadership out of a total of 66 candidates — 12 seeking the mayor’s seat and 54 seeking a spot on city council. The number, in my opinion, is low. It’s not that there aren’t incredibly intelligent, competent and politically motivated women in Windsor, trust me, there are. Political constituency assistants, executive directors, senior managers and administrative staff, sales managers and account representatives, entrepreneurs ... the list goes on and on. The statement “there aren’t any competent women” in Windsor is both offensive and doesn’t hold true. And this isn’t to suggest the current crop of female candidates aren’t suited for the roles they are seeking, indeed they are motivated, community driven, passionate and intelligent.

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do more to engage residents to get them active in local politics. Generally speaking, municipal politics affects residents far more than provincial or federal politics, and residents need to remember this at all times. Clearly a half credit in civics taught in Grade 10 doesn’t do enough to motivate students politically outside of that one and a half month period. Perhaps municipalities, with financial assistance from the province, should hold public forums on the political process, local politics and how the city operates on a daily basis. Or perhaps residents should simply care more about where they live and actively take part in learning about the community which surrounds them. Either way, something needs to change because there aren’t nearly enough women or residents as a whole seeking representation at the municipal level. — JON LIEDTKE Agree? Disagree? Want to talk about the West Wing? Tweet me @mr_liedtke

However, the issue of fewer women being involved in politics is hardly relegated to the political world and it’s well known that the same conversation is had in many facets of life, business and social. For too long there has been a societywide gender disparity and it needs to be addressed. At the same time, it’s useful to examine the total number of candidates seeking oﬃce as a whole and not separated along gender lines. A small number of residents decided to seek higher oﬃce overall and we need to

Publisher/Editor: Natasha Marar (natasha@urbanitenews.com) Managing Editor: Jon Liedtke (jon@urbanitenews.com) Art Director: Stephen Hargreaves Contributors: Jamie Greer, Dan Savage, Jay Verspeelt, Nicholas V. Nedin, Jenn McMullan, Loren Mastracci

EXPLORING A WHOLE NEW DETROIT Thanks to the Urbanite, I’ve discovered a whole new Detroit. Gone are the days of whizzing by the D to the suburbs to shop, dine and explore. After reading countless stories about events and activities happening across the border, I decided to venture over with a buddy and do a bit of exploring of my own. Thanks to the fine folks at Pure Detroit and their offering of an assortment of tours (for FREE!), I was surprised to see a Detroit that I never knew existed — and now I’m addicted. We are fortunate on this side of the border to have such a beautiful skyline, and what lies between the buildings we see every day is some extreme resurgence taking the Motor City by storm.

Renaissance Center and have a drink at the Coach Insignia restaurant and enjoy the wonderful view of Windsor atop the 72nd floor. • Grab a chair and people watch at Campus Martius Park, a re-established park and gathering place in downtown Detroit and originally the focal point for Judge Augustus Woodward’s plan to rebuild the city after the fire of 1805. • Snap a picture of Detroit’s Point of Origin which determined Detroit’s co-ordinate system, serving as a point for measuring “true north” by Judge Augustus Woodward. I understand the D has many challenges to confront, but I really have to admit, if you’re willing to give the city a chance and explore with a few friends, you’ll be hooked. Kudos to The Urbanite and crew who continue to write and introduce me to so many cool things going on in both Windsor and Detroit.

Here are some fun things I discovered on the tour, and I invite you to take a day to explore the D:

— DENNY TIMM

• Learn about the architectural and historical significance of the skyscrapers dotting the skyline of Detroit such as the Guardian Building, the Penobscot Building, the GM Renaissance Center, One Woodward Avenue and One Detroit Center. • See the construction and installation of the M-1 Rail Line, also known as the Woodward Avenue Streetcar, a 3.3 mile circulating streetcar between Congress Street and West Grand Boulevard. • Check out the expanding real estate profile of businessman Dan Gilbert, the notable founder of Quicken Loans who is moving his 11,500 employees to downtown Detroit. His redevelopment efforts to properties in and around downtown Detroit is changing the face of the City. • Ride the elevator to the top of the

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Little libraries pop-up for book swapping Simple new library concept opens up doors for readers to pay-it-forward Little Library Locations in Windsor-Essex 535 Lincoln Rd., Windsor (Steve Green’s House) 625 McEwan St., Windsor (Life After Fifty) 915 County Road 50 E., Harrow (John R. Park Homestead & Conservation Area) 971 Drouillard Rd., Windsor (Ford City Community Garden) 243 McAffee St., Harrow (Chrysler Canada Greenway, Harrow entrance at Harrow and Colchester South Community Centre) 2175 Parent Ave., Windsor (Giovanni Caboto Club) 1995 Lens Ave., Windsor (Windsor Regional Hospital) 245 Janette Ave., Windsor (Multicultural Council of Windsor and Essex County) 2121 Laurier Dr., Lasalle (Vollmer Recreation Complex) 372 California Ave., Windsor (Ontario Public Interest Research Group) 463 Askin Blvd., Windsor (Private residence)

Steve Green checks on one of 10 take-a-book-leave-a-book little libraries across Windsor and Essex County » Photo Jay Verspeelt Jay Verspeelt Reading in Windsor is getting a boost from a grassroots gardener. Steve Green is a community activist. He runs the Downtown Windsor Farmers Market, the Ford city Community Garden, he’s an avid blogger and now he’s a street librarian. Green recently started Lincoln Little Library, located at 535 Lincoln Rd. The Little Library consists of a small realtor box which had been discarded. Green repainted it, filled it with books and placed it at the end of his walkway for all to access. “As a community we are experiencing a lot of construction in Walkerville,” said Green. “And it was just a pain in the butt to get out by vehicle and I started thinking, ‘wouldn’t it be great if we just had a little library in the neighbourhood that we could go to?’ So I started thinking about what we could do.”

