Verb Issue S204 (Aug. 24-30, 2012)

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FUN. NY Rockers Talk What’s Up Next P11

Legislative Art Project

Trampled By Turtles

Fidelak Honours Building With Treasure Hunt P4

Bluegrass Group On Making Honest Music P12

Country Music Awards

Hit & Run

Saskatoon To Host The CCMAs P10

Action Comedy Mostly Funny P15

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Surgical Wait Times Drop Across Province As More Patients Receive Aid In Less Time, Experts Question Strain On Resources Alex J MacPherson

Initiative. “When you’re put on a wait time for surgery you want qualSaskatoon, SK — Surgical ity care and you also want timely wait times in Saskatchewan have care — and I think it was accepted always received plenty of atten- that people waiting 12 months, 18 tion in the press, most of which months, two years for surgery is not was negative. Now, new data sug- timely care.” gests a government initiative to On June 30th, there were 2,225 combat bloated fewer people wait lists is work- “[T]here are still a lot of waiting for suring. gery than on the really important areas The Saskatch- that need work…” same date a year ewan Surgical ago, a reduction -Cam Broten of nine percent.

Initiative was introduced in early 2010 to cut wait “Our target last year was no one times and make surgical care safer waiting over twelve months,” Wyatt and more streamlined. Data from said. “Our target this year is no one the first quarter of the 2012–13 fis- waiting over six months. I think cal year indicates that times are what [the] numbers are telling you tumbling: 89 percent of patients is that the vast majority of people had surgery within six months, and are now getting their surgery inside just 870 people waited longer than of a year.” one year.

Right now, he says, 78 percent of “We had large numbers of peo- surgeries are performed within six ple who were waiting exception- months, adding that, “Our ultimate ally long times for their surgeries,” goal is that 100 percent of people says Mark Wyatt, executive direc- are getting their surgery within tor of the Saskatchewan Surgical three months.”

Wyatt says the program uses a multifaceted approach that includes expanding operating room capacity, pooling cases between surgeons, outsourcing some procedures to third-party clinics, and making assessments more efficient.

Although he says there are still areas of concern — orthopedic surgeries in the Regina-Qu’Appelle Health Region and ear, nose and throat procedures in Saskatoon — Wyatt is optimistic: “I think we are in a good position,” he says. “We can’t sit here today and say we are absolutely going to make that target because there’s a lot of hard work ahead, [but] overall, across the province, I would say we’re in good shape.”

Cam Broten, NDP health critic, agrees that shorter surgical wait times are “a good thing,” but questions the veracity of the government’s statistics.

Citing a June report by the Wait Time Alliance, a third-party analyst dedicated to monitoring provincial

healthcare in Canada, Broten says: “Saskatchewan grades have not improved in any category compared to the past two years. That’s thirdparty analysis. And in particular, we got a D in knee surgery wait times and dropped to a C in hip surgery wait times.”

Broten says it’s important to take what the Sask. Party says “with a

grain of salt,” and consult thirdparty statistics. “In this case, we know there are still a lot of really important areas that need work when it comes to surgery wait times.”

A staunch defender of public healthcare, Broten is also concerned about a “drain of resources from one system to the other.”

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Local

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Art Project Honours Legislative Building

Terri Fidelak Has Created A Province-Wide Treasure Hunt To Celebrate Centennial Alex J MacPherson

SASKATOON, SK — Terri Fidelak is working on an art project, but it isn’t exactly open to the public. Before anyone can look at it, they have to find it.

Fidelak is participating in the provincial government’s artist-inresidence program, part of the yearlong celebration of the Legislative Building’s centennial. Her project, HiddenTyndall, is a public work of art that reflects the history of the Legislature and explores the sense of community that pervades the province.

“When the call came out for

artists, I began researching the Leg fascinating,” Fidelak says. “Then, building itself,” Fidelak says. “I be- when I began to think about how came really interested in the early I might use those stones … I came photos of the Leg building popping upon the idea of having them beup from the prairie — it was really come these small pieces which each bizarre to see this have their own empty space with “It’s a little bit daunting journey around this huge build- at this point, but it’s also the province.” ing.”

HiddenTyndall, really exciting.”

The Legislative which was origi-Terri Fidelak nally titled Gift Building, which was designed by Edward and Wil- for the Future, evolved into what liam S. Maxwell, was built from Fidelak calls an interactive, expeTyndall stone, a type of limestone riential art piece. It consists of 100 quarried near Garson and Tyndall, stone cubes, one for each year; Manitoba. the cubes will be engraved with “The ancient history that already instructions to return them to the exists within these stones is really Legislature, where they will be displayed. Fidelak plans to hide the blocks in various locations across the province.

“It’s a little bit daunting at this point, but it’s also really exciting,” she says. “For me, there are a lot of places in SK that I’ve always wanted to visit but never been able to find the time to get there — so certainly some of those places are on the agenda, as well as places that have personal significance to me and places that are historically significant to the province.”

Obviously, Fidelak has no intention of revealing where the stones will be hidden. She hopes the intrigue, as well as the joy of discovering one of the blocks, will cause people to think about the province.

“I like the idea that these stones will connect individuals that find them with their immediate

Photo: courtesy of Terri Fidelak

community,” she says. “I hope that they will share their finding of the stone — but I hope it reminds people that we’re all part

of a larger community, that we are all connected and that if we work together we can achieve something pretty amazing.”

Fidelak, who completed her BFA at the University of Regina, has spent time abroad but came home to Saskatchewan several years ago. She has worked with celebrated sculptor Joe Fafard, and has collaborated with FadaDance and the Globe Theatre in Regina.

“I certainly hope that some come back rather quickly, and I will make some stones fairly obvious,” she says. “But others I want to hide a little more deeply in the landscape.

I think it would be amazing if some took 20 or 50 years to come back; they become these little time capsules.”

The artist-in-residence program is part of a collaboration with the Saskatchewan Arts Board Creative Partnerships program, itself a joint effort involving the Arts Board, SaskCulture and Saskatchewan Lotteries.

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Global

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Monday Blahs A Myth: Study Adam Hawboldt

Marriage Ups Drinking

Women Increase Consumption After Matrimony Adam Hawboldt

Not only did the research team conduct the simple survey, they Cincinnati, oh — When a also did 120 in-depth interviews man and woman get married, with certain participants to try to eventually one of them starts figure out the root causes of their drinking more. conclusions.

Can you guess which one?

One explanation as to why womIf you said the woman you’d be en begin to drink more is that some absolutely corof their husbands’ rect. “[After marriage, the] habits were carAccording to husband starts to cut r i e d i nto t h e a study from the down on his drinking home. Meaning, if University of Cinthe husband was cinnati, when a habits.” a drinker before -Adam Hawboldt the marriage, his woman marries a man her levels of alcohol con- wife would begin to drink with him, sumption rise, whereas her hus- thus creating “a drinking partnerband starts to cut down on his ship.” drinking habits.

In short, their habits converge.

The study — which surveyed And here’s some good and bad more than 10,000 men and women news for all you guys out there who in Wisconsin — fits in with a larger are in a relationship like this. body of research that says marriage, On the bad side of things, the generally, is good for the husband’s study suggests that “men who fail health and, at best, is neutral for to converge with wives’ drinking the wife’s. habits may set a trajectory towards

Global At A Glance Work Stress risk — Women who

are stressed because they have little control in the workplace are more likely to develop diabetes, compared to their male peers in the same position.

Toronto researcher Dr. Richard Glazier says it is presently unclear to researchers why women are more susceptible to diabetes under these conditions.

