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Consistency is hard to come by

As the upcoming provincial budget draws closer, opposition solutions waver

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t’s that time of year again. And right on cue—with the start of a new legislative session in Alberta this week and the provincial budget expected to come down within the next couple of weeks—the province’s right has started loudly delivering clearly contradictory messages on what the government could and should be doing with the economy and its finances.

Two weeks ago the province’s Wildrose opposition issued a press release bemoaning the high number of Albertans currently receiving support from Employment Insurance— apparently the highest number since Statistics Canada started tracking the figure in 1997.

The statement quotes Wildrose leader Brian Jean expressing serious concern about the degree to which “Albertans are suffering and need help,” and lays the blame for the high number of unemployed Albertans directly at the feet of the NDP government and their bad policies which have “played a critical role in creating this depressed job market.”

Of course, the press release does nothing by way of suggesting exactly which policies are putting Albertans

out of work, but it does allude to the “government’s high-tax agenda.”

That’s a frequently used frame by the Wildrose Party that completely ignores the fact that Alberta remains the lowest taxed jurisdiction in the country by about $7.5 billion.

In fact, a RBC report recently pointed out that even when you calculate provincial revenues as a portion of GDP, Alberta collects far less than any other province. Despite his “alternative facts” about taxation levels and his complete lack of concrete options for putting Albertans back to work, Jean’s concern for unemployed Albertans is admirable.

The question remains: what would Jean and the Wildrose actually do come budget day to fix Alberta’s problems if they were in power? The short answer comes from a release issued by the party on the occasion of the government’s third quarter fiscal update last week: reduce spending and reduce the size of government.

If you like your public policy with a few more specifics than what Jean has offered so far, a good place to look would be a recent Financial Post op-ed penned by Paige MacPher-

son—Alberta Director for chronic Wildrose cheerleaders—and intellectual guides, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. In that op-ed, MacPherson points out unequivocally that the right solution to Alberta’s current situation would be to cut government spending by $7.8 billion, get rid of 10 percent of public servants, and resume the Conservative practice of building infrastructure through public private partnerships.

Just to put some of those suggested policies in context, the $7.8 billion MacPherson is proposing be cut from spending is more than the province’s entire K-12 education budget, 10 percent of the public service amounts to some 30,000 people. Numerous in-depth studies have calculated that public private partnerships add on average about 15 percent to the cost of infrastructure.

So, just to be clear, the right solution for helping those thousands of unemployed workers that Brian Jean is so concerned about would be to drastically cut the services those workers rely on now more than ever, put another 30,000 people out of work, and add about a billion dollars to the government’s infrastructure

their friends and likewise assess the consistency, accuracy, and impacts of what they are putting forth. Albertans might be surprised at what they actually find when they get beyond the sound bites and quips and try to make sense of what is being proposed and by whom.

tab. And given the Wildrose’s fixation with their high taxes myth, they would also probably move very quickly to cut taxes and further reduce the amount of money actually coming into the provincial government.

It is often said that one of the advantages of being in opposition is that your policy proposals and your critiques of the government need not be specific, detailed, or fully costed out. But shouldn’t they at least be coherent and consistent? How can you simultaneously express outrage at the deficit and propose reducing government revenues? How can you express concern about the number of unemployed Albertans and advocate putting thousands more out of work? And how can you scream and yell about the high spending on infrastructure and recommend returning to a scheme that will add a billion dollars to those same costs?

Hopefully, come budget time, Albertans will look closely at the actual numbers being put forward by the government and assess their impact on their own merit. In the same way, we all need to take a thorough look at the criticisms and proposals being made by the opposition and

Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta. The views and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute.

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GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

The possibility of close encounters

Discovery of seven planets around the TRAPPIST-1 system raises more questions than answers

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nly 39 light-years away, astronomers have found seven planets circling a very small “red dwarf” star called TRAPPIST-1. All seven are in or near what we call the “Goldilocks zone”—not too hot, not too cold, but just right for water to remain liquid on the planet. So we all speculate once again, but a little more bravely this time, about whether some of these planets might be home to life.

Not only are three of TRAPPIST-1's planets dead centre in the Goldilocks zone; the other four are on the fringes of the habitable zone. And they are all big enough—from half Earth’s size to slightly bigger than our home planet—to retain an atmosphere for billions of years.

That’s long enough for life to evolve on one or more of them. It’s probably even long enough for complex life forms to evolve there, as it did on Earth.

If an intelligent life form evolved on even one of these planets, it could have colonised all seven: they are very close together. The journey would be not much more demanding than a trip from the Earth to the Moon.

So think about that: a seven-world interplanetary civilisation. It may not

exist at TRAPPIST-1: we cannot yet assume that life crops up everywhere that the circumstances are suitable for it. But it surely must exist in one or many (or most) of the hundreds of millions of similar star systems that exist in this galaxy alone.

It looks like life is as common as dirt in the universe, which for living creatures like us is infinitely more interesting than a dead universe ruled only by physics and chemistry.

Whereas the poor scientists, shackled by their duty to go not one millimetre further than the evidence will currently support, are condemned to say cool, restrained things like: “The discovery of multiple rocky planets with surface temperatures that allow for liquid water make this amazing system an exciting future target in the search for life.” (Dr. Chris Copperwheat of Liverpool John Moores University, which provided one of the telescopes used in the study.)

Of course, Dr. Copperwheat really knows that this discovery makes it 99 percent certain (it was already 98 percent certain) that life is commonplace throughout the universe. He just must not say so until we actually find hard evidence for life on one of the almost 4,000 “exoplanets” orbit-

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ing other stars that astronomers have found in the past 24 years.

But I am a journalist, and I am allowed to speak obvious truths even when the scientific evidence is still falling a bit short. Planets are selfevidently as common as dirt. Life is almost certainly as common as dirt.

And even intelligent life must be pretty common in the universe.

Maybe only one planet in a million has intelligent life, you say? Okay, then there are at least a hundred and forty million planets with intelligent life in this galaxy alone. And there are at least a hundred billion galaxies.

I started reading science fiction when I was quite young—maybe ten or 11—and my parents knew an old guy a few streets away who was an amateur astonomer, so they sent me along to see him. He showed me his telescope, and pictures he had taken, and even an exercise book where he

had done sketches of our own solar system and the entire galaxy with coloured pencils.

But he couldn’t tell me whether there were any planets beyond our own system, let alone whether there was life elsewhere in the universe.

Nobody knew, and he was being properly scientific in his caution. So I returned to my science fiction and never went back to see him again.

I am probably now at least as old as that “old guy” was then. We live in a truly marvelous time, when the whole universe is opening up to us, and I wish he could have lived long enough to know what we know now.

And now for the next perplexing question. If life is as common as dirt and intelligent life only maybe a thousand times less common, then where is everybody? Is intelligence so counter-productive that an intelligent species automatically self-destructs within a few dozen generations of

Owning your identity “Effective immediately, students, staff and faculty will have the option of identifying a preferred name in university systems, and students will have the option of changing their identified gender as well, empowering each person to define their own identity,” declares a Grant MacEwan University release.

According to the Feb. 27 announcement the change came about as part of a larger effort to create a greater sense of inclusion in the university.

“Some like to be called by a first or last name other than their given name—a nickname, an anglicized version of a name or a step-parent’s last name,” the release states. “For others, their gender identity doesn’t match what’s on their birth certificate.”

The chosen identity will appear on university communications such as library and university ID cards, class and grade rosters, address books and other internal systems. Faculty members’ preferred names will also appear there as well.

“Please note, your legal name will still be used on any legal documentation, such as tax receipts, transcripts, university credentials, T4 or record of employment,” discloses the release.

AHS releases mumps info A series of mumps cases in Edmonton has lead AHS to release a call to attention to the public.

“Mumps is a contagious viral infection that can often cause swelling and pain in the jaw (one or both cheeks may look swollen),” an AHS release states.

In some cases those with mumps won’t have swelling but may feel as if they have a bad cold or flu.

Mumps is spread through saliva and, “A person with mumps can spread the virus seven days before and for nine days after symptoms start, though it is most likely to spread the virus one to two days before and five days after symptoms start showing,” the release continues. While it may seem mild to start, and usually goes away in 10 days, there are serious complications that can occur.

Mumps can affect the brain (meningitis), the testicles (orchitis), the ovaries (oophoritis), or the pancreas (pancreatitis).

While these complications can have lifelong effects, it can be prevented through immunization by vaccine.

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developing a scientific civilisation?

Or is there something so terrible out there that everybody who survived is observing radio silence?

Questions for another day. But TRAPPIST-1 is so close that in a few hundred years we could probably get there in a generation ship. Meanwhile, a private consortium led by the BoldlyGo Institute and Mission Centaur is working on an orbital telescope that will look for planets around our closest stellar neighbour, Alpha Centauri, only 4.4 light-years (40 trillion kilometres) away.

It’s called Project Blue, after astronomer Carl Sagan’s famous picture of our own “pale blue dot.” But there are a gazillion other pale blue dots, and maybe Alpha Centauri has one too. Hallelujah!

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

“The MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine, and the MMRV (measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella [chickenpox]) vaccine, both protect against mumps,” the release states. It also states that the vaccine is safe and effective and contains a checklist: 1. Check your own and your children’s immunization records to be sure you and your children are up to date on vaccines. Call Health Link (811) if you are unsure how to find or check your immunization records, and/or to learn how to make an appointment for immunization.

2. Anyone with symptoms of pain on chewing or swallowing and/or swelling of the cheek or jaw should call Health Link (811) or a doctor to book an assessment and consideration of testing. If you think you or your child has mumps, be sure to call ahead and explain the symptoms before you go to a doctor’s office.

3. Anyone with symptoms as above should stay home from school/work for 5 days from the start of swelling.

4. To prevent spreading infections, always: • Practice good hand hygiene—wash hands often with soap and water, or use an alcohol hand sanitizer. • Avoid sharing items that could be contaminated with saliva, such as water bottles, drinking glasses, utensils, etc. • Clean and disinfect surfaces that are touched often (e.g. door handles). • Cover coughs or sneezes with a tissue or a forearm, not your hand.

For more information on routine childhood immunization, and the diseases that these immunization prevent, visit www.immunizealberta.ca.

EPS seeks public help in finding violent offender Dean Goulet, 39, left the Alberta Hospital Friday afternoon, but did not return to the hospital by his 10 pm curfew, which his court-ordered conditions stipulate.

Goulet is a prolific violent offender who has served prison time for numerous robbery and firearm-related crimes, a police release says.

Goulet is white, six feet tall, has tear tattoos by the right side of his mouth and left eye. He also has a script tattoo on his neck.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Goulet is advised to not approach him and should contact the EPS at 780-423-4567.

TRENT WILKIE

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DISH

TO THE PINT // CRAFT BEER

Craft suds penetrate the global market I

n North America we have gotten used to a vibrant craft beer scene.

In some places it is bigger than others, but no matter where you go in the U.S. or Canada you can usually find some decent, locally brewed craft beer. Europe has done—in a way— craft beer for centuries. And in recent years, even non-traditional beer countries like Italy and France are starting to churn out interesting craft beer.

It is enough to make you complacent about where things are at. We start to expect craft beer to be available. But, as it happens, the bulk of the planet’s population has not yet been touched by the craft beer revolution. There are many parts of the globe where something more than an adjunct-laden pale lager is almost impossible to find.

But the good news, my friends, is that is starting to change—at least in some regions. South America, East Asia and Central America are some of the fastest growing craft beer regions in the world. While growth rates have slowed in North America, craft beer is exploding in these areas. China is witnessing a craft beer explosion, with breweries popping up in every city. Craft beer didn’t exist in Japan ten years ago; today there are more than 260 craft breweries in that country. In Argentina, craft beer sales are growing at the rate of 50 percent per year or more. Craft beer sales in Brazil quadrupled in the last five years.