The response over the last couple of months was so overwhelming that the Rotary Club approached him to take this on as their own project. There are now 10 Little Libraries around the city with more to come. Each box fits about 20-25 books. Little Libraries are in a sort of loose federation with the original Little Library in Hudson, Wis. There are plans to to geotag all worldwide locations online at littlefreelibrary.org. The project is a way to draw people away from their TVs and get them to explore their neighbourhoods. “I think reading is really important, as an education system. We may be training our youth the mechanics of reading but I wonder how much we’re installing to love of reading,” said Green. Brittany Miller, a 23-year-old University of Windsor psychology student, took out

a book about teen suicide from the Askin Little Library last week. She likes the concept because it relies on honesty and trust as there is no mechanism to prevent theft from the boxes.

wanted books of their own so they’re saved from the trash bin.

“It’s not as much red tape like the [Windsor Public] library. I owe the library money I don’t want to pay them. What’s the point? I’d rather just buy the books I want,” said Miller.

“Community projects like this seem to command a sense of respect. They don’t want to mess with people who are trying to make the neighbourhood better,” said Green.

Green knows exactly where Miller’s coming from.

Soon, there will be themed boxes for things such as cookbooks and how-to books. Another five libraries will be installed in the next month, according to Green.

“All of us know what it’s like to get a book from the library and then forget to take it back, and then you get fines. Then what happens? You stop going to the library,” said Green. “With the little free libraries it’s a very forgiving way to borrow books because if it never makes it back there, oh well.” The point is for people to stock it with un-

According to Green there hasn’t been any vandalism of the boxes.

“I have a long list of people saying ‘I want a Little Library of my own.’ My response is ‘than do it.’ They want you to do it… don’t wait for somebody to do it for you.” said Green.

Marijuana March mobalizes for legalization Jon liedtke Local marijuana activists are advocating for legalization in a country that as of late is falling behind from gains made in the United States. Supporters are gathering for the second annual Marijuana March downtown at City Hall Square Sept. 27 from 1 to 4:30 p.m. The event also features music, poetry, comics, speeches and, of course, smoking marijuana. Organizers expect a crowd of 500 to 1,000 people. “The Marijuana March is a legalization march, it’s like any public protest march,” said organizer and Endless Heights head shop owner Alex Newman. “The event is relatively new in Windsor, there have been a ton of them in other cities … the major difference is [laws and attitudes] are actually changing.”

Marijuana advocates take to the streets for a second annual march Sept. 27 » Photo Jon Liedtke

Newman referenced recent changes to Health Canada legislation as well as the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado in the United States as clear aﬃrmations that opinions have been changing.

“We use discretion at these types of events … our primary purpose and our number one mandate is public safety and that’s what we are bound to do … ensure the public is safe,” he said regarding monitoring the march.

Newman noted that marijuana legalization would be a “boon for business” overall as new businesses would come to market, including lounges and dispensaries.

The issue causes problems for enforcement because the Government of Canada has multiple medicinal enforcement regimes on the books. The old system, which is currently grandfathered, allows patients to grow their own marijuana or designate someone to grow for them. The new system sees doctors prescribing marijuana like other medication. Enforcement is compounded by activists who illegally possess marijuana for recreational use.

“Prohibition is just so ineffective, it’s useless. Money is being spent but it’s not doing anything … change legislation, the public opinion is there.” Sergeant D’Asti of the Windsor Police Service explained that if a “permit has been granted by the city and [they] are aware of it” that police would “be there monitoring the situation.”

“We are aware that people do use marijuana and our role in all of it is that as long as its on the books in the Criminal Code of

Canada, we enforce those rules and those regulations … we are obligated and bound, sworn to uphold the laws that apply to all citizens of this country.” Last year the public smoking of marijuana prompted no arrests nor problems and both organizers and Windsor Police Service don’t expect any problems this year. “If somebody has it and is lawfully authorized to have it and smoke it or consume it then they’ll have a prescription from a doctor, much like any other prescription … anybody who is in possession and found to be in possession and can’t provide those documents can be subjected to charges,” explained D’Asti.

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spicy squash soup

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paleo for a week

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Eating like bourgeois caveman

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Jenn MCMUllan I had my first taste at the age of 18, and discovered like so many before me that dieting tasted like cardboard. Or at least that rice cake with peanut butter tasted like cardboard. From then on I’ve tried every fad diet and crack crock pot theory aside from wishing upon a shooting star. I admit it, I’m one of those weirdos who believes in a miracle drug and will eat up any idea on healthy eating/dieting to find it. When I heard about the Paleo diet and the fact I could still eat bacon while doing it, I knew I had found my new way of life. Basics: The premise of the diet is to eat only foods that were available in the Paleolithic era, therefore eating what our bodies are genetically created to eat. Research by evolutionary biologists suggest diseases such as obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure did not exist during this time. Foods to eat: meat, poultry, seafood, nonstarchy fruits and vegetables, eggs, herbs, spices, nuts, seeds, healthy fats (eg. olive oil, coconut oil) and natural sweeteners. Foods to avoid: grains, dairy, legumes, vegetable and industrial seed oils, processed foods, refined sweeteners and preservatives. The great potato debate: One of the biggest controversial questions regarding this diet is if you’re able to eat potatoes. Although potatoes are a natural food around during that era, hardcore followers of the diet would say they’re not edible. You can eat certain tuber foods, but the better choices are things like carrots, radishes or beets. Potatoes, especially white potatoes, provide lots of starchy carbs and have little protein, fibre or healthy fats.