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divorce and continued heavy drinking.”

The good news?

“Men who converge with their wives’ drinking habits may set trajectories towards lower consumption and sustained marriage.”

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“Cultural myths may vastly overemphasise actual day of the week stony brook, ny — You’ve mood patterns.” heard of the Monday blues, right?

What’s more, the study also disWell, turns out they’re nothing pelled the idea that the Monday of but a cultural myth. the last full week of January is the A team of U.S. researchers polled most depressing day of the year.

340,000 people and found that emAfter conducting surveys, the reployees’ moods searchers found were no worse “[Y]ou know the whole this to be utterly on Monday than “thank goodness it’s untrue. they were on Tues- Friday” feeling? Well, On a brighter day, Wednesday or note, the people that’s real.”

Thursday. surveyed claimed -Adam Hawboldt they were happiThat said, you know the whole “thank goodness er, less stressed and more at ease it’s Friday” feeling? Well, that’s real. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

In lieu of all this, the researchers Because of this, Stone believes told the Journal of Positive Psychol- it’s the signifcant contrast in moods ogy that the concept of miserable between Sundays and Mondays Mondays (or the Monday blues) that has led Mondays to being should be scrapped. singled out and given a bad rap.

“Despite our global beliefs about The participants questioned by lousy Mondays, we conclude that Stone and his team were equally this belief should be abandoned,” split between men and women, advises professor Arthur Stone of and were between the ages of 18 Stony Brook University, who con- and 53. ducted the study.

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Global

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Brains, Not Brawn, Crucial To Perfect Punch Adam Hawboldt

London, england — Just because you’re strong doesn’t mean you can throw a good punch.

In fact, according to recent research, being able to throw an

impressive karate punch has more to do with your brain than with how big your muscles are.

During a close-range punching contest, scientists examined the brains of both karate experts and novices as they threw their best

punches.

Turns out the experts were able to throw better punches because of alterations in regions of their brains that control movement.

“The karate black belts were able to repeatedly coordinate their punching action with a level of coordination that novices can’t produce. We think that ability might be related to fine tuning of neural connections in the cerebellum,” explains Ed Robertson, a professor from Imperial College London who led the study.

To figure out how fast each punch was, the research team filmed the participants and timed their movements using infrared sensors on their hips, wrists, elbows and shoulders. They also used a special MRI technique called Diffusion Tensor Imaging — used to study multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, etc. — to help study the participants’ brains.

The researchers hope that by looking at the brains of healthy subjects, they will be able to better comprehend how it is that movement is controlled.

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Shy Intuit More

Wallflowers Read Faces Better Adam Habwoldt carbondale, il — Are you shy? Timid? Do you consider yourself a wallflower?

If so, here’s some good news: there’s a good chance you are better at reading people’s faces and emotions than your more outgoing peers.

In a study conducted at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, researchers found that college-aged adults who are shy

“We tend to give shy people a bad rap, but … there are some strengths to being shy.”

-Graves O’Haver are better able to recognize expressions of sadness and fear just by looking at someone’s face.

The findings fly in the face of previous studies (most of which had been conducted on children)

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that claimed that shy people were more prone to misinterpret facial expressions.

“We tend to give shy people a bad rap, but the new study suggests there are some strengths to being shy,” says Graves O’Haver, a doctoral student at the university who lead the research.

O’Haver’s research team looked at information they collected from 241 college students.

The students — whose average age was 19 years old — took an online survey in which they were shown 110 pictures of random faces and were asked to identify the facial expression in each picture, choosing from happy, sad, angry, afraid, surprised, disgusted or neutral.

For the most part, the students who participated in the study did quite well, and the overall accuracy rate was 81 percent. When it came to recognizing fear and sadness, though, the shy participants had a higher accuracy.

In order to determine which of the participants were shy, the volunteers were asked to indicate true or false to certain statements on a questionnaire, including “I feel tense with people I don’t know well,” “I find it difficult to ask for information,” and “I’m uncomfortable at parties.”

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Global At A Glance music’s Brain boost — A Northwestern University study found that the brains of people who played music for up to five years as kids were better able to process sounds later in life. Specifically, they grew to be more responsive to complex sounds, and were better able to focus in a noisy setting. Feedback? Text it to 306-881-8372.

Offbeat

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Protestors Drop Pants, Stage Toilet Protest Adam Hawboldt

WiFi Donkey Trip Bible-Tour Beasts Offer Internet Adam Hawboldt jerusalem, israel — According the Bible, in the days before the Last Supper, Jesus made his triumphal return into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey.

But you better believe his donkey was nothing like the ones you’ll find these days in Israel.

See, at the historical park Kfar Kedem, in northern Israel, visitors wear biblical robes and headdresses as they take a donkey ride through the hills of Galilee, fully immersing themselves in a total biblical experience.

Well, sort of, as the donkeys they ride feature a WiFi router that’s hung around their ass’ neck like a feed bag.

“You take some pictures, you want to change your picture on Facebook — you can do it,” the park’s manager Menachem Goldberg tells the Times of Israel.

Goldberg hopes that by mixing the old with the new, the park will be able to draw younger generations to ancient Galilee in order to experience what life was like in biblical times while still being able to snap pictures and immediately being able to share them with friends.

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‘Sick’ Turtle Actually A Figurine Adam Hawboldt carlisle, england — A kindly British pensioner who tried to nurse a sick baby turtle back to health was shocked to discover her patient was, in fact, a porcelain figurine.

When Margaret Parker first saw the tortoise in her yard, it appeared a bit under the weather, but she knew what to do.

Her daughter, Lorraine Boyes, went into town to buy some lettuce and tomatoes in order to nurse the

reptile back to health, but to no avail, as the little guy wouldn’t eat.

So Parker alerted the Knoxwood Wildlife Rescue Centre, then picked the tortoise up, placed it in a cardboard box and took the creature into her house.

“I was worried it might have died,” said Margaret.

But when a lady from the rescue centre arrived, she looked at the tortoise and diagnosed the problem: “It’s not dead – it’s made of pot.”

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Offbeat At A Glance hover-bike — Remember in The Phan-

tom Menace when young Anakin is competing in that pod race? Well, recently a high-tech “real life Star Wars speeder bike” was developed by

engineers in California. The exciting hover-bike was filmed flying over the Mojave Desert at speeds of up to 50 kilometres/hour. Feedback? Text it to 306-881-8372.

adelaide, australia — Now here’s an interesting way to protest.

Twelve people in Australia dressed up in bowler hats and black suits staged a sit-in on toilets at Adelaide beach to protest the lack

of public facilities in the area.

A photographer named Andrew Baines came up with the idea. He photographed the event, then will paint a picture of the scene.

“I think this is the job of an artist to take these issues to the wider community and let people talk

about it,” he tells The Telegraph.

Apparently, the pants-down protest worked because the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has reported local council is now consulting the community about the best place to build new toilets.

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Food

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Hollandaise sauce: add it to pretty much anything and it tastes that much better. Here are a handful of interesting facts: sauce is an emulsion ■of The egg yolk and butter that’s

usually seasoned with lemon juice, salt and pepper

historians agree that ■theMost original sauce hollandaise was created in Normandy.

Back then it was known as Sauce Isigny, after the town in which it was reportedly created

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Nobody knows when the sauce was renamed. Some people believe that after the First World War, little butter was made in France so it had to be imported from Holland, therefore, the sauce was renamed to reflect the origin of the butter

Doc Hollandaise: Delightful Eats

Photos: courtesy of Adam Hawboldt

Sutherland Restaurant’s Signature Sauce Does Not Disappoint Adam Hawboldt

Doc Hollandaise.

