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Sexism, schmexism There is little doubt in my mind that Alison Redford is the most intelligent person to hold the office of Premier of Alberta since Peter Lougheed left office in 1985. She's an accomplished lawyer with an impressive resumé that includes work in far-away places like South Africa and Afghanistan. She's a long-time Red Tory, having worked as a policy advisor to former Prime Minister Joe Clarke. She's a cunning political operator managing, as she did, to defeat the frontrunners in the PC leadership race a few years ago to become Premier before she'd even completed her first term as an MLA. So, while there are a whole lot of words that could be used to describe Redford, I'm just not sure "victim of misogyny"—in particular, regarding a recent expense scandal—should be included. Let's be clear. I have fought for women's equality in political representation (and elsewhere) my entire adult life. I am not denying that there's a lot about politics that's inherently sexist. Women continue to have a hard time breaking through the glass ceiling. Women candidates have more difficulty raising campaign funds than men. Women candidates' appearance is mentioned more often than that of men in media coverage. Women still bear the lion's share of taking care of the home and the family, which leads to a harder time striking a work-life balance if they happen to get elected. That said, I am not happy when a woman achieves the highest office in the province and the second she is subjected to criticism, screams of misogyny drown out everything else being said. An important part of breaking through that glass ceiling is being accountable for your actions when you do. To quickly paint the Premier as a victim is playing right into the hands of those who think women have no place in politics in the first place. To suggest that Redford is being held to a higher standard than Ralph Klein because she's a woman is to forget the way the Progressive Conservatives treated Ed Stelmach. To conclude sexism is at the root of the Premier's troubles without examining the role of technology in making information more readily available and the fact that the government faces its largest opposition since the NDP were wiped out in 1993 is not only lazy but it absolves the Premier of all responsibility for her own actions. There's a lot about politics that's structurally and systemically sexist and will need to be addressed if women are to achieve full political equality. For starters, the legislature could cancel night sittings. That would help all MLAs—men and women alike— better meet the demands of their elected positions while meeting their familial obligations. Stricter campaign finance laws, properly enforced, would also go a long way to levelling the playing field. What doesn't help women trying to make their way into politics are those women who are already there who are perfectly content with playing the old boys' game by the old boys' rules without a thought about making it better or easier for the women coming behind them, who scream "sexism" when the going gets rough. V

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NEWS // TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Privacy breech for texts and calls Companies claim they protect privacy, but aren't big on specifics

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anada's biggest telecom companies spend tens of millions of dollars to promote their unlimited talk and text plans and high-speed Internet, but they clam up when asked about sharing customers' information with the prying eyes of government. That is what University of Toronto postdoctoral fellow Christopher Parsons found when 16 companies were asked for their policies and procedures. All but six companies responded, and none answered all of Parsons' questions about how they reveal subscribers' information to federal agencies. "I had hoped there would be a little bit more clarity, I'm disappointed but perhaps not surprised," Parsons says. "We don't know specifically what ISPs are legally permitted to tell Canadians and what they have chosen not to." In his report "The Murky State of Canadian Telecommunications Surveillance," Parsons found that most companies claimed they were committed to protecting subscribers' privacy, but few were specific about how they achieve that goal. The report was conducted as the Conservatives' Bill C-13 winds its way through Parliament. Privacy and civil-liberties advocates worry that the socalled Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act is a rehash of the failed Bill C-30 because it makes it easier for police to gain information without a warrant. Telus, a ray of sunshine? Letters were sent to telecoms on January 20 from the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs with a March 3 deadline for reply. The companies that replied were generally evasive and did not identify how or why responding

to questions would interfere with investigations or threaten national security. Bell Canada, Bell Aliant, Cogeco, Telus and Videotron did not say how long they retain subscribers' data. "In all cases, companies justified their refusals on grounds of confidentiality of investigative techniques or because of national security concerns," said Parsons' report. "Many companies also asserted that they were ill-suited to provide any response because the companies 'are not in a good position to balance the competing principles and interests triggered by detailed public disclosures about the volume and nature of lawful access requests.'" Telus chief compliance and privacy officer Heather Hawley's letter mentioned the company had difficulties with warrants to access text messages and Bell Canada senior counsel and privacy ombudsman Bill Abbott wrote that an internal law enforcement group, including a lawyer and ombudsperson, vets government requests for subscribers' data. Telus was singled out as an exception, because it wrote that the company would "request the government to clarify and limit the scope of current confidentiality requirements and to consider measures to facilitate greater transparency." "Telus' letter is cause for heart," Parsons says. "While they didn't provide the hard data we were looking for, they do commit to trying to get information from government about what they can and cannot disclose. I see that as a ray of sunshine in a sea of gloom." Who didn't respond? Parsons notes that Rogers' response didn't indicate the company's concern for privacy or that

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it requires a warrant to trigger disclosure of customer information to law enforcement. In his letter, Rogers' regulatory vice-president and chief privacy officer Kenneth Engelhart cited Standard 17 of Public Safety Canada's Solicitor Generals Enforcement Standards, which prohibits wireless service providers from disclosing lawful intercept practices. "You may want to consider making your request to the various government agencies directly," Engelhart wrote. "As you may also be aware, the federal Privacy Commissioner recently recommended to Parliament that government agencies proactively provide public reporting on lawful access and intercept requests and disclosures." The six companies that did not respond by deadline were Fido Solutions, Wind Mobile, Primus, Sasktel, TekSavvy Solutions and Xplorenet Communications. Last August, the Wall Street Journal reported that US federal authorities arranged with Qwest Communications International to intercept email and text messages in and out of Salt Lake City before and during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Telus did not respond to The Tyee for comment about whether it was involved in a similar practice during the Vancouver Games. Bell, the Games' sponsor, said it only provides information to police under a court order. Communications Security Establishment Canada denied it was involved in such a surveillance operation for Vancouver 2010. bob mackin TWITTER: @bobmackin

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FRONT NEWS // JASPER PRIDE

// Andrew Benson

hen Lynn Wannop put a gaypride sticker on the door of her café in Jasper six years ago, she had no idea what kind of impact it would have. A board member of HIV West Yellowhead at the time, a Jasper organization that promotes education around the subject of HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and STIs, Wannop had ordered a handful of the rainbow decals online and one quickly found a home on the door of her business, Coco's Café. It was an easy enough decision—she simply wanted to emulate the kind of welcoming environment she'd experienced growing up on Edmonton's Whyte Avenue—but in a "blue-collar Alberta" town with "5000 residents and nine churches," the sticker left an impression. "I just put a pride sticker on my door because I wanted to be known as somewhere that was a safe place to come into and welcoming," Wannop says. "I didn't think twice about it, and, oh my goodness, the ripple it caused. It was crazy." Although there were a few negative reactions—the sticker was ripped off her door, though she promptly replaced it—the majority were positive. The reaction set something off in Wannop and soon after she approached Jordan Tucker at Mountain Park Lodges about the idea of starting a Pride event in Jasper. After some frantic fundraising, Jas-

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per's first Pride celebration became a one-night bar event and saw just 40 or so people attend. Spirits were high despite the small turn out, and the mix of locals and out-of-town visitors who'd come especially for the event was an encouraging sign to Wannop. "I had this idea in my head that Jasper would be easily a very cool place to host something like this, and I was totally right," she says. The festival has increased in attendance and size every year since, the establishment of OUT Jasper in 2010 provided some much-needed funding for the event. This weekend, from March 21 – 23, Jasper's Pride Festival will be celebrating its fifth anniversary—a milestone Wannop only dreamed of back when she started it. Wannop has since stepped down from her leadership role, but she still volunteers at the event, endeavouring to promote the rights of the LGBTQ community in Jasper whenever she can. "Jasper is such an amazing place, and there are so many of us young business owners who totally feel this way and obviously [being] younger, we're the ones who are going to be running this town in the next 20 years. We all sort of feel the same: let's make it somewhere that we're proud to say that we live here," she says. "It's so cool to sit back and watch it go from just a little party at the bar and see it

importance of Jasper's pride festivities has grown, to the point where Tourism Jasper is currently promoting the festival's fifth anniversary alongside milestones such as Marmot Basin and the Jasper Tramways' 50th anniversaries. For McCarthy, who has lived in Jasper for 21 years and been out for six, the presence of the Jasper Pride Festival and organizations like OUT Jasper have played a key role in making the town a more accessible place for people of any sexual orientation in recent years. "Almost every year, it felt like it got better and better and bigger, and now I feel like I can hold my hand with my partner in town here and feel absolutely safe," McCarthy says. "You can feel the evolution, you can feel how the community is so inviting and the doors are open and [saying], 'Yes, we want you here.'" Walter, who came to Jasper two years ago and was a volunteer with the festival last year, is particularly proud of how widespread the festival's audience has become. Along with visitors from across Canada, he says they're expecting people from Montana, Australia and even Germany this year. The fact that the event is the only pride celebration in a national park in Canada certainly doesn't hurt attendance, and neither do the festival's fun activities—this year's theme is Jungle Fun, and events include a drag show, an LGBTQ-themed short-film festival, theatre and comedy shows, outdoor activities and more. And yet, despite the town's growing LGBTQ-friendly reputation, Walter says they still frequently come across people who are surprised that a town like Jasper, given its relatively small

tion. The fact that she's had quite the opposite experience in Jasper makes the event special to her. "It was much smaller, which was kind of unique because you really get to know quite a few people," she explains. "Whereas Edmonton— there's nothing wrong with Edmonton's, it's great, it's nice to see it expanding so much and all these people attending—but [in Jasper], it's like kind of being in a smaller community, getting to know each other ... you feel more involved." Martin heard about the festival during a trip to Jasper two years ago, and came back to attend it with a group of friends from her soccer community last year. Having attended Edmonton's pride festivities in the past, she was excited to go to something different and to be part of something just starting up. "When they were saying there's a Jasper Pride, I was like, 'Oh, that's kind of odd,' because it's like a smaller location and you kind of get these ideas of smaller towns and what not that they're not really comfortable with that situation. But I felt like we were hopping around to different pubs, and even the Fairmont Jasper and all the other hotels we checked out, they were just so welcoming, I couldn't believe it," Martin says. "I felt more comfortable actually in Jasper than I did in Edmonton, to be honest."

Experiences like these make the turn into something that I wanted it long hours of organizing a festival to turn into." worthwhile for the two co-chairs. Today's incarnation of the festival is Having lived in Jasper for over two a much different beast than the one decades, McCarthy in particular has Wannop piloted in 2009. The past seen the journey the town has gone four years have seen it grow from that through, particuinitial bar event to a celebration featurI think it sends a very strong signal within the larly since the JasPride Festival ing more than 350 rural Alberta communities that you can have per launched five years people, eventually pride celebrations, you can be supportive, you ago. The rainbow outgrowing Jasper's activity centre last can be proud even if you're not living in Calgary pride stickers that once caused an upyear. Hoping to or Edmonton. roar when Wannop capitalize on the stuck one to her event's growing door now adorn popularity and conmuch of the town, and it's a sight that tinue its momentum, the creation of size, has an event like this at all. "I think it sends a very strong signal brings tears to McCarthy's eyes. an independent organization to house "I could not believe the first time the festival seemed a natural evolu- within the rural Alberta communities tion for the town, and in September that you can have pride celebrations, I saw a pride flag in a business win2013, the Jasper Pride Festival Society you can be supportive, you can be dow," McCarthy says, her voice quivproud even if you're not living in Cal- ering with emotion. "It took forever to was formed. gary or Edmonton. You do not neces- come out and to actually be wanted While the organization's first man- sarily need to live in a metropolitan and accepted. There's nothing more date is to run the annual festival and area in order to live a safe life," he says. important than a human being part And while having a smaller festival of a community. To see friends that related events like fundraisers, its secondary goal of establishing Jasper could seem like a hindrance, it's actu- get hurt or abused or murdered or as a safe and discrimination-free envi- ally a key part of why some visitors whatever is very hurtful, so to see ronment for the local and visiting LG- keep coming back. That's been the the community help us and support BTQ community, as well as their fam- case for Lisa Martin, a native Edmon- us ... and even suggest activities and ily, friends and allies, is perhaps even tonian who will be returning to the suggest we want to help and give and festival for the second time this week- give and give—it's so overwhelming. more important. "That's why I'm emotional, because I've As the first co-chairs of the non- end. Martin lived in Grand Prairie for profit organization, Uwe Walter and a time while on a soccer scholarship been here a long time and it took this Sue McCarthy are as personally moti- and she remembers feeling different much time, and we're finally there." vated to push this message as they are and not as welcome in the small-town ALANA WILLERTON ALANA@VUEWEEKLY.COM professionally. They've seen how the atmosphere due to her sexual orienta-

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RICARDO ACUña // ricardo@vueweekly.com

ABCs of the oil sands

Oil companies have no place in Alberta Education's curriculum redesign Who gets to decide what students in kindergarten to Grade 3 learn and what they need to know? In most places, the answer to that question will include teachers, parents, education experts, child psychologists and community members. In Alberta, that list also includes energy giants Syncrude and Suncor. Last week, New Democrat MLA Deron Bilous revealed that the two bituminous sands companies were listed by Alberta Education as "key partners" and "stakeholders" in the prototyping phase of Alberta's ongoing curriculum redesign process. What this means is Syncrude and Suncor will get to play an important part in determining the purpose, parameters, goals and objectives for K-3 education in Alberta. They will also get a direct say in what students should know by the time they finish Grade 3. When questioned about why these companies were part of the curriculum-redesign process, Alberta's Minister of Education Jeff Johnson responded, "If we're going to build a relevant education system, we need the voice of the employer, the business community,

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economic development—we need of critically thinking, community- Association of Petroleum Producminded, active citizens. This is done ers (CAPP). These aren't resourcthose people at the table." While Johnson is correct that one by creating ample space for discov- es designed to create spaces for of the roles of our education sys- ery, questioning and independent children to critically examine our tem is to prepare young people for thought within the curriculum and current use of and dependence on the world of work, it is disturbing the program of studies. fossil fuels, nor are they designed This is not a process of prescrib- to encourage students to come to that he thinks our K-3 curriculum should be designed in such a way ing ideology and world view, but their own evidence-based concluas to meet the needs of Syncrude rather a process of providing the sions about the costs and benefits and Suncor. Is the fear that, were knowledge, skills and space for of our current oil-based economy. it not for It is important these comto remember that Syncrude and Suncor will get to play an impor- Syncrude and Sunpanies at the table, nobody tant part in determining the purpose, parameters, cor are neither would think goals and objectives for K-3 education in Alberta. benevolent organito include zations nor publicnumeracy, interest advocates. literacy, soThey are private cial and techprofit-driven cornological skills in the curriculum? children to independently learn porations. Their mandate, as per What could they possibly have to how to reflect their values, beliefs Canadian law, is the maximization offer the curriculum-redesign pro- and the critical process. of share-holder profit. As such, it The problem is that huge energy would be incredibly naive to precess that teachers, parents, administrators and community members companies like Syncrude and Sun- sume their involvement in the curwould not? cor do not bring that same passion riculum redesign process would be for questioning and critical thinking about promoting the public interThere really is no conceivable jus- to the table. What they bring is a est or the long-term well-being of tification to have these folks at the set of goals and objectives guided young Albertans. table. What's more, their presence by a particular ideology. If you Based on the example provided doubt that, spend some time look- by the CAPP resources, it seems can actually do damage. One of the key functions of any ing at the "educational resources" their interest in education is about educational system is the socializa- prepared and distributed to el- ensuring that the next generation tion of children—the development ementary schools by the Canadian provides a compliant workforce

and unquestioning supporters of the political and economic status quo—a population that won't encourage slowing down or stopping bitumen production, increasing oil and gas royalties or demand free, prior and informed consent by First Nation communities before drilling is allowed on their land. Alberta Education's curriculum redesign process comes from a positive place and has the potential to do incredibly good things for the future of teaching, learning and assessment in the province. But the decision to include bitumen companies as key partners in its development risks completely undermining that potential and compromising the entire process. The corporate interests of the oil and gas industry already guide almost every policy and decision this government makes, but inviting them to determine how our children are educated is a step too far, even for Alberta. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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The framing of al-Megrahi

