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Celebrating a decade of Queer Proms The past 10 years have seen tremendous growth and outreach to queer youth Edmonton's Queer Prom is the prom you wished you had gone to as a teen.

The prom started modestly, about 10 years ago, as a project of the Pride Centre's Youth Understanding Youth program. Its beginnings were so modest, in fact, that the first prom was held in the party room of an apartment building. Since then, the event has grown astronomically: in 2014, 700 youth showed up to a venue that could only fit 500. Never ones to shy away from a challenge, the organizers threw together impromptu drag shows in the parking lot to entertain the people who couldn't get in. Subsequent years have required youth to register for tickets in advance, but the ethos of the prom remains the same: the event should be free and accessible to all teens.

The organizing committee takes that mandate of accessibility quite seriously. Tickets are free of charge,

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and the space is completely physically accessible. The washrooms are designated as "all bodies." There's a chill-out space in case you need to get away from the noise and the bustle for a while. There are volunteers around to do hair and makeup. There's even food.

"A teen's job is to show up someplace, and our job is to make sure this is a night they will r e m e m b e r, " explains Kristy Harcourt, a member of the organizing committee.

Harcourt says. "Certainly that happens, but the prom is about more than that. People can express who they are in terms of their gender expression and what makes them feel right and special."

Accordingly, the dress code is

that every teen on their list is welcome to come.

Many of those same child welfare workers are on hand during the night, along with representatives from a wide range of local agencies.

Agencies are given booth space and stern instructions to "do something fun." And do they ever: members of affirming faith communities bake over 500 cupcakes and host a cupcake decorating station.

Other agencies bring carnival games or entertainment. The point is less for teens to gain knowledge of these agencies than it is for teens to have a good experience with organizations that might be vital to their lives.

We don't want young people to have a sense of scarcity; we want them to have a sense of abundance

The Queer Prom is queerness at its most expansive.

"When people hear 'queer prom' they often think of same-gender couples getting to dance together,"

"fabulous." But it's not just queer kids who are invited: all teens that feel out of place or are marginalized are welcome. The committee works hard to ensure that youth who might not feel welcome, do: they reach out to homeless youth and let child welfare workers know

Fri, May 6 Ages 19 and under only Tickets at pridecentreofedmonton.org "We don't want young people to have a sense of scarcity; we want them to have a sense of abundance," Harcourt explains. "That school, families and adults in their lives can be supportive, and that a bunch of adults really want to throw them a party."

In order to keep the event free, the organizing committee is turning to the wider community for support.

They have set up a FundRazr page (fundrazr.com/campaigns/b16q85): each level is named after feedback they have received from youth. "I kissed my girlfriend" is the most popular so far. They welcome donations of any size but are also asking for good wishes for the attendees: you can post a wish on the crowdfunding site and it will be displayed during the prom.V

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Obama in Havana

Ending the US travel ban to Cuba will bring tourists but not revolution A British journalist compared the huge American delegation (800 – 1200 people) that is accompanying President Barack Obama on his first visit to Havana to Japanese soldiers stumbling out of the jungle to discover that the war ended a generation ago. And the Rolling Stones, who are staging a free concert for half a million people in the Cuban capital on Friday, explained that Obama was their opening act.

The US embassy in Havana has already reopened, but only the US Congress can end the 55-year-old American trade embargo against Cuba.

Under Republican control Congress is not going to do that, so this visit is really just a social call. Indeed, it was scheduled to coincide with spring break in US schools so the Obamas could bring their daughters along.

Yet no journalist watching all this can resist speculating about whether this opening portends great political changes in Cuba, maybe even the eventual end of the long dictatorship of the Castro brothers and the Cuban Communist Party. Least of all me, as I have been speculating about that in public, at intervals, for most of my adult life.

I never went to Cuba during the "heroic" years when the leadership lived in permanent fear of American invasion or subversion, and most Cubans really were ready to fight to defend

the revolution. My first visit was in the mid-1980s, when the bloom was already off the revolutionary rose.

Most of Latin America was living under brutal US-backed military dictatorships at the time, and the Cuban dictatorship seemed to me almost gentle by comparison. It didn't even kill people much. But Cubans, unable to travel and aware that the regime's propaganda usually lied, were in a stroppy mood.

If you spoke even a little Spanish, they unloaded their discontent on you.

So I went home and predicted that the regime, if not on its last legs, was at least in its last decade. This did not come to pass on schedule, but when I next went to Cuba, in 1994, it certainly looked imminent. The collapse of the old Soviet Union had cut off all the subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat despite the American embargo and its own huge inefficiencies.

During the "Special Period in Time of Peace," which lasted through most of the 1990s, nobody starved, but al-

most everybody went hungry and the average Cuban lost nine kilograms of body weight. Social order broke down, with crime rampant and desperate young people openly selling their bodies in the streets.

I brought my wife's parents with me on one of these visits, and my mother-in-law was mugged in central Havana twice in a week. On the second occasion my father-in-law was injured

had been falling to non-violent democratic revolutions with scarcely any resistance in the past few years, so it seemed implausible that this aging, ramshackle dictatorship would last much longer either.

Wrong again. But when Fidel Castro retired after 42 years and handed power to his brother Raúl in 2008, Western embassies in Havana (minus the United States, of course) arranged for various "experts" from their countries to visit Cuba and explain how things were done in a real democracy— which they fully expected that Cuba would shortly become.

I was asked to go along as an alleged expert in media and civil-military affairs, to tell Cuban journalists and military officers how they should operate in a democracy. It was a well-meant but ridiculous initiative, but I went anyway because it gave me unprecedented access at a very interesting time.