Day 1: Similar to most of my goals the

process began with me creating a Pinterest folder of all the creative recipes I’d try, and finished with me making eggs. Breakfast: scrambled eggs (with zucchini and onion), bacon, apple slices Lunch: turkey lettuce wraps with shredded carrots, tomatos, cucumber and avocado sauce (mashed avocado, cilantro & onion) Snack: apple and walnuts Dinner: pepper baked chicken with zucchini noodles in avocado sauce (blend together avacodo, tomatoes, garlic cloves, olive oil, salt & pepper)

Day 2: Paleo, which was the most Googled diet of 2013, can often help with digestion and bloating because you’re cutting out grains and dairy. Even after one day I felt less like the Michelin Man and could have sworn I heard my pant button whisper, “thank you.” Breakfast: mini egg “muffins” (mix eggs, pre-cooked sausage, mushrooms, green onion) put in muffin tray and cook for 15 to 20 minutes. Lunch: cucumber salad with tomato, onion (lime juice, olive oil, salt, pepper, cilantro) Snack: bacon wrapped dates Dinner: Asian stir-fry (shrimp, broccolini, mushrooms, asparagus, bean sprouts, zucchini, olive oil, curry powder, salt & pepper)

Day 3: Kermit was right , “It ain’t easy be-

ing green,” and at this point I’d fry him up if he got close enough (frog legs are diet approved after all). Non-starchy vegetables provide eight times more fibre than whole grains and numerous vitamins and minerals. However beneficial, filling up on things like broccoli is not always easy. I found I had to learn to double up on my veggies and fruits, and eat more throughout the day to stay satisfied. Breakfast: bacon wrapped eggs and fruit salad Snack: pumpkin seeds, half a banana Lunch: left over Asian stir-fry Snack: kale chips Dinner:steak, broccoli and mushrooms fried in garlic and olive oil

Day 4: Having too much protein had the

same effect on me as listening to Elizabeth Hasselbeck, it made me irritable and made my head hurt. Learning the balancing act of getting natural sugars and carbs from fruits and leafy vegetables stopped me from feeling dizzy. Breakfast: sausage, scrambled eggs and almond milk Snack: hard-boiled egg and a handful of pistachios

Lunch: grilled chicken with broccoli slaw in a lime dressing (lime juice, honey, ground cumin, salt, olive oil, fresh cilantro) Dinner: shrimp zucchini noodle pasta in a pesto sauce (arugula, walnuts, garlic and olive oil) Dessert: fried bananas in organic honey with crushed walnuts

Day 5: At the beginning of this diet realiz-

ing I had to cut out cheese and bread, made me feel like someone was telling me they were going to cut my arm off. After having such a huge part of my diet taken away, I found a good way to stay motivated was substitutes (eg. things like cauliflower for rice or zucchini for noodles). Breakfast: egg “pancakes” (egg whites, egg yolk, almond milk, vanilla extract) topped with banana and natural maple syrup Lunch: turkey wraps (cucumber, tomato, alfalfa sprouts, mashed avocado), apple, grapes and a hard-boiled egg Snack: baked prosciutto wrapped asparagus Dinner: cauliflower curry “rice” with grilled chicken and veggie kabobs Dessert: two pieces of dark chocolate (75% or more cocoa)

Day 6: Previous high protein diets I had

done, like the Atkins diet, left me feeling tired and with constant headaches. With Paleo I felt the opposite, I find I have more energy and don’t feel as lethargic. Breakfast: grilled asparagus & sunny side up eggs sprinkled with lemon Snack: frozen grapes Lunch: leftover cauliflower rice with chicken Snack: baked apple slices in cinnamon Dinner: Grilled brussel sprouts topped with bacon and broiled salmon in a honey mustard sauce (organic honey and Dijon mustard)

Day 7: Overall it’s probably one of the

best diets I’ve tried in terms of how I feel, in hindsight it’s not so much a diet as a way of life. After a full week of eating natural, unprocessed food I feel more energetic, less bloated and like my body has balanced itself out. With that being said I still miss cheese. Breakfast: green smoothie (pineapple, spinach, kale, coconut water, avocado, ice) Snack: pear slices Lunch: steamed veggies and grilled shrimp (garlic, olive oil, red pepper flakes and lemon juice) Snack: trail mix (pistachios, walnuts, macadamias, almonds and dried fruit) Dinner: lettuce wrapped burgers with butternut squash fries

This soup is all about the fall, something warm, comforting and familiar but also with something exotic and surprising at the same time. This soup blends flavours from India with Canadian fall flavours and then brings heat with some of the hottest chilies in the world. Sweet, salty, spicy and creamy all without dairy or meat. Wow your friends and family with this autumn stunner! Ingredients: 1 Hubbard squash, cubed 1 large sweet potato, cubed 2 large Spanish onions(finely diced) 3 cloves garlic, diced 1 tbsp ginger root, diced 1 ghost chili, diced 2 splashes fish sauce (Worchestershire sauce works as well) 1 tbsp all spice 1 tbsp brown mustard seed 1 tsp garam masala 2 litres chicken or vegetable broth avocado oil salt, to taste black pepper, to taste cinnamon Greek yogurt, optional thyme, optional Directions: In a pot with avocado oil on medium heat add your onions and some salt and wait for the onions to turn translucent. Then add your garlic, ginger and ghost chili and cook those down until they begin to really release their aromas. Add your sweet potato, which add starch to the soup base more than flavour. This will act as a thickener for your soup. Then add your spices, fish sauce and mustard seed. Allow everything to cook down again. Add the cubed hubbard squash and again let that cook down. During all of this if anything begins to stick deglaze your pot with broth. Once everything is in the pot add the rest of your two litres of broth and simmer for 90 minutes. With an immersion blender, blend your soup until smooth. Top your soup with a dollop of Greek yogurt to cool the mouth as this soup can be quite spicy. Sprinkle some cinnamon and garnish with thyme.

Ask a brewer...

What are seasonal with Paul Brady, beers? head brewer, Walkerville Brewery

What are seasonal beers? Seasonal beers oddly enough are beers that change with the seasons (laughs). The original seasonal beers were ales and lagers, before refrigeration. Lagers require a colder fermentation and in the hot summer you couldn’t really do that. They would use caves to lager beers, they would seal them up during the summer ... and that would be the Oktoberfest the next year … [the beer put in at Oktoberfest comes out during the spring as Maibock.] It’s since evolved to brewers taking ingredients that they can get seasonally, much like say a pumpkin ale or a harvest ale where they take the leftover hops from the harvest. People like different beers in different seasons.