Even smaller countries are in on the act. The number of breweries in Chile has doubled in the last four years.

South Korea has tripled its craft breweries in the last two years (to a modest 52). Tiny Puerto Rico now has 13 breweries, half of whom have opened since 2015.

Many foreign countries are beginning to It sounds great, but catch up to North American/ the reality on the ground is that European standards it is really, really hard

There is no question it is an impressive growth—a sign that craft beer is extending its reach. But it is important to not get ahead of ourselves. None of these places are Portland, not even close. In each of the countries named, craft beer still accounts for less than five percent of beer sales, in many cases closer to two percent. Plus, on the ground, the number of breweries is an imperfect measure for craft penetration.

Case in point: Costa Rica. I recently visited this idyllic Central American country, the most stable democracy in the

region. On the surface, it too joins the parade of burgeoning craft beer scenes.

This tiny country of four million people had one brewery before 2010, which produced basically every beer sold in the country—all a variety of pale lagers.

Today they have 45 breweries, a whopping 41 of which opened their doors in the last two years. Talk about a nascent craft beer scene.

to find craft beer in stores or bars. Almost every place sells the same standard beer, supported by ubiquitous advertising.

You have to know where to look, or rely on blind luck. More likely a mix of both.

I found a great craft beer bar in the capital city, San Jose. I also found one or two stores in other parts of the country that carried some craft beer, but for the most part it was a mono-culture of pale lager.

The reality is that the new Costa Rican breweries—like their brethren in Brazil, Argentina, China, Chile or South Korea—are very small and very localized. For the most part you have to be in the neighbourhood where they reside to find them.

It is a lesson in context and patience. Yes, Central America, South America and East Asia are the fastest growing craft beer markets. But they are coming from almost zero, which means they have a long way to go before we can call them go-to places for craft beer.

That is not to denigrate the beer being brewed in these countries.

While in Costa Rica I sampled beer from eight or nine breweries. The results were a bit mixed but overall there were solid brewing fundamentals there—they know how to brew good beer.

In many ways, these regions are where Canada was ten to 15 years ago. So we should be supportive and patient in making sense of what they are doing and celebrate they have gotten where they are as fast as they have. It makes me think that the craft beer curve in these countries will be faster and steeper than what we experienced.

The other thing to keep in mind is that there are still huge swaths of the planet that craft beer has not yet touched—and may never touch.

The Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and Africa continue to lag.

Part of that is religion. Part of it is wealth and geography. Maybe, just maybe, they represent the last frontier for craft beer.

For now I plan on celebrating what gains have been made globally.

JASON FOSTER

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Week of Feb. 26, 2017 Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers 1. Encountering Riel - David D. Orr * 2. The Break - Katherena Vermette 3. Son of a Trickster - Eden Robinson 4. A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman 5. The Woman in Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware 6. Lion - Saroo Brierley 7. The Bookshop on the Corner Jenny Colgan 8. Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur 9. A Wake for the Dreamland Laurel Deedrick-Mayne * 10. Do Not Say We Have Nothing - Madeleine Thien

Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers 1. Passage Across the Mersey Robert Bhatia * 2. This I Know: Marketing Lessons from Under the Influence - Terry O’Reilly 3. The Outside Circle - Patti LaBoucane Benson, Kelly Mellings * 4. Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History of the FrenchSpeaking Canadiens and Metis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi across to the Pacific Michel Bouchard, Robert Foxcurran, Sebastien Malette 5. The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet - Sheila Watt-Cloutier 6. Flapper Pie and a Blue Prairie Sky: A Modern Baker’s Guide to Old-Fashioned Desserts - Karlynn Johnston * 7. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Harari 8. Triple Crown: Winning Canada’s Energy Future - Jim Prentice * JeanSebastien Rioux * 9. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World Peter Wohlleben, Tim Flannery 10. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race - Margot Lee Shetterly * Alberta author List compiled by Audreys Books and the Book Publishers Association of Alberta

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Mar. 4-26 Crazy For You The Citadel’s Shoctor Theatre $25 to $115 // Supplied photo by Citadel Theatre

The Citadel Theatre offers a rousing escape from grungy present

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here may be nothing better to shake off the funk of winter or today’s resonating 'Orange Oppression' than a warm and zany Gershwin musical.

Combining fast-paced dance, humour, and jazz hits from the 1920s and 30s, Crazy For You is set to be a transporting experience. The production, directed and choreographed by Dayna Tekatch who has worked on several productions at the Citadel, enlists theatre stars from Edmonton as well as Toronto—including Andrew MacDonald-Smith in the starring role of Bobby Child.

It is a story of the conquest of love and theatre over mean financial concerns in

Depression-era America. Bobby is sent by the family business to foreclose on the Gaity Theatre in Deadrock, Nevada, but falls in love with the owner’s daughter, Polly (Ayrin Mackie), and stages a show as a last-ditch effort to save the theatre and win her love.

The show, tightly packed with comedy and tapdancing, features the Gershwin classics, “You Can’t Take That Away From Me,” and “Someone To Watch Over Me.” This award-winning, “new” Gershwin musical is based on a 1991 update of the 1930 production Girl Crazy—with a new story by Ken Ludwig—that was a smash on Broadway and the West End

in the first half of the 90s. It combines numbers from Girl Crazy with others from the Gershwin songbook. This year marks the 25th anniversary of its first major production in New York.

The Citadel team is betting we need this escape into a world ruled by love and art just as audiences did during the Great Depression. If the rich seem too powerful, here we have a landlord capable of a change of heart. If the horizon is darkening, here we see the light of the human spirit.

“The intention of this show,” says Tekatch, was "to create light in what was a really dark time—the Depres-

sion, when this style of musical was born. My desire is the same. There’s so much going on right now that’s so frightening and this show is a confection of beautiful things. It would be very hard for anyone to remember what’s happening in the news while they’re watching it. I think it’s a complete diversion and will be extraordinary in accomplishing just that.”

The production is massive and lavish, with 22 actors and more than 250 costumes. It will be a spectacle. Having recently seen MacDonald-Smith in Stewart Lemoine’s Witness to a Conga, there is something positively Fred Astair-esque about the man, and we should expect great things from his portrayal of Bobby, grinning and tapping across the stage.

What stands out for Tekatch is how all the elements of the show combine to tell the story of the marriage of two communities.

“The showgirls from New York and the cowboys from Nevada, who have absolutely nothing in common, create a world together. And the creation of that world makes each of their individual worlds richer. I think it’s that, the humanity of people coming together, that’s the most satisfying.”

There is much about Deadrock, Nevada, that we will relate to, says Tekatch.

“The open skies and the friendly nature of the people is very reminiscent of Edmonton, as well as the desire to bring something back to life with nothing but desire. They don’t have any money and they try to put on a show to save a venue. It’s very endearing to have people that care so much that they want to make it work.”

KEVIN SOLEZ

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PROFILE // THREADS

Down the denim hole

Local couple persevered for years before their first pair of jeans materialized Before opening their new space, the Stewarts spent years planning, researching, and making prototypes. Until their debut at the end of 2016, Arturo was based out of a workshop on the second floor of the Mercer building.

“It took close to two years to execute a pair of jeans,” James says.

Neither Janna or James can remember, exactly, why they wanted to start making jeans in the first place.

For the past ten years, Janna has also owned and designed the local clothing line Cinder + Smoke.

“Women’s fashion can be tiring,” she says, “because it’s such a quick cycle.”

Denim offered an opportunity to work with basics less susceptible to changing trends. Now that Arturo has finally launched, Janna has found her enthusiasm for designing dresses returning as well.

But even Janna’s experience as a clothing designer and dressmaker didn’t prepare the Stewarts for the world of denim design and manufacturing.

“There’s not really a manual for making jeans,” James says, “because it’s so industrial.”

Arturo Demin 10443 124 St. $150

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Janna and James Stewart of Arturo Jeans // Lizzie Derksen

rturo Denim is one of the few Canadian retailers designing jeans, taking the torch from Edmonton forefathers Great Western Garment Co. Owners Janna and James Stewart sold their first batch of jeans during the second weekend of the Royal Bison Art + Craft Fair in Dec. 2016 and opened their combination storefront/ studio the following week.

Arturo makes and stocks one fit for men, made of raw Japanese denim, and one for women, which also comes in a hot-water-washed version. Jeans

are $150 a pair, which includes instore alterations, but customers must contend with limited hours of access.

While Janna takes care of pattern drafting and sample sewing, James works on design, denim selection, and fits, while also learning to do alterations.

“I ride her coattails to the top,” he says.

It’s been a long haul from their initial inspiration to start a denim company to having a pair of pants they were happy to sell.

“It was a lot more difficult than I thought it would be,” Janna says.

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Jeans aren’t garments that can be produced on a domestic sewing machine—in fact, at least 12 separate machines are needed. Janna found herself using Google Translate to search for instructional YouTube videos in Vietnamese showing factory workers using industrial methods and machines to install zippers or make back pockets.

“It’s like a cult,” James laughs.

“Everyone is so guarded with their trade secrets.”

Just sourcing fabric for their new product took the Stewarts to a denim trade show in Barcelona so they could—in person—meet the necessary contacts they’d been unable to track down online.

Now, Arturo Denim participates in the industrial side of the industry through its collaboration with the Second Denim factory in Quebec, where most of Arturo’s sewing is done.

“I’d love to be able to do at least half of the sewing in the shop,” Janna says.

For the moment though, she’s busy preparing for a full rollout this spring, including new styles and at least one cut in black denim.

LIZZIE DERKSEN

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Sovereign comedy

Empress Comedy celebrates its 'leather' anniversary by bringing back a fan favourite

Anniversary headliner Ivan Decker may or may not be wearing leather // Supplied

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mpress Comedy is celebrating its leather (third) anniversary which—according to co-organizer Simon Glassman—is a lifetime in the Edmonton comedy scene.

The weekly Sunday night show-

case has become its own beast since its creation by Clare Belford in 2014.

When Belford moved away, the event was taken over by Glassman and Carina Lauren Morton.

"Before I started hosting it was my

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favourite show, and now I feel like it's our job to not mess that up," says Glassman.

Held at the Empress Ale House, Glassman acknowledges that while he and Morton put a lot into the

show, it would be nothing without the support of the venue and those that fill the seats. This is just one of the many things he has learned along the way.

"Doing comedy comes with a lot of risk," Glassman explains. "If you don't like a band, you don't listen to them and then you move on. If you don't like a comedian, you hate them with every fibre of your being.

I don't know if that's a lesson or just something to keep in mind."

With notable guests like K. Trevor Wilson (Jimmy Kimmel, Just For Laughs), Ms. Pat (Last Comic Standing) and Pat Thornton (Comedy Network), the shows are anything but amateur—although they do have their fair share of first timers.

"There is no official system for developing stand-up comedians in Edmonton," Glassman explains. "But shows like Empress and Underdog help give new performers a good place to grow and see what they're capable of."

There have been many highs for Glassman in the last three years.

A specific highlight centres around this year's anniversary headliner.

Sun., Mar. 5 (8:30 PM) Empress Comedy Anniversary Empress Ale House $10 advanced, $20 at the door "My favourite Empress memory from last year was seeing Ivan Decker," he says. "He only had seven minutes and he destroyed in a way I hadn't really seen anyone do before, making it all the cooler to have him headline our anniversary show."

Does Empress Comedy have another three years in it?

