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So, so sleepy Our society is not getting enough sleep— most of us are still trying to catch up from Daylight Saving Time last weekend—and as March 14 is World Sleep Day, it's a fitting time to take a look at how losing zzz's is affecting us and why we even bother with DST. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that not getting enough sleep makes a person more likely to "suffer from chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, depression, and obesity, as well as from cancer, increased mortality, and reduced quality of life and productivity." The National Sleep Foundation says that adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep each night. Some people may seem chipper after six hours, while others are still grumpy bears waking up after nine hours of sleep. But let's talk in generalities here.

The NSF took a poll last year and found that 80 percent of Americans don't get enough sleep during the work week. When you consider how similar the Canadian work week is

For each hour of sleep lost, it takes 24 hours for the body to recover. to that of Americans, it's a safe guess to say we're the same.

The NSF also points to studies that show that too much sleep—more than nine hours—can also lead to increases in illnesses, accidents and death. It's like a U-shaped curve, they say, with optimum sleep in the centre bend and too much and too little on either side.

Catching up on lost sleep on the weekend doesn't help that much either. A sleep debt happens for each hour of sleep lost so this actually increases the amount of sleep a person needs beyond the basal amount of roughly eight hours.

"When you lose even one hour of sleep for any reason, it impacts your performance the next day," Dr Alon Avidan, director of the UCLA Sleep Disorders Center, told the Los Angeles Times. He says that for each hour of sleep lost, it takes 24 hours for the body to recover.

This brings us to Daylight Saving Time, which began in Germany during the First World War to save on coal. The idea quickly spread to other countries, but it isn't necessary today.

A well-cited study by UBC's Stanley Coren in the '90s found that there is a five- to sevenpercent increase in traffic accidents in the three days following DST in the spring when we lose an hour of sleep. Coren also said that the increased daylight in the evening hours likely leads to less traffic accidents in the long run, but German chronobiolgist Till Roenneberg counters that opinion. He told National Geographic in 2010, "More light in the morning would advance the body clock, and that would be good. But more light in the evening would even further delay the body clock."

Roenneberg's work suggests we never properly adjust to DST. Catching up on an hour of sleep when we're already in debt and the increased risk of traffic accidents are strong enough reasons to get rid of DST. It's an archaic model that needs to go. V

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NEWS // MATH

No golden age of math

New math-teaching techniques have left memorization behind while scores have dropped

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hen it comes to math in Alberta, the difference between what teachers want and what parents want has escalated into a highly charged debate.

Two generations of math education have been meeting in the evening to do homework: parents, who learned math in school through memorization of things like the times tables, and students who, since 2008, have been taught a new curriculum aimed at trying to understand and explain the process behind things like multiplication instead.

Some parents have started asking for the old model back.

With a redesign of the province's curriculum starting in 2014, a petition started

by Nhung TranDavies, a doctor from Calmar, has gained more than 9000 signatures from parents, bolstering its author's will to restore conventional strategies as the basics of math.

"They know that the way that math is being taught now is not math, it's wrong," Tran-Davies says. "[Children] know that they can get to an answer quickly, but yet they're expected to use all these multiple strategies to get to an answer, it's frustrating." // Courtenay McKay According to Greg McInulty, a program coordinator in research for Edmonton Public Schools who has worked in student assessment and math consulting, the goal for current teaching is focused on understanding.

"There was a lot of just memorize this, just memorize these types of steps to solve a problem, and now ... they need to understand how to add," he says.

"When they forget ... one of those number facts that we all forget as we age, they can retrieve them because they have all these different portable strategies that they've learned."

A 2012 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development study shows a nine-point drop in the average score for Canadians from 2006 to 2012, with a 13-point drop for Albertans, which critics point to as evidence that the curriculum is failing.

McInulty says that when he looks at his district's results, he doesn't use average score because the "acceptable" level of performance is different for every test. He says it's calculated by using the results on questions carried over from old tests to predict how students will do on new material. For example, he says that in 2008 results a score of 27/54 may have been acceptable, while the most recent test would accept 19/50.

"If you compare the average score on those two exams, yes, the average score from last year looks a lot lower," he says. "[But] on passed exams, the numbers are within three percent, so not really the alarm bells that people are trying to suggest it is."

Of students in the Edmonton School District, 22 percent performed at below an acceptable level in 2008/2009 assessment exams, compared to a 2012/2013 result of 23.4 percent. The provincial average was 25.4 percent. Students rated at a standard of excellence have increased from 26.8 percent to 27.7 percent over that same period.

When it comes to the OECD results, which measure the performance of 15-year-olds, the provincial government says that breaking down the score by performance level shows that kids are learning the basics, but still need more work applying them.

"They've extrapolated from those tests that it's not working. However, what those tests show is that it is working ... they didn't come up short in the basics," says Dan Powers, press secretary for the Ministry of Education. "Where they struggled ... is in the application of the basics, and that is what the curriculum redesign fosters and develops."

In Alberta, 85 percent of students and 86 percent across Canada achieved at least the study's second level of proficiency, which the OECD describes as the "baseline level ... required to participate fully in modern society."

But Tran-Davies says that experts have told her level two isn't a good goal.

"The one and two levels are not something you aspire to ... mathematicians say that that's very, very elementary," she says. "This is not what we mean by mastery

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of the basic skills."

According to the OECD, students at level two can extract information from a single source, employ basic formulas and make literal interpretations. Students at level three can execute procedures that require sequential decisions and use simple models for problem solving, handle percentages, fractions and decimal numbers, and make interpretations based on different sources of information. In both Alberta and Canada as a whole, 64 percent of students made it to level three.

Tran-Davies calls the strategies a "fad," saying they don't provide a mastery of basic facts.

"In the different strategies [in the curriculum] to understanding five times five, on none of the points does it list for the students to master the times tables. Nowhere does it say the times table," she says. "[They're] telling students to perhaps draw pictures and use various strategies ... but they're not expecting the students to commit to memory what five times five is."

"Hogwash. It's in there," McInulty says. "It's worded differently. It's not going to say 'you need to know your multiplication facts to nine times nine,'" it's going to say 'you need to have an understanding of your basic facts.'"

McInulty has targeted repetition tests like the Mad Minute, which gives students a certain amount of math problems to solve within a time goal.

"The first thing they're going to do is complete all the ones they already know. That's really purposeful, isn't it?" he says. "The ones they left blank, those are the ones they didn't know. What learning happened CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 >>

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FRONT COVER // PRISON

Inside the institution

A look at life inside women's correctional facilities

// Mike Kendrick

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omehow the Visitation and Correspondence room inside the Edmonton Institute for Women manages to be sunny and bright and bland and depressing all at once. Outside the wall of windows, a faded plastic play structure—the kind you can pick up at Toys 'R' Us for a hundred bucks—stands looking sad and abandoned. Across a snow-covered yard, I count 10 almost identical houses, sunlight bouncing off the windows.

As I sit waiting for the tour coordinated by the Alberta Public Interest Research Group to start, I think to myself that the scene could be any number of suburban cul-de-sacs, were it not for the 10-foot fence topped with razor wire surrounding the entire property. I remember that the fence wasn't there when the place opened.

That was in November 1995 and the opening of EIFW was heralded as the dawn of a new era in women's corrections. Creating Choices, the 1990 report of the Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women, laid out a radical reform agenda that included closing the Kingston Prison for Women (P4W), the only federal women's prison in Canada, and replacing it with smaller prisons in regions across the country.

Calls to close P4W were nothing new. The 1938 Archambault Royal Commission studying penitentiaries recommended P4W's closure four years after it opened. That inquiry, and 15 that followed, took issue with the incarceration of women from across Canada in Kingston, which completely cut them off from their families and offered little potential for rehabilitation.

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Those criticisms would be ignored by both Liberal and Conservative governments for decades. Even the 1977 MacGuigan Commission with its blunt description of P4W being "unfit for bears, much less for women" fell on deaf ears.

In 1990, however, the federal government accepted the Creating Choices recommendations and P4W's closure was announced. The construction of the new regional prisons (Edmonton was one of five, along with a native healing centre) was under way before certain events occurred in April 1994, resulting in one more inquiry and one final damning document, the Arbour Report.

On April 22, 1994, a violent encounter between inmates and several guards culminated with the women being placed in segregation. A few days later, on orders from the warden, the women were yanked from their cells, strip-searched by an allmale emergency-response team and denied various legal rights, some for months.

An internal investigation downplayed the incident and found no wrongdoing but complaints about the incident persisted, with Correctional Service Canada officials adamant that no such thing had occurred until CBC's The Fifth Estate got hold of the video. It turned out Canadians wouldn't tolerate having their evening news interrupted by what looked like a low-grade porn movie showing guards in full face masks using scissors to cut the clothes off shrieking women prisoners.

Almost a year later, the federal government ordered an inquiry into

the incident, to be headed by Madame Justice Louise Arbour. Arbour pulled no punches. She insisted that the inmates involved had their own legal counsel throughout the proceedings and refused to allow CSC staff to leave inmates in shackles and cuffs when they were brought to testify. Through her actions and words, Arbour relied heavily on the notion of substantive equality: "One area in which women have equality in Canada, without trying, is in the national system of punishment. The nominal equality translates itself into injustice," Arbour wrote. "But, lest the injustice fail to be absolute, the equality ends and reverts to outright discrimination when it comes to providing constructive positives— recreation, programs, basic facilities and space—for women. ... In light of today's advanced sociological knowledge, the institution is obsolete in every respect."

Arbour mentioned in her report that, by February 1996, the newly opened EIFW had received 17 women but makes no mention there were already signs of trouble. By January, there were media reports of a number of suicide attempts and incidents of self-harm among the women. At the end of February, Denise Fayant, a 21-year-old First Nations woman and new mom who had arrived at the prison less than 24 hours earlier, was found close to death in her cell.

She died at the University of Alberta Hospital two days later. For months CSC officials maintained her death was a suicide, though eventually Edmonton police opened a file and two of Fayant's fellow inmates were tried and found guilty of manslaughter and being an accessory. Following three separate escape incidents involving seven inmates in a twoweek period, all of the women were moved to other facilities until security measures could be improved, including the installation of that fence.

I'm snapped out of my trip down memory lane when a woman joins us.

She's wearing street clothes, a hint of makeup and sports a number of piercings, all occupied by crucifixes.

"Don't bother trying to count them," I think. I'll only be able to remember so much, having been stripped of my notebook and pen at the front door.

The woman introduces herself as Cathy, adding, "I live here." At some point she tells us she's a "lifer" but never volunteers information about her crime. Nobody asks. She proves to be an excellent tour guide.

As we wander through the building, we learn that most of the 130 women currently housed at the facility (it is rated for a capacity of 125) live in the houses. There are supposed to be 10 women per house, but overcrowding has meant one of the houses now has 16 occupants. We're shown the family visitation house, which women can book if they meet a number of

conditions. We're told the use of the house had been suspended for some time while the house now holding 16 women was retrofitted for the task.

We're told the nearly completed building we saw as we entered the facility is a new minimum-security unit that will house up to 44 inmates when it opens, likely in about six weeks. We're told that it is hoped that will help ease up the tensions that come with overcrowding. We're not told what those tensions are. We don't ask.

We are shown the stores area where the grocery orders for each house are processed every week.

There are two women working there, both First Nations, and they happily answer all of the questions the group throws at them. We learn each house is given a budget of $350 a week to feed 10 people and that all dietary needs are accommodated. I think of my own grocery budget and ask, "How is that even possible?"

Cathy beams with pride as she shows us the library, built up over the past seven years through the efforts of community volunteer organizations like the Women's Prison SubCommittee of the Greater Edmonton Library Association. She tells us the program has been so successful that surplus books are now sent to a number of men's facilities.

We're shown the CORCAN unit, one of 39 across the country, which are intended to provide inmates with important skills training to increase their chances of success upon their release. The unit at EIFW is capable of sewing, embroidery and banner-making. As we walk through, two women are stitching shoulder badges for the Coast Guard. I comment that the skills training is awfully gendered and Cathy replies, "Big time." When I ask if there's access to other training for the women, like in the skilled trades or construction, she laughs.

We see the computer lab, where the women learn Microsoft Word or Excel but do not have Internet access. Cathy says a lot of the women experience severe shock upon their release when faced with the technological advances that have occurred during their incarceration.

She's waiting to receive approval for an escorted visit to participate in a program put on by the Edmonton Public Library to specifically address this issue.

We meet the Chaplain, Snowy, who tells us about how heavily EIFW relies on community volunteers for programming. He tells us about the highly successful choir and mentions they could always use more volunteers to offer music lessons. I ask Snowy about recidivism and he says that the EIFW has a high return rate, not necessarily because women have re-offended but because some of them, after having spent a long time institutionalized, have a hard time re-

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integrating on the outside.

Cathy mentions she's a mom and that her child is in Saskatchewan, but doesn't go into any further detail. I ask if there have been any babies born at EIFW lately. She says it's been a while, but marvels at how having a baby in the place, though only for a short time, changed everybody's outlook for the better.

Cathy's eyes light up when she tells us about the collective rescue of an injured stray cat last year. We talk about the strike the inmates launched last fall when the government arbitrarily slashed the few dollars a day they are able to earn by 30 percent. Prior to the move, some inmates could earn as much as $6.90 per day, which they use to purchase phone time, stamps and personal items. Cathy tells us some of the women still try to provide financially for their children and this move has really caused a major impact. We talk about gang infiltration, there's been some of that. And then, all too soon, we are done.

The CSC website states that the five guiding principles outlined in the Creating Choices report—empowerment, meaningful and responsible choices, respect and dignity, supportive environment, and shared responsibility—guide the delivery of correctional services for women.

There are now six regional women's correctional facilities in Canada.

Around the same time EIFW was built there were similar facilities constructed in Truro, NS; Fraser Valley, BC; Joliette, QC and Kitchener, ON. In addition, the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge in Maple Creek, SK was opened. It was at the Grand Valley Institute for Women in Kitchener that Ashley Smith died by selfstrangulation in October 2007, while guards looked on.

Postmedia journalist Laura Stone tracked former Justice Arbour down during the inquest into Smith's death, noting that many of the concerns raised in Arbour's 1996 report seemed to be contributing factors in the teenager's demise, including prolonged periods of segregation and lack of mental-health supports.

Arbour's comments were chilling.

"You have to ask yourself, well, has anything seriously been done to deal with these kinds of issues? Because it's so reminiscent," she told Stone.

Correctional Investigator Howard Sapers has raised a number of concerns with respect to women's corrections over the years. Recently, he's called on the federal government to loosen restrictions on the MotherChild Program. The program had been established in 2001 to allow some women to keep their young children with them while incarcerated. In 2008, the government moved to exclude any woman who had been convicted of serious crimes involving violence, children, or crimes of

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There is no normal a sexual nature. They reduced the age of children eligible to participate on a part-time basis from 12-yearsold to six-years-old and imposed additional requirements related to Children's Social Services (although CSC’s website does not reflect these changes). According to Sapers, prior to those changes the program had as many as two dozen women participating at any given time. Now, he says, they don't even bother applying for it. Ivan Zinger, the executive director and general counsel of the Office of the Correctional Investigator confirmed in an email that today there are just two women using the program, both on a part-time basis.

In a report titled Risky Business: An Investigation of the Treatment and Management of Chronic Self-Injury Among Federally Sentenced Women, released by Sapers' office last fall, he raised the alarm about chronic selfharming among women in the federal corrections system who continue to be treated and managed through isolation and prolonged segregation, despite what we've learned through the Smith case. We didn't see the segregation unit on our tour.

This concerns me.

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With the federal government's gettough on crime measures like mandatory minimum sentences, efforts to limit or deny conditional release, and longer sentences, the prison populations have nowhere to go but up. In his last annual report, Sapers noted that the women's population in prisons is increasing at a much faster rate than men's. In the 10-year period between March 2003 and March 2013, the female inmate population increased by just over 60 percent.

One in three federally sentenced women offenders is aboriginal. Since 2003, this group has increased by 83.7 percent.

In the end, the tour did nothing to assuage my concerns about conditions for women in Canadian prisons, though to be fair it did nothing to add to them. We didn't see any women who looked anything but comfortable and content which I found, at the time, odd given our surroundings. In the end, improvements will come when the principles put forth

by Creating Choices become more than just words on a page that happen to be utterly unaligned with the actions of the government in charge.

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Learning from Laverne Cox's journey of self-acceptance and love On the last day of Pride Week at the University of Alberta, I had the privilege to listen and learn from Laverne Cox. She is well known for her role as Sophia Burset, a transgender woman on the Netflix series Orange is the New Black, and she is also an inspiring trans* activist and advocate for LGBT*Q rights.

Cox shared her personal narrative and explored the intersectionality of race, class and gender that uniquely affects the lives of trans* women of colour and other trans* people. It is important, as she points outs, that we have the right to acknowledge all parts of our identities with pride in public. "I am not just one thing, and neither are you," Cox said.

Too often there is shaming towards those of us who have strayed away from acceptable standards of "normalness." But then again, what is normal?

Consequently, there are relatively few safe spaces that allow for trans* identities to openly legitimize their bodies and existence without the threat of violence. This

can be seen in the form of bullying, teasing, humiliating, outing and misgendering a trans* individual: "calling a trans woman a man is an act of violence," Cox pointed out.

It is not OK to use the wrong pronouns or to force trans* individuals into using the wrong bathroom.

Drawing from her own experiences with bullying, Cox explained that the anti-gay slurs used against her were more of an attack towards her gender expression than her sexuality.

Our cultural understanding of gender stems from the strict binary of male and female. This enforces informal practices that keep us in our gendered place. Cox explained that this is oppressive and negatively affects everyone, pressuring us to conform to ideal gender norms and expectations.

"Each and every one of us can decide today that we are not going to be the gender police and that we can just let people be who they want to be," Cox said.

In order to end the violence, she suggested we create spaces of gen-

der self-determination to engage in "difficult conversations and to come to new places of understanding of ourselves and each other."

In addition, I think the best way to disrupt this policing function is to consider a gender spectrum that recognizes all of our unique differences.

I will end this column by sharing Cox's advice for somebody who is transitioning: "Self acceptance and love is so deeply important for us.

I believe loving trans* people is a revolutionary act because we live in a society that constantly tells us that we are fake, that we don't deserve to be loved, and that we don't deserve to have equal opportunities and jobs. There is so much hate towards being different. I encourage everyone to accept ourselves where we are right now—and that doesn't mean that we don't want to get better, that we won't improve or become a better version of ourselves ... but the acceptance now has always been really crucial for me."

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A Scottish neverendum?

As Scotland moves towards independence, it looks to Quebec's example The referendum on Scotland's independence is only six months away and suddenly the cautious sparring between the Conservative-led coalition government in London and First Minister Alex Salmond's proindependence government in Edinburgh has turned into open war.

London won the first battles, and the "No" side will probably win the referendum in September—but it is going to be a long war.

The opening shot was fired by Chancellor George Osborne in London, who declared that an independent Scotland could not negotiate a currency union with the rest of the United Kingdom. With only one-tenth of Britain's population, Scotland is just too small to demand an equal say in how the pound is run. Besides, why would London want to keep the responsibility for Scotland's huge and rather dodgy banking sector?

Salmond responded by threatening to repudiate Scotland's share of the national debt if London wouldn't agree to a currency union, but the conclusion was obvious.

Scotland could go on using the British pound if it wanted (like Panama and East Timor use the US dollar), but it could have no formal link.

Next was the president of the European Commission, José Manuel

Barroso, who warned that it would in the referendum dropped to 32 speaking majority in Quebec too be "difficult, if not impossible" for percent, while the "noes" remained much at the time. But it did put the an independent Scotland to join the unchanged at 57 percent. Lots of question on the table, and it never European Union. Other EU mem- Scots would like independence if really went away again.

Salmond will know the history of bers that don't want their own au- it doesn't cost them anything, but tonomous regions to secede would they don't want it badly enough Quebec separatism well, for it is the almost certainly block Scotland's to risk any major changes. Unless best analogy to his own situation. membership—Barroso was talking something changes quite dramati- He will be aware that the second mainly about Spain and the sepa- cally, the final vote will be 60 – 40 referendum, in 1995, came within a hair's breadth of succeeding. And he ratists in Catalonia—and one veto or more against independence. is enough. will have noticed that the separatist Independence Parti Québécois was looking is still around, is Lots of Scots would like independence if it more complex likely to win the doesn't cost them anything, but they don't want provincial elecand expensive by the mintion due on April it badly enough to risk any major changes. ute—and then 7, and will almost Standard Life certainly call a spoke up. The third referendum Edinburgh-based company is the So what are the Scottish National- in the next few years. largest pension provider in the ists really hoping to achieve? SalIt's what English-speaking QuebecUnited Kingdom, managing around mond originally planned to build ers call the "neverendum," but it ac$350 billion in assets and employ- support for independence through tually does end eventually. You only ing 5000 people in Scotland. a long period of successful govern- have to win the referendum once. AfNinety percent of Standard Life's ment within the UK, but the SNP's ter 34 years of this, the "Rest of Canfour-million UK customers do not landslide victory in 2011, in the ada" really doesn't care any more, so live in Scotland, however, and depth of the recession, stoked un- there will be no pleas to Quebec to it warned that it might have to realistic hopes among his militants stay this time, no special offers to leave if the Scots voted for inde- and forced his hand. Nevertheless, sweeten the Confederation. pendence. A poll subsequently re- he probably knew he was going to The "Rest of the United Kingdom" vealed that 36 percent of Scottish lose this one. is already there: the English, in parThat's how it worked in Quebec ticular, seem distinctly unmoved firms would consider leaving folin the 1980 referendum, which the by the prospect of Scottish indelowing a "yes" vote.

It was a cold shower for the Scot- separatists lost 60 – 40. The idea pendence. This may be because tish National Party, and the number of leaving Canada and striking out Scotland has much less of the UK's of people planning to vote "yes" on their own frightened the French- population than Quebec has of

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Canada's (one-tenth versus onefifth), and because Scotland is at the far end of Britain whereas Quebec is in the middle of Canada. So maybe it will only take two referendums in Scotland.

They should pray that this is so, because the four-decade, threereferendum scenario is pretty grim.

In Quebec, it caused the most spectacular case of "planning blight" in recent history. The perpetual uncertainty about Quebec's political and economic future drove the corporate headquarters out (they moved to Toronto), and the immigrants and the investment went elsewhere.

The population numbers in Canada's two biggest provinces tell the story.

In 1980, the year of the first referendum, there were 6.5 million people in Quebec and 8.5 million in Ontario, and the ratio had been steady for most of the century. There are now 8.2 million people in Quebec— and 13.4 million in Ontario. Montréal had always been Canada's biggest city, but Toronto is now more than 50-percent bigger.

Salmond must know that this is where he is taking Scotland. He presumably thinks it is worth it. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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too poorly back then," she says. "It wasn't that bad before. We just don't understand the change."

McInulty disputes the notion of a goldthere?" en, older age of math.

McInulty says that his daughter, in "This notion that there was a golden Grade 4, is good at math. age where everybody could do their time "She'd love to do Mad Minutes, because tables, there never has been," he says. she's really good at them," he says. "She "There is also a huge group of kids who doesn't learn a damn thing from them, weren't being served by the old way of but she likes doing them." teaching mathematics."