Why would you offer seasonal beers? Things change. You get something new. If I go to a pub and they’ve got the same four taps, if I know something new is coming it’s an incentive for me to come back and try that new thing, and so we do that for that reason. We have our standards … consistency is very important for us for that reason. The seasonals they vary, sometimes the ingredients vary … it’s harder to grade your seasonal ingredients, it’s fun and it’s not your usual brew. How many seasonals do you offer at any time?

Where do people go wrong with seasonal beers?

We have at least one rotating seasonal at all times.

It’s really hard to go wrong, as long as you’re making a high quality product and people are enjoying it, then you’re doing it right. Sometimes people try too hard to … force things … it’s hard to go wrong with a seasonal beer if people are wanting what you have to offer.

What’s the seasonal right now? Chappelle Rye Ale. We have a new seasonal in the brew right now, but it’s a secret. Do you take suggestions? Come by and let’s talk.

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Pilates to peelers

Breathe Pilates offers burlesque classes

The Walkervilles release a new record Oct. 11 » Photo courtesy The Walkervilles

Walkervilles drop the needle on new LP Windsor soul brothers release new wax with a concert in an aircraft hanger

jon liedtke As Windsor Motown revivalists The Walkervilles’ success takes flight, their latest album is landing at a release concert Oct. 11. “Windsor’s the best place for us to do it [an album release] because it’s our hometown,” explained Pat Robitaille, lead singer of The Walkervilles. “The really cool thing about it is the location. We’ve done a lot of shows in the city over the past couple of years, at all kinds of venues and festivals, but the [Canadian Historical Aircraft Association] is certainly a unique spot to throw a show so we just felt good about it.” “The place is loaded with really cool vintage planes, and there’s never been a concert at the airport before, so it’s the first of its kind,” he added. The new album, Rebirth of the Cool, was recorded in Austin Texas at Willie Nelson’s Studio and was a “Windsor effort through and through” with Gordie Johnson of Big Sugar producing and Kelly Hoppe travelling south to lay down saxophone. Rebirth of the Cool is the first studio album for the trio. Their debut LP, Live at Mackenzie Hall, recorded live off the floor, was released in 2012.

“When I sit back and throw the record on, man I’m so excited about it,” said Robitaille. “It’s a true representation of us and what we’re doing, there is a rawness to it … there’s something that’s a little bit less than perfect, I like that, it gives it a real feeling.” Robitaille describes the Windsor music scene as Americanized. “Travelling [and] playing in the rest of Canada, there’s this Canadian rock thing going on … I don’t get that vibe in Windsor because we’re sort of off the path … we’re isolated and next to Detroit, and we got all these radio waves coming over … rooted in soul and country.” The Walkervilles have an east and west coast tour planned within the next six months and are eager to get back on the road. The Walkervilles’ Thanksgiving weekend show takes place Oct. 11 at The Canadian Historical Aircraft Association (2600 Airport Rd.), featuring local openers Funk Junkies, Better Weather and DJ Double A. Doors open at 7 p.m. for this 19+ show. Tickets are available online and at Dr. Disc Records for $10 (general admission) and $20 (VIP).

Althea Delirium takes an exotic dance intro class » Photo Jay Verspeelt jay Verspeelt Breathe deep. One pilates studio is getting ready to show off some skin. Christine “Terrortino” Reid started a burlesque instructional at Breathe Pilates studio in August as a six-week primer on how to become a dancer. “Seeing the confidence radiate from these woman whether they are learning it for their own personal happiness or to go onto becoming performers [means the most to me],” said Reid. Reid, with help from instructors Danielle Lembke and Mike Foster, will be launching their Devilish Debutants graduation ceremony Sept. 26 at the Walkerville Brewery. The four-piece ensemble consists of women brand new to the burlesque scene. “Some of the girls coming in [to the class] were really shy and weren’t sure if they’d ever go on stage,” said Althea Delirium, a Debutant and artistic director for the group. “They were just coming in to get a flavour for it. Over the course of the [class] a lot of girls have opened up to the idea and are ready to go performing.” Delirium started out as a ballet dancer before moving onto pole dancing and then burlesque. “One of the things that drew me to burlesque is there’s no body negativity,” said Delirium. “I grew up with a background in ballet and had the whole ‘this is what a ballet dancer looks like.’ If you don’t fit that there’s a lot of negativity, as a burlesque dancer there’s none of that.”

Although the Debutants are all in their 20s Delirium says that the class has women in their 50s learning the craft. She said “A lot of women go into it as a self confidence boost.” Nicole “Daisy Devine” Demers, who will be performing as a guest at the show, echoed that sentiment. “One of the girls had said to me, ‘it’s cheaper than therapy,’” said Demers. “I really didn’t understand what she meant until I found out she was a cancer patient. She had a beautiful act and was captivating to watch.” The dancers agree the big misconception in burlesque is it’s the same thing as stripping. Burlesque is about storytelling and camp, not the sleaze that is associated with “gentlemen’s clubs.” For these dancers, it’s a real art form in that being nude is a metaphor for exposing oneself emotionally. “A guitar player isn’t stripping but they’re putting themselves into every note that they wrote.” said Demers. Although the next course has yet to be scheduled, Reid said she plans on bringing back the class in November. The class costs $80 for non-Breathe Pilates members and $60 for members. Until then, a Halloween show is in the works for the Debutants at Venue Music Hall. “I’m just out to help performers that are interested in the artform to get the feet wet and help create a community,” said Reid.