Blaming an innocent man for the bomb on Pan Am flight 103 in '88 was an international deception They lied, they're still lying and they'll go on lying until Libya calms down enough to allow a thorough search of its archives. That's what intelligence agencies do, and being angry at them for lying is like being angry at a scorpion for stinging. But we now KNOW they lied about the Libyans planting the bomb on Pan Am flight 103 in December 1988. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, a Libyan airline official who was convicted of placing the bomb aboard the plane and sentenced to 27 years in prison by a special international court in 2001, was freed from jail in 2009 and sent home, allegedly dying from cancer and with only three months to live. He eventually did die three years later, but it was a very peculiar thing for the Scottish government to do. Al-Megrahi was in a Scottish jail because Pan Am 103, en route from London to Detroit, had blown up over the Scottish village of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 in the village below. But he clearly wasn't dying when he was freed, and he had served less than a third of his sentence. And there was something even more disturbing about the case. As a condition of his release, al-Megra-

hi was required to drop an appeal evidence was never heard in court, mobilizing a coalition of Western against his conviction that had been his conviction was never cancelled and Arab armies to liberate Kuwait, granted by the Scottish Criminal and nobody was embarrassed. But and it wanted Syria to be part of it. Cases Review Commission in 2007. why did the intelligence agencies But Syria was Iran's closest ally in The SCCRC listed no fewer than pick on him in the first place? the Arab world, so this was not the six grounds for serious concern Because they had to abandon their right time to get into a confrontaabout al-Megrahi's conviction, in- first working hypothesis, which was tion with Iran. cluding the fact that the US Justice that Pan Am 103 was destroyed Nevertheless, somebody had to Department made an undisclosed in late '88 as tit-for-tat Iranian re- be punished or the intelligence serpayment of $3 million to two venge for the accidental shooting vices would look incompetent. The Maltese citipeople who carried zens whose So the new evidence was never heard in court, his out the bombing evidence had for Iran had made conviction was never cancelled and nobody was some rudimentary linked alMegrahi with attempts to put the embarrassed. the suitcase blame on Libya, and that conthe security servictained the bomb. If the appeal had down of an Iran Air plane with 290 es now started using that evidence gone ahead, al-Megrahi's conviction people aboard by the US warship to frame al-Megrahi. The evidence would probably have been quashed. Vincennes earlier that year. was full of holes, but the Libyan's That would have been deeply emSince the Iranians didn't have defence team did a poor job of exbarrassing for the Scottish authori- people in the right places with the posing them and he was convicted ties, especially since the evidence right skills to do this job, US intel- anyway. suggested there had been a delib- ligence calculated, they paid some erate attempt to frame the Libyan. Palestinian terrorists to do it. The The reason his defence team did But they did have the power to de- US even fingered the Popular Front so badly may have been that the lay the hearing of his appeal for a for the Liberation of Palestine— Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, very long time, and al-Megrahi was General Command, headed by had made a deal: in order to be renot a well man. So one can imagine Ahmed Jibril, as the ones who took leased from a crippling trade embargo, he would admit the blame a bargain being struck: his freedom the contract. for his silence. But the investigation moved slow- for the Pan Am bombing and pay Al-Megrahi never stopped pro- ly, and 20 months after Pan Am compensation to the families of testing his innocence, but he did 103 went down, Saddam Hussein's the victims. For that deal to stand, withdraw his appeal, so the new Iraq invaded Kuwait. The US was al-Megrahi had to go down. A few

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threats to his family back in Libya would have persuaded him to sabotage his own defence. But with the appeal that would have exposed the truth smothered, all this remained mere conjecture until last week, when the Al Jazeera network broadcast an interview with Abolghassem Mesbahi, a former Iranian intelligence officer. Mesbahi, who once reported directly to the Iranian president, said it quite plainly: Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, gave direct orders for the destruction of an American airliner after the Vincennes incident in 1988. So the original hypothesis was correct and the Western security services probably always knew it was correct. They don't care; the case is closed, and with al-Megrahi's appeal cancelled it will never be re-opened. But it is worth noting that he was an innocent man, not a mass murderer, and that his life was cynically destroyed by the same people who brought us the invasion of Iraq, mass surveillance and so much more. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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District Coffee Co settles into new digs in government neighbourhood

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dmonton has plenty of chain cof- ful of that and say like, 'Hey, let's do fee establishments and while it's something that our city is recognized difficult to go anywhere in the city for and distinctive for,' and this is not without coming across a Tim Horton's just a distinctive part of the city but a or Starbucks, local craft coffee shops distinctive part of the province that is at times not recognized or focused on are often few and far between. In the past year, two such estab- or respected, so it's exciting for us to lishments have closed—Roast in the celebrate Alberta," he explains. Part of that approach is also creatMercer Warehouse and Transcend on Jasper Avenue, although, there's talk ing a connection with our neighbours of it coming back across the river in to the south by using Calgary's Phil the not-so-distant future—but a new & Sebastian Coffee Roasters as District's bean supshop has opened in the government District Coffee Co plier. Box explains n e i g h b o u r h o o d , #101, 10011 - 109 St the company was and the proprietor 780.705.7788 not being repredistrictcoffee.ca may be familiar. sented in EdmonNate Box also ton and he chose runs Elm Café on Phil & Sebastian 101 Ave and 117 Street, but District for its consistent quality and capaCoffee Co is not going to be Elm ver- bility to handle the volume District sion 2.0. Whereas Elm focuses on would require. "Phil & Sebastian have an incredible gourmet sandwiches, District is taking an Alberta-centric approach to understanding of what service means, that I truly feel is comparable to our craft coffee. "We decided a while ago to never mission," Box notes. "They aren't claimrecreate Elm, because Elm has been ing to be the best coffee roaster, but very much designed and directed to- rather they are working diligently to wards that Oliver neighbourhood," be better each day. During the training Box says while sitting across the session by Jeremy Ho—who was the table at District, a bright, open space 2012 Canadian Barista Champion— that is considerably larger than Elm, [he] hammered the fact of as crucial featuring clean, minimal design that to the coffee quality is the quality of service. This is something that we too allows the product to be the focus. Box notes that to be a successful have been striving to exemplify." This attention to quality continues café, a sense of community needs to be built that is reflective of the neigh- with house-made pastries, rather bourhood, which is where District's than outsourced varieties favoured at some chain shops. The baking crew arAlberta focus came into play. "We need to be representative of rives somewhere around 2 am in order what's going on here, and the major- to have sweets like cinnamon buns, ity of the office towers in this area cookies and truffles ready when the are largely Government of Alberta doors open at 7 am. As with the coffee or Alberta-based public office kind beans, baking ingredients are sourced of stuff, so we wanted to be mind- from Alberta producers like Gold For-

est Grains. New restaurants or coffee shops are not generally known for opening quickly, but District was up and running in just two months. The space was previously inhabited by Corona Coffee Station, and Box and got the keys to the space at the end of December 2013. Seven weeks later, the doors were open, largely in part because the venue had already been occupied by a coffee shop, so rather than applying for permits—which can often be a hang-up for new businesses—District

was able to reapply, which sped up the process considerably. Box also credits his team, which he refers to as a "powerhouse," and doesn't find it difficult to juggle District and Elm, as he can leave the staff and catering team to their own devices while checking in occasionally and keeping his present focus on getting District running smoothly. Although, he is quick to point out that this isn't "Nate Box's District Coffee Co." His team is all new besides Julianne Sherwin, who does double duty as District's coffee director and operations manager while also

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overseeing Elm. "It feels like a really great team of people that are pushing each other to be better," Box adds. "I think people often misinterpret, they think oh, Nate Box opened another place, and we're trying to pull away from that ... we've set it up in a way that people manage it and they do their jobs and they love being there, so they're carrying it on. This wasn't exclusively my idea; it wasn't my efforts that got us here. It really was this team."

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The other day I made an off-hand comment to a couple coworkers about Bacchus. The blank stares I received were surprising—surely everyone, especially wine lovers (of which one of them certainly is) know about the god of wine? OK, so it was unfair of me to take it for granted, albeit unconsciously, that everyone has the same passion for Ancient Greek and Roman mythology as myself (at least insofar as they relate to one of my favourite pastimes —drinking wine.) Nonetheless, references to Bacchus or Dionysus are peppered throughout the wine world and I'm betting most people, not just the wine lovers, will find the story entertaining—after all, his followers hosted infamously shameless parties filled with wine, food and sex. The god of wine was called Bacchus by the Romans and Dionysus by the Greeks. (I'll be using the easier-topronounce Roman name.) Depictions of Bacchus are found throughout Greek and Roman art, pottery and literature, dating back well into ancient times and extending forwards to modern day. He's almost always shown with something that links him to wine: bunches of grapes, twining grapevines, a cup of wine in hand. Most people will be familiar with his Renaissance-era image: those paintings depict him as a jolly, chubby and essentially benign character who cavorts with satyrs, nymphs and other mythological creatures. (Alternatively, Edmonton theatregoers might recall that a recent show at the Citadel, Hawksley Workman's The God That Comes, was based on Bacchus and his devotees.) Bacchus didn't start out as a harmless figure, however. Wine was (and still is) an intrinsic part of everyday Greek and Roman life; it makes perfect sense that these cultures would assign a god to such an important commodity. But drinking too much

wine leads to the loss of reason, calm and order, so it follows that Bacchus was also a dangerous, subversive god: he was also the god of ritual madness and ecstasy, and his followers, the cult of Bacchus/Dionysus, became notorious for their wild behaviour. The cult was a mystery religion whose followers met and worshipped in secret, which furthered the wild rumours that these Bacchanals were scandalous orgies of drink, sex and general mayhem. The Roman Senate suppressed the Bacchanalia in 186 BC because these secret meetings were perceived as such a danger to society—though it's important to realize that most of the wild allegations are largely unsubstantiated and probably little more than fantasies of conservative Senators with a vested interest in controlling people's religious beliefs and social affairs. Indeed, this actually resonates quite strongly in the 21st century, when we still regularly encounter lurid, scandalous accounts of the alleged (and almost always completely unproven) activities of various fringe groups—a notable example is the Satanic ritual abuse panics of the '80s and '90s, which have had a serious and damaging effect on various pagan communities. There are many lengthy and complex myths surrounding Bacchus's origins and life (which are easily found online). What is particularly interesting to wine's history is that in The Bacchae (an ancient Greek tragedy written by the playwright Euripides), the god of wine arrives in Greece from the more easterly realms of Iran and Arabia—areas which are, incidentally, the archaeologically verified cradle of wine. Though grapes and wine have become synonymous with Greece and Italy, millennia ago it did arrive from elsewhere—a journey that is a tale for another time. V

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PREVUE // THEATRE

The magical nanny lands at the Citadel

Mystical nannies all up in this place // David Cooper photography

ho is Mary Poppins? Originally a magical, umbrella-flying English nanny in P L Travers' series of children's books, it was Julie Andrews' performance in Disney's 1964 film that established Poppins as an iconic figure in North American pop culture. From there she was transferred to the stage via Disney Theatrical's musical, written by the Sherman Brothers and Julian Fellowes (now of Downton Abbey fame), which debuted in the West End Theatre in 2004 and moved to Broadway in 2006. That run ended last year, but

Mary Poppins returns to the stage in that Mary was one of those heroic a co-production between the Citadel spirits or icons that inhabits a human Theatre and Theatre Calgary. being. When people are calling on this But that's the energy or spirit, Until Sun, April 20 (7:30pm) story's production she appears as this Directed by Michael Shamata history—who is figure and helps Citadel Theatre, $35 – $109.20 Mary Poppins, the them find truth character? and find what's "For me, Mary inmost important." habits truth," explains Blythe Wilson, who played the role of Mrs Banks in This stage version is a markedly difthe original stage musical and is now ferent take on the character than is leading as Poppins herself. "P L Trav- seen in the Disney film, with its tapers actually studied Buddhism and dancing penguins and undercurrent Greek mythology, and really believed of women's suffrage. The musical

digs into a side of Mary Poppins more aligned with the original novels, and has presented a challenge to Wilson intellectually and physically. "About two months before rehearsals started I woke up, hands sweating, and looked at my husband and said, 'I'm afraid of heights!'" she says with a laugh. "It's been an incredible, challenging experience to step outside my comfort level. They've been flying me regularly in rehearsals now—and once it's actually happening and the anticipation is over, it's a thrilling ride."

The story and character of Mary Poppins has endured for decades, and Wilson feels this is ultimately due to its reinforcement of the ties that bind us. "Through the children, she gets Mr Banks to see what's most important in life, which is family," Wilson says. "That's why I think people are drawn to the show— and wouldn't we all love to have this wonderful character, or spirit, or even good witch, come into our lives and help us?"

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Shumka at 50 A

Fifty years of leaps like this

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s Shumka celebrates the 50th per- Shumka's corps have their minds set formance of its touring program, not only on the upcoming show, but Shumka at 50, dancer Larissa Sulyma also on the tenuous situation in Ukraine. "It's tough to see, to watch Ukraine looks back on her eight years with the company fondly—even remembering experience this," Sulyma says, noting her star-struck days as a kid asking for that Shumka's dancers were working with the Virsky Ukrainian National Folk the dancers' autographs. Taking on her performance role with Dance Ensemble on their collaborathe Ukrainian dance troupe at age 16 tive version of The Nutcracker, Clara's was natural, as Sulyma comes from a Dream just two months ago. "We got quintessential Shumka family; both of to know them, and we have lots of friends who are living in her parents were dancUkraine now. We're all ers, and her father, Mi- Fri, Mar 21 (7:30 pm) scared for them, worchael Sulyma, still does Jubilee Auditorium, touring support for the $26 – $59 ried for them and thinkcompany. (A glance at ing about them." the Shumka program shows that family ties are common: The Shumka at 50 program also feathere are multiple Petriws, Pacholoks tures a host of Ukrainian artists consultand Eeles in the cast list, too). ed on the anniversary production—set Now a kindergarten teacher and dance and costumes were designed by Maria instructor, too, Sulyma and the rest of Levitska of Ukraine's National Ballet and

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Opera, musical compositions are by Kyiv's Yuri Shevchenko and Andrij Shoost, and the show's score was recorded by the 60-piece Kyiv City Opera Orchestra. The show is comprised of four parts, opening with Shumka's take on the traditional pryvit welcoming dance, Harvest Angels. Pathways to Hopak rouses with its whirling kolomiykastyle dance-off, and the second half features narrative story dances with A Cobbler's Gift and The Eve of Kupalo (A Midsummer Night's Masque). Following this Friday's performance, Shumka's dancers will be collecting donations to go towards the Maidan movement (named for Kyiv's central square). All funds will go to food, shelter and other aids to support the effort for democracy in Ukraine. FAWNDA MITHRUSH

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pening Queen Lear is a monologue delivered by an unlikely character—a cellist. Diana Nuttall delivers beautiful, Vivaldi- and Bachinfluenced melodies throughout the course of Shadow Theatre's current production, placing her as the musical counterpart to Jane (Alison Wells), a mature actress who has come out of retirement to tackle one of theatre's greatest roles: King Lear. It's a role that also comes with great irony (and not because in this case it's an all-female, "high concept" version of the play), because by the time you're old enough to play King Lear, you're also going to have a hard time remembering all of those

wonderfully poetic lines. To this end, Jane has enlisted the (paid) service of Heather (Ellie Heath), the twentysomething daughter. The script, written by Calgary playwright Eugene Strickland, has Jane deliver some amusing quips about Shakespeare and theatre while Heather counterpoints with quick but slightly tired one-liners evidencing her youth, and therefore boredom, with anything outside the realm of hanging out with her friends and texting. What's lacking in Queen Lear, and what prevents the audience from really caring about these characters

and their outcome, is something at stake. The effects of old age, the rift between generations—these real stakes are eclipsed by those of the plot: Heather's job helping Jane with her lines, and Jane's job performing in King Lear. By the characters' own admittances, however, neither of these things are much cause for worry: despite growing closer over the course of the show there's still an unbridgeable distance between the characters. Heather could ditch her job helping Jane with seemingly little impact. Jane, too, could simply drop out of the production—something she threatens to do several times—which is a possibility that

also doesn't carry much weight given her repeated downplaying of the production as little more than lowbudget and insignificant. The show's direction is effective, albeit slightly plodding in the latter half when the show seems to end several times but then proceeds into another scene. Both Wells and Heath are lovely and skilled actors, however, and able to play off each other quite well. The central problem in Queen Lear has everything to do with these performers being trapped in a script that, very unlike its Shakespearean muse, feels incomplete and unpolished.