"That's up to the audience," says Glassman. "Nearly a dozen comedy shows in Edmonton closed from 2015 to 2017. I like to think that Empress will continue to be a great place to watch and perform comedy for a long time. The comics always bring their A-game, it's a great stage and a good crew of people working together to make it happen."

Also on the bill for the night are Sean Lecomber, Charles Haycock, Jon Mick, and Lisa Baker.

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SkirtsAfire herArts Festival // Mar. 9-12 It’s one of the few events of its kind celebrating the work of the ladies.

Hold your horses though–it’s not just about the music. The event’s lineup also includes theatre, spoken word, visual arts, film and cabaret acts.

There’s nothing better than a multidiscipline festival honouring the best in women’s art. (Various locations, all events by donation)

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Ellipsis by Marilyn Nilsson Grabinsky // Mar. 4–18 This series of drawings is part of a larger project by artist Marilyn Nilsson Grabinsky. The goal of the exhibition is to start a conversation about ongoing issues surrounding female identity and the necessity of continuing feminist activism. (Women’s Art Museum Society of Canada, admission is free).

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The Leaving Marks Project // Thurs., Mar. 2 (6 PM) Star Newman’s “The Leaving Marks Project” is running until Apr. 1st.

“Each of us in the project will find our words; the ones we use to love ourselves and the ones we use to hurt ourselves.” These words will be written on the bodies of those involved as an expression of courage.

Show is rated mature as there will be nudity. (VASA Gallery in St. Albert, admission is free) No Context // Fri., Mar. 3 and Sat., Mar. 4 (8 PM) As part of the Dance Crush series, Mile Zero Dance invites movement- based artist Amelia Ehrhardt from Toronto to perform her piece No Context.

No Context is an expansive score for a dancer who is accompanied in text by a friend which is described as “something between a sector study and a love letter, a choreographic score and a diary entry.” (Mile Zero Dance Studio, $15 for members and $20 for non-members)

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Dance Alice in Wonderland • Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • 780.455.9559 • albertaballet50.com • Tumble down the rabbit hole and enjoy every minute of Edmund Stripe’s critically-lauded, delightfully fun Alice in Wonderland. Follow Lewis Carroll’s timeless heroine into a world of clog dancing, flowers coming to life and rabbits that are perpetually late. Alice entertains the whole family as she weaves her way through our decadent Wonderland. Constructed of colourful sets and costumes, this tale delivers wisdom in the most unexpected of worlds • Mar 24-25

Dance Classes with Good Women Dance Collective • Muriel Taylor Studio at Ruth Carse Centre for Dance, 11205-107 Ave • info@goodwomen.ca • goodwomen.ca/classes • Every Tue, Thu, Fri; 10-11:30am • $15 (drop-in), $65 (5 class pack), $100 (10 class pack)

Dirt Buffet Cabaret • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • milezerodance. com • Curated by impresario Ben Gorodetsky, this series is geared towards presenting emerging artists of various artistic backgrounds, in a variety show format, with an audience that expects experimentation and unusual juxtapositions. Each show contains six acts • Mar 9, 9pm • $10 or best offer at the door

Firing up The Forge • The Forge, 10549-82 Ave • dbommesquad14@gmail.com • D'bomme Squad burlesque with special guest The Real Green Fairy • Mar 2 • $10 (adv), $15 (door); email for tickets

Mascall Dance: The Outliner • Timms Centre, 8703-112 St • 780.420.1757 • bwdc. ca • Jennifer Mascall is a revolutionary who is fascinated between one form and another. In her dance, the body's organic flow is subverted by simple but most effective machines that challenge it with the uncomfortable, unexpected and bizarrely theatrical • Mar 3-4, 8pm • $35 (general), $25 (students/seniors)

SubArtic Improvisation & Experimental Arts • Spazio Performativo, 1081695 St • milezerodance.com • Features dance, music, and visual artists performing live together for the first time within an improvisational framework. Each event features six to eight artists • Mar 23; 8pm • $15 or best offer at the door

FILM The Age of Consequences: Film Screening and Discussion • Telus Centre, University of Alberta, 1104-87 Ave NW • bit.ly/2kR0XJr • A new look into the effects of climate change on issues of US national security and global political instability. The film screening will be followed by a short panel discussion • Mar 22, 6:30-8:30pm • Free (book a tickets online)

Cinema CAVA • Centre des arts visuels de l'Alberta, 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • cavalberta@gmail.com • galeriecava.com • Enjoy a repertoire of French movies • First two Wed each month

Edmonton Film Society • Royal Alberta

events/men-with-brooms • This wickedly cool comedy tracks four life-long friends on a hilarious quest for true love, macho bonding, and big-time curling glory (rated 14A) • Mar 19, 2-3:30pm

metro • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712109 St • 780.425.9212 • Le Festival du Film Français/The French Film Festival; Throughout Mar • Afternoon Tea: Sense & Sensibility; Mar 19 • Black History Month: I Am Not Your Negro, Mar 3 & 5, Mar 4, Mar 6-7; Mar 4 & 9 • The Celluloid Has Been Drinking: Tom Waits on Film: Down By Law, Mar 17; Mystery Men, Mar 23 • DEDFemme: XX; Mar 10 • Digest This!: Bugs, Mar 2 & 8; Tampopo, Mar 3, Mar 4 & 6; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Mar 4; Seed: The Untold Story, Mar 5; Soylent Green, Mar 5 • Edmonton International Women's Film Festival: The Contender; Mar 8; Kim Campbell: Through the Looking Glass; Mar 15; Madame Presidenta: Why Not U.S.?; Mar 26 • FAVA: FAVA Video Kitchen, Mar 5 • Local Filmmakers: It's Not My Fault and I Don't Care Anyway, Mar 9; Heel Kick!, Mar 18 & Mar 21 • Music Doc: ABBA: The Movie; Mar 7 • Reel Family Cinema: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Mar 4; Song of the Sea, Mar 18; Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Mar 25 • REEL Learning: Art & Copy; Mar 29 • Science in the Cinema: Lars and the Real Girl; Mar 23 Movie Night • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • mcdougallunited.com • Movies that are family friendly and always inspiring and entertaining. Popcorn and lemonade are available • Monthly, 7:30pm • Free

galLeries + Museums ACUA Gallery & Artisan Boutique • 9534-87 St • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts. ca • acuarts.ca • Retrospective: artwork by Eva Tomiuk; Mar 3-29 • Spiral Weaving; Mar 4, 10an2pm; $40 (member), $45 (non-member)

AJ Ottewell Gallery • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Open: Fri-Sun • Artwork by gallery members; Mar-Apr

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Citizens of Craft; Jan 21-Apr 22 • Stories Brought to Life: artwork by Amy Skrocki; Feb 25Apr 8; Artist Reception: Mar 4, 2-4pm

Grove • Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil. com • Rotation - Gallery; Jan 21-May 5 • Instructor's Show; Feb 21-Mar 17

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • Survival Guide; Jan 28-May 7 • Clocks for Seeing: Photography, Time and Motion; Feb 18Jun 18 • Fischli and Weiss/Ibghy and Lemmens; Feb 18-Jun 18 • BMO Children's Gallery: Touch Lab: Leave your Mark; until Apr 9 • Weekly Drop-in Activities: Tours for Tots, Every Wed, 10-11am • Youth Workshops, ages 13-17, Every Thu, 4-6pm • Kids’ Open Studio, Every Sat, 1-3pm • Spring ArtBreak Camp Mar 27-31 • Exhibition Tours; Every Sat-Sun, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm • Art for Lunch; 3rd Thu of the month, 12:10-12:50pm • VIBE; 3rd Fri of the month, 5-9pm

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Creative Endeavours: artwork

by Gene & J Marg Brenda; Feb 2-Apr 8

Big Lake Artists' Studios • 2nd Floor, 33 Rayborn Cresent, St Albert • 2nd Annual Big Lake Artists' Studios Open House/Show & Sale; Mar 11, 10am-5pm; Free Borealis Gallery • 9820-107 St • Storytellers: Alberta and the Great War; Feb 17-May 22

Carrot Community Arts Coffee House • 9351-118 Ave NW • Spring Flowers: artwork by Allison Argy-Burgess • Gallery opening: Mar 8, 7-9pm

Freedom's Land • Westwood Unitarian,

Metals/Myth: Sculptures by Ryan McCourt; Mar 2-Mar 23; Opening reception: Mar 2, 5:308:30pm

International Women's Day - Half the Sky Film Screening • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St • An evening of desserts and a panel discussion to ignite the change needed to put an end to the oppression of women and girls worldwide • Mar 8, 6-8:30pm • $15 (Eventbrite)

Men with Brooms • Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St Albert • stalbert.ca/exp/arden/

collection Assdeep in Wonder; Mar 22, 7pm

Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury • Rubaboo Visual Art Exhibition; artwork by David Garneau, Lana Whiskeyjack, Arsan Buffin, Brandon Atkinson, Dawn Marie Marchand and MJ Belcourt Moses; Jan 30-Mar 25

Edmonton Story Slam • Mercury

Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • O Canada (I'm sorry): artwork by Diana Thorneycroft; Mar 3-Apr 30; Opening reception (artist in attendance): Mar 3, 7pm

Gallery U • 9206-95 Ave • 780.913.5447 • contact@galleryu.ca • galleryu.ca • Reflecting Black: Ceramic work by Aba Garbrah; Jan 31-Mar 28; All ages

Jubilee Auditorium • 11455-87 Ave NW • coordinator@albertasocietyofartists.com • albertasocietyofartists.com • Fire: a group exhibition featuring artists from across the province that explores this force of nature; Jan 10-Mar 1

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

Latitude 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St NW • latitude53.org • MADE presents Sheltered + Exposed: design for Alberta’s winter life; Feb 16-Apr 1

Loft Art Gallery • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • artsoc@telus.net • artstrathcona.com • Sat-Sun, 12-4pm (closed Easter weekend) • Artwork by 12 local artists

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Buffalo Corral: artwork by Heather Shillinglaw; Jan 9-Mar 4

Musée Héritage Museum • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@ artsandheritage.ca • 1867 Rebellion and Confederation–A Travelling Exhibition developed by the Canadian Museum of History; Jan 24-Mar 26 Muttart Conservatory • 9626-96a Ave • karenbishop.ca/earths-laughter.html • Earth's Laughter; Feb 17-Mar 31

Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts

Allied Arts Council of Spruce

Museum, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum.ca/movies • Presenting: Enduring Stars • Schedule: Suspicion (Mar 6), The Sons of Katie Elder (Mar 13), The Man Who Knew Too Much (Mar 20), The Stratton Story (Mar 27), River of No Return (Apr 3) • $6 (general), $5 (seniors 65+, students), $3 (kids 12 and under) 11135-65 Ave • A film about the Underground Railroad to Canada that African-Americans used to escape slavery. Discussion to follow after film • Mar 3, 7pm

Galerie Cite • La Cite Francophone, 8627

CAVA Gallery • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • galeriecava.com • Artwork by Patrick Arès-Pilon, Kristen Keegan, Christine Duncan; Feb 24-Mar 11 Common Sense • 10546-115 St NW •

dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Storyland: artwork by Tammy Salzl; Mar 1-5 • Crafting Ruin: artwork by Jude Griebel; Mar 10-Apr 15 FAB Gallery • Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • ualberta.ca/artshows • Miriam Rudolph, MFA Printmaking / Angela Snieder, MFA Printmaking; Feb 21-Mar 18

front gallery • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.com • New Work; Feb 28-Mar 12

• 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@ thenina.ca • Year of the Artist 2017; Feb 14-Mar 2

