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Kids these days ... are doing it right "Lazy" millennials are responsible for much of the progress on LGBTQ+ rights I hear a lot of grumbling these days about shiftless millennials: about their laziness, their narcissistic tendencies, their "failure to launch" into adulthood. While I could make an easy joke here that most of these complaints seem to be coming from the generation that raised them (coincidentally, a generation not noted for its introspection), I won't. Not because I'm not above a little mud-slinging, but because of all the things that can genuinely be said to have been true since the beginning of time, older folks complaining about "damn kids these days" has to be the top contender. While it is true that the quote widely attributed to Socrates ("The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise") is actually from a 1907 dissertation about how ancient Greeks complained about kids, my point still stands.
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Humans = kid haters. But you know what? I actually think kids these days are a pretty kick-ass generation who are making the world a better place, especially for queer folks and queer expression. The fact that old farts are getting freaked out (see: Edmonton Catholic School Board) is a good thing: they can see their old world crumbling around them while a sparkling, post-gender-binary utopia rises from the ashes. I jest, of course—the world is still unsafe for most people who live and love outside of the gender binary. But the people I see making the most progress on the issue are kids: the
ones who casually paint their fingernails and cut off their hair and are therefore beginning, very slowly, to normalize non-traditional expressions of gender.
who fill in a paper application (how many people fill in a paper application for university these days?) but the administration has indicated that this is a first step along the path to changing the university's current reliance on gender as a key data point. The campaign emerges from the S t u d e n t Union's political policy on gender, championed by Cody Bondarchuk, VP Operations and Finance. The policy also advocates for gender-neutrality in other areas, such as washrooms, university documents and building codes. In an interview with Metro, Bondarchuk said that the change "makes the point to say 'we really include
While the U of A is not the first university to adopt such a measure, it certainly helps to remind the country that Alberta's not entirely a queer-hating backwater. Consider the University of Alberta, which has just announced that students who apply next year will have a third box to check when asked to disclose their gender: "Another/ prefer not to disclose." It's not a perfect system: presently this option will only be available to those
you.' Talking to students who felt like they didn't feel included was really heartbreaking." Bondarchuk is not alone in feeling this way. As the policy was a cornerstone of his election campaign, one can assume that the student body (or at least those who showed up to vote) also supports the third gender option. And while the U of A is not the first university to adopt such a measure, it certainly helps to remind the country that Alberta's not entirely a queer-hating backwater. So if you're in the under-30 set and you're reading this, I just want to tell you that I think you're great, and the next time some old fuddyduddies get hot under the collar and start ranting about kids these days, just remember that they are scared. They are scared of you. They are scared because you are powerful and you're going to change the world. I can't wait to see what you do with it.V
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North Korea's deterrent
North Korea's nuclear weapons program is undesirable but not unexpected Here we go again. North Korea launched a ballistic missile of intercontinental range on Sunday (saying it was just putting up a satellite) only weeks after it carried out its fourth nuclear weapons test (which it claimed was a hydrogen bomb).The United Nations Security Council strongly condemned it, and even the People's Republic of China, North Korea's only ally, expressed its "regret" at what the country had done. There will certainly now be more UN sanctions against Kim Jong-un's isolated regime. But there have already been four rounds of UN military and economic sanctions since North Korea's first nuclear test in 2006, and Pyongyang just ignores them. Clearly, this is something that the North Korean regime wants so badly that it is willing to endure considerable punishment in order to get it. But why is this very poor country spending vast sums in order to be able to strike its neighbours—and even the United States, for that is what the intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) are about—with nuclear weapons? Well, here's a clue. What the North Korean government said after last month's hydrogen bomb test was this: "The DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) is a genuine peace-loving state which
has made every effort to protect peace on the Korean Peninsula and security in the region from the vicious US nuclear war scenario." "The US is a gang of cruel robbers that has worked hard to bring even a nuclear disaster to the DPRK. ... By succeeding in the H-bomb test ... the DPRK proudly joined the advanced ranks of nuclear weapons states ... and the Korean people demonstrated the spirit of a dignified nation equipped with the most powerful nuclear deterrent." Never mind the stilted rhetoric and gutter abuse; North Korean propagandists always talk like that. Listen to the key words that are almost buried under the surrounding invective. North Korea's nuclear weapons program, it says, is meant to "protect ... the region from ... the US ... nuclear war scenario" by creating a "most powerful nuclear deterrent." Really? Do they actually fear that the United States might use nuclear weapons on them, and that they can only be safe if they have their
own hydrogen bombs and ICBMs? Are they doing all this purely as a defensive measure? Of course they are. However bad-tempered and impulsive they sounded, the men of the Kim family—father, son and grandson— who have ruled North Korea in dynastic succession for the past 68 years were not crazy. They never started a war because they knew
Everybody in the North Korean hierarchy (along with some millions of other North Koreans) would certainly be dead only hours after the regime launched nuclear weapons at any of those countries. The United States has literally thousands of nuclear weapons. It would take only a few dozen quite small ones to virtually exterminate the entire ruling elite, and North Korea would have no way of stopping them.
They never started a war because they knew they would lose it, and the current incumbent is certainly not going to start a nuclear war. they would lose it, and the current incumbent is certainly not going to start a nuclear war. He would have to be crazy to do that. North Korea lacks the resources to build more than a few bombs a year, and it does not have the technologies to ensure that the missiles it may one day have won't get shot down. It will probably never be able to guarantee that it can strike even South Korea or Japan with nuclear missiles, let alone the United States.
A few notvery-hightech nuclear weapons would give Pyongyang no usable ability to launch a nuclear attack against the United States or its allies. They would, however, give it a pretty credible nuclear deterrent. Launching a few nuclear weapons against a major nuclear power is suicidal, but those same few weapons can be a perfectly good deterrent against a nuclear attack by that same power, because they give the weaker party a capacity for "revenge from the grave." Even a country as powerful as the United States will behave very cau-
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tiously when faced with the possibility that an opponent might land even one or two nuclear weapons on its territory. North Korea has lived under the implicit threat of US nuclear weapons for almost seven decades, and the United States has never promised not to use those weapons against North Korea. It's almost surprising that we haven't seen North Korean nuclear weapons before now. North Korea is just doing the same thing that Pakistan did in the '80s and '90s out of fear of Indian nuclear weapons, and that Iran was doing in fear of both Pakistani and Israeli nuclear weapons in the last 15 years. The Security Council is quite right to try to block North Korea's nuclear weapons program, and the successful use of international sanctions to stop Iran offers some hope that it may succeed. But North Korea is not a crazy state plotting a nuclear holocaust at the cost of its own extinction. Its nuclear weapons program is a perfectly rational—although highly undesirable—policy for a small country with a big problem.V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. UP FRONT 3
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Anti-union laws the walking undead Liberals to repeal two controversial laws, but some say "piecemeal" reforms don't go far enough
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he Conservative government may be gone, but Canadian unions still fear the zombie legislation that lives on after their decade in power. And they want more than "piecemeal" reforms to Tory labour legislation. The new Liberal government has acted quickly on three union concerns. In January, they pledged to repeal bills C-377 and C-525, which forced unions to reveal their finances and made it harder to organize workplaces. Last week, Treasury Board president Scott Brison tabled legislation to reverse Conservative cuts to sick leave benefits for federal employees. But ensuring the right to a safe and secure workplace will take more than "piecemeal" reversals of Conservative legislation, say two labour experts. "The Conservatives' approach was very aggressive, very belligerent and very hostile to unions," says David Camfield, co-ordinator of the University of Manitoba's Labour Studies program. "The Liberals want to have more consultation and better public relations, rather than forcing things down people's throats." But the real test will be the government's approach to bargaining with its own employees this year, he says. "There's no indication yet that we'll see a change of approach to collective bargaining," Camfield says. Chris Roberts, the Canadian Labour Congress' senior researcher on social and economic policy, welcomed the Liberals' promised changes. But he agreed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government must go further and reverse scores of Tory changes to labour legislation, many buried within omnibus budget implementation bills. "The scale of the changes they made is really significant," Roberts says. Here are just a few still-walking Tory "zombie laws" that Camfield and Roberts hope the Liberals will kill, along with a look at other issues that could define labour's relationship with the new government.
Sick leave benefits: still hot Sick leave benefits for federal employees are still likely to be a hot issue despite Brison's promise to reverse the move. The Conservative legislation cut sick leave from 15 days a year to six and ended the ability of employees to bank unused days. The issue is certain to be on the bargaining table when the Public Service Alliance of Canada, the largest of 18 federal public sector unions, begins negotiations this year. Roberts says it epitomized the former governm e n t ' s "extreme" approach to labour relations. " T h e Conservative government decided it wanted to book the savings from simply legislating rather than negotiating a fundamental term of employment, sick leave," he says. "It really trampled on the collective bargaining rights of federal workers."
ment. Bill C-4 restricted that option, leaving the decision on arbitration up to the employer. "The more confrontational option became the only option," he says. The problem, he says, is that some federal public sector unions "are not very militant." Accustomed to the arbitration option, some don't even have strike funds. Bill C-4 also changed how the government decides what is an "essential service," Camfield says. It gave the government—the employer—
Another major change tucked into Bill C-4 redefined "danger" in workplace health and safety regulations. The labour code had said federally regulated employers—government workers and those in sectors like transportation, aviation and communications—could refuse work based on both immediate workplace hazards and potential longterm risks. Bill C-4 limited the definition to immediate dangers. "There is no longer explicit protection from potential dangers," Camfield says. "It shrinks the right to refuse unsafe work." Ro b e r ts says Congress believes the problem is worsened by a shortage of federal health and safety inspectors and inadequate resources for enforcement of safety rules. He cited long-term exposure to asbestos as an example of a situation in which "imminent danger" is not enough to protect employees. "It's precisely this aspect that makes it so important to reverse those changes," he says.
Bill C-4, a 309-page omnibus budget bill passed in 2013, included sweeping changes to labour law that gave the government greater clout at the negotiating table. The Liberal government has promised to consult on the legislation, but made no commitments.
Roberts says the Congress and its public sector members would be watching closely for a new approach to bargaining. Rolling back "draconian" C-4 Bill C-4, a 309-page omnibus budget bill passed in 2013, included sweeping changes to labour law that gave the government greater clout at the negotiating table. The Liberal government has promised to consult on the legislation, but made no commitments. Camfield says federal unions had been able to turn to arbitration if negotiators couldn't reach an agree-
the power to decide which employees must stay on the job. Unions lost the ability to appeal essential service levels to an arbitrator unless at least 80 percent of a workforce was deemed essential. That meant that the government, as regulator and employer, could designate 79 percent of its employees "essential," forcing the vast majority of workers to stay on the job and making a strike pointless. "That gives the union only the most limited power," Camfield says. "It was quite draconian, a massive infringement on the right to strike."
Finding a "democratic voice" for all workers Although most Canadian workers fall under provincial labour laws, the federal government's own labour standards sets the standard for the private sector and the provinces, Camfield says. Working conditions have deteriorated for more and more Canadians, unionized or not, since the 1980s, he says.
"There's a broad trend towards more insecurity in the workforce and the overall degradation in the quality of work," he says. "That's something to be concerned about in general; the federal government is just part of this trend." As employers increasingly rely on temporary workers and shorterterm contracts, it's a "quiet grind that happens so often," Camfield says—a "new normal." He worries the Liberals may retain some of the powers gained thanks to the Tories, despite reversing a few of the more controversial laws. "Sure, they're not slapping unions in the face or sticking thumbs in their eyes, as the Conservatives were so intent on doing—the humiliation, not consulting, not even going through the motions," Camfield says. "The approach has been replaced with a friendlier tone. But the substance has not changed." Unions shouldn't relax, he advises. "The challenges workers have been facing are not going to go away," he says. "If they're going to achieve greater gains, it's only when people really fight and push." The Canadian Labour Congress said it isn't relaxing. It wants major reforms from the new government. "We are calling for renovating labour legislation and employment standards," Roberts says, "not just to undo what the Conservatives did but to actually create a framework and a platform for ... broad changes to employment standards and labour law federally. "Ensuring a democratic voice in the workplace and equity for all workers for a new century is going to mean undertaking much broader changes."
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DIY arts degrees The Bachelor of Arts program at the University of Alberta could soon be undergoing a major revamp. The dean's executive committee is pitching the idea of dropping the degree's entire 36 core credits and the requirement of a minor by the 2017 – 18 academic year. The department that oversees the student's major would instead dictate their degree requirements. For new arts students, that could mean dodging secondlanguage classes and swapping the widely dreaded six-credit science requirement with any non-
arts discipline. Transfer students could also more quickly jump into their field of study. The committee's proposal argues that the changes would make the BA program more competitive; its 36 core credits are the highest among the top 20 comparable Canadian universities. The proposal also notes that the core requirements favour some fields over others, and that the changes would make room for a potentially mandated university-wide indigenous studies requirement.
It's true that the core arts requirements are outdated and restrictive. I graduated from the U of A with a BA in English and Film Studies, but it wasn't until my third year that I was able to invest academically in my chosen field of study. First, I had to slog through unrelated classes that bored me in an effort to appear well-rounded. The truth is, I barely remember the 200 flashcards I memorized in art history, and I feel more disgruntled than educated for having survived biopsychology.
