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SPACE 2018: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

Exciting new advances in space travel may spark a modern space race

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t’s going to be a good year in space, and the new players are aiming high. The Indian Space Research Organization intends to send Chandrayaan-2, an uncrewed orbiter, lander and rover, to the moon in March.

In July, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will arrive at its target, the asteroid 162173 Ryugu, in an effort to return samples of space rock to Earth.

In June, China will launch the first part of its mission to the ‘dark side’ of the moon, Chang’e 4, which will position a communications satellite 60,000 kilometres beyond the moon to provide a link with Earth. That 425 kilogram relay satellite will also guide the second element of the mission, a lander and rover, down to a soft landing on the far side of the moon, where nobody has gone before.

One benefit of being on the far side is that the moon blocks out stray radio signals from Earth, so the view of the radio spectrum of the universe is far better. But the Chang’e 4 lander will also carry seeds and insects to test whether plants and animals can be grown on the moon.

“The container will send potatoes, arabidopsis seeds and silkworm eggs to the surface of the moon,” explains Zhang Yuanxun, chief designer of the container.

“The eggs will hatch into silkworms, which can produce carbon dioxide, while the potatoes and seeds emit oxygen through photosynthesis. Together, they can establish a simple ecosystem on the moon.”

Very simple, but the first step towards a sustained human presence on the moon.

The older space powers are also breaking new ground. Russia is testing a nuclear engine this year that could cut travel time to Mars from 18 months to just six weeks. In October, the European Space Agency will launch a mission to Mercury. NASA’s InSight Mars lander will launch in May, and the American agency’s OSIRIS-REx vehicle will rendezvous with near-Earth asteroid Bennu in August, taking samples for return to Earth.

The main event of the year, beyond doubt, is the planned launch of Elon Musk’s Falcon Heavy vehicle from Cape Canaveral. (The launch window opens on January 15.) “It’s guaranteed to be exciting,” said Musk last July. “There’s a real good chance that it doesn’t make it into orbit ... I hope it makes it far enough

This is known as ‘lowering expectations,’ but it is also known as realism. Falcon Heavy will boost two-and-a-half times the payload of any existing rocket into Low Earth Orbit: more than 50 tonnes. Moreover, both the main rocket and the two boosters that are strapped onto it are designed to return to Earth and land, ready for reuse which would transform the economics of putting things into orbit if it all works.

It almost certainly will all work eventually but this is effectively a new design, not just an upgrade, and there are many elements in a big vehicle like Falcon Heavy that cannot be tested on the ground. The aerodynamics are different, the stresses are different, and nobody has ever launched a vehicle with 27 rockets before. The old adage applies: anything can happen and probably will.

Yet, Elon Musk is also one of the greatest showmen and selfpublicists of our time, so he’s an inveterate optimist. In early December he tweeted: “Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is Mars orbit. Will be in deep space for a billion years or so if it doesn’t blow up on ascent.” (That is, a

solar orbit like that of Mars, not an orbit around Mars. But everybody knows he does intend to go to Mars eventually.)

It’s easy to get carried away by hope, of course, but after Falcon Heavy comes NASA’s Space Launch System vehicle, which is designed to put 70 tonnes into Low Earth Orbit, with a follow-on version capable of 130 tonnes (although its rockets will not be reusable).

Musk’s future plans include the BFR (Big Fucking Rocket) that would really go to Mars.

These are the sort of vehicles we need if we are really serious about getting out into space in a big way. When I watched the last of the Apollo moon landings on TV in 1972, I assumed that we would be seeing rockets like this by the early 1980s.

(See Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Oddysey, released in 1968, for a perfectly reasonable vision of where we could have been in space technology by the turn of the century.)

Instead, the money was cut and then the Cold War ended. The whole enterprise was mothballed for 40 years, except for unmanned interplanetary missions and a low-orbit International Space Station. But this year it does feel like we are back on track and going somewhere. Forty wasted years, but better late than never.

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Let’s celebrate and reconcile our past The opening of the new Michael Phair School in Webber Greens is bittersweet for me. Don’t get me wrong, I am thrilled beyond words that Phair’s extraordinary efforts have been recognized in this way and that generations of children will get to learn about the struggles of lesbian and gay Edmontonians (assuming any of them pay attention during assemblies).

I use “gay rights” very consciously, it’s not new to suggest that the winners of the gay rights campaign have been predominantly (but not entirely) white, cisgender, and male. But this doesn’t change the fact that early activists risked their careers, reputations, and lives to make space for a time when we

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can comfortably name a school after an early crusader.

Let’s get healthier I am beyond thrilled that a resource like QUEERFLEX exists in our city.

QUEERFLEX is Canada’s first non-profit fitness facility for queer, trans* and non-binary people. Can you imagine if every fitness facility took a similar approach? This is what revolution looks like.

Go to the Pride Centre Have you visited the new Pride Centre space? It’s beautiful. Upstairs from their old office (and still physically accessible) the space is full of light, wood and magic. If, like me, you haven’t been to the space for a while, it might be time to ask yourself why not? I know this idea exists in the community that the Pride Centre is only for those who are just coming out, new to the city, or in crisis, but it’s so much more than that. If you have the money to spare, consider donating. Who knows, one day you might find yourself in need of the space.

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he southwest corner of Jasper Avenue and 112 Street is rapidly becoming Edmonton’s unofficial vegan district. Vegan pizza parlour Die Pie has been joined by An Chay, a new Vietnamese place that looks to do many of their soups and noodle dishes without animal products.

An Chay has installed itself in what was, roughly forever, an indie coffeeshop and loiterer’s paradise on said corner. The new ownership has put a lovely gloss on the ersatz café environment, from the mirrorshiny laminate and faux-stacked stone wall, to newly erected dividers that ‘nook-ify’ the formerly wide-open dining room.

Appetizers, noodle entrees (that can be done with brown rice or baguette, in some instances, at your request) and soft drinks are the extent of the menu. An Chay does not proclaim vegan status for all of its food—perhaps something eggy

in the spring roll wrappers or a preponderance of sentient life in the grilled soy paste? It didn’t occur to me to ask at the time, but vegans certainly will.

Unlike a lot of vegan places that come up with ingenious ways to counterfeit meat, An Chay’s kitchen relies on tofu as its go-to protein in nearly every dish. They deserve credit for wringing some novelty out of those oft-derided cubes of bland.

Take, for instance, the green papaya salad ($10) my party enjoyed as an appetizer, which came topped with paper-thin tofu sheets steeped in soy sauce and something a tad smoky—hence, “soy jerky” on the menu—to complement the crunchy shredded green papaya and carrot dosed with garlic, chilies and rice vinegar for the perfect amount of tongue-tingling heat. Thick, sweet soy sauce is provided on the side should further

enhancement be needed.

Four salad rolls ($7) and six spring rolls ($9) were procured, the former featuring a tasty slab of panfried curry marinated and bound up with vermicelli, cucumber, lettuce, mint leaf, pickled radish and carrot in a rice-paper wrapper, the latter packing a meaty melange of noodles, fried bean curd (a.k.a. tofu), taro, yam, and mung bean.

The entrees were likewise consistently impressive, though I fear I might have made the most boring order by going with the vermicelli special. I love a big bowl of Vietnamese noodles and this one laid on the lettuce, mint, shredded carrots and two kinds of seasoned tofu to keep my interest, but maybe nothing can be done to compensate for the absence of pungent fish sauce and salty, sleazy meat. One co-diner tried to counter with a few lime wedges

with a degree of success.

Everyone else was completely pleased with their orders, which each boasted a bold but not intolerable spiciness. Co-diner to my right received enough sweet and sour soup ($16) for two people— the huge tureen of tangy pineapple-scented broth was teeming with tofu, okra, bean sprouts, tomatoes, celery, and herbs to which he added vermicelli from a side dish as he went. He advises not consuming two slices of Thai chili in the same mouthful.

Co-diner across from me loved the substantial satay noodle soup ($13) with its well-spiced peanuty broth and smart substitution of tofu, king mushrooms and lotus root for the usual animal rinds.

She suggests not wearing a nice silk blouse to eat at An Chay.

Co-diner to my left had the stew-like coconut curry ($12) with vermicelli that was thickened by

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All agreed it was a successful cruelty-free meal, though An Chay may not yet have the front-end chops to deal with such success.

We arrived early on a weeknight and enjoyed speedy, efficient service, but by the time we left the joint was jumping and they were clearly back on their heels—our empty plates remained in front of us for the duration of our time there and eventually we had to go to the counter to fetch our bill. Consider avoiding peak hours while An Chay sorts this out.

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haping Sound is the brainchild of four dancers that have been likened to Cirque du Soleil with a twist of contemporary dance. The dance troupe’s creators have all danced or choreographed with such popular TV shows as So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars.

Having known each other since they were young, Travis Wall, Teddy Forance, Kyle Robinson, and Nick Lazzarini decided to create something entirely new that accurately depicted where dance is headed in the 21st century.

“We kind of try to walk that line of still being artistic and free, while still having movement and storytelling and music that the normal everyday person who doesn’t know much about dance can appreciate and really connect to,” co-founder Lazzarini says.

Their second production to date, After the Curtain, has challenged the cast of 11 dancers to clearly portray a narrative that Lazzarini calls “a show within a show,” exposing the sometimes tragic world of a dancer and what can happen after the curtain drops.

While the company uses a blend of dance styles, including jazz, contemporary, aerial, and tap, the hardest work for the

classically-trained performers was creating a hybrid of dance and theatre acting.

“There’s a lot of gestural work,” Lazzarini says. “As we were choreographing the show, we worked for about a week on sign language and how to incorporate speaking with your hands into the movement that we were creating because we’re telling a story. Travis says it best: ‘It’s like a silent film told through dance.’”

Shaping Sound is not only aweinspiring contemporary dance, acrobatics, and theatre, but also a production that holds creative elements rivalling Broadway. Their outfits are made by Emmy Award-winning costume designer Marina Toybina and the music is scored by Los Angeles composer Ryan Lott and his bandmates Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang—a.k.a. Son Lux. Working with Son Lux’s dreamlike electronic pop in his previous choreographing work, Wall knew who he would approach to create the music of Shaping Sound’s newest production.

“It’s a really cool blend of new music and old-timey music,” Lazzarini says. “[Lott] did a beautiful job with the part of the score he wrote for the show.

Half of our show is brand new tracks from him.”

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Tue., Jan. 16 & 17 (7:30 pm) Shaping Sound: After the Curtain Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium The show’s artistic style follows a 1930s cabaret-feel, with all the glitz and glam one could imagine set in tumultuously juxtaposed worlds. Focusing on both onstage and offstage life, After the Curtain is the heartbroken story of a man whose love is ahead of his time.

“Being where we are in the world right now and where we’re at as a society, I think it was an important story that Travis really wanted to tell and people need to see,” Lazzarini says. “[It] really encompasses what is happening and, maybe, what should happen in the future, and how everybody should get along and love one another.”

After the Curtain challenges previously outdated notions of sexuality, as well as female and minority roles that have recently come into question in many industries. It’s something that stands as evidence to Shaping Sound’s active role as the reformers of modern dance.

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THEATRE

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Cast of Shadow Theatre’s Slumberland Motel revel in the collaborative process

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t’s comforting to travel with someone you know, and equal parts discomforting to deal with a stranger. Shadow Theatre’s Slumberland Motel incorporates these nagging social sensations with an added garnish of humour, compassion and ‘70s Canadiana.