O'byrnes Irish Pub • 10616-82 Ave NW • 587.986.3618 • angela@letsartyparty.com • Don't be shy- paint a naked guy: Guests will start with three poses to warm up, then move to a longer pose on 16" x 20" canvas. All will go home with a painting; Every 2nd Tue starting Nov 22, 7-8:30pm; $35 (adv at Eventbrite), $45 (door)

Paint Spot • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: The elements–fire water air earth; Feb 23-Apr 5 • Artisan Nook: Wax Poetic: artwork by Dilys Kulchitsky; Feb 23-Apr 5

Roots on Whyte Community Building Lobby Gallery • 8135-102 St • Ocean & Land: artwork by Amanda Schutz; until Mar 3

Rutherford Library (Galleria Space) • 90 Ave NW • 780.940.3925 • liuba@ualberta.ca • Invitations 2017: artwork by students from the BA History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture and Bachelor of Fine Arts programs; Feb 17-Mar 7

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alberta Print­-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Insigators: artwork by Guillermo Trejo & How Many Reasons Do You Need?: artwork by Marie Winters; Feb 2-Mar 4

Telus World of Science • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free$117.95 • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments • Wild Africa; opens in late Oct • Angry Birds Universe; Oct 8-Apr 17

U of A Museums Galleries at Enterprise square • Main floor, 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • International Print Exhibition–Canada and Japan; Feb 16-Mar 25

VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Leaving Marks: artwork by Star Newman; Feb 28-Apr 1; Opening reception: Mar 2, 6-9pm

Literary Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Local author Emma Pivato launches her latest Claire Burke mystery, Deadly Care; Mar 3, 7pm • Adele Barclay launches her debut poetry collection, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You; Mar 16, 7pm • Kimmy Beach launches Nuala; Mar 17, 7pm • Christopher Gudgeon launches his poetry

Room,10575-114 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • facebook.com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

Naked Girls Reading • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St NW • 780.691.1691 • There will be different themes each month • Every 2nd Tue of month, 8:30-10:30pm • $20 (door); 18+ only

Off the Page • Common Ground Community Café, 50 Brentwood Boulevard, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ca • It's open mic night! Drop in and share stories, memories, poetry, monologues and rants–or make the audience laugh with a stand-up routine. Not into that? Be an audience member instead • Mar 8, 7-8:30pm • Free (hosted by Strathcona County Library staff)

Rouge Poetry Slam hosted by Breath In Poetry Collective • BLVD Supper x Club, 10765 Jasper Ave • Every Tue

Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 1022597 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

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright

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

Theatre 11 O'Clock Number • Basement Theatre at Holy Trinity, 10037-84 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • This completely improvised musical comedy is based on the suggestions from the audience who will get to experience a brand new story unfold in front of them, complete with impromptu songs, dance breaks and show stopping numbers • Every Fri, starting Jan 20-Jul 30, 11pm

Baskerville: a Sherlock Holmes Mystery • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 – 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Equal parts adventure and comedy, Baskerville finds Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson attempting to crack the mystery of the “House of the Baskervilles” before a family curse dooms its newest heir • Feb 7-Apr 2

The Believers • Roxy on Gateway, 8529 Gateway Blvd • In the midst of a terrible storm a couple offers refuge to the family next door.

As exhaustion and irritation give way to the relaxing flow of alcohol, secrets and beliefs are revealed, and then challenged, when something unthinkable happens • Mar 7-19 Buying the Moose • Performed by the St. Albert Theatre Troupe. After his wife discovers him with a blow up doll wearing her dress, Rob's wife kicks him out. He connects with his brother while his brother's wife connects with his wife • Feb 16-Mar 4 (Thu-Sat) • $50-$55

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 • $15 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun

CRAZY FOR YOU: The New Gershwin Musical • Shoctor Theatre, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • All singing! All dancing!

All Gershwin! With favourites like I Got Rhythm, Embraceable You, They Can’t Take That Away From Me, Someone to Watch Over Me and more • Mar 4-Apr 2

Die-Nasty • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • die-nasty.com • Live improvised soap opera.

Join the whole Die-Nasty family REBORN, for a whole season of great artists, earth-shaking discovery, glorious music, hilarious hijinx ... but mostly Machiavellian Intrigue • Runs every Mon, 6:30pm (doors), 7:30-9:30pm • Oct 17-May 29 • $18 or $13 with a $40 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com. Season passes are available at the door (cash or cheque only) for $400 with a reserved seat

Ferris Buellers School of Rock • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, West Edmonton Mall, #2061 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • infoedmonton@jubilations.ca • edmonton.

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jubilations.ca • In 1986 Ferris Bueller took a day off. With wit and charm he managed to skip school and keep the teachers in the dark. 30 years later Bueller finds himself back in high school, but this time he’s the teacher • Jan 27Apr 2 (Wed-Sun) • $33.25-$77.95

Hey Ladies!• The Roxy on Gateway (formerly C103), 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.ca • Edmonton’s premier comedy, info-tainment, musical, game, talk show spectacular that’s suitable for all sexes! • Mar 24, 8pm • $26 (call 780.453.2440) or Tix on the Square Into the Woods • John L. Haar Theatre, 1004-156 St • A baker and his wife wish to have a child but cannot because of a witch's curse, Cinderella wishes to attend the King's Festival, and Jack wishes his cow would give milk. All want a better life, so they set off on into the woods. Everyone's wish is granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them with disastrous results • Mar 22-Apr 1 • Tickets available at Tix on the Square

The Mommy Monologues • Black Box Theatre in the Alberta Avenue Community League, 9210-118 Ave • skirtsafire.com • Offering a window into the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary situations, The Mommy Monologues surprises by sharing the personal and moving stories of 11 women, and all the men, partners, and children among them • Mar 2-12, 7:30pm (nightly), 1:30pm (matinees on Sun) • $20 (regular), $15 (students & seniors); prices subject to change

The Music Man • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • trinityplayersyeg@gmail. com • A tale of a travelling sales conman who convinces the small Iowan townfolk of River City that in order to keep their youth out of trouble they must keep them busy through forming a marching band • Mar 23-26, 7:30pm • $18 (available via Eventbrite) New Blood - Reconciliation in Action • Timms Centre - Studio Theatre, 87 Ave, 112 St NW • SEGSA@ualberta.ca • NewBloodUAlberta.eventbrite.ca • A story about Siksika Chief Vincent Yellow Old Woman • Mar 7, 7-9:30pm • $10 (adv only at Eventbrite)

Open Jam • Holy Trinity Church, 10037-84 Ave • 780.907.2975 • grindstonetheatre.ca • Facilitated by Grindstone Theatre. Swap games and ideas and get an opportunity to play. For those of all levels • Last Tue of each month

Peter Pan • Shell Theatre, Dow Centennial Centre, 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6400 • shelltheatre.ca • You’ve never seen “Peter Pan” like this! Be part of the show as this improv group brings Peter and Wendy out of the audience in this interactive kids show suitable for all ages. Laugh, cry and play along as Dufflebag Theatre entertains • Mar 4, 2pm • $12 (adult), $10 (seniors/youth), $5 (under 12)

Skirts-A-Fire Festival • Various venues along 118 Ave • skirtsafire.com • Edmonton's only multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating and elevating the work of women • Mar 9-12 • Entrance by donation Soliciting Temptation • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • shadowtheatre.org • In a sweaty and sticky hotel room, a Western man and a young woman meet for sex. Somewhere between the reality and the fantasy, the sex becomes talk and the talk becomes dangerous • Mar 8-26

Stupid F#@king Bird • Backstage Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • An irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull. An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother’s generation. A nubile young actress wrestles with an aging Hollywood star for the affections of a renowned novelist. And everyone discovers just how disappointing love, art, and growing up can be • Mar 2-12 • $25 (adult), $18 (students/seniors 60+) • Performance not suitable for kids under 13

TheatreSports • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $15

Urinetown: the Musical • Al and Trish Huehn Theatre, Concordia University, 7128 Ada Boulevard • 780.479.9269 • caroline.howarth@ concordia.ab.ca • drama.concordia.ab.ca/theatre • In a dystopian near-future, decades of drought have led to catastrophic water shortages, and private toilets have been outlawed. An evil corporation rules the city, the police are brutish and mean, and everyone’s on the take. Fortunately, a hero has risen from the people to fall in love and lead a revolution • Mar 10-19 • $15-$20 (available at TIX on the Square, Student Accounts or the door)

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Lunar desolation

Gauld's Mooncop offers a glimpse into a crumbling society

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$90 yoga pants not required in this class

T

ori Lunden had an epiphany a few years back.

The yoga instructor had hit a personal wall, and was face to face with an existential crisis.

“In my experience, faking it until you make it never worked for me. I just faked it a lot and never made it anywhere,” Lunden says. “I can’t do a headstand on speeding car, giving the peace sign while talking about world hunger.”

As a teacher, she realized she wasn't treating herself with the same compassion she offered students and felt weighted down by expectations.

“I was just so frustrated with the image of the yogi,” Lunden says. “I was trying to fit into it and getting really indignant about it. I realized that I needed to find a new way of doing it or I was going to quit teaching.”

Then, a light switched on.

“There is no shame in being a messy human being,” Lunden explains. “It’s something we all struggle with. I think this is pretty universal.”

It was then that "The Bad at Yoga Blog" was born. The eight-year teaching veteran embraced her imperfections in written updates.

"Bad at quieting the mind," "bad at Astavakrasana," "bad at compulsively turning every experience into a yoga photoshoot"—these are the titles of some of her posts.

And as the site states, “$90 yoga pants not required.”

While she's faced some negative feedback, many students find her relatable and share their own dirty little yoga secrets.

This perspective has also transferred over to her instructing. Lun-

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Tues., Mar. 7 (5:30 pm to 6:30 pm) Yoga in the Gallery AGA den moved away from 'faking it,' to embracing her own style of yoga.

Lunden focused on her personal diversity—prior yoga training in India and possessing a degree in social work—using her humour and compassion to guide her classes.

“I’m just not a serious teacher. I’m serious about teaching, [but] there just is a lightheartedness to the way I teach,” Lunden says of her method. “I speak or teach to who is there, which can be a real pain in the ass because I have some really good classes planned but it isn’t relevant to who is there. It means I have to be flexible with what I’m covering.”

Lunden teaches a class in the Alberta Gallery of Art (AGA). From Lunden’s perspective, this class exemplifies her teaching style as it is malleable. The class themes are drawn from the surrounding artwork which means Lunden has to think outside the yoga box.

“There are some exhibits where I joke that I’m along for the ride, the art does all the work,” she says.

“One of the cool things about the gallery is that it is all about the human experience, and so much of art comes out of the uncomfortable parts of the human experience. To use that to form a yoga class is really a valuable challenge because ... we tend to focus too much on the shiny parts.”

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fter Tom Gauld's wry take on throwing stones back in the good book days with Goliath, the popular British artist cocks an eye at that giant rock revolving Earth in his latest effort, Mooncop.

This anti-thriller-sci-fi—its humour as dry as lunar dust—reimagines life on the moon as even more mundane and routine than on our planet—now more than 384,000 kilometres away.

Gauld—also author of the comicstrip collection You’re Just Jealous Of My Jetpack—takes us on patrol with a police officer hovercrafting or trudging around Earth’s satellite. There’s no crime to report, so his “crime solution rate” is 100 percent. His stackablecube apartment complex loses more cubes as more people return to Earth.

The dark blue sky’s starting to reflect this mooncop’s mood—headquarters even sends him a therapist (a robot,

soon on the fritz, leading to the policeman shipping him back and the book’s best line: “I’ll get you a box to put your therapist in.”) Machines break down and we wonder if this mooncop, one of the last humans on this obsolete colony, will soon break down, too. In their domed helmets and spacesuits, after all, the people here seem as much machine as flesh and blood.