And I came back convinced once

I never went to Cuba during the "heroic" years when the leadership lived in permanent fear of American invasion or subversion, and most Cubans really were ready to fight to defend the revolution while resisting the muggers, and I had to bribe a police inspector $100 USD to free him from the police station where he was being held—technically as a witness, but really for ransom—so that I could get him proper medical attention.

So I went home and predicted the imminent collapse of the regime again. Communist regimes in Europe whose people were quite well-fed

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again that a democratic transformation was really imminent, because most of those I was speaking to expected it themselves. Few of them, even in the armed forces, feared for their jobs, and most of them thought that change would be for the better.

But fast forward another eight years, and very little has changed.

Raúl Castro says he will retire in 2018 (when he will be only 86), but a new generation of Communist leaders is already being promoted into key positions.

Up to three million American visitors a year are expected now that the US ban on travel to Cuba has been lifted, which will widen the economic gulf between Cubans with access to dollars and those without, but it is unlikely to trigger a revolution. The surge of incoming money will magnify corruption at every level of the regime, but that won't cause its overthrow either.

In fact, I now think that the regime will probably survive until and unless the US Congress finally ends the embargo and exposes Cuba to the full force of international capitalism. Of course, I have been wrong in the past.V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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FRONT FEATURE // FASHION

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Suiting up A law grad seeks to change the local market for women's suits

lothes make the man," as Mark Twain famously stated.

But what about the woman?

So easily regarded as simply frivolous, fashion—especially women's fashion—is often the quiet battleground of competing social, political and economic forces. Setting aside all the (very worthy) debates raging around dress-code double standards, the negative health impacts of high heels and racist overtones in lipstick shades, one particular aspect of women's fashion has been largely overlooked: the suit.

As corporate professions have been historically male-dominated for centuries, there exists a vast and healthy marketplace for men's suits at all price levels. But for women, finding a well-fitting professional suit is a challenge, especially at lower price levels. In light of this disparity, a University of Alberta law graduate has launched Austen Adler, a company providing made-to-measure suits for women.

"The idea for it came in my very first week in law school," Jacob Marchel says. "As a guy, the market has existed for 100 years ... there's nothing that I can't necessarily buy as a guy, for professional clothes.

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So I spent a day [shopping] and I had no problem. I went to Moore's, I spent $1000, and I was good for three years for my clothing.

"But I remember coming back, and I was sitting in the library and a friend of mine, she came and she looked exasperated and she just said, 'I've spent an entire weekend looking for one outfit.' And as a guy—not to gender stereotype— but that idea just completely blew me away.

How do you spend an entire weekend looking for an outfit, that you didn't actually end up finding?"

After his friend explained the very different experience women often have when shopping for clothes (especially professional clothes), Marchel joked that it seemed like a good business opportunity. He didn't actually start working on the concept for another two years,

until a confluence of events led to the fruition of Austen Adler.

For anyone working in various corporate professions, a suit is mandatory. Dress codes aside, image is an intrinsic part of a company's brand and hiring managers won't consider those who don't fit that image. Accessing affordable, well-fitting suits is a neces-

professional clothing—plus, most recent graduates and people just entering a profession likely aren't starting out with gold-plated salaries (if they ever make one).

"I want this to be the first suit they invest in," Marchel says. "Having a good suit is a part of your armoury of how you get a good job and how you network and all that.

I don't want to break the bank while they're still in school or just a recent grad."

Having a good suit is a part of your armoury of how you get a good job and how you network and all that. I don't want to break the bank while they're still in school or just a recent grad. sary step prior to entering certain fields—and while it might be tempting to think that such white collar professionals make buckets of cash and can therefore afford to shop at high-end clothing stores or hire a tailor, that's a vast oversimplification. There exists a spectrum of careers that require one to wear

A u s t e n Adler's first line focuses on five different styles, two classic and three modern. The suits, a blend of wool, cashmere, viscose and a bit of elasticity for stretch, are $350 each (including shipping), contain enough hidden fabric to be easily tailored up or down one-and-a-half sizes, and are currently available in four colours.

They are made overseas in a little

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town that Marchel discovered in his research, and while he prefers not to disclose details about the suits' provenance for competitive reasons, he assures that he did his homework in sourcing out a sustainable place in compliance with all labour safety laws.

"That was really important to me, because my interest is actually environmental law—sustainability and responsibility is a big thing," Marchel says, noting that he has visited the manufacturer personally. "So I made it a point that they have all the government regulation they need and that it's clean. ... What I'm hoping to do is, once I have some exclusivity clauses signed in with the contract, I'm going to be trying to make it as transparent as possible so that people could actually see pictures of where [the suits are] made."

Part of Austen Adler's mandate is to reframe the fashion industry, particularly at the local level.

"I want to create a fashion network in Edmonton," Marchel says.

He has partnered with Mariam Elamy to design the first line, but also wants to reach out to design students to offer them a chance

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to make some money on a commission and build their résumé while they're still in school.

"Even though we kind of put the designs together with the manufacturer, the goal is we're actually trying to crowdsource fashion designs," he says. "Instead of sort of the elitist, hiring a design team."

Marchel also hopes to simply make Austen Adler suits work for all women.

"Our new line, I'm trying to get really ethnically diverse modelling," he explains. "I was actually inspired by some of the controversy that MAC had, with its makeup: there was some darker-skinned African models who responded that the lipsticks didn't look as good on them because of their complexion. I want to make sure I have colours that look good on whatever your skin tone, whatever your body form."

As Edmonton's foremost historic and cultural hub, Old Strathcona faces a unique pressure in our rapidly growing city. Long recognized for its historic character and low-rise heritage buildings, the area is also ripe for densification amid a populace with a growing appetite for core living. While high-rise proposals have traditionally gone nowhere, the latest presents a strong case for a new way of thinking about growth in Old Strathcona.