According to Alberta Education, the He cites his experience as a learner program is meant to target students years ago in an age of who learn differently. rote math.

In 2012/2013 SpeakThe one and two levels are not something "I was successful at it Out forums ran by the province, 11 percent of you aspire to ... mathematicians say that despite the way it was being taught. Because students said they were that's very, very elementary.

I could tell you, lots at their best when they of people around me had an ability to choose were completely clued their learning styles, and 12 percent identified an engaging, dedi- the collaborative approach the ministry out," he says. "As years went on, it got cated teacher that caters to their styles. wishes to take with the next set of cur- worse and worse.

"I understand that doesn't mean that Twenty percent said being engaged and riculum revisions, but Tran-Davies says that in terms of getting the minister's at- the way that we're going is the right and interested, including interactive learning only way, but certainly a return to what tention, they were "abysmal." and discussions, helped them succeed. we had can't be the right path in my "While memorization is certainly a com"I will not stop petitioning until the government will sit down and listen to all mind." ponent of enabling a child to develop BATES the parents and professionals out there ANDREW these skills, there's much more to it than ANDREW@VUEWEEKLY.COM and listen to the fact that we didn't do that and so children need to have those << CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5

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options presented to them," Powers says.

"Mathematics is a procedure, it's an operation ... you always want to teach a student the best way of driving a car," Tran-Davies says. "Why don't we start out with the best strategy, and then the teachers can identify which children are struggling, and then they can employ the second strategy."

Tran-Davies met with representatives of the ministry in January and February.

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Achieving the holy trinity Alberta Ballet finally produces the keystone Giselle

'G

iselle is part of that holy trinity breaking actually; every time I watch of the classical ballets," explains it in rehearsal I have little tears Alberta Ballet's artistic director, Jean come out because it's so beautifully Grand-Maitre (the other two being danced," Grand-Maitre says.

Adolphe Adam's delicate score— The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake).

"I think that now that we're 47 years written for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1841—was an anomaly among music old, it's time that we performed it."

With its presentation of Giselle this written for dance during the Romanweekend, Alberta Ballet will finally tic era. Incredibly, the show has surcomplete, for the first time ever, vived with most of the original chothat most sacred ballet triumvirate. reography intact, which Grand-Maitre Predating Swan Lake and The Sleep- admits, has been a challenge for his ing Beauty by a few decades, Giselle corps.

"Our dancers discovered that to is a story of a fragile, young girl who falls in love with a prince betrothed reproduce the esthetic of a ballet to another woman. The ballet is most that is so old is challenging for this known for its generation," he fantastical antics adds. "How the with the Wilis, a Fri, Mar 14 (7:30 pm); Sat, Mar wrists move, how ghostly group of 15 (2 pm & 7:30 pm) the head must be women betrayed Giselle tilted, how the hair by their lovers, Jubilee Auditorium, $29 – $95 must be combed ... cursed to inhabit It's also probably the forest and one of the ballets prey on men who they find therein that has the most jumping in it, so it's really been a killer." at night.

When Giselle's prince, Albrecht, enters the woods, the Queen of Grand-Maitre also explains the the Wilis sentences him to dance unique adagio (super-slow) moveuntil the sun comes up or until his ment in the show has been weighing own death—whichever comes first. on his principals; Hayna Gutierrez, Giselle steps in to dance as he tires, Mariko Kondo and Akiko and eventually sacrifices herself for Ishii are taking turns as his survival.

"It's a really poignant score, a poignant story.

It's heart-

the eponymous femme.

"I'm actually amazed by how we see so little adagio in modern choreography—everything is moving fast all the time now. It's very physical that way; Giselle is the true suspension of disbelief. These women float in the forest like ethereal creatures.

The footwork has to be impeccable because the tutu is cut very low, so the feet become very evident," he says, noting that Giselle's tutus are in the Romantic style, cut near the midcalf—unlike the stiffer plate around the waist as seen in other classics.

"We have a stunning production that really brings back to life a Romantic era; you really feel like you're looking at paintings from the 19th century when the curtain comes up. You're going to travel back in time to see this really poignant romantic story."

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Northwest Dance Project A

fter 10 years of working in Portland, Oregon with seeing La La La Human Steps in the late '90s, when a dance outfit the American press has been hail- she was employed for a season as ballet mistress ing as the country's latest "it" company, Sarah Slipper with Alberta Ballet—NWDP brings a diverse program returns to her misty hometown of Vancouver with a of works created by international choreographers. full-circle sorta feeling.

Wen Wei Wang's Chi is on the program, developed Since hanging up her pointe shoes and founding the for NWDP in 2009, which explores Wang's interest Northwest Dance Project in 2004, Slipper has com- in the balance between his Chinese and Canadian missioned an astounding 160 works for her company. identities. Memory House is a duet created by SlipProlific as that is, NWDP consistently renews its rep- per in 2011 for dancers Andrea Parson and Franco Niertoire by working with choreographers from around eto—both winners of the prestigious Princess Grace the world who create pieces excluAward for Dance. Third up is This sively for the eclectic company of Time Tomorrow by Danielle Aga10 dancers. Slipper describes them Sun, Mar 16 (7:30 pm) mi; A former member of Tel Aviv's as phenomenal movers but also as Arden Theatre (St Albert), Batsheva Dance Company, Agami "dancers that don't necessarily fit $20 – $35 is credited with bringing Israel's the normal mould." playful Gaga dance technique to "We only do original work creatthe US. The program closes with the highly acclaimed State ed on us. That's our niche, we're one of the only companies across the world doing this," Slipper explains. of Matter by Ihsan Rustem—a winner of both the Au"Choreographers want to come to us and they want dience Award at Hannover Choreographic Competito come back. The artists are so open, so fearless, tion and Sadler's Wells Global Dance Contest in 2011.

"As a Canadian woman director, founding an Amerithey go on the journey with the choreographer, and they're good at it—it's like the more voices we bring can company and bringing it back home, I'm pretty it gets better and better." proud, pretty thrilled," she says. "I want to show the world what I've been up to."

For their first-ever Canadian tour, which stops at the FAWNDA MITHRUSH Arden this Sunday—where Slipper remembers first FAWNDA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Queen Lear Queening the King // David Rauch

HARCOURT HOUSE ARTIST RUN CENTRE

K

ing Lear is one of the Holy Grails so your faculties and your ability to of theatre roles—a true test of retain lines may not be at their peak. the dramatic mettle of a mature per- And there's tremendous emotional former. While Eugene Strickland's challenges in that role, too."

Queen Lear may not demand quite Queen Lear isn't simply a feminized so much of its two characters, it uses version of the Shakespeare play, that career-pinnacle role to delve however. The play focuses on the into a whole set relationship between a mature of issues—some Thu, Mar 13 – Sun, Mar 30 actress, come out similar, others (7:30 pm; 2 pm Sunday matinees) wholly differof retirement to Directed by John Hudson play Lear in an ent—than those Varscona Theatre, $16 – $27 all-female version found in the origiof the show, with nal Shakespeare.

"King Lear's a terrifying part at the a younger woman, the daughter of a best of times," says John Hudson, ar- now-deceased friend whom she has tistic director of Shadow Theatre and enlisted to help rehearse her lines.

There's a dearth of prominent roles here directing the third installment in the company's season. "The play is for mature actresses in theatre as a certainly one of the great pieces of lit- whole; this was also part of the imerature ever created. But for actors, it petus for Shadow Theatre's current demands so much of you because you season, which has focused on plays are at the later stages of your career, that do provide such roles.

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"We're reflecting society back—our whole demographic is aging so we should be addressing that in some way," Hudson notes. "Part of the journey for the younger woman in the play is the realization that one day she'll be that older woman, and that's a tough realization for young people to make. You do kind of think you're going to be young forever.

"One of my favourite quotes is— and I'm not sure who said it—'the more light I see, the more darkness surrounds it,'" he continues. "So you know more and more and more, but the more you know, the more you know how much you still have to learn. For myself, here I am, I've directed 90 shows probably in my career, and yet every time out there's something new to learn."

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God is a Scottish Drag Queen T

"I decided that I would do a Scothe first second-coming of God tish accent instead of an English acdidn't go over so well.

It was back in 2004, unassuming- cent, because there's a sort of meanly set in Victoria: Mike Delamont, a ness to the character, but it's meant in a very wink kind core member of the city's Atomof way," he says. ic Vaudeville Thu, Mar 13 – Sat, Mar 15 (8 pm) "And with the Engc o m p a n y — t h e Westbury Theatre, ATB Financial lish accent, it was just really cutting, same folks who Arts Barns, $20 whirled Ride the and really mean Cyclone through and just more town via the Citadel last year— school principal than a fun way. And was to play the creator in a battle when the accent changed, it really of bands "between Jesus and Sa- brought in the fact that the charactan," Delamont explains over the ter's 100-percent in on the joke, and phone. "Every 5000 years they there's really no pretension to it."

Now, God is a Scottish Drag Queen battle each other for supremacy, and Jesus has never won. So we is Delamont's veritable Fringe hit, met his dad in that Rocky coach- with the titular deity riffing on everything from Bieber to the Westing style."

Delamont only knew he wanted boro Baptist Church. The show's God to be a man in a dress, though return to town now is a goodbye not make any mention of it. He of sorts, as Delamont's retiring this also decided to try out an English particular set of jokes, though not accent, a "fiery" red wig and huge the character (a sequel of fresh masunglasses. "And it just ... bombed," terial will debut at this year's Fringe Delamont laughs, a rueful tone in fest). his voice.

Scrambling to fix the bit before Delamont, an affable chat, notes the next night's performance, he that while playing the western took stock of other costuming op- deity seems an ample character tions: there was a black bob wig to serve as a soapbox for his own he'd never used, and a less-extrava- beliefs, he's had to temper them in gant pair of glasses. And there was the name of what reads best with something irking him about the ac- an audience.

"I have to edit myself quite a bit," cent, too.

he says. "I think of the character as the God that I would like there to be—I've never believed in a God, I've never been that kind of person—I can certainly appreciate that some people do, but I have opinions that I don't think are funny. So I've certainly had to sacrifice bits that maybe had a good point, but I've had to either fully pull them out or wait and see if I can twist them into a better joke."

Still, Delamont has plans on how to land those deeper points: he's looking to shoot a web series for the character at the end of the year, plus touring the show's next incarnation. There are also Delamont's other, non-biblically related engagements as a comedian and performer (he's got about four shows on the go right now).

That maybe not exactly adds up to the clearest career path, but hey: that bob wig is certainly paying the bills.

"If you told me five years ago that a major part of my income would be playing God as a Scottish drag queen, I would be very confused," Delamont says, a laugh brewing up behind the words. "I would probably believe you, but I wouldn't understand why."

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Mercy of A Storm

De plein fouet dans la tempete

by JeFFrey haTcher

march 6 - 16, 2014 PreviewS march 4 & 5

Presented in english and in French in a new translation

by Gisèle villeneuve.

Presented in english: march 4, 6, 8, 12, 14, and 16 Presented in French: march 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15

La cITÉ FraNcOphONE 8627 rUe marie-aNNe GaboUry (91 STreeT) w w w. N O rT h E r N L I G h T T h E aT r E . cO m

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Little One

T

here's really no other way to de- Moscovitch has become an important scribe Little One, the second entry in name in Canadian theatre.

Theatre Network's season, than unsetThe performers' fine storytelling skills, tling. Deeply, profoundly, persistently however, are what really bear the full unsettling. weight of the story: Gervais and Borotsik It's not simply a matter of subject, play off each other's nuances subtly and though Hannah Moscovitch's script is effectively. Offstage, the two are married certainly laden with disturbing elements: and have performed together several it's a story of childhood trauma and how times before; with their palpable chemistry it's obvious why, those early experiences continue to Until Sun, Mar 23 (8 pm; 2 pm as they are able to transform that intiinform the lives Sunday matinees) of two foster chil- Directed by Bradley Moss macy into powerful dren, Aaron (Jesse Roxy Theatre, $21 – $27 performances.

Borotsik plays a Gervais) and Claire (Amber Borotsik). difficult role well; as It's an artfully layered, mysterious and the character is written, Claire could eascomplex script; clear evidence of why ily be made into an unsympathetic mon-

Queen Lear

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ster—which she is, admittedly, at least in part. Borotsik infuses the character with just enough humanity, despite her flat affect and lack of emotional response, that the audience remains aware that ultimately she was a little girl who suffered horrible abuse, and that trauma has proceeded to shape the rest of her life. So too does Gervais portray his own trauma, evidenced by his haunted, haltering demeanour, bred of living under constant apprehension and terror of what his sister might do next.

Cory Sincennes' set design is deceptively simple but elegant and effective: a twoway mirror stretching along most of the stage, with openings on either end. Claire begins behind this mirror, hooded and dimly illuminated, her brother in front, starkly lit and visibly distressed. When the emotions run high enough, Aaron conjures Claire forth into his space or moves back into hers; his paranoia and fear culminate at the show's climax with the ominous, threatening figure of Claire flickering just behind him—quite a brilliant stage convention.

I'm betting Little One will see Sterling nominations, and for good reason: as provocative as it is disquieting, this is a story and characters that linger long after you've left the theatre.

MEL PRIESTLEY

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An unsettling family dynamic // Ian Jackson, EPIC

Tuesdays are 2 for 1

REVUE // THEATRE

For tickets call: Tix on the Square 780-420-1757 or Shadow Theatre 780-434-5564 www.shadowtheatre.org

Mercy of a Storm Until Sat, Mar 15 (additional Fri, Mar 14 at 11 pm) English shows on even dates at 7:30 pm French shows on odd dates at 8 pm Directed by Trevor Schmidt La Cité Francophone, $16 – $28 together would be treading lightly, but I'd rather skimp on plot details here than give too much, Show no Mercy // Ian Jackson, EPIC because the way ith a projected title card's el- information tumbles out in Mercy— egant handwriting and the big slowly and tangentially at first, then in sweeps of mood-setting melodramat- increasingly direct, revelatory doses— ic score, Mercy of A Storm plants it- is a big part of the fun. It's a tale of self firmly in genre and era right from tangled love and expectations that the get-go. lets its web of questions and answers It's 1945, at a New Year's Eve party spin out right before us. in Cambria, Ohio. Well, just outside It's snappy as it goes, too: playwright the party: we're sequestered in a Jeffrey Hatcher captures the era's cozy pool house with George (Brian penchant for zippy, witty dialogue, Dooley) and, soon joining him, Zano- particularly with Zanoiva, who's alvia (Gianna Vacirca). She's half his age, ways ready with a quippy retort to slipped an invite during the party, os- George's more stilted argumentative tensibly to come listen to a rare vinyl bumbles. Both actors handle the roles record (is that ever the real reason?). admirably: Dooley's George manifests To say the two already have a history his worries about high society into a

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nervous overthinker, a grounding foil to Zanovia, a wild hearted, quip-crackin' dame. Vacirca's sense of timing is sharp, shifting from barbed to more tender without losing her edge.

Mercy, a co-production of Northern Light Theatre and L'Uni, is being presented in both English and French on alternating nights with the same cast.

(I only caught the English, so I can't speak to the subtle shifts in character that accompany a switch in language.)

Trevor Schimdt's direction keeps it moving along at a decent clip, but knows when to pause and savour a moment; swells of music (score by Darrin Hagen) periodically rise up to highlight good one-liners and particular revelations which helps keep the noir style present, even as the drama goes deeper.

If there's a falter, here, it's only in the script's latter half. Last-minute twist piles up on last-minute twist, and the mood and build muddles somewhat in the final third. But it's a minor quibble with a script and show that otherwise keep such a tight rein on style without sacrificing any substance.

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Occupy Love by Velcrow Ripper

An Evening with Kevin McDonald from Kids in the Hall / Sat, Mar 15 (7:30 pm) During the day, students will be working hard on sketches to perform for you fine folks under the guidance of the one and only Kevin McDonald. You can thank Rapid Fire Theatre for this one. (Citadel Theatre, $20) March Madness / Sat, Mar 15 (9 am –

5 pm; keynote speaker at 4 pm) Think you have the next great television idea? This workshop offers a shot at pitching to Super Channel and CTV, plus discussions on financing strategies, marketing and evolving technology—which is all good to know, too. Oh, and the keynote speaker is award-winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper.

(Shaw Theatre [NAIT Campus],

$75, free for AMPIA and FAVA Coop members) The Spider or the Fly? / Until Sat, Mar 15 (8 pm) Murder, mystery and a little romance brought to life in Sam Bobrick's script by the duo behind the Fringe hit Fools for Love, Christine Lesiak and Adam Keefe. (Kinsmen Korral Hall, St Albert, $20 – $25)

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ARTS PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

Cultivate

Until Sat, Mar 29 Opening reception Fri, Mar 14 (7 pm) The Drawing Room

Growth Patterns // Erin Greenough

A

s the snow finally begins to melt away, we enter what is affectionately known as the Brown Season, when Dirty City is in all its muddy glory.

But this dirt is crucial for new life to be cultivated, and the concept of nurturing this growth has been applied to Cultivate, a new exhibition presented by local arts advocacy blog PrairieSeen.

The show, featuring art from Axis Mundi Artistry, Erin Greenough and Hannah Schneider, is not strictly focused on cultivating in the traditional sense, but more so in planting roots in the community and cultivating new perceptions of the artists' surroundings and art in Edmonton.

PrairieSeen celebrated its first birthday last year with its first show,

Inventory, and co-creator Chelsey Van Weerden explains that Cultivate is a continuation of that idea: PrairieSeen is moving on and growing up, fostering new partnerships with the Drawing Room, working with guest writers as well as presenting events and workshops that further the conversation about visual arts.

"We'd definitely like to do more events in the future. We like the idea of doing more workshops, and we also just want to get people together talking about art, just even in a really casual sense," says Tori McNish, the other half of PrairieSeen. "It doesn't have to be in a symposium set up, but we want to set up a regular sense of getting people together looking at art, talking about

art, just as an ongoing conversation, and not just with the kind of usual suspects in the visual arts community. We'd like to draw people in."

McNish and Van Weerden maintain that these conversations need to be inclusive, regardless of an individual's experience—or lack thereof—with visual art.

"We want to create an easy entry point," McNish notes. "One of my pet peeves is when people think visual culture is this impenetrable community, that there isn't a place for them because they don't have a background in it or don't know anything about it.

We do think it's for everyone and that

it should be treated as such."

"We struggled with that a little bit at first because Tori has a little bit of a design background but none of us identify as art makers in that sense," Van Weerden adds. "We come from art-history backgrounds, so we're interested in writing about art and talking about art and contributing to the conversation about art, but we don't contribute to the creation of it. We were like, 'Well, do we have any business writing about it?' and then we were like, 'Well, we both love it and that's what matters, right?'"

MEAGHAN BAXTER

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PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

Graffiti art competition and soirée A

house slated for demolition is of my life. One Mother's Day morngetting a new lease on life—at ing she walked down to an 11 foot by 20 foot card that took up the entire least for a little while.

The home was purchased by the kitchen, so you know, she's been a vicparents of Jake Hastey, artistic di- tim to more than a few of my whims."

So in lieu of a destructive house rector of Toy Guns Dance Theatre party, 30 local with the intention artists have been of tearing it down Reception: Sat, Mar 15 (7 pm) and rebuilding $10 (advance), $15 (at the door) selected to transform the house from scratch. The into a temporary original idea was Sun, Mar 16 (2 pm – 8 pm) living art gallery to throw a giant Mon, Mar 17 – Thu, Mar 20 while competing house party and (6:30 pm – 9:30 pm) for more than destroy the place, 7012 - 91 Street $1000 in prizes, but it became evi- Afternoon showings can be which will be dedent that would arranged by appointment for termined by judgbe dangerous, not groups of five or more. Contact ing panel based to mention have toygunsevents@gmail.com on technique, the potential to concept and perbreak a few laws.

"At first my mom was really ner- sonal reaction to each piece. In addivous because she thought all of her tion to the pieces, projection, instalneighbours would hate her before lation and exterior work will be on she even moved in," Hastey says display courtesy of Toy Guns, Guru with a laugh, adding they have in- College and iHuman Youth Society.

Before the artists get to work, vited immediate neighbours to the event and made clear having 150 to Hastey and company have been 200 people over will most certainly busy installing papier-mâché wood be a one-time thing. "I've been pull- blocks to form alternative tables, ing shenanigans like this for most preparing a food-and-bar area in the

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garage as well as a swing installation in the basement.

Toy Guns aims to create dance theatre that is based in visual arts, and the aim was to get more artists involved to create more community, so any type of visual or installation art was welcome at the event.

"It isn't just meant to be graffiti, but rather the concept of graffiti— taking a space and transforming it into art that isn't on canvas necessarily," says Justin Kautz, associate director of Toy Guns. "We're expanding that idea into any type of visual or installation art, so we're allowing artists to bring their own art supplies as well as anything they'd like to install."

Ideally, Hastey says, theatre has to transport the audience, and Toy Guns would like to take the concept of the graffiti competition into a theatre setting. But for a company in its early days, resources are limited, so using the house is a way to keep that development going.

Plus, it's a chance for artists to network with one another, an impor-

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tant aspect in helping the city's arts community grow.

"That's what we really want is a reason for people to leave their house and come, come experience art outside of their house. Because you can see an image of every great painting in every great show at home on your computer, I think it has to become three-dimensional, because it has to be an experience that's going to be visceral for someone to be motivated," Hastey says.

"Not just to create visceral reactions or immediate impact, but I know one of the goals of the work of Toy Guns—and also just personally among us here—is to break outside of a convergent way of thinking," Kautz adds. "Where you're not just locked into the patterns of the world around you, but you start thinking divergently, being able to be creative on a regular, day to day fashion and make that actually carry forward with a sense of encouragement, enlightenment, truth—all of those things put together."