Gauld plays close-ups off against alien vistas or splash pages of the vast, cratered landscape and the immense, star-dotted sky. Pitting existentialist contemplation against droll situationcomedy, he offers a planet that’s a hollow reflection of our own: cars drifting around, food services or counselling services reduced to robotic responses, and people bubbled off in their own protective outfits. A girl wanders away out of boredom or teen malaise; a dog

Mooncop

By Tom Gauld Drawn and Quarterly 94 pp, $22.95 gets lost; the automaton of Neil Armstrong somehow escapes from the Museum of the Moon—which is being moved back down there, to Beijing.

The only mystery—seemingly unsolvable—is what humans are still doing in this place: “Living on the moon.

Whatever were we thinking? It seems rather silly now.”

Nearly beat, this cop on his beat, and Mooncop itself, finds a quiet little pickme-up at the end—a twinkle of hope, in a home away from home that’s eerily distant, so far and so adrift from where we belong.

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Dystopian blues

Tale of mass conformity still resonates

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ingo, a baby, wakes up to leave its crib and looks out onto giant tower blocks. Cars of commuters, chock-ablock, moving slowly, relentlessly to the office. Every worker, briefcase in hand, filing in and sitting down simultaneously in Soft Inc.: “They are ready.”

A classic work of dystopia satire— made in the twilight of the counterculture of the ’60s and thought lost for a quarter century—Hariton Pushwagner’s Soft City (1969-75) returns to stupefy and unnerve.

Pushwagner’s inky outlines of bodies and vacant eyes only make this routinized world more hollow.

Bingo’s parents—presumably just like all the other adults in all the other apartments, stretching up and out beyond the page—take a “Life” pill first thing in the morning and a “Sleep” pill at night as they get back into bed. In between are paper headlines bleeding into slogans— “Super-De-Lux-Atom” or “Spray-Peace.”

Identical-looking commuters, nearly all male, entering their building’s elevators, their cars in the street below, and then the office together to sit down at

endless rows of desks, while women are off supermarket-shopping in hypnotized unison, carts in hand as they walk, lock-step, down the aisles.

Soft City There’s a quaint

By Hariton Pushwagner fable feel to this New York Review Comics over-sized book— 167 pp, $47 it’s a twisted children’s tale of mass consumption and mass work. Here’s a world infantilized and turned soporific, its sheer mass-ness incredible: mass buildings, mass workers, mass manufac// Supplied Photo ture of weapons (which the boss, offerand films such as ing German phrases, watches on a giant Modern Times, Brave New World, 2001, screen.) Vanishing points and low-angle and more. The Norwegian Pushwagperspectives—making Bingo or his dad ner (born Terje Brofos) also seems to seem, occasionally, like tottering stat- be predicting Swede Roy Anderssen’s ues—only make this world seem more Songs From The Second Floor here. endlessly, chillingly immense. And yet Martin Herbert, in his afterword, offers it’s so much smaller than life, too—for some background and influences: Burlife no longer has any vitality and hardly roughs, Pushwagner’s acid trips, the fadany individuality (just a few workers’ ing ’60s. It may well be, though, that in dreams bubble up into the air—one is its vision of a collapsed European social project, Soft City remains horribly eerie. of being a fighter pilot.)

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A RACIAL ROLE-REVERSAL HORROR STORY Jordan Peele intensifies his political satire with heart-thudding thriller release Get Out

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he latest in a great craze of social parable horror (It Follows, Under the Shadow), Jordan Peele’s Get Out begins by turning America’s raciststereotype of “black man as a threat” into a black man threatened. From there until its gorily-ever-after end-

ing—where the “black male homeinvader” becomes a black escaper of home-grown white-terror—the film only gets more awkwarly creepy in its bloody skein of white liberalism and racial targeting.

The eerie events begin with a black

man, lost in the veritable “hedge maze” of a white suburb, snatched by a shadowy figure (to the tune of nursery rhyme “Run Rabbit Run”.) Cut to Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) heading off to visit her family at their country estate and, en route, they hit a deer. Once there, beyond the expected awkwardness with her parents (“I would have voted for Obama for a third term,”) and party guests’ cheerful focus on Chris’ skin colour (“I love Tiger [Woods]!”), strangeness is afoot. The two black servants seem stiff, even vacant. And soon after Allison’s mom (Catherine Keener) hypnotizes Chris to help him quit smoking, he starts feeling trapped.

a super-assured mix of acerbic social comedy (post-Obama, white people try to be cool and relatable to this nice African-American fellow) and horror-dread (young black man knows what’s coming when a car with flashing lights pulls up...) The film wears its influences lightly (The Stepford Wives; the revelation’s echo of Being John Malkovich, which starred Keener) even as it camera-tracks the dark side of a supposedly “post-racial” USA. The slavery-haunted setting of the South isn’t even made obvious (the film was shot in Alabama; there’s a banjo-jangle of Deliverance), but it still seeps and creeps into and under

Get Out Starring Catherine Keener Now playing  our skin. We feel the warning-tingles more and more, the little chills and cuts to the soul, the silent swallowsof-pride and shrugged-off indignities which Chris feels as he tries to ignore so many moments of tokenism, condescension, and presumptuousness... until he may not be able to get out of this supposed “land of the free” at all.

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and a barrage of scenes depicting institutional violence against America’s black population. The effect pulls into focus the past and present failures of race relations in the United States in a profound and sobering light. Baldwin’s words are not diminished by time, but sadly, sharpened by it.

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The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story."

These are the words of James Baldwin, exemplifying his struggles told in I Am Not Your Negro.

Directed by Raoul Peck (Lumumba and Fatal Assistance) and narrated

by Samuel L. Jackson, the Oscar-nominated documentary film is an adaptation of the African-American author and social advocate’s final literary effort, Remember This House.

Baldwin was at the vanguard and intellectual center of the American civil rights movement in the 1960s and 70s, writing extensively on the experience of African-Americans in both the southern and northern United States.

He was a central figure in both the 1963 March on Washington and the 1965 fifty-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Widely admired for his prose and rhetorical style, Baldwin elevated the dialogue

on race relations in the United States in a deeply compelling and unique way.

Incomplete upon his death in 1987, Remember This House was to be a personal account of Baldwin’s experiences and insights regarding his relationships with Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. All three men were close personal friends, and all three were murdered within five years of one another, between 1963 and 1968.

In the hands of Peck, the source material from Remember This House is repurposed into the narrative of I Am Not Your Negro. Peck remains true to Baldwin’s words while reapplying their context to the current racial strife being experienced in the United States.

Jackson narrates Baldwin’s observations and analyses in a slow and somber tone. Peck intercuts the voice over with images from Ferguson, Missouri, the chokehold that killed Eric Garner

Baldwin’s philosophy on race in America centered on what he saw as a moral degradation of America and not simply political issues—as they were being debated at the time. He comments to white America, “You cannot lynch me and keep me in the ghettos without becoming monsters yourselves.”

I Am Not Your Negro is at its strongest when dealing directly with source material showcasing Baldwin’s oratorical prowess. He is truly captivating to watch and the clips chosen

by Peck highlight the nuance and intelligence with which Baldwin formed his ideas. For this alone, the film is worth seeing.

At moments, the tone and subject matter become overwhelming and risk losing the viewer in scenes of shock and brutality, but perhaps this is the point.

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If you press it, they will listen Moonshot Phonographs founder Todd McLean hopes to seize the moment

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s a door slams shut on a recent vinyl pressing attempt in Calgary, an Edmonton entrepreneur has found a new window of opportunity. While some would consider investing in the global LP revival a risky roll of the dice, Todd McLean has looked at the endeavour from every imaginable angle and couldn’t be more excited about the prospects.

“I am at the cusp of turning this thing into a reality,” says McLean, the optimistic spirit and brainchild behind Moonshot Phonographs. “It’s kind of like you’re going to have a baby, but you’re still in the first trimester and you’re not really sure who to tell yet. But it’s far enough along it’s like, ‘yep, it’s happening now.’”

McLean’s kept his eyes wide open throughout his approach to occupational parenthood, admitting, “this not a cheap undertaking. It’s a very expensive line of manufacturing.”

In the last decade, a few record pressing plants—hoping to capitalize on the industry’s resurgence— have opened in Canada, only to close their doors with little to show for it other than some hard-learned lessons and a handful of disgruntled artists and music fans. The most recent example was the complete collapse of Calgary’s Canada Boy Vinyl a few months ago, whose assets are currently being held behind locked doors by a jilted landlord.

“The existing presses that have been brought out of the back corners of some warehouse somewhere in the world and have been fired up again, they are not capable—longterm—of sustaining this demand. They are unreliable, they break down, they produce marginal quality, and that was the case [with Canada Boy Vinyl,]” says McLean, who has taken the time to research and connect with other pressing plants all over the world, as well as the record brokers who use them, and is sure this is the primary obstacle to a thriving record industry.

McLean’s dreams of succeeding with the vinyl revival found root in reality a year ago with an article in the Globe and Mail about a few engineering friends in Ontario who banded together and automated the record press. Viryl Technologies has completely modernized the presses used to produce LPs, which boast a 95 percent efficiency rate compared to the 60 percent rate of the industry’s old machines.

Last June, McLean made a trip to Toronto to see if there was weight behind the hype and came away more reassured than ever.

The gamechanger with Viryl’s presses is a highly-automated, ultra precise system ensuring near perfect heating and cooling cycles, and pressing pressure, to produce a higher quality product. The cloud-based software can detect errors faster and requires less operator interaction, which increases the production time. It also allows remote servicing by Viryl’s maintenance team.

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“We’re going to collect all this dark information that’s never been known in record pressing before,” Viryl Technologies’ CEO Chad Brown told the Globe and Mail. “All this data that’s necessary to actually make a perfect record; in the 50s and 60s, they didn’t have this technology.”

There are a number of other pressing plants using new presses in North America, including Precision Vinyl in Burlington, Ont., and Jack White’s Detroit-based Third Man Vinyl Pressing Plant. But without the new, highlyautomated precision the process won’t deliver an increased production pace to meet the ever-growing global demand and relieve a current crippling bottleneck of supply.

Recognizing a significant turn in direction, McLean says, “I have really no concerns about being a newcomer to the industry because of the fact that these presses themselves are new to the world.

This is a first in 30, 40 years, that there has been new technology, that it’s Canadian— which get me all proud and sentimental—and it’s like, ‘this is a moment, here it is.’”

There’s no question where his passion lies, and this vinyl fan was as surprised as most at the unexpected return of music in this adored analog form.

“I can still remember buying a record and thinking—and knowing—this is the last time I’m buying a record, from here on in its CD. I still remember that moment and being dismayed thinking I’ll have to settle for less now,” says McLean, who still has that ‘last’ record— White Heart’s Freedom—in his collection.

Last year, Nielsen reported a 29 percent increase in record sales from 2015 and marked the highest vinyl sales ever recorded.

Born in Owen Sound, Ont., McLean attended a college and seminary in Saskatchewan before following “his girl” to Edmonton where he’s spent the last number of years working as a provincially-contracted facilities manager. He’s not a career musician and has no prior experience with music as a vocational pursuit, but insists, “Music—it would be an understatement to say it’s a part of my life … I’ve been on the sidelines appreciating, going to shows, and it’s brought joy to me and into my life all through the years. So I’m excited, partly, by the fact that I can now make my own contribution to that world.

All these varied experiences and things that I’ve learned through life were not just random, they were not just an assortment of unconnected experiences, now they’re coming together to mean something,” McLean continues.