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The Traveling Chumaky / Thu, Mar 20 – Fri, Mar 21 (10 am) Attached to Shumka’s big 50th performance of its 50th anniversary celebration are these two matinee shows, featuring an older Shumka tale, The Traveling Chumaky, being presented in matinee for two shows only. Goods are stolen from a wagon! Later, a celebratory Hopak is danced! (Jubilee Auditorium, $15)

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Weird Edmonton book release / Thu, Mar 20 (7:30 pm) A born-and-raised Edmontonian, author Mark Kozub’s collected an expanse of curios that have happened in and around Champ city, and bound them into book form. The resulting tome, Weird Edmonton, takes record of everything from the city’s noted ghosts to our history of green onion cakes. (Expressionz Cafe) #yegflix: The Community Movie Live Tweeting Event / Wed, Mar 26 (9 pm) As the name says: #yegflix is a communal cinematic experience, akin to Mystery Science Theatre 3000, but you’re making the jokes yourself, on Twitter, and your tweets are being projected right beside the screen for all to see and draw mirth from. It’s a new, semi-regular event at Wunderbar; past evenings have tackled Space Jam and Jumanji. This time, it’s the 1985 ver-

sion of the indelible Parker Brothers game, Clue (starring Tim Curry!). Plus, the comic tunes of Success 5000 will close out the evening after the movie ends (which will be three times—the Clue movie has three endings). You can probably tweet about that, too, but no word on whether or not it’ll still be projected. You can dream. (Wunderbar, pay by donation) Got Smallpox? It started at the Expanse festival and quietly continued through to the end of last weekend at the ATB Financial Arts Barns. Got Smallpox? presented a collection of stories of aboriginal rights being trampled through this country’s history, collected by the show’s creator, Karrhio from across the country. There was almost no advertisement for the show—creator Karrhio sees his work as ceremony, rather than performance, and thus they didn’t invite much in the way of media attention or do much promotion themselves. Vue doesn’t normally write about shows in the past tense if they aren’t still running and thus able to be seen, but it seems worth rumination or two, even in its aftermath. Why present anything without trying to bring it before a broad crowd? The point, noted during Smallpox, wasn’t about filling houses or profit: it was about offering a different kind of experience for those who found themselves there, however they did, a shared oral storytelling of revelation and possibly catharsis. It’s a show that doesn’t so much get performed for you as it attempts to bring you into a new line of understanding, and then open up this discussion to you, right there, in the moment. (at the end of Smallpox, audiences were welcome to stick around and talk to the performers). A curious experiment in quiet storytelling, one to keep your ear to the ground for. V

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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; until Mar 28

Colour of Inner Peace: Works by Arts a la Carte • Through Mar

Cafe Pichilingue–Red Deer • Artworks by Monica Sheline • Until Mar 31

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

Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • JUICY: Landscape paintings by Samantha Williams-Chapelsky • Opening Apr 3, 5-8pm 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

per 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

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: Faculty Club, Sask Dr: SF: String Figures, Multispecies Muddles, Staying with the Trouble; Mar 24, 5:14pm

St • 780.407.7152 • Measuring A Year: By the Minute: Knitted sculpture, installation by Margie Davidson; Mar 22-May 16; reception: Mar 27, 7-9pm

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 • Family drop in: make a Treasure Book; Sat, Mar 29, 12-3pm • Hands On Nature: Discover Biodiversity: Apr 1-Jun 8

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

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

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 • Harcourt House–Annex: ambiARTnight: Arts happening featuring projected artworks by Glenys Switzer, Marliss Weber, Paula E. Kirman, and Stephen Sereda; art 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,

VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • Works by Deborah Catton; through Mar by Sasha Grinnell • Until Mar 31 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Paintings by Michael Rozenvain • Apr 5-17 • Opening: Sat, Mar 29, 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

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Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St • Beneath the Sun: Paintings by Richard Tosczak • Until Mar 29

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • Main Gallery: Amplitudes: Printworks by Robert Truszkowski • Until Apr 12 • Community Gallery: City in a Waffle Iron: Printworks by Eva Schneider; until Apr 12 • 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

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 21, Mar 28

THE BARD’S BEST BITS • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • The words and the wackiness of William Shakespeare presented by Shadow Theatre hosted by John Hudson and David Belke • Sun, Mar 30, 7:30pm • $25 at TIX on the Square. Shadow Theatre box office

BLOOD WEDDING • Timms Centre, 87 Ave, 112 St • By Federico Garcia Lorca, translation by Caridad Svich; presented by Studio Theatre • Mar 27-Apr 5, 7:30pm; Mar 26 (preview); no show Mar 30; matinee: Apr 3, 12:30pm • Evening: $11 (student)/$22 (adult)/$20 (senior); Matinee $11 (student)/$17 (adult)/$15 (senior); $5 (preview); 2-for-1 Mondays

Chimprov • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828101A 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

Hey Ladies! • Roxy, 10708-124 St • 780.453.2440 • attheroxy.com • Theatre Network • The Roxy Performance Series: Womanly talkshow/gameshow/varietyshow/sideshow starring Davina Stewart, Cathleen Rootsaert, Leona Brausen • Mar 28, 8pm • $25 at TIX on the Square • May 23

The Invention of Romance • La Cité

The Light in the Piazza • John L. Haar Theatre,

from the soap, Days of our Lives, host the Days of our Lives Better Living: Cast Secrets for a Healthier Balanced Life book signing • Mar 20, 7-9pm

10045-155 St • macewan.ca/theatrearts • By Craig Lucas, music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, directed by Farren Timoteo. Presented by MacEwan Theatre arts • Mar 26-Apr 5 • $21.75/$16.75 (adv student/senior) at TIX on the Square; $25/$20 (door, student/senior)

FAVA FEST • Mar 25-29 • A Toast to Rick

Little One • Roxy Theatre • 780.453.2440 • By Han-

Chapters–WEM • 8882-170 St • Three actors

Kasbar • 10444 82 Ave • Greg Bechte, launch

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Chop Suey on the Prairies: Until Apr 27 • Species at Risk: until Mar 16 • Lecture Series: Museum Theatre: Questions and Collections IV: until Apr 9, 7pm; free • Unwanted Guests: Prisoners of war in Canada during the Second World War: with Sean Moir, Curator, Military and Political History; Mar 26

780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Every Mon, presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

Adult Literacy Readings; Mar 26, 7pm

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 • Kulu!: Celebrate the work of Slave Lake Metis artist, Justin Bergman and his appreciation of Kulu... a legendary giant bird of prey; until Mar 28; reception Mar 20, 6-8pm Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Works by Paul Bernhardt and James Olley; until Mar 25 • Gregory Hardy; Mar 29-Apr 22; opening: Mar 29, 2-4pm

Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave •

Carrot Coffeehouse • 9351-118 Ave •

Gustavsen; Mar 25, 8-10pm

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper

launch for "Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond; Mar 24, 12pm

Francophone, 8627-91 St • Workshop West Theatre, by Conni Massing, starring Lora Brovold, Mat Busby and Valerie Ann Pearson • Mar 28-Apr 13 • $28 (evening)/ ($22 (student/senior)/$14 (Sun matinees)/$11 (student/ senior) at Workshop West Theatre box office

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Project

Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts •

reddeerartscouncil.ca • totems of the masculine: Personages in leather, wool, wood, and steel by Matt Gould • Until May 11

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library

Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • IMR Institute

McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112

Red Deer Museum & Art Gallery •

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

VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • 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

West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave •

Artists in Action: Mar 23, 12-4pm

St • douglasudellgallery.com • Figures: Paintings and sculptures by Erik Olson • Mar 22-Apr 5 • Opening: Mar 22, 2-4pm; artist in attendance

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 • until Mar 20 • $5-$15 donation; proceeds fund artist creations to be featured in the space where Toy Guns Dance Theatre will perform

Marjorie Wood Gallery–Red Deer • The

MUTTART CONSERVATORY • 9626 -96A St •

Douglas Udell Gallery (DUG) • 10332-124

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 • IMAX Theatre: Mar 21-27: Jerusalem 3D (G): Fri-Sat 11am, 2:10, 3:20, 6:50, 8pm; Sun: 11am, 2:10, 5:15pm, Mon-Wed: 2pm, 3:10, 5:15, 6:30pm; Thu: 3:10, 5:15, 6:30pm; To The Arctic (G) Fri: 12pm; Rocky Mountain Express (G) Sat-Sun: 12pm; Tue: 4:20pm; Flight of the Butterflies 3D (G) Fri-Sun: 1pm; Wed: 4:20pm; Born to be Wild 3D (G) Mon-Thu: 4:20pm; Gravity 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 4:35, 9:10pm; Sun: 3:25, 6:30pm; Thu: 7:45pm

Velvet Olive Lounge–Red Deer • Paintings

Plain • 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • Video Works by Neil Fiertel; Mar 21-Apr 23 • Artist’s reception: Sun, Mar 23, 1-3:30pm

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

artist Manola Borrajo; until Apr 27

Blvd, Sherwood Park • 790.559.4443 • artstrathcona. com • Open: Sat-Sun 12-4pm • Art by Beth Gillard, and ASSC members • Until Apr 27

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony

Enterprise square galleries • 10230 Jas-

From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner

Jeff Allen Art Gallery (JAAG) • Strathcona

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Win-

Educated Reel • Metro Cinema (Garneau The-

FAVA • Ortona Rm, 1st Fl, 9722-102 St • A Toast to Rick Gustavsen: FAVA's 2014 Outstanding Achievement Award Recipient • Mar 25, 8-10pm • Admission by donation

Anime: Works by Deborah Torrance and Sheldon Rabbit Wheatley • Until Mar 28

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15

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

atre), 8712-109 St • Pomegranates and Myrrh: Join the film’s composer and U of A alumna Amritha Vaz, ’97 BA, ’02 LLB, for a discussion after the film • Mar 27, 7pm • $6 (adv)/$8 (door, cash); pre-register by at alumni.ualberta.ca/events

Hub on Ross–Red Deer • The Wonders of

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

Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • The Killers (1946, PG); Mar 24, 8pm • How To Marry A Millionaire (1953, colour, PG); Mar 31, 8pm • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior)/$5 (student)/$3 (child 12 and under)

Edmonton Film Society • Royal Alberta

of Morphoid Research: Installation by Jennifer Akkermans • Until Mar 22

of Boundary Problems, with readers Candas Jane Dorsey, Timothy Anderson, Jasmina Odor, and Rebecca Frederickson, hosted by Mike Gravel • Sun, Mar 30, 7pm

Koffee Café • 6120-28 Ave • Glass Door Coffee House Reading Series: With Hendrik Slegtenhorst (poet), Jay Lewis/Enochian, Writers in Exile/Borderlines Writers Group, Pushpa Raj Acharya, Rashmi Kumar, Kadrush Radogoshi, and Maitham Salman; open mic host/poet, Wendy Joy • Mar 27, 7-9pm

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 Strathcona County Library • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8601 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Point Of View Wrestling Match: Omniscient Vs. Third Person: Writer-in-residence Margaret Macpherson experimental writing exercises to learn how to figure out which point of view works best for which text • Pre-register at the library, or at sclibrary.ab.ca, or at 780.410.8600 • Mar 27, 7-8:30pm • Free Strathcona County Library • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8601 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Using four different artistic mediums – words, paint, voice and clay; with writer-in-residence, Margaret Macpherson 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 • Henderson Hall: School of Library and Information Studies, 1-19 Rutherford South: There is Power in a Library! The Edmonton book

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nah 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 • Until Apr 20 Nino Nina Show • Expressionz Café • 780.450.6462 • Live monthly classic variety show • Last Sun each month, 5:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show) • $10 (door)

Queen Lear • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 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 mat)/$21 (student/senior, Tue-Thu, Sun mat); adv tickets at TIX on the Square

Solo Studies: Translations • C103, 8529103 St • Punctuate! Theatre • By Entrelacement Dance, directed by Tatiana Cheladyn, featuring the work of seven different emerging Edmonton dancers • Mar 27-31, 7:30pm • $20/$15 (student/senior/industry) at TIX on the Square, door 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

THE VIP KIDS SHOW • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • Music, comedy, art, puppets, and special guests! Watch as the V.I.P. troupe of zany scharacters celebrate the thin line between clever and silly with Kate Ryan, Davina Stewart, Donovan Workun, Dana Andersen, Cathy Derkach and friends • Mar 23, 11am • All Seats $6 VIP Pass $60

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REVUE // WES ANDERSON

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Wes Anderson's balance of realism and artifice near perfect in The Grand Budapest Hotel

he film infolds in a comically elaborate nesting structure: the bulk of its story is told in flashback within flashback within flashback. It's a way of making us conscious of how much memory and imagination have had their way with what we're promised by the man known only as Author (Tom Wilkinson in one layer, Jude Law in another) is exacting in its fidelity to the true story. It's also a way of emphasizing the distinctive balance between realism and artifice that Wes Anderson has been carefully cultivating over the past two decades. An elegy for a lost world that closely resembles but is not exactly our own—nostalgia for something that never was—The Grand Budapest Hotel might be the most perfect expression of that balance yet. Inspired by the work of Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig (1881–1942),

much of the action is set in the '30s, in the titular alpine hotel, itself nested in the fictional Zubrowka, a central European republic gradually sliding under the control of a thuggish foreign power à la Nazi Germany. Dark times loom, yet at the Grand Budapest all efforts are made to stall time, to maintain a rarefied air. Its dandyish proprietor, M Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), is especially devoted to his elderly wealthy female guests, whom he ensures are pampered in every way, including erotically, a duty he happily takes on himself. Over the course of the film Gustave will take the adolescent Middle Eastern refugee lobby boy Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori) under his wing. The plot quickly thickens: one of Gustave's cherished clients dies, leaving him an invaluable painting, stoking the ire of her ingrate sociopath son

(Adrien Brody). Gustave is accused lovely mouth. The tone is madcap, of murder, is actually guilty of theft, mannered, an irreverent ode to efsort of, is imprisoned, breaks out feminate men and sexual ambivaof prison, goes on the lam and is lence, always rushing along at siforced to prove his innocence. All lent comedy speed, a hurried walk the while he and Zero become the propelled by anxiety and terror yet tempered by a closest of allies. hilariously scrupu"We're brothers," Opens Friday lous formality. The says Zero during a Directed by Wes Anderson low-affect perforpivotal scene, echo- Princess Theatre ing a key themes of mances from a cast  nearly every Anderteeming with beloved actors, many son movie. of them Anderson vets (Bill MurColour-coordinated pageantry, ray, Bob Balaban, Willem Dafoe, F over-abundant signage and stream- Murray Abraham, Edward Norton ing lateral movement through con- and Harvey Keitel, to name a few), structed sets in real places provide are uniformly sublime, Fiennes constant pleasure. The film is a most of all. (Why does this guy not stunning gallery of moustaches, do more comedy?) The Grand Budapest Hotel keeps from Zero's penciled-on to what looks like a charcoal-drawn medi- us aware of the brutality and doom eval gate framing Jeff Goldblum's blackening its margins by working

strenuously to downplay it—an approach more poignant than any direct or ostentatiously emotive alternative. A destination in its own right, as opposed an upscale crash pad, the hotel is a refuge, a place where the linens are always crisp and the flowers fresh. Everything in this film is a form of refuge from hardship, conflict and loneliness: a lovingly sculpted pastry, a thoughtfully arranged room, a beautifully designed ski-chase sequence, a job well-executed and acknowledged as such, a proscenium that encases all the action, behaviour and opulence and never falls away. The elegant handmade craftsmanship of Anderson and his collaborators is here, at your service, in even the darkest hours.

peculiar ruse involving a shark sighting. Unease and relief accumulate in tandem as Sandro and Claudia lose hope in finding Anna and gain hope in the possibility of their chance at being together. The finale, which unfolds in a Taormina hotel, is an ingenious balance of ambiguity and merciless clarity.

where she was in coma for several days. Did Antonioni wonder if the project was cursed? Did he wonder if he was paying for something, perhaps for thinking that he could pull off such a perverse curtailing of audience expectations? L'avventura indeed made some audiences nuts. Should he have inserted a psychopathic killer in drag into the proceedings? It was booed at Cannes, where it also received a Special Jury prize for inventing "a new movie language" and for "the beauty of its images." History was, of course, on his side. L'avventura was the first in a celebrated trilogy, would be declared a landmark, and remains absorbing, frustrating, and haunting to this day.