Hands down one of the catchiest restaurant names in Saskatoon. And from the moment I saw that sign, I

knew one day I’d eat there.

How couldn’t I? After all, the name combines two of my favourite things — hollandaise sauce and Doc Holliday (as played by Val Kilmer in Tombstone, of course.)

So early last weekend, I dropped

by Doc Hollandaise for a bite. And while I’m sad to report I didn’t run into any wild western legends, I can say with the utmost authority that their hollandaise sauce alone made the trip worth it.

Thick and buttery with a zip of lemon, this signature sauce went perfectly with the smoked salmon eggs benedict I sank my teeth into. Salty, smoky and tart, the dish (which, naturally, includes poached eggs and asparagus) was a perfectly

balanced way to start my day.

The sauce was sweet with a And at Doc’s, it’s not just the good hint of spice. And the ribs? eggs benny on which they put Well, simply put, they were fantastheir hollandaise sauce. Heck no: tic. Big, meaty and fall-off-the-bone omelettes, chicken cordon bleu, moist, Doc’s ribs are everything a chicken neptune, rib lover could ask pan-fulls, steak “Thick and buttery with a for — and then neptune — you zip of lemon, this … sauce some. name it, and hol- went perfectly with the …

For the third landaise is on it. course I tried But the restau- eggs benedict…”

D o c ’s l e m o n -Adam Hawboldt pepper chicken rant is about more than just a sauce. A lot more. fettucini. Served with mushrooms For instance, did you know that and green onions in a garlic cream Doc Hollandaise has some of the sauce, this dish was creamy and best ribs you’ll find in the city? tart in all the right ways. Oh, and With five different flavours to it comes with two slices of garlic choose from I went with good ol’ bread that just scream to be dipped fashion BBQ, and boy was it a good in what remains of your scrumpchoice! tious sauce.

After that came the cheddar n’ bacon burger. Topped with onions, tomatoes, lettuce, chipotle aioli and real cheddar, this burger was enormous, easily a meal on its own.

And it tasted fantastic, with the aoili bringing a slight heat to the dish.

As my meal was winding down, against my better judgement I topped it all off with the homemade peanut butter pie. A half ice cream/half cheese cake concoction, this dessert was soft, smooth and simply sublime.

Don’t take my word for it, though. Give the peanut butter pie a try. Or the ribs or the eggs benny.

You won’t be disappointed.

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Opinion

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Redrawing Electoral Boundaries Is Smart Rural And Urban Interests Are Different, So Why Should We Keep Mixed Districts?

The Editors of Verb saskatoon, SK — According to legend, once upon a time in 1812 a governor named Elbridge Gerry reworked the boundaries in Massachusetts in order to benefit his Democratic-Republican Party. However, by the time he was finished creating the Franken-district, which would be packed with voters faithful to the party, the area resembled not the typical square but a salamander. Thus, the term “gerrymandering” was born.

This is an issue we’re facing right now, as Saskatchewan considers the possibility of reworking the electoral boundaries in our own

“[T]he way the current electoral map is drawn … allows for a sort of rural dominance…”

-Verb’s editors province. And we understand that being resistant to a change such as this is a part of the human condition.

So you can’t really fault Conservative MPs Tom Lukiwski (ReginaLumsden-Lake Centre) and Kelly Block (Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar) for getting their ties in a bunch over those recently proposed changes to the federal electoral map. See, if the proposed map goes ahead, both Lukiwski’s and Block’s ridings will be radically redrawn, divided into urban and rural portions. And while we understand why Lukiwski and Block might be upset, we think the Boundaries Commission’s proposal to get rid of the mixed urban-rural districts in Saskatchewan is a great idea.

Why? Well, for starters, the way the current electoral map is drawn — by attaching urban areas to rural areas — allows for a sort of rural dominance here in our province.

Now, we’re not saying the urban votes should be almighty and votes from rural Saskatchewan are irrelevant. Not at all. What we are saying, however, is that according to Stats Canada, two thirds of the people in Saskatchewan live in urban areas, so urban voters should have their own individual say in matters. They shouldn’t have to vie with rural voters for their MP’s concern and attention. The districts

should be separate. It’s that simple.

And do you know what else is simple? To understand that urban and rural interests are different.

You see, in general, urban voters tend to be more progressive than their conservative, rural counterparts. And because of this — surprise, surprise — they tend to vote differently.

It really doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that someone living on, say, 20th Street West in Saskatoon has different interests, concerns, ideologies and political needs than someone living in a farm outside of Rosetown.

Under the current proposal, these issues would be addressed.

Under the current proposal, the new electoral map would add five seats that are almost all urban — three in Saskatoon, two in Regina.

And that’s the good news.

The bad news is that this is just a proposal. Nothing is set in stone.

It can be tossed into the political

trash bin, willy nilly. In fact, that’s happened before.

Back in 2002, the Boundaries Commission made a similar recommendation, urging for the creation of purely urban and purely rural districts. In recommending this, the Commission was “satisfied that despite the economic links between rural and urban populations, they nevertheless have

differing communities of interest that must be addressed.”

The idea was rejected largely because people felt “the hybrid ridings reflected the unique character of Saskatchewan and therefore should be maintained.”

If you think otherwise, dear urban voter, here’s your chance to make a difference, to have your voice heard. There will be a series of

public hearings held to determine whether the proposed electoral map will remain as is or whether the idea will, yet again, be squashed.

Don’t let that happen. Go to the meetings, give the commission your feedback in the form of letters, emails, messages, whatever.

Don’t be afraid of change, dear urban voter. Be the change.

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Feature

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We’re Going Country: City To Host CCMAs

Enjoy Seminars, Songwriter Cafés And More When Musical Stars Come To Town Sebastian Dangerfield

Saskatoon, SK — Rewind back to the year 2007.

After not-so-quietly building a following in Western Canada, Scott Patrick, Daniel Fortier, Cam Ewart and Bray Hudson (better known as the country band Wyatt) took a step into the limelight. That year they released their second record,

“It’s a great … experience.

It’s a weekend celebration of country music.”

-Scott Patrick Hard Road, and played Junofest and the Saskatchewan Country Music Association Awards.

It’s also the year they first showcased at the Canadian Country Music Awards in Regina.

“Back then we were just a new band getting our feet wet in the country music business,” says Patrick, who sings and plays guitar in the band. “I can’t remember being nervous, I just remember being green to the entire business and not really knowing anybody.”

Now fast forward five years. The CCMAs are returning to Saskatchewan (this time to Saskatoon, September 6th-9th), and again Wyatt will be there. In fact, this will be their third or fourth appearance at the annual country shindig.

And these days, things are a bit different for the band when they play the award show.

Photo: courtesy of the artists

“That first year, we were new on the scene and met a lot of people,” says Patrick. “Now when we go back it’s more hanging out with our friends, our peers, people we write songs with, whatever.”

So what is the CCMA festival like for artists who have played it before?

“It’s a great, great experience,”

admits Patrick. “It’s a weekend celebration of country music. We don’t get to see each other that often because we’re all playing all over.

So that weekend you get to see a lot of old friends, hang out, play some music together. Business is put on hold for a weekend and everybody is out just to have fun.”

Not only will the CCMAs be fun

for Wyatt, it will also be more relaxing than, say, traveling to the east coast for the event.

“It’s great not to travel far and wide to go to it,” admits Patrick.

“We can just kind of kick back and take it all in. But we’ll still be busy.

We have a couple of performances scheduled throughout the week that are booked so far, and stuff

always comes up on the weekend.”