But eradicating all core requirements to boost a degree's appeal—and entice the students that out-of-province programs are increasingly plundering— seems misaligned with the virtues of a liberal arts program. If English and second-language classes are favoured over other areas of study, it's because they constitute some of the most basic skills a student should wield when graduating. It's unclear what core requirements each department will introduce, but it's possible— and troubling—to imagine new
arts students dodging tough subjects like these to secure a higher grade point average. From a recruitment perspective, the university has tapped into a smart strategy to nab more tuition dollars. And the faculty's goal to make its BA program more flexible has merit. But if a liberal arts program is meant to intellectually challenge and enrich a student, giving them full reign over their degree feels like handing an unlicenced driver the keys to a new car.V
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The Chvrch of John is as much cocktail mecca as it is new music venue
hat Chvrch of John is a new music venue is only part of the story— albeit an easy one to focus on, given the beleaguered state of Edmonton's shrinking roster of venues. The new space, located on the southern end of the Grande Hotel downtown, around the corner from Denizen Hall, softlaunched on January 22 and has its grand opening slated for Valentine's Day. Music may form a large part of its raison d'être, but Chvrch of John will also feature a lot of familiar faces from Edmonton's burgeoning cocktail scene. "Edmonton's been pushing, definitely building in a really strong direction, especially the last year or two," Kris Harvey says. "We were lucky that we have the opportunity to put that in front of people and keep the educa-
tion growing. Right now I think the demand for it is a little bit bigger than, necessarily, the opportunities or places to come and enjoy [it]." Collaboration has been a key factor of the business since its inception. The cocktail menu was built by Jordan Watson of Cartago Cocktail Co, with assistance from Chvrch of John's general manager, Nic Mac. Harvey, Chvrch's operating partner, worked primarily with Ramon Miranda of Color de Vino and Corso 32 to build a wine list that features sparkling wines. ("There's not much more that I like than a glass of Lambrusco or a glass of Prosecco after a long day at work," Harvey says.) Their kitchen is headed by Miles Quon of The Lingnan restaurant; the menu also features a dessert plate of chocolates selected
by Jacqueline Jacek of JACEK Chocolate Couture. Chvrch of John features a large staff of 40, many of whom work at Edmonton's other cocktail mainstays: Jordan Clemens, Natasha Trowsdale and André Van Bober of Woodwork, Leland Morrison and Zachary Lecerf of The Black Pearl, Luis Perez of Boulevard, and Happy—who just goes by that first name, according to Harvey, and is a former apprentice of bartender Brendan Brewster (formerly of North 53 and BLVD). It wouldn't be a truly Edmonton business if there wasn't some kind of snag in the process, though, and unfortunately that manifested as a delay in fully opening Chvrch of John's kitchen.
"I definitely understand why there's a lot of failing businesses in the hospitality [industry] and failing venues, because it's difficult," Harvey says. But he acknowledges that the construction team has done everything it could and that the delays were on the city's end. Fortunately, the business was still able to open with a limited menu: two sandwiches (one vegetarian, one meat) and the aforementioned chocolate plate. Starting on February 11 on alternating Thursdays from 6 pm to 9 pm, the space will house the Chvrch Cocktail Club in the venue's private room. "People can just come in—[there's] no cost—they can get some education, talk to some of these bartenders and some of these cocktail developers and some of these reps we'll have
FEATURE // TECHNOLOGY
Skip the line with an app Hangry lets you skip the line at campuses across Canada
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magine waltzing past the line-up at a food place in HUB mall or SUB, quickly scanning a receipt on your phone and grabbing the meal that's sitting there, waiting for you. Such is the power of the Hangry app, currently on a trial run at the University of Alberta campus. Hangry is the campus equivalent of "skip the line" apps like NoWait and Starbucks' Mobile Order & Pay, allowing users to preorder and pre-pay for their meal at participating restaurants. The app was pioneered by a duo from Ontario, Mark Scattolon and Fabian Raso, who were inspired to create the app after being frustrated with long wait times for campus food. Hangry gained major traction after a successful appearance on CBC's Dragon's Den in December 2015: three of the dragons were on board with the idea, and the extra revenue allowed Scattolon and Raso to hire
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their first employee, Lindsay Aubin, their Western Canada manager. "Startups always interested me; I always thought they were really risky," Aubin says with a laugh. "I come from a bit of a risky background, so this is just a really great opportunity for me to get my hands dirty in a new realm of business." Hangry has launched at the University of Toronto—from which Raso recently graduated—and the U of A. McMaster—Scattolon's alma mater—is joining in September, and they are also in the process of working with MacEwan. Aubin notes that they hope to have Hangry at all major Canadian campuses within a couple of years. Currently, only two food outlets are available through Hangry at the U of A: Engrained in the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy and EuroMarket in the education
building. By Hangry's hard launch in the new academic year this fall, Aubin hopes the company will have almost all campus restaurants available. Right now, the app only accepts credit cards, but Aubin notes that they will have ONEcard integration within the next two weeks and are working to include debit by the fall. Over 275 people have signed up for the app so far— and you don't have to be a student to use it, which is good news for people who work in and around the campus area. "The main reaction is just, 'How do I do that?'" Aubin says. "There's no sense of butting or anything because the areas [where orders are picked up] are completely different. And because the orders [are] ordered ahead, it doesn't displace the other people waiting in line."
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Grand Opening: Sun, Feb 14 The Chvrch of John 10260 - 103 Street thechvrchofjohn.com coming and going, and try some of our cocktails as well as feature cocktails for a reduced price, and be able to just help grow that part of the business," Harvey explains. On opposite weeks, they plan to do the same thing with craft beer. "I think the biggest thing is education for us, always," he says. "So not just education of the things that we really like, but just in general, cocktail culture."
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Red Deer is home to a small but devoted group of bartenders and cocktails bars Anyone who has ever driven between Alberta's two largest cities has noticed a slight curve in the otherwise straight highway that momentarily slows your speeding vehicle. That curve in the corridor leads to Red Deer—Alberta's third-largest, but often overlooked, city. Red Deer isn't targeted as a host city by anyone travelling to Alberta to stage major seminars, spirit releases or to showcase international brand ambassadors. For the local bartenders who want those experiences, they have to commute down to Calgary and up to Edmonton—which they do, consistently. To The Lost is the epicentre of the emerging Red Deer cocktail scene. Owner Sean Draper (who is also part owner of Red Boar Smokery and a bartender at The Vat pub) has worked hard to provide space for the small scene to grow, and he admits to spending more time working on the books than on the wood. But his investment has been crucial to giving the city a home base. Draper credits bartender Chris Gooding with taking the creative lead at To The Lost. Gooding moved back to Red Deer from Vancouver Island to take on the challenge. "We're on the fourth menu since opening on April 10, 2015," Gooding says. "We started with a menu that featured stuff from bartenders around the world. We went seasonal from there. Our summer menu featured one page of originals and two pages of other bartenders' stuff." For its fall menu, To The Lost decided to feature 18 house-created cocktails. The customer response was positive, and three of Gooding's creations were the fall's top sellers: Bourbon for Apples, O Nameless One and the Cra-
bapple Sour. Bartenders in Red Deer face a unique set of challenges compared to those tending bar in larger centres. "Preconceptions of bad experiences with liquor is a big one," Seth Van Havere says. "Listing ingredients on the menu isn't enough; you have to explain the flavours to guests. People are deathly afraid of things like chartreuse, tequila and even gin. They need to be romanced and shown that they work." Van Havere, who is called the "godfather of craft cocktails" by his fellow barmen, tends bar part-time at Red Deer's State & Main and spends the other half of his time running Old Fashioned Cocktails, a consulting and events company. "I only started really caring about cocktails in 2010, when I started reading as much as I could," he says. "I was at the crossroads: get a real job or bartend for life. I decided that if I'm going to be a career barman, I need to know everything about it. David Wondrich's Imbibe was the kickstart to really caring, being a history buff. That's when I realized bartending was more than pouring highballs and pints." Price is another huge issue that Red Deer bartenders must face. Many locals are hesitant about a $12 drink, given the area's saturation with chain restaurants serving low-quality $8 versions of similar beverages. Without the steady stream of new customers found in larger cities, building a base of regulars is key; places like To The Lost are constantly struggling against being labelled as too expensive or a specialoccasion place. Despite this, the area's bartenders remain optimistic. "We run the cocktail programs at Fratters Speakeasy and Cilantro and Chive
in Lacombe, with plans to expand in the coming year," says Matthew Buck, who tends bar at To The Lost and manages Fratters Speakeasy; he also runs Old Fashioned Cocktails with Van Havere. "I'm incredibly excited about the future of this city. It's a very cool time to be a part of the scene here." V Tarquin Melnyk is an Edmonton native who has been tending bar in numerous cities for the past six years. Named Bartender of the Year at the 2013 Alberta Cup, he is a published cocktail writer and photographer, and a partner in justcocktails.org.
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Until Sat, Feb 27 (8 pm; 1:30 pm matinee Sun, Feb 21) Directed by Ashlie Corcoran The Club at the Citadel, $25 – $83
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s there such a thing as queer heritage? Do people on the LGBTQ+ spectrum share a distinct culture or history? Andrew Kushnir, Paul Dunn and Damien Atkins strive to answer these questions in The Gay Heritage Project. "In essence [we're] trying to find whether or not there is some sort of common ground or some sort of common soul or, for lack of a better word, a nationality amidst queer people that may transcend generational lines, racial lines, geographical
The Gay Heritage Project more focused on questions than answers lines [and] socioeconomic lines," says Kushnir from Toronto, where the show debuted in 2013. The three actors are using a technique called vocal masque to explore these questions, creating scenes based on personal history, dreaming up wild fantasies and inserting themselves into historical moments of injustice. "Vocal masque is very fast and furious," Kushnir says. "It's a very athletic form of storytelling. It has one actor playing all the characters in any given scene ... I've often said it's sort
of a three-headed one-man show, because you've got three actors that are really on their own paths occurring concurrently." Kushnir stresses that the show is more interested in asking questions about queer heritage than arriving at any definitive answers. The three actors also don't pretend that they can accurately portray the experiences of the transgender, bisexual or lesbian communities. "We are aware of who we are unable
to speak for and who we shouldn't speak for by virtue of who we are," he says. "As is mentioned in the show, queer white male stories are the most prevalent of our community. ... And we recognize that there are very meaningful limitations to what we can communicate to an audience." The term "queer heritage" often refers not just to white gay-male history, but to American history, like the Stonewall Riots and Harvey Milk. But Kushnir and crew wanted to give Canadian queer history its due.
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hy would you want to go back?" chant Hattie (Mackenzie Reurink) and Loosey (Rebecca Ann Merkley) several times throughout Klondykes. "What is there to return to?" The question resonates not just geographically, as the two women flee their dancehall-girl lives in Winnipeg and strike out north for the Klondike Gold Rush, but also psychologically. Hattie, who disguises herself as a man to get into the Yukon, doesn't want to give up the power that comes with a pair of pants. Loosey, who strikes gold as a faux-French prostitute, sees no reason to return to a low-wage life on the stage. Writers Darrin Hagen and Trevor Schmidt have peppered the Theatre Network production with Guys in Disguise's trademark salty humour, but at its heart, Klondykes is a mel-
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"A point of focus are the Toronto bath-house raids, 1981," Kushnir says. "The way that galvanized the community here in Toronto, [and] the way the bath-house raids some weeks later in Edmonton became a real catalyst for a community coming together in Western Canada. .... There's all these incredible Canadian moments that I don't think audiences, even queer audiences, are necessarily versed in."
ancholy story of finding yourself and losing your lover. A brisk 75 minutes, the show tells its tale by stringing together musical numbers, which run the gamut from an operatic aria to a body-percussion piece to a bluesy, full-throated torch song. Complete with footlights and an old-timey piano on the stage, Klondykes has a vaudevillian panache that gives each of these vastly different songs some stylistic consistency. But the show never feels choppy or rushed, despite the rapid change of scene or focus. Everyone gets their own time to shine in this structure, from Loosey fucking the piano to Hattie crooning the bittersweet finale. But Amanda Neufeld deserves major credit for the show's success, bobbing in and out of the story as our narrator and as a multitude of other characters. Her
performance as a Mountie guarding the Chilkoot Pass is a highlight of the show, wherein she must simultaneously twirl a Canadian flag and rattle off a never-ending list of the supplies that our two heroines must bring with them. It's a feat of memory, musicality and motor skills, and Neufeld pulls it off magnificently. Neufeld also plays Mister Yen, a Chinese laundry owner. Klondykes approaches this cross-racial casting with great caution, having Neufeld explicitly argue that Mister Yen is here "because his story deserves to be told, too." That idea—that there are Gold Rush stories other than the tales of rugged white men striking it rich—drives Klondykes from beginning to end, and the show is able to mine its own gold from a fresh, heretofore unexplored perspective. BRUCE CINNAMON
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Studio Theatre brings a youthful swagger to a Shakespeare favourite
pack of hormonal adolescents: Studio Theatre's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream capitalizes on its young cast and delivers a performance in kind, with plenty of youthful energy to buoy it up. Many productions of Midsummer place the satyr Puck at the centre of the dramatic appeal: in both action and appearance he's set up as a natural show-stealer for his impish charm and numinous regalia. That's not the case in this production, however: director Marti Maraden has chosen to rein in, somewhat, this version's Puck. Played by the nimble Sarah Feutl, he's mostly human in shape—no cloven feet in sight—and decked out in skintight leather bands and drab browns and beiges. While still a roguish creature who gets up to his share of mischief, he often seems quite tame when considered against the rambunctious other fairies and especially the effusive prostrations of the main characters. The four young people at the heart of the show's famously zigzagging plot are all big personalities, particularly the two females. This show's Hermia (Kristen Padayas) and Helena (Jessy Ardern) are no shrinking violets fluttering about a forest, as some versions are wont to depict them, but rather strong-willed women desperately in love and fully cognizant of exactly what—or rather, whom— they want, unafraid to literally grab, pounce and cling on to him. So, too, does Corben Kushneryk-
Until Sat, Feb 13 (7:30 pm) Directed by Marti Maraden Timms Centre for the Arts $12–$25 Fjeld ham up the role of Bottom to the heights of buffoonery, showing us why this character is oh-so-suited to the gigantic donkey head that gets plopped onto him by Puck. The actors have obviously spent a good deal of time really learning how to work iambic pentameter, delivering their lines with candid nuance. But what stands out as particularly memorable in this show are Alison Yanota's set and costumes. The former is pared-down and highly stylized, featuring an almost-bare Athenian court that gives way to a haunting, dark forest of bare branches and oversized orange leaves, with just the faintest hint of night-bird calls rising out of Matthew Skopyk's muted sound design. The supernatural denizens of the forest are tricked out in an intriguing stylistic mix that combines natural elements (branches, flowers, twining leaves) with messy, dreadlocked wigs and a 16thcentury ruff (an obvious homage to the Bard's own iconic image). It's a lot of fun, put simply: an approachable interpretation of a very commonly produced play that manages to toe the line between candour and classic.