“I’m excited about what the equation holds.”

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udiophiles, and vinyl connoisseurs in particular, have likely already heard of the record industry’s recent loss in Calgary, but the news hasn’t gotten any better.

Canada Boy Vinyl—launched to great fanfare in 2015 as Canada’s only pressing plant—is not only tits up, but a smouldering mess with problematic flames still flickering and flaring in every direction.

Numerous disgruntled clients have lost money and are out product, some of which sits behind the plant’s doors, locked by Ian Lawson on Dec. 15 due to money owed in the neighbourhood of $66,000. And the man behind this grand venture gone bad— Dean Reid—has his lips zipped tight.

Lawson has owned this building for almost 20 years and says this isn’t the first time a business renting from him has failed. But, regardless of why it failed, he’d like the mess cleaned up as soon as possible.

“It’s just a sad part of business that some people make promises they can’t keep,” says Lawson. “And honestly, if you do get a hold of Dean, tell him to bring a cheque.”

In late December, a thread of posts evolved on reddit.com from individuals claiming to be spurned customers sharing whatever information they could with each other—most coming from what are claimed to be automatic replies from Reid’s official Canada Boy Vinyl (CBV) account. One said all CBV employees had been laid-off on Dec. 9, a few days later another anoannounced all operations had been suspended and a final one before the

new year finally called the business folded and out.

As a last ditch effort to save the business, Reid ordered new presses from Toronto’s Viryl Technologies, but it was too little, too late.

“He never got our presses. He wanted to, probably would have saved his business,” says Viryl’s Alex Desroches.

“Dean basically had a bunch of crappy old machines that never worked so it was just too much stress and the shareholders pulled out.”

Reid promised an update by Jan. 9, but there has been no word. On Feb. 15, an interview request—stating I was a journalist—was sent to both accounts attributed to Reid. A reply from one said he’d try and give me a call the next week, but he’s “not in a position to talk right now … long story.” The call never came. The second email address spit back an automated reply—one that had already been posted on reddit.com.

“Hi Everyone , There are reporters using my auto replies to write articles about CBV. My auto replies are meant for my clients and vendors , not the media . IF YOU ARE READING THIS ON THE INTERNET THEN IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS. There are clients posting my PRIVATE emails that I have written them on public sites such as Reddit .This is making an already difficult situation worse .

We are still working on a move forward strategy at CBV. This is a time consuming and complicated process

. YOUR MOTHERS AND STAMPERS ARE SAFE so please stay calm and patient while we work on solutions .

I will be updating this daily all week to keep everyone as informed as possible .

DeanO” So far, the promised updates still haven’t materialized, but if that changes, readers here can rest assured they’ll be updated.

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Edenloff had lived in Fort McMurray for some time and still has family there to this day. Before the wildfires occurred he had no overt desire to return to the community, but while rehearsing with bandmate Paul Banwatt he received a “surreal” text message.

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“We’ve tried working with a couple of other producers but I think there was something about people wanting to maybe change us or put their little stamp on us,” says lead vocalist and guitarist Nils Edenloff. “I think Leon understands us, and what we feel is us.”

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past and if he would really be able to escape his old self in Fort McMurray.

“The opportunities to go see Fort McMurray had dwindled and, I don’t know, at that point if I would have the chance to go back to Fort McMurray again,” Edenloff says of his initial reaction. “The idea that a place might not be there for you to go back to is unsettling.”

The RAA’s upcoming show at The Needle will be one of its last before heading into the studio to finish the fourth album. Edenloff believes their live show is a “cathartic” experience and likens it to walking a tightrope, with the three of them on edge at all times.

“For three people making a bunch of noise on stage, it’s far bigger than maybe the optics would appear.”

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As the first release in a trilogy of albums exploring urban isolation, Night Rains sets a distinct tone that is likely to continue throughout the upcoming releases. It’s a tone that is both hopeful and reflective as Bray explores the urban life from a variety of perspectives.

The band that Bray has gathered for this album, and hopefully the rest of the trilogy, is a joy to listen to. With a rhythm section featuring the late Bob Babbitt on bass—a member of the legendary Motown Funk Brothers—and vocals from musical partner, Lorraine Reid.

Also featured are Garth Hudson of The Band and Kim Mitchell— it isn’t a surprise that this album

feels and sounds very Canadian.

Lyrically, Bray explores everything from being an aging political activist (“Renegade”), to the universal feeling of loneliness (“Who Do You Turn To?”) and “Road Rage”—a straight up country barn burner and one of the album’s stand-out tracks.

In a day and age when most people consume their music by the song, rather than as an album, Bray has produced a record that is thematic and coherent as a whole without being heavy-handed.

That isn’t to say there aren’t a couple of hiccups along the way.

Bray breaks out a couple of funky slow jams that just miss the mark.

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“Go Out Dancing” is a post-breakup song in which our protagonist goes out dancing while reflecting on the fallout from a relationship, rather than his former partner.

Like “This Bar Inherits the Meek,” it doesn’t quite fit.

With a superb band backing him, Bray’s Night Rains is an album that sounds both timeless and Canadian. A solid album that explores a variety of musical styles and is perfect for a rainy night in or playing on the jukebox at your local bar.

Rock Icons // Fri., Mar. 3-4 (8 PM) The Winspear Centre is about to rock out with some of the finest tunes from past and present. Featuring three vocal talents and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the team-up will perform a symphonic take on some of rock’s greatest hits. (Winspear Centre, $39-$93)

Dr Blu Trio // Fri., Mar. 3 (8 PM) Blues is this trio’s specialty. With upbeat songs like “Potential Blues” and ballads such as “Beauty In that Name,” each song is unique and refreshing. (Cafè Blackbird, $15)

The Pistolwhips w/ Jesse and the Dandelions & Rebecca Lappa // Sat., Mar. 4 (6 PM) Blues music combined with indie rock? Yes please!

Hailing from Saskatoon, The Pistolwhips are gunning for an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Perhaps Edmonton can help make this goal a reality? (The Needle Vinyl Tavern, $5 at the door)

KRANE // Fri., Mar. 3 (9 PM) Taking recent signature sounds like The Weeknd’s hit “Party Monster,” KRANE remixes them and gives them a brand new electronic twist, making some better than the originals. (Starlite Room, $20-$25)

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Happy Hour - Rising Star featuring Andrea Shipka with guests; 5:30pm • Big Dreamer Jam featuring Ben Spencer; 8pm

Karaoke; Every Tue-Wed

SIDELINER’S PUB Singer/ Songwriter Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted

by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:30pm

Eddie Lunchpail

presents “Compete With The Beat”; Every Sun, 6pm; $10

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

10030 - 102 STREET

JT'S BAR AND GRILL

The Hands of Women, presented by Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus; 3-4pm; $5-$15

Edmonton Youth Orchestra in Concert; 2pm; $15 (adults), $10 (students & seniors)

HAVE MERCY YEG Music

MAMA'S GIN JOINT Tuesday Open Mic; Every Tue, 9pm; Free

StarliteRoom Starliteroom starlitetoomyeg

HAVE MERCY Whiskey Wednesdays Live Piano Karaoke featuring the Fab Tiff Hall; Every Wed, 8:30pm

You: The New Gershwin Musical; Runs until Apr 2

WINSPEAR CENTRE

Jamming; Every Sun, 2pm; No minors

Open Jam Hosted by Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge

9:30pm

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sing Strength:

BLUES ON WHYTE Bill DRAKE HOTEL Sunday

GAS PUMP Karaoke;

Durst; 9pm

Jazz Brunch: PM Bossa; 9am-2:30pm; Cover by donation Durst; 9pm

FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle Jam Circle; 7:30-11:30pm

Wooftop: Metal Mondays with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox

MacEwan University Music presents: A Capella Ensemble and Jazz Combo; 2-3:30pm; $11.75-$13.75

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday

the stage and share their creations; Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave SQUARE 1 COFFEE 15 Fairway Drive ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch. com 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 UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 11150-82 St, 780.436.1554 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WOODRACK CAFE 7603-109 St, 780. 757.0380, thewoodrackcafe. com Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428

JUDAH & THE LION GOING TO MARS TOUR ELECTRIC 6 W/ GUESTS KATATONIA W/ CASPIAN, THE UNCURED

APR/15 UPTOWN LIVE! FT. PAUL WOIDA & LIA COLE CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

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MAR/9 FUNKED UP THURSDAYS WEEKLY OPENING NIGHT W/ CAPITAL J & GUESTS NITEOWL ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS

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W/ KMAN & THE 45’S, THE PREYING SAINTS, ATD

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47TH ANNUAL BEVERLY HEIGHTS VARIETY SHOW • Beverly Heights Hall, 4209111 Ave • An evening of adult comedy. Featuring a production entitled "150 Years from Eh to Zed" • Every Fri-Sat, 7:30-10:30pm; Feb 24-Mar 25 • $20 (via 780.471.3600)

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

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Chris Heward; Mar 2-4 • D.C. Ervin; Mar 9-11

COMEDY ON THE ROCKS • On the Rocks, 11740 Jasper Ave • A weekly comedy show featuring changing headliners and more • Every Sun, 7-8:45pm

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Dov Davidoff; Mar 1-4 • Sean Lecomber; Mar 5 • Trixx; Mar 8 • Big Jay Oakerson; Mar 9-11 • Shawn Gramiak; Mar 12

EL COMEDY • El Cortez Mexican Kitchen + Tequila Bar, 8230 Gateway Blvd • Hosted by Dion Arnold with weekly headliners & guest comics • Every Wed, 7pm (door), 7:30pm (show) • No cover EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free

ODD WEDNESDAY • Sewing Machine Factory, 9562-82 Ave • debutantescomedy@gmail.com • thedebutantes.ca • A sketch (and other) comedy showcase featuring local, national and international acts. Hosted by the Debutantes • Every 2nd Wed, 8:30-11pm • $5

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

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

BRAZILIAN ZOUK DANCE CLASSES • Spazio

Performativo, 10816-95 St NW • 780.974.4956 • hello@ludiczouk.com • ludiczouk.com/buy • Every Wed, Jan 18-Jun 28, 7-8:30pm • $20 (dropin, at the door); discount on classes online

COFFEE WITH COPS • The Carrot, 9351-118

Ave • thecarrot.ca • Hosting the Edmonton police

VUECLASSIFIEDS Volunteers Wanted

Can You Read This?

Help Someone Who Can’t!

Volunteer 2 hours a week and help someone improve their Reading, Writing, Math or English Speaking Skills.

Call Valerie at P.A.L.S. 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca We Love Sound Techs Saturday Nights 6:30-9:30 The Carrot Community Arts Coffee House Are you technologically skilled or would you like to be trained?

Contact volunteer@thecarrot.ca to join our volunteer team

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DeepSoul.ca • 780.217.2464; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins and Les Paul Standard; Pink Floyd-ish originals plus great covers of classics: some free; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages

DOWNTOWN EDMONTON BOOK CLUB •

COMEDY

1600.

MONDAY MINGLE • Hexagon Board Game

service • Mar 6, 10-11:30am

1600.