One of those performances will be at the Rock n’ Country Cabaret, to be held September 7th at Prairieland Park. There, they’ll play on a ticket that includes the likes of Doc Walker, Deric Ruttan, Jason Blaine, Aaron Pritchett and more.

Also during the weekend Saskatoon will be privy to CCMA seminars, songwriters’ cafés, a new artist showcase, a free FanFest at Prairieland Park, all-star band awards, and the CCMA great guitar pull.

Oh, and there’s also the highlight of the weekend — the actual CCMA ceremony. That takes place on September 9 th at the Credit Union Centre.

As for how this year’s CCMAs will pan out here in Saskatoon, Patrick is sure they’ll be excellent.

“Saskatoon and Saskatchewan in general always put on a great show, a great party,” he says. “Whether it’s the Junos or the Grey Cup or whatever, they always do it up and set the bar high for the other cities.

It’s going to be exciting.”

For more information about this year’s CCMAs and Country Music Week in Saskatoon, check out http://potashcorpcountrymusicweek2012.com/index.php.

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Arts One

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Fun. — These NY Rockers Are Great, Period.

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American Three-Piece On Anthemic Rock, Glee, And Where They’re Going Now Alex J MacPherson

… a moment and then it’s just like this explosion as a result.” sask atoon, SK — I’ll be Every band hopes for a meteoric blunt. “Some Nights” by Fun., a rise to fame and popularity, but rock band from New York, is the that ascent, when it happens, can catchiest, most memorable song cause problems: some fans dismiss I’ve heard this popular bands as summer. It is the “I’ve never seen sellouts or flashes sort of song that something like that … a in the pan. But prompts you to moment and then it’s just Antonoff and his pull over when bandmates have it comes on the like this explosion…” the credentials to -Jack Antonoff back up their sucradio. It is more memorable, even, than Gotye’s cess. Singer Nate Ruess fronted The smash “Somebody That I Used Format, while Andrew Dost played to Know.” It is the kind of song in numerous other bands. Antonoff that affirms years of hard work made a name for himself as the and acts as the foundation for a leader of cult wonder Steel Train. vibrant career.

It is easy to lose sight of the Fun. burst into the mainstream fact that music is about sharing. earlier this year when “We Are The members of Fun. are wary, of Young,” a powerhouse single course, about sacrificing honesty from their sophomore album Some in the name of commercial success, Nights, appeared on the popular TV but their main interest is entershow Glee. Although some people taining people — as many people dismiss it, Glee has become the as possible. “There are elements arbiter of pop music in the same of it that are really tough to manway Pitchfork rules college radio. age,” Antonoff said of the band’s Jack Antonoff, who plays guitar in overnight success. “I think the botFun., was thrilled when the song tom line is we grew up in the ‘90s, appeared on prime time TV. learning from bands like Smashing “That was amazing, because it Pumpkins, Green Day or Pearl Jam. was the first, in a ten-year career, It’s very inherent in us to want to the first moment of anything main- go that big, and to resonate on that stream,” he says. “Glee really only big a level.” covers hit songs, and ours was the If Some Nights is any indication, first that wasn’t a hit that they did. going big shouldn’t be a stretch for I’ve never seen something like that the band. Evoking the grandiosity

of Freddie Mercury and the energetic bounce of the Beatles, their brand of anthemic rock is as powerful as it is simple. Some Nights sounds enormous while skirting the perils of multiple tracks and over-production. It is a rollicking collection of accessible pop and rock songs, the finest of which is the eponymous single.

“That was the greatest challenge on the album,” Antonoff says of “Some Nights,” which started life as

a sketch and was only filled out after the individual parts were recorded.

“We had to be architects for something we couldn’t see or feel.

It didn’t sound like anything until the very end,” he laughs. “It was the hardest process — going at it blind — and I think that’s why the song means so much to us.”

Ultimately, what that song means is that Fun. are moving onward and upward. “Some Nights,” then, is a template for the future.

And, as Antonoff points out, a look back. “It’s just a big part of where we come from,” he says.

The only question now is where they’re going.

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Every Little Crook & Nanny A Funny Whodunit Adam Hawboldt

Saskatoon, SK — This is a story about a loveable, retired nanny who runs a boarding house.

One day, a previous guest from when the nanny was a younger woman returns to rent a room.

This renter, along with his partner, are planning to rob a bank on the corner and blame it on the nanny.

And that’s where the play Every

Little Crook & Nanny begins. a suspicious fiancé, a half-pint brat “It’s somewhat convoluted be- and more. Oh and in case you’re cause it’s a farce. There’s lots of wondering, yes, the bank does get doors slamming, people coming robbed. But not by the two wouldin and out. A lot be robbers. of plot lines cross- “There’s a lot of laughter “ Fr o m t h a t ing,” e xplains in the theatre.” point on the play director Vickie becomes a who-Vickie Dyck dunit,” says Dyck.

Dyck.

Indeed. Along with the nanny “Trying to figure out who it was that and the two bumbling burglars, really robbed the bank.” there’s the police chief’s daughter, Written by Pat Cook, Every Little Crook & Nanny began its run at the Barn Playhouse on August 22nd and will wrap things up on September 2nd.

So you’re a fan of zany whodunits, you might want to swing by and check it out.

“There’s a lot of laughter in the theatre,” says Dyck.

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5 Qs: Trampled By

Bluegrass Rockers Talk Making Alex J MacPherson Never before have authenticity and honesty been more important to music listeners. Fed up with manufactured tunes and the insidious rise of quality over quantity in pop music, today’s audiences crave something real. And that’s precisely what Trampled by Turtles, a bluegrass band from Duluth, Minnesota,

deliver. Blending traditional American music with highly literate lyrics, Trampled by Turtles offer listeners a chance to hear something that is above all honest. I caught up with frontman and songwriter Dave Simonett to chat about making records that breathe, honesty in music, and moving to a cabin in the woods.

Alex J MacPherson: You mentioned wanting to make a record that breathes. What does that mean to you?

“You just have Dave Simonett: whatever’s in In the past, I think es- put it out, and pecially on the last couple of records, we being honest really pieced them together. Palomino, for instance, we recorded in five or six different locations. It was more like taking a collection of songs and making it fit. This record, we set out to make it as one piece of work in and of itself, instead of forcing these separate parts into making the whole. We really focused on continuity.

AJM: Which ties into the album title, Stars and Satellites.

DS: It was actually a phrase I’d used. I wrote a song called that years ago, and it has never shown up on anything and I don’t think it was ever very good, but that was a very literal thing — I was out in the woods one night, looking up, and that’s what I saw. When the record came together, the feeling I got from the whole collection of songs reminded me of a warm, dark night. That kind of feeling kept coming back and that connected me back to the old song. It just kind of made sense.

AJM: Not to get embroiled in mythology, but this record is like Bon Iver’s latest — recorded in a cabin near Lake

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g Honest Music

Superior. What was that like?

DS: Well, I think the goal when you go into something like that is to remove yourself from daily life for a few days. You can’t check your e-mail, you’re not at your own house, you don’t go home every night — you’re kind of immersed in your project, which is the focus.

For us, the notion of Lake Superior — we all have connections to it, and it was kind of an ve to pull easy choice.

AJM: Bluegrass n there and is experiencing d then you’re music a massive resurgence. t.”

Part of that, I think, -Dave Simonett has to do with its authenticity. What’s your take?

DS: I think that poses a problem.