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Poet, roller derbyist, designer, arborist, Kate Hargreaves » Photo Loren Mastracci

a Leak between the body and a visceral language Kate Hargreaves’ body text dysmorphia loren MastraCCi In roller derby the body’s bumps, blood and bruises are self-evident, as is the same in language, at least it is in the mutilated concrete syntaxes in Leak. Local publishing assistant/book designer and roller derbyist Kate Hargreaves’ second book should be a departure from the broken body vignettes within her 2012 derby themed debut Talking Derby: Stories from a Life on Eight Wheels, but it’s not. In Leak, bodies lose pieces and fall apart, while words slip out of place and letters drop away. Hargreaves confuses oil with her own blood in her visceral deconstruction of the body and its multiple representations tests the boundaries of body politics — pathologically, emotionally and lyrically. Back in reality, Hargreaves’ mild-mannered book designer attitude conceals her wanten aggressive manipulation of verse and wheeled foes. If you saw her cycling down the street, you probably wouldn’t recognize in her the assistant captain for Border City Brawlers. You could almost say she’s a female equivalent of Clark Kent. Her true superpower, however, is shown in beautifully written verse. Leak, with its palahniukian title and powerful verses, is Hargreaves’ first public attempt at poetry. Some of the poems were written as part of her master’s thesis in graduate school. Hargreaves added more poems and edited existing ones before submitting them to numerous publishing houses. Finally, one day, Toronto-based

BookThug replied with interest in publishing Leak. Referring to Leak, Hargreaves calls it a “semi-disjunctive poetic” filled with puns. In the book, she plays with words and their meaning, disassembling them, creating something new out of something given for granted. “I’m a fan of a good, goofy pun,” said Hargreaves, adding that perhaps the device helps defuse some of the book’s serious themes. Hargreaves said different bodily reactions inspire her writing. “I’m really preoccupied with bodies and physicality and tangible things.” When asked if she considers herself a poet, Hargreaves, who works by day at local publisher Biblioasis, said, “I guess I’m a part-time writer, full-time book designer.” For someone so used to working with books as Hargreaves, having a book published can be a surreal experience. “It’s a little strange because I deal with people’s books coming out all the time at work.” Join Hargreaves’ strange experience at the BookThug Fall 2014 Book Release Party Oct. 8, at Supermarket, 268 Augusta Ave. in Kensington Market in Toronto and on Oct. 9 in Windsor at Biblioasis, 1520 Wyandotte St. E. Joining Leak are new collections from Tom Dilworth and Louis Cabri.

There couldn’t be a more fitting album name than Collage for Regina four-piece Indigo Joseph’s third release and first proper full length. This 11-track musical journey is just that — a musical collage. To define Indigo Joseph by one genre proves a challenge. While definitely of indie rock origins, no two tracks on the album follow a similar path. From swooping opener “Opus III,” which feels like something from the 90s shoegaze/BritPop scene, to the garage rock of “Pills,” to an almost East Coast chamber folk appeal of “Simple Minds,” Collage is an album that isn’t afraid to tackle whatever the band is currently inspired by, melding it all together in what almost sounds like a college radio music sampler. It even contains a few French language songs, “La Balance,” “Oiseau Mort” and “Colibri.” It’s a quirky ride that shows an earnest pop sensibility combined musical risk taking unseen by most bands in this day and age. While the production is definitely polished and sheened, there’s a bubbling undercurrent in every song than just screams to be heard live to be truly appreciated. I’d almost expect that as decent as this album is, it’s best paired with a live performance to truly digest the essence of their musical adventures. And it couldn’t happen at a better time — their national tour will be bringing them through Windsor Oct. 15 with a stop at Phog Lounge. — JAMIE GREER

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SLOW LEAVES BEAUTY IS SO COMMON PIGEON ROW

There’s a long and short to everything that extends beyond what lies beneath zippers and button flies. The short is this is a good album, the long is that it’s good because it’s easy to ignore. Beauty is so Common is the latest release by Winnipeg singer-songwriter Grant Davidson, known as Slow Leaves. It’s sort of country and sort of folk. Its noncommittal purveyance leaves one nodding their head in the way one might to a Katy Perry song on the radio. You don’t really like it but it’s catchy enough. The musicianship is good, not outstanding. Actually it’s expected and cliché. Davidson’s singing is decent but there isn’t a single lyric that stands out. A lot of this could be forgiven if the drumming was better. It’s ripe for marching snare rolls but finds itself keeping the beat for the sake of keeping the beat. It calls into question what is deserved of success. When everything has been democratized and everything is accessible, let alone doable, how can one be exceptional? It’s a sad reality of life that we’re not all born equally, especially when it comes to artists. The ironic thing is this will probably appeal to the general market of music consumers. Davidson’s own taste is good as his personal picks on this record are “Nostalgia” and “Second Chances,” which are indeed some of the most licensable songs within. “Neighbourhood Watch” is a dark brooding song with the slow paced rhythm passions flow through. It’s the listen-to track of the record. Still, beauty is as common as mediocre music. — JAY VERSPEELT

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The Naysayers drive in from Dawson City, and D.O.A. insist punk’s still not dead

Danielle Haslip, one of the brightest stars on our singer/songwriter circuit a few years back calls Guelph home now. But that doesn’t stop her from bringing her altfolk persona Deni-gan to her hometown for a show once in a while. She swings back tonight at Milk Coffee Bar (68 University Ave. W.) with special guest Daniyal Malik. It’s an earlier start, with the show starting at 7 p.m. Another show runs tonight as indie rock of The Naysayers come all the way from Dawson City, Yukon for a show at Phog Lounge (157 University Ave. W.). They’re joined by local rock outfit Vice Aerial (featuring members of the unquiet dead and Huladog). Youngsters SieraSlave rock the Coach & Horses (156 Chatham St. W., below Pogos) with a show featuring Dueling Sledgehammers from Kitchener and Windsor’s Magnum Opera, on Friday September 26. Two of Windsor’s loudest veterans team with a bold new voice on Friday, Sept. 26 when The Vaudevillianaires and Cellos pair with Thick As Thieves for a crazy show at Venue Music Hall (255 Ouellette Ave.)