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Dance Alberta Ballet–Giselle • Jubilee Auditorium • Historical premiere • Mar 14-15

Capital City Burlesque's Steak & A BJ Show • Mercury Room, 10575-114 St • New solo and group acts by the ladies of CCB • Mar 14-15, 9pm (door), 10pm (show) • $12 (online)/$15 (door); $30 (adv reserved table for 2); $60 (adv reserved table for 4) at capitalcityburlesque.eventbrite.ca

Shumka at 50 • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • shumka.com • Canada's Ukrainian Shumka Dancers, choreography by Dave Ganert • Mar 21, 7:30pm • $59.60-$26.90 at TicketMaster

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Fri Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 (lesson with entry); Every Fri until Apr 25; no dance Mar 21

until Mar 29; artist reception: Sat, Mar 22, 2-4pm • Discovery Gallery: Trophies for the Ranchland: Works by Jill Nuckles; until Mar 22; reception: Mar 22, 2-4pm • What does your fish Look Like?: Ceramics by Gillian Mitchell; until Mar 22; reception: Mar 22, 2-4pm

Artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.233.3635 • Gratitude: An Exhibition of Local Graphic Design Featuring Perry Gratton with Arrowz Featuring New Collaborative Works with Mat Simpson • Through Apr

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • BMO World of Creativity: Cabinets of Curiosity: Lyndal Osborne's curious collection; until Jun 30 • Bowerbird, Life as Art: Works by Lyndal Osborne: until Apr 27 • Strange Dream: Artworks by Jill Stanton; until Dec 31 • Art for lunch: Ledcor Theatre Foyer: The Science of Art with Tori McNish; Mar 20, 12:10-12:50pm; free • Open Studio: Adult Drop-In Workshops: 7-9pm; $15/$12 (member) Project: Scale Drawing; Mar 19

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19

7pm • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm

Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • Front Room: The Past is a Foreign Country and the Chair Test: Works by John Latour; until Apr 10 • Main Gallery: RE-Membering Ueno: Mixed media print series by Karen Dugas; until Apr 10 • Hall Project Space: Edmonton Wayfinding Project: Until Apr 10; Mar 14 meeting at tge AGA Pedway entrance, 7:15pm • Harcourt House– Annex: ambiARTnight: Arthappening featuring projected artworks by Glenys Switzer, Marliss Weber, Paula E. Kirman, and Stephen Sereda; artworks will be interpreted by musicians, Bill Damur, Bong Sample, Shannon Land, and Gene Kosowan; all-ages; Sat, Apr 5, 7:30pm; $10

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer • 2nd Fl, Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • IMR Institute of Morphoid Research: Installation by Jennifer Akkermans • Until Mar 22

Hub on Ross–Red Deer • The Wonders of Anime: Works by Deborah Torrance and Sheldon Rabbit Wheatley • Until Mar 28

Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Fragile Elements: Works by Susan Casault, Peter Ivens, and Teresa Stieben; until Apr 26 • Ageless Art: Buds and Blossoms: for mature adults; pre-register; Mar 20, 1-3pm; $15/$13.50 (member) • Artventures: Drop-in art program for children aged 6-12; Nuts About Nature; Mar 15, 1-4pm; $6 (per child)/$5.40 (member)

Jeff Allen Art Gallery (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • Captured Moments: Artworks by Sharon Vanderwolf • Until Mar 26 Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • Open and Closed: Artworks by Wendy Meeres; Until Apr 27

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY (Agnes Bugera Gallery), 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • bugeramathesongallery.com • Day Tripping: Works

by Jane Brookes • Two Days in New York: Works

by David Wilson; Mar 14-28; Meet the Artists': Mar 14, 6-9pm; Mar 15, 1-3pm

Lando Gallery • 103, 10310-124 St •

10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 lesson with entry

Cafe Pichilingue–Red Deer • Artworks by

Latitude 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353

Monica Sheline; until Mar 31

• Main Space: Falling through the mirror: Paintings by Tammy Salzl, and installation/sculpture stories by Emily Jan; until Apr 15

Northwest Dance Project • Arden Theatre,

by Léonie Poole, Fabienne Bühl, Lenora Elkin, Heide MullerHass • Mar 14-25

Sugar Foot Swing Dance • Sugar Swing,

St Albert • Under the direction of dancer and choreographer, Sarah Slipper • Mar 16, 7:30pm • $35 (adult)/$20 (student) at Arden box office

Ukrainian Shumka Dancers • Jubilee Auditorium • 780.455.9559 • Shumka Matinee Series: Telling Stories Through Dance: student matinee performances • Mar 20-21, 10am • $15/$10 (student/senior group bookings), door

Next Stop Vaudeville Station • Fort Edmonton, Capitol Theatre, Fox Drive, Fort Edmonton Park • Experience the golden days of Vaudeville • Mar 14-15, 8pm

Zumba BashFiery Fridays • Central Senior Lions Centre, 11113-113 St • Shake your body to the Latin beat, and freestyle dance to live DJ music.

Featuring Tamico Russell, Ike Henry, DJ Rocko and Zumba instructors Dru D, Manuella F-St, Michelle M, Sabrina D. and Cuban Salsa instructor Leo Gonzales • 3rd Fri each month • 7pm • $20 (online)/$25 (door)

FILM BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose • baileytheatre. com • The Unsinkable Molly Brown (G, 1964); Mar 19, 1:30pm; $5

The Capitol Theatre–Fort Edmonton • fortedmontonpark.ca • Historical Oscar Snubs: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, PG); Mar 13 • Every Thu, 7:30pm; The Great Dictator (1948, PG) on Mar 20 • $10

Edmonton Film Society • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • Laura (1944, PG); Mar 17, 8pm • The Killers (1946, PG); Mar 24, 8pm • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior)/$5 (student)/$3 (child 12 and under)

From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner Library Centennial Rm, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Becoming Jane, PG; Mar 14, 2pm • Amelia, PG, Mar 21, 2pm IMAX Theatre • TELUS World of Science, 11211142 St • Jerusalem 3D (G) Fri-Sat 11:00am, 2:10, 3:20, 6:50, 8:00; Sun 11:00am, 2:10, 5:15; Mon-Tue 2:00, 3:10, 5:15; Wed 2:00, 3:10, 5:15; 6:30; Thu 2:00, 3:10, 5:15 • To The Arctic (G) Fri 12:00pm • Rocky Mountain Express (G) Sat-Sun 12:00pm; Tue 4:20 • Flight of the Butterflies 3D (G) Fri-Sun 1:00; Wed 4:20 • Born to be Wild 3D (G) Mon-Thu 4:20 • Gravity 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 4:35, 9:10; Sun 3:25, 6:30; Mon-Tue 6:30; Thu 8:00 • Mar 14-20

Metro Cinema • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Crime Watch: 2nd Tue each month • $10 (adult)/$8 (student/senior)/$6 (child 12 and under) University of Alberta • Telus Centre, Rm 217/219 • Water Week UAlberta: Even the Rain (También la lluvia), film screening presented by the Global Education Program and the Faculty of Native Studies • Mar 20, 5pm • Free

galLeries + Museums ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: PAYCE: Celebrating Greg Payce's 2013 Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Fine Craft;

780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • March Exhibition and Sale: Gallery artists and secondary market works; until Mar 25 • Memories: Artworks by Tslila Barzel; until Mar 19

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • Works

Loft Gallery • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 790.559.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Open: Sat-Sun 12-4pm • Works

by Beth Gillard • Until Apr 27

Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • Six Traits in Unity: Shapes of Canada West, paintings by Bernadette McCormack • Until Mar 15

Marjorie Wood Gallery–Red Deer • The Colour of Inner Peace: Works by Arts a la Carte • Through Mar

dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • ... Landscape: Fresh look at perhaps the most over used cliche in Canadian art • Until Mar 15

McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-

DIXON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.200.2711 • Richard Dixon's Studio and Gallery featuring a collection of historical Canadian artworks; antique jade sculptures and jewellery; 17th Century bronze masterworks and artworks by Richard Dixon

Douglas Udell Gallery (DUG) • 10332124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Represents some of Canada`s leading contemporary artists as well as artists gaining recognition in the international art scene. Committed to making Canadian historical art available • Figures: Paintings and sculptures by Erik Olson • Mar 22-Apr 5 • Opening: Mar 22, 2-4pm; artist in attendance

DRawing Room • 10253-97 St • drawingroomedmonton.com/events • Cultivate: Curators Tori McNish and Chelsey van Weerden, PrairieSeen, with art by Axis Mundi Artistry, Erin Greenough, and Hannah Schneider • Until Mar 29 • Reception: Mar 14, 7-11pm

112 St • 780.407.7152 • Houses/Homes: Drawings of houses in the Garneau neighbourhood by Wendy Gervais with short stories by Shirley Serviss, and historical reference by Ken Tingley; until Mar 16 • Measuring A Year: By the Minute: Knitted sculpture, installation by Margie Davidson; Mar 22-May 16

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • New works by Keith Harder; until Mar19 • Video Works by Neil Fiertel; Mar 21-Apr 23; Artist’s reception: Mar 23, 1-3:30pm

Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • Piece Makers (Quilting)–How Our Grandmothers Re-cycled • Until Mar 23

MUTTART CONSERVATORY • 9626-96A St • Music at the Muttart: Celtic Romp: Mar 13, 6-8pm • Artists in Action: Mar 23, 12-4pm

Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Artisan Nook: Daily Encounters with Nature: Paintings by Natasa Vretenar; until Mar 22 • Vertical Space: UNFINISHED PAINTING CHALLENGE: Jointly created paintings by several artists; until Apr 17

Enterprise square galleries • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • CROSS CONTAMINATION: Artworks by the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts staff and artist collective; until Mar 28 • Fresh Paint: A Snapshot of Painting in Edmonton; until Apr 12 • Duets: Shared Ideas in Painting: until Apr 12 • Visual Music: Five Films by John Osborne; until Mar 29

Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts

FAb Gallery • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • the space between us: Works

by Alysha Creighton • Field Notes: Works by Lisa Matthias; until Mar 23 • Lebzelter and Danner: Printed Matter: Printworks by Austrian artists; until Mar 22 • Speaker Series: FAB 2-20: I Don't Care What It's Made of: Interdisciplinary Art and the Art Gallery; talk by Blair Brennan; Thu, Mar 13, 5:15pm • Speaker Series: Faculty Club, Sask Dr: SF: String Figures, Multispecies Muddles, Staying with the Trouble; Mar 24, 5:14pm

• 9225-118 Ave • thenina.ca • Community Arts Night: Learn techniques, become familiar with new mediums; Every Tue until Jun 10, 6:30-8:30pm; Pre-register at 780.474.7611 • Celebrate the work of Slave Lake Metis artist, Justin Bergman and his appreciation of Kulu... a legendary giant bird of prey; Mar 13-28; reception Mar 20, 6-8pm

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Works by Paul Bernhardt and James Olley • Until Mar 25

Red Deer Museum & Art Gallery • reddeerartscouncil.ca • totems of the masculine: Personages in leather, wool, wood, and steel by Matt Gould • Until May 11

Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • METAMORPHOSIS: Elaine Berglund; until Mar 18 • Célébrons les Liens: Works by Karen Blanchet; Mar 22-Apr 29

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Chop Suey on the Prairies: Until Apr 27 • Orientation Gallery: Species at Risk: until Mar 16 • Lecture Series: Museum Theatre: Questions and Collections IV: until Apr 9, 7pm; free

Gallery 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert • Illumination: Encaustic artworks by Barbara Mitchell 8 Until Mar 13

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library

Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St • Beneath the

Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Student: Student works curated by the Visual Arts Student Association, U of A • Edmonton Stamp Club Display • Until Mar 31

Sun: Paintings by Richard Tosczak • Until Mar 29

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alberta

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS v1 • 10729-104 Ave • happyharborcomics.com • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month,

Print­-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Main Gallery: Amplitudes: Printworks by Robert Truszkowski • Mar 13-Apr 12; opening: Mar 13, 7-9pm; artist speaking about his work at 6pm • Community Gallery: City in

a Waffle Iron: Printworks by Eva Schneider; Mar 13-Apr 12; opening: Mar 13, 7-9pm • SNAP Printshop, 12056 Jasper Ave: Drink & Draw: Parlour Games: music by Billie Zizi and the Gypsy Jive; Mar 22, 8:30pm

Strathcona County Museum Archives • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Essence of Elegance: Lifestyles of the Past; until Mar 21

Strathcona County Art Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • Duality in a Diaphanous Landscape: Works by Local glass artist Manola Borrajo; Mar 14-Apr 27 • Opening: Mar 14, 7pm

Telus World of Science • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Harry Potter: the Exhibition: Peer into the wizard’s world in an interactive exhibit featuring hundreds of authentic props and costumes from the Harry Potter films; until Apr 6; tickets start: $14 • How to Make a Monster–The Art and Technology of Animatronics

Toy Guns' Graffiti Art Gallery • 701291 St • For day-time viewing (5 people min), book appt with Richelle at toygunsevents@gmail.com, 780.221.9629 • Mar 16, 2-8pm; Mar 17-20, 6:309:30pm • Admission by donation; proceeds fund artist creations to be featured in the space where Toy Guns Dance Theatre will perform

VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • Gallery A: Gallery B: Celebrating Alberta: Alberta Society of Artists; until Mar 15 • Gallery A: Hometown Dreams: Paintings

by Linda Craddock; Mar 20-May 3 • Gallery B: Labyrinth of the Eternal Archetype: Installation by Shyra Desouza; Mar 20-May 3 • Opening: Mar 20, 7-9:30pm

VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • Works by Deborah Catton; through Mar

Velvet Olive Lounge–Red Deer • Paintings

by Sasha Grinnell • Until Mar 31

West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Paintings

by Claudette Castonguay • Until Mar 13 • Reception: Mar 15, 10-5pm

works Gallery • 10635-95 St • facebook. com/TheWorksArtandDesignFestival • Meet Me In McCauley: Novantacinque 95 Benvenuti: The McCauley Revitalization Committee, The Places 52 sculptural art banners installed on 95 St between 106A and 109A Ave. The banners feature imagery created by Dennis Lenarduzzi; through Mar • The YMCA Community Canvas Works Gallery: Don Wheaton YMCA downtown (10211 102 Ave): Jenny Keith's nature-inspired paintings; until May • Jackson Power: 9754-60 Ave: Gastrosophy: Video print installation with works by Mackenzy Albright and Rachelle Bowen, Chelsea Boos, Robert Harpin, Jeffrey Klassen, Sergio Serrano, and Marc Siegner; curated by Olivia Chow; until Mar 15

Literary AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Authors of Pure Prairie Eating Plan, meet, greet and sign books; Mar 13, 11am-2pm • Featuring talk by Alexia Lane, author of On Fracking; Mar 18, 7pm Blue Chair Café • 9624-76 Ave • 780.989.2861 • Story Slam 2nd Wed each month @ the Chair: Share your story, sign-up at 7pm, 7-10pm • $5 (suggested, donations go to winners)

780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed, 7pm, each month, Sep-Apr • Free

Tiramiso Bistro • 10750-124 St • motherhaven.ca • Inspiring Stories Series: An evening of inspiration: featuring Jessica Zapata, Barbara Scriver, and Lisa Anderson • Mar 18, 7:30-9:30pm • $32.50 University of Alberta • Humanities Centre, Rm L-1, 111 St, Saskatchewan Dr • The second Tâpwê! Indigenous Writers Gathering presents a gala reading featuring: Marilyn Dumont, Daniel Heath Justice, Eden Robinson, Gregory Scofield, Anna Marie Sewell, and Richard Van Camp; MC Jodi Stonehouse • Mar 21, 7pm (door), 7:30-9:30pm (reading) • Free

Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Every Mon, presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

Theatre The 11 O'Clock Number • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • An Improvised Theatre: song, dance, and comedy presented

by Grindstone Theatre • Every Fri • Mar 14, Mar 21, Mar 28 An Evening with Kevin McDonald from Kids in the Hall • Citadel Zeidler Hall Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • A night of stand up, sketch comedy and improv. Presented by Rapid Fire Theatre • Mar 15, 7:30pm • $20

Chimprov • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun, 2014 Die-Nasty • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until May 26

DEATH TRAP • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Broadway thriller, with a skillful blend of suspense and humor • Until Apr 6 • Tickets at 780.483.4051

God is A Scottish Drag Queen • Arts at The Barns Westbury Theatre • 70 minute one-man show written and starring Mike Delamont. Appropriate for ages 14 and up • Mar 13-15 • $20 at fringetheatre.ca, 780.409.1910 Little One • Roxy Theatre • 780.453.2440 • By Hannah Moscovitch, presented by Theatre Network, Bradley Moss (director), starring Amber Borotsik and Jesse Gervais • For all of his childhood, Aaron had to be careful around his troubled foster sister Claire • Until Mar 23; Tue-Sat: 8pm; Sun: 2pm • $21-$27 at theatrenetwork.ca

MARY POPPINS • Citadel Theatre • 780.425.1820 • Family Musical based on the stories of P.L. Travers and the Walt Disney Film • Mar 15-Apr 20

Mercy Of A Storm • La Cite Francophone (L'Unitheatre), 8627-91 St • 780.471.1586 • Northern Light Theatre with L'UniThéâtre • By Jeffrey Hatcher, translated by Gisele Villeneuve; directed by Trevor Schmidt. Featuring Brian Dooley and Gianna Vacirca • Until Mar 16, 7:30pm; Booty Call Performance: Mar 14, 11:30pm; no show Mon evenings • English: Mar 14, 16 • French: Mar 13, 15 • Tickets at 780.471.1586

Canadian Literature Centre • Student Lounge, Old Arts Bldg, U of A • artsrn.ualberta.ca/clc/ • Brown Bag Lunch: Reading with Eden Robinson; Mar 19

Nino Nina Show • Expressionz Café •

Carrot Coffeehouse • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

Queen Lear • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave •

Edmonton Bicycle Commuters' Society • 9305-111 Ave • Launch of Rita Feutl's Bike

Thief • Sat, Mar 15, 5pm

Edmonton Story Slam • Daravara, 10713124 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

780.450.6462 • Live monthly classic variety show • Last Sun each month, 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show) • Free, donations 780.434.5564 • By Eugene Strickland, presented by Shadow Theatre • An aging theatre actress recruits the assistance of an unruly teenage girl in a last ditch attempt to memorize her lines for an all female production of King Lear • Until Mar 30, Tue-Sat 7:30pm; Sat-Sun 2pm • $16 (Preview); $27 (Fri-Sat night opening)/ $24 (student/senior, Fri-Sat night opening); $23 (Tue-Thu, Sun matinee)/$21 (student/senior, Tue-Thu, Sun matinee); adv tickets at TIX on the Square

MacEwan Uni–City Centre Campus • Bldg 8, Gymnasium, 10700-104 Ave • MacEwan University Book of the Year celebrates Writer Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse with an on-stage conversation between Wagamese and Richard Van Camp (writer-in-residence), followed by a book signing • Mar 17, 7:30-9:30pm

THE SPIDER OR THE FLY • Kinsmen Korral Hall, 47 Riel Dr • By Sam Bobrick, presented by St Albert Theatre Troupe starring Christine Lesiak, Adam Keefe, Krista Kwarok, and Julian Stamer • Mar 13-15, 8pm • Talkback with the artists following the show on Mar 14 • $25/$20 (student/senior/group) at stalberttheatre.com

Naked Cyber Café • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month

TheatreSports • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until June • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

VILLAGE OF IDIOTS • Concordia Auditorium • By John Lazarus; presented by Theatre Arts, Concordia University College, directed by Randy Ritz. Comedy based on a traditional Jewish folktale. Schmendrick travels away from his home of Chelm only to find another village that is eerily similar to the one he just left • Until Mar 16 • $15 (adult)/$10 (student) at door

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ne of the great things about walking around downtown Vancouver is that, if you suddenly have a hankering for sushi and/or its ancillaries, there's always another little hole-in-the-wall Japanese place on the next block to slake your urges.

Corridor-sized, cramped, and cluttered as much as adorned with the textiles, screens and accoutrements of the originating culture, these wee sushi-terias can, nonetheless, provide solid comfort to the sushi-loving soul without the attendant pomp of a full-

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seating on the east wall. A geometric shelf by the entrance holds glass fishbowls, most of which have gone the way of diorama but for the home of one unlucky goldfish that's somehow survived countless blasts of Edmonton weather following patrons through the door.

Kamiyo's bill of fare is focused fairly tightly on sushi (sashimi, nigiri, lots o'maki and a few inventive twists, to be discussed later), along with the expected appetizers, sides and udon soups. There are a few attempts at novelty— Kamiyo Japanese Cuisine a "BLT roll," maki 10846 - 82 Ave with fruit, deep-fried on restaurant experi- 780.761.9967 maki—but I can't get ence. Plus the ocean is, behind any of that, you know, right there. nor do I want crabKamiyo Japanese Cuisine, the latest stick in the middle of my rainbow denizen of a café space on a stretch roll. That's just me. of Whyte Avenue that could very While not quite cheap—because well soon be all cafés, is too spacious who wants cheap sushi?—Kamiyo's and uncluttered yet to be mistaken prices appear to skew toward a lunchfor its West Coast counterpart, but if time crowd and co-diner and I ate well you blur your eyes a bit you can see for about 20 bucks each. Though afthe similarities. By no means large, fordable and convenient, it was not exKamiyo's austere décor is offset a bit ceedingly fast on a Tuesday night, with by corkboards covered in snapshots just one chef on duty dashing between and postcards hung above the bench the galley kitchen and sushi bar.

Co-diner and I got started with gyoza ($5.50)—four steam-fried pork dumplings with black sesame and a soy-ginger dip—and assorted tempura ($10)—three prawns, two zucchini, two squash and two yam. The gyoza were a little on the small side, but tastily spiked with green onion and ginger; the tempura were nicely done, firm yet yielding, not greasy and lightly battered; the soy-based dips for both were a bit uncharacteristic, but not troubling.

The fish came next. The tuna-salmon sashimi plate ($10) gave us three reasonable bites of each served over unwieldy long strands of shoe-stringed daikon radish. Co-diner remarked on the flavourfulness of the tuna, but I would give the buttery salmon the edge, at least that night. The bland but not offensive spicy tuna hosomaki ($4.50) bore out that conviction.

More interesting was the "Diablo blossom" ($10), one of four such confections that all turn on the idea of a slice of maki with a dollop of fish on top of it. The Diablo was more or less a California roll—crabstick, avocado, mayo, tobiko (fish roe), tempura and a bit of green onion—turned on its side

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and topped with a mound of minced spicy salmon and a jot of black tobiko.

Whether you eat it in two phases or just try to bite it in half, it's a mouthfilling and generally pleasurable experience. I assume the "sushi cakes" listed on the menu are larger yet slices of maki with even more generous globs of minced fish for toppings.

Not quite slaked, co-diner went back for a single piece of chop chop nigiri ($3), an envelope of seaweed filled to overflowing with minced scallop tossed with mayo and tobiko.

It too was tricky to eat, but silky on the palate.

As long as you don't walk in expecting your mind to be blown, Kamiyo does respectable work in the sushi vein at prices that encourage experimentation and a follow-up visit. And though I doubt Edmonton will ever reach, or even approach, Vancouver's level of sushi saturation, it wouldn't be so bad if Kamiyo prompted the emergence of some hole-in-the-wall competition along our town's more travelled thoroughfares.

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Craft beer everywhere

Vue's beer guy weighs in on what Edmonton's heavy hitters have on tap

Craft Beer Market // Meaghan Baxter

Beer Revolution // Meaghan Baxter

Edmonton is experiencing a bit of a mini-boom in craft-beer-oriented restaurants. Four different establishments have opened up in the past 18 months or so, each offering a different take on the so-called craft-beer bar.

I consider this a good thing. More options, more opportunities to try different beer and different atmospheres to appeal to different types of customer. But I am a discerning, experienced consumer. I have sat in some of the best beer cafés and pubs the world has to offer. In other words, I am not an easy guy to please.

That said, I am very aware that Edmonton is not Brussels, Munich, Denver or even Vancouver. Small steps. We must judge what we have by the context in which they and we live. They can only be asked to do so much initially.

So, allow me to discuss this new trend of sizeable craft restaurants and what they mean for Edmonton's growing beer scene.

But first, a caveat. I am well aware our city has been loyally served by a handful of smaller, devoted craftbeer places including The Sugarbowl, Wunderbar, Next Act, Accent Lounge, Three Boars and others. But you will notice these are smaller, more intimate places. Each has their own personality, but their purpose is a smaller, more local feel.

Those great places are in a different market segment than the newer craft-beer bars. The four recent entrants—Underground Tap and Grill, Beer Revolution, MKT and the newest, Craft Beer Market—are trying to go bigger. Each seats more than 100 people, aggressively markets itself as a beer destination and uses the strategy of long tap and bottle menus to

create a sense of comprehensiveness.