The new play, penned by local playwright Collin Doyle, is described as “a road weary comedy of disillusionment and dreams.”

The cast couldn’t agree more.

“It’s all about a night that goes wrong, or right. It really depends on your point of view,” says Reed McColm, who plays one of the lead characters named Ed. The story focuses on two down-on-their-luck travelling vacuum salesmen, Ed and Edward, played by McColm and Julien Arnold respectively. On a cold Christmas Eve somewhere in Canada, the two decide to take a break from their travelling commerce and shack up in a roadside motel. What seems like a quiet night quickly turns into an evening of hilarity and intensity, as the two reflect on their lives. Just when things seem to be calming down, the pair’s crisis hits an abrupt de-

tour as they suddenly encounter a mysterious woman in their hotel room.

“I’m this ideal woman who just wanders in their room,” says Aimée Beaudoin, who plays the role. “When in reality, I’m kind of a fucked up person.”

From there on, the story revolves around the trio as they try to make the most out of their awkward situation, and find hope in their individual dismay.

“She acts as a catalyst for these two men ... we all kind of rescue each other,” Arnold says.

The production was a welcome change of pace for all involved, as it’s a detachment from what the cast is used to. Arnold and McColm often work in large productions and Beaudoin is known for her work in sketch comedy. However, the cast has been enjoying the artistic freedom, as they have been working closely with both writer Collin Doyle and director John Hudson. ”There’s a difference between large scale productions and more intimate one’s like these,” Arnold says. “There are non-stop ideas being thrown around and a major collaborative effort in rehearsal.”

The intimacy of cast and crew helped Arnold and McColm form heightened bonds with their respective characters, finding parts of each one in themselves.

“These two men are being surpassed not only by society but also their age. The subtext in this play really hits close to home,” McColm says.

“There are some aspects of being an actor that are tough, and I relate to these guys.” Arnold adds. “As you get older you always have a little less energy.”

Apart from the intense nature of the characters, Slumberland Motel promises to maintain the ideal balance of humour and heartache. Themes of love, loss and longing will no doubt be present, and the cast is certain that audiences will enjoy their stay in the seedy motel.

Beaudoin has been enjoying her stay as well, both on and off the stage.

“Whenever I’m off stage, I get to take in what Reed and Julien are doing, but half the time I’m just falling out of my chair laughing,” she says.

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SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

BOULDER AND BRASS Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s composer-in-residence unveils his latest composition, Mountain Triptych Sat., Jan. 13 (8 pm) Haydn’s “Surprise” Winspear Centre $29-$87

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ew things convey awe like a horn. Popular Christian wisdom has Gabriel blowing one in 1 Corinthians, and popular composers like Hans Zimmer use them to underscore cinematic drama. When attempting to venerate something as massive as the Rocky Mountains, you can’t do much better than horns.

With that sort of power in mind, the orchestral world premiere of Concerto for 2 Horns (Mountain Triptych), composed by Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s composer-in-residence, John McPherson, aims to evoke the brilliance of the Albertan landscape with just two instruments.

“These are all very colourful pieces from different eras,” McPherson says. “I think what brings them together is how well they’re all crafted and how they will all feel like very strong images from different eras. It’s sort of like going through an art gallery.”

McPherson’s Mountain Triptych will appear alongside Kabalevsky’s Violin Concerto in C Major, Respighi’s The Birds, and Haydn’s Symphony No.94. The composition will be performed

by Allene Hackleman and Megan Evans on French horns and is conducted by William Eddins.

The piece contains three compositions entitled, “Sunrise,” “Rundle,” and “Sunset, Night Sky,” respectively.

“When I was writing it, it did come together quite quickly,” McPherson says. “It felt somewhat cohesive. The outer movements, the first and third movements complimented the inner movements, which I thought was sort of the central idea. The idea of three. It also felt a bit to me like one of the influences on the piece was sort of a landscape.”

In spite of his own intentions and ideas when creating the concerto, McPherson says he doesn’t want to beat audiences over the head with his interpretation of his music. He prefers to let people imagine what comes easiest to their ears and minds.

John McPherson has been the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra’s principal trombone for almost 40 years. He decided to take a break in 2016, and in July of that year he became the orchestra’s fourth composer-in-residence.

“That’s the interesting thing about being a composer as opposed to being a performer,” McPherson says. “All my work’s been done a long time ago. I can be fairly relaxed about the whole process of performance and just sort of enjoy it.”

With the completion and performance of Mountain Triptych, McPherson reflects on seeing his piece performed alongside the likes of the historically cherished.

“Every piece has to have its premiere sometime,” McPherson says. “If it’s 200 years ago or today. It’s like the old adage of ‘The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time to plant a tree is today.’

Putting out a new piece into the world is a bit like planting a young tree. You hope it will be nurtured and appreciated over the years.”

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long with the annual ice sculptures, bonfires, performers and activities, Deep Freeze Festival 2018 will include captivating historical throwbacks to the early days of Canada.

Traditions from around the world are showcased, spanning Viking voyages, the fur trade, and more recently, large groups of immigrants from both Europe and Africa that have moved to Canada.

However, Alberta Avenue’s Byzantine Winter Festival has a different rhythm than most.

The festival abides by the Julian calendar rather than the commonly used Gregorian. Most calendars will label an ‘Orthodox Christmas’ in January, which refers to the Julian calendar’s origins in the Greek tradition and Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire. The Julian calendar, proposed

by Julius Caesar, celebrates Christmas Day on January 7 and New Year’s Day on January 14 (known as Old New Year).

With many of the festival’s organizers coming from Orthodox Ukrainian backgrounds, holding the event on the weekend of January 14 is an intentional way of honouring and celebrating the Orthodox New Year.

As with most Canadian celebrations, many cultures have caught on and added their own touch to the festivities.

While the majority of the festival hosts performances and activities from the Ukrainian, Franco-Canadian, FrancoAfrican, Acadian and Indigenous communities, other cultural groups can be found from Northern Europe and the Middle East, too.

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Sat., Jan. 13-14 Deep Freeze: A Byzantine Winter Festival Alberta (118) Ave. between 90 and 95 St. Entry by donation The 11th year of the festival will feature the second annual round dance with Enoch Cree Nation as well as the Pipon Village (‘winter’ in Cree) Indigenous artisan market, featuring freshly made fire hot tea and bannock made over the fire.

More recent groups of immigrants are also performing, including Wajjo African Drummers, Burundi Dancers and the hardto-place Bedouin Beats bellydancers.

Moving into European roots, staples of French-Canadian voyageur life can also be found, such as traditional log sawing and axe throwing, finger-weaved ceinture fléchée sashes, tourtière (French-Canadian meat pie), and snow-twirled maple syrup on Saturday. Ukrainian-immigration is represented with Vinok musicians, and Shumka and Cheremosh dance school performances on the Sunday.

Executive director of Shumka School of Dance, Darka Tarnawsky, says the Shumka training for young dancers is very important in learning about their culture and arts. Ukrainian New Year, known as ‘Malanka’ from a pagan folk tale adopted by the Orthodox Christians, is celebrated over the weekend of the festival on January 13. Shumka School of Dance will perform the “Malanka Suite” on Sunday, telling the infamous tale of ‘the devil and the gypsy.’

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The Prints and the Paper aims to become a local staple of graphic art and oddities

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s you walk into The Prints and the Paper shop, it’s impossible to keep your eyes fixed on one object.

The store contains a variety of graphic art, one-off graphic novels, pop-up books, oddities, coffee table books and an array of other unique trinkets.

Owner Sandy Muldrew, a former CBC video editor, sits near the back. Behind him is a giant inked mural of New York City from one of his favourite books New York, Line by Line created by graphic arts pioneer, Robinson.

Muldrew opened up the shop after his 13-year position at CBC was eliminated. Rather than fall into a wave of unemployed depression, he saw an opportunity.

“There were shops I’d seen when I was travelling Europe,

like in Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, and they really caught my eye,” Muldrew says. “Like the oddities kind of pop-culture shops.

I thought Edmonton needed more of those.”

Since graduating from SAIT’s film program in 1997, Muldrew has always had a passion for graphic arts. He had always maintained an adoration for film, being one of the co-owners of the now-defunct video store Sneak Preview.

“I really like silkscreen prints of graphic art and I’ve never really seen it sold really anywhere,” he says.

After his initial inspiration, Muldrew set up shop at a space on 124 Street across from Duchess Bake Shop and got to work.

His choice of location was important and a well-thought-out decision.

“I wanted to be on this street because there are the fine art

galleries down the road,” he says. “I wanted to be an alternative, affordable, original art store. Graphic prints are usually pretty rare. There’s 200 made with artist autographs and it’s not a poster, there are actual layers of ink and colour.”

There were quite a few renovations needed to be done to the space before Muldrew’s vision could be actualized.

“This was a women’s clothing shop and the floors were sort of purple-pink,” he laughs.

“There was dressing rooms and this big monolith thing blocking the window, so it was very dark in here.”

Thanks to he and his brother’s handiwork, the shop now has an industrial-type feel with each pop-culture section spaced out appropriately.

Muldrew is currently the only person who works in the shop and does all the framing himself.

“People can bring in their own

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prints or I can find prints to frame for them,” he says. “You’re dealing with balances of colours and there’s a precision that is needed, kind of like video editing.

I love choosing the right dimensions of the frame and matching the right colours so the print will really pop. It’s kind of like a piece of art that comes to life.”

Muldrew is extremely passionate about what he sells and has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of every item in the shop.

“There’s not one thing in the store that I don’t like,” he says.

“I’m not like a car salesman who lies about everything.”

After I spot a pop-up book of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, Muldrew is delighted to tell me about the artist. You can tell he’s flipped through this piece quite a few times, as he points of the intricate details on every page.

“There’s definitely a realism to graphic art, like in Tintin,” he explains.

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9. The Apothecary’s Shop - Roberto Tiraboschi and Katherine Gregor

1. This Wound is a World (poetry) - Billy Ray Belcourt * +

10. Fire Born - Rayanne Haines *

2. Bellevue Square - Michael Redhill

Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers

3. Autumn - Ali Smith 4. The Power - Naomi Alderman 5. Heartbreak Hotel - Jonathan Kellerman 6. Difficult Women - Roxane Gay 7. Origin: A Novel - Dan Brown 8. Change of Heart - Jodi Picoult

Muldrew is still constantly adding to his collection. He happily tells me about a few pieces he wants to obtain, with one standing out in particular.

“There’s a store in Amsterdam called The Otherist and they have this big black crow that sits and makes a 3D graphic outline,” he says. “I figured out where I can get them, but I’d have to sell them for 130 bucks a piece. But it would be cool to have one just hanging off a wall in the store.”

Anyone remotely interested in pop culture or oddity treasure is likely to find a trinket of their own at Muldrew’s shop.

“The goal is to become an institution in the city to come and get fun and unique items,” he says. “Maybe people will pop in because they’re going to the Duchess. You’ll always find something new when you come in here.”