Downtown Edmonton Community League, 10042103 St • facebook.com/declorg • Open to anyone who lives, works, or plays downtown and wants to meet new people, have great conversations, and read cool stuff • Every 2nd Wed, 7-8:30pm

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 & Wed, 7pm • $5

DROP-IN LARP • Jackie Parker Park • westernwinds.summerfrost.ca • Battle games and fighter practice using provided safe weapon boffer • An exciting way to get exercise while meeting new people with similar passions • Every Sat, 1:15pm • Free

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

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com FERTILITY AWARENESS CHARTING CIRCLE • Remedy Cafe, 8631-109 St • faccedmonton@gmail.com • fertilityawarenesschartingcircle.org • First Mon each month (Oct-Jun), 6:30-8:30pm • $10 (suggested donation) • RSVP at faccedmonton@gmail.com

FLAMENCO DANCE CLASSES (BEGINNER OR ADVANCED) • Dance Code Studio, 10575-115 St NW #204 • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail.com • Every Sun, 11:30am12:30pm FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 10728-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating, 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 offering conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

LGNYEG • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104

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)

MONTHLY MEDITATION AND VEGAN BRUNCH • Padmanadi Vegetarian Restaurant, 10740-101 St • info@vofa.ca • bit.ly/2hO97nq • First Sat of every month, 9am-12pm • Free (confirm via Facebook or email)

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

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

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

PAINTING FOR PLEASURE • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • karenbishopartist@ gmail.com • mcdougallunited.com • A weekly group for those who like to paint, draw or otherwise be creative on paper • Every Thu, 10am-noon

RODA DE CAPOEIRA • Capoeira Academy, #103-10324-82 Ave • capoeiraacademy.ca • Brazil's traditional game of agility and trickery • Every Sat, 2:30pm • Free • All ages

SACRED CIRCLE DANCE • Riverdale Hall, 9231-100 Ave • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music. No partner required • Every Wed, 7-9pm • $10 SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • 780.452.4661 • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta offers a variety of services and support programs for those who are living with the illness, family members, caregivers, and friends • 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm • Free

Centre, 9990 Jasper Ave; Contact: 780.462.1878/ RonChapman@shaw.ca (Ron Chapman); 780.424.6364/dkorpany@telusplanet.net (Darryl Korpany); Meet every Thu from Sep-Jun, 6-7:45pm • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion, 11150-82 St; 780.902.4605; norwoodtoastmasters.org; Every Thu, Oct 13-Jun 29, 7:30-9:30pm; Guests are free • 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 • Generating Power Speakers: EPCOR Tower, 10423101 St NW: Meeting will take place on the 8th floor, 780.392.5331 (Phil); 1st and 3rd Tue each month, 12:05-1:05pm • 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 • Norwood Toastmasters: Legion, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until Jun, 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo.com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); 780.437.1136 (Mark) or 780.463.5331 (Antonio); yclubtoastmasters@gmail.com; Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month

YOGA, ART & WINE • 4 Points Health and Wellness, 12406-112 Ave • Gentle fusion flow yoga and painting • First Sat of each month, 7-10pm • $45 (available at Eventbrite)

Museum, 12845-102 Ave • royalalbertamuseum. ca/events • Learn about a newly discovered fossil locality from the Black Hills of South Dakota, and explore how it can help us understand the Ice Age history of the northern plains • Mar 8, 7-8pm • 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

FRIDAY NIGHT STOMP! • Sugar Foot Ballroom, 10019-80 Ave NW • 587.786.6554 • dance@sugarswing.com • sugarswing.com • Swing dance social • Every Fri-Sat, 8pm (beginner

Performativo, 10816-95 St NW • 780.974.4956 • hello@ludiczouk.com • A social dance experience • Mar 10, 9:30pm • $10 (door)

To Book Your Classifieds, Call 780.426.1996 or email classifieds@vueweekly.com

Join the Team Two spots open for Open Mic hosts at the Carrot Saturday Nights 6:30-9:30 The Carrot Community Arts Coffee House If you’re passionate about the arts and can make our stage welcoming contact volunteer@thecarrot.ca

• Chamber Toastmasters Club: 6th floor, World Trade

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 1043383 Ave NW • 780.554.6133 • Instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light. Learn a simple technique that will lift you above life's stresses • Every Sun, 5pm • Free

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

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LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

SMOOTH CONNECTIONS • Spazio

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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

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

Ave NW • happyharborcomics.com • Events may include guest speakers, movie nights, board game nights, video game nights and much more • First Thu of the month, 7-9pm • Free

DO YOU LOVE COFFEE? COMMUNITY? ARTS? Be part of a great team by volunteering as a barista at The Carrot! If you have a hankering to learn the ins & outs of being a barista, and get involved in the community, please contact Meaghan at volunteer@thecarrot.ca

lesson begins) • $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • All ages

Artist to Artist

Chalk Artists Wanted!

Chalk It Up on the Ave happens every year! We are looking for Edmonton chalk artists to submit their work and play on Alberta Avenue! If you’re interested in participating as an artist contact artsadmin@artsontheave.org

2005.

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The City of Edmonton is seeking part-time Pottery Instructor Program Specialists for the City Arts Centre.

Interested applicants are encouraged to apply to competition 28024 - Program Specialist today!

3100. Appliances/Furniture ENJOY ART ALWAYZ www.bdcdrawz.com Check the site every two weeks for new work!

Old Appliance Removal Removal of unwanted appliances. Must be outside or in your garage.

Rates start as low as $30.

Call James @780.231.7511 for details

2017 CURATORIAL LECTURE SERIES: RATTLESNAKES AND RODENTS: EXPLORING A NEW ICE AGE CAVE DEPOSIT ON THE NORTHERN PLAINS • Royal Alberta

AWSN PRESENTS: IDEAS TO REALITY: PERSPECTIVES FROM LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS • Winspear Room University of Alberta Faculty Club, 11435 Saskatchewan Dr NW • wiser@ualberta.ca • awsnspeakerseries.eventbrite. ca • An evening of networking that will feature an interactive panel discussion with Edmonton-based entrepreneurs from various sectors • Mar 7, 5:308pm • $15-$30 (tickets at Eventbrite)

GREAT EXPEDITIONS TRAVEL SLIDE • St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 84240-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 (Gerry Staring), 780.435.6406 (John Woollard), 780.454.6216 (Sylvia Krogh) • Spain by John and Eleanore Woollard (Mar 6) • First Mon of the month, 7:30pm • $3 donation (guests are asked to bring snacks to share); everyone welcome

IDEAS TO REALITY: PERSPECTIVES FROM LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS • University of Alberta Faculty Club, 11435 Saskatchewan Drive • awsnspeakerseries.eventbrite.ca • An evening of networking that will feature an interactive panel discussion with Edmonton-based entrepreneurs from various sectors • Mar 7, 5:30-8pm • $15-$30

NERD NITE EDMONTON • Needle Vinyl Tavern, 10524 Jasper Ave • edmonton.nerdnite.com • Drinks and lectures together? Yes please! Lectures include: Spewing Pixie Dust- A Disney Nerd’s view on that Disney Magic, Anti-aging drugs: live long and prosper! and You see a dumpster fire, we see sunshine: Why journalism’s future is brighter than you think • Mar 8, 8pm • $10 (peanut gallery tickets) • 18+ only QUEER

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AFFIRM GROUP • garysdeskcom@hotmail. com • mcdougallunited.com • Part of the United Church network supporting LGBTQ men and women • Meet monthly at Second Cup, Edmonton City Centre for coffee and conversation at 12:30pm; Special speaker events are held throughout the year over lunch at McDougall Church EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Mon: Drag Race in the White Room; 7pm • Wed: Monthly games night/trivia • Thu: Happy hour, 6-8pm; Karaoke, 7-12:30am • Fri: Flashback Friday with your favourite hits of the 80s/90s/2000s; rotating drag and burlesque events • Sat: Rotating DJs Velix and Suco • Sun: Weekly drag show, 10:30pm G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, Or in confidence one-on-one in the Craft Room • 780.474.8240 • tuff69@telus. net • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance. One-on-one meetings are also available in the craft room • Every Thu, 1-4pm

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Drop in hours: Mon, Wed 4-7pm; Fri 6-9pm; Closed Sat-Sun and Holidays • JamOUT: Music mentorship and instruction for youth aged 12-24; Every other Tue, 7-9pm • Equal Fierce Fit & Fabulous: recreational fitness program, ages 12-24; every other Tue, 6-8pm, every other Tue • Queer Lens: weekly education and discussion group open to everyone; every Wed, 7-8:30pm • Mindfulness Meditation: open to everyone; every Thu, 6-6:50pm • Men's Social Circle: A social support group for all male-identified persons over 18 years of age in the LGBT*Q community; 1st and 3rd Thu each month; 7-9pm • TTIQ (18+ Trans* Group): 2nd Mon of the month, 7-9pm • Art & Identity: exploring identity through the arts, a wellness initiative; Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Edmonton Illusions: cross-dressing and transgender group 18+; 2nd Fri of each month, 7-9pm • Movies & Games Night: Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Thought OUT: Altview’s all-ages discussion group; every Sat, 7-9pm • Seahorse Support Circle: facilitated meet up for families with trans and gender creative kids aged 5-14; 2nd Sun of the month, 3-5pm • Men Talking with Pride: Social discussion group for gay and bisexual men; Every Sun, 7-9pm

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

SPECIAL EVENTS 24TH ANNUAL COMMUNITY GARDEN POTLUCK • Food Bank Annex, 11434-120 St • Featuring fantastic gardening information, delicious food and fellowship. A free seed giveaway for Associate Garden Members. Memberships up for renewal or purchase on site ($10) • Mar 4, 1-4pm • Free (available at Eventbrite)

DARK MATTERS PROJECTILES • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • 780.451.3344 • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca • An event where science is served...on the rocks! • Mar 9, 7-10pm • $19.95 (adv), $25.95 (door) EDMONTON’S COIN SHOW • Howard Johnson Hotel, 15540 Stony Plain Road • edmontoncoinclub.com • Featuring free appraisals of your coins, paper money, tokens, medals, watches & other time pieces, educational displays and more • Mar 4-5 • $5; free for youth 16 and under

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ROB BREZSNY FREEWILL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I predict you will have earned the title of Master Composter no later than Mar. 26. Not necessarily because you will have packed your food scraps, wilted flowers, coffee grounds, and shredded newspapers in, say, a deluxe dual-chamber tumbling compost bin. But rather because you will have dealt efficiently with the rotting emotions, tattered habits, decrepit melodramas, and trivial nonsense that has accumulated; you will have worked hard to transform all that crap into metaphorical fertilizer for your future growth. Time to get started!

been as effective if I'd had more kids. I discussed this issue with Nathan, a guy I know. His six offspring are all grown up, too. "How did you do it?" I asked him. "Having just one child was a challenging job for me." "I'll tell you my secret," Nathan told me. "I'm a bad father. I didn't work very hard on raising my kids. And now they never let me forget it." In the coming weeks and months, Leo, I recommend that you pursue my approach in your chosen field, not Nathan's. Aim for high-quality intensity rather than scattershot quantity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):

her poem "Not Anyone Who Says," Virgo writer Mary Oliver looks down on people who declare, "I'm going to be careful and smart in matters of love." She disparages the passion of anyone who asserts, "I'm going to choose slowly."

Instead she champions those who are "chosen by something invisible and powerful and uncontrollable and beautiful and possibly even unsuitable." Here's my response: Her preferred formula sounds glamorous and dramatic and romantic—especially the powerful and beautiful part. But in practice it rarely works out well—maybe just ten percent of the time— mostly because of the uncontrollable and unsuitable part. And now is not one of those times for you, Virgo. Be careful and smart in matters of love, and choose slowly.

It's a good time for you to wield your emotional intelligence with leadership and flair. The people you care about need more of your sensitive influence. Any posse or tribe you're part of will benefit from your thoughtful intervention. So get out there and build up the group morale, Taurus. Assert your healing ideals with panache.