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arie-Andrée Houde's Tapestry, on exhibition at Latitude 53, displays pictures of tarps that cover the faces of buildings during renovations. Printed on the surface of the renovation tarps is an image of what the building will look like once its renovations are complete, making recognizable, renowned architecture appear fl at and lethargic since the tarps do not replicate the sculptural, solid characteristics of the buildings they attempt to represent. The images mediate the visual relationship between onlookers and well-known buildings. This weakens people's attraction to popular tourist sites, since it's obvious you are no longer looking at the real building. Houde's work shows how our consumption of cultural places changes when sites are under renovation. To convey this, Houde prints these life-size images on mesh and canvas. For instance, hanging from the gallery wall is a life-size representation of a portion of the renovation tarp covering Spain's Seville Cathedral. The image is printed on a porous mesh that allows the fabric to be backlit, which draws your attention to small dots of colour printed on the mesh in complicated arrangements. These arrangements of colour resemble pointillism, the technique of placing small dots of paint in patterns on a surface. From up close, the patterns simply look like saturated dots in diff erent colours. But from far away, the dots fuse together to form an image. These idiosyncrasies in Houde's work emphasize the flatness of the image, making it hard to imagine the cathedral as three-dimensional. If we walk into the middle of the gallery space, we're placed in the
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Until Sat, Mar 5 Works by Marie-Andrée Houde Latitude 53 centre of two opposing gallery walls. One wall is lined with framed images depicting renovation tarps and building scaff olding on white archive paper. The opposing wall is a chiefly empty white surface, infusing the exhibition with negative space. These opposing walls create an illusion that we are standing between two streets. The empty gallery wall is similar to a row of buildings we see everyday; aft er a while, we become used to the peculiarities of the building's architecture and they blend into one another in a comforting, whitewashed familiarity. The opposing gallery wall with the framed works on paper catches your eye since buildings under repair disrupt familiar streets with noisy curiosity. The renovation sites stand out like eyesores, even though the images printed on the tarps give us a visual promise that our familiar buildings will soon be returned. After a while, we become accustomed to looking at Houde's representations of the renovation tarps, similar to how we become accustomed to looking at the same buildings everyday. Like the actual buildings, the tarps eventually become ordinary and their presence becomes entwined with the spaces they inhabit. This encourages the viewer to consider if renovation tarps become integral to a building. If we decide that they do, we stand disenchanted and underwhelmed among notable tourist sites and famous architecture. JULIE-ANN MERCER
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The Early Bloomer s a theatre company, we're actually really interested in tackling those hardto-tackle subjects," says Concrete Theatre's artistic director, Mieko Ouchi. Despite the fact that everyone survives it, more or less unscathed, puberty remains one of those "hard-to-tackle subjects." Most parents would still rather explain astrophysics to their children than discuss those unavoidable bodily changes, but according to Ouchi, this is where the arts can step in to help navigate those difficult conversations. Enter The Early Bloomer. A budding little play about a daisy named Maisy who is overcome with embarrassment when her petals appear before the other flowers in her grade. "It's kind of about sprouting earlier than your friends in different ways," Ouchi explains. "It could be height, it could be puberty, it could be ... you know, all those ways we're all growing and changing and comparing ourselves to other folks." Written by The Irrelevant Show's Jana O'Connor, the first draft of the play was commissioned by Concrete Theatre for its annual Sprout Festival, which is a theatre festival for young audiences. "We asked her to write about something that was sort of personal or something from her background," Ouchi says. "Some people decide to write about their cultural background or their language background. And she decided to write about being five-foot-ten in Grade Five."
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CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 ST, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute.com • Above the Clouds: artwork by Aryen Hoekstra; Jan 21-Feb 27
Bronze Nail Stopped the Gush of Blood and Sent It Bubbling Back Inside: artwork by Jay Mosher; until Mar 4
JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona
DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Infocus: Curated by Alexis Marie Chute; Feb 5-27
DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St • 780.760.7284 •
Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • At Water’s Edge: artwork by Joyce Boyer; Jan 7-Mar 3
JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • Headlines': Social, Political & Subversive Art: presented by The Alberta Society of Artists; until Feb 26
admin@drawingroomedmonton.com • Entanglement: artwork by Diane Connors; Feb 10-27
LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St •
FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • Pilgrimage: being in the end times: artwork by Kyle Terrence; Sponsered by Vue Weekly; Jan 19-Feb 13
780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Lando Gallery February Group Selling Exhibition; until Feb 27
LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Trope L'oeil: artwork by Marie-Andrée Houde; Jan 29-Mar 5 • Work, Play, Sleep ... Repeat: artwork by Paul Bernhardt; Jan 29-Mar 5
FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery. com • Edmonton Suite: Group show; through Jan •
Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.970.7766 • brasko@ edmontonarts.ca • edmontonarts.ca • The Trocadero Orchestra will be bringing their 18 piece big band sound. Music will be broadcasted outside so ice skaters can enjoy it as well • Every Sun until Feb 28, 1-4pm • Free
10575-115 St • justin@toygunstheatre.com • toygunstheatre.com • Featuring a new understanding of the body and its potential to create, communicate, and resonate in any performance medium • Every Sun, Tue, Thu until Feb 28 • $15 (drop in), 10 class passes and monthly rates available
FILM CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free • Schedule: The End of the Tour (Feb 17) FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Schedule: Shattered Glass (Feb 12)
METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • BEACH!: Gidget Goes Hawaiian (Feb 16) • BLACK HISTORY MONTH: When We Were Kings: 20th Anniversary; Feb 15, 4:30pm • DEDFEST: Southbound; Feb 12, 9:30pm • FALLING INTO PLACE: FOUR FILMS BY SATOSHI KON: Paprika; Feb 13-14, Feb 17 • GUEST PRESENTER SERIES: David Shepherd presents Le confessionnal; Feb 11, 7pm • METRO BIZARRO: Redline; Feb 17, 7pm • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: The Princess Bride; Feb 13, 2pm • STAFF PICS: A River Runs Through It; Feb 15, 7pm • TURKEY SHOOT: Pan; Feb 18, 9:30pm
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SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • The Lebret Residential Petroglyphs: artwork by Tanya Harnett; Jan 7-Feb 20 • Ingrid Ledent; Feb 3-Apr 14
SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • JoAnne Denis; Jan 26-Feb 20
STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • strathconacountymuseum. ca • Making Their Mark: The Land Surveyor's Role in the Peaceful and Orderly Development of Alberta; Jan 4-Apr 30
TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • Beyond Rubik's Cube; Nov 7-Feb 15
U OF A MUSEUMS GALLERIES AT ENTERPRISE SQUARE • Main floor, 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: ThuFri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • Do It Yourself: Collectivity and Collaboration in Edmonton; Nov 28-Mar 5
VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Gallery A: Cultural Exchange; Dec 3-Feb 27 • Gallery B: Alberta Artists Collect Alberta Art; Dec 3-Feb 27
VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • The Fine Line Between...: artwork by The Goop of 7; Feb 2-Mar 18 Unleashed 2016: presented by The Alberta Society of Artists; until Feb 13
WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Artwork by Guy Roy; Feb 6-18 WOMEN'S ART MUSEUM OF CANADA • La Cité Francophone 2nd Pavillon, #200, 8627 Rue Marie-AnneGaboury (91 St) • 780.803.2016 • info@wamsoc.ca • wamsoc.ca • Northern Reflections: artwork by Barbara Pankratz; Jan 7-Feb 13
ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: X3: artwork by Alberta Potters’ Association, Contextural | Fibre Arts Cooperative and the Nina Haggerty Centre; Jan 16-Mar 26 • What Grows in the Ditch: artwork by Donna Brunner; Feb 13-Mar 29 • MIX: artwork by Paula Cooley; Feb 13-Mar 19
LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • 2nd Annual Galentine's Day; Feb 13, 2-3:30pm
THE AVIARY BOOK SALE & OPEN HOUSE • 9535 Jasper Ave • Pick up some quality literature, eat some cupcakes and see what the Aviary is up to. All ages are welcome to attend • Feb 13, 1pm
EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Mercury Room,10575114 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • facebook.com/ mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (signup); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner
ONE-DAY PLAYWRITING MARATHON • Strathcona Lyric: artwork by Steve Coffey; Feb 11-Mar 1; Opening reception: Feb 11, 7-9pm
LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor
GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park
dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • kâ-katawasisicik iskwêwak: Visual works by Lana Whiskeyjack; Jan 30-Mar 15
• 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Portraits: artwork by Corie Side, Claire Uhlick and Marie Winters; Jan 8-Feb 21 • Interpretations: featuring paintings, printmaker, photographer; Jan 8-Feb 21
BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St •
GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main
bugeramathesongallery.com • Detour: artwork by Curtis Trent; Feb 12-Mar 1; Opening night (artist in attendance): Feb 12, 6pm & Feb 13, 1-4pm
Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/ art-gallery • Walls: Parks and Gardens: Acrylic paintings by Marcie Rohr; until Feb 29 • Cases and Cubes: A selection of prints and mixed media works by the University of Alberta's Visual Arts Students; until Feb 29
HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • And There a
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5 Artists 1 Love: an annual Black History Month event that provides Edmonton residents the opportunity to celebrate the cultural mosaic within the black community; Feb 6-27
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CAFE BLACKBIRD • 9640-142 St • 780.451.8890 • cafeblackbird.ca • Artwork by Lori Frank; through Feb
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• Earth's General Store Downtown, 10150-104 St • michael@egs.ca • earthsgeneralstore.eventbrite.com • Screenings of documentaries with subjects such as: climate change, animal welfare, plant based diets, and more • Schedule: Bikes vs Cars (Feb 13), Dirt! The Documentary (Feb 27) • Every Sat (except Feb 6), 7-9pm • Free (register at EventBrite)
BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 9132-118 Ave •
PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Artwork by Graham Peacock; Feb 11-Mar 1 • Artwork by Bill Anderson; Feb 11-Mar 1; Opening reception: Feb 11, 7-9pm
• deanlack@shaw.ca • bestsidephotography.com • Photography Display by Dean C. Lack; Jan 15-Feb 26
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ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Living Building Thinking: Art and Expressionism; Oct 24-Feb 15 • She's All That: artwork by Dana Holst; Oct 24-Feb 15 • Fabric: Charrette Roulette; Nov 21-Apr 10 • The Blur in Between: artwork by an international roster of artists from Chile, the United States, Britain and the Netherlands, as well as across Canada; Jan 23-May 8 • The Flood: artwork by Sean Caulfield; Feb 6-Aug 14 • Out of the Woods: artwork by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven; Feb 13-Apr 17 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm • Art for Lunch: 3rd Thu of the month, 12:10-12:50pm; Schedule: The Blur in Between (Feb 18)
paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: The Texture of Experience: artwork by Yasir Ali, Laurie Bentz, Terry Daly, & Janet Sutanto; Jan 7-Feb 18 • Artisan Nook: Marquetry: painting with wood: several finely crafted pieces by Jonica & Alex Heinze (Fine Lines Marquetry); Jan 7-Feb 18
SCOTIA PLACE • 10060 Jasper Ave • 780.445.8900
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PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 •
Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture. alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Marlena Wyman: Illuminating the Diary of Alda Dale Randall; Feb 2-Aug 20
SWING 'N' SKATE • City Hall - City Room & Plaza, 1
Ave • richelle@toygunstheatre.com • toygunstheatre.com • Develop practical flexibility and strength • Every Tue until Feb 23, 8-9pm • $15 (drop-in), 10 class passes and monthly rates available
MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • The True Cost of Oil: Canada’s Oil Sands and the Last Great Forest: A photographic exhibition by Garth Lenz; Feb 4-Apr 17
Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona. com • Open: Sat-Sun 12-4pm • It’s All About Texture: artwork by Joyce Boyer; Feb
MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullen-gallery • Keiskamma Trust: This show will feature textile artworks exploring the theme of birds; Feb 13-Mar 20
MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Masterworks: artwork by The Alberta Craft Council; Jan 9-Feb 18
County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Guests will go to the library and spend the day working on their 10-15 minute play. Guests must bring their own laptop • Feb 13, 10am5pm • Free (register online at sclibrary.ab.ca, or phone 780.410.8600)
ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm
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11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • The Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave (North Side of the ATB Financial Arts Barns) • grindstonetheatre.ca • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment that unveils scenes, songs and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Every Fri, starting Sep 25-Jun 25, 11pm (No performances on Dec 25 and Jan 1, 8 & 15) • $15 (online, at the door) BOEING BOEING • Walterdale Theatre, 10322-83 Ave • 780.439.3058 • walterdaletheatre.com • Sponsered by Vue Weekly. Bernard is one lucky '60s bachelor. He is engaged to three beautiful air hostesses who will never meet thanks to his relationship bible—the airline timetable. But, when a speedy new Boeing and a storm cause the women to have simultaneous layovers, Bernard's unwitting friend, Robert, gets caught up in his own lies and futile attempts to conceal Bernard's polygamy • Feb 3-13 CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun CURTAINS • John L. Haar Theatre, 10045-156 St • 780.420.1757 (Tix on the Square) • It’s the bright and promising year of 1959 and Boston’s Colonial Theatre is hosting the opening night of a new musical. When the leading lady dies suddenly on stage, the entire cast & crew become suspects. Enter a local detective, who just happens to be a musical theatre fan, who must solve the mystery and save the show • Feb 3-13, 7:30-10:30pm • $15-$20 DIE-NASTY • The Backstage Theatre at the ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-83 Ave • communications@ varsconatheatre.com • die-nasty.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs every Mon, 7:30-9:30pm • Until May 30 • $14 or $9 with a $30 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com DISNEY'S PETER PAN JR. • Festival Place • Wendy Darling loves to tell stories to her brothers, Michael and John. But when her father says she's too old for the nursery, the children find themselves whisked away by Peter Pan to a place just past the second star on the right. In Neverland they'll never have to grow up • Feb 12-15 THE EARLY BLOOMER • Westbury Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • 780.439.3905 • concretetheatre.ca • Follows Maisy as she faces the embarrassing and exciting challenges of blossoming a little sooner than her pals • Feb 12 (7pm), Feb 13 (11am & 2pm) • $13 (kids 12 and under), $16 (student/senior), $19 (adult) THE GAY HERITAGE PROJECT • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Three gifted creators and performers, all formerly of Edmonton, set out to answer one question: is there such a thing as gay heritage? The result is a hilarious and moving homage to the people who came before and the events that continue to shape our lives • Feb 10-27 KLONDYKES • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.ca • A pair of saloon girls - barred from the territories for being unmarried - disguise themselves as man and wife in order to join the Klondike Gold Rush and seek their freedom. As they debut their new identities, Hattie and Loosey discover that the roles they’re playing may involve more fact than fiction • Feb 2-21 LA VOIX HUMAINE • La Cite Francophone, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury • admin@operanuova.ca • lunitheatre.ca • A young woman, referred to only as “Elle” (the French feminine pronoun), has been abandoned by her lover and in the bedroom of her home lies awaiting his call • Feb 11-20, 8-9:30pm • $15-$25, $20-$30 (Opening night)
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM • Timms Centre for the Arts, 87 Ave & 112 St • uab.ca/shows • Sponsered by Vue Weekly. We all can be erratic and foolish when it comes to romance. Look no further than the Fairy Queen on a midsummer's eve, in a magical wood filled with enchantment, whimsy and mischief, when she falls head-over-heels in love with a jackass ... • Feb 4-13, 7:30pm • $25 (adult), $22 (seniors), $12 (students) SEX PLEASE, WE’RE SIXTY • St. Albert Kinsmen Banquet Hall, 47 Riel Drive, St. Albert • 780.222.0102 • stalberttheatre.com • Rose Cottage Bed and Breakfast will never be the same after the feeble but enthusiastic Bud Davis is done wooing all of Mrs. Stancliffe’s female guests. The next door neighbour gets a fellow scientist involved in a ‘test market’ of a pill designed for menopausal women, in an effort to be more than just a ‘gentleman caller’ to the uptight proprietress. The two scenarios become one as Bud gets busted and the ladies join forces • Feb 11-14, Feb 18-20
THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre. com • An American theatre classic, Edward Albee's scorching tale of an embittered marriage was the Citadel's very first production in 1965 • Jan 23-Feb 16
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Stupid Cupid
Space:Nunz curates a Valentine's Day for lovers and haters alike
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o you hate the overpriced roses, heart-shaped chocolates and teddy bears? Or do you love them, but also love to laugh? A local comedy duo aims to deliver a Valentine's Day that everyone can enjoy, whether you like or loathe all the kitsch and consumerism of the pseudo-holiday. "It's kind of like Valentine's Day is a lot of things," Laura Stolte says with a laugh. "We're leaving it open to interpretation for people. I think we both really hate the pressure that comes with Valentine's Day, and I guess the consumerism of it. So we thought, let's just have an event that's fun, that can still be something that people do but is less 'give each other chocolate hearts that no one likes' kind of thing." Stolte is one half of Space:Nunz, a musical-comedy duo that has been making the rounds of Edmonton's comedy circuit for about a year. Stolte and fellow performer Nathalie Feehan debuted their group at last
year's Not Enough Fest. After finding a welcome entry into the city's comedy scene, they decided to take a shot at curating their own event. Cupid Can Suck It will feature the musical-comedy stylings of Space:Nunz, Success 5000 and Lane Olson, sketch comedy by Marv N' Berry and stand-up comedy by Tamara Appleton, Simon Gorsak, Carina Morton, Simon Glassman, Brett McCrindle and Charles Haycock. A comedy show based on Valentine's Day is ripe for all sorts of pretty terrible overtures, but Stolte notes that they chose this set of performers specifically because their humour tends to shoot above the hip. She also notes that she and Feehan were pleasantly surprised by how inclusive the comedy scene has been, overall. "Between myself and [Feehan], we've seen everyone who's performing before," Stolte says. "The styles of humour go really well together.
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And also, they're really good comedians—like, not really sexist or racist or anything like that. That was the main goal in curating. "The Whyte Ave comedy scene, particularly, has just been super open because there's a lot of people in it right now who want to be in it for, you know, really unique comedy; comedy that's intelligent—again, not based out of race or sex or, like, fart jokes," she continues. "I think that it's like a really progressive scene, and they've just been so open and including, and we just get invited to all sorts of shows because of that. ... It's a lot less prescribed than I think a comedy scene could be." MEL PRIESTLEY
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POPCULTURE HAPPENINGS Game Date Night / Sat, Feb 13 (7 pm – 10 pm) If comics, TV or novels have taught us anything, it's that love can be found anywhere—which brings us to a new kind of date night. It features all of the classic traits of speed dating, but this version will incorporate board games into the mix. There will be tables set up with two-player games, and men and women will be paired up for a 30-minute competition before shuffling off to their next rendezvous. (Avalon Knights, $10; Free for women) Princess Bride Quote-Along / Sun, Feb 14 (6:30 pm) There's already the Princess Bride Sing-Along—where the lyrics appear onscreen and viewers sing along with their favourite songs—and now there's the quote-along, making its debut at the Garneau Theatre. Sub-
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titles will appear onscreen to help viewers know when to say some of the film's most popular quotes. Special guest April Banigan of Mass Effect and Dragon Age fame will also be in attendance. (Garneau Theatre) On Spec Release Shindig: Issues 100 & 101 / Sun, Feb 14 (7 pm) On Spec is arguably one of the greatest literary magazines, with a focus on sci-fi and fantasy stories by up-and-coming Canadian writers and artists. It's been 25 years since the release of its first issue, and On Spec is celebrating its 100th and 101st issues this month. To help the magazine celebrate such a milestone, artists James Beveridge and Corey Lansdell (cover artists for issues 100 and 101, respectively) will be signing copies of the magazines featuring their cover art. (Variant Edition Comics & Culture) V POP 13
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uke Force is described as a view of a cafĂŠ being bombed, dissected from the angle of each person's life who was present at the time, moving back and forth between before and after the event. But the 120-page book is much more than that. The universe expands outward to encompass all of author Brian Chippendale's security conscience, the sci-fi urban-nightmare setting of Grave City. His ranging focus criticizes lefitst ideology, dependence on security and violence as solutions to complex problems and a random assortment of technological nightmares. His feature characters are a collection of superheroes who can do little but observe or be absorbed by the world around them. Puke Force's illustrations are where the power of Chippendale's work lies. The frenetic assembly of wild thoughts, intricate, heavy lines and dreamy landscapes are what stick with the reader. Single pages build and loop back to former characters and pages. Whole pages are dedicated to mapping out land and cityscapes. Trippy "Where's Waldo-esque" imagery outlines whole worlds as diverse as an underground bar fight, a land of whirling knives and an area of fantastical memory mist. Whole hours could be dedicated to dissecting the in-
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tricacies of each page without fully seeing each detail. It's not surprising to learn Chippendale is a noise musician. The frenetic nature of the storytelling makes it diffi cult to hold a sense of time and place. And the full force of the story is a bit lost in the chaotic but fantastic assembly of images. Chippendale has to have discovered one of the most dynamic ways to tell a story. At times tripping over each other to get across the page, characters include a mansized M&M, a student basement dweller, a terrorist bachelor escaping responsibility and that annoyingly useless left ist ideological man. It's a range of characters that can only come from the acceptance that life is random, and the only way it fi ts together is in all of its chaos. Puke Force was written over a period of six years. Trying to absorb it may take just as much time. SAMANTHA POWER
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Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen Now playing
tinseltown nostalgia Hail, Caeser! a love letter to 1950s Hollywood
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comic homage to true believers renewing their faith in times of hardship, Hail, Caesar! opens with the image of a crucifix looming in candlelight, but Jesus turns out to be a red herring—the epistemologies placed in opposition here are rather more particular to the mid-20th century American mainstream. We have on one side the shadowy bogeyman of the American communist party, and on the other ... Hollywood! Twenty-five years after the blazing damnation of Barton Fink, the Coen Brothers have returned to Tinseltown with an almost shocking amount of affection for the same studios—in fact, the exact same (fictional) studio—they once portrayed as forces of capitalist darkness. Hail,
Caesar! is a love letter to the artifice, scale and shenanigans of Hollywood in the 1950s. And I'm fairly certain it's a lot of fun even if you're not a Turner Classic Movies nerd. Capitol Studios executive fixer Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) is in a fix. Aside from the more routine quagmires—an actress (Scarlett Johansson) pregnant out of wedlock—Mannix learns that one of the studio's most established stars, Baird Whitlock (George Clooney), currently shooting a hugely expensive cornball religious epic, has been kidnapped by a coven of communists, nearly every one of which is, like the eponymous Barton Fink, a disgruntled screenwriter. Mannix also has to contend with duelling identical-
twin gossip columnists (Tilda Swinton) threatening to expose a major scandal and a director (Ralph Fiennes) of sophisticated comedies griping about getting hobbled with an especially inarticulate cowboy actor (Alden Ehrenreich). Meanwhile, Mannix is courted by an aviation company offering a handsome salary for services that would not require Mannix to be on call all hours in all manner of sticky situations. "Do you want to run a business or stay stuck in the circus?" the aviation company's corporate Romeo asks. Given the warm-fuzzy tenor of Hail, Caesar!, you can probably guess what choice Mannix will make. But it's not an easy choice. Unlike the
real Eddie Mannix, a nasty character who performed similar tasks for MGM back in the day—this Mannix is a family man and devout Catholic. He finds solutions to sordid predicaments daily, concocting enough façades to make him just as much a manufacturer of fabulations as the studio he works for. But when he goes to confession, his tawdriest sins tend to involve fibbing to his wife about staying off the cigarettes. The possibility of a stable income without off-hours hassles is truly tempting, but Hail, Caesar! makes the circus of the movies seem like an almost noble enterprise, a duty-bound machine that supplies the body politic with opiates of hope and joy. The film's digressions are nearly as numerous as
that of The Big Lebowski, and every one of them delights: the recreation of Busby Berkeley's choreography from Million Dollar Mermaid, or a racy variation on Anchors Aweigh's Gene Kelly tap extravaganza fronted by Channing Tatum. Those waiting for the Coens' characteristic bleak ironies to kick in may be disappointed. Even the kidnapping communist coven, who initially seem set up solely for ridicule, wind up exhibiting integrity. I wouldn't go so far as to suggest that the Coens are softening with age, but, as a longtime admirer of their films, it's refreshing to discover that they can tell a tall tale with this much warmth.
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dashingly cool sense of reality-in-fl ux opens the work closing out Metro's retrospective Falling into Place: Four Films by Satoshi Kon. Aft er our front-row seats for the circus-acts in a policeman's head (thanks to a new device video-capturing dreams), the title card—Paprika—comes on screen via a business card ... then we're whizzing off with Paprika as she zips 'round Tokyo. In smash-cut after wipe aft er match-cut, the peppy, dream-diving redhead morphs into graffi ti, an electronic-billboard model, an image popping out of a desktop computer's screen, a hallway projection, a skipping young thing with the world on pause, an object-of-desire dismissing guys with fl ip-book-like mirror-refl ection rejections and—most nutsoawesome of all—an amused image on a passerby's T-shirt. When Paprika returns to being
Sat, Feb 13 – Wed, Feb 17 Directed by Satoshi Kon Originally released: 2006 Metro Cinema at the Garneau frostily professional Dr Chiba, she learns the DC Mini device has been corrupted; an intruder's invading and infecting previous users' minds. (Christopher Nolan borrowed some ideas and images himself here for Inception.) A dream pops up madly as a fl oat-parade, full of animals, masks and cultural icons, wending its way through a desert, a reverie amok. It's as if Kon's cinema itself, the stuff of dreams, is all fun and games until he tumbles too deep down his own psyche. (In the touchingly self-referential fi nale, the policeman, a stand-in for Kon, surveys the posters for Kon's three previous fi lms on a cinema marquee before buying a ticket.)
mix cutesiness and creepiness. Dreams devour dreams; Cronenbergian gashes and Lynch-like rooms burst open. Psycho-thriller, chase-fi lm, superhero-fl ick, mystery and phantasmagoria meld. The reality-rippling, alter-ego-tripping, dreams-and-movies-blurring Kon pretty much saved his best for last. The techno-babble can burble
on, though, with some dialogue stilted; the hulking Dr Tokita's an easy punching-bag. But Kon goes a few burrows further down the rabbit-hole than ever before, asking how much we're projecting our hopes and dreams onto the 'Net and other technology. Here, fantasies go viral before merging into one sprawling mass of delusion.