Stephan Boissonneault stephan@vueweekly.com

1. Oil’s Deep State - Kevin Taft * 2. Stories from the Bush - Circle Teachings * 3. Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations - Richard Wagamese 4. Women Who Smashed Codes - Jason Fagone 5. When We Were Alone (children’s) - David

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Alexander Robertson, Julie Flett 6. Case for Christ - Lee Strobel 7. River of Consciousness - Oliver Sacks 8. Birds Art Life - Kyo Maclear 9. Grass Roots - Emily Dufton 10. My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs - Kazuo Ishiguro * ALBERTA AUTHOR

+ ALBERTA PUBLISHER List compiled by Audreys Books and the Book Publishers Association of Alberta

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DANCE ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

BALLROOM DANCE ASSOCIATION • Central Lions Recreation Center, 11113-113 St • 780.893.6828 • ebda.ca • An evening of ballroom, latin, country dancing • First Sat of every month, 8pm (doors)

DANCE CLASSES WITH GOOD WOMEN DANCE COLLECTIVE • Muriel Taylor Studio at Ruth Carse Centre for Dance, 11205-107 Ave • info@goodwomen.ca • goodwomen.ca/classes • Every Tue, Thu, Fri; 10-11:30am • $15 (drop-in), $65 (5 class pack), $100 (10 class pack)

DIRT BUFFET CABARET• Spazio Performativo, 10816 95 St • milezerodance. com • This multidisciplinary, diverse variety show allows audiences to discover Edmonton’s most unique, challenging, and wide-ranging performances, curated by an array of artists who will share different niches within the Edmonton scene • Feb 1, Mar 8, Apr 26, May 24, 8pm • $10 or best offer at the door

FLAMENCO DANCE CLASSES (BEGINNER OR ADVANCED) • Dance Code Studio, 10575-115 St NW • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail.com • flamencoenvivo. com • Every Sun until Jun 10, 11:30am12:30pm

HOUSE OF HUSH PRESENTS: NEW YEAR REVOLUTION • Crash Hotel Lobby, 10266-103 St • hellothere@violettecoquette. com • houseofhushjan26.eventbrite.com • houseofhushburlesque.com • Grab a table for House of Hush Burlesque’s speakeasy burlesque show at Crash Hotel’s vintage cocktail bar! Go back in time to an era of luxurious outfits, cocktails and a night of classic burlesque with top burlesque performers from Edmonton, Calgary, and beyond • Jan 26, 7pm (doors), 8-9:30pm • $30 (include a complimentary feature cocktail) • 18+ only

MILE ZERO DANCE DROP-IN DANCE & MOVEMENT CLASSES • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • 780.424.1573 • mzdsociety@ gmail.com • milezerodance.com/classes • Mile Zero Dance holds a number of drop-in dance & movement classes for people of all experience levels & ages; Mon: Professional Technique (10-11:30am), Contact Improv (7-9pm); Tue: Kids 6-10 (4:30-5:15pm), Toonie Yoga (5:306:45pm), Butoh (7-9pm); Wed: Noguchi Taiso (10-11:30am); Thu: Preschool 3-5 (10-10:45am), Beginner Contemporary (5-6:15pm); Sat: House (7-9pm) • $15 (regular), $12 (members), 10-class cards available for $100

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

THE SASH MAKER • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • milezerodance.com • In collaboration with Aboriginal Arts Alberta, Rebecca Sadowski uses Metis traditional sash weaving as an entry point to exploring her own heritage through movement • Jan 19-20 • $15 or best offer at the door

ACuA gAllery & ArtisAn BoutiQue • 9534-87 St • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts.ca • acuarts.ca • Signature Artist Series - "Through Halyna's Eyes" Opening reception: Jan 12, 6:30-8:30pm

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY •

SACRED CIRCLE DANCE • Riverdale

10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Process; Thinking Through: artwork by Charles Lewton-Brain; Jan 20-Apr 21

Hall, 9231-100 Ave • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music. No partner required • Every Wed, 7-9pm • $10

ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5th Ave,

SUBARTIC IMPROV & EXPERIMENTAL ARTS • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St

• milezerodance.com • Co-curated by Jen Mesch and Allison Balcetis, these unique events combine forces of local and visiting artists, who share with the audience to a melange of dance, visual art, music, and text • Jan 12 • $15 or best offer at the door

SUGAR FOOT STOMP! • Sugar Swing Ballroom, 10019-80 Ave NW • 587.786.6554 • dance@sugarswing.com • sugarswing.com • Swing dance social • Every Fri-Sat, 8pm (beginner lesson begins) • $12, $2 (lesson with entry) • All ages SWING 'N' SKATE • City Hall, City Room & Plaza, 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.970.7766 • brasko@edmontonarts.ca • edmontonarts.ca/churchillsquare • Local bands bring the swing with live jazz and big band music. Music will be broadcast outside to enjoy while skating on the Plaza • Every Sun, Jan 7-Feb 25, 1-4pm • Free

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • Monument: artwork by Dara Humniski and Sergio Serrano; Oct 14-Feb 19 • Calling Stones (Conversations): artwork by Faye HeavyShield; Oct 28-Feb 19 • WordMark: A New Chapter Acquisition Project; Oct 28-Mar 25 • Songs for Pythagoras: artwork by Peter von Tiesenhausen; Jan 27-May 6 • Undaunted: Canadian Women Painters of the 19th Century; Dec 2-Mar 25 • WEEKLY DROP-IN ACTIVITIES: Tours for Tots, Every Wed, 10-11am • Youth Workshops, ages 13-17, Every Thu, 4-6pm • Kids’ Open Studio, Every Sat, 1-3pm • Exhibition Tours; Every Sat-Sun, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm • Art for Lunch; 3rd Thu of the month, 12-1pm • VIBE; 3rd Fri of the month, 5-9pm

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Outrospectives: artwork by Nathalie Daoust, Florin Hategan and Edwin Janzen; Dec 7-Jan 27

FILM

BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 9132-118 Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Origin Stories: artwork by Jenny Hawkinson; Jan 8-27

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema. org • Visit metrocinema.org for daily listings • Canada's Top Ten Film Festival 2018 (Jan 25Feb 4) • Black History Month 2018; through Feb • Afternoon teA: Victoria & Abdul (Feb 11) • Art DOCS: Blurred Lines: Inside the Art World (Feb 8) • CinemA of PsyChedeliA: Altered States (Jan 20) • GATEWAY TO CINEMA: Wonder Woman (Jan 24), Get Out (Feb 13) • homo-CidAl drAg show: Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Feb 18) • KinK on sCreen: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (Jan 21, Jan 24) • NIGHT GALLERY: D.I.Y. Video Jukebox (Jan 13), Adult Cartoon Party! (Feb 17) • QuoteA-LONG SERIES: The Princess Bride (Feb 14) • reel FAMILY CINEMA: Wonder Woman (Jan 20), Kirikou and the Sorceress (Feb 3), Boss Baby (Feb 10), Muppet Movie (Feb 19), LEGO Batman Movie (Feb 24) • reel leArning: The Phantom of the Opera (2004) (Jan 23) • sCienCe in the CinemA: Side Effects (Jan 18), Hotel Transylvania (Feb 17) • sCi-fi: The Brother from Another Planet (Feb 11) • stAff PiCs: La graine et le mulet (Jan 15) • sundAy ClAssiCs: West Side Story (Jan 28) • TURKEY SHOOT: The Wicker Man (2006) (Jan 18)

BOREALIS GALLERY • 9820-107 St • assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/borealis.html • A Call for Justice: Fighting for Japanese Canadian Redress (1977-1988); Jan 15-Apr 2

BRUCE PEEL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS • Lower level, Rutherford South, University of Alberta • bpsc.library.ualberta.ca • Salt, Sword, and Crozier: Books and Coins from the Prince-Bishopric of Salzburg (c.1500-c.1800); Jan 2-Feb 7

112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • 1984 Cranes: artwork by Bonnie Patton; Dec 7-Jan 19 • Bandaneira: artwork by Jonas St. Michael; Dec 7-Jan 19

HUMAN ECOLOGY GALLERY • University of Alberta 1-15, Human Ecology Building • 780.492.3824 • Imagining a Better World: artwork

by Nelly Toll; Sep 28-Mar 11

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • January Group Selling Exhibition: artwork by Lando Gallery artists; Until Jan 31

LATITUDE 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St NW • latitude53.org • Persistence of Vision: artwork

by Brandon A. Dalmer; Dec 8-Jan 20 • Latitude Invitational: by various artists; Dec 8-Jan 20

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/ mcmullen-gallery • 21st Century Nesting Practices: artwork by Sydney Lancaster; Jan 6-Feb 25

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • Outrospectives: artwork by Nathalie Daoust, Florin Hategan and Edwin Janzen; until Jan 27

PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • NAESS GALLERY: The Story of One’s Soul: paintings by Oksana Zhelisko; Jan 4-Feb 1; Reception: Jan 11, 7-9pm (artist in attendance) • ARTISTAN NOOK: C is for Compost, an alphabet book project: artwork by Yong Fei Guan; Jan 4-Feb 1; Reception: Jan 11, 7-9pm (artist in attendance) PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Artwork by Julian Forrest; Mar 15-Apr 7

PICTURE THIS! FRAMING & GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • info@ picturethisgallery.com • picturethisgallery.com • The Winter Art Show: artwork by Roger Arndt, Luke Buck, Charity Dakin, Trisha Romance and more; Dec 1-Feb 28

St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Levitas: artwork by Linda Craddock; Feb 16-28

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St •

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta

780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Isachsen: artwork by various artists; Jan 12-Feb 17; Opening reception: Jan 12, 6-8pm

FAB GALLERY • Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1

Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • A host will lead the audience through a vocal warm up and give you a comprehensive guide to the accompanying actions for this sing-a-long movie event • Jan 20, 2pm

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default. aspx • Open Tue-Sat, 9am • 150 Firsts: How Alberta Changed Canada…Forever; Until Aug 1

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124

SING-A-LONG-A SOUND OF MUSIC •

WHO CARES–A LOCAL FILM ABOUT SEX TRADE WORKERS IN EDMONTON

Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil. com • Novelty Show; Dec 4-Jan 19

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Members Show and Sale; Jan 11-Feb 25

Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Community Gallery: artwork by Jonathan S. Green; Jan 5-Feb 10 • Main Gallery: Tara Cooper; Jan 5-Feb 10

FAB (University of Alberta) • ualberta.ca/artshows • MFA Sculpture: artwork by TJ McLachlan; Jan 2-13 • The Light Through the Window: artwork by Noemi De Brujn; Jan 2-13 • Feeling the Flesh of the Other as Our Own: artwork by Angela Marino; Jan 23-Feb 10 • Alcuin Awards for Book Design in Canada 2016; Jan 23-Feb 10

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments • POPnology Exhibition; Feb 9-May 6 • Terry Fox–Running to the Heart of Canada; Feb 16-Sep 16

FRONT GALLERY • 10402-124 St •

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Robert

thefrontgallery.com • The Heritage Collection: artwork by Kari Duke; Jan 11, 7-9pm • Fallen Star Cars: artwork by Steve Coffey; Feb 8, 7-9pm

• Westwood Unitarian, 11135-65 Ave • A screening followed by a discussion. The film is directed by Rosie Dransfeld • Jan 12, 7pm • Free