Tamp down the insidious power of peer pressure and fashionable nonsense. You have a mandate to wake up sleepy allies and activate the dormant potential of collective efforts.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you were ever in your life going to be awarded an honorary PhD from a top university, it would happen in the next few weeks. If there was even a remote possibility that you would someday be given one of those MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grants, now would be the time. Likewise, if you had any hopes of being selected as one of "The World's Sexiest Chameleons" or "The Fastest, Sweetest Talkers on Earth" or "The Planet's Most Virtuoso Vacillators," the moment has arrived. And even if none of those things happen, I'm still pretty sure that your reputation and status will be on the rise.

CANCER

(June

21-July

22):

You're wandering into places you've always thought you should be wary of or skeptical about.

Good for you! As long as you protect your innocence, I encourage you to keep exploring. To my delight, you have also been fantasizing about accomplishments that used to be off-limits. Again, I say: Good for you! As long as you don't overreach, I invite you to dream boldly, even brazenly. And since you seem to be in the mood for big thinking, here are other revolutionary activities to consider: dissolving nonessential wishes; transcending shrunken expectations; escaping the boring past; busting irrelevant taboos.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I did a good job of raising my daughter.

She turned out to be a thoughtful, intelligent adult with high integrity and interesting skills. But I'm not sure my parenting would have

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The

JONESIN’ CROSSWORD

MATT JONES JONESINCROSSWORDS@VUEWEEKLY.COM

“Just Average”-- if two don’t fit...

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In his book The Horologicon,

Mark Forsyth gathered "obscure but necessary" words that he dug out of old dictionaries. One of his discoveries is a perfect fit for you right now. It's "snudge," a verb that means to walk around with a pensive look on your face, appearing to be busy or in the midst of productive activity, when in fact you're just goofing off. I recommend it for two reasons: 1) It's important for your mental and physical health that you do a lot of nothing; that you bless yourself with a healing supply of refreshing emptiness. 2) It's important for your mental and physical health that you do this on the sly as much as possible; that you avoid being judged or criticized for it by others.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I wish your breakfast cereal came in boxes decorated with Matisse and Picasso paintings. I wish songbirds would greet you each morning with sweet tunes. I wish you'd see that you have more power than you realize. I wish you knew how uniquely beautiful you are. I wish you'd get intoxicated with the small miracles that are happening all around you. I wish that when you made a bold move to improve your life, everyone greeted it with curiosity and excitement. And I wish you would let your imagination go half-wild with fascinating fantasies during this, the Capricorn wishing season.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

poet Rainer Maria Rilke bemoaned the fact that so many of us "squander our sorrows." Out of self-pity or lazy self-indulgence, we wallow in memories of experiences that didn't turn out the way we wished they would have. We paralyze ourselves with repetitions of depleting thoughts. Here's an alternative to that approach: We could use our sadness and frustrations to transform ourselves. We could treat them as fuel to motivate our escape from what doesn't work, to inspire our determination to rise above what demoralizes and demeans us. I mention this, Libra, because now is an excellent time to do exactly that.

"You're a different human being to everybody you meet," says novelist Chuck Palahniuk. Now is an excellent time to contemplate the intricacies and implications of that amazing truth and start taking better advantage of how much freedom it gives you. Say the following statements out loud and see how they feel: 1) "My identity isn't as narrowly circumscribed as I think it is." 2) "I know at least 200 people, so there must be at least 200 facets to my character." 3) "I am too complicated to be completely comprehended by any one person." 4) "Consistency is overrated."

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It's time for the Bliss Blitz—a new holiday just for you Scorpios. To celebrate it properly, get as buoyant as you dare; be greedy for euphoria; launch a sacred quest for pleasure. Ah, but here's the big question: Can you handle this much relief and release? Are you strong enough to open yourself to massive outbreaks of educational delight and natural highs? Some of you may not be prepared. You may prefer to remain ensconced in your protective sheath of cool cynicism.

But if you think you can bear the shock of unprecedented exaltation and jubilation, then go ahead and risk it. Experiment with the unruly happiness of the Bliss Blitz.

Your immediate future is too good to be true. Or at least that's what you, with your famous self-doubt, might be inclined to believe if I told you the truth about the favourable developments that are in the works. Therefore, I have come up with some fake anxieties to keep your worry reflex engaged so it won't sabotage the real goodies. Beware of dirty limericks and invisible ladders and upside-down rainbows and psychic bunny rabbits. Be on guard against accountants wearing boxing gloves and clowns singing Broadway show tunes in runaway shopping carts and celebrities telling you classified secrets in your dreams. V

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19 See 41-Down 20 Make amends (for) 21 12 of 12, briefly 22 Spicy coffee shop order 23 Denims kept clean during auction time?

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30 Dave Grohl band ___ Fighters 31 Concert purchase 32 “The Addams Family” cousin 33 Actor Diggs 35 Firm ending?

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7 Carne ___ (burrito filler) 8 Most wise 9 Ralph’s wife on “The Honeymooners” 10 Reason to wear a hat, maybe 11 Tilted 12 Believer in a deity 15 Dulce de ___ 18 1970s heartthrob Garrett 24 “___ Time” (Sublime song) 25 Refuses to 26 “Star Wars: The Last ___” 27 Cash cache, for short 28 Singer Corinne Bailey ___ 29 It’s good to keep during an interview 34 Vowel for Plato 36 It’s represented by X 38 Mag. employees 40 Blue Pac-Man ghost 41 With 19-Across, “Spamalot” creator 42 “Superstore” actor McKinney 43 It’s not a freaking “alternative fact” 44 Ernie of the PGA Tour 48 Criticizes loudly 49 Save from disaster 51 “___ said many times ...”

52 Surrounded by standstill traffic 54 Beer barrels 57 Stoolies, in Sussex 58 Montoya who sought the sixfingered man 59 Bingham of “Baywatch” 63 “Frankenstein” helper 64 Bear whose porridge was too cold 65 “30 for 30” cable channel 68 Tightrope walker’s protection 69 Miracle-___ (garden brand) ©2017 Jonesin' Crosswords

Down

1 “___ Nagila” 2 Cinema sign 3 “Dallas Buyers Club” Oscar winner Jared 4 Backup operation 5 “Fuel” performer DiFranco 6 Cuban sandwich ingredient

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Fortyish, straight, white dude here.

I have this weird (possibly misogynistic) belief that, when it comes to sex, I can’t win. Actually, I think men in general can’t win. Thoughtful, wellmeaning men at least. It comes down to this: During sex, if the man doesn’t come, it’s the man’s fault, because he clearly has problems with his dick and is barely even a man and should be ashamed of himself. If the woman doesn’t come, it’s also the man’s fault, because he’s clearly bad at sex and doesn’t even care and is barely even a man and should be ashamed of himself. So am I a misogynist or just a guy with issues? Any advice for me moving forward?

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If you’ve been with women who blamed you when you didn’t come, YIGI, and then turned around and blamed you when they didn’t come, well, that had to be annoying. Or maybe you’re referring to something in the ether and not to any inabilityto-climax/inability-to-induce-climax shaming you’ve actually come in for.

(Have you been with women who shamed you like this? If so, and again, that had to be annoying.

Have you been with any women at all? If not, it’s possible your letter is an MRA setup and/or you’re a misogynist with issues.)

If this has actually happened to you, YIGI, chalk it up to “some people are awful, women are people, some women are awful” and let it go. And remember this about men: sometimes we come during sex, sometimes we don’t, the number of times we don’t increases with age. Focus more on intimacy, connection, and mutual pleasure, YIGI, and less on spooging all over everything—and seek partners with the same focus.

As for women: you do know that dick alone isn’t gonna do it for most women, right? Only a small percentage of women can come from PIV intercourse alone. (If you didn’t know, you know now, and you’re welcome.) And you’re familiar with the clitoris, right? (If you weren’t, google it, and you’re welcome.) But if you find yourself in bed with a woman and you’re having difficultly helping her come (you’re there to help not make), ask her if she can make herself come. If she can’t, odds are you won’t be able to help her come, either—not you, not anyone else. If she can make herself come, ask her to masturbate to climax while you watch. Make a close study of what works for her.

If she touches herself in a certain way, learn to touch her in that way.

If she busts out a vibrator, use that vibrator before, during, and after PIV or instead of PIV. Good luck.

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I’m a fan from way back. A therapist told me to go out and have some fun—I’m a married woman with teen boys and feeling a bit lonely— but I’m not looking to have an affair.

I just want a spanking now and then.

I found the one kink club I visited in New York to be kind of depressing, and my spanking friends are more of a social group who hang out on the weekends. I just need a little recreation—some good, clean spanking fun. Would love your advice.

SEEKS PADDLING AND NEEDS KNOW-HOW

Kink enthusiasts, like dentists and accountants and troglodytes (hey there, CPAC), have conventions, SPANK, where like-minded/ employed/aroused folks meet and socialize before heading up to their hotel rooms for some good, clean kinky fun. I think you should get your ass to one of the many spanking conventions out there—and so does Jillian Keenan, journalist and author of Sex with Shakespeare, a memoir about your shared kink (spanking) and how Shakespeare’s

and offered to pay me. I didn’t know what to do. They weren’t unattractive. Would you pee on someone for money?

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I’m not ready to go pro at this stage in my career.

ON THE REBOUND

I’m a straight man who was recently dumped over text by a woman after we dated for about four months. I thought we were in love, but she said she doesn’t have room for a relationship in her life right now. I know this is BS. I think she dumped me so that she could sleep with another guy. In fact, I think I know who the guy is. Anyways, I recently had some rebound sex (it was awesome), and the whole time during it, all I could think about was my exgirl sleeping with this other guy, and it kind of turned me on. Am I weird?

MOVING ON, REMEMBERING EX

When you say you know “this is BS,” MORE, I trust you’re referring to the text she sent when she dumped you—“I don’t have room for a relationship right now”—because that is definitely bullshit. People say that to be kind, and it’s our job to hear what they’re really saying: “I’m not interested in being in a relationship with you, right now or ever.” But if what you mean by “this is BS” is that she loves you too but had to call it off to go fuck some other guy and you still might have a shot with her, please disabuse yourself of that belief.

Now, in answer to your question, MORE, you’re not weird. I don’t think your reaction is typical, but variance is the norm when it comes to human sexuality. It’s high time we all embraced this bit of cognitive dissonance: everyone is weird, so no one is weird.

If you and your ex are still speaking/texting, and you think you may be on potential future-FWB terms, MORE, you could go for broke and tell her about your weird-but-notweird (and unexpected) reaction to the thought of her with this other guy. If your convos gravitate toward sex or sexy memories— mutually—let her know you’re up for either a FWB/MMF threesome sometime or some cuckoldingthemed dirty texting. She may be game, she may not be—but nothing ventured, nothing gained.

And you’re familiar with the clitoris, right? (If you weren’t, google it, and you’re welcome.)

plays helped Keenan discover and accept herself, as a human being and as a kinkster. (It sounds like a stretch, I realize, but do yourself a favour and read Sex with Shakespeare—it’s a funny, moving read, and it’s packed with fresh and convincing kinky reads on Shakespeare’s plays.)

“National parties are a great way to get safe, fun, no-sex spankings and meet other people in the scene in a low-pressure environment,” said Keenan, who sent along a list of events all over the country: Shadow Lane (Las Vegas), Boardwalk Badness Weekend (Atlantic City), Crimson Moon (Chicago), Spanking Club of New York (New York City), Texas All State Spanking Party (Dallas), and Lone Star Spanking Party (Houston).

“There are some parties I’ve chosen not to attend for political reasons,” said Keenan. “The spanking community isn’t immune to heteronormative bullshit, unfortunately, and some parties explicitly prohibit M/m play. Any party for sexual minorities that prohibits expressions of other minority sexual identities doesn’t deserve our time or our money!”

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