To be honest, you can’t think about being honest. You just have to pull whatever’s in there and put it out, and then you’re being honest. You can think about it afterwards: was I or wasn’t I? But in the process, if you think about that, it might colour what you’re doing. If you’re being honest in your art, the thought doesn’t have to come into your head.

AJM: Can you tell me a bit about what your creative process is like?

DS: Early on it was like, we’re playing bluegrass songs so let’s write bluegrass songs. And then, when it became our own and we realized it was something we were going to do all the time, the challenge was to have this instrumentation but not sound like we’re just trying to copy this old music. The band evokes that, but none of us lived in Kentucky in the forties — it wouldn’t suit us to write songs about that.

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of the digital universe.

“I still have a dark room, but I SASKATOON, SK — When Pat haven’t been in it lately,” chuckles Derbowka joined the Saskatoon Derbowka. “Somehow the comCamera Club, things were done a puter dark room is a little bit easier.” bit differently than they are today.

Not only has the digital revolu“Back then, everything was in tion made things easier, but it has black and white,” says the club also made the club more accessible. president.

These days the Saskatoon Cam“You had to era Club boasts home-process all “Our aim was to show a diverse memyour own work.” the progression of bership which That was more photography…” includes teens, than 30 years ago. seniors, beginners -Pat Derbowka and extremely exAnd while Derbowka is by all means a long- perienced photographers alike. standing member of the club, she “That’s the one thing about the was by no means the first. digital era,” says Derbowka.

Founded in the Board of Trade “It’s brought a lot of new people Office in 1936, the Saskatoon Sas- into the club, people who wouldn’t katchewan Club is now three quar- have had access to dark rooms and ters of a century old and is celebrat- things like that.” ing accordingly — with an exhibit.

“We encourage everyone to Located at the Mendel Art Gal- come along,” adds Debrowka. lery, The Saskatoon Camera Club “There’s no need to be intimiCelebrates 75 Years includes arti- dated. We’re not a teaching club, facts — vintage cameras, trophies, issues of The Viewfinder (the club’s newsletter) — as well as photos representing all the different eras of Trampled by Turtles the club’s history. There are photos Where: Amigos Cantina of nature, of landscapes, of portraits When: Augut 31 Cost: Tickets available at the door. and more.

“One wall is black and white Camera Club 75 Years prints, another wall is colour prints Where: Mendel Gallery and slides, and the other wall is When: Through September 7 digital,” explains Derbowka. “Our Cost: Free! aim was to show the progression Every Little Crook & of photography over the years.”

And what a progression it has Nanny been. In the matter of just a few Where: Barn Playhouse short decades, photography has When: Aug 22-26; 29-Sept 2 $21 (306-239-4600) been dragged out of dark rooms Cost: Want some coverage for your upcoming and placed firmly into the hands event? Email layout@verbnews.com ASAP!

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though we do have items that can help. We’re more a social club than

anything.”

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Jack Black Shines In Tragicomedy Bernie

Ensemble Cast, Linklater Put Together Touching, Funny, Outrageous Film Bernie

Runtime: 104 Minutes Rated: PG Adam Hawboldt Back in the late 1990’s there was a man name Bernie Tiede, an assistant funeral director with a lovely singing voice, who lived in Carthage, Texas.

Bernie was beloved by the town folk for his gentle ways and big heart. One day he befriended a bitter old millionaire named Marjorie

Nugent. Bernie worked hard to do anything overly wrong. shatter her cruel veneer, and, over That’s a true story. time, finally grew close to her. But It’s also the subject for maverick Bernie was too eager to please her; director Richard Linklater’s latest he just couldn’t say no. movie, naturally titled Bernie.

So eventually he became MarNow, I don’t know about you, jorie’s lackey. but for my buck It became too “Black gives a subtle, Linklater is a guy much for Bernie nuanced … portrayal of who seems into bear. He con- the man.” capable of makfronted Marjorie ing a bad movie.

-Adam Hawboldt What’s more, he’s with rifle in hand.

Marjorie wound up dead on a ga- one of the most versatile directors rage floor. out there.

And do you know what? InHe’s shot indie classics (Dazed stead of feeling sorry for Marjorie, and Confused, Before Sunrise), he’s the good folks of Carthage rallied filmed experimental animation around Bernie, believing he didn’t (Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly), he’s done studio stuff (School of Rock) and westerns (The Newton Boys) and documentaries (Inning by Inning).

Yes indeed, Mr. Linklater is an eclectic chap. He also seems to be one of the only directors out there able to pull a good performance out of Jack Black.

Black was excellent in 2003’s School of Rock. And in his lead role as Bernie Tiede in Linklater’s new film, well, let’s put it this way: it’s hands down, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the best performance of Black’s career.

Maybe it had something to do with the fact that Black reportedly visited the real Bernie Tiede at the prison where he’s serving life for the murder he committed.

Maybe it was something else altogether.

Whatever it was, Black gives a

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subtle, nuanced, at times funny and tender portrayal of the man.

Somehow Black is able to make this man a seriously complex character

— an extrovert, yet a very guarded individual.

The rest of the performances from the main actors are good as well.

Shirley MacLaine is perfect as the bitter old millionaire Marjorie.

And Matthew McConaughey is topnotch in his role as district attorney, Danny Buck Davidson — the film’s voice of reason and the guy who wants to put Bernie away.

Acting aside, the real star of this movie (at least for me) is the guy behind the camera. Using a series of talking head interviews with the citizens of Carthage, the movie starts out as sort of a mockumentary.

Then it shifts gears and becomes a love story. Then a tragedy. Then a legal thriller. Then … well, let’s just say this film has many faces and Linklater, himself from Texas, has found a way to make all them fit finely on the same canvas.

Would you expect anything less?

Bernie is now being screened at the Broadway Theatre.

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Despite Plot Holes, Silly Script, Film Still Manages To Be Rather Enjoyable Hit & Run

Runtime: 100 Minutes Rated: 14A Adam Hawboldt Dax Shepard ain’t no Steve McQueen. And his new movie, Hit & Run, sure as heck can’t hold a candle to Bullitt.

But do you know what?

Hit & Run isn’t nearly as bad as I’d heard it was. See, one of my friends in L.A. caught the premiere not too long ago and told me the movie — directed by and starring Shepard — was an unadulterated piece of crap. An insult to movie making.

So when I sat down to watch it, my hopes and expectations were less than high.

The film begins as a love story between Charlie Bronson (Shepard) and his girlfriend Annie (Kristen Bell). They have perfect love, these two. Whenever they’re together the chemistry oozes off the screen.

Which only makes sense because, well, Shepard and Bell are an item in real life.

Anyway. Things are going swell with Bronson and Annie until one day Annie is offered a dream job in L.A. that will allow her to put her doctorate in nonviolent conflict resolution to good use.

But when she tells Charlie this, there’s a problem. A big problem.

See, Charlie is an ex-bank robber

who is in the witness protection decides to contact his old gang to program after having ratted out alert them Charlie will be coming his former crew back in Los Ange- their way. les. Instead of immediately comWhat follows is a good, ol’ ing clean with Annie, Charlie bites fashioned car chase movie. Which his lip and does what any devoted somehow is also a heist movie. And lover would do. a rom-com.

He drives Annie “Hit & Run is a fun movie If that sounds into L.A. to check for fun-loving people. It’ll a bit convoluted, out this job, even make you smile…” well, that’s bethough it might cause Hit & Run is -Adam Hawboldt kind of convolutmean running into the guys he tattled on. ed. But it’s convoluted and jumbled The situation gets stickier when in a good way. Trust me.