LITERARY Everett-Green "In a Wide Country" Book Launch; Jan 17, 7-9pm

DOWNTOWN EDMONTON BOOK CLUB • Downtown Edmonton Community League, 10042103 St • facebook.com/declorg • Open to anyone who lives, works, or plays downtown and wants to meet new people, have great conversations, and read cool stuff • Every 2nd Wed, 7-8:30pm EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Mercury Room,10575-114 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • facebook.com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

The Sash Maker Spazio Performativo Jan. 19-20

ROUGE POETRY SLAM HOSTED BY BREATH IN POETRY COLLECTIVE • BLVD Supper x Club, 10765 Jasper Ave • Every Tue

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly Tellaround: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@ hotmail.com UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series • Most Mon (except holidays), 7pm, Sep 18-Mar; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

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Holy Trinity, 10037-84 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • This completely improvised musical comedy is based on the suggestions from the audience who will get to experience a brand new story unfold in front of them, complete with impromptu songs, dance breaks and show stopping numbers • Every Fri, Oct 13-Dec 15, 11pm

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A BRIEF AND UNRELIABLE HISTORY • dc3 Art Projects, 10567-111 St • Readings of works in progress by Ted Kerr and Amy Fung with a discussion led by Chang-Yen Phillips • Jan 17, 6-7:30pm

BACK TO THE 80S PART 2: THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Join Bill and Ted in their time traveling phone booth as they blast back to the '80s to relive the bad hairdos, spandex pants, iconic characters and, of course, it’s most excellent mix-tape of memorable music. • Nov 7-Jan 28

BEWITCHING ELVIS • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, West Edmonton Mall, #2061 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • edmonton.jubilations.ca • Samantha Stephens and her husband Darren are trying to live a normal married life, but Samantha’s witch mother, Endora, doesn’t make it very easy for them. Samantha throws a party and is greeted by the real Elvis • Jan 26-Apr 1 CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s long form comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm; Sep 10-Jun 9 • $15 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square)

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • die-nasty.com • Live improvised soap opera. Join the whole Die-Nasty family REBORN, for a whole season of great artists, earth-shaking discovery, glorious music, hilarious hi jinx...but mostly Machiavellian Intrigue • Runs every Mon, 6:30pm (doors), 7:309:30pm • Oct 23-May 29 EMPIRE OF THE SON • Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • A dynamic solo performance about an emotionally distant father whose legacy is felt beyond his lifetime • Jan 31-Feb 18

THE HUMANS • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • A family reunion at Thanksgiving causes tensions to rise to the surface as secrets and hardships are revealed • Jan 6-28 THE LISTENING ROOM • ATB Financial Art Barns, 10330-84 Ave • 780.471.1586 • In an isolated and post-apocalyptic desert, a group of four teenagers use radio telescopes to salvage fragments of earlier civilizations still ricocheting between stars, desperately searching for connections to a past that has faded from both memory and record • Jan 18-28

ONEGIN • Maclab Theatre at the Citadel, 9828101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • A new indie-rock musical. Tells the story of Eugene Onegin, a wealthy Russian playboy who, bored with seducing women in Moscow, sees a chance for a change when he inherits a country estate. He soon becomes fast friends with Vladimir, his new neighbour, who introduces Onegin to the love of his life, Olga • Jan 17-28, 7:30pm (nightly), 2pm (weekends) • $17 OPEN JAM • Holy Trinity Church, 10037-84 Ave • 780.907.2975 • grindstonetheatre.ca • Facilitated

by Grindstone Theatre. Swap games and ideas and get an opportunity to play. For those of all levels • Last Tue of each month

ORANGE IS THE NEW PINK • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, West Edmonton Mall, #2061, 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • edmonton.jubilations.ca • Piper is pretty in pink and the life of every party. But when this queen of the New York party scene takes it a bit too far, she’s forced to trade in the pink party dress for an orange prison suit • Oct 20-Jan 20 PURPLE PIRATE’S MAGIC PIRATE SHIP • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • This voyage will have adults laughing and children leaping to their feet to volunteer with the world’s friendliest buccaneer, The Purple Pirate • Jan 29, 10am

SHAKESPEARE’S R&J • Roxy on Gateway, 8529-103 St • theatrenetwork.ca • Presented By Kill Your Television. The story of four male Catholic prepschool students, who secretly meet to read Romeo and Juliet, a play banned because of its sexuality and violence. The fun of the play-acting turns serious when two of the young men emerge in the title roles.

Perceptions are challenged and love is redefined in a queer adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic tale • Jan 18-28 SLUMBERLAND MOTEL • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • shadowtheatre.org • While overnighting in a seedy roadside motel, two down on their luck vacuum cleaner salesmen’s lives are changed by a mysterious woman • Jan 17-Feb 4 TEMPUS EXTRAORDINARIUS • Theatre of La Cité francophone, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury (91 St) • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre@lunitheatre. ca • lunitheatre.ca • Confronted to a world deprived of all freedom, condemned to survive, Tubby and Nottubby will be carried by the turbulent flows of History and Time, in an epic journey of their own selves • Feb 7-10

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep 9-Jun 8 • $15

FILM FESTIVAL

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Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour makes annual Edmonton stop at new venue Thu., Jan. 11 - Wed., Jan. 17, 7:30 pm, 1:30 pm on Sat. Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour Garneau Theatre, $22

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ales of skiers, spelunkers, kayakers and more will hit the big screen in the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour this week. And for the Edmonton leg of this year’s tour, that screen will be in Garneau Theatre.

The main Banff Mountain Film Festival, which began in 1976

under what is now the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, screens international submissions every fall. Following the initial screening, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour shares them with more than 550 communities around the globe.

For more than 20 years, local outdoor sports retailer Track ‘N Trail has hosted the Edmonton stop of the tour—most recently at the Royal Alberta Museum. This year, owner Bob Schilf says he’s excited to bring

the films to the larger audiences that Metro Cinema and Garneau Theatre afford.

“This year we have two different programs and those will feature about nine films each,” he says. “We picked a very balanced program.”

From the mountain bike trials of a one-legged cancer survivor in Ascend, to the French thrill-seekers who skid along a tightrope stretched hundreds of feet above a gully in Surf the Line, this year’s lineup offers

plenty of variety.

Surf the Line, Ascend, Why, The Last Honey Hunter, Where the Wild Things Play, Into Twin Galaxies, and Imagination will run during the “Track Program” festival showings.

Meanwhile, IceCall, My Irnik, DugOut, Intersection, Johanna, Kilian, Edges, and The Frozen Road, will run during the “Trail Program” screenings.

The films vary in length between three and 52 minutes, and despite the outdoor sports approach many of them

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take, Schilf says there’s something for everyone to enjoy at the tour.

“You don’t have to be even a hardcore outdoor person. A lot of the films are really just about human interest and cultural interest, so it appeals to a broad range of people,” he says.

“It’s not just for your hardcore skier or your hardcore climber.

It’s really about things that are going on around the world and people’s adventures.”

Kevin Pennyfeather arts@vueweekly.com

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BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL THUR @ 7:30, FRI @ 7:30 SAT @ 1:30, SAT @ 7:30 SUN @ 1:30, SUN @ 7:30 TUES @ 7:30, WED @ 7:30 STAFF PICS

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2006 are changing that perception, offering many options completely free to students.

MOOCs are online courses providing unlimited participation and an interactive user format, including forums providing interaction among students, professors and teaching assistants.

The list of well-known postsecondary institutions offering MOOCs continues to grow, with Harvard, MIT, and the University of Alberta included.

More and more universities and colleges are participating in the MOOC movement because it’s good for their reputation and branding and can help attract new students. There is also an altruistic aspect, creating greater equality to access higher learning opportunities.

University and college courses can be accessed worldwide through external providers who have created partnerships with various institutions. External providers are the ‘hosts’ of the courses and may provide broad or specialized areas of study. Some of the providers are for-profit, such as Coursera, and others are non-profit, including EdX, a provider created by Harvard and MIT universities.

Having access to these courses means anyone from anywhere in the world can learn valuable skills, as long as they have access to a computer and Internet. Additionally, as rapidly as technology is advancing, it’s becoming more difficult for people to maintain their current jobs and upgrade their skills.

This is where MOOCs serve one of its greatest purposes.

“Millions of people lack the skills needed for new and better jobs, and increasing automation will only widen the gap,” says Rick Levin, CEO of Coursera in the United States.

“Governments and non-profits focused on workforce development are eager to work with us and our university partners to deliver skills edu-

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cation to populations at an unprecedented scale.”

Free courses currently available include coding, business management, Indigenous peoples and language courses including Dutch, German, French, and more.

“There are literally thousands of courses available from hundreds of schools worldwide,” says Annette Kutchaw, an IT professional in Ontario working for Coursera and MOOC participant. “If a new concept or business practice is introduced in my field, the first place I look is a MOOC site to see if a free course is available. The benefit being, I don’t have to wait for approval to start learning. The cost is minimal and sometimes completely free if you don’t include my computer and Internet costs, and my skills are always up to date.”

However, there are potential downsides to taking a MOOC versus traditional courses.

Courses cannot be used towards credits for a certificate, diploma or degree, but most courses can be “challenged.” If you take a free course and have learned the content, you can likely use it that way to earn credits. Also, if you are taking a course from an international institution, there may be language and cultural barriers.

Regardless of whether you’re looking to keep your skills upto-date, or a first-time student exploring different interests, the MOOC model is an accessible way for most people to attain higher learning opportunities.

If the trend continues to grow, we’ll likely see more and more post-secondary institutions offering courses through a MOOC platform, businesses may encourage employees to pursue courses and government agencies will begin using it as a tool to break down barriers for the undereducated and/ or the underemployed. The possibilities are endless.

Katie Robertson editor@vueweekly.com

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New comprehensive Arabic K-12 curriculum embodies Alberta’s changing demographics

ast fall, Education Minister David Eggen announced the dawn of a new era for Alberta’s public schools. A bilingual K-12 Arabic program is slated to come to schools in fall of this year, making Alberta the first province to have a full-Arabic language curriculum available for implementation.

After 2015’s spark of immigration, a call for a more widely available Arabic language curriculum became a hot topic, primarily for children that speak Arabic at home or as a first language.

This isn’t to say that there weren’t Arabic-speaking communities in the province before the Canadian government accepted 25,000 Syrian refugees.

But by 2016, the Alberta census found Persian and Arabic together were the second-fastest growing mother tongues behind Tagalog (Filipino).

“Education is one of the most important tools we have to promote inclusion,” Minister Eggen explains. “Which is one of the reasons I’m proud that we are going to be offering a provincial Arabic language curriculum in 2018-19.”

A work in progress since 2016, the curriculum was developed through Alberta Education working in tandem with the Canadian Arab Friendship Association and the Edmonton Public School Board along with various experts from the community.

Basel Saleh, a working professional in the city, has been offering translation services free of charge to new Edmontonians for the past four years. Originally

from Damascus, Saleh knows the struggle of coming to a new country, even though he was educated and knew English quite well when he arrived in the country.

Part of the difficulty is that many of the Syrians that came in the 2015 immigration wave were from rural and often poor areas of Syria, which meant their education was limited, even in their mother tongue. For those that were well off, like Saleh, English was taught from kindergarten onward.

“The kind of people the United Nations grabs, most of them they are from the country. They are uneducated, so it takes time for them to learn English,” Saleh says. “Their native language, they don’t know how to write or read, so how about the second language? It’s going to be difficult for them.”