Combining the shock rock stoner metal of the Vaudevillianaires, the anarchist noise melodies of Cellos and the dusty crunch of Thick As Thieves’ busker punk, should make for one helluva show. Another recent supergroup creation is the rock monster known as TUG. Featuring members of such local bands as Vultures?, Theory of Everything, The Golden Hands Before God, Voodoo Mafia and Charles & The Righteous, these guys have combined their years of experience on the local scene to create a new rock and roll juggernaut. The show happens Saturday, Sept. 27 at Villains Beastro (256 Pelissier Ave.), with Raven’s Revolution opening. Alongside Toronto’s The Viletones and Teenage Head, Hamilton’s Forgotten Rebels and Windsor’s own Dry Heaves and The Spy’s, Vancouver icons D.O.A. changed punk history in Canada in the late 70s and 80s. They’re still going strong by influencing international music with their inspirational political punk rock manifestos. They make a rare stop in Windsor on Wednesday, Oct. 1 at The Windsor Beer Exchange (493 University Ave. W.).

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Perhaps the biggest explosion of arts in the city every year is the annual Harvesting The FAM Festival, which kicks off Friday, Sept. 26 and runs through Saturday, Oct. 11. Run by Murad Erzinclioglu (Learning, Music Director for CJAM 99.1 FM), this showcase of over 100+ artists showcases a plethora of local music, art and film (including a few out of town representatives), all for free, utilizing a multitude of local venues in the downtown core. Here’s a rundown of some of the shows on slate during the next two weeks: Friday, Sept. 26: The w.a.v.e.s. outdoor stage (a partnership between FAM Fest and Windsor’s Artists, Visions, Energies and Sculptures), located at the riverfront at Windsor Sculpture Park, kicks off at 4:30 p.m. and features Tire Swing Co., Myskow Family Musik, Crissi Cochrane, Middle Sister, Leighton Bain and Diane Motel. Villains Beastro hosts the amazing indie folk band Beams (Toronto) who have wowed Windsor on two prior showcases. They’re paired with local blues rockstars The Blue Stones. Phog Lounge hosts an experimental music showcase featuring Montreal’s Le Pelican Noir and Atsuko Chiba, along with Windsor’s In(Our)Infinite Space.

Saturday, Sept. 27: Another w.av.e.s. outdoor show kicks off at 4 p.m., featuring Deni-gan, Grit Lounge, Tara Watts, What Seas What Shores and Royce Grayer. Friday, Oct. 3: Another night of experimental sounds at Phog Lounge featuring Masked Boy and Safe Word, paired with A Welcome Breeze, a shoegaze band featuring Brian Parent (ex-Bloemfontein). The FM Lounge (156 Chatham St. W., beside Pogos) hosts a hardcore haven headlined by Windsor’s Worry and London’s I Smell Blood. Also on the bill are local bands No Hands (formerly Eraserhead) and Minors. Saturday, Oct. 4: Rino’s Kitchen & Ale House (131 Elliott St. W.) joins the FAM Fest action with an acoustic showcase from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., featuring Zarasutra, Tony Coates and George Manury (Two For The Cascade, Magic Hall of Mirrors, itzjunk), while the Coach & Horses hosts a night time of high energy punk rock featuring Toronto’s Johnny Red Eyes, Guelph’s Baby Labour and Toronto’s Bardos.

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» Making a Move

I’m a 28-year-old pan-curious married guy from the Midwest about to move to San Francisco. I’ve been with my wife for 10 years (married four), and we’ve started to explore being monogamish. I am also reexploring my bi attractions. I’ve been thinking a lot about the opportunities for reinvention that our cross-country move might provide. My wife is GGG and fully supportive, but I still feel apprehensive about getting back out there. I’d like to believe that I am not a complete fool at being charming when it comes to dating, but after 10 years of monogamy, I am worried that my sex knowledge is the sex that works for my wife and me. And there’s the fact that I am very new to guys, with just one shortterm M/M relationship and one terrible hookup under my belt. Any tips for bolstering one’s confidence and making new sexual encounters as fun and unawkward as possible? Is there a resource for dating, hookups, culture? I know the basics of safe-sex practices, but I know little of clubs, kink parties, Growlr/ Tinder, etc. I want to slut it up in SF, but I don’t know where to start. Newbie (New Bi?) Slut

party/space/institution in San Francisco. “Why jump off a cliff when you can take the stairs? However supportive his wife is of his new adventures, it’s likely to bring up some unexpected emotions, so just take it one step at a time, communicate clearly, and be patient with each other.” And while your feelings and your wife’s feelings are paramount— you are each other’s primary partners, in poly parlance—the other people you hook up with have limbic systems of their own. Too many people stroll into their first sex club or kink party expecting to find a room full of human Fleshlights at their disposal and are shocked to find a room full of other human beings with desires, preferences, and limits of their own. So taking it one step at a time, communicating clearly, and being patient isn’t just for you and your wife—it’s for anyone you play with, NNBS, even if you may never see them again. As for messing around with men… “After 10 years of monogamy with a woman, it’s not surprising he’s apprehensive about having sex with men,” said Superstar. “That’s totally normal! But I don’t believe that sexual confidence with new “My first piece of partners is the key to great hookadvice for anyone ups. There are a gazillion books opening up their relaout there teaching people techtionship is to take things slow,” niques for self-confidence, but said Polly Superstar, cofounder and hostess of Kinky Salon, a pan- most of them just teach you how sexual, pan-kink, pan-everything to be an asshole. He should just

be himself and be real. Accepting that new sexual encounters can be awkward is the first step in making them less so.” Superstar took the words right out of my mouth: Acknowledging and embracing the awkwardness is the only way to get past it. You know how a drunk never seems drunker than when he’s trying to pretend he’s not drunk? Pretending you aren’t feeling awkward when you are makes you seem more awkward. So practice saying, “I’m new at this, I’m a little nervous, and I’m feeling a little awkward.” Good people—people you might want to mess around with—will make an effort to put you at ease. Shitty people—people you wouldn’t want to mess around with—will do you the favor of wandering off.