I do not intend to rate the places, or offer some kind of ranking. My goal here is to give beer consumers a

Underground Tap & Grill // Meaghan Baxter

sense of what each place offers and to whom they might be trying to appeal. Atmosphere matters, but my specialty is beer, so I will focus more on that aspect.

I conducted an analysis of the tap menus of the four places, categorizing all of the beer they offer. For the full results go to my website post on it: onbeer.org/2014/01/comparingedmontons-craft-beer-bars/.

The results show four very different approaches to beer. MKT's (60 taps, six rotationals) Whyte Avenue location and clubby feel suggest a younger target market. It is the most lager-oriented, with more than onequarter of its taps being pale lager. It also devotes more than half its taps to beer owned by the large international beer corporations (what I call macro beer). MKT also has the smallest selection of Alberta-brewed beer. However, MKT's import list shows an effort to bring in some of what the rest of the world has to offer, including a good number of Belgian ales. They seem to be aiming for a younger, less beer-savvy crowd and have built a list to entice people to explore beer a bit.

In contrast, Underground seems to take its "craft" more seriously and is aiming at a more experienced beer drinker. The quieter, more subdued atmosphere lends to more focused beer appreciation. Its tap list (72 taps) has by far the fewest pale lagers and the highest proportion of ales, IPAs and stouts/porters. Macro beer is almost

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non-existent and Underground has a strong catalogue of North American craft beer. Its Alberta content is middling and it does have a serious commitment to rotational taps, allocating 22 out of 72 for one-time stuff.

Of course, Beer Revolution (24 taps) is the champion of rotational taps, because that is all it offers. Aside from three house beer (brewed by Brewsters, who own Beer Revolution), every one of the selections at this relaxed, open-design pub is rotational. Revolution may have fewer taps than the others, but its claim to fame is its everchanging menu, complete with airport-like sign screens telling you what is on, when it was tapped, and how long until they predict it is empty. Since its list is constantly in flux, my analysis is just a snapshot from one day. On the day I did the analysis, Beer Revolution had a single macro beer, a handful of Alberta brewers and a small selection of Canadian craft brewers. It was less likely to offer more assertive beer, like Belgian ales and IPAs, but generally had a good cross-section of the beer world.

Finally, the new entrant is Craft Beer Market. Big, brash and more outspoken than its earlier compatriots, Craft has quickly made itself known.

A more upscale atmosphere suggests they are aiming at a higher-end crowd to some extent. Its 104 taps (including 10 rotational) is unparalleled in terms of number. Craft's selection seems to lay somewhere in between MKT and Underground. It has a high number of lagers (29), 18 of which are pale lagers. Craft also leaves a fair bit of space for the corporate brewers (22 taps), but also offers by far the highest proportion of Alberta brewers (20 taps) and an impressive willingness to offer bigger beer—there are 11 IPAs and eight Belgian ales.

Indeed, four very different places; each differs in atmosphere and overall experience. All offer a decent variety for adventurous beer drinkers, but clearly the menus are built with different goals in mind. None beat some of North America's best craftbeer bars, but for Edmonton this is a good start. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer. org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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REVUE // DRAMA

My own worst Enemy

A man and his duplicate encounter each other in Denis Villeneuve's finest film on dictatorships and their control over individual expression. What's distracting him? Maybe it's his burgeoning depression, some new unease with his seemingly anonymous existence, exemplified above all by his boxy apartment, a place that barely seems inhabited. Desperate for even the most fleeting escape, he accepts a co-worker's advice and rents an inane comedy on DVD. He watches the movie, goes to bed and dreams of the movie. It's only when replaying the movie in his dream that he recognizes the actor in the miniscule role of a bellboy. His name is Anthony St Claire (Jake Gyllenhaal), and he looks like Adam and sounds like Adam, and Adam immediately understands that he's no choice but to find him.

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with the hero at your own risk.

Loosely adapted from José Saramago's The Double—or, to translate its original Portuguese title literally, The Duplicated Man—by Javier Gullón, Enemy follows Adam Bell (Jake Gyllenhaal), a history professor, as he distractedly goes about having unintentionally rough sex with his girlfriend (Mélanie Laurent) or lecturing

A man sees his doppelgänger in a movie. I said to be wary of identification, but the truth is that our surrogate in Enemy isn't Adam but, rather, Helen (Sarah Gadon), Anthony's pregnant wife, the only person in the movie able to fully appreciate the uncanny resemblance between the men. One of the smartest things in Gullón's script is the space left in the story for Helen to occupy; one of the smartest things in the casting is the selection of Gadon, who's of late turned up in numerous

Vermeer. But that's about as far as Tim's Vermeer ever goes.

This documentary is only superficially concerned with the nature of art. Its true subject is Fri, Mar 14 – Thu, Mar 20 te c h n i q u e, Directed by Teller or rather, Metro Cinema at the Garneau one man's obsession  with technique as a way of feeling close to or equal to art. The film's broad subject is very interesting, but what it finally has to say about this subject is frustratingly limited.

Art on art Tim Jenison is, withalmost literal. Early in Tim's Vermeer, out a doubt, a curious figure, an co-writer, co-producer and narrator inventor and devout autodidact, a Penn Jillette compares the haunted computer guy, a sort of renaissance luminosity of Vermeer's paintings to man. He used to repair arcade games. the glow of the cinema screen, which He created Video Toaster. More regoes some distance toward articulat- cently, he "painted a Vermeer." Those ing the illusion of life found within a are Jillette's words. Obviously, strictly

speaking, Tim didn't "paint a Vermeer" any more than Vermeer painted a photograph—though, in a sense, that may be a fair description of one aspect of Vermeer's achievement. Many scholars and artists, including Philip Steadman and David Hockney, have theorized that Vermeer painted with the aid of a camera obscura. It's a way of accounting for the astonishingly high fidelity of Vermeer's figures and interiors, and perhaps that special sense of light. Jenison became obsessed with this notion and its application in the recreation of Vermeer's "The Music Lesson"—so obsessed that he not only tried to emulate Vermeer's ostensible technique, but also made himself into a carpenter so that he could recreate the entire room and inhabitants of "The Music Lesson" so that it could be viewed through the camera obscura, as it's suggested Vermeer did. This obsession itself is a worthy subject for a documentary (perhaps one directed

by Errol Morris), but isn't really dealt with in Tim's Vermeer either, perhaps because Tim, Jillette and director and co-writer Teller are buddies. Penn and

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or all the compelling enigmas permeating Quebec director Denis Villeneuve's latest and finest film (all arachnid appearances are duly noted), there is something pleasingly unambiguous about its title. Mining an anxiety so primal as to require no explanation within the film itself, Enemy is about the terror of seeing yourself duplicated, of discovering

another with your face and voice trespassing upon your singularity, a forced mirror relieving you of the consolations of uniqueness while reminding you of all your failures in this life. But it's also, very cleverly, a movie about the psychic perils of watching movies, making it that much more apt that it features an American movie star at its double-centre. Identify

high-profile Canadian films yet never to such marvellous effect. Her Helen is both alarmed and complicit in the meeting and negotiations between the two Jakes. She's highly active yet in a state of shocked suspension. Gyllenhaal is in excellent form, offering an array of incrementally layered reaction shots—several of which are reactions to his own actions. Villeneuve and editor Matthew Hannam allow their lead to hog the screen, as though trapped in a hall of mirrors.

It's less a stunt performance than a perfectly gauged exercise in an actor's most solipsistic nightmare.

But the real masterstroke of Enemy might be the casting of Toronto—a sort of enemy city for many Canadians, not least among them Quebeckers. There's not a single glimpse of Toronto's charms or history or funk in Enemy. Instead, Villeneuve maximizes the hard, monolithic coldness of the Gardiner freeway, of the financial sector's blandest skyscrapers, of the University of Toronto's brutalist campus, rendering Adam/Anthony's world one of looming eeriness and reflective surfaces. The world of Enemy is highly subjectivized, perfectly recognizable yet strange. Did it become strange because of Adam/Anthony's chance encounter? Is this town not big enough for the both of them?

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Tim's Vermeer

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Teller are also buddies with Martin Mull, which—no offense—is the only possible reason why anyone would make a documentary about duplicating a Vermeer and have Mull come in as an expert.

So yes, Tim's Vermeer is a tale of simulacra and duplication, though, unlike Enemy, also opening this week, it isn't especially interested in those rich subjects either—the film is remarkably un-curious about many things.

Teller, familiar to most viewers as the shorter member of the Penn & Teller comedy-magic duo and a career debunker, seems most interested in debunking Vermeer, so to speak, though not denying his genius. Incorporating bland photography, a boilerplate score and super-lame graphics and transitional effects, Tim's Vermeer is a way of drawing back the curtain to see the Wizard, to dissolve the mystique by revealing the technique. If you're at all interested, you should see it. But it won't tell you anything about art, or magic or obsession.

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Mr Peabody & Sherman

Adventures through time

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og-genius Mr Peabody and his into trouble on his first day at school adopted 7½-year-old homo sa- with a bullying Penny Peterson, Mr piens Sherman, two characters from Peabody invites the Peterson family the '60s Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, over to calm the waters and ensure get their own feature film, 50 years Sherman's not taken from him by the later, about time travel ... but this battle-axe Children's Services officer story remains history, perhaps re- Mrs Grunion. But Sherman shows flecting a Kennedy-era mindset in its Penny Mr Peabody's Wayback machine and, before you marginalization of all can say "space-time beings female. Still, Now playing continuum," animated the excitement of the Directed by Rob Minkoff antics ensue. film, especially in its  first half, comes in its Sequences in 1789 geek-hero transformation of knowledge—past cultures, France and King Tut's Egypt mix sophisticated words, calculations and historical facts with adventurous fancy; this cartoon caper's wildly strategies—into a thrill-ride.

Mr Peabody, a Nobel laureate, roving, non-judgmental fascination Olympic medalist, magnate and in- with cultural diversity is electrifyventor who happens to be a bipedal, ing early on (Mr Peabody, eager to red bowtie-wearing beagle (move please the Petersons, plays instruover, Snoopy), lives in a penthouse, ments from all over, didgeridooing where he's parenting bespectacled, and flamenco-guitaring his way from toothy Sherman. After Sherman gets the sitar to the musical saw). Even

the cameo gags for adult audiences (a Spartacus reference; a Clinton joke) work well, while the rendering of Agamemnon's Greek soldiers as rah-rah frat bros is absurdly good (and not without a whiff of truth, if you've read The Iliad). Still, from Mr Peabody's erudition to Leonardo da Vinci's hilariously disturbing effort to build a child, much here would sail over the heads of kids Sherman's age.

Of course, the familiar formula— find your courage within; fall for the girl—kicks in eventually. But what's most backwards are the few women here—Penny's a snot, scarcely softened as the story goes; Mrs Grunion's a scold; Mona Lisa's a complainer—while the males, human or canine, get all the action and 3D-characterization.

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300: Rise of an Empire

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he Bush-era politics of 300 unnecessary flashback; then let's have (2007)—Middle East baddies so much more unnecessary slo-mo— versus glorious Spartans—return even of a Greek warrior jumping onto in the sequel. The Persians must an enemy ship (Will he land safely? kill all Greeks now because of their Are those deck boards nailed in prop"freedom;" Athenian leader Themis- erly? The suspense!)—that the flick tokles (Sullivan Stapleton) talks of would crawl in at under an hour defending "democracy" (as shown without it. Sobbing girl sees family here, that's two dozen raped and murdered Now playing

by Greeks, there's the bearded white guys Directed by Noam Murro leering suggestion of arguing indoors about  her violation over the fighting or surrenderyears, and, now that ing). But, really, leathshe's all grown up, er-and-chain Persians (their metalwork stunningly, almost She-Who-Is-Vengeance pointlessly steampunkishly, ahead of its time) are seduces the enemy leader with some sneering sadists out to massacre hel- angry sex (bonus-gratuitous nudity!). meted white warrior-brother-types A head can be not only severed but with leaders who give ponderous kissed afterwards! Blood can splat speeches. A bore dragged up in cos- right at you in ... slo ... mo ... 3 ... D tumed nonsense, shrouded in grey- ... ! Backdrops come in three palscreen CGI and shot at the pace of ettes: stormy grey, sludge grey, and a slog, 300: Rise of an Empire is the ashpit grey—oh, that famously sundevoid Mediterranean! Overwrought 3Definition of gratuitous.

Arrow flying slo-mo? See it again, in speechifying? "The bodies of his men

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turn the sea red with blood"—thanks for clarifying; thought they might turn it red with cranberry juice (though at least then it would no longer be the colour of liquid mercury).

There's no mention of gods, hunchback Ephialtes looks like Gollum's uncle, trapped in the wrong movie, a god-king backstory's as laughable as the anachronisms ("rules of engagement"), and there are other dives into the deep end (a spy disappears from the plot; underwater, the Aegean's so crystal-clear you could start up a snorkeling business there). But 300: RE, so hellbent on making death in war fascistically fascinating, finally strands itself on the shoals of stupidity when it drops talk of "freedom" every half-hour or so. When everyone's bound to keep fighting or dying, how in Hades is this liberty?

BRIAN GIBSON

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REVUE // SOCIAL REALISM

The Selfish Giant

A Bradford boy

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enizens of Northern England's depressed Bradford estates and children of wildly dysfunctional families—one broken and bereft of patriarch, the other teeming and tyrannized by a drunken dad who pawns the family sofa to pay the light bill— Arbor (Conner Chapman) and Swifty

(Shaun Thomas) may be victims of a ing and cheerfully assume their new lopsided and neglectful social disor- vocation as scrap men, collecting der, but any of us, however better odds and ends and selling them to off, should be so lucky as to have the ironically named Kitten (Sean friends as loyal and loving at such a Gilder), a sort of fury-prone and tender age. From its opening images foul-mouthed Fagan figure who of horses under stars, reactors loom- runs a vast scrap yard and participates in the local ing in the mist and illegal horse-andseemingly endless Sat, Mar 15 – Mon, Mar 17 rows of low-income harness races. It's Directed by Clio Barnard Kitten who turns housing, The SelfMetro Cinema at the Garneau his junior gleanish Giant plants us firmly in its mi-  ers on to copper wire, which fetchlieu—yet it emphasizes that milieu's battered poetry as es a mint by their standards, but much as its struggle and misery. which must be swiped from rail Arbor and Swifty—what brilliant yards and utility trucks, and, most names—sprout from this soil, the precariously, powers lines and former diminutive and wiry, sport- underground cables. All of which ing a goofy haircut, garbed in dirty promises even more trouble than and torn clothing, compulsively the boys are already in. And while kicking and screaming much of the Arbor and Swifty's fiercely loyal time, the latter taller and portly, friendship is the silver lining in The well-groomed and habitually polite, Selfish Giant's ever-present dark inclined to gentler gestures and a clouds and roiling fog, Kitten's natural with animals, horses most favoritism toward Swifty, whose especially. Early in the film the pair talent with horses he hopes to exget expelled from school for fight- ploit for his racing hobby, threat-

ens to cause a rift which the volatile and under-medicated Arbor is all too ready to widen.

This second feature from conceptual artist-turned-filmmaker Clio Barnard, whose truly remarkable debut, The Arbor (2010), was also set in the mean suburban streets of Bradford, is loosely based on the Oscar Wilde fairy tale of the same name, yet feels like lived experience. (In fact, the characters of Arbor and Swifty were drawn from a couple of neighbourhood boys hanging around during production on The Arbor.) The Selfish Giant perfectly balances qualities rarely combined to such effect in British

social realism: it is compassionate without ever resorting to the sentimental; gritty while exuding craft and roughhewn beauty. All of which, along with the film's sympathies and Swifty's affinity for animals, bring to mind Ken Loach's Kes (1969). Which should in no way prompt one to regard The Selfish Giant as any kind of throwback.

It is grounded in timeless themes and in some ways feels drawn from myth, but this is very much a film of the here and now. And Barnard, inventive and intelligent yet full of heart, is quite obviously an artist with a bright future.

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No Country For Old Men T

his latest installment in Metro conveyed in its opening moments.

Cinema's retrospective looks As we look upon a desolate, depopmore and more like the major ulated Texan desert, we hear the turning point in the second half of voice of Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee the Coen Brothers' prolific career. Jones) consider the emergence of a Though many of their films exuded new plateau of evil and danger in the fatalism and a gloomy worldview, world—he's an old man speaking of 2007's No Country For Old Men change over a vision of a place that maintained a consistent tonal grav- seems to have remained essentially ity unprecedented unchanged for far in these knee-jerk Mon, Mar 17 (7 pm) longer than any jokers' detour- Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen of us can imagine. laden, typically Metro Cinema at the Garneau The story's key ineccentric narra- Originally released: 2007 gredients include tives.

Dovetail$2 million in cash, ing nicely with a resourceful themes and motifs found in other Vietnam vet (Josh Brolin, in a role he Coen crime films (Blood Simple, seems born to play), a weary smallMiller's Crossing, Fargo, The Man town sheriff and a terrifyingly effiWho Wasn't There), the adaptation cient killer (Javier Bardem as Satan was surprisingly faithful to Cormac in a bowl-cut) possessed by a cold McCarthy's novel while still feeling understanding of the randomness every inch a Coen Brothers work. of human existence (see A Serious The dual nature that haunts No Man and Inside Llewyn Davis for upCountry For Old Men is elegantly dates on this).

There's a certain purity to McCarthy's novel. It spends little time with character background or interior voice—in this world, action equals character. The Coens honour McCarthy's terms and crafted a masterful work of suspense, evocatively spare, full of easy charm, ultimately chilling. A grunt, the creak of floorboards, a relentless dog or a man's reflection in a television set invoke the film's themes far more compellingly than any grand gesture could. The film's shower of Oscars might lead one to think of No Country For Old Men as a Coen movie pitched to the crowd, yet it's anything but.

It's a tale of small, desperate ambitions, conveyed in a poet's assortment of details. See it again.

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motifs is the image of Jep reclining, pointing about 21st century Rome, in sun-draped hammock or on comfy- an empire long-fallen yet still slowly looking bed. Self-effacing yet ruthless fading or withering in the honey-sun, in his critique of others, glamorous while wearing an immaculate pair of in the most relaxed way imaginable, hand-made leather shoes.

Jep has constructed a sort of fortress Opens Friday The film's first around himself, one Directed by Paolo Sorrentino major set-piece— that others cannot Princess Theatre there are many— penetrate and that  surveys the ostenhe himself cannot sibly fabulous but, apparently escape it seems to me, kind from. Is that fortress, in some half- of lame party celebrating Jep's birthmetaphysical, half-entirely literal day, replete with terrible techno, line sense, Rome? Among other things, dancing, a screaming woman, mariaThe Great Beauty—which cries out chis and a very friendly variation on to be called by its original Italian La dwarf tossing. (The dwarf in question grande bellezza—is an homage to all is not mere Fellini-esque cliché; she's that's delicious, decadent and disap- Jep's editor and one of the film's cen-

ep Gambardella (Toni Servillo, superb) turns 65 at the start of Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty, by which point it has been some 40 years since the publication of his only novel, The Human Apparatus, 40 years Jep seems to have devoted to living some version of la dolce vita, establishing himself as a society journalist while somehow earning enough to purchase a luxury apartment overlooking the coliseum, to make himself an essential component of his city's cultural life, both as commentator and member of its elite. I hesitate to apply the verb "work" to Jep's career—to appear to be making an effort would seem anathema to Jep's very being. Indeed, among the film's

tral, if not exactly developed, characters.) Jep's is a world where there's always a party and the party feels always almost over, continuing not because it's too much fun, but rather, because these particular partygoers don't know how to do much else, and it's too late in life to learn. I love that The Great Beauty is about cultured people older than we're accustomed to watching navigate this kind of existentialist-bacchanalian terrain, people old enough to not stumble for even a moment of over my use of "Felliniesque," the sort of people for whom a fleeting apparition of Fanny Ardant is freighted with meaning. Presumably, these same cultured older people are the sort content to watch Jep wander a non-sequitur-laden Rome with no special agenda, to amble through his mildly aching memories of young love lost, to monitor his curious liai-

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son with Ramona (Sabrina Ferilli), a fairly sophisticated stripper by vocation, and to do all this for 142 minutes. While I didn't find The Great Beauty to be the masterpiece others have claimed it to be, I truly hope that there are still those who are willing to immerse themselves in its sauntering without becoming impatient. It invites us to a world not dead but dying, that invokes a cinema long passed but not passé, a wry way of regarding the old world that's somewhat shapeless but never charmless. Sorrentino is only in his early 40s, but The Great Beauty suggests that he is already more than prepared for the listless regrets of old age. I hope there are still movies as melancholy and knowing, as well crafted and daringly aimless as this one when he turns 65.