From his experience, about 80 percent of the Syrian newcomers needed a translator, especially in the beginning. While English as a second language (ESL) classes are offered in most cities, children are often put into school while their parents take ESL classes or work manual labour jobs that don’t require full-English proficiency. It becomes difficult for the children and for the teachers, which is why the new bilingual program is so vital.

Structured like a French bilingual program, the Arabic course will immerse students in Arabic for up to 50 percent of the day while learning core subjects.

Equally important aspects of the

curriculum are cultural integration components.

Saleh says that parents often want their children to learn their mother tongue as well as English, to ensure they can communicate with their own children, but also to honour a small part of their cultural roots. Currently 14 of Alberta’s school divisions have been authorized to offer Arabic language and culture courses, but the hope is to increase that number in time.

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Just when you thought Edmonton was too cold for year-round cycle delivery, think again

t all started when cyclist Dan Corredor was fired from his job.

Recognizing that Edmonton was missing a cyclist delivery service and wanting the flexibility to make money that wasn’t tied into a large corporation taking a cut of profits, Corredor recruited his cyclist buddies to start their own business.

“It was something I’d been thinking about for a little while. The democratic ownership of how you make money,” says cyclist and member of Champ City Courier co-operative Dan Corredor.

Now further down the road, Champ City Courier’s 10 cyclists are ready to deliver food to satiate last-minute cravings or flowers to your mom when called upon. The two tenants Champ City Courier was founded upon were promoting local business and equal input between cyclists.

“Organizing as a co-operative as opposed to a corporation is a lot more complicated to do, but it seemed to make a lot more sense just because of how our mentalities worked,” says courier member Josh Marcellin. “We wanted to have collective ownership, 14 pop

shared decision-making and be as flatly democratic as possible. As opposed to a corporation where maybe one of two people have most of the decision-making.”

What this means for potential customers is cheap delivery costs.

Their flat rate for delivery starts at $4, which guarantees delivery in four hours. The next level is $5 for delivery in two hours or less and the sliding scale goes all the way up to $15 for priority delivery in under 30 minutes.

Part of the benefit of using a smaller co-operative like Champ City is that overhead costs are less for both parties. This means your money isn’t going to a bank account in Europe, for example, but instead into the hands of the very person that brightened your day with a thumb drive for the presentation you forgot about.

Champ City is also a green company, so only sweat will be shed for your emergency cold meds to reach you.

Uber and other food delivery services take about a 20 percent cut of the total cost of delivery orders. Whereas with Champ

City, the rate is flat and extra charges are only added for bigger (larger than a shoebox) and heavier items (over 10 pounds), as well as distances outside of each neighbourhood “zone.”

For example, a $3 bridge charge is added to orders delivered to downtown and surrounding areas, and a toonie charge is added for every extra zone the courier must cross to pick up your delivery.

For member Terris Glab, the profit model Corredor built the co-operative around made much more sense than the privately-owned courier service he had experienced while working downtown.

“Working daily as a courier has its perks, but one of the downsides is you’re only really maxing out on 60 percent of potential earnings, and it’s because there has to be someone else taking it. The person who organizes the contracts and has all the clients.

So if we do it ourselves and maintain all of the work within our core group, we’re sharing 95 percent of the profits.”

The other five percent is put towards simple overhead and float-

ing expenses required to keep the co-operative running in the longterm. This approach is surprisingly minimalist when compared to the 40 percent large courier companies take to pay upper management and dispatchers.

This model means each courier is a member of the co-operative and, as such, has an equal part of ownership and input in the direction of the collective.

Each courier must have extensive experience on Edmonton’s mean streets to run deliveries, and most have professional experience as couriers downtown. They all agree that the biggest obstacle for a cyclist on Edmonton’s roads is not being recognized by other vehicles as a form of transportation using the roadways. One cyclist tells a story of being punched by a motorcyclist driving by, and others have battle stories of being cut off or almost doored by a vehicle.

While the city has certainly made roads more bike-friendly with bike lanes and regular winter plowing, the culture is not quite there yet.

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“It’s pretty safe to say we’ve all been hit by cars,” Marcellin says with the edge of a goodnatured chuckle.

But each of the cyclists credit their years of experience on Edmonton’s extreme roads.

“The way we ride, we mostly assume we’re invisible and we ride like that—defensively, but assertively,” he says.

As for what they ride? Fixedgear track bikes. But every one of them admit to having a fair amount of bikes—and various piles of bike parts—sitting at home at most times, which get switched and passed around the collective.

In the end, for all the members, Champ City is the ability to run a business and make money equitably amongst friends. Marcellin says there’s no one else and nothing else he’d rather be focusing his efforts with and on, as the rest of the cyclists nod emphatically.

“Being able to do it with your friends, doing something you’re passionate about, that’s the best part.”

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orb Lund, our local “Hurtin’ Albertan,” can’t remember exactly when he first heard the tunes of 84-year-old country-folk icon Ian Tyson, but he sure remembers the profound influence it had on him.

“He’s the patriarch cowboy-singer for sure,” Lund says on the way to rehearsal with Tyson. “It’s really easy to put Chicago in a song, or Dallas in a song, ‘cause it’s so much a part of the meta-culture that you can drop those geographical references and it already has premade resonance. It’s a lot harder to put Calgary or Medicine Hat, especially with international audiences, ‘cause people don’t know what it is. Ian was one of the first guys that kind of clued me into how to connect it.”

Tyson’s influential career is staggering. He quickly rose to notoriety in the early ‘60s with his folk duo Ian & Sylvia, when songs like “Four Strong Winds” and “Someday Soon” were written. Sometime after, he began releasing cowboy records from ‘73 up until his 2015 release Carnero Vaquero.

This weekend, for the first time in Edmonton, Lund and Tyson will present “Cowboy Songs and Stories,” a duo project they started back in 2012.

“We play songs and bullshit a little bit on stage here and there,” Lund says. “This could be the last run.”

The idea for the project started after Tyson released his book The Long Trail: My Life in the West, a narrative that follows his life, horse riding, living the cowboy dream, competing in rodeos and being a part of the folk-revival era with his then-wife Sylvia.

Lund, already being a friend of Tyson’s, was asked to conduct interviews with him during the book tour.

“The whole time I thought, ‘wow, this is kinda fun, but it would be super great if he had guitars.’ I, kind of, talked him into that, or maybe it was his idea,” Lund laughs. “I guess ‘we’ put it together.”

The initial idea for the show was sparked during the centennial Calgary Stampede.

“We kind of felt that nobody was addressing the historical side of things, so we put together a show that told a loose history of Alberta and cowboy and cattle culture that

leads into the present,” Lund says.

Lund can’t place when he first became friends with Tyson, but he remembers they met at a show in Calgary.

“I asked him to sing on my Hair In My Eyes Like A Highland Steer record. So he sang a song on there and we spent a lot of time together,” Lund remembers. “Now, we play shows together, drink beers, and he gives me sage advice about the music business sometimes, and I’ll explain social media to him.”

Outside of their professional music careers, Lund and Tyson usually hang out on Tyson’s ranch out in Longview, AB. “We go out riding and move his cows around,” Lund says. “He’s out on the ranch most times and he doesn’t have much internet out there, but he reads The New Yorker a bunch. So he’ll read about startups and social media, so he’ll have a list for me about tweeting and Instagram.”

Any fan of Tyson knows that his voice has gone through some dramatic changes over the years. This is due to many health problems the weathered 84-year-old has conquered.

“He’s always been a great singer,” Lund says. “About six or eight years ago, he had some kind of a

bands on it in the ‘70s. It was intense, with bands like Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, and Ian and Sylvia. And there’s this shot in the movie where Ian’s hanging out with, like, royalty. He’s hanging out and there’s a jam with like Rick Danko from The Band and Jerry Garcia from the Dead and Janis Joplin and he’s jamming with them. It’s like, ‘holy fuck dude.’ He knows and knew some serious people.”

He also apparently turned Robert Zimmerman, a.k.a. Bob Dylan, onto pot.

“It’s funny cause when I ask him about that period he kinda brushes it off,” Lund laughs. “He seems more interested in horses.”

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virus problem and his voice went from about a 10 to like a two and a half, and he couldn’t do anything about it. Then he got surgery and it went to an eight or nine. After his heart surgery, it screwed up again. So it’s not where it was and it’s a little bit hard for him, but personally, I kinda like it. He’s about a seven now.”

Either way, people want to hear the classic songs and experience Tyson’s presence in the room. This far into his career, his voice is almost an afterthought.

“It catches you once in awhile, the influence he’s had and the stature of his life,” Lund says. “There’s this movie called The Festival Express about this train trip that went across Canada with a bunch of

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egardless of how you know boundary-breaking musician Danny Michel, once his music plays aloud, it’s unlikely you’ll forget him.

You may be familiar with his independent album (Feather, Fur & Fin, 2008) released by the David Suzuki Foundation, or his 2010 hit “Who’s Gonna Miss You?” or perhaps his Juno Award-nominated Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me (2012), recorded in Belize with Afro-Amerindian group The Garifuna Collective.

Michel is one of those artists that defies genre. His body of work is a testament to this, and his most recent project keeps pace by jumping headfirst into classical cold waters—a new arena for his records.

Khlebnikov (2017) was written and partially recorded aboard the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Khlebnikov—the first ship to circumnavigate both the Arctic and Antarctic. While travelling west from Greenland through Baffin Bay and parts of the famed Northwest Passage, Michel recorded in his cabin 712 of the ship.

He describes the ship as a hybrid between the Grand Budapest Hotel and the Millenium Falcon, likening it to the set of a Wes Anderson film.

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made, Khlebnikov won two Canadian Folk Music Awards this past year. Recently, he’s performed the new album with astronaut Chris Hadfield, film producer Rob Carli and symphonies across the country, bringing some perspective on Russia that isn’t being discussed in the mainstream media. ““I lived on a ship for 18 days with a fully-Russian crew that are just the most wonderful, beautiful people who are exactly like us,” he says. “I hope it can sort of mend that tension right now.”

Two tracks on the record, “Fall” (ft. Chris Hadfield) and “The Dishwasher’s Dream,” are sung in Russian with what sounds like members of the Khlebnikov’s crew as backups. Featured throughout the album are Michel’s recorded sounds of the ship breaking through icebergs, the wind, whales, sled dogs and the ship’s crew.

The brass and string arrangements, written by Carli after Michel returned, add to the feeling of being on a massive Russian vessel with brass sections echoing a ship’s horn and strings that create a quiet tension of being on the water in the middle of, what many would call, nowhere.

“It was pretty much as close to going to space as I could imagine. To something that is so foreign and different and breathtaking,” Michel says.

Beyond his sporadic genre-

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switches, Michel’s music touches on humanistic themes like pacifism, environmentalism and other forms of activism.

“When I was younger I mostly just wrote love songs, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve just felt like the world’s got enough love songs. There’s no shortage of those and I feel like it’s important to say something and try to be a positive force in the world.”

Beyond recreating Russian relations, he also hopes Khlebnikov can remind listeners of how beautiful, yet delicate and fragile our environment is and the importance of maintaining it.

Michel has no plans of slowing down in the future. He actually seems to be on a bit of a spree.

His Belize-made Matadora came out in 2016, Khlebnikov was released in 2017 and now he’s back working on a new album, mentioning one finished song for the next record.