Beneath the Pandemonium, Wonderland-ish dervishes, and Oz-like whirls lie lunacy and an atomized, jarring out-of-time-and-space-ness. Paprika roils with a Japan's cheery, chirpy pop-culture-consciousness gone beyond berserk—it's in nuclear-meltdown. BRIAN GIBSON
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Striking a balance
The Waiting Room converses with songs rather than overpowering I've got a love-hate relationship with music videos. Even the good ones, the artful, less kitschy ones, seem best avoided if one wishes for a record to remain a repeatable, imagination-stimulating experience: the more indelible the visual material in a music video, the harder it'll be to extricate from the aural material. Images easily become fixed in my mind, adhered to the song they are designed to accentuate, not overwhelm. Without access to music videos on television I would not likely have discovered some of the weirder, wonderful music that helped make my suburban childhood tenable, but abandoning the regular watching of television, and thus music videos, at a fairly early age felt like a boon to my ability to listen to music untethered by excess associations. Now allow me to contradict myself. I only really became aware of Tindersticks because of the use of the band's music in various films by my beloved Claire Denis (Nénette et Boni, Trouble Every Day, 35 Rhums, et al). Denis' fusing of Tindersticks' music to her images—and sounds, and dialogue—is not subtle; rather, there are entire sequences that are difficult to imagine without their marriage of music and movie narrative. Still, for some reason Tindersticks is that rare group whose songs, even those specifically written for a film—the gor-
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old movies, their repurposing here giving added meaning to the title's reference to second chances. Gregorio Graziosi's "How He Entered," meanwhile, movingly sews together fragments of a black-andwhite home movie of a wedding. But the dominant theme here is transience, from handsome Alex Descas wandering through a train station in Denis' "Help Yourself" to the tourists wandering through an amusement park in "Hey, Lucinda" (a swooning duet with the late Lhasa de Sela), from the collage of oncoming freeways in Pierre Vinour's "Were We Once Lovers?"—which feels like a companion piece to Leonard Cohen's equally heart-rending "Did I Ever Love You?"—to the passing farmland seen through a rain-smeared car window in Staples' "This Fear of Emptiness." Perhaps the strangest, most striking film in The Waiting Room is Gabraz and Sara Não Tem Nome's "We Are Dreamers!," which recalls Red Desert in its eerily framed images of a child holding a shovel standing in what appears to be a quarry, while colossal dump-trucks swarm around her. The film exudes a vulnerability and uneasy beauty that aligns elegantly with the feeling of the song—without merely doubling that feeling. Perhaps that's the ideal for any music video: to complement or converse with a song, not conquer it. V
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geously swaying "Trouble Every Day," for example—somehow manage the rare feat of feeling inextricable from their filmic purposing while feeling entirely autonomous when enjoyed on their own. So when Tindersticks' new record, The Waiting Room, was recently released in a special edition supplemented by a DVD of films commissioned to accompany every song on the record—including one by Denis!—I did not grumble long about the inflated price. And, despite, or actually because of, the essential simplicity of most of these films, I was not disappointed. The Waiting Room Film Project was made in collaboration with the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. Aside from Denis and Stuart Staples, Tindersticks' chief musician and songwriter, I don't know the artists credited with making the films, but every one seems to understand that less is almost always more when it comes to creating films that contribute to a song's power, functioning almost as another instrument. Staples and Suzanne Osborne's introductory "Follow Me" consists solely of sunlight crawling across a closed door, bringing to mind another Tindersticks song, "Come Inside." Christoph Girardet's "Second Chance Man" weaves disparate images of passing trees, eyes in rearview mirrors, hands on steering wheels and gearshifts. All these images, it seems, were appropriated from
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icholas Sparks' romance bookscum-movies—so white and honeyed that they look like Aryan fashion-models have been squeezed out of a bear-shaped bottle of syrupy sunlight—have a plodding grief-porn predictability. (Here's a test of your optimism—11 of 19 Sparks-Note(book) s have been filmed, so is the glassof-tears not quite half-empty or a little more than half-full?) The Choice, hooked up to a sap-dripping IV, drifts through The Instant Attraction, eyelidflutters through The Sudden Misfortune that scarcely tests such True Devotion and flatlines with The Miracle of Love—one so profound that it testifies to you-know-who up there.
In the gilded Arcadia of small-town North Carolina, soulful "country boy" Travis (Benjamin Walker) meets his neighbour, medical student Gabby (Teresa Palmer, sometimes confusing acting with overgesticulation and overexclamation!!!). They rub each other the wrong way because, clearly, they want to touch each other in all the right places. This driving-me-crazy routine's rasped and sparked so long that it's as if we're watching Cupid get chafe-burns in slo-mo. Travis voices hoary clichés about life as a series of choices but there's none here—just fate, smoldering looks, marriage and then perfect kids.
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Directed by Ross Katz Now playing Cutesiness is time-released into the treacly story-stream: vet Travis sleeps with puppies; handwritten notes are passed via dogs' collars; Travis shows Gabby his special moonlit spot. Amid the interminable banalities ("Let's just stay here forever," etc) in this perfectly baked white-bread world, Travis's father (Tom Wilkinson) is a perfectly grieving widower. "The sun hath returned," pious Dad proclaims, but it never went away. The Choice begins with sun-dappled water, throws in the dawn's early light, offers the dusk's hearth-glow and showcases midday's streaming rays. With rain comes tragedy, but it's just an opportunity for hubby to build a love-shrine in that moonlit spot; after a divine breath of wind through chimes of seashells and beach glass, lo and behold, The Miracle comes to pass and Sleeping Beauty wakes. Once again, Sparks-style, sadness is sanctified as the tear-distilled purity-essence of love. Worst of all, though? Here's a movie you can't even enjoy leaving behind because, stepping out of the theatre, you realize, "I hate the goddamned sunlight now."
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Matters of the heart
Coeur de pirate maps a transformative journey on Roses
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ith my previous records, I was always trying to blame somebody else; I was trying to deal with certain issues, and I needed to point fingers, and I wasn't really working on me, on myself." It's a personal sentiment for singersongwriter Béatrice Martin (better known by her stage name, Coeur de pirate), but one many can likely relate to: in the immediate aftermath of a breakup there's a quagmire of emotions to navigate, and lashing out at the person who caused us pain is often an easier alternative than looking inward and dealing with the larger personal issues at play. Martin captured this visceral upheaval on her 2011 album, Blonde, which came in the wake of a publicized relationship with Jay Malinowski of Bedouin Soundclash. Its tracks transitioned from the piano-driven melodies of Martin's self-titled 2008 debut in favour of '60s swing influences, but there's still an underlying sense of pain and loss amid the upbeat melodies. In contrast, Martin's latest album, Roses, is a transformative journey that tackles what happens after the dust settles on a broken relationship and a person transcends the experience with a newfound sense of clarity—not just in regards to love, but broader aspects of life as well. "I grew up in the eyes of the public, and it was a little complicated to deal with that when you're 19 and 20," says Martin, now 26. "And then growing up in general is really complicated. I think everybody's going through their twenties at one point and they're just confused, which was the case for me. And I thought, well,
people would be able to relate to that. [Roses] talked about my own insecurities, dealing with people that have certain addictions, and I had to date people like that and it was really intense, and what I was doing, I was making it worse." "Basic stuff," she adds with a wry laugh. Martin describes these insecurities and past experiences with a sense of assuredness and confidence that wouldn't usually be attributed to someone who has experienced such things, but she admits she dealt with a great deal of social anxiety—quickly pointing out how strange that may sound coming from a musician who spends much of her time in front of large crowds of people. "I learned that I'm here for a reason and this didn't happen by accident," Martin says. "I'm working very hard and that's why all this is happening, and that eventually maybe people do like me, and I shouldn't be surprised." Martin has also begun to grasp the reason she makes music, too. Until Roses (her first bilingual album), Martin sang exclusively in French. But fans began to approach her after shows to tell her how certain songs had helped them heal or get through a difficult period in their life. This openness had a profound impact on Martin, particularly when it occurred outside of Montréal or France, in places where people may not have understood all of the lyrics. "I am doing something to help people," she says. "I'm not a doctor or something, but I do help, in a certain way. It's always really enlightening to have those experiences."
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Roses is split almost half-and-half between songs sung in French and those sung in English, which Martin did to further facilitate the connections listeners can make with her music. That said, even if a person's French skills are less than proficient, those songs still convey intense emotion and capture the cathartic intent of the album. Filled with lush, sprawling arrangements that are at once beautiful and haunting, each track on Roses is accented by poignant lyrics that reflect a lighter outlook on love and life than Blonde did. Martin has clearly found her way to a much more positive place, and there's a sense of strength in her voice synonymous with a person who has been through proverbial hell and emerged better for it on the other side. "I was convinced after the other relationship that I was crazy, that
I'll never be able to find love again, that I'll just stay single—I'm travelling too much, I can't be in a relationship, there's no way," Martin says. She later found the opposite was true when she married tattoo artist Alex Peyrat in 2012, though gathering the strength to put her heart on the line again was a daunting prospect. "When you first start dating you're kind of scared; you're like, 'Oh my god, this person will hate me, will end up not liking me because I'm terrible. I'm a terrible person.'" But all that worrying proved to be unfounded, and her relationship with Peyrat resulted in the birth of Martin's now three-and-a-half-year-old daughter—or, as Martin calls it, the best thing that ever happened to her. "I got pregnant fairly quickly," she laughs. "So we've always worked in a sense that we were going to be three,
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hought I would come grab a few things: lights for merch, extension cables, things like that," Ryan Gullen says casually, speaking from the checkout line of an Ontario Home Depot, as if he was a regular guy running errands. In many ways Gullen is just a regular good ol' boy from Saskatoon—except his band, the Sheepdogs, has won three Juno Awards, was just nominated for a fourth and landed the cover of Rolling Stone. Future Nostalgia, released in October 2015, is the Sheepdogs' fifth studio album and second full-length to be nominated for a Juno. Up for Rock Album of the Year, the Sheepdogs are pitted against Bryan Adams, Death From Above 1979, Matthew Good and the perennial Nickelback, but Gullen has a relaxed attitude towards bringing home the statue again. "Winning is cool, and we have won before and it's fun," says Gullen, who plays bass in the group. "[But] I'd rather play great shows and have people enjoy the record than win a piece of hardware." Plus, the Canadian music landscape has changed radically in the four years since the Sheepdogs took home the hardware in 2012 for Breakthrough
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Group of the Year and Single of the Year for "Feeling Good." "If you look who the [Single of the Year nominees] are this year, it's the Weeknd, Justin Bieber and Drake," Gullen says. "It's pretty strange to think we won an award in that [category] ... times have very much changed—you have these powerhouse artists that are dominating the world, not just Canada." In October 2015, the Weeknd, Bieber and Drake occupied the top four slots on the Billboard Hot 100, a feat that would have been difficult to predict in 2012, when during the same month, Maroon 5, PSY and Fun led the charts—two rock bands and a Korean Internet sensation. "The world is predominantly pop now," Gullen concedes. "Trends come and go, but there is always a place for rock 'n' roll." If any band is going to carry the banner of rock forward during this current reshuffle in taste, the Sheepdogs could be considered an easy favourite. The group's music sits comfortably on the same shelf next to CCR and Lynyrd Skynyrd, extoling an effortless style that matches classic rock riffs with long hair, denim and
dark sunglasses. "Somebody asked me a question at the Junos press conference," Gullen recalls, "Something like, 'Would you guys ever consider making a pop song to be more popular?' No! That's not what we do; do you know anything about us? We're dudes from Saskatchewan that play rock 'n' roll music." SHAWN BERNARD
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ae Spoon's newest album, Armour, deals with the tumultuous period in Spoon's life following the release of My Prairie Home, the NFBhelmed documentary about their upbringing in a strict Pentecostal Albertan household. "I wrote the album as I was touring the documentary," Spoon explains. "And it was interesting to make something that was so personal and then have to measure how much protection I needed around me—like for Q&As after the film, figuring out how much I was going to enter into some topics. There was a lot of negotiating how much space I needed or what I could do. And at the same time I was meeting my spouse, and we were travelling the world and getting married, so it was an interesting time. I was figuring out just how much armour I needed." Armour finds Spoon returning to the electronic textures and soundscapes that their music has been incorporating, rather than the organic folk-tinged instrumentation found on Polaris Prize-nominated My Prairie Home, the soundtrack album for the documentary. The album also skews a little louder and a little more upbeat, with the audience in mind. "I've been touring for 15 years, and I know better than to write a whole album of slow songs and tour it all over because you end up pulling off your other albums, and I was getting tired
of doing that," Spoon explains. "So I made sure I was kind of loud on this one. But the lyrical content works so that I could play it at a folk festival or at 2 am at a bar if everyone was wasted. I'm trying to find that sound that I can use everywhere." Along with the evening's musical performance, Spoon will also be giving a talk at Latitude 53 titled "Bodies and Gendering." As Spoon's reputation as an author grows, so do the opportunities for them to speak at events and panels across the country, and their upcoming cross-country tour includes many such engagements. "I wrote a book with a friend of mine that came out a couple of years ago, so there's parts of that that I'll reference or read out of, and I've been trying to write some new things," Spoon says. "Mostly about the absurdity of ever using anyone's body to decide their gender, things like that. Personal experience, personal essay-type stuff." The book in question is Gender Failure, co-written by Spoon and Ivan E Coyote and published in 2014. It's based on their 2012 touring stage show, and deals with the humour, pain and absurdity of their experiences as transgender. "Ivan and I are both trans-identified, so the title was sort of tongue-incheek—taking the idea that you've
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been failing at your assigned sex your whole life," Spoon laughs. "People are like, 'You're not really doing that right.' And then flipping it around and asking questions about having a very strict gender binary based on assigned sex at birth, and whether that, in fact, is failing most people at some point in their lives, even if they aren't transgender." Issues of gender and how it relates to language and pronoun use is another topic close to Spoon. Having used the gender-neutral pronoun "they" for years, Spoon has observed the usage transition from outragedgrammar-foul to begrudging admittance to accepted terminology. "It's interesting because people use it anyway, and have been using for a long, long time," Spoon explains. "So the fact that there's the scapegoat of grammar, you get to contest someone's gender? The first time I heard it I was like, 'Whoa, you're allowed to do that?' My mind was kind of blown, and I'm not always the quickest to catch on either, so I enjoy my own visceral reactions. I'm quite understanding when people don't catch it. But as the years are going by it's being accepted by English-language editors and it's becoming an accepted thing, but in the beginning it was definitely interesting." JAMES STEWART
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ome bands may rush to record their sophomore album, while others opt to take a breather in order to focus on areas that require improvement. For Friends of Foes, that meant taking two years off album-making to tour. Now, the group is ready to release Faults— the follow-up to its 2013 debut, Chronophobic, and the 2014 single "Winter"—which confronts the apparent "faults and fl aws" made on its cardinal album. Those shortcomings, notes guitarist Matt Stinn, were in Chronophobic's pre-production and groundwork. The result was an album that was very singles-driven, with each track acting independently from one another. The group had just formed fi ve months prior to releasing it, he adds, so the nuisances of being a new band were still there. "We looked at our old record and looked at it as, what could we not [have] half-assed [and] what could we have done better?" Stinn says over the phone, from the band's home base of Saskatoon. "What do we do to make it better now, and how can we incorporate those elements into the new record?"