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REVUE // DRAMA

L'avventura A

young woman entangled in a relationship with a man who she doesn't entirely trust sets out on a journey. The movie is not even half over when this woman, our apparent heroine, disappears from the film, never to return, leaving other, seemingly secondary characters to assume the foreground. I'm describing Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura, but I could just as easily be describing that other innovative, trauma-laden work of narrative fracturing from 1960, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. That two movies performing the same unprecedented slight of hand came out the same year still feels like an eerie coincidence, yet how fitting, in that both films deal with, to greater or lesser degrees, the role chance plays in

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our lives, and the perils of getting small, barren Lisca Bianca, the gang what you wish for. We can say that goes ashore, but when it comes L'avventura is the more difficult of time to leave Anna has vanished. the two, in that A search begins. it really offers no Fri, Mar 21 – Tue, Mar 25 It never ends. At some point Sanrelief, no answers, Directed by Michelangelo dro and Claudia but the answers in Antonioni feel compelled Psycho don't really Metro Cinema at the Garneau answer the deepto deal with their er, murkier, more mutual attraction, discomforting riddles that both however inappropriate. Distraught movies pose. Both films are master- by Anna's inexplicable absence, is pieces in my book. Metro Cinema is their inevitable intimacy an underpresenting L'avventura as part of standable response to trauma and its Antonioni series this week in a grief, or does trauma and grief make it that much more heinous? If you've newly restored 35mm print. So Anna (Lea Massari), her boy- seen L'avventura before, everything friend Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), her plays like foreshadowing: Anna's friend Claudia (Monica Vitti) and a gifting a blouse to Claudia, Anna's few others set out on yacht for the insistence on discussing her relaAeolian Islands. They arrive at the tionship concerns with Sandro, the

The production itself was fraught, going way over schedule. The island shoot involved cold weather, bugs and reptiles, a rat infestation and transport that failed to arrive, leaving cast and crew stranded with sufficient food, water and clothing, while the production company went bankrupt. Massari developed a heart condition while swimming and wound up being sent to Rome,

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REVUE // STONED HISTORY

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t's 1648, the English Civil War is raging and there is an awful lot of smoke. There is also, of course, a field, or, rather, an expansive stage on which all the action plays out. A man named Whitehead (Reece Shearsmith) is fleeing the fray. He chums up with some deserters, they consume a hearty meal of magic-mushroom soup, and meet a broad-hatted fellow (Michael Smiley) claiming to be an alchemist, physician and astrologer, among other things, who puts them on a treasure hunt at musket-point. A dead man is revived by beer, someone has a painful poo, and everyone gets

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n accordance with the title, I'll make but these fellows just can't get along. this quick: Need For Speed, based on One thing leads to another, and durthe beloved video game of the same ing an impromptu race on the freeway name, is a lot of fun whenever it kicks one of the buddies gets blown up. Tobey winds up in jail while Dino into high gear. Unfortunately, Need For Speed is an astonishing 130 min- gets off scot-free, though everyone utes long, and every time it gets out knows buddy's death was Dino's of the car the thing just slows to a fault—except it wasn't entirely Dino's crawl, offering us way too much time fault. One of the appalling things about Need For to contemplate how Now playing Speed is the way it unbelievably dumb it Directed by Scott Waugh keeps making Tois. Tobey (Breaking Bad's  bey out to be the bad-ass hero and Aaron Paul) runs a garighter of injusticrage in the upstate New York backwater of Mt Kisco, es, when the guy repeatedly puts the where he and his buddies soup-up lives of countless innocent strangcars and go racing in the streets. To- ers into harm's way with his needbey's old rival, affluent asshole Dino less reckless driving and daredevil (Dominic Cooper), comes back to stunts. Our engagement depends on town after having stolen Tobey's girl our sensing the tragedy of Tobey's and vamoosed to Manhattan. Dino buddy's death, but we don't even pays poor Tobey and the buddies big know how many people were injured, money to work on a fancy Mustang, maimed or killed during the multiple

chases and crack-ups, most of which are caused by Tobey. Anyway, the music is wildly overwrought, the movie over-long and the characterizations over the top. Dino is so bad, he only wears black! Paul's performance is largely a matter of raspy delivery and hard stares. Imogen Poots shows up as a token love interest in misguided head scarves and a posh accent. Michael Keaton has a bit as a pirate jock radio variation on the DJ from Vanishing Point. As promised, the sequences in which Tobey's behind the wheel—flying over Michigan off-ramps, refuelling without stopping, getting airlifted out of Utah—are truly thrilling, but everything else is a snooze. "This isn't just about racing," someone declares. They're wrong. JOSEF BRAUN

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With great unease

Foreign Correspondent finds film and geopolitical history overlapping

Wartime journalism

“It’s beautiful and it’s brutal. And it will stick with you long after it’s over” – The Scope

Gravity and levity seesaw throughout Foreign Correspondent (1940), Alfred Hitchcock's second American picture. It is in many regards another diverting, set-piece-driven chase thriller, like so many of Hitchcock's British films, but it's also an earnest plea to his newly adopted country to help out the country he'd just left, or, as some put it, abandoned. By the time of Foreign Correspondent's release, the Second World War was nearly a year old. London was calling. Over in Hollywood Hitch was listening, and wanted his fellow Britons to know it. For years, producer Walter Wagner wanted to adapt Personal History, US journalist Vincent Sheehan's memoir about the interwar period in Europe, but, hard as it may be to believe now, all backing gradually fell away when it was deemed that the project would be anti-Nazi. Wagner eventually gave the property to Hitchcock to do with it what he could, to crank out a picture that would actually get financed and distributed, though even after

radically altering Personal History into a caper where Nazis and Germany are never mentioned and Hitler's name is only tossed out a couple of times, Foreign Correspondent still had Hollywood fretting over the possibility of losing foreign exhibitors. The film plays up American obliviousness for laughs. Following an opening push-in on a high window— an idea later repurposed for the opening of Psycho (1960)—we're privy to an editorial discussion at The New York Globe in which it's decided that what the paper really needs if it wants to get the dirt on the war brewing in Europe is a reporter who doesn't know anything but has a lot of spunk. The Globe's editor hears of a staffer who recently beat up a policeman. "Sounds ideal for Europe!" he declares. He summons said staffer, one Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea), quizzes him on current events, and is delighted to confirm that Jones is a genuine ignoramus—one who'll take any gig so long as there's an expense

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account attached. Jones is given the very British fake name of Huntley Haverstock and sent abroad. Obviously, he doesn't know what he's getting into, but really, no one could. Foreign Correspondent is now available on DVD and Blu-ray from Criterion, and it makes for fun viewing and an interesting look into an unusual moment when film history and geopolitical history overlapped with great unease. Utilizing a superb supporting cast, including Herbert Marshall and George Sanders, and a spectacular production design from William Cameron Menzies, the film hurls us into intrigue and danger, moving at a steady clip through various locations before plunging Jones/ Haverstock into an awful lot of gushing water. When he finally comes up for air he's more than convinced that the US needs to shake off its neutrality and get into the conflict. Of course, the conflict would have to come to US soil before that could happen. V

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The Great Dictator (PG, 1948) Thu, Mar 20 7:30 pm

Grapes of Wrath (STC, 1940) Thu, Mar 27

3:10, 3:40, 6:20, 6:50, 9:30, 10:00; Star & Strollers: Wed 1:00; Ultraavx: Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40; Sun-Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30

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Muppets Most Wanted (G) Closed Captioned

children) Closed Captioned, No Passes Fri 3:50, 7:10, 10:20; Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Sun 12:20, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; Mon-Thu 6:40, 9:40; Vip 18+: Fri 5:30, 9:00; Sat 12:40, 4:15, 7:45; Sun 2:00, 5:30, 9:00; Mon-Wed 9:15

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

Noah (STC) Closed Captioned Thu 7:00, 10:00 Pompeii (14A) Closed Captioned Fri 12:20, 3:05,

8:00, 10:25; Sat-Sun 12:20, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25; Mon-Tue, Thu 2:40, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25; Wed 12:20,

DIVERGENT (PG violence) Closed Caption &

3:15, 9:45

3 Days To Kill (14a) Closed Captioned Daily 3:55, 9:55

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language)

7:30 pm

CHABA THEATRE–JASPER

SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Closed Captioned

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Mr Peabody And Sherman (G) Fri-Sat 7:00,

9:20; Sun-Thu 8:00; Sat-Sun 1:30

Super Saver Tuesdays Wed and Thu presenta-

Muppets Most Wanted (G) No passes Daiily

6:50, 9:10; SAT-SUN 12:50, 3:10

DIVERGENT (PG violence) Daily 6:30, 9:15; SAT-SUN 1:30

children) Daily 6:40, 9:25; SAT-SUN 1:40

Mr Peabody And Sherman (G) Daily 7:00,

9:00; Sat-Sun 2:00

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violence) Daily 7:10, 9:30

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47 RONIN (PG violence, frightening scenes) Closed Captioned Daily 6:55, 9:30

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300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3d (18A gory brutal

violence) Fri-Sat 12:00, 3:10, 5:40, 8:20, 10:45; Sun 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15; Mon 2:20, 4:40, 7:35, 10:10; Tue-Thu 2:15, 4:40, 7:35, 10:10 12:05; Mon-Thu 2:00; 3d : Fri-Sat 2:30, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10; Sun 2:30, 4:55, 7:35, 10:05; Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:40; Thu 4:25, 7:05

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

6:55, 9:35; Wed 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 7:25, 9:35; Closed Captioned Fri-Sat 11:55, 2:05, 2:35, 4:45, 5:15, 7:25, 7:55, 10:05, 10:35; Sun-Mon 1:35, 2:05, 4:15, 4:45, 6:55, 7:25, 9:35, 10:05; Tue, Thu 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05; Wed 2:05, 4:45, 10:05

Noah (STC) Closed Captioned Thu 7:15, 10:15 Pompeii (14A) Fri 12:15, 3:15, 10:00; Sat 10:00; Sun 12:35, 9:40; Mon-Thu 1:50, 4:30, 9:55

6:40, 9:15

12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40; Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20; Mon-Thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10

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

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

National Theatre Live: War Horse (clas-

7:10, 9:50

sification not available) Sat 7:30; Sun 12:55

Queen (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. Fri-Sun, Tue 1:35, 4:40,

SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Closed Captioned

8:00; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:40, 8:00

Pagpag (14A violence, frightening scenes) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 9:35; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:15, 7:20, 9:35 Stalingrad (14A violence) Fri-Sun, Tue 12:55, 3:35, 6:35, 9:25; Mon, Wed-Thu 3:35, 6:35, 9:25

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The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A sexual

content, coarse language) Closed Captioned, No Passes Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30; Sun 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00; Mon-Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 10:00

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3d (18A gory brutal vio-

Veronica Mars (PG crude coarse language,

sexual content, not recommended for young children) Fri, Mon-Thu 7:00; Sat-Sun 4:00, 7:00

The Lego Movie (G) Closed Captioned Fri-Wed

ENEMY (14A nudity, sexual content) Fri-Sat 1:50,

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DIVERGENT (PG violence) No Passes Fri-Tue, Thu

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

dren) No Passes Closed Captioned, Dts Stereo, Digital Presentation Daily 4:00; 3d : Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri-Sun, Tue 12:40, 7:00, 9:55; Mon, Wed 6:55, 9:50; Thu 6:40, 9:50

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Noah (STC) Closed Captioned Digital Presentation,

The Lego Movie (G) Closed Captioned Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:20; 3d : Fri-Sun 4:50, 7:20, 9:50; MonWed 7:15, 9:45; Thu 7:15 NEED FOR SPEED 3D (PG not rec for young

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The Little Rascals (STC) Sat 11:00 Elton John: The Million Dollar Piano (PG) Wed 7:30

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10:15; Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15; Mon-Thu 6:40, 9:50; Closed Captioned; Fri 6:00, 6:30, 9:15, 9:45; Sat-Sun 11:30, 12:00, 2:45, 3:15, 6:00, 6:30, 9:15, 9:45; Mon-Thu 7:20, 8:00

Noah (STC) Closed Captioned Thu 7:00, 10:00 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Closed Captioned Fri 3:45, 6:40, 9:35; Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35; Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:40; Thu 9:45

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ENEMY (14A nudity, sexual content) Closed

content, coarse language) Fri 6:50, 9:10; Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:15, 6:50, 9:10; Mon-Thu 6:50, 9:10

The Great Beauty (14A nudity) Fri 6:40, 9:20; Sat-Sun 3:00, 6:40, 9:20; Mon-Thu 6:40, 9:20

Philomena (PG language may offend) Sat-SUn 1:00

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The Lego Movie (G) Fri-Sun 12:10; Mon-Thu

1:40; 3d : Fri-Sun 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15; Mon-Thu 4:30, 6:55, 9:30

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DIVERGENT (PG violence) Closed Captioned, No

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RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Fri, Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50; Sat-Sun 4:10, 7:10, 9:50; Mon 1:30, 4:10, 9:50; Thu 1:30, 4:10, 9:50 Muppets Most Wanted (G) Closed Captioned

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Fri-Sun 11:55, 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35; Mon-Tue, Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45; Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:45; Star & Strollers: Wed 1:00

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Closed

Noah (STC) Closed Captioned Thu 7:15, 10:15

Captioned Fri 4:45, 7:30, 10:10; Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10; Mon-Thu 7:10, 9:50

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Mr Peabody And Sherman (G) No passes Daily 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:00 8:55

Frozen (G) Daily 12:45 2:55 5:05 300: Rise Of An Empire 3d (18A gory brutal violence) Reald 3d; no passes Daily 7:10 9:15 THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) Daily 1:10 3:10 5:10

violence) Dts Stereo Fri-Sun, Tue 3:50; Mon, Wed-Thu 3:40 3d : Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation Fri-Sun, Tue 1:00, 7:30, 10:15; Mon, Thu 7:15, 10:00; Wed 6:45, 10:00

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The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A sexual

Muppets Most Wanted (G) Closed Captioned

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Pompeii (14A) Closed Captioned Daily 7:40, 10:25 NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Closed

Captioned Fri, Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10; SatSun 4:40, 7:20, 10:10; Mon 1:50, 4:40, 10:10; Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10; Sat-Sun 1:30; Mon 7:10

DIVERGENT–The Imax Experience (PG violence) No Passes Daily 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 10:00 Cheap Thrills (18A gory brutal violence) Thu 7:30

The Professional (STC) Mon 7:30 National Theatre Live: War Horse–Encore (classification not available) Sat 12:30; Sun 12:55

7:05

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Divergent (PG violence) No passes Daily 1:25

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Muppets Most Wanted (G) No passes Daily 12:50 3:05 5:15 7:25 9:30

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Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dts Stereo Fri-Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:45, 7:20, 10:10; Mon, Wed-Thu 3:45, 7:10, 9:30

& English with subtitles Fri 6:45; Sat 1:30 & 9:15; Sun 3:15; Tue 6:30

Flight of the Butterflies 3D (G) Fri-Sun

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Digital

A FIELD IN ENGLAND (18A ) Best of the Brits

Born to be Wild 3D (G) Mon-Thu 4:20

THE DISAPPEARED (STC) Sat 7:00; Sun 1:30

Gravity 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 4:35, 9:10; Sun 3:25, 6:30; Thu 7:45

Presentation, Dts Stereo Fri-Sun, Tue 12:45, 3:20, 7:10, 9:50; Mon, Wed 3:20, 7:00, 9:40; Thu 3:20, 7:00