My wife and I are in an open relationship. It started because my wife found flirtatious text messages I sent to a coworker. She confronted me calmly and said she knew our sexual relationship hadn’t been great. She was not that interested in sex, as she’d gained about 50 pounds. I was still attracted to her, but I was rejected half the time. The other half, we had good sex, but nothing new or interesting. She said she was willing to try an open relationship. I oﬀered other solutions (porn and toys), but she said she just didn’t have the libido for it. We talked it to death before

deciding we should move into (open) uncharted waters. I had a yearlong relationship with my coworker that ended when my wife and I moved. During that time, my wife never had a sexual experience with anyone else, but she started losing weight and we started having better and more frequent sex. Now I’m not looking for anything on the side. But she has embarked on sexual relationships with several people, including threesomes with her best friend and best friend’s husband, a neighbor, and a coworker. I know I sound like an asshole, but I am insanely jealous. I feel like she’s getting to know our new city by sleeping with everyone in the neighborhood. Four partners in two months seems crazy to me. Do I deal with this by ending our agreement to share information about outside partners? Or do I tell her I don’t want an open relationship anymore, which seems like a dick move considering my past long-term relationship and the newness of her explorations? Other People Excluded Now

It sounds like you and the wife had different ideas about what your open relationship would look like. What you were doing with your former coworker sounds like poly-style openness—you had an ongoing emotional and sexual relationship—while what your wife is doing with her best friend, her best friend’s husband,

the neighbor, and her coworker sounds more like fuck-whoeveryou-want openness. Reading between the lines, OPEN, it seems that what really bothers you about your wife’s explorations—“sleeping with everyone in the neighborhood”— is the potential for gossip. Not everyone in an open relationship is comfortable being out about it; some people who aren’t sexually monogamous nevertheless wish to be socially monogamous, i.e., perceived to be monogamous, because they fear being judged or even discriminated against. Or perhaps the issue is this: If people know your wife is sleeping around but don’t know about the open relationship, you may look like a foolish and fooled husband. Those are legitimate concerns, and your wife needs to take your feelings into consideration, and you two need to reopen negotiations. The best compromise may be for your wife to dial it back—fewer partners, more discretion—while simultaneously shifting to a DADT arrangement or, as you put it, ending your agreement to share info about your outside partners. On this week’s Lovecast, how to find ethically made porn: savagelovecast.com.

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FIND AND SUBMIT EVENTS AT Rob Grossi URBANITENEWS.COM/EVENTS Taloola Cafe | 8-9 p.m.

THE URBANITE » URBANITENEWS.COM » SEPT. 24-OCT. 7 2014 » 11 The Shelter (Detroit) | 5:30 p.m. | $15

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Devilish Debutants: A Burlesque Graduation Walkerville Brewery | 8-11 p.m. | $15

Coheed and Cambria w/ Thank You Scientist The Fillmore (Detroit) | 7 p.m. | $35-$58

Detroit Design Festival: Detroit Made Panel Discussion A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education | 2-4 p.m.

Friday Night Lights, Free Bike Ride Walkerville Night Market | 8:30 p.m.

Ab Soul w/ BAS, Earthgang & Detroit Che St. Andrew’s Hall (Detroit) 7 p.m. | $22

COMING UP

Detroit Design Festival: Start-Up Alanis Morissette: Unplugged Caesars Windsor | 9 p.m. | $35+ Showcase Passenger Center for ContempoDave Dyer rary Art | 6-8 p.m. Comedy Quarry | 9 p.m. | $12 Black Lips w/ The King Khan & Harvesting the F.A.M. - Beams, BBQ Show The Blue Stones Magic Stick Lounge (Detroit) | 8 Villains Beastro | 11:30 p.m. p.m. | $20 The Naysayers w/ Vice Aerial Phog Lounge | 9 p.m. Windsor Chive Meetup The Bull N’ Barrel | 9 p.m. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 Kenneth and Ron’s Rent Party Phog Lounge Harvesting the F.A.M. - Atsuko Chiba, Le Pelican Noir, In(Our) Finite Space Phog Lounge | 11 p.m. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 WindsorEats’ Truckin’ Good Food Rally Windsor Sculpture Park Soulheavy w/ Siren Phase and The Infidels Dominion House Detroit Design Festival: A Conversation Between Alberto Ibargüen & Carol Coletta Passenger Center for Contemporary Art | 3-4:30 p.m. Harvesting the F.A.M. - Tire Swing Co., Myskow Family Music, Crissi Cochrane, Middle Sister, Leighton Bain, The Unquiet Dead W.A.V.E.S. Stage (Riverfront Drive at Crawford Ave.) | 4 p.m. Detroit Design Festival: Design Crawl dPOP | 4:30-8 p.m. Walkerville Night Market The Willistead Restaurant | 5 p.m.-10 p.m. 7th Annual Pasta Dinner Fundraiser Fogular Furlan Club | 6 p.m. | $8-$15 Biblioasis Turns 10 The Capitol Theatre | 7 p.m. Friday Evening After Work Party w/ Jo Meloche Rino’s Kitchen | 7 p.m. Hawk & Son w/ Loose Planes, The Most Dangerous Animal & Calumet Magic Stick Lounge (Detroit) | 8 p.m. | $8

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

Cloud Nothings w/ Tyvek Magic Stick Lounge (Detroit) | 8 p.m. | $15 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 Brian Burke Quartet Phog Lounge FAM Film Revue Milk Coffee Bar | 8 p.m.