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NEED FOR SPEED 3D (PG not rec for young children)

The Metropolitan Opera: Werther (Classification not available) Sat 10:55

CHABA THEATRE–JASPER

3 DAYS TO KILL (14A) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun 2:10,

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Fri-Sat 7:00,

9:00; Sun-Thu 8:00

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:00; Sun-Thu 8:00

DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave Camrose, 780.608.2144

Need For Speed 3d (PG not rec for young children) No

passes Daily 6:40, 9:10; SAT-SUN 1:40

Tootsie (STC) Mon 7:00

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video Fri 3:50, 7:00, 10:40; Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:50; Thu 6:30, 9:30

Royal Opera House - The Sleeping Beauty

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse,

Daily 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45

(Classification not available) Wed 7:00

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for

The Lego Movie (G) SAT-SUN 1:30

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (18A gory brutal violence)

47 RONIN (PG violence, frightening scenes) Closed Captioned Daily 6:55, 9:30 WALKING WITH DINOSAURS (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:40; 3d : Daily 4:30

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Closed Caption

11:20, 1:05, 3:45; Mon-Thu 1:05, 3:40

SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Daily 6:30, 9:15

5074-130 Ave 780.472.9779

sexual content) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video Fri 5:00, 9:15; Sat 2:00, 6:00, 10:00; Sun 12:45, 4:50, 8:45; Mon-Wed 8:00

1525-99 St 780.436.8585

young children) Closed Captioned Fri-Sat 6:45, 9:45; Sun-Thu 6:30, 9:20

CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12

Descriptive Video Sat 12:30; Sun 1:00; 3d : Fri 4:00, 6:30, 9:10; Sat 3:00, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40; Sun 3:30, 6:00, 8:30; Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:00; Thu 6:40, 9:15

SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Closed Captioned

Frozen (G) Closed Captioned Fri, Sun 1:05, 3:45; Sat

9:20; SAT-SUN 1:50

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Closed Caption &

Captioned Daily 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A gory brutal violence) NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Daily 6:50;

Ultraavx: Thu 9:00

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Closed

Mr Peabody And Sherman (G) No passes Daily

No passes Daily 7:10, 9:30; SAT-SUN 2:10

DIVERGENT (PG violence) Vip 18+: No Passes Thu 9:30;

4:55, 7:50, 10:35; Mon 1:00, 3:55, 10:05; Tue, Thu 1:00, 3:55, 7:15, 10:05; Wed 1:00, 3:55, 10:35

Despicable Me (G) Sat 11:00 CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH

7:00; Sat-Sun 2:00

Vip 18+: No Passes Fri 7:00, 10:30; Sat 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30; Sun 1:30, 4:50, 8:15; Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:50; Thu 8:15; 3d : Ultraavx : Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:30; Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 10:00; Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:45; Thu 6:40, 9:40

7:15, 10:50; Sun 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 10:45; Mon-Tue 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 10:10; Wed 2:20, 4:45, 10:10; Thu 2:25, 5:00, 10:50

The Great Dictator (1948, PG) Thu, Mar 20 6094 Connaught Dr Jasper, 780.852.4749

Closed Captioned, No Passes Thu 10:05; 3d : Fri-Sat 11:55, 2:40, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15; Sun 2:10, 4:35, 7:15, 9:40; Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:10, 6:55, 9:25; Thu 1:35, 4:00, 6:25, 9:25; 3d : Ultraavx: Fri-Sat 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45; Sun 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15; Mon 2:15, 4:40, 7:25, 9:55; Tue-Wed 2:15, 4:40, 7:25, 9:50; Thu 1:50, 4:15, 7:05

recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FriSun, Tue 1:35; 3d : Daily 4:45, 7:25, 9:55

Mon-Thu 2:30; 3d : Fri-Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 10:00; Mon 5:05, 7:35, 10:05; Tue-Thu 5:00, 7:45, 10:10

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG coarse language, violence) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun, Tue 1:25, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35; Mon, Wed-Thu 3:55, 6:45, 9:35

NEED FOR SPEED 3D (PG not rec for young children) Closed Captioned, No Passes Fri-Sat 1:15, 1:45, 4:15, 4:45, 7:15, 7:45, 10:15, 10:45; Sun 12:45, 1:15, 3:45, 4:15, 6:45, 7:20, 9:45, 10:15; Mon 1:00, 1:20, 3:55, 4:15, 6:50, 7:20, 9:45, 10:15; Tue-Wed 1:00, 1:15, 3:55, 4:15, 6:50, 7:20, 9:45, 10:15; Thu 12:55, 1:15, 3:55, 4:15, 6:50, 7:20, 9:45, 10:15

Saving Mr. Banks (PG mature subject matter) Closed

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Closed Captioned Fri

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G)

Closed Captioned Fri-Sun, Tue 1:45

Captioned Daily 4:20, 7:15, 9:50

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (14A language may offend, crude content) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun, Tue 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Her (14A coarse language, sexual content, mature subject matter) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun, Tue 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15; Mon, Wed-Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:15 12 Years A Slave (14A brutal violence, disturbing

content) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun, Tue 1:05, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:40

Shaadi Ke Side Effects (PG) Hindi W/E.S.T. Fri-Sun,

12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15; Sat 11:10, 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15; Sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:10; Mon 1:30, 3:50, 7:15; Tue-Wed 1:30, 3:50, 6:40; Thu 3:50, 6:40; Star & Strollers: Thu 1:00; 3d : Fri-Sun 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10; Mon 1:55, 4:20, 6:40, 9:10; Tue-Thu 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Closed Captioned Fri-Sat 10:30; Sun 9:30; Mon-Wed 9:40;

1:30, 4:05, 7:10, 9:50; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:05, 7:10, 9:50

Queen (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. Fri-Sun, Tue 1:35, 4:40, 8:00; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:40, 8:00

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236

Frozen (G) Closed Captioned Fri, Sun-Tue, Thu 1:45, 4:15; Sat 11:15, 1:45, 4:15; Wed 4:15l Star & Strollers: Wed 1:00 ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned Daily 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (18A gory brutal violence) No

Landmark Cinemas 9 CITY CENTRE 10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7018

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Digital Pre-

sentation, Dts Stereo Fri-Sun, Tue 12:40, 3:30, 7:00, 9:35; Mon, Wed 3:30, 7:00, 9:35; Thu 3:30, 6:50, 9:35

NEED FOR SPEED (PG not rec for young children) No Passes, Closed Captioned, Dts Stereo, Digital Presentation Daily 3:40; 3D: Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri-Sun, Tue 12:40, 6:40, 9:55; Mon, Wed-Thu 6:40, 9:55 Enemy (14A nudity, sexual content) Closed Captioned,

Digital Presentation, Dts Stereo Fri-Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:45, 7:20, 9:50; Mon, Wed-Thu 3:45, 7:20, 9:50

Romeo & Juliet (PG) Digital Presentation, Dts Stereo 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A gory brutal violence) No Passes, Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Digital Presentation, Dts Stereo Fri-Sun, Tue 1:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:15; Mon, Wed-Thu 7:30, 10:00, 10:15; Daily 3:50

The Lego Movie (G) Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo

Digital Sat-Sun 3:50

GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150

Frozen (G) Closed Captioned Fri 4:15, 6:50; Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:15, 6:50; Mon-Thu 6:55

WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for

young children) Closed Captioned Daily 7:50, 10:40

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Closed Captioned, No Passes Daily 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45

The Lego Movie (G) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun 12:15,

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for

2:45, 5:25; Mon-Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:20; 3d : Daily 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A gory brutal violence)

NEED FOR SPEED (PG not rec for young children) Closed Captioned, No Passes Fri-Tue 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Wed 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45; Star & Strollers: Wed 1:00; 3d : Ultraavx : Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45; Thu 12:50, 3:55, 7:00; 3d : Thu 10:15

young children) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun 9:30; Mon-Thu 9:15 Closed Captioned, No Passes Fri 4:10, 6:45, 9:20; Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20; Mon-Thu 6:40, 9:10; 3d: Fri 4:50, 7:25, 10:00; Sat-Sun 11:40, 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00; Mon-Thu 7:20, 9:50 2:25; 3d : Fri-Sun 5:00, 7:35, 10:10; Mon-Thu 7:10, 9:40

NEED FOR SPEED (PG not rec for young children) 3d :

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Closed Captioned Fri

4:30, 7:00; Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00; Mon-Thu 6:50; 3d : Fri 5:10, 7:40, 10:05; Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05; Mon-Thu 7:30, 9:55

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Closed Captioned Fri 3:45,

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Closed Captioned Daily 12:30, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40; 3d : Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40; Mon-Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50; Thu 2:00, 4:30

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE–An Imax 3d Experience (18A gory brutal violence) No Passes Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 10:00; Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00; Thu 1:20, 3:45, 6:30

DIVERGENT (PG violence) Ultraavx, No Passes Thu 10:00 POMPEII 3D (14A) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun 2:20, 5:10,

6:40, 9:40; Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:40; Mon-Thu 6:45, 9:35

8:00, 10:35; Mon-Tue 2:20, 5:10, 8:10, 10:35; Wed 2:20, 5:10, 10:35; Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:35

DIVERGENT (PG violence) No Passes Thu 9:30

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Closed Cap-

POMPEII (14A) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun 9:35; Mon-Wed 9:30

tioned Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30; Mon-Tue, Thu 2:10, 5:00, 7:55, 10:30; Wed 3:45, 7:55, 10:30; Star & Strollers: Wed 1:00

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Closed

The Metropolitan Opera: Werther (Classifica-

Captioned Fri 4:35, 7:15, 9:55; Sat-Sun 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55; Mon-Thu 7:15, 9:55

SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Closed Captioned Fri,

tion not available) Sat 10:55

Muppets Most Wanted (G) Thu 7:00, 9:45

Mon-Thu 6:30, 9:45; Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) Daily 10:20

Despicable Me (G) Sat 11:00

SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Closed Captioned Fri,

GRANDIN THEATRE–St Albert Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.458.9822

Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 6:55, 10:10; Sat 3:50, 6:55, 10:10; Sun 4:00, 6:55, 10:10; Thu 12:40, 3:50, 10:10

ROMEO & JULIET (PG) Sun 12:55

300: Rise Of An Empire 3d (18A gory brutal violence)

DIVERGENT: The Imax Experience (PG violence) No

Frozen (G) Daily 12:50 2:55 5:05 7:10

The Professional (STC) Thu 7:30

Reald 3d; no passes Daily 1:30 3:30 5:30 7:30 9:35

Passes Thu 9:15

Stereo Fri-Sun, Tue 12:30, 3:35; Mon, Wed 3:35

THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) Daily 1:10 3:10 5:10 7:05

The Nut Job (G) Fri-Sun 12:55; Mon-Thu 1:20

POMPEII 3D (14A) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation,

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG violence,

5:25, 8:00, 10:40; Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00; Mon 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:10; Tue 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:10; Wed 2:00, 4:45; Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:35

The Metropolitan Opera: Werther (Classifica-

not rec for young children) Daily 9:00

To The Arctic (G) Fri 12:00pm

Mr Peabody And Sherman (G) No passes Daily

Rocky Mountain Express (G) Sat-Sun 12:00pm;

sexual content) Digital Presentation, Dts Stereo, Closed Captioned Fri-Sat, Tue 12:00, 4:00, 7:45; Sun 7:45; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:00, 7:45

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Digital Presentation, Dts

1:00 3:00 5:00 7:00 8:55

METRO CINEMA at the Garneau Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212

tion not available) Sat 10:55

TIM’S VERMEER (STC) Fri 7:00; Sat 4:00, 9:00; Sun

3 DAYS TO KILL (14A) Fri-Sat 4:40, 7:20, 10:25; Sun

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) No Passes, Closed

KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM (18A) DEDfest: Fri 9:00

Muppets Most Wanted (G) Thu 7:15, 9:55 NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Closed

Captioned Fri 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35; Sat 12:10, 2:55, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35; Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05; Mon 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05; Tue 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00; Wed 1:55, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00; Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:00; Star & Strollers: Thu 1:00

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) Fri 1:00, 3:30, 9:50;

THE SELFISH GIANT (STC) Sat 2:00, 7:00; Sun 4:00,

The Lego Movie (G) No Passes Closed Captioned,

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (18A gory scenes) Metro

Digital 3d, Digital Presentation, Dts Stereo Fri-Sat, Mon-Thu 3:10; 3d : Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Digital Presentation, Dts Stereo Fri-Sat, Tue 12:15, 6:40; SunMon, Wed-Thu 6:40

LANDMARK CINEMAS 10 CLAREVIEw The Lego Movie 3d (G) Closed Captioned, Digital 3d,

Dolby Stereo Digital Fri 6:40, 9:05; Sat-Sun 12:35, 6:40, 9:05; Mon-Thu 6:10, 8:35

POMPEII 3D (14A) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation,

SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Closed Captioned Fri-

Sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20; Sun 12:20, 3:25, 6:40, 9:50; Mon-Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for

4:20, 6:50, 9:25; Mon 1:40, 4:25, 6:45, 9:15; Tue-Thu 1:40, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15

Dolby Stereo Digital Fri 7:05; Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:55, 7:05; Mon-Wed 6:35

Tootsie (STC) Mon 7:00

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Closed

NEED FOR SPEED (PG not rec for young children) 3d : Closed Captioned, No Passes Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:00, 9:40; Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40; Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30; 3d : Ultraavx: Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:30; Thu 12:20, 3:10, 6:00

Veronica Mars (PG crude coarse language, sexual content, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned Fri, Mon-Thu 7:00; Sat-Sun 4:00, 7:00

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Closed Captioned

ENEMY (14A nudity, sexual content) Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:30,

Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri 6:45, 9:20; Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:55, 6:45, 9:20; Mon-Thu 6:15, 8:50

SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) No Passes, Closed

Despicable Me (G) Sat 11:00 7:30, 10:05; Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:40, 10:05; Mon-Tue 2:05, 4:30, 7:40, 10:05; Wed 2:05, 5:05, 7:40, 10:05; Thu 2:05, 4:50, 7:25, 9:40

ROMEO & JULIET (PG) Sun 12:55 The Professional (STC) Thu 7:30 CINEPLEX ODEON Windermere Cinemas Cineplex Odeon Windermere, Vip Cinemas, 6151 Currents

2:00, 7:00; Tue, Thu 9:15

Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Daily 3:20; 3d : Fri-Sun, Tue 12:20, 6:35, 9:10; Mon, Wed-Thu 6:35, 9:10

4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600

Sat 1:25, 9:50; Sun 1:00, 9:35; Mon-Thu 1:25, 4:00, 9:35

8:00; Sun 11:00am, 2:10, 5:15; Mon-Tue 2:00, 3:10, 5:15; Wed 2:00, 3:10, 5:15; 6:30; Thu 2:00, 3:10, 5:15

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse,

Stereo Fri-Sun, Tue 12:05, 3:00, 6:30, 9:15; Mon, Wed 3:00, 6:30, 9:15; Thu 3:00, 9:25

3:30, 6:35, 9:15; Mon, Thu 3:45, 9:50; Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:35, 9:30

Jerusalem 3D (G) Fri-Sat 11:00am, 2:10, 3:20, 6:50,

Dts Stereo Fri-Wed 6:50, 9:20; Thu 3:30, 6:50

NO CLUE (PG) Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:40; Sun 1:40,

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM

6:10, 8:35

11211-142 St, 780.452.9100; telusworldofscienceedmonton.com

The Lego Movie (G) Closed Captioned Fri, Mon-Thu

Captioned Daily 10:00

The Grand Budapest Hotel (STC) opens Mar 21

5:25 7:25 9:25

young children) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri-Sun 9:40; Mon-Wed 9:10

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Closed Captioned Fri,

12 Years A Slave (14A brutal violence, disturbing content) Fri 9:00; Sat-SUn 3:00, 9:00; MON-Thu 9:00

SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Closed Captioned, Dts

Royal Opera House–The Sleeping Beauty (Clas-

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Closed

Fri 6:40, 9:05; Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:10, 6:40, 9:05; Mon-Thu

1:00, 7:00; MON-Thu 7:00

Sat 4:10, 7:05, 9:55; Sun 7:05, 9:55; Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55; Thu 1:10, 4:10

sification not available) Wed 7:00

Fri, Sun 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20; Sat 11:30, 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20; Mon-Thu 12:15, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20; 3d: Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 8:50; Sun, Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 8:45

No Clue (PG) Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital

Sun 12:55

Passes Thu 12:30; 3d : Closed Captioned Fri-Sun, Tue 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; Mon 12:30, 1:40, 3:00, 4:10, 5:30, 6:50, 8:00, 9:30, 10:40; Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 7:15, 8:00, 10:40; Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:50; 3d : Fri-Sun, Tue 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40; Wed 1:40, 4:10, 9:30; Thu 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40 1:10; Sat 11:20, 11:50, 1:10; Sun 11:50, 1:10; 3d : Fri-Sun 3:50, 6:20, 9:55; Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:20, 9:00; Thu 3:50, 7:35, 10:10

Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Thu 8:00

Sun 2:00, 6:40, 9:20; Mon-Thu 6:40 & 9:20

Philomena (PG language may offend) Fri 7:00; Sat-SUn

TELUS World of Science–IMAX

POMPEII 3D (14A) Closed Captioned Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:50,

Kaum De Heere (14A) Punjabi W/E.S.T. Fri-Sun, Tue

Divergent (PG violence) No Passes, Closed Captioned,

10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728

The Great Beauty (14A nudity) Fri 6:40, 9:20; Sat-

PHILOMENA (PG language may offend) Daily 1:25 3:25

DIVERGENT (PG violence) Ultraavx; No Passes Thu 9:30

1:00, 4:10, 6:40, 9:25; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:10, 6:40, 9:25

NEED FOR SPEED (PG not rec for young children) Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital, No Passes Fri 6:35, 9:35; Closed Captioned, Digital 3d: Sat-Sun 12:45, 6:35, 9:35; Mon-Thu 6:05, 9:05; 3D : Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Sat-Sun 3:40

SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Closed Caption &

LAURA (PG) 1944, Mon 8:00

PRINCESS

Son Of God (14A brutal violence) Daily 9:15

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Fri 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55;

Tue 1:50, 4:50, 7:50; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:50, 7:50

Bewakoofiyaan (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. Fri-Sun, Tue

tioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Thu 7:00

Closed Captioned, No Passes Fri 4:05, 7:10, 10:15; SatSun 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15; Mon-Thu 7:00, 10:00

Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave, 780.439.5285

3:30

Muppets Most Wanted (G) No Passes, Closed Cap-

The Lego Movie (G) Closed Captioned Sat-Sun 11:50,

Edmonton Film Society

SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Sat-Sun, Tue 12:30,

Divergent (PG violence) No Passes Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dts Stereo Thu 9:30

Thu 10:05

Total Siyapaa (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. Fri-Sun, Tue 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 9:20; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:15, 7:05, 9:20

Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri 7:00, 9:25; Sat-Sun 1:05, 3:30, 7:00, 9:25; Mon-Thu 6:30, 8:55; 3d: Fri 6:45, 9:10; Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:15, 6:45, 9:10; Mon-Thu 6:15, 8:40

& Descriptive Video Fri 3:40, 6:20, 9:30; Sat 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; Sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:40; Thu 7:10, 9:50; Vip 18+: Fri 5:00, 8:00; Sat 12:45, 4:15, 8:00; Sun 2:15, 5:45, 9:00; Mon-Wed 8:30; Thu 7:00 Descriptive Video Fri 6:45, 10:10; Sat 6:15, 9:30; Sun 6:30, 9:45; Mon-Thu 6:30, 9:40

The Lego Movie (G) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun 12:05;

I, Frankenstein (PG violence, frightening scenes, not

Dr, 780.822.4250

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A gory brutal violence)

Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri 6:30, 9:30; Closed Captioned Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:25, 6:30, 9:30; Mon-Wed 6:00, 9:00

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A gory brutal violence)

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Ann Vriend finds her groove on For The People In The Mean Time

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nn Vriend was home alone one day last summer, sequestered in the top floor of her house with headphones on, when she heard someone moving around the lower floors.

"I live with two other people, so I just thought it was one of them," she recalls. "I heard steps on the stairs, coming up; there was a railing, and I just saw this head come up, and It wasn't one of the two people I thought it'd be."

The man seemed just as surprised to see Vriend; adrenaline kicked in, and he retreated under her questioning, claiming to have been told to meet someone in the house. Strangely enough, the random name he picked was that of a fellow moving in that week, but the guy also had Vriend's tuning hammer in hand, claiming it was his. He got away—"I had to help him out, because the door was locked from the inside," she says—and managed to take a few things with him, but aside from a broken window, nothing worse happened. The fortune of that isn't lost on Vriend.

"Somehow, with adrenaline, I was like superwoman," she says.

"It didn't cross my mind to be afraid. But then when he left, I was like, 'Holy crap. That could've gone really badly.' No-one else was home, he had me backed into this little room, and I was being accusational."

The songwriter has a few other stories like this one; she's been living in a particular McCauley neighbourhood the past six years, the eastern edge of the downtown core that carries a bit of a dubious reputation. Not that that's the only side of the place: sitting with Vriend in a lovely flower shop/café, Zocalo—fortified with solid coffee, big windows and lovely greenery all throughout—suggests a vibrancy to the place, as does the trudge home afterwards, and, the a renewed push for revitalization of the area. In 2010, the City approved The McCauley Neighbourhood Revitalization Strategy, which put millions into making a safer, more vibrant community of the place. But it still has its share of hard-luck Iiving on display.

The neighbourhood's proven itself as influencing Vriend's lat-

est album, For the People in the Mean Time. Musically, the album anchors itself in the orbital grooves of soul and funk music—right from opener "Long Road", which rides a gospeltinged uplift through Motown tones—while Vriend sings about the life and hard times she sees around her. She insists it's not a concept album about McCauley, but it does draw on some of her experiences there.

"I know some of the social workers in the neighbourhood as well, and have gotten to know the stories of some of the people who end up in the neighbourhood in the street," Vriend says.

"The stories that they've got, even the little bits that you hear, are so devastatingly horrible, that you're like ... I realize, if those things had happened to me, I'd probably also be out in the street.

"And I know a lot of people in music, and friends that I've had, [that] have ended up with lots of addiction issues as well. Severe ones, in some cases. And so, it's not like a separate world. It's in our world, and in our life, really intricately woven."

Soul music is something Vriend's toyed with, here and there— after six albums of nimble pop, singer-songwriter musics and colourful forays into other genres, trying to pin Vriend's music into a category is a pretty futile way to spend an afternoon—but she's never before let an entire album embrace that sound.

"I've dabbled in that on every record, but never fully went for it," she says. "Mainly because I didn't know how to financially tour it. It definitely needs a rhythm section, and [to] have that groove. I can play all the songs on the record solo— they're fine, but they have a lot more life to them [with a rhythm section], and people understand them more when you present them that way.

"Financially, just the more people on the road, the more expensive it is," Vriend continues. "So I just kinda delved into my singer-songwriter, folky side, for the last little while. It was financially what was viable."

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Another stipulation was finding a producer who really understood the genre, and finding them in Canada. That producer turned out to be Tino Zolfo, an eccentric Toronto-based producer with Edmonton roots that trace back to, well, McCauley, of all places.

"When he first came to Canada, didn't speak any English, and got his first job at the Italian Centre," Vriend says.

A mutual friend brought Vriend and Zolfo together, after insisting the two meet and collaborate. She finally brought him a demo to work on while in Toronto; that song was "A Need So Wide (You're The One)", the second track on the finished album, almost totally untouched since that first session (they did add in drums later). Even the scratch vocal stayed.

So, creatively, the two aligned, though the way Vriend tells it, that didn't mean they always agreed as they crafted the album.

"I love him to death. We're really good friends now," she says.

"We've also fought. Like, fought fought—not physically fighting, but yelled and screamed and cried. He's that kind of dude. There were a couple of studio sessions that ended early. And I was just sitting in Starbucks by myself in Toronto going, 'Oh, noooo.'"

They managed, and completed the disc. And for Mean Time's release, Vriend will be taking a rhythm section around Alberta.

She'll strip down to a three-piece for further Canadian touring, but has another, bigger band in mind down in Australia, for when she tours Mean Time down there next year.

But bringing a bigger band into the fold doesn't mean she's managed to totally overcome economic hurdle of touring with a fuller group.

"Oh, no," she laughs. "This is all a leap of faith. I definitely have to be more careful about what shows I take, and planning it out.

I'm hoping it's an 'if you build it they will come' scenario. But we'll see."

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ou know how there's that Top gigs for some time to no avail, "You build it they will come" until he sent in a copy of its latest thing? Well, if you play enough ZZ record and got the response he had Top covers, one day the guy who been waiting for.

"If there's any band in Canada that wrote it sits in front of you and you feel awfully strange about it," says should play with them on tour, it's us.

Darren Glover, guitarist and vocal- I'm just going to say that straight up," Glover says, his gravelly voice hinting ist for rock duo Flash Lightnin'.

Glover and bandmate/bassist at humour, but it's evident he's not Darcy Yates cut their teeth in music kidding around. "I've been promoting playing covers, and Glover admits ZZ Top for seven years now in every that in the early days they hadn't interview, in every article and primarthought about pursuing a career ily because the old ZZ Top, it's about who they were much further than influenced by and that. However, the Tue, Mar 18 (7:30 pm) who they connectduo soon found With ZZ Top ed with." themselves with Jubilee Auditorium, sold out a record deal and While ZZ Top rewound up playing in the VIP lounge at one of ZZ mains a prevalent influence, Flash Top's shows. The band's response Lightnin' has continued to expand to Flash Lightnin's music (there was its repertoire beyond covers on For original material in its catalogue at the Sinners, due out April 29.