L’AVVENTURA (PG) Antonioni in the Sixties: Italian

2013: Fri 9:30; Sat 4:15; Mon 9:15; Wed 9:00

The Lego Movie (G) No Passes Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Digital Presentation, Dts Stereo Daily 3:30; 3d: Fri-Sun, Tue 12:10, 6:40; Mon, Wed 6:20; Thu 9:35

VERDI’S LES VEPRES SICILIENNES (STC) Opera

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) No Passes, Closed Captioned Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri-Wed 3:00; Thu 3:00, 9:15 3d : No Passes, Closed Captioned Digital 3d Dolby Stereo Digital Fri-Sun, Tue 12:30, 6:20, 9:00; Mon 6:00, 8:30; Wed 6:00, 9:15; Thu 6:00

Retro: Coen Bros Mon 7:00

Elton John: The Million Dollar Piano (PG) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dts Digital Wed 7:30 LANDMARK CINEMAS 10 CLAREVIEw

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Closed

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MILLER’S CROSSING (14A brutal violence) Metro THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (14A) Cult

1:00; Wed 4:20

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The Lego Movie (G) Sat-Sun, Tue 1:30 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (18A gory brutal

Cinema/ Metro Retro: Coen Bros Tue 9:15

violence)Daily 7:10, 9:15

WESTWORLD (STC) (STC) Turkey Shoot: Arabic, English, Hebrew w/subtitles Wed 7:00

9:00; Sat-SUN, Tue 2:00

POMEGRANATES AND MYRRH (STC) Educated

DIVERGENT (PG violence) Daily 6:45, 9:30; Sat-

Reel Thu 7:00

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Sun, Tue 1:15

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Daily 9:00

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Need For Speed 3d (PG not rec for young chil-

9:30

dren) Daily 6:45, 9:20; Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:20

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Digital Fri, Mon,

Muppets Most Wanted (G) Daily 7:00, 9:20;

Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri 7:10, 9:45; Sat-Sun 12:25, 3:00, 7:10, 9:45; Mon-Thu 6:40, 9:15

Wed-Thu 6:20; Sat-Sun, Tue 1:15, 6:20; 3d : Reald 3d Fri, Mon, Wed-Thu 9:00; Sat-Sun, Tue 3:15, 9:00

Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:35

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (18A gory brutal vio-

9:15; Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:35

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (18A gory brutal

lence) Digital Fri, Mon, Wed-Thu 8:50; Sat-Sun, Tue 3:50, 8:50; 3d : Reald 3d Fri, Mon, Wed-Thu 6:10; Sat-Sun, Tue 12:50, 10:00

DIVERGENT (PG violence) Daily 6:30, 9:20; Sat-Sun

Muppets Most Wanted (G) Digital Fri, Mon, Wed-Thu 6:45, 9:25; Sat-Sun, Tue 1:00, 3:40,

violence) Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri 6:50, 9:25; Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:05, 6:50, 9:25; Mon-Thu 6:20, 8:55; Fri 7:05, 9:40; Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:55, 7:05, 9:40; Mon-Thu 6:35, 9:10

6:45, 9:25

Mr Peabody And Sherman (G) Daily 6:55,

12:30, 3:20

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MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:15; 3d : Fri 6:55, 9:15; Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 6:55, 9:15; Mon-Thu 6:25, 8:45

DIVERGENT (PG violence) Digital Fri, Mon, Wed-

dren) Daily 6:45, 9:20; Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:20

9:40

Muppets Most Wanted (G) No passes Daily

NEED FOR SPEED (PG not rec for young children)

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Digital

Muppets Most Wanted (G) No Passes, Closed

The Lego Movie (G) Closed Caption & Descriptive

DIVERGENT (PG violence) No Passes Fri 3:45, 7:00,

PHILOMENA (PG language may offend) Daily 9:10

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300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3d (18A gory brutal

Sat-Sun 11:40, 2:05; 3d: Fri-Sun 4:30, 6:55, 9:20; Mon-Thu 7:00, 9:30

Dts Digital Thu 7:15

Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Sat-Sun 2:45; 3d : Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri 7:00, 9:30; SatSun 12:05, 7:00, 9:30; Mon-Thu 6:30, 9:00

lence) Closed Captioned Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45; Sun-Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40

children)Closed Captioned, No Passes Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:20, 4:10, 6:15, 7:20, 9:10, 10:30; Sun-Tue 1:10, 3:20, 4:20, 6:15, 7:30, 9:10, 10:20; Wed 3:20, 6:15, 9:10; Thu 1:10, 3:20, 4:20, 7:30, 9:00, 10:20; Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:20

Dts Digital Fri-Sun, Tue 12:20, 3:35, 6:45, 9:30, 10:00; Mon, Wed 3:35, 6:45, 8:45, 10:00; Thu 3:35, 6:45, 10:00

The Lego Movie (G) Closed Captioned, Digital

National Theatre Live: War Horse–Encore (classification not available) Sat 12:30

NEED FOR SPEED 3D (PG not rec for young

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The Professional (STC) Mon 7:30

Frozen (G) Closed Captioned Daily 12:45

12:15; Thu 1:15; 3d : Fri-Wed 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15; Thu 3:55, 6:35

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Muppets Most Wanted (G) Closed Captioned,

Bewakoofiyaan (PG) Hindi W/E.S.T. Fri-Sun, Tue 1:00, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:10, Kaum De Heere (14A) Punjabi W/E.S.T. Fri-Sun,

THE KILLERS (PG) 1946, Mon, Mar 24, 8:00

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Closed Captioned

Muppets Most Wanted (G) Tue, Thu 1:35, 4:15,

subject matter) Closed Captioned Daily 3:50, 9:45

Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave, 780.439.5285

NEED FOR SPEED 3D (PG not rec for young chil-

Closed Captioned Daily 4:20, 7:05, 9:50

Her (14A coarse language, sexual content, mature

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children) Closed Captioned, No Passes Fri 1:45, 3:55, 4:45, 6:55, 7:50, 10:25, 10:40; Sat 1:45, 3:55, 4:45, 6:55, 7:45, 10:25, 10:40; Sun 1:15, 3:25, 4:20, 6:25, 7:15, 9:55, 10:10; Mon 1:15, 3:50, 4:10, 6:55, 7:20, 9:50, 10:15; Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:55, 9:50; Thu 3:50, 6:55, 9:30, 9:50; Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15; Thu 1:15, 4:10

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (14A

language may offend, crude content) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun, Tue 1:10, 6:50; Mon, Wed-Thu 6:50

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DIVERGENT (PG violence) Digital Presentation,

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Closed Captioned, No Passes Fri 12:10, 12:40, 2:50, 3:20, 3:50, 6:05, 6:30, 7:05, 9:15, 9:45, 10:15; Sat 11:40, 12:10, 12:40, 2:50, 3:20, 3:50, 6:05, 6:30, 7:05, 9:15, 9:45, 10:15; Sun 12:10, 2:20, 2:50, 3:20, 5:30, 6:00, 6:35, 8:45, 9:15, 9:45; Mon 2:35, 3:05, 3:35, 5:40, 6:10, 6:40, 8:45, 9:20, 9:45; Tue-Wed 2:35, 3:05, 3:35, 5:40, 6:10, 6:40, 8:45, 9:15, 9:45; Thu 1:00, 3:05, 3:35, 5:40, 6:10, 6:40, 8:55, 9:15, 9:45; Ultraavx: Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:45; Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10; Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15; Thu 12:55, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15

Saving Mr. Banks (PG mature subject matter)

Fri 3:40, 6:30, 9:15; Sat 12:10, 2:55, 5:40, 8:30; Sun 12:30, 3:15, 6:00, 8:40; Mon-Thu 6:40, 9:30

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Closed

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guage, violence) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun, Tue 1:25, 3:55, 6:45, 9:20; Mon, Wed-Thu 3:55, 6:45, 9:20

violence) Fri 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; Mon-Thu 7:30, 10:00

Elton John: The Million Dollar Piano (PG)

I, Frankenstein (PG violence, frightening scenes,

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG coarse lan-

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MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Closed Captioned

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Closed Caption &

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WALKING WITH DINOSAURS (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue

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not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun, Tue 1:50; 3d : Daily 4:35, 7:00, 9:10

SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Closed

The Little Rascals (STC) Sat 11:00

The Lego Movie (G) Closed Captioned Fri-Sun

Need For Speed 3d (PG not rec for young

Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital On 2 Screens Fri 6:30, 6:45, 9:30, 9:45; Sat-Sun 12:00, 12:15, 3:10, 3:25, 6:30, 6:45, 9:30, 9:45; Mon-Thu 6:00, 6:15, 9:00, 9:15

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DIVERGENT (PG violence) Fri-Sat 6:50, 9:20; Sun-

7:15, 9:50

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FILM PREVUE // FESTIVAL

PREVUE // COEN BROS

Miller's Crossing / The Man FAVA Fest Who Wasn't There Mon, Mar 24, (7 pm) Miller's Crossing Directed by Joel Coen

he two Coen Brothers films screening this week—one part of Metro Cinema's retrospective, the other part of its ongoing "Cult" series—offer a fascinating contrast in the fraternal filmmaking duo's approach to crime fiction. Miller's Crossing (1990) leans heavily on the work of Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest and The Glass Key especially, and is set in the Prohibition era, the same period in which those novels were set and published. Densely plotted with double-crosses and suspenseful woodland walks, heavily populated with sly variations on gangster genre types, featuring a cast of the period's independent darlings (John Turturro, Steve Buscemi) and elder statesmen of international cinema (Albert Finney), painted in saturated greens and browns and a lush score infused with lilting Irish melodies, it is a picture that exudes class while talking trash. It flopped, more or less, but it was championed by critics and now feels like a breakthrough. The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) lost money, too, but it also had its champions. It's a more singular film, closer to what the ensuing years would prove to

be the Coens' characteristic approach to story: they are so expert with rhythm, incident and rising drama that some feel they've been cheated when they realize just how far their stories stray from familiar patterns, installing detours, dream sequences and reveries where genre dictates there should be only clean forward movement. This film traded Hammett for James M Cain, whose novels The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity directly or indirectly inspired numerous films noir. It was set in 1949, post-Postman but right on time for noir. It's shot in gorgeous, slivery black and white, complimented by a haunting, melancholy blend of Beethoven and Carter Burwell, and feature some of my favourite performances from Frances McDormand, Tony Shalhoub and, of course, Billy Bob Thornton, who rarely moves or, save the voice-over, speaks. He's a barber-sphinx, estranged from his wife and his life. For all the accusations of this film being among the Coens' most derivative or generic, Thorton's protagonist is of a sort all but unprecedented in noir or neo-noir: instead of the hero tormented and motivated by bad desire, Thorton's all-but-absent Man is an acci-

Tue, Mar 25 (9:15 pm) The Man Who Wasn't There Directed by Joel Coen

Metro Cinema at the Garneau dental criminal who simply wants to get into dry cleaning. And unlike the typical fatalistic noir thriller, the film makes time for an ethnic picnic, a child's piano lessons, a memory of a gravel salesman, a lecture on Schrödinger's cat, and a UFO. If you were inclined to follow such wavering plot lines you probably loved it. The Coens shared the Palme d'Or that year with David Lynch and Mulholland Drive. Me, I love both of these films, but I love The Man Who Wasn't There more. Maybe because it dons the guise of something so familiar as to be mistaken for homage on a cursory glance, while it's really every inch a personal, strange, funny and deeply sad tale about being a ghost in one's own life. But my preference is less important than this advice: see both. These are among the best American films of the past 25 years, and catching them on the Garneau screen over two nights is a treat. JOSEF BRAUN

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dmonton is a filmmaking town— help those beginner filmmakers, or we're just quiet about it. even mid-career filmmakers, just to "Our filmmakers are isolated people keep going," Thingelstad explains. who tinker away in their garages," says "The whole idea of art in the Melissa Thingelstad, director of com- broadest sense is really the conmunications & membership services firmation that we're human," Gusof FAVA, The Film and Video Arts So- tavsen says. "There's a resonance ciety–Alberta. in true art, where "The other thing Tue, Mar 25 – Sat, Mar 29 you recognize yourabout Edmonton, Ortona Arts Armory self, your existence what we do best, is (9722 –1 02 St), and the continuity train people and ex- admission by donation of your humanport them—we often Gala: Sat, Mar 29 (6 pm) ity that's connected export our best tal- Garneau Theatre, with all humanity ent," says Rick Gus- admission by donation that's ever existed; that's what I think is tavsen, a founding Schedule at fava.ca the power of art. So member of FAVA and working in obscu39-year veteran of Alberta's motion-picture industry. It's a rity, you're going to cut your ear off sentiment that may sound harsh, but and send it to your brother-in-law despite those isolationist and migra- if you don't get some acknowledgtory tendencies, Alberta's small film ment!" industry has endured for decades— and seems to be picking up traction in Even though our city's local filmthe last few years. makers may tend to go it alone a The three of us are sitting at a table lot of the time, filmmaking still in FAVA's office, upstairs in the Ortona requires a fair degree of collaboArts Armoury, a squat brick building ration. Coupled with the lack of perched just below the downtown a film school here (there are procore near the banks of the North Sas- grams at NAIT and Grant MacEwan katchewan River. The wall across from in related fields), FAVA really is us is lined with hundreds of indepen- Edmonton's de facto film school. dent films created by FAVA members, For those interested in the field, dating back to the group's inception in Thingelstad offers words of both 1982. encouragement and practicality. FAVA is a not-for-profit organiza"FAVA exists so that you can do tion run by artists from all sorts of it—we're here to help you see your disciplines. It supports independent way in," she says. "Don't let it scare media art, both film and video, by you. Ask a lot of questions. We providing such resources to its know it's expensive and it's comnearly 400 members as equipment, plicated. Get in here and get your workshops, mentorship programs, hands on gear and the resources; community outreach, extensive ar- that's when you understand what chives and very soon, distribution stories you're interested in telling through a forthcoming online televi- through it." sion series, FAVA TV. "The warmth and feedback you get This year marks the third-annual from your own community is what FAVA Fest, a five-day celebration of we need to rediscover and relive," the work done by FAVA members. Gustavsen adds. "That's the future The festival began with the cre- of our survival, really, is to recreate ation of the Outstanding Achieve- the communities. And it's much easiment Awards, with funds provided er to belong to your own immediate by the National Film Board; this community than to be a hero worldyear's recipient is Gustavsen, who wide. I'm really a fan of our media will be honoured at an evening in working locally and telling our own the festival. Other events include a stories and looking at ourselves and trade show, screenings of the best singing and dancing around the fire. of FAVA's latest films as well as Cin- The buzz that I've felt at the FAVA ema Eye Honors and Sundance Film Gala, I haven't felt at other events Festival shorts, and a gala to cap it for so, so long." MEL PRIESTLEY all off. MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM "Acknowledgement sometimes can

VUEWEEKLY MAR 20 – MAR 26, 2014

Aliens EXPOsed – a celebration of the iconic 1986 film: Aliens. This star-studded event will be an incredible opportunity for Sci-Fi and horror fans to see cast members from this ground-breaking film on stage together. For tickets and information visit:

calgaryexpo.com This is a separate ticketed event and does not grant access to the Calgary Expo show-floor. Ms. Sigourney Weaver’s appearance is presented by the Calgary Expo in conjunction with Coolwaters Productions LLC Guest line up is subject to change.

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James ehnes, violin andrew armstrong, piano wednesday, april 2, 2014, 8 pm mcdougall church 10025 – 101 st. | edmonton, ab tickets From tiX on the square, the gramophone and at the door.