Charlie’s pal Randy (Tom Arnold), Sure the action gets a bit silly a clumsy U.S. Marshal case offi- sometimes, and sure the plot holes cer, realizes his pal has left and are big enough to drive a combine decides to track him down. If that through. But that doesn’t make a isn’t enough, Annie’s ex-boyfriend difference because Hit & Run is a (Michael Rosenbaum) discovers fun movie for fun-loving people. the truth about Charlie’s past and It’ll make you smile and it sure

as heck has enough one-liners to make you chuckle out loud.

Oh, and it also has Bradley Cooper. Did I forget to mention that?

Oops. Sorry. My bad. Anyway, Cooper (who sports yellow shades and dreadlocks) plays Charlie’s former best friend who went to jail after Charlie snitched on him. Needless to say, Cooper’s character is none too happy with Chuck. But that doesn’t stop him from generating some of the biggest laughs in the film.

Is Hit & Run a great movie? No way. Is it a good movie? Some will say yes, others will say no.

But if you like zany, ridiculous, fun-loving car chase flicks, give Hit & Run a try. You might just like it.

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Texts

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This Week: Wawra And Guns

Last week we asked what you thought about Wawra’s pro-gun stance, and here’s what you had to say — enjoy!

Next week’s topic: see page 9 — what do you think about

On Topic That cop from the states who was in Calgary, The guy would rather blast his way out of a situation than talk his way out!

Holy Crap! This is exactly how North American cops are wrong in the head!

changing Saskatchewan’s electoral boundaries? Text FEEDBACK and your thoughts about the topic (or anything else) to 306–881-VERB (8372) and you could see your text printed in next week’s issue!

The gun article was hilarious. I read it with such a sarcastic tone.

I hope like crazy you guys weren’t being serious cuz I laughed my ass off.

You shouldn’t make fun of a person’s right to carry a gun. You whiny libs would be clamoring for a gun if you were in a situation where your life was threatened. This guy obviously felt that way to. Hes a cop he knows what to do in situations like that it’s just the left-wing media making this into

an issue. Shameful!

There has to be a meme of this guy somewhere “Gentlemen I have no need to talk to you goodbye.” He’s like an old-timey nerd lolz.

Walt Wawra: went on vacation to Calgary, left the laughingstock of Canada.

I want 2 go 2 the stampede :(

Off Topic Re: “Eggs Bad As Cigs: Study,” Global page, August 17th issue

I would like to have the opportunity to respond to this article to tell the truth about eggs. I eat multiple egg yolks a day, close to 12 a day somedays. I own a personal training company that gets

individuals into the best shape of there lives in three months.

We give away $10000 dollars to the person who revolutionizes their body the most.

You can find more information about us at www.bodyrevolution. ca Re: “We’re Less Active And Don’t Care: Study,” Local page, August 17th issue

In response to the article found in verb aug 17th to 23rd entitled We’re Less Active and Don’t Care. I am a fitness professional here in the city and have been a personal trainer for 14 years.

I really believe that when it comes to increasing the general population’s fitness level here in Saskatchewan is EDUCATION. Many people have no idea how to properly fuel their bodies for the day. They also need to be educated on fitness. In 50 years how we have taught fitness has changed radically. It is not just about cardio, push ups and situps. It’s about finding out the imbalances in the individual’s body And adapting a program that meets that person’s weaknesses and makes them more functionally fit, making them more able to perform daily tasks outside of the gym.

Re: “Retinal ‘Code’ Cracked, Could End Blindness,” Global page, August 17th issue

as person with an eye disability this bring me new hope :) hopefully one day I’ll able to drive :) Re: “Partying Bears,” Offbeat page, August 17th issue

Lol bears break in and drink tons of beer it’s

like Goldilocks but for adults I saw ‘safety not guaranteed’ this past weekend n i thought it was funny! :) By the way my name is Aleida :) There are no excuses for the recent fatal train collisions. Keep your eyes on the road, stop at railway crossings and don’t take chances! To the people whose horses were hit by a train, pay attention! Those horses did not deserve to die like that. You made it sound like their deaths were unimportant compared to the people in the truck. Those horses were every bit as important!

My little bro n I used to test race Xperimental wheeled things.

There’s nothing more disconcerting during a high speed suicide jockey run than the copilot abandonding duty and controls to grab the sides of their head and scream like a little girl who thinks she’s going to die.

KNOCK KNOCK PENNY KNOCK KNOCK PENNY KNOCK KNOCK PENNY Help! I’ve fallen DOWNtown and can’t get up!

Somebody asked me about UPtown.

UPtown is in the good alternate universe.

DOWNtown is in the crappy alternate universe. They share overlapping M theory branes.

Texts Jesus H Chrysler cheese is good sometimes. Ice cream yogurt milk chocolate etc too. We’re such Milksuckers! Mac and cheese is the methadone of cheese addiction.

Motorcyclists should be driving single file in a lane. None of that side by side stuff with another motorbike should be allowed! It’s dangerous because other drivers don’t know what stupid stunts you are going to pull. Alas, winter is coming and once again it will silence those bikers that are so arrogant cutting drivers off all summer long. Those motorbikes just can’t cut it in the winter.

Broadway and downtown on a Saturday summer morning is the best.

Coffee walk chat hang out, farmer’s market always tons of people to see and pass the time with. Love summer here said its almost over :(:( The Latino dancers who liven up the downtown plaza in the evenings with their music and dance are the coolest thing ever.

Viva Lambada! Hola!

Don’t sweat the petty things and don’t pet the sweaty things.

They want more Aboriginals in the Labour Force then they should create incentives like corporate tax credits for those that hire more aboriginals. Solly Heard it in a love song

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cant be wrong ! MTB! FKNA Teeth bother you a lot.

Some fall out. Up at daylight. Sleepy when it gets dark. Little interest in sex. Late middle age is a lot like being a little kid again.

I just have one question? These “bear arms” where are they coming from?

The housing supplement people are f**ked too. I phoned them to update my change of address.

They said no you can’t.

You have to update your healthcare.

Then wait a few days be patient and then call us back. Did as instructed waited 4 business days. The same day I get a letter saying we notice you updated your healthcare address, if you don’t update us immediately we’ll cut you off. WTD? Be patient and then not fast enough your pissing us off???????

I grew up with Pat in the old hood, cathedral

area. I was wondering when he was gonna pull the old “See ya Suckers!” The Oliver Twist from way back still plays. And of course I still to a degree honour the old code and therefore to a degree admire the play. Way to go bud!

In 120 years everyone that is living today will all be dead.

I think folksiest should be renamed drunkfest cuz everyone who goes to those things comes out drunk and make a hell of alot of noise and jump on other peoples cars and reek havok, I am not happy with this drunkfest!YB FOLKFEST! Best time ever love it when it comes around in the summer. Can check it out and just hang out or go there and party.

XOXO Jaime

WHAT the HE. Double hockey sticks is going on around here the Ex Fringe? Im 2busy working 2 pay her Visa Sears car Watch out for cab drivers who take you the long way around to get more money out of you. It happened to me because I know the shorter route yet the driver proceeded to go the long way round. I ended up getting $2 back after they tested both routes. Know your way around the city and what the shortest routes are or you might get scammed.

Look at the next generation. Oh no we’re doomed!

Crazy storm last night Saskatoon thunder n lightening. I love summer storms there awesome! Dogs hate it though

To the txtr who sayd sorry for splashing the lady that was nice of u :) Accidents happen CG + AS forever With Global news offering their new Traffic App they are doing their part to encourage drivers to use their cell phones while driving. Not the best idea.