The development in question is The Mezzo, a 16-storey commercial and residential tower one block south of Whyte Avenue. It's facing the usual competition from the area's advocacy organizations, but it seems to have struck a positive chord with many residents and business owners—a rarity for projects that so flagrantly flout the zoning restrictions. Its appeal mostly rests on unprecedented attention to both style and substance, with contextually appropriate design, welcoming streetlevel interaction and community integration that developers typically disregard.

One of The Mezzo's stiffest op-

ponents is the Old Strathcona Foundation (OSF), long-standing advocates for maintaining the area's historic character. In the face of development pressure, last year the OSF and the City of Edmonton made a progressive leap forward by committing to UNESCO's Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) principles. But HUL emphasizes a holistic approach to preservation, balancing the needs of both the built and human environments, and valuing the needs of the people as much as the buildings among them. HUL acknowledges demand for new development and considers success based on cultural and community integration rather than physical fit. This is a far cry from the OSF's myopic fight to simply limit building heights.

The Mezzo could set a strong precedent for appropriate Old Strathcona development, providing not just warm bodies but jolts to the area's culture, commerce and community. And if Old Strathcona is going to thrive, it will be in spite of the OSF's unilateral advocacy that has for too long held building heights and population levels stagnant.V

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he farm-to-table trend has exploded in the Edmonton region lately. It seems as if every new restaurant or food truck is advertising the use, at least to some degree, of local ingredients. For some it is virtually their entire focus; others choose to showcase a particular local producer or product. Whatever the approach, menus and chalkboards referencing specific farms are popping up all over the city.

But how authentic are these claims— and what does "local" really mean? Is promoting the use of regional ingredients simply strategic marketing aimed at capitalizing on a growing interest in where our food comes from, or is it something more?

One restaurant that describes itself as "locally immersed" is Whyte Avenue eatery Ampersand 27. The restaurant's website lists several local farms and suppliers; it also promotes its partnerships with Mealshare and several Edmonton artisans. Given this branding, one might expect to be able to cut into a succulent steak from some quaint farm just outside city limits, or enjoy some greens harvested by a local SPIN (small plot intensive) farmer. But as chef and partner Nathin Bye explains, this might not always be the case.

"If the beef comes from Alberta, it's local; if it comes from Ontario, it's not so much local," he says. "If it comes from Texas, that's definitely not local. Whether the farmer has 500 head of cattle or 50 000 head of cattle, I don't think the farmer takes any less pride in what they're doing."

Bye acknowledges that Ampersand 27 doens't always use the suppliers listed on its website for all its dishes; your striploin might be more likely to come from one of the large beef processors in southern Alberta via food distribution giant Sysco than from one of the restaurant's advertised partners. As for the discrepancy between the suppliers advertised on Ampersand's website and the actual source of its beef, Bye admits it may be misleading.

"We may have used their product for a special or a particular point in time— that doesn't mean we are currently using it as of right now, but they are partners that we work with," he explains.

For Blair Lebsack and Caitlin Fulton, using hyper-local ingredients at their restaurant, RGE RD, is all about building community.

"We didn't want to just open a restaurant that served food," Lebsack says. "We wanted to help build community. We want people to know our restaurant is about connecting people to the farmer."

All of RGE RD's ingredients are from producers in central Alberta, with the exception of some fish that the restaurant is forced to source from neighbouring

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provinces due to the closing of commercial fisheries here. Lebsack, who can casually list over a dozen local farmers by name, explains that RGE RD's newly opened butchery features house made sausages, terrines and pâtés all made with meat raised on local farms.

Chef Jason Oliver of Farm to Fork Eatery, one of the region's newest restaurants, reaches a bit further for his ingredients but echoed Lebsack's comments.

"We support the local farmer—we go to the guy that makes his earning by working the field and when I pick up the phone, I'm speaking to him instead of somebody at the other end of a call line," Oliver says. "All our proteins come from Alberta, but we branch out to Saskatchewan for some grains and legumes, and go into BC for fruits, berries and some wines."

"By supplying [restaurants] directly, I'm able to connect with the consumer in a way that I wouldn't be able to otherwise," Jeff Nonay says, owner of Lakeside Dairy.

Lakeside provides several local restaurants with beef and appreciates those relationships.

When it comes to authenticating just how local your food really is, both Lebsack and Oliver have similar advice: don't be shy to ask about the story behind your food.

"We get lots of questions of our servers all the time," Lebsack explains. "When someone asks where's your cow from, we can walk them into the cooler and show them our Simmental-Angus cross from Nature's Green Acres and tell them exactly when it was butchered and how many days it's been aging. We know where every single animal and every single vegetable comes from."

The same is true at Farm to Fork.

"Our servers can tell you more than the feature—they can tell you the story," Oliver explains.

It is one thing to list the name of a local farm on a website, menu or wall in the restaurant, but if your server isn't capable of telling you more than the name of the farm, chances are your $38 "local" tenderloin may have come out of a Sysco box. While some may consider beef from anywhere in Alberta to be local, others may be looking closer to home. There's often an unspoken assumption that "local" also implies to "small family farm"— but that's certainly not always the case.

Your dining companions may roll their eyes the next time you ask your server to tell you about the farm where your food was raised or grown, but if eating truly local is important to you, it may be the only way you can know for sure.

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The passing of a beloved local bartender is a reminder of the industry's toll I was out for a morning run when I glanced at my phone. It was silently exploding with notifications.

To my shock and anguish, my best friend had died alone and had been found by another friend.

That was March 2012, and my friend was noted Vancouver bartender Derek Vanderheide.

Almost exactly four years later, my phone rings again in the early morning.

Victoria bartender Shawn Soole is calling; I assume he wants to talk business.

Instead, he stuns me with the news that Canada's bartending teddy-bear poet, Brendan Brewster, has died in the night.

In every city, bartenders can easily call to mind a compatriot they've lost.