At his upcoming show at the Myer Horowitz, he plans to concoct a balanced setlist, including some old and some new and maybe even some Russian songs. The man just can’t be pinned down.

“For me, discovering different genres and styles of music is like colours to a painter,” he says. “If I had to play the same kind of music my whole life, it would kind of be like being told that I have to do a painting and I’m only allowed to use green.”

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aniel Romano doesn’t care about genre. That’s a profound statement considering he has dipped his toes into almost all of them, releasing a fulllength album every year for the past four years.

Last May, the Juno-nominated Ontario musician released Modern Pressure, a record that wishes for the days of old, both musically and in production.

Think of the same tenacity and “I don’t give a shit” glam attitude as T. Rex, mixed with the soft, psychedelic sounds of The Seeds.

It was a fresh sound for Romano, but then again, every recording is for him. He’s what many in the music business like to call “a musical shapeshifter.” Simply put, he has no desire to stay rooted in one genre for too long.

“I honestly don’t think about it. The point for me is that I’m just expressing myself through art, which happens to be music,” Romano says. “I’ll usually just be writing the lyrics in the

form of a poem and when I’m making the music, wherever my hand lays on the instrument, that’s good enough for me. The musical structure is sometimes an afterthought.”

“The Pride of Queens,” is an almost satirical tribute to The Ramones, or most notably Joey Ramone, and one of the standout tracks on Modern Pressure.

“I wrote that one after watching a video of Joey Ramone dancing,” Romano says. “I thought it was time to write a song about that goof. He robbed The Ramones and he’s still robbing them from the grave.”

The bulk of Modern Pressure was recorded on an 8-track recorder in Sweden while Romano was on tour.

“We were staying at this old Airbnb and I asked this weird guy if he knew anybody who would be selling an 8-track,” Romano says. “Turns out he had one and we made most of the album there in a few days.”

Romano had just released two full-length albums: Nerveless, and Human Touch. They echoed the sounds on Modern Pressure, but ultimately, the two albums were completely disparate.

“They were kind of part of the plan,” Romano says. “I kind of need to finish songs to their completion as I’m writing them and sometimes the song catalogue gets a bit dense, so I make an album.”

Listening to Nerveless and Human Touch in their entirety, the listener can try to pinpoint or pigeonhole them into a specific genre. There’s some lo-fi indie, but also country elements as well. But as Romano says, it’s just music.

“As a generation, ‘we’—and when I say ‘we,’ I mean the average music listener—have been conditioned to categorize music in genres,” Romano says. “And that’s the journalists’, reviewers’, and record companies’ fault.”

“It’s a newer thing too,” he continues. “Think about a guy like Neil Young. No one ever gave him flack for jumping genres and he did everything.”

Romano’s live show is also a dice roll. This go around he’s playing an early acoustic set, and a later set with his band, Jazz Police. You may never see the same version of Daniel Romano twice, but again, it doesn’t matter. It’s just music.

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AVIARY Noble Son’s Joy In Violence Tour; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $10

Night Blues Jam hosted by the Dylan Farrell Ban; Every Mon, 8:30pm (sign up); No cover

FORGE ON WHYTE Sister Gray; 8:30pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

AUSSIE RULES KITCHEN & PIANO BAR

Piano Show; Every Sat, 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

SIDELINER’S PUB Singer/Songwriter Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:30pm

SEWING MACHINE FACTORY Back To The 80's: Punk and thrash fundraising show for Little Warriors; 8pm; $10 (door); 18+ only

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Doug Stroud;

REC ROOM–WEST EDMONTON MALL

9pm

best in hip-hop, dance and classics; Every Fri-Sat, 9pm; No cover 9pm-2am

Leaf; Every Fri, 9pm; Free

9:30pm; $42

AUSSIE RULES KITCHEN & PIANO BAR

EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Resident DJs playing the

HAVE MERCY Mississippi Monday

DJ Chris Bruce spins britpop/punk/ garage/indie; Every Sat; Wooftop: Sound It Up! with DJ Instigate spinning classic hip-hop and reggae; Underdog: hip-hop open Mic followed by DJ Marack

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Homemade

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Video Music DJ;

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Karoake at the

ARDEN THEATRE Lisa Loeb; 7:30-

8:30pm

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE Winspear Overture

Soundtrack; Every Fri-Sat

THE COMMON The Common

Party Hog"; 9pm

CASINO EDMONTON Slow Walkin'

DJs Rock N' Roll, Funk & Soul with DJ Modest Mike; Every Thu; Wooftop Lounge: Dear Hip Hop with Freshlan; Underdog: Underdog Comedy Show

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Mike "The

every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

2nd Thu of every month, 7-8:30pm; No cover (donations welcome)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl:

Jake Buckley; 9pm

DJs

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Country Jam

with 4 Dollar Bill STARLITE ROOM Delhi 2 Dublin with

DJ Khanvict and Oozeela; 8pm; $15; 18+ only TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke; 9pm

Classical ROBERT TEGLER CENTRE, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY Concordia Symphony

Orchestra; 7:30pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ

Zyppy with DJ Late Fee; Every Sun

MON JAN 15 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop: Metal Mondays with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Music

Wednesdays at Noon featuring Roger Admiral (solo piano); 12:10-12:50pm; Free

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ

Late Fee; Every Wed

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT LOUNGE 8223-104 St ALIBI PUB & EATERY 17328 Stony Plain Rd THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte.com ARDEN THEATRE 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1542, stalbert.ca/experience/ardentheatre ARIA'S BISTRO 10332-81 Ave, 780.972.4842, ariasbistro.com ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com AUSSIE RULES KITCHEN & PIANO BAR #1638, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722, aussierulesedmonton.com AVIARY 9314-111 Ave B-STREET BAR 11818-111 Ave BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BLVD SUPPER X CLUB 10765 Jasper Ave

BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BRICK & WHISKEY PUBLIC HOUSE 8937-82 Ave CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT 24 Boudreau Rd, St. Albert, 780.460.8092 CITY HALL 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square COMMON 9910-109 St CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta, music.ualberta.ca DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall. com DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834

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EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR 8230 Gateway Blvd, elcortezcantina.com EMPRESS ALE HOUSE 9912-82 Ave NW ENVY NIGHT CLUB West Edmonton Mall, 8882 170 St THE FORGE ON WHYTE 1054982 Ave (Whyte Ave) GERMAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CLUB 8310 Roper Rd HAVE MERCY SOUTHERN TABLE + BAR 8232 Gateway Blvd, havemercy.ca HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave NW HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage. com JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR & GRILL 9016132 Ave MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, mcdougallunited.com MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337

MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St REC ROOM–SOUTH EDMONTON COMMON 1725-99 St NW REC ROOM–WEST EDMONTON MALL 8882-170 St NW ROBERT TEGLER CENTRE, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY 73 St & 112 Ave ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton. com SEWING MACHINE FACTORY 9560-82 Ave SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERBROOKE PUB 13160118 Ave NW

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SQUARE 1 COFFEE 15 Fairway Drive ST. ALBERT COMMUNITY HALL 17 Perron St, St Albert STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca WEST END CHRISTIAN UNITED CHURCH 10015-149 St WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WOODRACK CAFE 7603-109 St, 780. 757.0380, thewoodrackcafe.com

EVENTS

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COMEDY AN EVENING WITH STEVE PATTERSON • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • festivalplace.ab.ca • Familiar to hundreds of thousands of Canadians as the host of CBC Radio One's hit show "The Debaters", Steve Patterson is a veteran headline comic who has performed all across Canada and all around the world • Jan 13, 7:30pm • $37-$41

BIG ROCK PRESENTS: DEVANEY’S COMEDY NIGHT • Devaney's, 11113-87 Ave • 780.433.6364 • stephen.f.mcgovern@gmail.com • Weekly open-mic hosted by Stephen McGovern • Sep 6-Apr 25, Every Wed, 8:30pm • Free

BIG ROCK PRESENTS: URBAN TAVERN COMEDY NIGHT HOSTED BY LARS CALLIEOU • Urban Tavern, 11606 Jasper Ave • Every Sun, 8pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE • 10425-82 Ave • Underdog Comedy Show • Every Thu

COLIN MOCHRIE AND DEBMCRATH • Shell Theatre, Dow Centennial Centre, 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • shelltheatre.ca • Colin Mochrie from Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Debra McGrath from Little Mosque on the Prairie present their acclaimed one couple show based on their 27 years of marriage • Jan 31, 7:30pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu-Fri: 8pm; Sat: 7:30pm & 10pm (until Apr) • Tom Liske; Jan 12-13 • Sal Calanni; Jan 18-20 COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Steve Byrne; Jan 11-13 • Sean Lecomber; Jan 14 • Paul Mecurio; Jan 18-21

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free

FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group offering conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext. 236 • vbatten@hfh.org • hfh.org/volunteer/ vin • Learn about taking the next steps and what opportunities are available at Habitat for Humanity • Every 3rd Thu of the month, excluding Dec; 6-7pm • Free

LOTUS QIGONG • SAGE downtown 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.695.4588 • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every Fri, 2-3:30pm • Free MONDAY MINGLE • Hexagon Board Game Cafe,

OPERA 101: HMS PINAFORE • CKUA Radio

10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Meet new gamers.

Go to the event solo or with a group • Every Mon, 5-11pm • $5 (one drink per person)

OPEN DOOR COMIC CREATOR MEETINGS • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave • 780.452.8211 • happyharborcomics.com • Open to any skill level. Meet other artists and writers, glean tricks of the trade and gain tips to help your own work, or share what you've already done • 2nd and 4th Thu of every month, 7pm

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

PAINTING FOR PLEASURE • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • karenbishopartist@gmail.com • mcdougallunited.com • A weekly group for those who like to paint, draw or otherwise be creative on paper • Every Thu, 10am-noon RODA DE CAPOEIRA • Capoeira Academy, #103-10324-82 Ave • capoeiraacademy.ca • Brazil's traditional game of agility and trickery • Every Sat, 2:30pm • Free • All ages

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia

ADULT DANCE CLASSES • Quantum Leap

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83

THE CARROT COFFEE FRIENDSHIP CLUB • Carrot Coffeehouse, 9351-118 Ave • Have a cup of coffee with 55+ individuals single, divorced, or widowed who are looking to make new friends with neighbours in our local communities of: Delton, Eastwood, Parkdale – Cromdale, Westwood, Spruce Ave, and Alberta Avenue • Every Wed, 11am

DROP-IN D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc. For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue & Wed, 7pm • $5 (with drink purchase)

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD • Avonmore United Church Bsmt, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm

EDMONTON PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORIAL SOCIETY • Highlands Library • 780.436.3878 • edm_photographic_hist_society_2@yahoo.ca • All interested in sharing the joys of film photography, such as experiences or favourite equipment.