On Faults, which is due out February 12, there is an apparent maturity happening in the arrangements, lyrical content and Celeste Nicholson's vocals, Stinn notes. That growth stems from Friends of Foes having spent two years playing live shows—about 50 to 60 a year—to continually develop its sound and musicianship. "When you're touring that much, you really learn how to work with [your bandmates], and you grow at your own instrument," Stinn explains. "The biggest thing with this album is that it's well thought out. It's much better on the arrangements. Nobody is playing over each other: we're leaving space for everyone much better [than on the fi rst album]. I think the lyrical content and catchiness of all the lyrics is much stronger than the fi rst release, because we've all grown as songwriters." Songwriting is now a collaborative process for Stinn and his bandmates—Nicholson, Anthony Nickel (bass) and Keegan Stretch (drums). For the band's previous recordings, Stinn would present a full song to the group to learn; now, new tracks are typically created with a guitar riff
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couple of our friends who are from the great north were like, 'Bring cat litter in your van just to get unstuck, if you do,'" says Nate Eiesland with a slight laugh. He and his bandmates have been receiving plenty of advice on how to traverse wintry highways during On An On's first all-Canadian tour, but Eiesland doesn't appear phased by the long, unpredictable drives that await him and fellow bandmates Ryne Estwing and Alissa Ricci. "I can't imagine it's that much different than Minnesota," he adds of the band's home state. "It gets pretty brutal here too, so I feel pretty prepared." This tour will take the alt-pop trio through numerous new locales in support of its latest album, And The Wave Has Two Sides. The album has landed On An On on several best-of lists as of late—including a few unexpected nods, like a spot on Brooklyn Magazine's "20 Great Breakup Songs That Aren't By Adele" for the infectious tune "It's Not Over." "That song, for me, is more about staying together, long relationships that feel sometimes like they get to be worn out," Eiesland explains, when asked if he wrote the track with a breakup in mind. "Realizing that, going over the entire life of the relationship, you can see not just what you came from but what you've been through and that you can re-prove to yourself the worth of what you're investing in and what you maybe feel exhausted by at the moment. But you know it's worth it because it's always been worth it, and you wouldn't be still slugging it out in the hard times if it weren't worth it. "I love that other people get other meanings out of the song," he continues. "The songs I love the most, at least, can be interpreted in many different ways and mean a lot of things to a lot of different people." While the band has penned its share of "breakup songs"—and ones that span the relationship gamut, really—the intention of And The Wave Has Two Sides was to focus on the authenticity of each track, capturing the vulnerability and character of each performance rather than
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creating an overly polished album swept clean of such nuances. Ostensible mistakes or slips in tempo are embraced by the band, Eiesland explains, noting there's an inherent humanity in those moments that is much more impactful than delivering a perfect take. "I grew up going to punk shows in my school gym, and that's the stuff that kind of set me on the road of: 'This is what I want to be doing.' And that thread has continued," he explains. "I think over-editing and things like that can be a disservice, so on this latest album we came in [and] wanted to make something that had some of that camaraderie." One song in particular from this album, "Drifting," has been reimagined even further—four times, actually—by producers including RAC and Brothertiger on a remix EP. The original version slowly builds to a crescendo of piano and guitar, acting as the backdrop for lyrics expressing a sense of restless yearning for a person who only seems to appear within the hazy realm of dreams. The remixes keep the original sonic atmosphere of the song intact, but they create a new landscape of instrumentation populated by ethereal, hypnotic beats and layered melodies. "It had such an identity on its own that it was more of a stark contrast to take it somewhere else. The song had a lot of different places where it could have gone, and where we decided to take it was just one of them," Eiesland says. "The remixing gives people an opportunity to hear the song in a different way—and not just that we threw an 808 electronic drum under the vocal and called it good. There were some real changes that were made ... but the song's heart and soul is there."
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riod where studios were often reluctant to pick up artists. Even now, at a time when new studios and record companies are popping up regularly, Fowler has chosen to go the independent route. "I've always liked having full control over the sound," he says.
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Winterfest featuring: Braden Gates, Jason Fowler, Melanie Switzer, Troy Kokol, Jocelyne Barbieau; 6-11pm; $20; $40 (weekend)
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A
with guests the Den & more; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $12; 18+ only
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
CAFE BLACKBIRD Tom Olsen
and the Wreckage; 8pm; $10
WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK Live Music
CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK
Fridays: featuring Paul Woida; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat
YARDBIRD SUITE Chris Andrew
CASINO EDMONTON
Quartet; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $22 (member), $26 (guest)
CASINO YELLOWHEAD Robin
Classical ARDEN THEATRE Montreal
Electrik Squirrels; 8pm Open mic; 7pm; $2 Pepperland (Beatles tribute); 9pm Kelly (Elvis tribute); 9pm CASK AND BARREL Mike
Guitar Trio; 7:30pm; $40
McDonald (of Jr Gone Wild); 4-6pm; No cover
WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO & Winspear Overture Tour; 12-1pm
CENTURY CASINO George Canyon; 7pm; $64.95; No minors
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CHATEAU LACOMBE BALLROOM 5 Artists 1 Love:
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Kevin Martin; Wooftop: DJ Remo & Guests; Underdog: Rap, House, Hip-Hop
with DJ Babr; every Fri THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old
school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri THE COMMON Quality Control
Fridays with DJ Echo & Freshlan DENIZEN HALL Electric Circus with Thomas Culture, Brad & Dylan and VJ Defboi; 8pm DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every
Fri; 9pm MERCER TAVERN Movement
Fridays; 8pm • Hip Hop Friday; 8pm
Fischer by Wonderheads; 7:30pm; $35 (adults), $30 (students/seniors)
THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday
JUBILEE AUDITORIUM The
SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE
Next Step Wild Rhythm Tour; 6:30pm; $39.50-$49.50
BRIXX BAR Modern Space
Nights: Video Music DJ; 9pm-2am
explores the evolution of Black Music as it left Africa and landed on the shores of North America; 8pm; $48-$78.50 CKUA BUILDING The Violette
Underground (jazz/other); 8pm; $45 (adv) DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Andrew Scott (alt/country); 9pm DV8 Electric Audrey II with
guests (metal/hard rock/punk); 9pm; No minors FESTIVAL PLACE Laura Smith
(singer songwriter); 7:30pm; $20 FILTHY MCNASTY'S Sh!t$how
Saturdays: this week featuring The Dabs with guests Seven Shots From Sober; Free Afternoon Concerts; 4pm FIONN MACCOOL'S– DOWNTOWN Needles to Vinyl;
8pm; No minors FORT EDMONTON PARK– CAPITOL THEATRE Song of the
Artzy Flowz: featuring DJs and artists teaming up; 9pm
Martingale; 8pm
Y AFTERHOURS Freedom
Hop with AvK and dRad
Fridays
EMPRESS ALE HOUSE A Sock
Olivia Wik (alt/pop); 9pm Mike "The Party Hog" (blues/ rock); 9pm SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder Sparks K-DJ Show; 9pm-1am STARLITE ROOM Yukon Blonde with guests On An On; 8pm (doors); $20 (adv); 18+ only TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE Mikey
Wong and his lineup of guest DJs UPTOWN FOLK CLUB
Winterfest featuring: Chuck Porter, Spontaneity, Paul Mills, Beth Portman & the Good Find, Laura Vinson and many more; 1-11pm; $30; $40 (weekend) YARDBIRD SUITE Chris Andrew
Quartet; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $22 (member), $26 (guest)
Classical HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Salut D'Amour; 7:30pm; $20 (adult), $10 (student/senior), $5 (kids), $30 (couples valentine special) JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Gospel
Concert; 7pm; $25 OASIS CENTRE River City Big
Band presents Jazz at the Oasis with Carol Welsman; 8pm; $35 WINSPEAR CENTRE Disney in Concert: Tale As Old As Time: featuring the music of Frozen, Tangled, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Princess and the Frog, Aladdin and The Lion King; 2:30pm & 7pm; $29-$69
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions with Miss Mannered featuring Alt.Rock/Electro/Trash;
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MAR/5
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THE COMMON Get Down
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Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm
Wong every Sat
SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Sunday BBQ Jam Every Sunday hosted by the Marshall Lawrence Band (variety); Every Sun, 5pm; All ages
Psyturdays: various DJs; 9pm
TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,
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SUN FEB 14 The 7th Annual Nordlys Film & Arts Festival BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Valentine's Jazz Brunch; 9am-2:30pm BLUES ON WHYTE Kenny Blues CAFE BLACKBIRD Valentine’s
Day with Billie Zizi; 7pm; $15 CENTURY CASINO George
Canyon; 7pm; $64.95; No minors DANCE CODE STUDIO Flamenco
Guitar Classes; Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm Night Live on the South Side: live bands; Free; All ages; 7-10:30pm FESTIVAL PLACE The Stray
Birds (folk); 7:30pm; $20 FILTHY MCNASTY'S Sacrilege
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
Mike "The Party Hog" (blues/ rock); 9pm UPTOWN FOLK CLUB
Winterfest featuring: "Songwriter" workshop; 12pm; $5 (Uptown Folk Club member), $10 (nonmembers)
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Love: Valentine's Edition featuring Sonny Grimezz with Allout DJs and Justin Foosh; 9pm; $7 (door) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays with DJ
Zyppy ~ A fantastic voyage through 60’s and 70’s funk, soul & R&B; Every Sun
Sundays: All metal all day
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FEB/12
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Boss Wayne; 9pm
ELECTRIC SIX
open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm
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PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild Rose Old Tyme
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BLUES ON WHYTE Boom Boom
Ammar's Sunday Sessions Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm
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Circle; 7:30-11:30pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S Calling
bled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm
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ON THE ROCKS Killer Karaoke
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DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage Tue: featuring this week: Ken Stead; 9pm
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IAN FLETCHER THORNLEY
Frazey Ford (alt/folk) with guests; 7pm; $25 (adv), $30 (door)
ON THE ROCKS Nervous Flirts
DENIZEN HALL I Love 80’s with DJs Nazz Nomad, Blue Jay; 9pm
Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com
W/ BOIDS & MORE
MAR/19
It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with Wright & Wong, Dane
SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM
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Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat
THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday
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MON FEB 15 with DJ Blue Jay - mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock; Wooftop: Metal Mondays with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox
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FEB/13
FORT EDMONTON PARK– CAPITOL THEATRE Song of the
Martingale; 2pm
featuring host Naomi Carmack and guest; 9pm; No cover
FILTHY MCNASTY'S Mother
L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge
KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE Karaoke
MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE
MERCURY ROOM Rae Spoon with Sherry-Lee Heschel (alt/ folk); 7pm; $15 (adv); No minors
Coeur De Pirate (alt/pop); 8pm; $25 (adv) NAKED CYBER CAFE Izabelle,
RED PIANO BAR Swingin'
Angelo Gabe; 6pm (doors), 7pm (show); $6 (tickets), $9 (door); All ages
Monday's; 8-11pm
NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny & The
SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Pete
Hurricanes
Turland's Rockabilly Mondays Open Stage (rock/pop/indie); Every Mon, 8pm; All ages
O’BYRNE’S Guinness Celtic
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A
Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon
Live music with the Icehouse Band and weekly guests; Every Tue, 9pm
SIDELINERS PUB Singer/
SHAKERS ROADHOUSE
Songwriter Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:3011:30pm; Free SNEAKY PETE'S Cat's Meow
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed
jam every Tue; 9:30pm ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE
Cluckin’ Wednesdays GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm
Kraziness with host Ryan Kasteel; 8pm-2am
NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny & The
Hurricanes PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam
presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Guests and newcomers always welcome; every Wed, 7pm; $2 (donation, per person), free coffee available THE PROVINCIAL PUB Karaoke
Wednesday
Tuesday Night Jam with host Harry Gregg and Geoffrey O'Brien (blues); Every Tue, 7:30pm; All ages
RED PIANO BAR Wed Night
YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday
Open Stage since 1998; 8-11pm (door); no cover/ donations
Session: Ryan Davidson Trio; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5
Live: hosted by dueling piano players ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower
Monday Jam with hosts Bob Cook & Sinder Sparks; Every Mon, 8pm until midnight
Classical
UNION HALL The Sheepdogs with guests; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); 18+ only
WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO & Winspear Overture Tour; 12-1pm
SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Wailin' Wednesday Jam with Hosts Wang Dang Doodle (variety); Every Wed, 7:30-11:30pm; All ages
DJs
DJs
9pm
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest with DJ Blue Jay - mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock
Main Floor: Eddie Lunchpail
TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip
spins alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic & euro; Every Tue
hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am
Tuesday
TUE FEB 16
WED FEB 17
BLUES ON WHYTE Boom Boom
Kings; 9pm
ON THE ROCKS Turn't Up
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BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scram-
Every Wed
bled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm
BLUES ON WHYTE Sonny
CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite;
Rhodes; 9pm BOHEMIA Alexandria Maillot
with Kirsten Ludwig; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $10; 18+ only
7pm; $45
TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke;
Classical MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH
Music Wednesdays at Noon: with Deux Arcs Duo (violin and viola); 12:10-12:50pm; Free
DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait
Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Kevin Martin;
Every Wed DV8 TAVERN DV8 Karaoke
Crew Wednesday (electronic/ dance); Every Wed, 6pm; No minors
VENUEGUIDE 9910 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ARCADIA BAR 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ARDEN THEATRE 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1542, stalbert.ca/ experience/arden-theatre THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.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 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHATEAU LACOMBE BALLROOM 10111 Bellamy Hill Rd NW CKUA BUILDING 9804 Jasper Ave 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 DRAFT COUNTRY NIGHT CLUB 12912-50 St NW, 780.371.7272, draftbargrill.com DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EL CORTEZ 10322-83 Ave NW, elcortezcantina.com FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FORT EDMONTON PARK– CAPITOL THEATRE 7000-143 St