There's no level of success that can insulate you from the repercussions of bartending's hard-living culture. In 2015, we lost Sasha Petraske (age 42) of the venerated Milk & Honey bar in New York. He created many of the standards of service we clung to in the early years of the craft-cocktail resurgence.

"Bartenders are misanthropes with a sickening need to please people," Brendan Brewster once said to a colleague: words that were remembered and memorialized after his passing.

When I hired Brendan to move to Edmonton to work at The Manor Bistro in January 2013, he listed his greatest personal asset as the ability "to create regulars." And he was right: over the past

couple of weeks, many people in many different cities have stated the desire to sit at his bar one last time.

There's a reason people visit bartenders specifically, not just bars. My previous career was in a hospital; I was attracted to hospitality for its culture, history, art and community. At its best, hospitality reflects the goals I held when I worked in the hospital: to improve the quality of life of all I encounter.

We wear it like a badge of honour. The long days. Working in pain, dehydrated and hungry. Taking care of others while doing little for ourselves. Partying hard to self-medicate.

Surviving in the bartending profession is not simply about having a few less drinks or avoiding party drugs. It's about establishing goals for ourselves.

Practicing yoga (or other exercise), having friends outside of the industry (who don't party every night), keeping a morning schedule, engaging in hobbies: all of these are important aspects of life to maintain when you're working in a bar.

Notable bartenders have pushed for such life changes. Dushan Zaric, owner of Employees Only in New York and partner in The 86 Co distillery, is also now a yoga teacher. He runs yoga classes for bartenders at the annual Tales of the Cocktail (TotC) bar conference in New Orleans.

"Bartending is a craft, and as a craft, one of the things you need to ensure is

that you're in a physical, intellectual and emotional place where you can pass it along," Zaric told bartender and writer Clair McLafferty at ToTC. He says yoga gives him the balance to accomplish that.

I love our community and call many bartenders close friends. I believe the goal should be to enhance the quality of life for the people we serve—and ourselves. So, as we take a moment to reflect on the lost promise of Brendan's future, let's also hold the mirror up to our own lives.V Tarquin Melnyk is an Edmonton native who has been tending bar in numerous cities for the past six years. Named bartender of the year at the 2013 Alberta Cup, he is a published cocktail writer and photographer, and a partner in justcocktails.org.

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PHOTOGRAPHY // NAIT

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PHOTOGRAPHY NAIT's Photographic Technology program readies students for the industry

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he onset of the Internet has allowed for the global distribution of the how-to video. With one click, we can learn how to make paella, contour and highlight like a makeup pro, or even use chopsticks. That popularity translated to more than 100 million hours of how-to videos being watched in North America from January 2015 to May 2015, according to a 2015 Google report. But amid that is a growing market for how-to tutorials on photography, which runs the gamut of basic camera knowledge to editing photos with Adobe Photoshop. (YouTube renders 7 240 000 search results for photography tutorial videos). While this makes it possible for anyone to become a photographer by simply watching some YouTube videos, formal photography education is still in high demand.

"We got application pressures of five to one: five people want any one of our seats," says Reg Westly, program chair of NAIT's Photographic Technology and Graphic Communications programs. The Photographic Technology program only takes in 26 students each September.

Within NAIT's two-year photography program, students learn to handle both the technical and esthetic skills required to create a high-quality image in portrait, wedding, commercial, photojournalism and fine art fields. Students also learn about the business side of the industry— something that is often absent in online tutorials, Westly says, noting the business component is crucial for a photographer who is serious in pursing photography at a professional level. NAIT offers five courses that teach the skills required to run a freelance photography business: sales, contracts, copyright and taxes.

"Part of the business aspect is the marketing and the promotion component itself," Westly says. "It's basically educating the customer and explaining to them where the advantages are of hiring somebody that has been professionally trained.

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that makes the difference."

Though Westly doesn't see anything wrong with online photography training, he acknowledges that that route can be time-consuming compared to NAIT's two-year program, which is meant to fast-track the student into a career.

"The thing is that when a student is coming into our program, one of the questions I purposely ask them is: 'Do you need to be professionally trained to be a photographer?' The answer to that is no," he explains.

"But the difference is that the 10 years or so someone is studying [photography] on YouTube or what they can find on the Internet, we can give what would be 10 years of [informal] training in two [years].

We can fast-track them into their career and get them going."

The NAIT photography program is built with consideration of the industry, keeping in mind the fluctuating climate of economic downturn. (He says that the only niche to be hit from the downturn is commercial photography—shooting the oil rigs—but social media has put a demand on portraiture and headshots.) It does this by doing a self-review every year and consulting an advisory council—which is a collection of photographers from all across Alberta—on the changes that must be made in order for its students to get the most up-to-date education. In addition, NAIT does a large-scale evaluation every five years where a complete redesign and reworking of the courses are made, Westly explains.

"We take [our students] from this is the basics of how to use your camera all the way through to the ability to see light and create light in whatever format they need, edit the images and completely process the image to what they need—and actually printing it as well," he says.

"So all our students, by the time they are finished with us, they have learned how to create prints, how to map the prints and how to mount the prints and get them ready to be framed. We don't leave them as just snap and upload. It's the whole process from the start [of taking a photo] to something they can hold in their hands."

JASMINE SALAZAR

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PHOTOGRAPHY // FOOD

The Polaroid challenge Food photography ain't so easy with instant film

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hether you snap and filter an image every weekend brunch or ardently refuse to partake in such things, pictures of the food we eat have become an unavoidable part of social media. You encounter more food imagery than any generation ever has.