Schedule: books (Jan 17) • 3rd Wed of the month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul & Aug)

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 10728-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

NERD NITE #39 • Westbury Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • edmonton. nerdnite.com • Featuring lectures: "Living organs, outside of your body! From preservation to organ repair" by Allan Wu and " WTF, Autonomous Vehicles won’t solve the world’s transportation problems?"

by Megan Strickfaden • Jan 16, 8pm • $20 (adv) • 18+ only

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS

AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm

development workshops, with full or half-day options • QUEER MENTORSHIP PROGRAM: (Youth: 12-24) (Adults-26+) Queer to Queer Mentoring

floor), Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave • 780.248.1217 • Dr. Richard Oster and Grant Bruno of the ENRICH First Nations Project will share their experience of a collaborative, community-based project aimed at improving prenatal outcomes for Cree women • Jan 25, 12-1pm • Free; seating is first come, first served

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION NIGHT • Habitat for Humanity

Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • 780.452.4661 • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta offers a variety of services and support programs for those who are living with the illness, family members, caregivers, and friends • 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm • Free

Dance, 11232-163 St • 780.974.0309 • MON: Adult Tap, 7-8pm; Stretch & Strength with Jazz, 8-9:15pm • Wed: Floor Barre 6:45-7:45, Adult Ballet 7:45-9:15pm • Drop in Rate $15.75 (inc. GST); 5, 10, 15 Class passes available

IMPROVING PREGNANCY-RELATED HEALTH THROUGH THE ENRICH FIRST NATIONS PROJECT • Room 2-520 A (2nd

Ave NW • 780.554.6133 • Instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light. Learn a simple technique that will lift you above life's stresses • Every Sun, 5pm • Free

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.479-8667 (Bob) • bobmurra@telus.net • Lowcost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St • contact cwaalberta@gmail.com • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS ANITA SARKEESIAN: THE REAL WORLD OF ONLINE HARASSMENT • Chateau Lacombe, 10111 Bellamy Hill Rd NW • Anita Sarkeesian is a media critic and the creator of Feminist Frequency, a video webseries that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives • Jan 24, 7-8:30pm • $10-$75 (at Eventbrite)

DARK MATTERS GAME ON! • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • 780.451.3344 • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca/dark-matters • Battle for first place in the IMAX Theatre, test strategies at the Table Top Board Game Café, and prototype local student-made games. Also exploring the math, technology, and physics behind everyone’s favourite games • Jan 25, 7-10pm • $19.95 (adv), $25.95 (door) GLASSBLOWING CLASSES WITH PIXIE GLASSWORKS • Pixie Glassworks, 9322-60 Ave • 780.436.4460 • pixieglassworks.com/pages/ classes • Offering three levels in each of: hollow body work, implosions, sculpture, pipe-making and beads. Call to book • Every Mon, Wed, Thu, 6-9pm (no classes on holidays) • $150 (plus GST)

Network, 9804 Jasper Ave • An evening of discussion surrounding Edmonton Opera's upcoming production of Gilbert and Sullivan's worldwide favourite operetta HMS Pinafore. Learn more about our 1920s jazz-inspired concept and what to look forward to • Jan 17, 7pm • Free (register at Eventbrite)

WHEN THE CONSTABLE BLUNDERS: EXCLUDING UNCONSTITUTIONALLY-OBTAINED EVIDENCE UNDER S. 24(2) OF THE CHARTER" • Enterprise Square (10230 Jasper Ave), Room 2-520 • What should happen when police violate the Charter in collecting evidence?

Should such evidence be excluded at trial, even if it results in the acquittal of a person charged with a serious crime? Law Professor Steven Penney will explore these and other issues in examining s.

24(2) of the Charter of Rights & Freedoms • Jan 15, 12-1pm • Register at bit.ly/2BA2xcE

QUEER EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Mon: Drag Race in the White Room; 7pm • Wed: Monthly games night/trivia • Thu: Happy hour, 6-8pm; Karaoke, 7-12:30am • Fri: Flashback Friday with your favourite hits of the 80s/90s/2000s; rotating drag and burlesque events • Sat: Rotating DJs Velix and Suco • Sun: Weekly drag show, 10:30pm G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.4235510 (Sage) • tuff69@telus.net • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Tue, 1-4pm

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10618-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • pridecentreofedmonton.org • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7-9pm PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • pridecentreofedmonton.org/calendar.html • DROP IN HOURS: Mon-Fri 12-7pm; Closed Sat-Sun and holidays • TTIQ: (18+ Trans* Group) 2nd Mon of every month, 7-9pm • TRANS YOUTH TALKING: (24 and under) 3rd Mon of every month, for trans youth and supportive people in their lives • FIERCE FUN: (24 and under) Alternating Tue, 7-9pm, games and activities for youth • JAMOUT: (12-24) Alternating Tue, 7-8:30pm, music mentorship and instruction for youth • MEDITATION: (all ages) 3rd Thu of each month, 5:30-6:45pm • MEN’S SOCIAL CIRCLE: (18+) 1st and 3rd Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone masculineidentified • WOMEN’S SOCIAL CIRCLE: (18+) 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone feminineidentified • MOVIES & GAMES NIGHT: Alternating Fri, 6-8:30pm • ARTS & IDENTITY: Alternating Fri, 6-8:30pm • MEN TALKING WITH PRIDE: (18+) Sun, 7-9pm, group for gay or bisexual men • CREATING SAFER SPACES TRAINING: Interactive professional

TEAM EDMONTON • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • SWIMMING: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • WATER POLO: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • YOGA: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • TAEKWONDO: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • ABS: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:158:15pm • DODGEBALL: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • RUNNING: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • SPIN: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• VOLLEYBALL: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • MEDITATION: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:30-6:15pm • BOARD GAMES: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per month, 3-7pm • ALL BODIES SWIM: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8468-81 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm YOGA WITH JENNIFER • 780.439.6950 • ThreeBattles.com • A traditional approach with lots of individual attention. Free introductory classes • Tue evenings & Sat mornings

SPECIAL EVENTS BOARDWALK ICE ON WHYTE • Whyte Avenue and Gateway Blvd in Old Strathcona • info@iceonwhyte.ca • iceonwhyte.ca • The International Ice Carving Competition is one of only three ice carving competitions in Canada.

Be inspired and amazed as up to 10 teams of professional artists work to create jaw-dropping icy splendours • Jan 25-28, Feb 1-4 • $7 (adult), $4 (kids), $20 (family)

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OPERA BRUNCH: HMS PINAFORE • Royal Glenora Club, 11160 River Valley Road • 780.429.1000 • Featuring fantastic food and intimate recitals by the artists starring in the upcoming production • Jan 21, 11am-1:30pm • $85 (adult), $35 (child); online at edmontonopera.com

RUBABOO ABORIGINAL ARTS FESTIVAL • La Cité Francophone, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury • albertaaboriginalarts.com • Rubaboo is a multi‐disciplinary festival, showcasing theatre, music, dance, visual art, food, and workshops. Rubaboo is the only major Aboriginal arts festival in Alberta, committed to giving artists a platform to bring audiences of all backgrounds together to enjoy the vast artistic expressions that exist in Aboriginal culture • Jan 29-Feb 3

SNOWSHOE & STARGAZE • Astotin Lake, Elk Island National Park • 780.922.5790 • bit. ly/2iZcFmp • Trek over snow and gaze into a star-filled sky. Following a short guided hike on snowshoes, attendees will enjoy snacks around a fire and learn about the night sky above • Jan 13; 7-9pm • $29.80 (book via phone)

THURSDAYS TBD TO BE DISCOVERED • Legislative Assembly Visitor Centre, Edmonton Federal Building, Main floor, 9820-107 St • 780.427.7362 • assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/ events.html • Visitors can look forward to an array of guest speakers, film screenings, free concerts and more • Every Thu, Oct 5-Mar 1, 6-8pm • Free

CELEBRATE ROBERT BURNS AT RUTHERFORD HOUSE • Rutherford House Provincial Historic Site, 11153 Saskatchewan Drive • 780.427.3995 • Rutherford.House@gov.ab.ca • rutherfordhousehistoricsite.org • The poet Robert Burns and his beloved haggis are at the heart of this celebration of the Rutherfords’ Scottish heritage!

Celebrate Robert Burns’ birthday with an afternoon of bagpipes, traditional dancing, and, of course, haggis • Jan 14, 12-4pm • $5-$20

Opera 101: Edmonton Opera’s HMS Pinafore CKUA Radio Network Jan 17, 7pm Free (register at Eventbrite)

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SAVAGELOVE INFATUATION IMPAIRED

I’m a 67-year-old gay man. After a breakup 15 years ago, I believed the possibility of emotional and sexual intimacy with a partner was over for me. Then a couple of months ago, my desire for sexual contact increased dramatically. For the first time, I began using apps and I felt like the proverbial kid in a candy store. It seemed strangely similar to when I first came out in San Francisco’s Castro neighbourhood in the early 1970s. Also, I was surprised— not unpleasantly—by the whole “Daddy” phenomenon, never imagining that this old face and body would interest younger men. You can probably guess what happened next: I was contacted by a 22-yearold man who revealed himself to be mature, intelligent, sweet, and the physical type that arouses me most. I fell hard, and he seems to like me too. Am I a creep? A fool? Is my judgment impaired?

DUMB AND DADDY The sexy “Daddy” thing—which has always been with us—seems to be undergoing a resurgence. Perhaps our omnipresent abusive orange father figure is giving us all daddy issues that are manifesting (in some) as a burning desire to service kinder, sexier, more benevolent daddies.

Or perhaps the internet is to blame.

Not for creating more people interested in intergenerational sex and/ or romance, but for making it easier for people to anonymously seek out the kind of sex and kinds of sex partners they truly want. Even if the initial looking is anonymous, DAD, discussing one’s desires with others who share them helps people grow more comfortable with their desires and themselves (nothing melts away shame quite like knowing you’re not alone). More people are coming out about their non-normative sexual desires, partner preferences, relationship models, etc., than ever before.

That said, DAD, if the affections of a consenting adult 40-plus years your junior is your particular perk of aging, go ahead and enjoy it.

Keep your expectations realistic (a successful STR is likelier than a successful LTR), don’t do anything stupid (see Father Clements, below), and reacquaint yourself with my constantly updated and revised “Campsite Rule”: When there’s a significant age and/or experience gap, the older and/or more experienced person has a responsibility to leave the younger and/or less experienced person in better shape than they found them. No unplanned or planned pregnancies, no sexually transmitted infections, no leading the younger partner to believe “forever” is likely. Do what you can to boost their knowledge, skills, and self-confidence while you’re together, and do your best to stick the nearly inevitable dismount—the chances that you’ll be together forever are slim, but you can forever be a friend, mentor, and resource.

While the age difference will creep some out, DAD, that doesn’t mean

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you’re a creep. Don’t want to be a fool? Don’t do anything foolish (see Father Clements, below). Worried about infatuation-impaired judgment leading you to do something foolish? Ask a few trusted friends to smack you upside the head if you start paying his rent or lending him your credit cards. And just as you don’t want to take advantage of this young man, DAD, you don’t want to be taken advantage of either. We associate age with power, but youth and beauty confer their own kinds of power, and that power can be abused—it can also lead seemingly sensible men to sign their life savings over to 24-yearold Romanian “models.”

For example: “A 79-year-old retired priest has been left heartbroken and homeless after his 24-yearold husband left him just after their home was put into his name,” LGBTQ Nation reported. “Philip Clements sold his home in Kent, England for £214,750, before moving to Romania and purchasing an apartment for the couple to live in in Bucharest. He signed over the property to Florin Marin, so that Marin would have security after he passed away ... Marin broke things off just weeks after the apartment was put in his name, and Clements found himself homeless.”