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HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW, 780.433.5530, holytrinity.ab.ca HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage.com HUMMINGBIRD BISTRO CAFE 8336-160 Ave, 780.401.3313, hummingbirdbistro.ca IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St NW, 780.451.8825, kellyspubedmonton.com L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LIZARD LOUNGE 11827 St. Albert Tr, 780.451.9180, facebook.com/ The-Lizard-Lounge 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 MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725 MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE 8900-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St,
780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave OASIS CENTRE 10930-177 St NW O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PALACE CASINO 8882-170 St NW, 780.444.2112, palacecasino. com PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 RITCHIE COMMUNITY HALL 7727-98 St NW ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St, 780.431.0091, 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 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave ST. ALBERT COMMUNITY HALL 17 Perron St, St Albert ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch. com STUDIO 96 10909-96 St NW SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW, 780.433.1604, trinity-lutheran. ab.ca TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE 10324-82 Whyte Ave UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428
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COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • 10425-82 Ave • Underdog Comedy Show • Every Thu
Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm
COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Paul Sveen; Feb 11-13 • Phil Johnson; Feb 18-20
Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 7:30pm; Fri-Sat 9:45pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; every Mon at 7:30pm • Triple Threat Tuesday; every Tue at 7:30pm • Orny Adams; Feb 11-14 • Andrew Santino; Feb 18-21 • Sarah Tiana; Feb 24-28
The Dating Game VALENTINE EDITION • On The Rocks, 11740 Jasper Ave • Featuring host Sterling Scott with the Nervous Flirts. Fun, prizes, and maybe love will be available • Feb 14, 7:30pm
DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm DJ to follow
Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm Grim and Fischer by WONDERHEADS • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • Death meets his match in this award-winning full-face mask comedy. Called "intriguing, flawless and utterly brilliant" and "intense comical elegance," Grim and Fischer will make you laugh, cry and stand in awe. Winner of multiple awards at Fringe Festivals across Canada, this physical-theatre production is equal parts hilarious and touching • Feb 12, 7:30pm • $35 (adult), $30 (students/seniors)
Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm 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
Babes In Arms • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • A casual parent group • Every Fri, 10am-12pm
Brain Tumour Peer Support Group •
Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free
Drop-In D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • An epic adventure featuring a variety of pre-made characters, characters that guests can make on their own, or one that has already been started. 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, 7pm • $5
EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com
Edmonton Photographic Historial Society • Highlands Library • 780.436.3878 • All interested in sharing the joys of film photography, such as experiences or favourite equipment • 3rd Wed each month, 7:30pm
FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 17028-124 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
Fort Saskatchewan 45+ Singles Coffee Group • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm
Habitat for Humanity Volunteer Information Night • Habitat for Humanity
web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music– check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry
TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.479-8667 (Bob) • bobmurra@telus.net • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm Toastmasters
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
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
Illness support and solutions • Robertson Wesley United Church Library, 10209123 St • 780.235.5911 • Crohn's Colitis, I.B.D. Support and Solutions • Every 2nd and 4th Tue, 7-9pm
Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.orgs/en • Program for HIVAID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register
• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St.
Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact vpm@norators.com, 780.807.4696, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo.com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward.toastmastersclubs. org; reader1@shaw.ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331
Wiccan Assembly • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com
Monday Mingle • Hexagon Board Game Cafe, 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)
WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strath-
Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,
LECTURES/Presentations
3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm
Calm Abiding Meditation Retreat
cona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence
Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free
Poor Vote Turnout • Rossdale Hall, 10135-96 Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm
• Providence Renewal Centre, 3005-119 St • 780.479.0014 • info@gasamling.ca • gadensamtenling.org/003-events/CalmAbidingRetreat. htm • For both beginners and experienced meditation practitioners alike. No prior experience in meditation is necessary to participate • Feb 13, 10am-4pm • $65
Parkforum • Startup Edmonton, 10359-104
sAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm
St NW • rsvp@ourparkonline.com • ourparkonline.ticketleap.com/parkforumedmonton2016 • An educational weekend event focused on teaching attendees how to grow and sustain their businesses in the creative industry • Feb 20-21, 8:30am-2:30pm • $25 (one-class pass), $100 (weekend pass)
The Science Of Sexual Response •
Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group • Schizophrenia
Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Providing an overview of sexuality in terms of basic anatomy, physiology and sexual response as well as techniques and behaviours to enhance sexual expression • Feb 18, 7-8:30pm • Free (register in person, online at sclibrary.ab.ca, or by calling 780.410.8600)
Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • schizophrenia. ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of AlbertaEdmonton branch provides a facilitated family support group for caregivers of a loved one living with schizophrenia. Free drop-in the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm
Sensational Ladies Night • Warp 1 Comics & Games, 9917-82 Ave • 780.433.7119 • facebook.com/sensational.ladies.night • A night dedicated to women indulging in various geekeries with other women in a friendly and safe environment. Featuring a book club, board game nights, art jam and much more. No prior geekery knowledge required • 3rd Wed of every month, 6-8pm • 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 Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50
Seeing is above All • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm
The TRC & You: Reflections from Settler Allies • Main Floor Atrium, Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave • 780.248.1217 • macrae@ualberta.ca • metislifeskills.com/ lunchtime-series • Bring your lunch and join us for a panel discussion surrounding the impact of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada's recommendations for universities and communities • Feb 19, 12-3pm • Free
(Un)masking Spirit: Mask Creation and Exploration with Elsa Robinson • Robertson-Wesley United Church,
• Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)
10209-123 St • rwuc.org/sac.html • Every Tue, 7-9pm; Jan 12-Mar 22
Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave •
EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group
587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check
QUEER • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome
Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash
G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net Illusions Social Club • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca
LIVING POSITIVE • #33, 9912-106 St • 780.424.2214 • livingpositivethroughpositiveliving.com • In office peer counseling, public speakers available for presentations, advocacy and resource materials available • Support group for gay men living with HIV: 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm
Pride Centre of Edmonton • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • 9Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca
St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)
Team Edmonton • Various sports and recreation activities • All-Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8648-81 St NW; pridecentreofedmonton.org; Every 3rd Sat of the month, 9:3010:30pm • Badminton: Oliver School, 10227-118 St; badminton@teamedmonton.ca; Every Wed (until Feb 24); $5 (drop-in) • Board Game Group: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; Monthly on a Sun, 3-7pm; RSVP to boardgames@ teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Oliver Community Hall, 10326-118 St; bootcamp@teamedmonton. ca; Every Thu, 7pm; $30 (full season), $15 (low income or students) • Equal, Fit, Fierce, and Fabulous: Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; pridecentreofedmonton.org/calendar; Drop in games and activities for youth; Every other Tue, 4:30-6pm
WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.org, womonspace@gmail.com • A Nonprofit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured
Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave
• 780.488.6557 • Sun: Last Sun each month, Woodys Jam Session with the talented regular customers; Jugs of Canadian or Kokanee only $13 • Mon: Massive Mondays features talented comedians • Tue: Domestic bottle beer special only $3.75 all night long • Wed: Jugs of Canadian and Kokanee for $13; Karaoke with Shirley from 7pm-12:30am • Thu: Highballs on special only $3.75 all night long; Karaoke with Bubbles 7pm-12:30am • Fri: Comming soon: DJ Arrow Chaser's new TGIF Party • Sat: Pool Tournement, 4pm; Jager shots on special only $4; Coming soon, DJ Jazzy
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4th Annual Family Day Pancake Breakfast • Strathcona County Museum & Archives, 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • strathconasountymuseum. ca • Featuring pancakes, sausages, coffee and juice. Museum admission included with breakfast • Feb 15, 8:30-11am $5 (adult; 15 & up), $2 (youth; 5-14), 4 & under free. Museum admission included with breakfast
Coldest Night of the Year • Hope Mission, 9908-106 Ave • coldestnightoftheyear.org • A family-friendly walking fundraiser that raises money for the hungry, homeless and hurting. All in support of the Hope Mission • Feb 20
DeepSoul.ca • 587.520.3833; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages
Evening of Love • Muttart Conservatory, 9626-96A St • 311 • edmonton.ca • Enjoy an evening out starting with dinner at Culina Muttart, then a stroll through the pyramids. Make a set of beeswax candles to take home, create a corsage with the help of the Orchid Species Preservation Society, and so much more • Feb 11, 6-8:30pm • $6.50-$37
Family Day • Various locations throughout Edmonton and surrounding areas • Enjoy ice skating and hayrides at City Hall, learn about polar bears at the Edmonton Zoo, puppet shows and live music at Edmonton Public Libraries, and so much more • Feb 15, times will vary
Family Day at the Legislature • Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 10800-97 Ave • assembly.ab.ca • Family Day fun moves indoors for 2016. Featuring family fun events all the way from the Edmonton Federal Building through the pedway and up to the 5th floor of the Legislature Building • Feb 15, 11am-4pm • Free Game Date Night • Avalon Knights • Featuring all of the classic traits of speed dating but incorporating board games into the mix. Tables of two player games will be set up, pairing men and women together for a 30-minute competition • Feb 13, 7-10pm; $10 (free for women)
Ice Castles • Hawrelak Park, 9930 Groat Road • icecastles.com • A massive castle made of ice, craft by hand using only icicles and water • Jan 5-Mar 1 • $9.95-$15.95
Lunar New Year Celebration • Londonderry Mall, 137 Ave & 66 St • Welcoming the year of the monkey! Featuring a Lion Dance performance, New Years greetings with firecrackers, dance performance, martial arts demo and much more • Feb 13, 11am-6pm
Nordlys Film and Arts Festival • Bailey Theatre 5041-50 St, Camrose • nordlysfestival.com • Breaking up the dark days of winter with a marathon line-up of films, special guests and live music with films varying in origin and language • Feb 12-14
Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 1022597 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm Silver Skate Festival • William Hawrelak Park, 9330 Groat Road • silverskatefestival.org • Combines sport (especially skating), arts and culture, and recreation • Feb 12-21 • Free
Valentine's Dance at Sugar Swing • Sugar Swing Dance Club, 8116-105 St • dance@ sugarswing.com • sugarswing.com/valentines • An evening of social dancing and sweet treats. For those single and those with partners • Feb 13, 8pm (beginner lessons start) • $16 ($2 off for members, $1 off for students)
Valentine's Day Disco Skate • City Hall Plaze rink, Sir Winston Churchill Square • exploreedmonton.ca • Dance, skate, roast bannock and sip hot chocolate. Free skate and helmet use available. First come, first served • Feb 14, 5-9pm
Wine & Wildlife - Polar Bears • Edmonton Valley Zoo, 13315 Buena Vista Road • 311 • edmonton.ca • Join Dr. Andrew Derocher from the U of A as he talks about polar bears, their ecology and the environment that they inhabit. Guests will enjoy a wine tasting and some delicious appetizers as they learn about these amazing animals • Feb 13, 7-9pm • $50 (register via 311 or edmotnon.ca/ereg - course code 555648) • 18+ only
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ALBERTA-WIDE CLASSIFIEDS •• auctions •• COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION. 10th Annual Red Deer Collector Car Auction & Speed Show. March 11 - 13, 2016, Westerner Park. Special Guests: Dan & Laura Dotson - Storage Wars; “Horny” Mike - Counting Cars; Chris Jacobs - Overhaulin’. Consign today. 1-888-296-0528 ext. 103; egauctions.com. UNRESERVED COIN & Currency Auction. $1000 bills, Canadian, US, foreign. No buyer’s fee! 6:15 p.m., Friday, February 12, Legion Hall, Wainwright, Alberta. Scribner Auction 780-8425666; www.scribnernet.com! HUGE UNRESERVED Antique Collector Auction for the Late Harvey Antoniuk Collection: All categories! 9 a.m., Saturday, February 13, Legion Hall, Wainwright, Alberta. 780-842-5666; www.scribnernet.com for listing! UNRESERVED AUCTION. Rockwood Fired Pizza Restaurant, 13580 - 137 Ave., Edmonton, Alberta. $150,000 - $250,000 worth of decor & equipment to be auctioned on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14/16, 11 a.m. 780-718-2274. Email: howardsauctions@shaw.ca. COMMERCIAL FOOD EQUIPMENT. Sat., Feb. 20, 12 Noon, MAS Sales Centre, Blackfalds, Alberta. Selling coolers, freezers, ranges, ovens, display cases, SS sinks, appliances, dishwashers, mixers, slicers, prep table & small wares; www. montgomeryauctions.com. 1-800-371-6963. TEXTILE SCREEN Printing Equipment for Indy Graphics. Sat., Feb. 20, 10 a.m., MAS Sales Centre, Blackfalds, Alberta. Complete business dispersal of screen printing equipment;
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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): "Love is a fire," declared Aries actress Joan Crawford. "But whether it's going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell." I disagree with her conclusion. There are practical steps you can take to ensure that love's fire warms but doesn't burn. Start with these strategies: suffuse your libido with compassion. Imbue your romantic fervour with empathy. Instill your animal passions and instinctual longings with affectionate tenderness. If you catch your sexual urges driving you toward narcissists who are no damn good for you, firmly redirect those sexual urges toward emotionally intelligent, self-responsible beauties. TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): Fifteenth-century writer Thomas à Kempis thought that real love can arouse enormous fortitude in the person who loves. "Love feels no burden," he wrote. "It attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible." As you might imagine, the "real love" he was referring to is not the kind that's motivated by egotism, power drives, blind lust or insecurity. I think you know what I mean, Taurus, because in the past few months you have had unprecedented access to the primal glory that Thomas referred to. And in the coming months you will have even more. What do you plan to do with all that mojo? GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): Gemini novelist Elizabeth Bowen (1899 – 1973) was fascinated in "life with the lid on and what happens when the lid comes off." She knew both states from her own experience. "When you love someone," she mused, about the times the lid had come off, "all your saved-up wishes start coming out." In accordance with the astrological omens, I propose that you engage in the following three-part exercise. First, identify a part of your life that has the lid tightly clamped over it. Second, visualize the suppressed feelings and saved-up wishes that might pour forth if you took the lid off. Third, do what it takes to love someone so well that you'll knock the lid off. CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): "No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved," wrote author Mignon McLaughlin. I think that may be true. The gap between what we yearn for and what we actually get is never fully closed. Nevertheless, I suggest that you strive to refute McLaughlin's curse in the coming days. Why? Because you now have an enhanced capacity to love the people you care about in ways they want to be loved. So be experimental with your tenderness. Take the risk of going beyond what you've been willing