Texting and driving not that bad everyone needs to relax about it. Some do it good some don’t but don’t punish every person with a cell phone who’s driving. I watch people check ipods, look through purses or glove boxes and that’s not illegal but just as unsafe. Ease up!

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Nightlife

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Sunday @ Béilys Venue

Béily’s Ultra Lounge on Sunday, August 19th

Location

2404 8th Street East

Photos courtesy of Michelle Berg (feedback@verbnews.com)

Playing on Arrival

Live performance of DJ Sugar Daddy

Music Vibe

Hip hop, top 40, dance

Feature Deal

All drinks $4, and $4 appetizers

Popular Drink Vodka

Food of Choice Wings

Wing Notes

$5 a pound on Thursdays, and $1 a pound on Sundays; of the 10 available flavours, Buffalo is the most popular

Something New

Béily’s has just released a new food menu

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Friday @ The Freehouse Venue

The Spadina Freehouse on Friday, August 17th

Location

608 Spadina Crescent East

Playing on Arrival

Various tunes by Röyksopp inside, and Rock 102 was hosting their WTF (What The Friday) event outside

Music Vibe

Varies, depending on the live performers

Regular Gigs

Rotating DJs on Fridays and Saturdays

Feature Deal

$5.75 for pints of Newcastle, and $4.50 for sangria

Popular Drink Sangria

Food of Choice

Bourbon onion and chorizo pizza

Coming up

Funktion on September 1st, and Pocket City on September 7th

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Music (Next week) 911 TURBO @ THE FEZ on broadway — This juggernaut of

German techno from Saskatoon bring party energy and catchy dance hits to each of their shows. With hits like “Lazerbeams,” “Mein Porsche” and “Straight to Ze Top,” 911 Turbo offers a one-of-a-kind stage performance that

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House DJs — Funk, soul & lounge DJs liven up the atmosphere at 6Twelve.

9pm, 6Twelve Lounge. No cover.

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experience, Austen Roadz throws down a high-energy top 40 dance party along with DJ Ash Money every Friday night. Happy hour 4pm, Béily’s UltraLounge. $5 cover after 9pm.

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blurs the line between comedy and awesome dance party. Made up of Von Trask, Von Hattie and Von Lermstein, this trio is known for having a blast on stage. They’ll be at the Fez on Broadway on August 31st and September 1st.

-Adam Hawboldt. Feedback? Text it to 306-881-8372.

Buildaburg, Skizza, Variety Daily — Come out for a night filled with fantastic musical acts.10pm, Amigos Cantina. Tickets available at the door.

Aust e n R oad z — Locals O nly 4 w/ With over 25 years of DJ

DJ Eclectic — Local turntable whiz DJ Eclectic pumps snappy electronic beats. 8pm, The Hose & Hydrant. No cover.

classic tunes and audience requests, from Sinatra to Lady Gaga. 10pm, Staqatto Piano Lounge. No cover until 8pm, $5 thereafter.

DJ Sugar Daddy & DJ JMats — Able to rock any party, these local crowd favourites have always been known to break the latest and greatest tracks in multiple genres. They are sure to have you on the dance floor in no time! 9pm, Jax Niteclub. $5 cover.

Darren Kowaluk — A local singer/songwriter worth seeing. Come out and listen for yourself.

11:30am, Victoria School’s Little Stone Stage. No cover.

Grady Champion — This bluesman from Mississippi combines high energy singing with fantastic harmonica playing and a voice that’ll remind you of Robert Johnson. Don’t miss Champion while he’s in town. 10pm, Buds on LIFTED — Featuring RAFH Broadway. Cover $6. and Emilio Del Canto, come DJ Aaron Paetsch — on down and check this This local DJ will get your out. Lydia’s Upstairs Loft. head bobbing, your feet Cover TBD. moving and your butt up DJ VIK — It’s time for Ukraion the dance floor. 9pm, nian Tusovka. Come on out Diva’s Club. Members get for Ukrainian beer and this in free; cover $5 for non- slick DJ. 9pm, The Odeon members after 11pm.

Events Centre. Tickets $10, Nodding Donkey, The available at www.theodeFaps, Zombie Bouf- on.ca fant — With these three DJ B ig Ayyy & DJ local acts taking to the HENCHMAN — Round up stage, this threatens to be your friends ‘cause there’s a night full of fun, good no better country rock parmusic and good times. ty around! 8pm, Outlaws 10pm,The Fez on Broadway. Country Rock Bar. $5 cover; Cover $5. ladies in free before 11pm.

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House DJs — Resident DJs spin deep and soulful tunes all night. 9pm, 6Twelve Lounge. No cover.

Shooting Guns — This local band works at the heavy (as in heavy death metal) end of the psychedelic spectrum. Also playing on the bill will be Powder Blue and Switching Yard. 10pm, Amigos Cantina. Tickets available at the door.

Austen Roadz — With over 25 years of DJ experience, Austen Roadz throws down a high-energy top 40 dance party along with DJ CTRL every Saturday night.

Dr. J — A local DJ known Drinks & appies 4pm, Béily’s for blending old school UltraLounge. $5 cover after funk, boogie and hip hop. 9pm.

8pm, Prairie Ink. No cover. Grady Champion — L.O.R.D. Funk & Friends This bluesman from Mis— A badass night of funk sissippi combines high enfeaturing some fine local ergy singing with fantastic talent. 9pm, Somewhere harmonica playing and a voice that’ll remind you Else Pub. No cover. of Robert Johnson. Don’t Red Blaze — An award- miss Champion while he’s winning band that plays a in town. 10pm, Buds on blend of country music and Broadway. Cover $6. some of their own stuff.

9pm, Stan’s Place. No cover. DJ Nick James, DJ US Marshall, DJ QuadDueling Pianos — rant Khan — Come Terry Hoknes, Neil Currie down, celebrate and dance and Brad King belt out the night away at the We

Music

Are Not Pop party. 9pm, Diva’s Club. Members get in free, cover $5 for nonmembers after 11pm.

Dead Past Due — Attention lovers of dirty rock and heavy metal: if it’s a good time you want, come check out this local four piece. Also appearing will be White Lightning. 10pm, The Fez on Broadway. Cover $5.

DJ Kade — Saskatoon’s own DJ lights it up with hot tunes. 8pm, The Hose & Hydrant. No cover.

DJ J-Mats & DJ Sugar Daddy — Able to rock any party, these local crowd favourites have always been known to break the latest and greatest tracks in multiple genres. They are sure to have you on the dance floor in no time! 9pm, Jax Niteclub. $5 cover.

Soul Killing Female — Aka Michael Lewis, this

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Winnipeg-based musician blurs genres and bends minds with his hard-hitting songs. 9pm, Lepps Metal Bar. Cover TBD.

Else Pub. No cover.

Red Blaze — An awardwinning band that plays a great mix of country music and some of their own LIFTED presents RAFH stuff. 9pm, Stan’s Place. No — This veteran of the decks cover. has been turning heads all over Vancouver Island Dueling Pianos — for more than a decade, Terry Hoknes, Neil Currie headlining major clubs and and Brad King belt out after-hours spots. 10pm, classic tunes and audience Lydia’s Upstairs Loft. Cover requests, from Sinatra to Lady Gaga. 10pm, Staqatto $5.

Piano Lounge. No cover unDJ B ig Ayyy & DJ til 8pm, $5 thereafter.

Henchman — Round up your friends ‘cause there’s no better country rock party around! 8pm, Outlaws Country Rock Bar. $5 cover. Saskatoon’s origiMatt Hunter — Come nal industry night — check out this accom- Hosted by DJ Sugar Daddy; plished musician play his this crowd favourite has alinstrumental guitar. 8pm, ways been known to break the latest and greatest Prairie Ink. No cover. tracks in multiple genres.