Keep Father Clements’ sad story in mind, DAD, but don’t be paralyzed by it. There are lots of examples of loving, lasting, non-creepy, nonfoolish relationships between partners with significant age gaps out there. So enjoy this while it lasts, and if things start to get creepy— if he starts shopping for an apartment in Bucharest— you’ll have to pull the plug. But if this turns into a loving, lasting, healthy, and unconventional LTR, DAD, then one day he’ll get to pull your plug. (When that day comes, which hopefully won’t be for a long, long time.)

QUESTION OF INTENTION

Someone at work—not my boss— asked me to fuck his wife. He’s a nice guy, his wife is hot, and I’m single. This is a first for me. Besides STI status, what questions should I ask?

HELP INTERESTED STRAIGHT BOY UNDERSTAND LUST’S LIMITATIONS 1. “Are you a cuckold or is this a hot wife thing?” (Considering your sign-off, HISBULL, either you’ve assumed he’s a cuckold or he’s told you he is one. If he is a cuck, he may want dirty texts and pictures—or he’ll want to be in the room where it happens. Is that okay with you?)

2. “Have you done this before?” (The reality of another person sleeping with your up-to-now-monogamous spouse can dredge up intense emotions. For example: jealousy, sadness, anger, and rage. If they’ve done this before and enjoyed it, you can jump right in. If they haven’t, maybe start with a make-out session at a time or in a place where you can’t progress to sex.)

3. “Can I speak directly with your wife?” (You’ll want to make sure she isn’t doing this under duress and

that she’s into you, and you’ll want to independently verify the things he’s told you about their arrangement, health, experiences, etc.)

EARTHWORM EMERGENCY

I recently started seeing a gorgeous 24-year-old woman who’s smart and sweet and also happens to have a few out-there fetishes.

There’s not much I’ll say no to, Dan, but one of the things she’s into is formicophilia (a sexual interest in being crawled on or nibbled by insects). I offered to get some ants and worms to crawl on her body while I fuck her, but she wants me to put earthworms in her vagina. Is there a safe way to do this? Female condom? I want to help, but putting worms in your vagina seems like it will end with an embarrassing trip to the emergency room.

WORRIES OVER REALLY MESSY SCENARIO “I thought I had heard everything,” said Dr. Jen Gunter, an ob-gyn in San Francisco. “Apparently not.”

Dr. Gunter, “Twitter’s resident gynecologist,” first went viral when she urged women not to put jade eggs in their vaginas, just one of the many idiocies pushed by the idiots at Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s idiotic “lifestyle” website. Last week, Dr. Gunter had to urge women and men not to shoot coffee up their butts, also recommended by Goop.

So I thought she might have something to say about stuffing earthworms in your girlfriend’s vagina.

“This is obviously unstudied,” Dr. Gunter says, “but anything that lives in soil could easily inoculate the vagina with pathogenic bacteria.

Also, I am not sure what earthworm innards could do to the vagina, but I am guessing the worms would get squished and meet an untimely demise during sex. How would you get the pieces of dead earthworm out of her vagina? I can think of a lot of ways this could go very wrong. I would advise against it.”

I’m with Dr. Gunter (and, no doubt, PETA): Don’t stuff earthworms in your girlfriend’s vagina. That said, WORMS, tucking a few earthworms into a female condom and carefully inserting it into your girlfriend’s vagina without shoving your cock in there too ... is a thoroughly disgusting thing to contemplate and blech. But while it would most likely kill the earthworms (maybe switch ’em out for gummy worms at the last second?), it probably wouldn’t damage your girlfriend or land you both in the ER. Even so, WORMS, don’t do it.

Because blech.

Read Dr. Gunter’s blog (drjengunter.wordpress.com), follow her on Twitter (@DrJenGunter), and check out her new column in The New York Times (The Cycle).

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“Sounds Like It’s ‘18”-- you’ll hear it in the middle.

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14 Once less than once 15 Noise at the dentist 16 Andrews of “Mary Poppins” 17 Port-au-Prince or Fort-Liberté, as

an example of what to call cities?

19 “___ we all?”

20 City SE of Oklahoma City 21 Just the right amount of stellar?

23 Haves and have-___ 25 They may be removed in “premium” versions 26 Some smartphones 27 Uncool sort 29 Uncle, in Oaxaca 30 Software problem 33 Jazz combo instrument 37 Facebook action 38 Oscar news about “Reds” or “Bulworth” (or “Network”)?

42 Shirt sleeves 43 Journalist Cokie who appears on ABC and NPR 44 Afternoon break 45 Part of FWIW 46 Congo basin animal 50 Solar system center 51 Surprised sounds 54 Madeline of “Blazing Saddles” 55 Much, much smaller?

60 Fish eggs 61 “That’s ___ shame” 62 Go out with Carrie Ann of “Dancing With the Stars?”

64 Blue-gray shade 65 Back in time 66 Ambulance attendant 67 Scammed

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): I’m happy to inform you that life is giving you permission to be extra demanding in the coming weeks—as long as you’re not petty, brusque, or unreasonable. Here are a few examples that will pass the test: “I demand that you join me in getting drunk on the truth;” “I demand to receive rewards commensurate with my contributions;” “I demand that we collaborate to outsmart and escape the karmic conundrums we’ve gotten ourselves mixed up in.” On the other hand, Aries, ultimatums like these are not admissible: “I demand treasure and tribute, you fools;” “I demand the right to cheat in order to get my way;” “I demand that the river flow backwards.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you familiar with the phrase “Open Sesame?” In the old folk tale, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, it’s a magical command that the hero uses to open a blocked cave where treasure is hidden. I invite you to try it out. It just may work to give you entrance to an off limits or previously inaccessible place where you want and need to go.

At the very least, speaking those words will put you in a playful, experimental frame of mind as you contemplate the strategies you could use to gain entrance. That alone may provide just the leverage you need.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): While thumping around the Internet, I came across pointed counsel from an anonymous source. “Don’t enter into a long-term connection with someone until you’ve seen them stuck in traffic,” it declared. “Don’t

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get too deeply involved with them until you’ve witnessed them drunk, waiting for food in a restaurant for entirely too long, or searching for their phone or car keys in a panic.

Before you say yes to a deeper bond, make sure you see them angry, stressed, or scared.” I recommend that you take this advice in the coming weeks. It’ll be a good time to deepen your commitment to people who express their challenging emotions in non-abusive, non-psychotic ways.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): My high school history teacher Marjorie Margolies is now Chelsea Clinton’s mother in law. She shares two grandchildren with Hillary Clinton.

Is that something I should brag about? Does it add to my cachet or my happiness? Will it influence you to love me more? No, nah, and nope. In the big scheme of things, it’s mildly interesting but utterly irrelevant. The coming weeks will be a good time for Cancerians like you and I to renounce any desire we might have to capitalize on fake ego points like this. We crabs should be honing our identity and self-image so they’re free of superficial measures of worth. What’s authentically valuable about you?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If I were your mentor or your guide, I’d declare this the Leo makeover season. First, I’d hire a masseuse or masseur to knead you firmly and tenderly. I’d send you to the nutritionist, stylist, dream interpreter, trainer, and life coach. I’d brainstorm with the people who know you best to come up with suggestions for how to help free you

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from your illusions and infuse your daily rhythm with 20 percent more happiness. I’d try to talk you out of continuing your association with anyone or anything that’s no damn good for you. In conclusion, I’d be thorough as I worked to get you unlocked, debugged, and retooled.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “It takes an extraordinary person to carry themselves as if they do not live in hell,” says writer D. Bunyavong. In accordance with the astrological omens, I nominate you Virgos to fit that description in the coming weeks. You are, in my estimation, as far away from hell as you’ve been in a long time. If anyone can seduce, coax, or compel heaven to come all the way down to Earth for a while, it’s you. Here’s a good way to get the party started: gaze into the mirror until you spy the eternal part of yourself.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to move the furniture around. If you feel inspired, you might even want to move some of that old stuff right out the door and haul it to the dump or the thrift store. Hopefully, this will get you in the mood to launch a sweeping purge of anything else that lowers the morale and élan around the house: dusty mementoes, unflattering mirrors, threadbare rugs, chipped dishes, and numbing symbols. The time is ripe, my dear homies, to free your home of deadweight.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When he was 16 years old and living in New York, Ralph Lifshitz changed

68 Actor Jeong 69 Hard worker’s output

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1 Under one’s control 2 Grassland 3 Do some flying 4 Figure out 5 First of its kind (abbr.)

6 Made some barnyard noises 7 Half of a 1960s pop quartet 8 Put a sharper edge on 9 “___ Unchained” (Tarantino movie) 10 Continent-wide money 11 Chicken Cordon ___ 12 Triangle sound 13 Late-night host Meyers 18 Program begun under FDR 22 Alchemist’s potion 24 Stadium capacity 28 Crispy sandwich 29 Mild 30 Drill piece 31 Island strings, for short 32 Diploma equivalent 34 Power in old movies 35 ___ about (roughly) 36 Show sorrow 37 Eye surgery acronym 38 Outlaw 39 Notable period 40 Current measure his name to Ralph Lauren. That was probably an important factor in his success. Would he have eventually become a famous fashion designer worth $5.8 billion if he had retained a name with “shitz” in it? The rebranding made it easier for clients and customers to take him seriously.

With Ralph’s foresight as your inspiration, Scorpio, consider making a change in yourself that will enhance your ability to get what you want.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1956, the prolific Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The award committee praised his “high spirit and artistic purity.” The honour was based on his last 13 books, however, and not on his first two.

Waterlilies and Souls of Violet were works he wrote while young and still ripening. As he aged, he grew so embarrassed by their sentimentality that he ultimately tried to track down and eradicate every copy. I bring this to your attention, Sagittarius, because I think it’s a favourable time for you to purge or renounce or atone for anything from your past that you no longer want to be defined by.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Three centuries ago, Capricorn genius Isaac Newton formulated principles that have ever since been fundamental to scientists’ understanding of the physical universe.

He was also a pioneer in mathematics, optics, and astronomy. And yet, he also expended huge amounts of time and energy on the fruitless attempt to employ alchemy to transform base metals into solid gold. Those efforts may have been interesting to him, but they yielded no lasting benefits. You Capricorns face a comparable split. In 2018,

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you could bless us with extraordinary gifts or else you could get consumed in projects that aren’t the most productive use of your energy.

The coming weeks may be crucial in determining which way you’ll go.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A rite of passage lies ahead. It could and should usher you into a more soulful way of living. I’m pleased to report that this transition won’t require you to endure torment, confusion, or passive-aggressive manipulation. In fact, I suspect it could turn out to be among the most graceful ordeals you’ve ever experienced— and a prototype for the type of breakthrough that I hope will become standard in the months and years to come. Imagine being able to learn valuable lessons and make crucial transitions without the prod of woe and gloom. Imagine being able to say, as musician P.J. Harvey said about herself, “When I’m contented, I’m more open to receiving inspiration. I’m most creative when I feel safe and happy.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Kalevala is a 19th century book of poetry that conveys the important mythology and folklore of the Finnish people. It was a wellspring of inspiration for English writer J. R. R. Tolkien as he composed his epic fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.

To enhance his ability to steal ideas from The Kalevala, Tolkien even studied the Finnish language. He said it was like “entering a complete wine cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Pisces, in 2018 you will have the potential of discovering a source that’s as rich for you as Finnish and The Kalevala were for Tolkien.

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