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PREVUE // BEIJING ROCK

Carsick Cars on the cusp of China's indie explosion censorship, and that's what I think art should do. It's not like America: if you said, 'Fuck the government,' you'd probably get more business.' But now in China, we'd get in trouble. So we just find a better way to deal with it.

hough now at the heart of Beijing's flourishing indie scene, when Carsick Cars formed back in 2005, there really wasn't any scene to speak of. There was music, of course: mostly big, broad pop. Rock existed; the genre had been pioneered in the '80s by a fellow named Cui Jian, whose song "Nothing to my Name" became the protest anthem of students at Tiananmen Square in '89. But Jian was a lone figure whose influence was respected but not necessarily replicated. In terms of local bands playing loud music for reasonabley sized audiences, there was next to nothing. It wasn't for a lack of interest, either: Carsick Cars frontman Zhang Shouwang was among the many youths who had begun coveting whatever western albums they could get their hands on in high school, often in the form of dakou discs: factory discards that were supposed to be unplayable, but usually only lost a track or two off the end. Shouwang was coveting albums by the Velvet Underground, the Ramones and other western rock-

ers he would later draw influence from in his own work. But the real reason for the lack of a scene was the lack of places to host it: in Beijing, 2005, there were no venues small enough to be available to emerging bands, yet big enough to anchor a scene and help it build to a critical, sustainable mass. "When we started in 2005, we could only play in such small clubs, [like one] called What bar," Shouwang says. "So tiny, it's only like 20 people. All these young bands ... we couldn't find a place to perform, because we're not famous enough." He's speaking on the phone from San Francisco, where Carsick Cars is in the midst of its first North America spanning tour (the band's done South by Southwest and the eastern USA before, but never Canada). His English is capable: Carsick Cars songs come in English and Mandarin, with Shouwang delivering catchy melodies in both, which float over his guitarled trio's waves of distortion, swelling riffs and the occasional feedback squall. The western influence is

clear—a lot of these songs would fit snugly onto '90s college radio—but Carsick Cars also generates something wholly its own: the sense of youthful discovery, of being on the outmost wave of a creative explosion and racing, gleefully, to keep up with what you've helped set off. Search anything about Carsick Cars and a venue called D-22 inevitably gets mentioned. It's closed now, Shouwang says, but he compares it to New York's legendary CBGB: it became the launchpad for the scene, a place where audiences could see new bands and where musicians could hear each other and begin experimenting with all sorts of sounds (Shouwang's electro side-project, White+, is opening on this tour). The scene grew outward from there: soon, other clubs were filling with crowds of young folk looking for the sweaty sort of release that comes with a rock 'n' roll show. "The club really gave those young bands a place to perform, and we were able to get our own experience," Shouwang says. "And musi-

The band's touring behind its aptly titled third album, 3, which was recorded a year ago in New York and produced by Spacemen 3's Sonic Boom and Hamish Kilgour of New Zealand's the Clean, both of whom pushed Carsick Cars Mon, Mar 24 (9 pm) into a brighter and Carsick Cars more polished sound With White+, Strange Fires, than on its previous Diamond Mind two albums (2007's Wunderbar, $12 self-titled debut and 2009's You Can Listen, You Can Talk). Shouwang wanted to work with Kilgor out of a love of his band—"I just think their sound is so perfect, and I wanted that guitar sound" he admits—and Kilgour brought Sonic Boom into the fold. That it's coming out five years after You Can Listen stems from multiple personnel shuffles within the band: founding members Li Weisi and Li Qing both departed to focus on other (Guitar) pedal to the floor projects, and after enlisting other regulars of the scene He Fan and Ben cians had a place to hang out and Ben to replace them, the latter left, work together. ... they really helped leaving Shouwang out a drummer. (Another scene member, Houzi, evenmaking music a lot." But even with a self-sustaining tually filled in.) "After this tour, we're pretty much scene now in place, there are hurdles to being a rock 'n' roll band in ready to write new stuff, and release China. Censorship comes up; though something new," he says. "It won't Shouwang notes the scene is still take that long again." This is the biggest tour the band's relatively underground—meaning the government isn't looking that embarked on, though the last few closely yet—it still faces roadblocks. years have increasingly found CarAll lyrics have to be vetted by the sick Cars drawing crowds beyond Ministry of Culture, who can dole China (they did eventually open out fines for explicit or political con- for Sonic Youth, too—just not in tent, and concerts can be altered Beijing). As his band’s international without warning: Carsick Cars was presence grows, Shouwang hasn't set to open for Sonic Youth during found there to be much of a barrier the band's Beijing show in 2007, un- to his music anywhere. "I think they're similar," he says of autil Shouwang found out his band had been cut from the bill. He was never diences at home and abroad. "Sometimes they don't get what I'm saying. told why. "Stuff like that happens sometimes," On this tour, we were singing a lot of he says with an audible shrug, noting songs from the new album, and most the same thing happens to foreign of the songs are in Chinese. But for bands, too. It's just another parameter the audience, even if they don't unto work around. "I just think it's much derstand the language, they will get more fun, making music in China than the energy of it." anywhere else in the world. You have PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM to be smart and play around with the

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PREVUE // POP

Islands The strangest ski masks around // Todd Weaver

ness and darkness. If the casual listener is not paying attention to the lyrics, they will think that the song's playful and fun, catchy. And the listener who pays closer attention will realize there's pretty significant contrast at work, where the lyrics are playing against the light music." "I like that friction," he adds. "I like that tension. It's a fun device Wed, Mar 26 (8 pm) to use."

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ome of the songs on Ski Mask— Island's fifth album of sardonic yet strangely jubilant pop music— have been waiting a few records to find a home. They're odds and ends left over from Nick Thorburn's songwriting process; not firm fits for earlier albums but still worthy tracks, rough gems only needing the polish of a proper album's context to earn their release. "Some go back as far as, I think ... shit, 2008, maybe? 2008. Yeah. Actually, 2007. Shit. Yeah. So they go back," Thorburn says, racking his brain over the phone from LA. "And I was waiting for the right time for them to be presentable. I prefer the songs to have a consistency, to be cohesive enough to put on the same record. Those songs

never really fit. And I still thought that they were good enough that they deserved recognition, that they deserved to be heard somewhere. It was just a waiting game, basically." Now that the wait's ended, Ski Mask—its cover image some monster from an '80s B-movie called Ozone Attack of the Redneck Mutants—showcases some of the most relaxed and joyful songwriting Thorburn's penned since Island's 2006 debut, Return to the Sea. Lyrically, though, it carries some of the bleakest lines he's ever written. Like "Life's not a gas / It's a gas chamber," a line dressed up in gummy-pop hooks and sunshine harmonies that evoke the opposite of that sentiment. "I do that intentionally," Thorburn says. "I like the contrast between light-

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FAKE SHARK REAL ZOMBIE / FRI, MAR 21 (6 PM) The genre-blending duo’s still supporting its 2013 release, Liar, but there’s something new-ish for you to get your hands on—Don’t Forget, a re-release of their two previous albums and unreleased B-sides that were never released. (Avenue Theatre, $17.50 in advance, $20 day of show)

TERRY GILLESPIE BAND / THU, MAR 20 – SAT, MAR 22 The guy’s played with Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, JJ Cale and now he’s headlining three nights in Edmonton. (Big Al’s House of Blues)

ANIMALS AS LEADERS / SAT, MAR 22 (8 PM) There just might be some new material being performed by the instrumental prog-rock group, as well as a supporting solo performance by ex drummer Navene Koperweis. (Starlite Room, $22)

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It's something Thorburn used to play around with in his old band, the Unicorns, too—grimly grinning sing-songs about jelly bones, death and endless ghosts. And in the past few months, fellow ex-Unicorn Alden Penner started talking publicly about potential reunion for that band. While Thorburn notes that idea's still in very early stages—and, you know, he has another band and record he's currently touring behind—he isn't totally dismissive of the idea either. "At the moment, it's more speculative and hopeful than possible," he says. "I don't really want to focus too much on that in the moment, but it's still in the talking phase. We're very close to getting beyond that phase. But it's not a guarantee that we will."

STEVE DAWSON / SAT, MAR 22 (7:30 PM) Want to hear what recording with a single vintage tube microphone sounds like? Give Steve Dawson’s latest album Rattlesnake Cage a listen. (Festival Place, $20)

NOW HEAR THIS FESTIVAL / FRI, MAR 21 – SUN, MAR 23 This year’s festival features composer R Murray Schafer, who happens to be credited for coining the term “soundscape,” among other things. (Holy Trinity Anglican Church, $5 – $50)

NO TENORS ALLOWED / MON, MAR 24 (7:30 PM) You hear that, Tenors? This show is a joint collaboration with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Edmonton Opera chorus featuring three guest baritones who will work their way through numbers from MacBeth, Carmen and the Barber of Seville. (Winspear Centre, $39 – $79)

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LATCHO DROM / FRI, MAR 21 Vinyl’s made a comeback, so why not cassettes? This local “wussy, indie-rocky posthardcore” (their words) threepiece is releasing a cassette, but there are only 100 copies available. (Bohemia)

GLORIOUS SONS / THU, MAR 27 (8 PM) The Glorious Sons are on its first glorious headlining tour and have a glorious new single out called “White Noise.” (Pawn Shop, $12)

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Kimberley MacGregor 'I

f you wait until you have the much over the years. So when I confidence, then you'll never was growing up, music was like do it," says local singer-songwriter my confidante," she explains of her Kimberley MacGregor, who is on writing. "I've tried writing songs the precipice of releasing her first that aren't personal and it's a frustrating experience. It just comes solo album, True. MacGregor is no fledgling mu- out not sounding like me, so eventually I just came sician, though. to terms with She's been writ- Fri, Mar 21 (8 pm) the fact that this ing songs since With Small Town Knife Fight, is how I write, her teen years Braden Gates this is the kind and currently Artery, $12 (advance), $15 (door) of artist I am juggles a dizzying and it's the kind schedule playing in six different bands, including of artists that got me through my the Tubsteppers, Cadence and Na- teen years as well: the ones who than, the Living Daylights and the were brave enough to put their Great North Blues Band—plus, vulnerabilities out there." MacGregor's first solo perforshe'll be performing at this year's Sasquatch Gathering. Yet, despite mance was "pretty terrifying," but her varied experiences in front of a she credits Living Daylights bandcrowd, she was hesitant to step up mates Reuben Anderson and Sean to the mic with her own material, Stephens for encouraging her to due in part to its highly personal get her original material out there, nature. It wasn't until MacGregor noting she'd snuck some of her turned 30 that she decided it was tunes into band set lists, which time to get her songs out there, helped her gain some confidence in them as well. otherwise it might never happen. "When I was growing up, we moved around all the time, so we On True, MacGregor teamed up never really had a sense of com- with Doug Organ, Ethan Markmunity and we never really had wart, Nathan Burns, Harry Gregg friends that stayed connected and Matt Blackie for her backing

band, but the songs are all her, resonating essences of soul, folk and R&B. At the core are her poignant, evocative lyrics that shed light on past experiences while showcasing the artist MacGregor has become. "Most of them come from crappy ex boyfriends," she laughs—she's kind of kidding, but not really. "Writing for me ... it's been a form of self soothing. It's my therapy. It's where I make all my confessions and things that would never necessarily feel comfortable saying or expressing in real life, or things that I'm expressing, maybe I'm expressing it when I'm feeling really, really strongly. I know it's only five percent of the picture, so I wouldn't necessarily express it that way, but in a song you have the freedom to express that five percent and express those intense feelings when they're there. It's not necessarily representative of me and how I feel all the time, but it's a snapshot of how I felt when I wrote it. Sometimes the best thing that comes out of a failed relationship is a good song." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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Mounties catchy single, "Headphones"— purely through jam sessions where no idea was off limits and things were left to unfold, whatever that happened to result in. "I think the first two sessions we had as a band, there was something like Thu, Mar 27 45 potenWith Rich Aucoin tial songs, Starlite Room Bays explains. " Y o u know, not start to finish, but often a e had no idea you could just lot of a completed song would just shut your brain off and free- be in the jam. So we're still sitting style jam and that would turn into on a mountain of great things, but some of the most exciting songs it's a lot of work sometimes to take you've ever written. No one tells those and weed out the nonsense." you that," says Steve Bays, one-third In some instances, the songs heard of the pop-rock trio Mounties (and on Thrash Rock Legacy are exactly keyboards / vocalist for Hot Hot as they were live—just a mixed Heat) alongside fellow CanRock version—while others, like "If This stalwarts Hawksley Workman and Dance Catches On," took a little Ryan Dahle of Age of Electric and more sculpting. Limblifter. "'If This Dance Catches On' took The supergroup of sorts met in two weeks for Ryan and I to get it to 2009 and were friends for some time the point where it was. The original before gradually beginning to play version was 12 minutes, and then he music together. Something clicked, edited it down and added acoustic and Mounties composed the songs guitar and made a bit more sense on its debut album, Thrash Rock of out it," says Bays, who shared Legacy—including the infectiously mixing duties with Dahle in their

respective studios, which happen to be side by side. "Then I took it to my room and for some reason it took me a week to mix that song. I don't know why it took so long, but in the end it's probably my favourite mix on the album, so I'm glad I took the time on it." When the trio was together— sometimes Workman would be back home in Ontario and would send files back and forth—they would listen back to what happened during the jam session and pull segments that seemed song worthy before someone would run back over to the mic and do impromptu lyrics. "I still don't understand how it happens, but something about being in the room with those guys, we're all trying to impress each other," Bays says. "Weird stuff comes out. 'Headphones' was just off the top of the head; so many songs were just off the top of the head, and it's very rare that lyrics are typed out or written out. Like 'Twig in the Tree'; that one was mainly Hawksley's lyrics and when I listen to it I can hear a guy writing intentional consciousness— granted it was still in probably five minutes, which is the crazy part."

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Sprïng A

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t first glance, the cover of Sprïng's Celebrations appears an idyll, if busy, pastoral scene. And then you notice the broken tree over a pit of bodies. And the kettles with hands. And the centaur vacuuming up a cat and pile of fruit. The painting sits in the living room of the house Sprïng's membership lives in, commissioned by a friend to adorn the band's debut album with a sense of everything contained within it. "It's just representative of the whole album," guitarist Elliot Langford explains. "All the songs are actually represented on the album cover. All those little details; if you listen to the lyrics of the album, [they're] part of every song." "It's a little bit of a Where's Waldo," adds drummer Kevin Romain. "You can look through the art and relate the lyrics." Romain and Langford are perched around a speakerphone with vocalist Joseph Hirabayashi, together comprising three fourths of Sprïng (bassist Ridley Bishop is absent). And the eclectic cover painting's an apt representation of the music the band makes: Celebrations is a psychedelic, impressionistic and frequently complicated feat of musicianship. It often seems to present multiple ideas at once: lush pop

harmonies and piano-led arrange- jazz drumming, I really love the music. ments dive into acid-jazz breakdowns, But largely, if you can hack your way switch gears with guitar squeals and through some beebop solos, it gives you some chops to be able to do whatfolk strums, and back again. "We knew we wanted to make a psy- ever you want with music. " That also means Celebrations' shiftchedelic record," Hirabayashi says. "That as a genre has a big variety of approach- ing time signatures and hairpin musical es. It was cool to try and figure out turns were relatively easy to pin down what that meant, as far as composing a when it came time to record. The alrecord. And we also knew we wanted a bum's filled with third or fourth takes record; a lot of the writing was informed of songs—some of which were never really meant to be recreby what was already ated live, either, which has written as songs, and Fri, Mar 21 (9 pm) what the record needed With [willscott], N3K proven a different sort of feat for the band. Everyto be a balanced record Wunderbar, $10 one in the band plays mulas a whole unit." tiple instruments, and to The music's complicated take on the perform some of Celebrations in front of genre stems from an honest meld of audiences, they'll end up switching what influences: not only is the band built they're playing two or three times in the from a particularly varied spread of span of a few moments. "There's one song, 'Storyteller' that former Vancouver bands—Sprïng's combined CV includes time in the SS- we just figured out a live version for, RIs, The Rebel Spell, Thee Ahs, Aunts which we didn't have any intention and Uncles, and more–but also, all four of doing," Hirabayashi says, earning a of its members have studied jazz to a laugh out of the other two. "That was one where we totally recorded that post-secondary extent. "Jazz is just a very old form of music track with no intention of actually compared to pop or rock; people have ever trying to repeat that live. But developed a really codified way of then we went and figured it out—it's teaching it," Romain says. "Using the fun to try and cover your own band." style to get really good at music in PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM general; myself, I'm really influenced by