We also take for granted how easy the cameras in our pockets make the process, from filters to lighting control to having a virtually unlimited collection of photos. But it wasn't always that way, and so in the spirit of the older, more difficult days, we decided to challenge our resident in-house photographer (and, uh, managing editor) Meaghan Baxter to dabble in the world of food imagery, but with a burdensome twist: she was tasked with using a Polaroid camera to try and capture something that looked halfway edible (then, for comparison's sake, a digital). Not that anyone's been previously forced to try and take photos of food with a Polaroid, but its carefree, quick-developing nature seems a reasonable surrogate for Instagram.

There was also originally a second component to this story, wherein a photographer went shooting a concert with both a film and digital cameras. Which happened—check out Josh Marcellin's photos of the Crooked Brothers' recent set at vueweekly.com—but a certain bumbling arts editor fucked everything up by exposing the film while taking it out of the camera, so the general comparative purpose of the exercise was destroyed. Sorry, Josh!

Anyway: Meaghan was a good sport about dealing with a difficult task, as was The Next Act, which provided us with a Class Act burger as our subject.

You can compare the two pictures here—the best of her Polaroid and digital endeavours, respectively—as well as read Meaghan's thoughts on the process.

// Meaghan Baxter

VUE WEEKLY: I guess to start off:

what do you see as some of the elements of "good" food photography?

MEAGHAN BAXTER: Food photography is much more difficult than it looks. The goal is to make the dish look appetizing, which can be tricky to do since things melt, change colour, congeal, etc the longer they sit out. Most professional food photography is done in a studio with very controlled lighting, and the ability to cook duplicates of the dish in order for the final shot to look appealing. On-location food photography can be more challenging since you can't always cart a studio's-worth of lighting to a restaurant—we shot this at The Next Act on a fairly busy Friday afternoon, so extra lighting wasn't an option. Restaurant

lighting isn't always ideal, and any colour cast from the ambient light can make even the most appetizing plate look gross on film. I used window light to mitigate this as much as possible.

VW: What was the experience like, trying to do that with a Polariod camera? How did the Polaroid help or hinder that?

MB: As you can see, there's a huge difference in terms of the exposure and overall colour between the Polaroid and digital shots. The Polaroid required flash, which blew out the highlights on the egg, and it was difficult to get the same sharp detail in the elements of the dish. Overall, the Polaroid was a hindrance rather than a help.

VW: You only had eight shots to work with (that film's expensive!), so what sort of considerations went into each shot? How much would you alter/rethink between shots?

MB: I wanted to shoot at a similar angle, with the same lighting and composition. There were a couple of different settings on the camera, and since the composition didn't vary greatly between shots I tried different options out to see how that affected the photos. One thing to note is that the film I used—manufactured by The Impossible Project, and the only Polaroid film I could get my hands on—takes much longer to develop than traditional Polaroid film does.

When the exposure first came out of the camera, it remained a dark blue colour for a few minutes, which had me thinking I'd loaded it incorrectly.

After doing a little reading, I discovered this particular film takes 30 to 40 minutes to develop, so I had no idea what my shots looked like until after I'd used them all.

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VW: In comparison: what felt different about using your digital? What sort of controls were present there and absent on the Polaroid?

MB: The main thing that felt better using my digital camera was obviously the ability to see right away if I needed to make any adjustments. I felt like I had much more control over the situation (I could fine-tune things like exposure and colour balance) and wasn't shooting blind. It was also easier to compose the shot, since I wasn't limited to a square crop like I was with the Polaroid. I also had the option of different lens focal lengths on my digital camera.

VW: Would you ever do this again?

MB: I'd give it another try, mostly to

see if I can do better. I'd only used Polaroid once before this and know what I would do differently next time.

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PREVUE // POETRY Sat, Mar 26 (9 pm) Bohemia, $15

// Mat Simpson Photography

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Poetry Brothel turns readings into a more intimate experience

he Edmonton Poetry Brothel is not your typical open-mic night.

There are no confessional outpourings, no snapping fingers. Instead, audience members are treated to intimate, one-on-one performances with local poets.

"People go [to brothels] to find human connection," says event organizer Morgan Smith. "And sometimes that's purely through sex.

And sometimes they want to talk.

And I think the same thing could be said about the [poetry] brothel.

Bravado [Cavalier, one of the performers] describes the one-on-one poetry readings as lap dances with words. And I think that's a really apt description. You are purchasing a performance, but it's a performance about you.

"There's sort of a pleasure you get

of being part of a communal group and taking part in a show, or going to a hockey game and cheering at the same time everybody else is," Smith continues. "But there's a reason you pay extra for the lap dance.

There's a reason you pay extra for that dancer to make every moment about you—and make the performance about what you want to see and what you want to feel. And I

PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

Three Minute Miracle

// Courtesy of the artist and dc3 Art Projects

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t was the temperature drop, when Amalie Atkins first moved to Saskatoon from Calgary, that led her to Three Minute Miracle. Or at least to the creation of some of the strange and wondrous denizens that populate the visual artist's film, anyway: masks

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made by Atkins for very different intentions eventually crossed into her artistic practice.

"All the characters started out as windchill masks," she explains "I would make these masks, and test them—I was making them sort of

as a business—so I'd walk from the studio to home. And during the walk, it started to feel more like a performance than just a walk, because of how people were reacting to these animal heads."

She'd moved to Saskatoon, after

think that's something that is really unique to the poetry brothel."

Originating in New York, the poetry brothel has since spread to 10 cities across the world. Edmonton is its only Canadian chapter so far. When she introduced the event to this city in 2014, it was important for Smith (who works as the brothel's Madame, overseeing the literary trysts) that the performance not just copy

all, to pursue full-time work in the arts: an ACAD grad, Atkins' practice goes from photography and film to installation and textile. The masks eventually connected to another film idea Atkins had been working on, of a girl with a cake. And now, housed within a homemade fair tent (with a sugar-like floor and boots you can put on over your footwear) within dc3 Art Projects, the 13-minute, 16mm film unfolds like a wondrously strange parade of images, characters and song.