or able to give before. Trust your fertile imagination to guide your ingenious empathy. LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): Here's the counsel of French writer Anatole France: "You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." What he says is always true, but it's especially apropos for you Leos in the coming weeks. You now have a special talent for learning more about love by loving deeply, excitedly and imaginatively. To add further nuance and inspiration, meditate on this advice from author Aldous Huxley: "There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving —by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done." VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): "I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you,'" said author Maya Angelou. She concludes: "There is an African saying: be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt." With this in mind, I invite you to take inventory of the allies and relatives whose relationships are most important to you. How well do they love themselves? Is there anything you could do to help them upgrade their love for themselves? If their self-love is lacking, what might you do to protect yourself from that problem? LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): "Only love interests me," declared painter Marc Chagall, "and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love." That seems like an impossibly high standard. Our daily adventures bring us into proximity with loveless messes all the time. It's hard to focus on love to the exclusion of all other concerns. But it's a worthy goal to strive toward Chagall's ideal for short bursts of time. And the coming weeks happen to be a favourable phase for you to do just that. Your success may be partial, but dramatic nonetheless. SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): "A coward is incapable of exhibiting love," said Mahatma Gandhi. "It is the prerogative of the brave." That's my challenge to you, Scorpio. In accordance with the astrological currents, I urge you to stoke your uninhibited audacity so you can press onward toward the frontiers of intimacy. It's not enough to be wilder, and it's not enough to be freer. To fulfill love's potential in the next chapter of your story, you've got to be wilder, freer and bolder. SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): "It is not lack of love but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages," said Friedrich Nietzsche. He believed that if you want to join your fortunes with another's, you should ask your-
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self whether you will enjoy your conversations with this person for the next 30 years—because that's what you'll be doing much of the time you're together. How do you measure up to this gold standard, Sagittarius? What role does friendship play in your romantic adventures? If there's anything lacking, now is an excellent time to seek improvements. Start with yourself, of course. How could you infuse more camaraderie into the way you express love? What might you do to upgrade your skills as a conversationalist? CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): "Love isn't something you find," says singer Loretta Lynn. "Love is something that finds you." Singer Kylie Minogue concurs: "You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend your life. Love is like a lottery." I think these perspectives are at best misleading and at worst debilitating. They imply we have no power to shape our relationship with love. My view is different. I say there's a lot we can do to attract intimate allies who teach us, stimulate us and fulfill us. Like what? 1) We clarify what qualities we want in a partner and we make sure that those qualities are also healthy for us. 2) We get free of unconscious conditioning that's at odds with our conscious values. 3) We work to transform ourselves into lovable collaborators who communicate well. Anything else? What can you do to make sure love isn't a lottery? AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): "We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime," writes Chuck Klosterman. "It's easy. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. You'll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years." He concludes, "A lover like this sets the template for what you will always love about other people." I suspect that you have either recently met or will soon meet such a person, Aquarius. Or else you are on the verge of going deeper than ever before with an ally you have known for a while. That's why I think what happens in the next six months will put an enduring stamp on your relationship with intimacy. PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): Sixteenth-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso described one of love's best blessings. He said your lover can reunite you with "a piece of your soul that you never knew was missing." You Pisceans are in a phase when this act of grace is more possible than usual. The revelatory boon may emerge because of the chemistry stirred up by a sparkly new affiliation. Or it may arise thanks to a familiar relationship that is entering unfamiliar territory.V
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The Ghomeshi and Cosby trials show deep ignorance of victims' pain First of all, happy Psychology Month! In the spirit of promoting mental health, here's a link to teach you more about how psychology may work for you: cpa.ca/psychologymonth/psychmonthpublic. Now let's talk about rape, a subject that has dominated the news in the past few weeks. Jian Ghomeshi, who has been charged with four counts of sexual assault and one count of choking to overcome resistance, watched as his three accusers testified in court. Sadly, as we've seen many times, the complainants suffered through a brutal cross-examination designed to dismantle their credibility. In addition to having to recount the horrors of the ordeal, they faced a barrage of assaultive and re-traumatizing questions:
"Why were you alone with him? Why didn't you leave? Why did you talk to him afterwards? Why didn't you report it right away?" Then they were called liars and accused of fabricating claims for fame or to mitigate their guilt. The same arguments have been used against the women in the Bill Cosby case. In the past year, nearly 60 women have come forward with stories of being drugged and sexually assaulted by Cosby; some of these accounts date back to the '60s. To varying degrees, each woman has faced scrutiny and criticism: they've been asked to explain how they managed to get themselves assaulted and why they didn't say anything sooner. On some level those questions
feel reasonable. There's logic in the assumption that once violated, someone would naturally run away and never speak to the violator again. The problem is that this logic is faulty. On a neurological level, our sympathetic nervous system takes over in the face of a threat and we are flooded with stress hormones. Blood rushes out of our brains, and the frontal lobe—which is necessary for problem solving and emotional reasoning—effectively shuts down. In essence, we completely lose the ability to think clearly. This is also related to lack of memory clarity, as the parts of the brain that encode information into longterm memory are interrupted by the neurological stress response. When there are holes in our mem-
ory, we confabulate; we try to put together the missing pieces, and this leads to a patchy narrative. Beyond brain processes, there are also the sociological and existential aspects of trauma. When a trauma occurs, your whole sense of safety in the world is impacted: in comes a crippling sense of vulnerability. Instinctively, we resist this shift by attempting to construct a narrative that fits with our previous beliefs of safety. We try to normalize what happened and question our role in it. We delay reporting, in part because that would make it real, but also because of what we face in the legal system. Here's the thing: it doesn't matter what the victim did preceding the assault, and it doesn't matter what they did afterwards. What
matters is that someone exerted power and took away their right to consent before performing an unwanted—and in Ghomeshi's case, violent—sex act. I completely appreciate the necessity of due process and a fair trial, but we are giving too much weight to the wrong questions. It isn't a short skirt, alcohol or being alone with someone that causes rape. It's rapists. V Tami-lee Duncan is a Registered Psychologist in Edmonton, specializing in sexual health. Please note that the information and advice given above is not a substitute for therapeutic treatment with a licensed professional. For information or to submit a question, please contact tami-lee@vueweekly.com. Follow on Twitter @SexOlogyYEG. Dan savage savagelove@vueweekly.com
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Gay male in my late 20s. I recently ended things with a guy. Our relationship started as a strictly sexual one. We're both involved in the kink scene in our city and have interests that align in a particularly great way. Quickly it became clear there was a real connection. The next two months were great! I had a toothbrush at his place within three weeks. But early on, I noticed that he was a much more extroverted person than I was. He would laugh loudly at movies, work the room at parties, say things about kink in the middle of crowded restaurants. I prefer to blend in. Initially I thought of this as "the price of admission," one I was willing to pay, but it soon became tiresome. I ended things, telling him that there were conflicts with our personalities that made a relationship difficult, not specifying what. He fell for me—he's stated it over and over—but I don't want him to think he has to change who he is to be with me. I'm confused, Dan. I loved being in a relationship again (I've been single for a VERY long time), the sex is great, and finding someone who shares your kinks and you're attracted to emotionally is rare. We have a ton in common when he's being down-toearth. He's asking me to reconsider. Was I right to end this? Tired Of Being Single He shouldn't have to change who he is to be with you, TOBS, but what if he wants to? It's unlikely he'll morph into an always-quietly-tittering, alwaysdiscreetly-kinking introvert, just as you're unlikely to morph into a braying, oversharing extrovert. But if making an effort to dial it back is the price he has to pay to be with you—along with reserving convos
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about his kinks (and, by inference, your kinks) for fetish clubs and play parties—why not let him decide if he's willing to pay? Gays represent a tiny percentage of the general population, TOBS, and kinky gays represent a not-sotiny-but-still-smallish percentage of the gay population. I don't think you have to marry this man, regardless of his flaws, just because you're gay and your kinks align. But you should think twice about discarding a guy who's gay and kinky and whose company you enjoy most of the time just because he gets on your nerves now and then. At the very least, you owe it to yourself, just as you owe it to him, to be specific about the reasons you pulled the plug— because he might want to make an effort to win you back. There's a lot that's good here—your kinks align (rare!) and you enjoy spending some-but-notall of your time together (common!)—and there are always workarounds for the bad. An example from my own life: my husband is way more extroverted than I am. So sometimes he goes to movies, restaurants, clubs and concerts without me. I stay home and read or sleep or clean. And then, when he gets home, we have something to talk about—how the movie was, whether the restaurant was any good, who was out at the clubs, if there were any cute boys in the band. He doesn't make me go out; I don't make him stay home. It's a
work-around that works for us. With some effort, TOBS, you could find the work-arounds that work for you two: he makes an effort, when you nudge him, to dial it back; he goes to comedies with his friends, dramas with you; if he's working a room, he won't take offence if you slip into another room. Give it—give him—a chance.
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I'm a gay male college student in a healthy D/s relationship with a bisexual guy. My boyfriend posts pictures of our kink sessions to his Tumblr. (No faces.) A trans woman active in campus queer politics con-
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You tell this woman you take orders from your boyfriend, SUB, not from random campus nutcases. You advise zir to stay away from Tumblr porn ze finds traumatizing. And if ze pushes back, you explain to zir that if anyone's being controlling and abusive here, it's zir. And if ze starts shaking and crying, SUB, direct zir to the student health centre. And for your own protection, SUB, tell zir all of this with at least one witness present. Document everything, and if ze keeps getting in your face about your consensual, non-abusive D/s relationship, take the ironic step of filing a restraining order against zir.
Usually when someone complains about an unpleasant smell associated with anal sex … lube isn't the issue. But that's an easily solved problem, WANG, so easily solved that you bundled the answer up with your question: There are 10 million brands of lube on the market, kiddo. Shop around until you find one that doesn't offend your nostrils. As for the condom-wrapper issue, try opening condoms 10 or 20 minutes in advance. Condoms are likelier to be an interruption—one that derails hot butt sex—if you wait until the split second before penetration to bust one out. Open condom packets early, WANG, and put the condom on the BF during foreplay. That way, if the fumbling deflates your bottom-boner (which is a state of mind), you'll have time to make out, roll around, rim each other, stroke yourself—whatever it takes to get your bottom-boner back. To get a handle on your performance anxiety and those negative associations—bad memories of lousy experiences, fear of your boyfriend's big ol' dick, concerns about whether you'll have to bail—get some butt toys of varying sizes and use 'em when you're alone. With no boyfriend around to disappoint, the penetration will be about your pleasure. In a month or two, with a little effort and non-stinky lube, you'll have built up a store of positive associations and gained some confidence. And finally, WANG, if nothing works … maybe you're a top? V
At the very least, you owe it to yourself, just as you owe it to him, to be specific about the reasons you pulled the plug— because he might want to make an effort to win you back fronted me today. Ze had seen my boyfriend's Tumblr (!) and recognized me (!!!). Ze demanded I stop engaging in BDSM because ze has to see me on campus and knowing my boyfriend "controls and abuses" me is triggering for zir. Ze said images of me in medical restraints were particularly traumatizing. Ze was shaking and crying, and I wound up comforting zir. I stupidly let zir think I would stop. Now what? Scenario Utterly Bananas PS: Ze also threatened to out my boyfriend if ze saw new pictures go up on his Tumblr. My boyfriend is already out—about being bi and being kinky—so he laughed it off.
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I'm a 24-yearold gay male. My boyfriend and I have been together for just over a year. I have a hang-up when it comes to anal sex. I like bottoming, and I've had my fair share of great experiences, but I've bottomed only once with my boyfriend. I think I've identified why: the ceremonies around anal sex (the lube and condoms part) turn me off due to the smell of the lube and the sound of the condom wrapper. It brings up memories of times when I didn't have a great time bottoming. Additionally, he is a little bigger than most, so there's that. What do you suggest? Would it be as simple as finding a lube that doesn't smell so much? When I top him, which is something we both enjoy, there isn't a problem.
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