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Twin Forks T

here's plenty of mentions of love and heart on Twin Forks' self-titled debut LP, but two years ago, you'd be hard-pressed to find either word in frontman Chris Carrabba's lyrics. Carrabba, whose name may sound familiar from his former band Dashboard Confessional, had placed a selfimposed ban on using either word, for no reason other than to present himself with a writing challenge. "Sometimes taking the easy words, the easiest descriptive words away makes you dig in deeper, but when they do come out, [it's] because they're the absolute right words to use—there's no fighting it," Carrabba explains. "I learned how often you can use those words when they're not that meaningful, when they're not the most right choice, I guess. ... I think it was about patience and I also know I was waiting to find a new draw as a writer, something that pulls you—pulled me in—in a very natural way and I guess that's what we discovered. This band is more about allowing things to happen than setting up ideas and trying to chase them down." It was the track "Something We Just Know," that became the first to reincorporate the endearing words into Carraba's lyrical vocabulary—

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and the uplifting, harmony-driven laughter captured throughout. It's track about finding unexpected and these little moments and the lush, unabashed love became the first to be textured arrangements that give written for the album. But this isn't the the album a quality that feels as first time Carrabba has banned himself though it takes the band out of from doing certain things in his writing. the studio and onto the stage. The In the past he's avoided certain chords, LP also captures Carrabba's influkeys, words or rhyming schemes or, ences—think Tom Petty, Cat Stealternatively, allowed himself to only vens and Gordon Lightfoot, plus a little punk and rock—something he use certain chords or words. "Sometimes it's not about what you downplayed in the past, not wantdon't use; sometimes is about trying ing to do them any injustice. "After such a long to discover when time of attemptit's right through Tue, Mar 25 (7:30 pm) ing to eschew the a series of ill-con- With Phillip Phillips stylistic and strucceived ideas," he Jubilee Auditorium, sold out tural parameters says with a laugh, of my direct innoting there's no restraints on his writing at this point. fluences, it was kind of exciting to "I'm still in that blissful honeymoon just attempt that, 'Maybe I'm good phase where I'm allowed to do any- enough to excel within those pathing I want—where no one tells you rameters and push the boundaries a bit in my own small way,'" Carrabba to pick up your socks." explains. "That's how music grows The "honeymoon phase" is war- traditionally, you know? So it felt ranted, considering Twin Forks just kind of like I pushed myself way out released its album at the beginning on to a niche and enjoyed it, but I of the month. The band—rounded wanted to embrace being part of a out by mandolin player Suzie Zeld- longer tradition. It's a great opporin of the Narrative, bassist Jonathan tunity and it's a really great feeling Clark and drummer Ben Homola to be connected to something so from Bad Books—recorded the old and so young at the same time." album live off the floor, keeping MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM intact the hoots, hollers and even

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The '90s-industrial vibes are all over Above the Dust and a Little Below the Angels, right from the moody, bassy throb and lockstep drum run that opens the album. But it's unique in its stripped-down take on the style: Free Judges makes use of sparse production, lean guitar work and muscular rhythms to prove the strength of its spartan approach. That, and a few tilts into groovy

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From the fertile fields of Guelph, Ontario come the Folk, whose shotgun approach to music misses more than it hits. While it's laudable for the Folk to try and make an album full

rock 'n' roll don't hurt things either: the NIN-worthy bass-anddrum march of "Brutes" sets a brooding, restless pace until the snaking guitar line coils up into an eruption of chords. The stream-of-troubled-consciousness vocal in "ELRAD" mesmerizes as it treads along a vibrating low note; later, "33" finds a dancier groove without sacrificing the rest of the album's darker hues. The album's latter-half is where the trio's rock tendencies really start to amp up: "Polarized" rides along a furious drumline with periodic stabs of guitar/bass, while closer "Tip of the Spear" goes into overdrive, wrapping a distorted shove of instrumentation around Paul Coutts' shouted vocals. It's a potent cap to a promising debut: Above the Dust is dark, wicked, and, when it rears up into a charge, unrelenting. PAUL BLINOV

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of songs stylistically distinct from each other, none of the songs are particularly good. We All Say's best moments are when lead vocalist Sara BortolonVettor—whose sister, Emma, plays guitar in the group—gets the opportunity to go hog wild. Her voice is powerful and emotive, and on the stripped-down "Staying Up All Night" she lets it rip to great effect. It's too bad the backing arrangements around her, as on opener "In Silence" or "Deep Space," sound like they were ripped from a rotation of mid'90s alt-rock radio stalwarts. We All Say has a few interesting ideas, but listeners will need to dig deep to uncover the diamonds hiding in the rough.

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Don't fuck around with this record. Be sure that whatever device you use to listen can support the incredible depth of sound that is woven together for your pleasure. The patience of presentation in the programming allows the songs to morph seamlessly from one thing to another, a skill made most obvious with "Into Another Tune," a song whose bookends are drastically different. The computer domination throughout makes the introduction of acoustic guitars jarring, but, at the same time, the binary electronics embrace individual styles—like pop and shoegaze—in a way that could only be described as digitally organic. Sequenced patterns of bleeps and bloops get sterile and annoying, but the low end sneaks in and sweep kicks you into a bounce, allowing strange introductions to evolve into gorgeous entities. With steady moments of truly inspired arrangements, Close to the Glass is near perfection, but lacks the complete follow-through to end on a high note. LEE BOYES

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Four IN 140 SBTRKT, Transitions (Young Turks) @VueWeekly: While working on his next full-length, the masked Brit releases a batch of late-at-night instrumentals. Fans of FlyLo take notice.

Aloe Blacc, Lift Your Spirit (XIX) @VueWeekly: While "Wake Me Up" is infectious & there are still hints of soul here, the retro tinge has seemingly moved out, replaced by a claim to fame.

Twin Forks, Twin Forks (Dine Alone) @VueWeekly: Pretty run-of-the-mill folk-pop from the Dashboard Confessional frontman's latest project, but a decent stomper of an album nonetheless.

Sisyphus, Sisyphus (Asthmatic Kitty) @VueWeekly: Sufjan Stevens' hip-hop side project often feels out of the element. Something like pushing a large rock up a hill. Repeatedly. 30 MUSIC

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SET Nightclub NEW Fridays: House and Electro with Peep This, Tyler Collns, Peep'n ToM, Dusty Grooves, Nudii and Bill,

Maclab centre–Leduc Tim Hus; 7:30pm; $33 (adult)/$30 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square, Leduc Recreation

Classical Convocation Hall Edmonton Chamber Music Society: José Miguel Moreno (Baroque guitar master); 8pm; $35 (adult)/$25 (senior)/$10 (student) at ECMS, TIX on the Square, the Gramophone; info at 780.433.4532 Holy Trinity Anglican Church Now Hear This–Festival of New Music: Panel Discussion with local and visiting composers at 10:30am • Soundwalk: exploring the soundscape of our city with Scott Smallwood at 1pm, no cover • WindRose Trio concert at 2pm, $20/$15 (students)/$10 (NME member) • Violet Collective debut (electro-acoustic works) at 3:30pm, $15/$10 (student)/$5 (NME member) • (Re)Defining “Composer,”: Canadian League of Composers round table discussion with Ian Crutchley, Emily Doolittle, Heather Hindman, Allan Gilliland, Gary Joynes, Michael Frishkopf at 4:45pm, no cover • Violet Collective (unplugged) at 7pm • Pro Coro Canada, Michael Zaugg (conductor) at 8:30pm • Astral Ghosts: concert of electro-acoustic works at 9:30pm – All three evening concerts for one price: $20/$15 (student)/$10 (NME member) Latitude 53 Classical Music at Latitude: with Peter Krejcar at 2:45pm; featuring artists Tammy Salzl, Emily Jan and Amber-Jane Grove featuring artists Tammy Salzl, Emily Jan and Amber-Jane Grove Winspear A Celtic Journey with Eileen Ivers, (fiddle), William Eddins (conductor); 8pm; $24- $89

DJs

mar/22 mar/26 mar/27 mar/28 mar/29 apr/2 apr/4 apr/5 apr/8 apr/11 apr/12 apr/15 apr/18 apr/25

the union and ConCertWorKS preSentS w/ GuesTs afTer The Burial, alBuM releaSe tour navanek & chon

aniMals as leaders the union preSentS

iSlandS

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the union preSentS

the MountieS w/ rich aucion the union preSentS

againSt Me!

w/ laura sTevenson & cheaP Girls

raiSed fiSt produCtionS preSentS

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

the Kin

W/ gueStS

the union preSentS

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

SuiCide GirlS BlaCkheart BurleSque

Mrg ConCertS preSentS

steven j MasKus the union preSentS

the ZolaS

W/ Speedy ortiZ

W/ JaMeS younger & gueStS

uBK preSentS

djemBa djemBa & mr. CarmaCk (team Supreme) the union preSentS

w/ Trash Talk,

anD shininG the dillinGer eSCape plan reTox Starlite rooM proudly preSentS the hanson brothers & GuesTs add K-97 and Starlite rooM preSent

todd jameS Band Feat. Chantal Burn W/ gueStS

apr/26 ironStorm may/1 raW:reVolution may/9 iCed earth

exCaliBur produCtionS and farMegedon preSent

“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

the union preSentS

may/13 BathS may/16 authority Zero may/29 head oF the heard

W/ young fatherS & gueStS

starlite rooM in association with calgary beer core presents w/ torches to triggers, abandin all hope, the Misfires & vangohst Tix onsale aT TickeTfly.com & BlackByrD myoozik the union preSentS

W/ the BalConieS & gueStS

mar/22 Van Funk - Fear oF Crime - Bailey Sutton mar/28 mar/29 Pax arcana apr/4 The misfires apr/5 CoWpunCher oaK apple reCordS preSentS & gueStS

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

apr/12

apr/19 apr/26 may/3

dMB preSentS

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 may/17 BesTie w/ GuesTs elecTric soul jun/6 BlacksTone, & The GiBson Block

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:

VUEWEEKLY mar 20 – mar 26, 2014

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Dr Erick

March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm

THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat

Duggan's Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

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 Tavern DJ Mikey Wong every Sat PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SET Nightclub SET Saturday Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M Sugar Foot Ballroom Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com 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 23 Big Al's House of Blues Sun BBQ Jam: Hosted by Marshall Lawrence; 4-8pm

FRI MAR 21

I LOVE 80’S PARTY HOSTED BY DJ’S NAZZ NOMAD & BLUE JAY SAT MAR 22

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

SUN MAR 23

CRUEL HAND, FOCUSED MINDS MALFUCTION, & BARRIER TUE MAR 25

ABANDON ALL SHIPS W/GUESTS PALLISADES, SKYNET, ELEMENTS, & THE EQUINOX

THU MAR 27

GLORIOUS SONS W/ TEENAGE KICKS & JFR FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

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Blue Chair Café Sunday brunch: Jazz Passages Trio; 9am3pm; donations Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett Centre for Arts– MacEwan University Percussion Ensemble; 7:30pm; tickets at TIX on the Square cha island Open mic with

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: Percussion Ensemble; $11 (adult)/$9 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square McDougall United Church James Vincent McMorrow, guests; all ages; 7pm (door) at YEG Live, Blackbyrd Newcastle Pub The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am On the Rocks Soul Night with Ruben Flex Pawn Shop Cruel Hand, Focused Minds, Malfunction, Barrier, guest; 8pm Richards Pub Sunday Country Showcase and jam hosted by Darren Gusnowsky and Curtis Ebner Smokehouse BBQ Evening: Raoul Bhaneja (harp, vocals), Graham Guest (piano, vocals) Wunderbar Latcho Drom, Moon Museum, Carl for Breakfast

Classical All Saints Anglican Cathedral Grim and Glacial: Male voices of Pro Coro; 2:30pm; tickets at Winspear box office Holy Trinity Anglican Church Now Hear This–Festival of New Music: Strathcona String Quartet at 2pm • Violet Collective at 5:30pm; Two afternoon concerts for one price: $20/$15 (student)/$10 (student) Muttart Hall Connections Concert Series Sundays: Maura Sharkey-Pryma, Alexandra Munn, Daniel Rowley, Justin Kautz, and Judy Loewen; 2pm Strathcona Community Centre Now Hear This–Festival of New Music: Deep Listening Workshop, led by Raylene Campbell at 11am, no cover

LeveL 2 lounge Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

Hurtin Horsemen

Elephant and Castle–

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover

MON MAR 24

Overtime Sherwood Park Open Stage every Tuesday

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

Jubilee Auditorium Nana Mouskouri; 7:30pm

Pawn Shop The Equinox, Abandon All Ships, Palisades, Skynet, Elements, the Equinox

Live at Sly's Open jam every Wed hosted by Wil Cole; 7-11pm

Blues on Whyte Donald Ray Johnson

Red Piano Every Tue: the Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm-12am; no cover; relaxed dress code

Duggan's Sean Hiliby Jubilee Yes; 7:30pm; $39, $65, $89.50 at Ticketmaster New West Hotel Hurtin Horsemen

Richards Pub Tue Live Music Showcase and Open Jam hosted by Mark Ammar

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

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Stan Gallant

Rouge Resto-Lounge Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

Yardbird Suite Tuesday Session: God Save The Trio with Murray Wood; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

Wunderbar Carsick Cars (China), White+ (China), Diamond Mind, Strange Fires

DJs

Classical Convocation Hall Monday Noon Music: Piano Concert (students of Patricia Tao); noon; free Winspear No Tenors Allowed: ESO and Edmonton Opera; 7:30pm

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 25 Big Al's House of Blues Tue Jam with Big Dreamer; 7pm (door); no cover Blues on Whyte Donald Ray Johnson Druid Irish Pub Open Stage Tue: featuring this week: Poor Nameless Boy; 9pm

Winspear Centre From Tchaikovsky with Love: U of A Symphony Orchestra, Petar Dundjerski (conductor), with Guillaume Tardif, Yue Deng (violin solos); 8pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (senior)/$10 (student)

Jubilee Phillip Phillips; 7:30pm

DJs

Live at Sly's Jam hosted by Rockin' Randy Every Tue, 7-11pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy

Sherlock Holmes– WEM Amy Weymes Wunderbar Wundi Trivia Night

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro 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 Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED MAR 26 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 Artery Jay Malinowski and the Deadcoast, Astral Swans, guests; 8pm; $16 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$20 (day of) Big Al's House of Blues Robbie's Reef Break Wed: Host Rob Taylor with guests every Wed, 7-10pm

Mercury Room Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 New West Hotel Hurtin Horsemen Overtime Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) Red Piano Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Stan Gallant Sherlock Holmes–U of A Stu Bendall Sherlock Holmes–WEM Amy Weymes Starlite Room Islands, guests; 8pm (door); $18 (adv) at Blackbyrd Wunderbar #YEGFLIX Zen Lounge Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

Classical Muttart Hall–Alberta College Edmonton Recital Society: featuring cellist Rachel Mercer (ex-Edmonton) and pianist Angela Park; $35 (adult)/$25 (senior)/$10 (student) at TIX on the Square, door Winspear Centre Tom Mulcair; 7pm

DJs Billiard Club Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm

Brixx Bar Eats and Beats

Blues on Whyte Donald Ray Johnson

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

Brittany's Lounge Jazz evening every Wed; 8-11pm: This week: Jim Head Trio

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

Mercer Tavern Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests New West Hotel Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm;

Duggan's Boundary Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

L.B.'s PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm Leaf bar Tue Open Jam: Trevor Mullen

THE Common The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

VENUEGUIDE Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave All Saints Anglican Cathedral 10035-103 St ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Avenue Theatre 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 "B" Street Bar 11818-111 St Big Al's House of Blues 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 Blind Pig Pub 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 Bohemia 10217-97 St Bourbon Room 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca Brittany's Lounge 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 Brixx Bar 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 The Buckingham 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 Café Haven 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca Café Tiramisu 10750-124 St Caffrey's in the Park 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park