It's sharing gallery space with two other exhibitions: Cindy Baker's All Things To All Men (And Women) featuring a catalogue's worth of underwear hung over the walls, and Ruth Cuthand's mixed-media Don't Breathe, Don't Drink, which appears to be a collection of water-filled jars,until closer inspection twists that assumption.

On its own, since its 2012 debut, Three Minute Miracle has done some periodic touring: most recently, it was in New York City as part of the

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New York's, but provide a locally flavoured twist on the concept.

"The New York Poetry Brothel was inspired by the salons in New Orleans at the turn of the century, which were places where people would come together and share artwork and then occasionally go and enjoy the company of a fine professional lady at the end of the night," she explains. "Whereas the Edmonton brothel has become its own strange, gritty little beast: it feels more like a speakeasy, like a dive bar. Some of the characters that populate our brothel tend to be a little grittier, less polished than what you might see in a highclass brothel."

With names like Bravado Cavalier, Chevy Dart and Loco Coyote, the Edmonton poets are a bit tattier and more blue collar than their upscale counterparts. Audience members (or "patrons," as Smith calls them) will get to see a full lineup at the start of the evening, and then they can pair off with whichever poet catches their eye. Patrons can request poems with different emotional themes, have their fortunes read, or even have a unique poem written for them on demand. If people are nervous about the intensity of a private performance, they can also dress up in costume and play their own character, so that they can "become a denizen of the brothel."

"Once you pop your poetry brothel cherry, you realize that the artists are only as scary as you want them to be," Smith says. "And getting that intimate reading is worth going outside of your comfort zone, to have an experience that you really can't have anywhere else."

BRUCE CINNAMON

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Until Sat, Apr 16 dc3 Art Projects invite-only Moving Image art fair. A rewarding payoff for a film that took two winters to finish, for the same reasons that first inspired its masks.

"The first winter my camera was always dying in the cold," Atkins says. "I had to work out, get it adapted so it would function in the cold."

Not that Atkins is worried about taking the necessary time to fully form her films: finding the connections between ideas isn't something that can be hurried. "[A film] doesn't come in the format of a script and a storyboard and the making—it's really the making that's instigating the story," she says. "And as I'm making, I'm also drawing, and taking notes about possible storylines. It's very flexible, for quite a long time: things very slowly fall into place, but they have to fall into the right place. That takes time. " PAUL BLINOV

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PREVUE // THEATRE

The Realistic Joneses

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he premise of Will Eno's The Realistic Joneses is quite simple.

Two couples—Bob and Jennifer, John and Pony, all Joneses—become new next-door neighbours and learn about each other's lives. Deliberately unremarkable, the show spends a lot of its time on the superficial level of casual social interactions, making it difficult to describe what exactly the play is "about" or what happens.

"I think, in some ways, why it's hard to talk about the play is [Eno] writes cryptically and the characters are quite oblique on purpose," director Jim Guedo says. "Because even though it's one of his—pun intended—'realistic' plays, he doesn't want it to be a TV movie of the week about marriage and illness and dealing with disease. He wanted to sidestep all those landmines."

There aren't any plot pyrotechnics as the four Joneses are shuffled around in various configurations, and instead the play leans into the dark comedy of their lives.

"I once described it like a Seinfeld episode directed by David Lynch," Guedo says. "[Eno] was also influenced

by Chekhov. Like in Chekhov's plays, nothing happens but everything happens. Because it looks like it's just normal day-to-day life but people are going through extraordinary things under the surface."

Thu, Mar 24 – Sun, Apr 3 (8 pm; 2 pm Sunday matinees) Directed by Jim Guedo The Roxy on Gateway (formerly C103), $18 – $30

It's been a test of the actors' skills to embody the emotions that lurk beneath their façades, even as their characters try to pretend that everything's fine.

"The challenge—in a great way— of working on the material is [that] it goes against the grain of what people's instincts are," Guedo says. "'Oh,' they think, 'We need to theatricalize this. We need to dramatize this.' But the music of the play is in a different key."

Describing it as more of an understated Trent Reznor soundtrack than a sweeping John Williams score, Guedo thinks that the ordinary struggles of The Realistic Joneses allows everyone to recognize themselves in this story.

"This play is like a stealth bomber," Guedo says. "It seems like nothing's happening. It seems like they're unsympathetic. It seems like they're all just weird and eccentric. But then you realize, well no. That's my brother.

That's my uncle. That's my aunt. Or, god forbid, that's me."

BRUCE CINNAMON

BRUCE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

WHAT’S ON AT UALBERTA? Studio Theatre:

The Kaufman Kabaret

By Hannah Moscovitch World Premiere

New play borne of the history of birth control in Canada

Mar 24 to Apr 2 @ 7:30 pm

$5 preview Wed, Mar 23 @ 7:30 pm Opening night Thurs, Mar 24 @ 7:30 pm No performance Sun, Mar 27 2 for 1 Mon, Mar 28 @ 7:30 pm Matinee Thurs, Mar 31 @ 12:30 pm Timms Centre for the Arts

ualberta.ca/artshows

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The Kaufman Kabaret

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n Canada, birth control was made widely available and then legalized by a man, which is a bit of an irony," explains Kathleen Weiss, director of The Kaufman Kabaret. "His name was A R Kaufman, and he was a boot manufacturer."

Yup. This article is about the legalization of birth control in Canada.

// Ed Ellis

Now that I have your attention, let's rewind a bit.

A professor in the University of Alberta's drama department, Weiss was given the opportunity to commission a play, thanks to a generous donation from U of A alumnus William Campbell. In her search for a playwright, Weiss knew she wanted

a Canadian who was willing to tackle a Canadian theme, and who would connect with her young students.