"Rock 'n' roll, it is what it is: it's sex that point, although it sounded a great deal like ZZ Top) was positive, and drugs and it's a freedom and and the pair ended up hanging out it's dark ... it's not banana cream with their idols on the tour bus af- pie songs on the beach," Glover terwards. Glover tried to get Flash notes of the album, its tracks spanLightnin' in an opening slot at ZZ ning between intelligible acoustic

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ballads and rock stompers, including the earworm single "One Pill," a tune about a junkie who can't shake a consuming affliction. The track came out of a challenge set by songwriter Simon Wilcox during a writing session. Her instructions were simple: go home and write a song just as cool as "No One Knows"

by Queens of the Stone Age. "I think it's because that song is one of those turning points in rock," says Glover of Wilcox choosing "No One Knows" as his benchmark, explaining the lyrics came to him around one in the morning and he hammered it out in one shot. "I feel that it was very similar to what bands in the past before them have done.

You could say, like, Nirvana wrote "[Smells Like] Teen Spirit" and it changed the path, and I think when Queens of the Stone Age showed up with that song and you crank it up it has this energy to it and this aura to it. I think all she was really saying was find that new energy."

MEAGHAN BAXTER

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Kill Matilda

Conquering the Kill Matilda universe // Terryis Gane

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ot so long ago, the future was looking uncertain for Kill Matilda.

The punk-rock three-piece from Vancouver was hit with its first hurdle when bassist Mykel Exner was diagnosed with a rare type of tumour in his carotid artery that required surgery. The band was unable to tour as he recovered and lost a great

deal of the momentum it had gained the unabashed energy to her perforsince the release of its album I Want mances. Kill Matilda is currently makRevenge in 2011. But that wasn't the ing its way across Canada supporting end of it. Soon after Mykel had re- #Punk#Zombie#RocknRoll, an EP and covered, Kill Matilda's frontwoman re-release of six tracks from I Want Dusty Exner (Mykel's wife) discov- Revenge. ered she had an "We're basically ectopic pregnan- Thu, Mar 20 (8:30 pm) using them as a cy—meaning the With the Reckless Rebels, Betty stepping stone to fetus was in her Sues a Tramp, Knuckledown remind everyone fallopian tube and Studio Music Foundation, $10 we're here and get would have to be the most out of terminated.

The them that we can tube ruptured and Dusty suffered a before we move on to something great deal of internal bleeding and new," Dusty explains, adding Kill nearly required a blood transfusion.

Matilda recorded a new six-song EP She was back on stage one week over the past year with Garth Richardson, but its release is on hold unlater.

"I just rested really hard for the first til the time is right (likely sometime few days and we managed to get in in 2014). one practice before our show, and When Kill Matilda released its I found just standing playing guitar self-titled EP in 2009, it was a DIY I was sweating hard," says Dusty, recording by the band, and one of whose performances usually tend to its two accompanying music vidbe much more high energy. "I was so eos landed on MuchMusic. The EP tired from the blood loss, right after gained regular play on campus rathe show [Mykel] took me to a res- dio and Dusty wants the songs on taurant and made me eat some liver #Punk#Zombie#RocknRoll to accomand onions. He was like, 'You need to plish at least as much, if not more, before Kill Matilda moves on. get your iron back.'"

These days, Dusty has returned "We weren't able to do any music

videos, and that's a real regret for us, so we've already completed one video for the song 'Law Abiding Citizen' and we will be releasing another video for this EP for the track, 'I Want Revenge,'" Dusty says, noting the ideal situation would be to release a video for every track.

Until then, Dusty has created a graphic novel to accompany #Punk#Zombie#RocknRoll, meant to complement two prevalent storylines within the group—one surrounding the band's fictitious origin as zombie hunters and the other from the song "Geisha With A Switchblade," which is about a sextrade worker who gets vigilante

justice on Robert Pickton.

"One of the things I wanted to do with the comic was find a way to connect these two themes and these two stories that we have going on, and also with an eye on where we're going in the future," Dusty says, trying her best not to reveal any spoilers. "We have an idea in mind of where we want to go with the story behind our band and sort of what that is—creating the Kill Matilda universe, right? So the comic was a way to bring together all of these different elements that were floating around and send them in a direction for the future."

MEAGHAN BAXTER

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omewhere in Europe, there is a van decked out with Owls By Nature decals and proudly bearing the title of OBN tour support crew.

Owls By Nature officially has superfans—something vocalist and guitarist Ian McIntosh is still a little blown away by.

"I remember watching an Avett Brothers documentary and them interviewing all of these people that would follow them from place to place. Lots of bands have that and I thought, how cool would that be if we affected people enough they would want to follow us on the road—and it happened," says McIntosh of the group of people that showed up with its own merch to several Owls By Nature shows during the band's first European tour, which wrapped up at the end of January.

Gunner Records, Owls By Nature's

label in Germany, already has plans mandolin-driven sound, but McIntosh in the works to get the band back to wants to steer towards a sound that's Europe in November, but in the mean- a little less folk and a little more rock time, there's the matter of releasing a 'n' roll. The banjo and mandolin were new album—and a new EP after that. replaced by organ and more guitar, "I know it sounds crazy because we with song lyrics drawing mostly on don't even have the new album out love, but McIntosh wants to leave the and we're already working on the rest up to listeners.

"I wanted to get next thing," McMon, Mar 17 (8 pm) away from the Intosh says, addWith Mayday & the Beat Creeps, Mumford and Sons ing the album is the Blackstone due out in June or kind of compariPawn Shop, $5 sons, you know, July. "We're looking about a year in because I never really thought we advance now. We kind of have to stay on top of every- were that because we have full drums thing, especially when we're talking and lead guitar," McIntosh says. "I about international tours." could see where people would maybe draw some comparison, but I wanted Owls By Nature's previous album, to make sure there was no way that Everything Is Hunted, drew compari- people could lump us into hopping on sons to Mumford and Sons, as well as that type of bandwagon." the Lumineers, for its rootsy, banjo- MEAGHAN BAXTER

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e had a rehearsal day yesterday and I'm sore from just that," admits Dan "Soupy" Campbell, vocalist of pop-punk band the Wonder Years over the phone from New York on the first day of the band's current tour.

This will be the first North American headlining venture for the Wonder Years, a group that is no stranger to the road, having spent an entire summer on the Vans Warped Tour and nearly 250 days away from home last year alone— although, some of that was to work on the album, Campbell points out.

"We're trying to slim it down a little bit but still hit a lot of countries," he says of the band's plans for 2014. "We're not doing any support this year is the plan, it's just all headlining."

The Philadelphia-based six-piece are continuing to push forward on the momentum gained by the release of The Greatest Generation

in 2012, which has turned out to be the Wonder Year's most successful album to date, doubling sales of the group's previous release during its first week and debuting at No 20 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. The disc rounds out an unintentional trilogy that started with The Upsides in 2009 and continued through Suburbia I've

Given You All and Now I'm Nothing in 2011. The first two install-

ments were testaments to growing up, touching on battles with anxiety, depression and struggling to fit in somewhere in the world.

"When we were making The Greatest Generation, I kind of realized that all of the things I was concerning myself with weren't the important things in life," Campbell recalls. "I was so self-involved and so caught up in what was wrong with my life."

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goes wrong is a crisis, making it difficult to see beyond the here and now. Campbell explains that, rather than being self-involved, he should have been focusing his energy on how he could be a better person, better those around him and better each situation, which is where The Greatest Generation picks up. The first two albums capture those ups and downs, but The Greatest Generation is able to reflect with a new perspective, learning from the past and moving toward to the future.

"The question is, with this anxiety, with the way that I was raised, with these flaws that I've been born with, with all of this shit ... how am I expected to be any better than I am?" Campbell asks. "The answer is basically shut the fuck up and work. Stop whining about it, stop telling yourself you can't do it because of this or that, you know? Go out and do something positive."

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Have you ever heard what Kurt Cobain’s lyrics would sound like when done in a jazz arrangement? Now you can. The ensemble also performs compositions by the likes of Louis Armstrong. (Blue Chair Café, $15)

Not quite sure what genre of music you’re in the mood for? Electric Six mixes up disco, punk, new wave and metal, so it’s got ya covered. (Starlite Room, $18)

Mary Flower / Sat, Mar 15 (8 pm)

She won’t have them with her, but Mary Flower’s latest album, Misery Loves Company, is a collection of duets with a diverse lineup of talent from Portland, Oregon. (Expressionz Café, $25)

Golden West Music Fest Presents / Fri, Mar 14 (8 pm)

This may just be the first of many shows leading up to Golden West Music Fest’s second installment this summer. The line up this time features Love Electric, Physical Copies and Lad Mags. You can also pick up your festival passes super early for the discounted price of $40. (Queen Alex Hall, $10)

Noisy Colours / Fri, Mar 14 (8 pm)

The band’s celebrating the release of its new EP, Gin Soaked Monster as well as the birthdays of its bass player and lead singer—who may also end up being ginsoaked monsters by the end of the night.

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Werner Pilc Duo / Fri, Mar 14 (8 pm)

Fun fact: pianists Kenny Werner and Jean-Michel Pilc have both been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in Music Composition. (Yardbird Suite, $20 for members, $24 for guests)

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MacEwan University has a packed musical program for March. This Saturday features the top compositions from the second-year diploma class while Sunday’s performance is courtesy of the guitar band, which includes a sneak peek at the guitar majors’ graduation recital. (John L Haar Theatre, $11 adults, $9 students and seniors)

ATOM String Quartet / Sun, Mar 16 (3 pm) Apparently string quartets that specialize in jazz are a bit of a rarity. This one has travelled all the way from Poland and has a program full of original compositions featuring Latino, Irish, Spanish and of course, Polish influences. (Giovanni School of Music, $10 – $20)

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There are exceptions like Ravi Shankar or more recently Omar Souleyman, but for the most part it is extremely difficult for "world" musicians to develop audiences here in the isolated expanse of North America, where such leanings have to be heavily filtered through rock 'n' roll or hip hop. And, really, that's more or less where Faya is coming from. Joe Driscoll is a beat-

rhythmic beat developing into a hypnotizing hook.

It sets the stage for the entry of vocalist Sharie Neyland, who elevates the well-crafted work of her band. "I saw the devil / He made my shadows flesh," Neyland's voice calls out, with a steady resonance that has a mature femininity and exudes power. "Gnosis" is just the entry of the passage into the dark pagan world constructed here, but it's enough to become thoroughly entranced and absorbed to see just where that world will go. And while there are a few odd fade-out choices, and the two shorter tracks strike as unnecessary, the full album is a demonstration of the epic depths occultinfused doom can achieve.

SAMANTHA POWER

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looping folk MC, and Sekou Kouyate is a master of the kora. Kouyate truly shreds the harp-like strings of this African instrument, and it is his skill that is the backbone of this record— and, really, the only thing that makes it stand out from the Michael Franti's of the world. These songs are folk fest programmer gold: cultural, human, positive and safe as a life preserver in a kiddie pool. Kouyate's nimble fingers grab you right away, and you start to believe that what is coming could be a blazing musical experience, but what follows is standard, mid-tempo reggaeish-ness and beach-bum funk. Although a speedy MC, Driscoll maintains pretty much the same cadence throughout, which does more to create the illusion of flow than actually present it. With only nine tracks, it's a pretty quick listen, and this swarthy chill-out music, is a lovely background, but it's just as forgettable as it is impressive.

LEE BOYES

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Hana Vave 1992 (Independent) 

Hana Vave's 1992 is a surprisingly self-assured debut from the Calgary four-piece. Clocking in at just under 15 minutes, this three-track EP channels early-'90s shoegazers like My Bloody Valentine, with Connor Dennehy's guitar riffs and Josh Boguski's spidery basslines washing over vocalist Geneva Haley. The production, done by Boguski, helps make 1992's mood.

Haley's dispassionate vocals swim deep in the mix as the guitar, bass and Alex Lavoie's steady drumming ebb and flow around her.

This creates a sense of melancholy on songs like "1992" and "The Expedition"—despite Dennehy's warm guitar sound. Hana Vave's problem is that the band sounds a bit derivative of othershoegazers.

"Ghost Tracks" sounds too much like a MBV B-side left on the cutting room floor—which, considering this is the group's first album, isn't that much of a bad thing.

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THU MAR 13

Accent European Lounge Live Music every Thu; this week: Andrea Wilson Arden Tom Russell; 7:30pm; $36 at Arden box office ARTERY Casper Hollands with Nature Of, Braden Gates, the N3K Trio Robots; 7:30pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door)

Big Al's House of Blues Fred Larose Song Writer's Evening: Hosted by Lionel Rault; 7pm (door); no cover Blues on Whyte Maurice John Vaughn Brixx Rock and Roll Circus: Comedy open stage hosted by Liam Leroux aka Slim Hughes; alternating headliners; every Thu, 7-9pm; no cover Café Haven Music every Thu: this week: Levi Cuss; 7pm

Carrot Coffeehouse Thu Open Mic: All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm cha island Bring Your Own Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pm-late; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm

Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain Open Jam Nights; no cover

FESTIVAL PLACE Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers; $36 (adult)/$24 (child) J R Bar Live Jam Thu; 9pm Jeffrey's Around Midnight (jazz); 8pm; $10 Kelly's Jameoke Night with the Nervous Flirts (sing-along with a live band); every Thu, 9pm1am; no cover L.B.'s Thu open stage: the New Big Time with Rocko Vaugeois, friends; 8-12 LIVE AT SLY's Every Thu Jam hosted by Lorne Burnstick; 8pm-12am Naked Cyber café Thu open stage; 8pm; all ages (15+) New West Hotel Trick Ryder

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111

Overtime Sherwood Park Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm2am every Thu; no cover Red Piano Every Thu: Dueling pianos at 8pm Ric’s Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm Richards Blue Thursday: with Gord Matthews; 6:30-9pm Smokehouse BBQ Live Blues every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm Tavern On Whyte Open stage with Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am

Wunderbar Electromatic, the Charlie Jacobson Band, Jey Witten with N3K Yardbird From New York: Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest)

Classical Muttart Hall Midday

Music: 12:10-12:50pm

DJs Black dog Freehouse Thu Main Fl: Throwback Thu:

Rock&Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas Culture; jamz that will make your backbone slide; Wooftop: Dig It! Thursdays.

Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests Bohemia Durty Thursday: DJ Lang vs. DJ Tigger Century Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close The Common The Common Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

FILTHY McNASTY’S Taking Back Thursdays

Krush Ultra Lounge Open stage; 7pm; no cover Level 2 Funk Bunker Thursdays On The Rocks Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow

Outlaws Roadhouse Wild Life Thursdays Union Hall 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

FRI MAR 14

Apex Casino–Vee Lounge Mourning Wood ARDEN Mayor's Celebration: Retro Radio show: Paige Tirs, Doug Hoyer, Steven Angove, Three Form Theatre, Troy Sherdahl; 6:30pm (art slam and reception), 7:30pm (radio show); $35 ARTERY Stone Iris, the Soulicitors; 8:30pm; $10 (adv)

Big Al's House of Blues Studebaker John; 7pm (door); $15

Blue Chair The Jazz Quintessential; 8:30pm; $15 Blues on Whyte Maurice John Vaughn Bohemia Colour Blind, Acta Non Verba, People Call It Home Bourbon Room Dueling pianos every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling 8pm Brittany's Jazz evening every Fri after work; 5-8pm

caffrey's in the park Green Eyed Blonde

Carrot Coffeehouse Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

CASINO EDMONTON Nervous Flirts; Jameoke Experience (Karaoke with a live band!)

CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Pure

Century Casino Dr Hook featuring Ray Sawyer; $44.95 cha island Joal Kamps (WCMA winner); 8pm; $6 donation Druid Pipers; 9pm

Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain Sugarfoot (blues and roots); 9pm; $5 FESTIVAL PLACE Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers; $36 (adult)/$24 (child)

Free Press Bistro Carrie Day; 7-9pm; $5 donation J+H Every Friday: Headwind and friends (vintage rock 'n' roll); 9:30pm; no minors, no cover Jeffrey's A/B Trio (sax led jazz); 9pm; $10 La Crema Kyler Schogen Band; 7:30pm L.B.'s The Red Hotz Lizard Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm;

no cover

Live at SLY's Mike the Party Hog

Newcastle Potato Head New West Hotel Trick Ryder

Omailles Lyle Hobbs On the Rocks Rock ‘N’ Hops Kitchen Party: Rocket Sauce with DJs

Overtime Sherwood Park Dueling Pianos, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Astral Harvest presents a Zodiac Series production: Worthy, Mafia Kiss, guests Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am Rose and Crown The Derina Harvey Band

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Siiines, the Unfortunates, RC Sindicate, Hearsay Wunderbar Noisy Colours (EP release), Death

By Robot, I Am Machi, Billy Zizi Yardbird From New York: Kenny Werner, Jean-Michel Pilc Duo; 8pm (door), 9pm: (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest) Yeg Dance Club Project X , hosted by Darren Scott and Davone Alo; $10 (adv)

Classical La Cité Francophone Chamber Concert Society: Londonderry Air: by Opus@12; 12-1pm; free

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri Chicago Joes Colossal Flows: Live Hip Hop and open mic every Fri with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, guests; 8:30pm-2am; no cover THE Common Good Fridays: nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh Druid DJ every Fri; 9pm

electric rodeo–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri Mercer Homegrown Friday: with DJ Thomas Culture RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri SET Nightclub NEW Fridays: House and Electro with Peep This, Tyler Collins, Peep'n ToM, Dusty Grooves, Nudii and Bill, and specials Zen Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door) Suite 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri Union Hall Ladies Night every Fri Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT MAR 15

Artery Catgut, Silhouettes, Accolades ,Sketches of Eternity; 8pm; $8 (adv)/$10 (door) "B" Street Rockin Big Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm Black Dog Freehouse Hair of the Dog: Bombproof

the Horses (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

Big Al's House of Blues Sat Afternoon Jam: with Rott'n Dan and Sean Stephens, noon, no cover; Evening: Studebaker John; 7pm (door); $15 Blind Pig Live jam every Sat; 3-7pm Blue Chair Kat Danser and the Buddies with Farley Scott and Jamie Philp; 8:30pm; $20 (limited walk-in seats at the bar only) Blues on Whyte Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Late show: Maurice John Vaughn Bohemia DARQ Saturday!

Bourbon Room St Patrick's Day dueling pianos Brittany's Miss Rae and the Midnight Ramblers; 8pm (door), 9:30pm (music); $10 (door)

caffrey's in the park Green Eyed Blonde

Carrot Coffeehouse Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2

Centre for Arts and Communications– MacEwan University Composition; 7:30pm; tickets at TIX on the Square

Century Casino Shanneyganock; 8pm; $34.95 cha island Sierra Jamerson (new single release party), Billie Zizi; 7pm; $10 Druid Pipers; 9pm

Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain Sugarfoot (blues and roots); 9pm; $5 Expressionz Mary Flower; 8pm; $25 (door); 6pm (dinner) FILTHY McNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts: Strange Planes and The Vanas; 4pm' no cover Gas Pump Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth Hilltop Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm Horizon Stage Norman Foote; 2pm; $20 (adult)/$16 (child/senior) Jeffrey's The Rault Brothers (folk, blues); 9pm; $15 L.B.'s The Last Calls Live at SLY's Wayne Allchin Band

MacEwan University Month of Music: Composition (Year 2); $11 (adult)/$9 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square

McDougall United Church Liona Boyd In Concert

Naked Cyber Café Brother Octopus (electronic indie-rock duo), the Skips (quirk-pop duo); a songversus-song event; 7pm (door), 8-10:30pm (show); $2 cover New West Hotel Trick Ryder O’byrne’s Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm Omailles Lyle Hobbs On the Rocks Rocket Sauce with DJs

Overtime Sherwood Park Dueling Pianos, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP The Real McKenzies, Boids, the Preying Saints Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am Richards The Terry Evans Sat Jam: every Sat; 5-9pm

Robert Tegler Centre–Concordia University College Worlds

of Music: Festival City Winds, the Koufogiannakis Porkka Explorations World Jazz Qaartet with George Koufogiannakis, Karen Porkka, Thom Golub, Dan Skakun; 7:30pm; fundraiser for Concordia Uni College Sch of Music: $15 (adult)/$12 (student/senior) at door Rose and Crown The Derina Harvey Band Sideliners St Patrick’s Day Bash; 8:30pm; no cover charge

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Revolution Engine, Upsidedowntown, Puzzled Minds & Unbalanced!

Set Nightclub Patricks Day Shamrock Shaker Starlite Electric Six, the Mohrs, guests; 9pm

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Revolution Engine, Upsidedowntown, Unbalanced, Puzzled Minds!

Wunderbar You Are An Explorer (EP release), Domestic Bear, Magic in the Kill Yeg Dance Club JD Era Live with YEG Beat Battle; 8pm Yardbird From Edmonton/ Calgary: Audrey Ochoa Sextet (CD release); 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $18 (member)/$20 (guest)

Classical St Paul's United Church Don't Be Afraid: Fundraising concert featuring St Paul's United Church Choir, Joy Spring Jazz Choir, McDougall Choir, the Brail Tone Choir, and guest speakers; 7pm; admission by donation; all proceeds to the Don't Be Afraid Campaign

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West End Christian Reformed Church Shevchenko Shakespeare: Pavlo Hunka (English bassbaritone), Joachim Segger, Strathcona String Quartet; 7pm

eleCtriC Six and the MohrS and rend the union preSentS

the Wonder yearS

w/ DefeaTer, real frienDs, ciTizen & moDern BaseBall the union and ConCertWorKS preSentS w/ GuesTs afTer The Burial, alBuM releaSe tour navanek & chon

aniMals as leaders the union preSentS

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againSt Me!