CARROT Coffeehouse 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 Casino Yellowhead 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 Centre for Arts and Communications–MacEwan University 10045-156 St Central Senior Lions Centre 11113-113 St Century Casino 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 Cha Island Tea Co 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 Chicago Joes 9604 -111 Ave Common 9910-109 St Crown And Anchor 15277 Castledowns Rd, 780.472.7696 Daravara 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DOW–Shell Theatre–Ft Sask 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan Duggan's Boundary 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 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, 8882-170 St Festival Place 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 Hilltop Pub 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St Irish Sports Club 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 isbe edmonton 9529 Jasper Ave, 587.521.7788; isbeedmonton.com J+H Pub 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 café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 Kelly's Pub 10156-104 St L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 Leaf bar and grill 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 Legends Sports 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lit Italian Wine Bar 10132104 St Live at Sly's 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 Lizard Lounge 13160-118 Ave McDougall United Church 10025-101 St Mercer Tavern 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 Mercury Room 10575-114 St Muttart Hall Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald Dr

VUEWEEKLY mar 20 – mar 26, 2014

Myer Horowitz Theatre 8900114 St, U of A Naked Cybercafé 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 Newcastle Pub 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 New West Hotel 15025-111 Ave noorish caFé 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2's–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'mailles Irish Pub 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 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 Queen Alexandra Community Hall 10425 University 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 Pub 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235-101 St St Basil’s Cultural Centre

10819-71 Ave Sawmill 3840-76 Ave Set Nightclub Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca Sideliners Pub 11018-127 St Smokehouse BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 Strathcona Community Centre 10139-87 Ave STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St Sugar Foot Ballroom 10545-81 Ave Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 Suzuki Charter School 10720-54 St 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 Centre 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com Yardbird Suite 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 Yesterdays Pub 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

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

COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog

Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd •

780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Enter-

tainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • Danny Browning; Mar 20-22 • Jeff Leeson; Mar 27-29 • Hannibal Thompson; Apr 3-5 • Marvin Krawczyk; Apr 10-12

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 • Jen Kober; until Mar 23 • Chris Tucker; special presentation; Mar 20-23 • Jeff Leeson; Mar 27-29 • Tommy Davidson special presentation: Mar 27-30, $28.95 • Bert Kreisher; Apr 3-5 • Bobby Lee Special Presentation; Apr 10-12 • Daniel Kinno; Apr 16-20 • Andy Hendrickson; Apr 23-27 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

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

MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE • U of A •

Kenny vs. Spenny vs. Canada: Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice an evening of comedy, Q & A, behind the scenes footage and more • Apr 1

Overtime Pub • 4211-106 St • Open mic

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

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Sterling

Scott every Wed, 9pm

Winspear Centre • International Comedy Sensation Danny Bhoy with His New Show dear Epson • Mar 30, 7:30pm • $37.50 and $42.50 Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm Amnesty International Edmonton • 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

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

(South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

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

Canadian Injured Workers Association of Alberta (CIWAA) •

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

Edmonton Nature Club • King’s University 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

Edmonton Stamp Club • Central

Lion’s 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

VOGUING • Pique Dance Centre, 10604-105

Edmonton Ukulele Circle • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5

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

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 • madeleine-sanam.org/en • Program for HIVAID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

Wiccan Assembly • Ritchie Hall, 772798 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@ gmail.com Wild Rose Antique Collectors Society • Delwood Community Hall, 7515

Delwood 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

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

Waskahegan Trail hikes • Each

3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

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

sAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

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

week group plans a 10 km guided hike • Car pool available meeting place to trail • Meet at McDonalds, 14920-87 Ave • Hike the Blackfoot Recreation Area; contact Michele 780.417.6928 • Mar 30

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

LECTURES/Presentations Conservation Caravan Open House–Edmonton • Arts Barns, 10330-84

Ave • Operation Grassland Community: Hors d'oeuvres, introductions (7:30pm); Conservation Caravan and outdoor dinner screening/Q&A (8:15pm); Sweets served and conversation (9pm) • Mar 24, 7:30-9:30pm

Seventies Forever Music Society

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

Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • 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)

Edmonton Water Week • edmonton-

waterweek.wordpress.com • Blue University Project presents • U of A Education Centre, 87 Ave, 113 St: Screening of Gasland II; Mar 18, 7-9pm • U of A Edmonton Clinic Health Academy, L1 150: Discussion about access to water and sanitation around the globe with presentations by the Manavta Project, Engineers Without Borders, and others; Mar 20, 7-9pm; free

EPARCHIAL VENERATION OF THE HOLY SHROUD • St Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic

Society of Edmonton Atheists •

Stanley A. Milner Library, Centennial Rm (bsmt); edmontonatheists.ca; E: info@edmontonatheists.ca; Monthly roundtable • Mon, Apr 7

Songwriters Group • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm Sugar Foot Swing Dance • Sugar

Swing, 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

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave

• 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)

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

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

Guns, "Games," and God; Are films the sermons of our time? • Lendrum Mennonite Church, 11210-59 Ave • Led by Vic Thiessen • Mar 23, 2:30-8:30pm • Preregister: bitly.com/movie-discussions

Queen Elizabeth High School • Vivien Bosley Speaks to Historical Society • Mar 25, 7:30pm March Meat Out • King Edward Park,

Small Hall: Film: Bethanys Story: The Power from Within; Mar 25, 7-9pm

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

SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY OF ALBERTA

• MacEwan University CN Theatre, Rm 5-142, 105 St, 105 Ave • solaralberta.ca • The Solar Energy Society of Alberta presents: Off-Grid Solar Systems–A Solar Installers Forum • Mar 26, 5-7pm (solar drinks); 7-9pm (forum) • Free

This Old Edmonton House Seminars –The 2014 Seminars • Agt

Toastmasters • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw. ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.

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

Building, Fort Edmonton Park: Roofs

And Exteriors: with Peter Caron; Mar 24, 7-9pm; $20; registration #519452 •Edmonton.Ca/ City_government/Edmonton_archives/ThisOld-Edmonton-House-Seminars.Aspx

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

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

EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-

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

PrimeTimers/sage Games • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm St Paul's United Church • 11526-76

105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220103 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

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 •

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, 11762106 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, until 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, trans-identified 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 • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • 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 nonjudgemental 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 SunMon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth dropin: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@

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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

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 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) Edmonton Home and Garden Show • Edmonton Expo Centre • Exhibi-

tion of home and garden design, décor, and renovation • Mar 20-23

For the Love of Winter • TransAlta

Arts Barns • Design Competition and Fashion Show: Competition challenges local fashion designers to create a winter outfit that will inspire us to dress warmly and fashionably • Mar 26-Apr 4 • edmonton.ca/city_government/initiatives_innovation/winter-festivalsevents.aspx

hot chefs, cool bEATS • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • Street food festival, mini film-festival; ending with dancing to music by the Rockin’ Highliners • Mar 29, 6:30-10:30pm • $125 + gst, includes all food and beverage at hotchefs. ca; no minors; proceeds to the High School Culinary Challenge and Edmonton Community Foundation’s Grateful Palate Fund 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/preregister at uofainnovation.wordpress.com; eventbrite.ca/e/in-fair-tickets-10712049027

I'VE OUTGROWN IT SALE • Kenilworth Community Hall, 7104-87 Ave • Hosted by Kenilworth Playschool: children's clothing, toys, books, baby equipment • Mar 22, 10am-2pm

MINBID In Stitches • Coup & Workhall Boutiques, #101/102 10137-104 St • minbidauctions.com • Silent and Live Art Auction: Art and Fashion • Fri, Apr 4, 8-11pm Spring Edmonton Pop Culture Fair • Alberta Aviation Museum, 11410

Kingsway Ave • popculturefair.com • The pop culture fair is a one day pop up market, held in the spring and fall specializing in all things pop culture, Toys, videogames, music and movies • Mar 30, 10am-4:30pm • $7/free (child 10 and under)

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Coming Events

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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Help Wanted

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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Are You Looking for a Great Volunteer Experience? 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. HFH.org

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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 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! Interested or want to learn more? Contact Maura at 780-392-8723 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com 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 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 Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit!Needed for our Long Term Care Residence, weekday morning volunteers for various activities. Especially for assisting with transporting residents to rehab, church services and hairdresser within facility. All volunteers must pass a Police clearance. Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106

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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. 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

Artist to Artist

1st Assistant Director required for a motion picture to work with main director. Action adventure film. 1st assistant director must be willing to travel to occasionally to Jasper National Park (townsite) to assist main director. 1st Assistant director must be able to use the Arriflex film camera. The first assistant director must reside in the Edmonton Area. (or soon will be) For more details, contact Craig at crgsymonds49@gmail.com, or at 1-613-484-7063. (director would like to thank those who have contacted me) 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 Assistant Film Producer required to assist main Film Producer with funding, must reside in Edmonton area only, must have experience with Telefilm Canada funding (as main producer, needs second producer to acquire funds). Must be willing to travel to Jasper National Park to assist producer on location. Female preferred. The project is an action adventure film. Contact Craig at crgsymonds49@gmail.com or 1-613-484-7063 for more information 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/ 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

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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

http://www.emailmeform.com/ builder/form/er27bvY7c0dhM9 0B9dX49 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:

http://visualartsalberta.com/ marking-the-valley/ Deadline for this juried exhibition: May 30th, 2014

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

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Artist to Artist

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 RAW: Natural Born Artists is an indie arts organization for artists, by artists. We focus on spotlighting indie underground talent to the public. It will be featured in Edmonton for the first time this May 2014. If an artists wants to be considered, they can build an artist profile on www.rawartists.org ! Make sure they indicate that they are an Edmonton area artist to be considered for this opportunity in May! Once they show their work in their locale, they are automatically eligible to Showcase in any RAW location across Canada and the US. For additional information please email or call Kaley Bird the Edmonton Showcase Director at 1.780.264.3650. 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 City of Calgary is seeking a professional artist(s) with experience in Community Cultural Development to create public artwork for the newly renovated Ernie Starr Arena. The successful artist(s) will work with The City’s project team to determine the best location(s) for public art at the facility and will then lead the design, development and installation/implementation of the public artwork. Internal, external, permanent and temporary initiatives will all be considered, and must involve the geographic and/or user community in some way. The all-inclusive budget is $40,000 CDN and the submission deadline is Friday, April 4, 2014 at 4pm MST. All questions must be submitted in writing to Dawn Ford at dawn.ford@calgary.ca. 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

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Western Canada Fashion Week: Call for Submissions One of The Works’ contributors, Western Canada Fashion Week, is currently looking for submissions for the following competitions: 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”

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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

edmontonblueswoman@gmail.com

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. 780-462-6291

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Musicians Wanted

Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs. Please call 780-901-7677

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TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): "Thank you, disillusionment," says Alanis Morissette in her song "Thank U." "Thank you, frailty," she continues. "Thank you, nothingness. Thank you, silence." I'd love to hear you express that kind of gratitude in the coming days, Taurus. Please understand that I don't think you will be experiencing a lot of disillusionment, frailty, nothingness and silence. Not at all. What I do suspect is that you will be able to see, more clearly than ever before, how you have been helped and blessed by those states in the past. You will understand how creatively they motivated you to build strength, resourcefulness, willpower and inner beauty.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): The Tibetan mastiff is a large canine species with long golden hair. If you had never seen a lion and were told that this dog was a lion, you might be fooled. And that's exactly what a zoo in Luohe, China did. It tried to pass off a hearty specimen of a Tibetan mastiff as an African lion. Alas, a few clever zoo-goers saw through the charade when the beast started barking. Now I'll ask you, Virgo: is there anything comparable going on in your environment? Are you being asked to believe that a big dog is actually a lion or the metaphorical equivalent?

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): The Google Ngram Viewer is a tool that scans millions of books to map how frequently a particular word is used over the course of time. For instance, it reveals that "impossible" appears only half as often in books published in the 21st century as it did in books from the year 1900. What does this mean? That fantastic and hard-to-achieve prospects are less impossible than they used to be? I don't know, but I can say this with confidence: if you begin fantastic and hard-to-achieve prospects sometime soon, they will be far less impossible than they used to be.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): I bet your support system will soon be abuzz with fizzy mojo and good mischief. Your web of contacts is about to get deeper and feistier and prettier. Pounce, Gemini, pounce! Summon extra clarity and zest as you communicate your vision of what you want. Drum up alluring tricks to attract new allies and inspire your existing allies to assist you better. If all goes as I expect it to, business and pleasure will synergize better than they have in a long time. You will boost your ambitions by socializing, and you will sweeten your social life by plying your ambitions.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): In T S Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock," the narrator seems tormented about the power of his longing. "Do I dare to eat a peach?" he asks. I wonder what he's thinking. Is the peach too sweet, too juicy, too pleasurable for him to handle? Is he in danger of losing his self-control and dignity if he succumbs to the temptation? What's behind his hesitation? In any case, Libra, don't be like Prufrock in the coming weeks. Get your finicky doubts out of the way as you indulge your lust for life with extra vigour and vivacity. Hear what I'm saying? Refrain from agonizing about whether or not you should eat the peach. Just go ahead and eat it.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): During her 98 years on the planet, Barbara Cartland wrote 723 romance novels that together sold a billion copies. What was the secret of her success? Born under the sign of Cancer the Crab, she knew how productive she could be if she was comfortable. Many of her work sessions took place while she reclined on her favourite couch covered with a white fur rug, her feet warmed with a hot water bottle. As her two dogs kept her company, she dictated her stories to her secretary. I hope her formula for success inspires you to expand and refine your own personal formula—and then apply it with zeal during the next eight weeks. What is the ex-

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Born under the sign of Scorpio, Neil Young has been making music professionally for more than 45 years. He has recorded 35 albums and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In early 1969, three of his most famous songs popped out of his fertile imagination on the same day. He was sick with the flu and running a 103-degree fever when he wrote "Cowgirl in the Sand," "Cinnamon Girl," and "Down by the River." I suspect you may soon experience a milder version of this mythic event, Scorpio. At a time when you're not feeling your best, you could create a thing of beauty that will last a long time or initiate a breakthrough that will send ripples far

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1 Casino features 5 Pacific Coast salmon 9 King novel about a rabid dog 13 Feeling regret 15 Group whose O doesn’t stand for “oil” 16 Quite a distance away 17 Commend highly 18 Inbox item 19 Expensive Japanese beef 20 Amount of time before you stop reading inflammatory Web comments? 23 Laughingstock 24 Glitch 25 Cincinnati-to-Detroit dir. 26 $ fractions, for short 29 Did hayfield work 31 Wonder-ful count? 33 Force that I’m certain will pull you back to Earth? 37 “Let the Rabbit Eat ___” (mail-in 1976 cereal contest) 38 Hosp. area for critical cases 39 Reese’s “Legally Blonde” role 40 Food label units that don’t mind waiting around? 45 Get retribution for 46 Sour, as a stomach 47 Icelandic band Sigur ___ 48 7, for 14 and 35: abbr. 50 Microbrewery product 51 Dr. with six Grammys 54 Burp after drinking too many colas? 57 Beloved honey lover 60 Change of address, to a realtor 61 Barracks barker, briefly 62 Neighbor of Hank Hill 63 Risk territory 64 Wrath 65 Several 66 Good, to Giuseppe 67 Word appearing before or after each word in the long theme entries

James 6 Abbr. on a phone dial 7 Castle Grayskull hero 8 “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer 9 Blue Velvet, for one 10 Roswell crasher 11 MMA move 12 Mined set? 14 Comprehensive 21 “To Sir With Love” singer 22 John of the WWE 26 Cook-off food 27 “Her,” “She” or “It” 28 Eye nuisances 29 Confine 30 Record label named for an Asian capital 32 Each’s partner 33 Face-valued, as stocks 34 “Top Chef” network 35 Focus of traffic reports? 36 Holy food? 41 Round toaster brand 42 Tension reliever 43 “I Shot Andy Warhol” star Taylor 44 “Battleship Potemkin” locale 49 Big name in farm equipment 51 Funeral lament 52 Rival of Rafael and Novak 53 January in Juarez 54 Use your jaw 55 Dash and splash 56 Horatio who played Aaron Neville on “SNL” 57 Kissing in public, e.g. 58 Lummox 59 “Nicely done!” ©2014 Jonesin' Crosswords

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1 Moda Center, e.g. 2 Garb for groomsmen 3 Catchers wear them 4 ___-nosed kid 5 1978 debut solo album by Rick

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