WindsorEats’ Truckin’ Good Food Shovels and Rope w/ John FullRally bright Windsor Sculpture Park St. Andrew’s Hall (Detroit) | 8 p.m. | $17 Detroit Design Festival: Youth Innovation Center THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 A. Alfred Taubman Center for Fresh Breath Duo Design Education | 10 a.m.-4 Dominion House p.m. Windsor Marijuana March 2014 David Croll Park | 1-4:30 p.m. Sketch and Bike Tour of Walkerville City Cyclery | 2-4 p.m.

Open Mic Poetry Green Bean Cafe (West end) | 6 p.m.

Harvesting the F.A.M. - A Welcome Breeze, Masked Boy, Safe Word Phog Lounge | 10:30 p.m. Harvesting the F.A.M. - Minors, No Hands, I Smell Blood, Worry FM Lounge | 10:45 p.m.

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

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4

Open Stage Night w/ Andrew Macleod and Leigh Wallace Dominion House | 5 p.m.

Harvesting the F.A.M. - Kathryn Pasquach, Sherry Gardner, Megan Lawrence, Nicole Drouillard Rino’s Kitchen | 12-5 p.m.

V.O.M.I.T. (Vocal Open Mic Instrumental Talent) Villains Beastro Open Mic w/ Jamie Reaume

Harvesting the F.A.M. - Zarasutra, The Manchester Pub Tony Coates, George Manury Rino’s Kitchen | 1:30 p.m. Open Mic w/ Pat Robitaille The Willistead | 8:30 p.m.

Banks St. Andrew’s Hall (Detroit) | 7 p.m. 1-on-1 Entrepreneurial Coaching Francine Leclair Album Release Concert The Bank Theatre | 7 p.m. | $15

The Downtown Windsor Business Accelerator | 12 p.m.-1 p.m. WEDNESDAYS

Here Come The Mummies The Fillmore (Detroit) | 7:30 p.m. | $20-$30

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

MUSIC: Xylouris White & Peter Jefferies MOCAD (Detroit) | 8 p.m.

P.U.K.E. (People Using Karaoke Equipment) Villains Beastro The Groove Trio

Lagunitas w/ White Denim & You, FM Lounge | 8 p.m. Me & and Apollon Magic Stick Lounge (Detroit) | 8 Vice Aerial p.m. Phog Lounge | 10 p.m.

La Roux w/ Midnight Magic St. Andrew’s Hall (Detroit) | 7 p.m. Steve Lott | $28 Comedy Quarry | 8 p.m.; 10:30 Harvesting the F.A.M. - A Welp.m. | $15 come Breeze, Denigan, Grit Twenty One Pilots w/ MisterLounge, Tara Watts, What Seas Wives & Vinyl Theatre Texas King, The Royal Streets, What Shores, Royce Grayer, The Fillmore (Detroit) | 7:30 p.m. Sound System & The Brownsville Noise Border Ensemble | $25-$35 Affair W.A.V.E.S. Stage (Riverfront Dr. at FM Lounge | 9 p.m. Perfume Genius w/ Matteah Crawford Ave.) | 4:15 p.m. Baim An Evening w/ Pete Yorn The Janoskians Magic Stick Lounge (Detroit) | 8 The Shelter (Detroit) | 9 p.m. | $30 The Fillmore (Detroit) | 6:30 p.m. p.m. | $13 ADV/$15 ATG Grannis Bea w/ Analoghandshake Ed Cope CD Release Party FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 Phog Lounge | 10 p.m. | $10 Gourmet Emporium | 7 p.m. Limp Bizkit w/ Machine Gun Kelly Harvesting the F.A.M. - Johnny Balance and Composure w/ The Fillmore (Detroit) | 6 p.m. | Red Eyes, Baby Labour, Bardos Seahaven & Creepoid $30-$40 Coach & Horses | 10:15 p.m. Magic Stick Lounge (Detroit) | 8 Icon For Hire, Fit For Rivals & p.m. | $13 ADV/$15 ATG SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 Wounds Dave Dyer The Shelter (Detroit) | 6 p.m. | $15 Downtown Windsor Farmers’ Comedy Quarry | 9 p.m. | $12 Market Ariana Gillis Charles Clark Square | 8 a.m.-1 TUG w/ Ravens Revolution Lakeside Park Pavilion | 7 p.m. | p.m. Villains Beastro | 10:45 p.m. $25 Alter Bridge w/ California Breed SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 AHL Pre-season Game: Grand The Fillmore (Detroit) | 7 p.m. | Rapids vs. Lake Erie $25-$35 Downtown Windsor Farmers’ WFCU Centre | 7 p.m. | $10 Market The Scarehouse World Premiere Charles Clark Square | 8 a.m.-1 Harvesting the F.A.M. - Julia Hall, Screening p.m. Denial, D.C., Kev Kav, Stephen Lakeshore Cinemas | 8:30 p.m. | Gibb, David Creed, Tony Gray, $13 & $22 (VIP) Detroit Design Festival: Light Up Dave Kant Livernois Encore Artcite | 7:30 p.m. Harvesting the F.A.M. - Film Detroit Fiber Works | 12-8 p.m. Revue Benny Dreadful Phog Lounge | 9 p.m. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Taloola Cafe | 8-9 p.m. Joey Bada$$ w/ B4.DA.$$ MONDAY, OCTOBER 6 The Majestic (Detroit) | | 8 p.m. | Russell Peters $25 Caesars Windsor | 9 p.m. | $49+ The Scarehouse World Premiere Screening TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Steve Lott Lakeshore Cinemas | 10:30 p.m. Comedy Quarry | 9 p.m. | $15 | $13 Hollywood Ending w/ The MilRussell Peters After Party lenium, Late Night Reading & Level 3 Vodka Emporium | 10 Astro Safari Usa 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 Sky High Fridays Level 3 Vodka Emporium | 10 p.m. Loveless Fridays w/ Daniel Victor The Loop | 10 p.m. After Work Party

Rino’s Kitchen & Ale House | 7 p.m.