L.O.R.D. Funk & Friends Drinks & appies 4pm, Béily’s — A badass night of funk UltraLounge. $4 cover after featuring some fine local 9pm; no cover for industry talent. 9pm, Somewhere staff.

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(Next Week) SLOW DOWN, MOLASSES @ AMIGOS cantina — Feel like hav-

ing a good time? Come on out to the official release party for Slow Down, Molasses’ new single, “City Sublet.” It’s fresh and good — kind of like the band itself. Consisting of a shifting, enormous cast of musicians, Slow Down,

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Molasses plays a sprawling brand of indie rock that’s rife with horns, strings, feedback-laced guitars and incredible sweeping vocal harmonies, this is one mega group that’s fantastic to see live.

They’ll be playing Amigo’s on September 1st. Tickets TBD. -Adam Hawboldt.

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DJ KADE — Saskatoon DJ you ask for? 9pm, Lepps lights it up with hot tunes. Metal Bar. Cover TBD. 8pm, The Hose & Hydrant.

SUNDAY JAM — The No cover.

Vangelis Sunday Jam is an Ninjaspy, Annex The- institution, offering great ory, Grimace — Three tunes from blues to rock hard and heavy bands, one and beyond. 7:30pm, Vangreat show. What more can gelis Tavern. No cover.

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DJ SUGAR DADDY — Able to rock any party, this crowd favourite has always been known to break the latest and greatest tracks in multiple genres. 9:30pm, The Double Deuce. $4 cover.

(Coming Up) DAN MANGAN @ THE ODEON events centre — Raised

in a house where instruments were readily available, this singer/songwriter came by music honestly. So when he started a band called Basement Suite at the age of 16, it was no surprise. It’s also no surprise that, given his sheer

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amount of talent, Mangan would go on to become an award-winning indie/folk-rock musician that toured the world over. He’ll be playing The Odeon on November 3rd; tickets $33.50 (www. galleryac.com/11–03–12-the-odeon. html). -Adam Hawboldt. Feedback? Text it to 306-881-8372.

VERB PRESENTS OPEN STAGE — The open stage at Lydia’s has hosted many of Saskatoon’s finest performers, and is a chance for bands, solo artists and even comedians to showcase original material. 9pm, Lydia’s Pub. No cover.

Open Mic — Come out to show your talent. 7pm, The Somewhere Else Pub. No cover.

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HUMP WEDNESDAYS — Resident DJ Chris Knorr will be spinning all of your favourite songs and requests, every Wednesday night!

Doors at 7pm, DJ takes requests at 9pm, 302 Lounge & Discotheque. No cover until 10pm, $3 thereafter.

Thresh, Datura, Lord

Osis, Harmful Effects requests, from Sinatra to — If you like your music Lady Gaga. 10pm, Staqatto loud, heavy and good, you Piano Lounge. No cover should probably check out this quadruple bill. 10pm, Amigos Cantina. Tickets available at the door.

The Seekers — Three The Avenue Record- guys, one girl and a whole ing Company pres- lot of musical goodness, ents Open Mic — Host- that’s what this local band ed by Chad Reynolds. Sign brings to the stage. 10pm, up and play at this weekly Buds on Broadway. Cover event. 10pm, The Fez on $6.

Broadway. No cover.

Rory Allen — This Elvis DJ Kade — Saskatoon DJ impersonator from Regina lights it up with hot tunes. is back on stage gyrating 8pm, The Hose & Hydrant. his hips, gnarling his lip and No cover. paying tribute to the king.

Dr. J ‘Souled Out’ — 8pm, Dakota Dunes. SOLD Dr. J spins hot funk and soul OUT. every Wednesday night.

Doors 9pm, Lydia’s Pub. No Throwback Thursdays — Come experience cover. the best in retro funk, soul, WILD WEST WEDNES- reggae and rock provided DAY — This is Saskatoon’s by Dr. J. 8pm, Earls. No top Industry Night, hosted cover.

by DJ Big Ayyy & DJ Henchman. 9pm, Outlaws Country T hund e r R iot w/ Rock Bar. $4 cover. No cover Conky Showpony — Come dance the night for industry staff. away as this local DJ plays Dueling Pianos — the kind of music that’ll get Terry Hoknes, Neil Currie your feet moving. 9pm, The and Brad King belt out Fez on Broadway. Cover $5. classic tunes and audience DJ Kade — Saskatoon DJ lights it up with hot tunes.

8pm, The Hose & Hydrant.

No cover.

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DJ Sugar Daddy & DJ JMats — Local DJs J-Mats and Sugar Daddy will be rocking the turntables to get you dancing on the dance floor! Every Thursday night will be filled with passion parties, pole dancing, shadow dancers and much more! 8pm, Jax Niteclub. $5 cover, free cover with student ID before 11pm.

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Virgo (Aug 23–Sept 22)

Pisces (Feb 20–Mar 20)

Chances are you’re going to encounter a lot of stupidity this week, but don’t fret. It’s just going to be one of those weeks. Ignore the dumbassery and go about your plans as usual.

Don’t be afraid to try new things this week, Aquarius. Sure you may stumble, sure you may fail, but that’s how you learn. Mistakes come and go, but opportunity is fleeting.

Lately, have you been feeling that your great ideas are being shot down by people around you? Don’t bother yourself with that small stuff. Instead, let your great spirit soar.

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Aquarius (Jan 20–Feb 19)

They say that curiosity killed the cat.

But what the hell do “they” know anyway?

Ask as many questions as your heart desires. Through questioning, you could come to some profound realizations.

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Leo (Jul 23–Aug 22)

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Try to live outside yourself this week.

Engage with the world, enmesh yourself in the hot, wet steam of life. Introspection is good from time to time, but not this week; this week live for others.

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Capricorn (Dec 22–Jan 19)

Don’t waste time trying to solve problems from your normal viewpoint.

Instead, change things up. You might just be amazed at how easy the answers will come to you.

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Cancer (Jun 21–Jul 22)

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You could find yourself pulled towards something new this week. What that will be, who knows. Keep your eyes peeled for opportunities — they could offer the answer you’ve been looking for.

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You may want to try working on your attitude this week, Gemini: try to be cheerful and open-minded. If you can do this, you will be able to handle whatever the universe throws your way.

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Sagittarius (Nov 23–Dec 21)

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Gemini (May 21–Jun 20)

People may be irritating you this week, but if so step back and try to see where they’re coming from. If you can do that, your problems, stress and frustration will simply vanish. Poof!

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Scorpio (Oct 24–Nov 22)

Some people call them gut feelings, others call it instinct. This week your mind and your heart (your head and your gut) may come into conflict. Go with the gut.

Trust your intuition.

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Taurus (Apr 20–May 20)

Happiness could be found in spending time with family, hanging out with friends, or meeting new acquaintances this week, dear Libra. Summer’s end is nearing, so get outside and have fun.

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Libra (Sept 23–Oct 23)

Don’t be afraid to let your mind wander this week, Aries. Sure, it’s good to know things, but sometimes a little imagination goes a long way towards chasing down dreams.

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Aries (Mar 21–Apr 19)

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Sudoku

Directions: Fill each box with a digit from 1-9, following these conditions: - Each row must contain every digit from 1-9 once and only once.

- Each column must contain every digit from 1-9 once and only once.

- Each of the nine 3x3 boxes must contain every digit from 1-9 once and only once.

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