Enter Hannah Moscovitch.

Described by CBC Radio as "the wunderkind of Canadian theatre," Moscovitch's résumé is overflowing with accolades, including being the first Canadian playwright to receive the $150 000 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, an honour administered by Yale University.

When Weiss decided on Moscovitch, the playwright came to meet the class she'd be writing for.

"She asked them what they would love to do on stage," Weiss says. "And one of the things they said they wanted to do on stage is have sex. It was kind of a joke."

As it turns out, the history of birth control in Canada was a subject

Son of France

HESE NOVELS WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE," caps and all, reads the title of Todd Babiak's Kijiji ad. Not the usual sort of pitch you'd find on the classifieds website—in as much as anything is a "normal" Kijiji ad, anyway—but the sort of bold promotional declaration the Edmonton author's made into something of a stock-in-trade: ad aside (which goes on to make a lovely argument on the merits of novels, not just his own), he filmed a The Shining-inspired book trailer for his just-out Son of France and paired its official launch with a screening of Eastern Promises. If you post a picture of yourself with both Son of France and its precursor, Come Barbarians, he will even write you

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gal. Eventually, one of the nurses he employed was arrested for her work providing birth control and Kaufman had a choice: pay her fine or push the issue towards a trial.

I'll leave the twists, turns and titillating details to The Kaufman Kabaret. Built around the theatrics of a cabaret-style performance, Weiss warns that it's pretty racy with plenty of adult content, including Kaufman testing these new devices on his wife.

"It has everything," Weiss says. "It's theatrical, it's fun, it has some great comedy in it, but yet it has real depth and resonance."

KATHLEEN BELL

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PREVUE // THEATRE

PREVUE // BOOK

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Moscovitch was interested in, so they pursued the story of A R Kaufman. "[Kaufman] had all these incredibly poor employees," Weiss says. "He became very concerned about how desperately miserable these people were and decided that part of the problem was they kept having too many children.

"He did all this research and came up with the idea that what his workers needed was some kind of birth prevention device," she continues.

"So then he went to visit Margaret Sanger, who was a big birth control advocate in the United States, to find out what was available, and she gave him a pessary and a condom."

He took both back to Canada and opened clinics, where they started distributing these birth prevention devices either free or at a very low cost. Of course, this was all still ille-

Thu, Mar 24 – Sat, Apr 2 (7:30 pm) Directed by Kathleen Weiss Timms Centre for the Arts, $12 – $25

a poem—the author's adept at intriguing self-promotions, even if they don't always pan out as expected. Babiak also penned an open-letter to the CEO of a hummus company, half-joking, looking for booktour sponsorship.

He got a reply, though one that kind of missed his intent.

"They seemed to think I wanted the CEO to come to my book events," Babiak says.

"They wanted to let me down, and let me know he's pretty busy, and he probably can't come on [the] book tour."

Not that Son of France—or Babiak, around these parts—needs much introduction. Come Barbarians earned plenty of accolades, including being named one of the Globe & Mail's best books of 2013, and Son returns to the world of Christopher Kruse: haunted by the ghosts and events of the first novel, Kruse is hired to find the killer of a young politician while a dark, tangled web of politics and violence draws taut around him.

Converse to the darkness swirling around his protagonist, Babiak's an affable conversation, the kind of guy who gifts you a tiny vat of hummus at an interview. Son and

Now available

By Todd Babiak HarperCollins, 288 pp, $21.99 Barbarians make up his fifth and sixth novels, and Babiak notes that together they've shifted his thinking on writing: In studying the crime genre—while aiming to have it retain a certain literary emphasis—he drew his focus to making pageturner narratives.

"I was thinking about plot, character, story and making sure that my mom stays up all night reading the book," he says. "I studied the crime genre: I read everything that John le Carré had written, I read the Graham Greene books, and I really wanted to try something contemporary that had that feeling."

In addition, writing a sequel for the first time—getting to continue a narrative beyond the confines of a single tome—proved a fulfilling endeavour, even as Babiak went back and forth with his editor on how much exposition of Barbarians was necessary to include.

"It's both fun and also terrifying," Babiak notes, of revisiting a world.

"If they liked the first one, maybe they wouldn't like the second one.

Maybe I won't do it justice, and maybe I'm wrong: maybe I do have nothing to say. Maybe he's not interesting. But I did find it was great; in Come Barbarians I had to slow down with all the back story of Christopher Kruze and who he is. Because it is a fusion of crime and literary, I did want it to have literary pleasure too, which meant really filling out who he is and why he came to be Christopher Kruze.

In the second one, I didn't have to do that at all—just go."

PAUL BLINOV

PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

A Picasso

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nly Picasso could get away with talking to a Nazi that way: or so we are led to believe in A Picasso, Shadow Theatre's remount of its own 2013 Fringe hit.

Audience members who caught the show back then can expect to find a similarly enjoyable and well-done theatre experience in this production.

Julien Arnold reprises his role as Pablo Picasso, who has been summoned to a stark basement office in the Gestapo's headquarters in Nazi-era Paris.

Opposite him is Alana Hawley in the role of Picasso's interrogator, Miss Fischer (played by Shannon Blanchet during the Fringe run). Picasso is being forced to authenticate one of three paintings that have fallen into the Nazis' possession. We'll skip the specifics to avoid any spoilers, but art-history buffs will know immediately what's at stake here.

Arnold plays Picasso with the same bombastic swagger as last time, successfully capturing the artist's famous chauvinism and unchecked arrogance, balanced by disarming passion and earnestness. Opposite him, Hawley approaches the role of Miss Fischer in more of an understated manner than Blanchet's delivery, if memory serves correctly. There's less obvious heat and sexual tension this time around— though that's still there in some capacity; after all, Picasso was a notorious womanizer.