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Joe Solo, eChoeS of apathy, ElEmEnt Of OrangE, & UnivErsE machinE the union preSentS

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the jezabels and boy and bear W/ gold & youth & Wildlife the union preSentS

suicide Girls blackheart burlesque

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steven j MasKus the union preSentS

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djeMba djeMba & Mr. carMack (teaM supreMe) the union preSentS

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“wrathwind” Cd release extravaganza

W/ Mortillery, gateKraShor & Bleed raW: natural Born artiStS & Starlite rooM preSent ConCertWorKS preSentS the WorlWide plagueS tour featuring:

W/ SaBaton & reVaMp

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace

Sessions: Alt Rock/Electro/ Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE Common Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane Druid DJ every Sat; 9pm Encore–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat Level 2 Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno Mercer DJ Mikey Wong every Sat RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE Rouge Sat: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SET Nightclub SET Sat Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Your Famous Sat: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

walls (VancouVer) mar/14 City w/ alterra, & whale and the wolf mar/15 Matchbreaker, 20 centuries of stony sleep mar/22 Van funk - fear of criMe - bailey sutton mar/28 mar/29 Pax arcana apr/4 The misfires apr/5 CoWpunCher w/ ravensworD

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Starlite proudly preSentS

a night of hard hitting industrial - SiCK w/ Dj Dervish, GreG Gory and uneasy listening hour with Dj verlaaG the legend returns for one night only

reunion show w/ speCial guests spoil 5, KMa w/ left as objeCts and love tapper

w/ Two minuTes over Tokyo anD vanGohsT

w/ The moanin’ afTer, Tasman juDe & jessica marsh

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traCe the sKy, luCid sKies, leave the living & fiCtion of fate the return of nobody liKes dwight w/ Mary lee bird & 1000 words for water

eleCtriC religiouS w/ puttin on the foil & until red WillhorSe w/ ThomPson hiGhway & GuesTs

may/10 maliBu kniGhTs w/ GuesTs TBa

Sugar Foot Ballroom Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no exp/partner

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FRI MAR 14

CELTIC BASS FEAT. WORTHY (SF) & MAFIA KISS (UK)

SAT MAR 15

THE REAL MCKENZIES W/ BOIDS & PREYING SAINTS ST. PAT’S PRE-DRUNK PARTY!!

needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance Suite 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests Tavern On Whyte Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN MAR 16

Big Al's House of Blues Sun BBQ Jam: hosted by Marshall Lawrence; 4-8pm; no cover

Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku Open

OWLS BY NATURE, MAYDAY AND THE BEAT CREEPS, BLACKSTONE AND MORE

mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett Blue Chair Sunday Brunch: The Cramer Brothers; 9am-3pm; donations Blues on Whyte Maurice John Vaughn

FRI MAR 21

Guitar Band; 7:30pm; tickets at TIX on the Square

FRI MAR 21

Farewell to Winter Patio Party: Yukon Brewing Co; 12-5pm; Evening: Open mic with March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm Duggan's Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm FESTIVAL PLACE Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers; $36 (adult)/$24 (child)

MON MAR 17

ST PATTY`S DAY

I LOVE 80’S PARTY HOSTED BY DJ’S NAZZ NOMAD & BLUE JAY

SEAS (FEAT. MEMBERS OF MONEEN), W/BOMB SQUAD ROOKIE (CD RELEASE), FORESTER & MOST OF AUGUST

FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

Centre for Arts– MacEwan University cha island Afternoon:

Giovanni School of Music Atom String Quartet Jazz Concert: Dawid Lubowicz, Mateusz Smoczynski (violins), Michal Zaborski (viola), Krzysztof Lenczowski (cello); 3pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (senior/ student)/$10 (TKP/PCS member) HOG'S DEN Rockin' the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm LIVE AT SLY's Every Sun Jam hosted by Steve and Bob; 6-10pm

MacEwan University Month of Music: Guitar Band; $11 (adult)/$9 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square Newcastle The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

New West Hotel Trick Ryder

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS King Muskafa Richards Sunday Country Showcase and jam hosted

by Darren Gusnowsky and Curtis Ebner Smokehouse BBQ Hair of the Dog acoustic Sun Jam with Bonedog and Bearcat; every Sun; 2-6pm Wunderbar Rhythm of Cruelty, Putos, Sperm, Strangled, Traumatized, Sleepy Sun, Royal Tusk, the Nulls, Daniel and the Impending Doom; 8pm

Classical Holy Trinity Anglican Church La Folia is Edmonton’s Baroque String Ensemble Winspear Percussive Winds: Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Band with Matthew Coley; Glass House Concerto by Andrew Ardizzoia played on glass bottles and stone xylophones; 3pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sun: A

fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LeveL 2 Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

MON MAR 17

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Blues on Whyte Jason Elmore and Hoodoo Witch Cook County Lady Antebellum after party Druid Pipers at 1:30pm; Andrew Scott's St Paddy's Duo at 3pm; St James Gate at 9pm Duggan's Mon singersongwriter nights; 8pm FESTIVAL PLACE Celtic Fusion Illusion; 7:30pm; $32 (table)/$30 (box)/(theatre) $28 at Festival Place box office

Jubilee Auditorium Ruthie Foster, Charlie Musselwhite; 7:30pm; tickets at stubhub. com; Premium Fan Club Seating at Blackbyrd;

$67.40/$55.65/$43.40 at Ticketmaster Mercer St Patrick's Day Party: Mourning Wood and Mattiekin Irish Dancers New West Hotel Trick Ryder O'mailles Pete Kelly, and A.J.

ON THE ROCKS St Paddy's Day: Early show: Matt Robertson & Tim Cotton Duo, 5-8pm; Later: Jameoke St Patrick’s day with the Nervous Flirts, 9pm

Overtime–Sherwood Park Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510 Rose and Crown The Derina Harvey Band

Rouge Resto-Lounge Open Mic Night: Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm STARLITE Early Show: The Wonder Years, Defeater, Real Friends, Citizen, Modern Baseball; 5pm (door); all ages; $23 (adv at Unionevents.com, Blackbyrd

Classical Convocation Hall

Jubilee ZZ Top, Flash Lightnin’; 7:30pm; $39, $69, $89 at stubhub.com L.B.'s Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm Leaf bar Tue Open Jam: Trevor Mullen LIVE AT SLY's Jam hosted

by Rockin' Randy Every Tue, 7-11pm Mercer Tavern Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests New West Hotel Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Trick Ryder O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm Overtime Sherwood Park The Campfire Heros (acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover Red Piano Every Tue: the Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm-12am; no cover; relaxed dress code Richards Tue Live Music Showcase and Open Jam hosted by Mark Ammar Yardbird Tue Session: Nathan Ouellette Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

Monday Noon Music: Low Brass Concert (students of John McPherson); noon; free

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and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections BRIXX Metal night every Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Experimental Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue Suite 69 Rockstar Tue: Mash up and Electro, DJ Tyco, DJ Omes, weekly DJs

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy

Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave

Tavern on Whyte Classic Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

TUE MAR 18

Artery Young Benjamins, Smokekiller, guests; 7:30pm; $8 (adv)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro

Big Al's House of Blues Tue Jam with Big

WED MAR 19

Dreamer; 7pm (door); no cover Blues on Whyte Jason Elmore and Hoodoo Witch Druid Open Stage Tue; 9pm

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

Big Al's House of Blues Robbie's Reef Break

Wed: Host Rob Taylor with guests every Wed, 7-10pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with

Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm

Blues on Whyte Jason Elmore and Hoodoo Witch Bohemia Nasty Boys, Connor Regan, Josh Moxley Brittany's Jazz evening every Wed; 8-11pm Duggan's Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover Festival Place The Mavericks; sold out LIVE AT SLY's Open jam every Wed hosted by Will Cole; 7-11pm Mercury Room Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 New West Hotel Trick Ryder

Overtime Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society: Acoustic Bluegrass jam every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 Zen Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

Classical Winspear Beautiful Baroque: William Eddins (conductor, harpsichord), Denise Djokic (cello); 7:30pm; $24- $69

DJs Billiard Club Why wait Wed: party with DJ Alize; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio:

Alt '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock 'n' roll with LL Cool Joe Brixx Eats and Beats THE Common Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

VENUEGUIDE Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Avenue 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 "B" Street 11818-111 St Big Al's House of Blues 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 Blind Pig 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 Bohemia 10217-97 St Bourbon Room 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425 Brittany's Lounge 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 Brixx 10030-102 St (bsmt), 780.428.1099 Buckingham 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 Café Haven 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523 Caffrey's in the Park 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT Coffeehouse 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580

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Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 Casino Yellowhead 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 Centre for Arts and Communications–MacEwan University 10045-156 St Century Casino 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 Cha Island Tea Co 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 Chicago Joes 9604 -111 Ave Common 9910-109 St Daravara 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 Duggan's 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain Electric Rodeo–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 Elephant and Castle–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave Encore–WEM 2687, 8882170 St Festival Place 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 Fluid 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 Free Press Bistro 10014-

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104 St Giovanni School of Music 10528 Mayfield Rd Hilltop 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN Yellow Head Tr, 142 St Holy Trinity Anglican Church 10037-84 Ave Horizon Stage 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove Irish Sports Club 12546126 St, 780.453.2249 isbe edmonton 9529 Jasper Ave, 587.521.7788 J+H 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 Java xpress 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 jeffrey’s 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 Kelly's 10156-104 St La Cité Francophone 8627-91 St L.B.’s 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 Leaf bar 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEVEL 2 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lit Italian Wine Bar 10132-104 St LIVE AT SLY's 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 Lizard 13160-118 Ave Mercer Tavern 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 Mercury Room 10575-114 St Naked Cybercafé 10303-108

St, 780.425.9730 Newcastle 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 New West Hotel 15025111 Ave noorish 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O2's–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'mailles 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 Overtime Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Pleasantview Community Hall 10860-57 Ave Red Piano 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 Rendezvous 10108-149 St Richard's 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 Ric’s 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 Robert Tegler Centre– Concordia University College 7128 Ada Blvd ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235101 St

St Paul's United Church 11526-76 Ave Set Nightclub Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III Sideliners 11018-127 St Smokehouse BBQ 10810124 St, 587.521.6328 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St Sugar Foot Ballroom 10545-81 Ave Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 Tavern on Whyte 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 Vee Lounge, Apex Casino– St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 West End Christian Reformed Church 10015149 St Winspear 4 Sir Winston Churchill Sq; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours. com Yardbird 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG Dance Club 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr Zen 12923-97 St

EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

org; weekly meetings every Tue, 7-9pm (Jul-Aug off) • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail. com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

College, 9125-50 St • Monthly meeting featuring New Insights into Edmonton Butterflies, and the role of the Naturalist by John Acorn • Mar 21, 7pm (refreshments), 7:30pm (meeting) • Admission by donation

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

VOGUING • Pique Dance Centre, 10604 105 Ave • A blend of Dance, Modelling and Acting; all bodies/ levels • Every Sun, 7-8pm until Apr 13 • $5-$10 (Sliding Scale); info: houseofdam@yahoo.com

Edmonton Stamp Club • Central Lion’s Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

Recreation Centre, 113 St, 111 Ave • edmontonstampclub.com • 2014 Spring National Stamp Show: Stamps for sale, Exhibits (WPS), Jr Table • Mar 22-23, Sat 10-5pm, Sun 10-4pm • Free and evaluations

Brixx Bar • 10030-102 St (downstairs below

Edmonton Ukulele Circle • Bogani Café,

COMEDY

the Starlite Room), 780.428.1099 • Rock and Roll Circus Open Stage: Comedy hosted by Liam Leroux aka Slim Hughes; Alternating headliners • Every Thu 7-9pm • No cover

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment

Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • Aaron Foster; Mar 13-15

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM •

780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Orny Adams; until Mar 16 • Jen Kober; Mar 19-23 • Chris Tucker; special presentation; Mar 20-23 • Jeff Leeson; Mar 27-29 • Tommy Davidson special presentation: Mar 27-30, $28.95

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm Eden Exotic Nightclub/Connies Comedy • Tits and Giggles 2: Open Mic in between

dancers • Mar 26, 9pm • If you want on the roster, call 780.914.8966

Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave •

Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

FESTIVAL PLACE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood

Park, 780.449.3378 • Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers • Mar 13-14, 16 • $36 (adult)/$24 (child) at Festival Place box office

Krush Ultralounge/Connies Comedy • Komedy Krush with Tim Koslo; follows a Capital City Singles Mixer; Mar 13, 9pm • Komedy Krush with Simon King; follows a Capital City Singles Mixer; Mar 27, 9pm • If you want on the roster, call 780.914.8966

Overtime Pub • 4211-106 St • Open mic com-

edy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott every Wed, 9pm

Tilted Kilt–Whyte Ave/Connies Comedy • Travelling Open Mic with Sean Thompson

• Mar 19, 8pm • If you want on the roster, call 780.914.8966

Winspear • Just for Laughs: Comedian Bill Burr • Mar 14 • $35.50 Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old

Fertility Awareness Charting Circle

• Justisse-Healthworks for Women, 10145-81 Ave • justisse.ca • Meeting • • $10 (donation)

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté

St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleinesanam.org/en • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106

St • nawca.ca • Annual Spring Show & Competition: Wood art, Crafts, Retail Booths, Demonstrations, Food; Apr 26-27, 10am-5pm; free admission and parking

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm

Featuring Dr Ghada Ageel and Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh (via Skype from Palestine) • Mar 14 (21-1:30pm)

Empire’s skin show • Humanities Centre

SEEDY SUNDAY • Alberta Avenue Community

L-1, U of A • Body capital: Salome and the Head on Mar 12 • Mapping the unsettler subject: travels with Klondike Kate and other worldly women on Mar 14

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

EPARCHIAL VENERATION OF THE HOLY SHROUD • St Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic

Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50

• Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

Songwriters Group • The Carrot, 9351-118

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-

cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519

Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Westend TNT Toastmasters: Trinity United Church, 8810 Meadowlark Rd; Public speaking: Parliamentary practice based on Robert's Rules of Order; vpm-2291@toastmastersclubs.

Mennonite Church, 11210-59 Ave • Led by Vic Thiessen • Mar 23, 2:30-8:30pm • Pre-register: bitly.com/movie-discussions

Queen Elizabeth High School • Vivien

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave •

Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700

Guns, "Games," and God; Are films the sermons of our time? • Lendrum

236/238 • Featuring Charlotte Kates, coordinator of Samidoun Prisoner Solidarity Network. Discuss who the Palestinian political prisoners are–and what can be done to support their struggle for freedom; info: psnedmonton.ca • Thu, Mar 13, 7-9pm

10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

Toastmasters • Fabulous Facilitators

Cathedral, 10825-97 St • 780.422.3181 • Public veneration • Every Tue, Thu 4-9pm, Sun 1-4pm until Apr 10

Palestinian Political Prisoners: Apartheid Injustice • Telus Building, Rm

Brain Tumour Peer Support Group

Diagnosis, Efficient Treatment, and an Optimistic Prognosis for Palestine • Education Centre South, Rm 262 •

Seventies Forever Music Society •

Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm

587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 (lesson with entry)

Edmonton Nature Club • King’s University

Angela David speaks • CCIS 1-430, U of A North Campus • Alberta Public Interest event: public lecture on the intersections of the prison industrial complex, race, and gender based violence • Mar 15, 7pm

Centre • Garden seed exchange and sale • Mar 16

sAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside

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

Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB

Waskahegan Trail hikes • Each week group plans a 10 km guided hike • Car pool available meeting place to trail • Meet at McDonalds 14920-87 Ave • Hike the Devon Ravine trails; contact JoAnne 780.487.0645 • Mar 23

Edmonton Israeli Apartheid Week • U of A Campus and various locations • psnedmonton. ca • Palestine Solidarity Network presents a week of presentations, workshops, film screenings, and cultural events in solidarity with Palestine and to raise awareness around the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid. Speakers include Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Abigail B. Bakan, Charlotte Kates, Mazin Qumsiyeh, Ghada Ageel • Until Mar 14 • Free

0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

Sugar Foot Swing Dance • Sugar Swing,

Canadian Injured Workers Association of Alberta (CIWAA) • Augustana

Waskahegan Trail hikes • Each week group plans a 10 km guided hike • Car pool available meeting place to trail • Meet at McDonalds Capilano, 9857-50 St • Hike from Capilano Park through Kinnard Ravine to Dawson Park; contact Bev 780.469.7948 • Mar 16

LECTURES/Presentations

106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

Amnesty International Edmonton •

• Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-

Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

Argentine Tango Dance at Foot Notes Studio • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South

Wild Rose Antique Collectors Society • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood

2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5

Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

Wiccan Assembly • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com

Bosley Speaks to Historical Society • Mar 25, 7:30pm

RETHINK 911 Edmonton • Stanley A. Milner

Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Architect Richard Gage Asks Canadians Tough Questions on 9/11 Challenges 12-year Media Blackout During 17-City Tour: a multi-media presentation vital to understanding the 9/11 tower collapses that have led to the ongoing Middle East wars and the restrictions in domestic freedoms • Mar 16, 7pm • $20

This Old Edmonton House Seminars The 2014 Seminars • Agt Building, Fort Edmonton Park: Roofs And Exteriors: with Peter

Caron; Mar 24, 7-9pm; $20; registration #519452

Seeing is above All • Acacia Hall, 10433-83

Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

Stories from the Global South • La

Cite Francophone Atrium, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury • An evening with youth leader from the Andean highlands in Peru, sharing her experiences from development initiatives in the rural communities of the Peruvian Andes with pictures from climbing and hiking areas in the South American Andes • Mar 14, 7-9pm • Free

This Old Edmonton House Seminars • AGT Building or Reed's Tea Room, Fort Edmonton Park: Mechanical and Electrical Systems: by Chris Kato; Mar 17, 7-9pm; $20; registration #519451 • edmonton.ca/city_government/edmonton_archives/this-old-edmonton-house-seminars.aspx

March Meat Out • King Edward Park, Small

Hall: Film: Earthlings; Mar 18-19, 7-9pm • Film: Bethanys Story: The Power from Within; Mar 25, 7-9pm • U of A, Law Bldg, Rm 191: Mar 18-19, 5:307:30pm • Padmanadi: Lecture by Dr Ze'ev Gross, Where Do You Get Your Protein?; Mar 15, 2-4pm

WINTER WOOD DESIGN SEMINAR •

Yellowhead Chateau Nova, 13920 Yellowhead Tr • 780.392.0761 • Innovation in Wood Construction and Accurate Wood Costing with Andre Lema • Mar 19, 9:30am • Free; pre-register at http://ams.cwc. ca/Live/AMS/EventRegistrations/EventDetails/4337? isPreview=False

The World in Roman Sundials: Past, Present, and FuturE • Tory Breezeway 2, U

of A • Lecture by Richard Talbert, presented by the Edmonton Society of the Archaeological Institute of America • Mar 13, 7pm • Free

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month Beers for Queers • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month Bisexual Women's Coffee Group • A

• Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/ competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu OutLoud - LGBT Youth Group • St Paul's United Church, 11526-76 Ave • A group LGBT teens from religious backgrounds • Meet the 1st and 3rd Wed each month, 7-9pm; beginning Mar 19-Jun 18 • Free Pride Centre of Edmonton • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@ hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca

social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo. com/group/bwedmonton

PrimeTimers/sage Games • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

• Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220-103

St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash

G.L.B.T. sports and recreation •

teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Bowling: Bonnie Doon Bowling Lanes: Every Tue, 6:30pm; until Apr 1, 2014; $15/week • Volleyball: Stratford Junior-Senior High School (west end): every Tue, Mar 18-Apr 29, 7-9pm, $65 (season), $35 (Half season), $5 (drop-in) • Curling: Granite Curling Club: Every Tue, until Mar 25, 7pm • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca Illusions Social Club • Pride Centre,

10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edm-

livingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768

VUEWEEKLY mar 13 – mar 19, 2014

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace. ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

SPECIAL EVENTS DeepSoul.ca • 587.520.3833; text to: 780.530.1283 for location • Classic Covers Shindig Fundraiser • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars: upcoming Century Casino show as well; Twilight Zone Razamanaz Tour; all ages • Fundraising for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank) Elizabeth's Antique & Collectible Sale • Alberta Aviation Museum, 11410 Kingsway

Ave • elizabethsantiquesales.webs.com • Over 140 tables of Pop Culture, Vintage Clothing, Advertising Collectibles, Shabby Chic, Antique Furniture, Militaria, Jewelry, Petroliana, Art Glass, Vintage Toys, China, LP Records, Sports Memorabilia, Coins, Stamps, Watches, Comics, Buttons and so much more! • Mar 14-15 • $5 (adult)/child under 12 free

IN-FAIR • St Joseph's High School, 10830-109

St • showcase of students posters about improving high schools and the city; and speakers on the topic of youth innovation and engagement • Mar 22, 10am-2pm • Info/pre-register at uofainnovation.wordpress.com; eventbrite.ca/e/in-fairtickets-10712049027

Nomads Tent • McKernan Community Hall, 11341-78 Ave • Textiles and artifacts from India and more; international folk dancing: Fri at 7:30pm • Mar 14, 4-9pm; Mar 15, 10am-5pm P3. People Passion Purpose–Volunteer Fair • Agora Community Centre, 401

Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.464.4242 • People Passion Purpose: organizations showcasing their volunteer opportunities • Mar 13, 12-6pm

St Albert's Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts • Arden Theatre • Retro Radio: the

theatre is transformed into an old-fashioned radio station with tap dancers, in-house musicians and comedians • Mar 14, 6:30pm • $35 at the Arden box office, ticketmaster.ca

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ATTENTION! OPEN CALL FOR SPEAKERS: TEDxEdmonton is looking for potential speakers to present their ideas worth sharing! If you know somebody or are that somebody that can follow through with this years theme of ‘For Certain: Uncertainty’ apply through our website http://www.tedxedmonton.com/ speakers/application.html or email at info@tedxedmonton.com Thai cooking Parties www.ithai.ca Edmonton’s only authentic Thai cooking parties!

In your home with a Thai native! Experience Thailand in the comfort of your own home with a accomplished Thai chef with over 20 years of experience. Contact www.ithai.ca or 780-232-5195 today YWCA Edmonton has been honouring the best and brightest women in our city for over 30 years. We are now accepting nominations for the 2014 YWCA Women of Distinction Awards.

Edmontonians are urged to reflect upon the exceptional women in our city and nominate someone in one of eight categories:Advocate,Arts & Culture,Volunteer,Educator, Entrepreneur & Businesswoman,Trailblazer, Turning Point, Young Woman of Distinction The nomination process is simple: submit a form online or fill out a hard copy and submit via mail or email. Both options are available on the Women of Distinction website ywcaofedmontonwomenofdisti nction.org Important Dates: Nominations Deadline | Friday March 28, 2014

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AGA seeks Special Events & Volunteer Coordinator The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA), a non-profit arts institution, is seeking an energetic, innovative and highly organized candidate to fill the full-time position of Special Events & Volunteer Coordinator.

Salary commensurate with experience. Please submit resume and cover letters to careers@youraga.ca by 5pm on Thursday, February 20, 2014. No phone calls please. Only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

Greenline Distribution seeks full time driver

Must have a clean driver’s abstract, able to drive a 5 ton cube truck. Experience preferred but not necessary.

40 hrs per week. Interested parties please contact Mike Garth at michael@vueweekly.com or at 780-707-0476

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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 Give some, Get some. Come have some fun, a little exercise and be recognized.

We require volunteers almost every day of the week to help at various bingo locations around the city (WEM, Castledowns, south side). You give your time (4-6 hour shift) and we recognize your efforts.

You do not need any experience as everything will be taught to you and you will be completely supported. Calll Christine at 780-953-1510 or email at christine.poirier@cnib.ca for more information Bingo is a smoke-free and friendly environment.

Growing Facilitators Volunteer Opportunity Sustainable Food Edmonton offers a Little Green Thumbs indoor gardening program to schools and childcare agencies and we are looking for volunteers. For info and volunteer application form:

www.sustainablefoodedmonton.o rg

Habitat For Humanity Women Build Week Mar 18-22 Are you a woman who has always wanted to volunteer on a Habitat for Humanity build site,but were unsure if you had the necessary skills? Check our website www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer online or contact Kim. Contact Info: Kim Dedeugd kdedeugd@hfh.org 780-451-3416 ext 232 Habitat for Humanity is building at Neufeld Landing!

We are actively scheduling individuals and groups of volunteers for Canada’s largest project located in South Edmonton’s Rutherford area.

To get involved, go to www.hfh.org and register as a volunteer.

Kim Dedeugd 780-451-3416 kdedeugd@hfh.org Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com

Are You Looking for a Great Volunteer Experience?

Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network’s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers! Interested or want to learn more? Contact Maura at 780-392-8723 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com

Habitat for Humanity’s On-Tap volunteer program allows busy people to get out and volunteer when they can. For more information about the On-Tap program. angela@hfh.org or 780-451-3416 ext 223.

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Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism.

Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities

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Volunteers Wanted

Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit!

Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106 Options Sexual Health Association is looking for prochoice and sex-positive volunteers to attend events and festivals all summer long and beyond! Comprehensive training will be held throughout April. Please visit our website www.optionssexualhealth.ca to fill out an application form Room to Read is changing children’s lives in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality.

Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our work, and spread the word about our amazing results.

Edmonton@roomtoread.org www.roomtoread.org RUNNERS WANTED Run Wild for Wildlife is a campaign that raises money for the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton . This year’s Walk/Run is taking place on April 13th, 2014. We are looking for vegan/vegetarian runners to join the VVoA’s team for this event! Please email info@vofa.ca if you are interested in participating, or if you have any questions.

Representatives of the VVoA will also be selling vegan cookies at the event, with the proceeds going to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton.

Showcase your creativity and love for the environment! Become a Reuse Crafter!

Reuse Crafters lead crafting workshops that focus on the utilization of Reuse materials.

Guide public crafting workshops at locations in the Edmonton community Plan meaningful crafts, suited to participants abilities Engage with participants and educate about Reuse and the Reuse Centre Apply online. Visit edmonton.ca/reusecentre The Canadian Cancer Society’s strongest asset is our dedicated volunteers. By offering the most meaningful opportunities for you to make the biggest difference as a volunteer, we’re having more impact, against more cancers, in more communities, than any other cancer charity.

For more information on how to get involved: http://www.cancer.ca/en/getinvolved/volunteering/ways-tovolunteer/?region=ab#ixzz2vac GwaEX Volunteering - Does your employer have a Day of Caring program?

Volunteers from beginners to garage “putterers”, to trades people come out and help us to build homes for families in our community.

For more information, go to our website at www.hfh.org or contact Kim at 780-451-3416 ext 232.

Volunteers Wanted

Volunteering - Improve the Lives of Children in the Developing World Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our programs, and spread the word about the fantastic results we are achieving.

Skills in event planning, PR, marketing, graphic design are needed, but not essential. We welcome all volunteers. If this sounds interesting, email us at Edmonton@roomtoread.org

2005.

Artist to Artist

2014 Eldon & Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize Application Form Open to Greater Edmonton Artists nominated by a Gallery.

The winning artist will receive a $10,000 cash prize.

DEADLINE: The submission deadline for completed nominations is Thursday March 27th, 2014 at 4pm.

Download Application here http://visualartsalberta.com/blo g/wpcontent/uploads/2012/05/2014 -Foote-Art-Prize-FINAL1.pdf Alberta Foundation for the Arts: Art Acquisition by Application Deadline: April 01st, 2014 For more information and to download forms visit: http://www.affta.ab.ca/ArtCollection Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA), seeks submissions from artists working in all styles and mediums for exhibition in the 2015 calendar year.

Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 1, 2014, 5 pm For more information: Jenny Willson-McGrath, Exhibition Curator 780.651.5741 I jennyw@artsheritage.ca Call For Submission To SHE Publication: Edmonton Edmonton’s Women’s Arts Museum (WAM) is looking for articles by and about women in Canadian visual art to feature in their upcoming publication Sharing Her Experience (SHE). Articles can be about women who are overlooked, opinion articles about Canadian visual artwork and how it relates to women, or spotlights on women currently creating artwork within Canada.

If you are interested, you can submit by April 15th, 2014.

For more information, check out WAM’s website: http://www.wamsoc.ca/SHE.html Call For Submissions: The 2014 Calgary Biennial This event will take place in numerous venues around the Calgary between December 2014 to January 2015. If you’re interested in being part of the biennial, you can apply before May 1st.

For more information, check out the website: http://calgarybiennial.ca/ Call to Makers, Mercer Collective: A Maker’s Market You must MAKE, BAKE or CREATE what you sell. You can not be a reseller of goods not produced by you.

Costs: $60 per market December show is $200 Additional Fees Table Rental is available at $10 per show. Please specify 6 ft or 4 ft. Limited quantities available.

Show Dates: March 29,April 26, Sept 27,October 25, November 22 December 13-14 – $200

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2005.

Artist to Artist

Calling all talented Canadian artists! Artailer is an innovative online gallery dedicated to showcasing and selling the work of new and emerging Canadian artists.

Inviting all artists who wish to turn their passion into a career to submit their art for review.

For more information, please see the FAQ page on our website (www.artailer.ca), or contact us directly: info@artailer.ca; 416-900-4112 CALLING ALL YOUTH ARTISTS! We are looking for submissions for Tabula Rasa, an evening to celebrate artistic talent of Edmontonians under 24! Accepting submissions in the form of visual or performing arts (send us your music, poetry, photography, paintings, choreography..etc) The event will be held at Mercer Building downtown, April 11th. Find the link to our submissions on tumblr, twitter and instagram: @tabularasa_yeg . Help us show you off!

Live Model Figure Drawing Drop-in sessions every Tuesday, February 11 – June 24, 6-9PM. $15/session; 11-pack only $150. Instruction

by Daniel Hackborn available 1st Tuesday of each month.

Save 20% on supplies.

Reserve your seating – space is limited. 10032 81 Avenue, Edmonton; ph. 780.432.0240. www.paintspot.ca; accounts@paintspot.ca OR info@paintspot.ca Marking the Valley A juried art exhibition Call to artists Leave Your Mark on the Capital Region River Valley Visual Arts Alberta-CARFAC is partnering with the River Valley Alliance to showcase the Capital Region River Valley through your artwork.

Submission Guidelines can be downloaded at:

2005.

Artist to Artist

Recognize your favourite greater #yeg artist and/or arts investor with a nomination for a Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts award.

PACE is very fortunate to have Catch the Keys as our producers for the 27th Annual Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts. You can expect to be hearing a lot from them as they work their magic on our wonderful event. You can track our hash tag #mca2014 to keep abreast of developments.

E-mail admin@pacedmonton.com The 2014 Wood Buffalo Artist in Residency program will host a studio location in Fort McMurray. The residency includes a dedicated studio space (with no associated fee) commencing on June 4th, 2014 in Fort McMurray.

We invite visual artists who are Canadian residents to submit a proposal by Friday April 11th, 2014 at 4:00PM (Mountain Time).

For more information please visit www.woodbuffalo.ab.ca/artist to learn more about this project and the call to artists.

The Lewis Farms Fire Station public art competition is open to Edmonton and area based artists or artist/designer teams.

Deadline for Submissions: 4:30 pm on Thursday, April 03, 2014 Installation: Summer 2015 An INFORMATION SESSION will be held later this month.

For more information, please email Robert Harpin at rharpin@edmontonarts.ca or call 780.424.2787 extension 231 The McMullen Gallery is accepting applications for the 2015-16 Exhibition Season until March 31, 2014 For details please head to: www.friendsofuah.org

http://visualartsalberta.com/ marking-the-valley/

Western Canada Fashion Week: Call for Submissions

Deadline for this juried exhibition: May 30th, 2014

One of The Works’ contributors, Western Canada Fashion Week, is currently looking for submissions for the following competitions:

Now entering its 7th year, Alberta Culture Days is becoming our province’s largest celebration of our heritage, arts and cultural diversity. This year, you can continue playing a lead role in putting culture centre stage during the last weekend of September!

The Government of Alberta is providing funding to organizations to put on events September 26–28, 2014. The application deadline is Monday, April 28, 2014.

Visit the ‘Get Involved’ section at AlbertaCultureDays.ca for full details.

Painting Group(Acrylic & Oils) in Edmonton At the very beginning stage of starting a painting group, for all skill levels, and seeing if anyone else would be interested.

The aim would be to: - provide an agreeable regular time to meet with others and paint - meet like-minded people, or at the very least, people with similar interests - Keep creativity level up or revitalized - learn from other members and share skills Contact info: becausepaint@gmail.com Paintings done especially for sale, its a type of pop art and they’re female. 26 to choose from, 16” x 16”.

Triangle Lips Mr. Jim Willans 780-438-1969

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PHABRIKATED competition.

Select entries will be showcased this summer at The Works Art & Design Festival!

Costume Design Competition.

For details head to: http://westerncanadafashionwe ek.com/competitions/ Please note: The application deadlines have been extended until April 3rd!

Works to Work Summer Internship The Works is currently looking for hardworking, enthusiastic individuals to join the team for summer 2014!

The Works to Work program, an Enbridge Art Internship, is a unique leadership and professional development program that connects theoretical with practical learning.

For more information about the internship, please visit www.theworks.ab.ca and click “Education”

2010.

Musicians Available

Experienced Female Blues / Swing Singer New to city and looking for a band with semi-regular gigs, mature/senior players and with a healthy ethic and environment. Have great range, power and good chops.

Can draw a crowd.

Please contact (780) 988-1058 or

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2010.

Musicians Available

Making Music Fun for All Ages - Piano lessons offered Central Edmonton (private) Wendy Jensen is a classically trained musician of 30 years from Edmonton, AB. Upon popular demand from fans, Wendy is now offering piano lessons for beginner students in the downtown area.

Wendy’s mission is to make learning music fun for students of all ages. Wendy is now booking lessons for: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday evenings from 4 PM-8 PM and Saturdays 11:00 AM-3:00PM. Lessons can be booked hourly for $50 or $25 per every half hour (plus cost of materials) For a limited time only, Wendy is offering a special rate of $150 for 4x 1hr lessons. Book now for your free initial interview.

Your lesson plan can include: Learning how to read music Learn basic music theory Learn to play the piano Learn specific pieces of music (music coaching) Coaching for the emerging artist Improving stage performance & presence How to organize events/concerts How to promote your music & build your network What’s in a brand name?

Learning the basics of the music industry (copyright infringement, etc) Visit www.wendyjensenca.com for more information Old shuffle blues drummer available for gigs.

Influences: B.B. King, Freddy King, etc.

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2020.

Musicians Wanted

Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs.

Please call 780-901-7677

2100.

Auditions

OPEN CASTING CALL for Spanish-speaking Role Players THE CASTING LINE is seeking Spanish-speaking men and women, ages 18 to 65, in good physical condition, to work as Villagers in an upcoming 20-day military exercise taking place at CFB Wainwright, May 12 to 31, 2014. No previous military or acting experience required.

These are paid role player positions. For complete details go to: www.thecastingline.ca under “now casting”.

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Writers

The Vanguard Journal invites undergraduate students of Edmonton to submit articles (max. 1500 words) for the Spring 2014 issue, Changing Climates. Send inquiries and submissions to vanguard.journal@gmail.com.

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): "There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one." So says a character in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Unconsoled. At this juncture in your life story, Aries, it might be healing for you to make a similar declaration.

Now is an excellent moment to say a final goodbye to plot twists that you wished would have happened but never did. To do so will free up stuck energy that will then become available for future projects. You may even awaken to exciting possibilities you haven't imagined yet.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): In May 2011, two Nepali men reached the top of Mt Everest after a six-week climb. Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa and Sano Babu Sunuwar had prepared an unprecedented way to get back down off the mountain. Strapping themselves to a single parachute, they leaped off and paraglided for 45 minutes, landing near a Sherpa village thousands of feet below the summit. I suggest you look around for a metaphorical version of a shortcut like that, Taurus. Don't do the next part of the journey the same way you did the previous phase.

Take a more direct route. Enjoy an alternate adventure. Give yourself a fresh challenge.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Seeking wisdom and chasing after pleasure are polar opposites, right? You must devote yourself to either one or the other, correct? You can be an enlightened servant of the greater good or else an exuberant hedonist in quest of joy, but not both. True?

No. No. No. False. Wrong. Here's the bigger truth: now and then, grace periods come along when you can become smarter and kinder by exploring the mysteries of feeling really good. Can you guess when the next of these grace periods will arrive for you, Gemini? Here's the answer: it's here now!

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Humans walked on the moon before anyone ever had the simple idea to put wheels on suitcases.

Unbelievable, right? Until 1972, three years after astronauts first walked on the lunar surface, travellers in airports and train stations had to carry and drag wheelless containers full of their belongings. I suspect that a comparable out-of-sequence thing may be going on in your own life, Cancerian.

In some ways you are totally upto-date and in other ways you are lagging behind. Now would be a good time to identify any discrepancies and start correcting them.

Metaphorically speaking, I'd love you to have rolling luggage by the next time you take a journey.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Have you ever heard of the sasquatch, also known as bigfoot? You know, one of those big, hairy, humanoid beasts that walks upright and

VUEWEEKLY mar 13 – mar 19, 2014

lives in dense forests? Scientists assure us that there is no such thing. But then they used to say the same thing about the platypus. It was a myth, they declared; a figment of explorers' vivid imaginations. A duck-billed, egglaying mammal simply could not exist. When the respected British zoologist George Shaw claimed there was indeed such a creature, he was mocked by his contemporaries. Eventually, though, the truth emerged and Shaw was vindicated. I suspect that you Leos will soon experience an event akin to the discovery and confirmation that the platypus is real.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Kyoka is a Japanese word that means a flower reflected in a mirror. I suggest you use it as a metaphor to help you understand what's happening in your life right now. Here are some clues to jump-start your ruminations. Are you more focused on the image of what you love than on what you love? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Are you more interested in ephemeral beauty that you can admire from afar than in tangible beauty you can actually touch? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Should you turn away from a dreamy surrogate and turn toward the real thing? If so, why?

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): A British researcher poured 300 million facts into a computer program designed to determine the most boring day in history. The winner was April 11, 1954. It was selected because almost nothing important happened except an election in Belgium. I'm wondering if you Libras might reach that level of blah sometime soon. The astrological omens suggest it's a possibility. And frankly, I hope that's exactly what happens. You need a break from high adventure and agitated activity. You would benefit from indulging in some downtime that allowed you to luxuriate in silence and stasis. The time has come to recharge your psychic batteries.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): You won't be the recipient of good luck in the coming days. Nor will you experience bad luck or dumb luck or weird luck. No, Scorpio.

The serendipitous slew of synchronicities that will slip and slide into your sphere requires a new word, which I have coined for this occasion. That word is "shluck." Shluck is a cracked yet plucky sort of backwards luck that provides you with an abundance of curious slack. Shluck slings your way a series of happy accidents and curious coincidences that give you experiences you didn't even realize you needed.

To take maximum advantage of shluck's benefits, you have to dispense with your agendas and drop your expectations.

Rob Brezsny freewill@vueweekly.com

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): In the old fairy tale Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the poor woodcutter Ali Baba is collecting firewood in the forest when he spies a gang of thieves bragging about their exploits. Observing them from a hiding place, he hears them chant a phrase, "open sesame." This magically unseals the opening to a cave that happens to be full of their stolen treasure. Later, when the thieves have departed, Ali Baba goes to the cave and says "open sesame" himself. The hocus-pocus works. He slips into the cave and steals a bag of gold from the robbers' plunder. This story has resemblances to an adventure you could enjoy sometime soon, Sagittarius. I suspect you may discover your own version of "open sesame." It will give you access to a less literal and more legitimate bounty.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Your ability to heal rifts and bridge gaps is unusually high.

You could connect seemingly irreconcilable elements and forge apparently impossible links.

Former allies who have become estranged might be moved to bond again through your compassionate intervention. I'm not promising amazingly miraculous feats of unification, but I'm not ruling them out, either. You have a sixth sense about how to create interesting mixtures by applying just the right amount of pressure and offering just the right kind of tenderness.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): My friend Harry said he wanted to teach me to play golf. "Are you kidding?" I asked him incredulously. "The dullest game on the planet?" He tried to convince me that it would provide lots of interesting metaphors I could use in writing horoscopes.

"Name one," I challenged him. He told me that "Volkswagen" is a slang term that describes what happens when a golfer makes an awkward shot that nevertheless turns out to be quite good.

"Hmmm," I replied. "That is exactly the theme I have decided on for the Aquarius horoscope."

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Do you remember being in your mother's womb? Probably not.

But here's what I know about that time: in the first few weeks after you were conceived, your body grew at a very rapid rate.

Once you were born, if you had continued to expand and develop with that much vigour, you would literally have grown to be as big as a mountain by now.

So let's be thankful you slowed down. But I do want to sound an alert and let you know that you are currently in a growth spurt with some metaphorical resemblances to that original eruption.

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BADLY WANT BONDAGE to. A guy who knows that 1) he's I have a slowly terminal disease Are there kinky people interested in your only outlet for BDSM play, 2) and don't have more than five or BDSM without sex? I'm an early- you had a hard enough time findsix years left. I haven't told my wife, 40s gal living in the Midwest. I'm ing him, and 3) you're hiding him which brings me to my problem. We in a decent-to-great marriage, have from your husband is a guy with had lived together for seven years two kids, a good life. But my hus- too much power over you—that's when she cheated on me the first band is not kinky—not at all. I feel a guy who could, after one or two time. We worked things out, we got like I've done all I can to get him sessions, make upgrading to full back together, but we continued to comfortable with rough sex, power sex a condition of your continuing live separately. Then I cheated on play, etc, but aside from some very to see him. her. We got back together again reluctant spanking, hair pulling and but continued living apart. After a a few humiliating (not in a good FACING THE TRUTH year of therapy, we got married, but way) attempts at bondage, our sex I have a fantastic relationship with again we kept our households sepa- life is almost totally vanilla. I en- my girlfriend. The entire time we've rate. Fast-forward one eviction and joy the sex we have, but not being been together—nearly two years— three years of living in a studio driv- all of who I am sexually is making has been marked by physical and ing each other crazy, and she cheat- me resentful, miserable and des- emotional honesty and openness. ed on me again—this time in our perate. At this point, I'm not even While we've been sharing our fanhouse. I moved tasies pretty out instantly. much since we Here’s the hard part, SLIM: Doing this on the A few months first started and a terminal down low—getting involved in the organized kink dating, we've diagnosis later, recently been scene without your husband’s knowledge—is go- talking about I don't have the ing to be impossible. You don’t mention having which fantasies will to file the divorce paperwork. your husband’s OK to outsource your kinks and I we'd like to try We've talked a in real life. One can only assume that you haven’t talked about it in particular is few times about trying to figure posing a bit of with him. You need to. out how to fix us, difficulty.

She but I don't know really enjoys reif I can ride this ceiving facials, messed-up roller coaster anymore. interested in trying to get my hus- which I've known since pretty much On the other hand, I don't want to band on board—it obviously makes the second time we had sex. She's waste the rest of my life being a di- him uncomfortable and I think he's even more turned on by the idea of vorced 40-something, but I still feel just been hoping my desires would multiple men coming on her face, idiotic trying to fix our fucked-up go away. They have not, of course, a revelation that came much later relationship. She reads your column and will not. But I can't see break- since she didn't want me to think every week, so if you publish this, ing up my marriage over this! My she was a freak or a bad feminist.

I'll have to talk to her about my ill- desires for intense physical play, (She isn't!) The thing is, the idea ness, so at least that won't be an D/s, role-play, etc are only getting also turns me on, which I was reissue. What should I do about us? stronger. Is it even worth trying to luctant to tell her since I didn't Doubting The Marital Future find people to play with who would want her to think I was a creep or be OK with no sex? I think I could a misogynist. (I'm not!) But figurAgain be happy staying monogamous if ing out how to find a man (or men) You and the wife have a resilient I could just get some of my needs to aid in this kink is a little tricky. connection, DTMFA. Some in- met elsewhere. I'm going insane, but Assuming there was no intercourse tangible something or other has I don't know if this is a thing and re- or oral sex—the only contact with pulled you toward each other de- search online has not been helpful. other men would be their come on spite infidelities on both sides. And Is there any hope? her face—what are the risks of conreading between the lines—and Sincerely Longing In Midwest tracting something? No matter how ignoring the acronym your sign-off good the aim, there's the possibility creates—it doesn't sound like be- There are lots of people involved of her eyes and mouth inadvertenting alone or your terminal illness in the organized kink scene who do ly becoming a part of the show. are the only reasons you're hesi- BDSM without the sex, SLIM. For Imperfect Come Is No Good tating to file those divorce papers. some, the BDSM is the sex. BondIt sounds to me like you love your age, D/s, spanking, etc is all they Gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydwife, DTMFA, and it sounds like she require to get off. But you'll also ia—you can get all three in your loves you. Imperfectly. And maybe find plenty of folks like you in the eyes. A person can contract all your semi-imminent death is put- organized kink scene—that is, men three orally as well, ICING, but the ting those infidelities in their semi- and women who wanna do BDSM mucous membranes in the eyes are proper perspective. I'm thinking the while remaining vanilla/technically more delicate and the risk is both real reason you haven't filed those faithful to their non-kinky partners greater and grosser. As your girldivorce papers yet is this: on some at home. friend probably doesn't want to level, you now recognize that your Here's the hard part, SLIM: doing wear swimming goggles and keep actual, existing, loving-but-flawed this on the down low—getting in- her mouth tightly closed during her marital relationship should be giv- volved in the organized kink scene big fantasy-facial scene—it's hard en more weight than the marital without your husband's knowl- to get swept up in the moment ideal that you've both fallen short edge—is going to be impossible. wearing goggles—you're gonna of, ie, a flawlessly executed monog- You don't mention having your want to do this with strangers who husband's OK to outsource your are willing to test or with guys you amous commitment.

I'm sorry about your diagnosis, kinks and I can only assume that already know and trust. Neither opDTMFA, I hope your remaining you haven't talked about it with tion is 100 percent risk-free, ICING, years are rich and rewarding, and him. You need to. Because the more but nothing worth doing is 100 perit would be a shame if you had to involved you get in the organized cent risk-free. face them alone. Maybe if you two kink scene, the more potential changed your expectations of each play partners you'll have to choose On the Lovecast, Dan speaks with other—if perfect sexual exclusiv- from. The more play partners you Irish drag queen Panti Bliss. Don't ity wasn't one of them—you two have to choose from, the safer miss this one: savagelovecast.com. would be less disappointed in each you're going to be—and the less V other. Good luck. likely you are to be manipulated into going further than you want @fakedansavage on Twitter

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19 Fashion world star Anna 20 Words prior to “touche” or “tureen” 21 Obvious disdain 23 Wheat bread Pitt almost took away for 2011 26 Appomattox initials 29 Country musician Axetone 30 Just ___, skip and jump away 31 Scandinavian fans of Wiggum’s kid (in Simpsons-iana)?

34 Quantity of bricks?

35 Two from Tijuana 36 Stir things up 37 British artist William with a 1745 portrait of him and his pug dog 39 Hands out 43 Bangkok bankroll 44 Utmost ordinal 45 Wood that flavors bourbon 46 Thousand dollar bills that fly and roost?

50 1052, to Tacitus 51 Last half of a tiny food contaminant (with first half of, um, you know...)

52 “Two Virgins” musician Yoko 53 Folks who Owen Meany films, say 54 Pang or misgiving 56 Military turndown 59 Big poet for java 60 Location of what to ditch from all long solutions (and from Across/ Down hints) for this all to work 66 Yahoo’s stock in 1996, for short 67 Start to unify?

68 Pinocchio, notoriously 69 Brand Ides 70 “Grande” Arizona attraction 71 Vigorous

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25 Capitol Hill gp.

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57 City on a fjord 58 Prompt jaws to drop, say 61 UFC fighting classification, for short 62 Holm of filmdom 63 Quick shot of brandy 64 Williams with a “Mortal City” album 65 Cook bacon ©2014 Jonesin' Crosswords

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