The set is probably the biggest change from the Fringe show, which was un-

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// Ryan Parker

Until Sun, Apr 3 (7:30 pm; 2 pm Sunday matinees) Directed by John Hudson Backstage Theatre, $18 – $27 derstandably sparse. Here there are a few more details: textured walls and a room cluttered with anonymous paintings turned away from the audience's curious eyes. Jeffrey Hatcher's script takes centre stage, anyway; it doesn't need or want anything flashy in the visuals.

That script gives Picasso the lion's share of the best lines, and Arnold tears into them with appropriate vigour: knocking down each set-up with zingers about his contemporaries, cleverly coded shots at the Nazi regime and crisp verdicts on art in general. The interrogation device is a crafty way to make Picasso's long-winded (albeit captivating) speeches seem natural, and the intimate set-up is a skillful way to deliver a lot of facts and events from history and art without coming off like a lecture.

Unfolding quickly over the course of about 75 minutes, A Picasso is the kind of show that uses colourful characters to render palatable a painful, often unbearable period of history. Though it wouldn't be much of a chore to sit through another act, the ending arrives precisely when it should, and prevents the piece from being dragged down under the weight of history.

MEL PRIESTLEY

MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Dance EBDA ballroom dance • Lions Seniors Recreational Centre, 11113-113 St • 780.893.6828 • Apr 2, 8pm Flamenco Dance Classes (Beginner or Advanced) • Dance Code Studio, 10575-115 St NW #204 • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail.com • Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm

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

FILM Cinema at the Centre • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free • Schedule: The second mother (Mar 30)

Edmonton Film Society • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum.ca/movies • This winter film series will feature the theme: Love is in the Air • Schedule: The Enchanted Cottage (Apr 4) • All films begin at 8pm • $6 (regular), $5 (seniors 65+/students), $30 (all eight films)

From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm metro • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • Auteurs: Hitchcock/Truffaut (Apr 1-3); Psycho (Apr 2, 9pm); Jules and Jim (Apr 3, 3:30pm) • Monty Python-A-Thon: And Now for Something Completely Different (Mar 24, 9:30pm); Quote-A-Long Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Mar 26, 9:30pm); Life of Brian (Mar 27, 9:30pm); The Meaning of Life (Mar 28, 9:30pm) • Music Doc: Stretch & Bobbito: Radio that Changed Lives (Apr 5, 7pm) • Quentinssential: Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Apr 4, 7pm); Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Apr 4, 9pm) • Reel Family Cinema: Batman: The Movie (Mar 26, 4:30pm; Mar 30, 9:30pm) • Science in the Cinema: Amour (Mar 31, 6:30pm) Hitchcock/Truffaut:

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Fabric: Charrette Roulette; Nov 21-Apr 10 • The Blur in Between: artwork by an international roster of artists from Chile, the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, as well as Canada; Jan 23-May 8 • The Flood: artwork

by Sean Caulfield; Feb 6-Aug 14 • Out of the Woods: artwork by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven; Feb 13-Apr 17 • 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc; Mar 5-Jul 3 • Little Cree Women (Sisters, Secrets & Stories): artwork by Brittney Bear Hat & Richelle Bear Hat; Mar 5-Jul 3 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In : Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA)

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19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Overburden: artwork by Jessica Plattner; Mar 3-Apr 30; Reception: Apr 2, 2:30-5pm • Show Off: artwork by Nathalie Quagliotto; Feb 10-Apr 9 • High Energy 21: The Future Museum: artwork by St. Albert high schools; May 5-31; Opening reception: May 5, 6-8:30pm • Art Ventures: Wonderful Weaving (Apr 16), 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: Encaustic painting (Apr 21), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Whimsical weaving (Apr 16); for 3-5 yrs; preregister; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

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BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Trusting Intuition: artwork by John King; Mar 11-25 • New Works: artwork by Jim Visser; Apr 8-21; Artist reception: Apr 8, 6-9pm, Apr 9, 1-4pm Cafe Blackbird • 9640-142 St • 780.451.8890 • cafeblackbird.ca • Artwork by Sharon Malayko; through Mar

Creative Practices Institute • 10149-122 St, 780.863.4040 •

Drawing Room • 1025397 St • 780.760.7284 • admin@ drawingroomedmonton.com • HNW; throughout Mar FAb Gallery • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • Bachelor of Design Graduate Show 2016; Mar 29-Apr 9, Opening reception: Mar 31, 7pm

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Urban Life: artwork by Fraser Brinsmead; Apr 9-21

Women's Art Museum of Canada • La Cité Francophone 2nd Pavillon, #200, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury (91 St) • 780.803.2016 • info@wamsoc.ca • wamsoc. ca • Recollections: artwork by Sophia Podryhula-Shaw; Feb 27-Mar 31 • Bookmarks: variety show; Apr 2-May 14; Opening reception: Apr 2, 2-4pm

Literary Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Audreys Bewitching Books presents - An Enchantingly Magical Day; Apr 2, 12-4pm; Free; All ages

THE CARROT'S POETRY NIGHT • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • It's all about the poetry readings • Mar 31, 7:30-9pm Creative Connections • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ca • Learn all about the perks and pitfalls of indie publishing • Apr 14, 7-9pm • Free (register online sclibrary.ca, or 780.410.8600)

Musée Héritage Museum • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • The True Cost of Oil: Canada's Oil Sands and the Last Great Forest: A photographic exhibition by Garth Lenz; Feb 4-Apr 17

Edmonton Poetry Brothel: REVIVAL

Paint Spot • 10032-81 Ave •

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

780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: Stop Making Sense: staff show with Shelly Banks, Kim Fjordbotten, Sarah Jackson, Mic Ortiz, Laura Rezko, Michelle Stregger, Brent Wasyk, Shelley Wilson, Oksana Zhelisko • Artisan Nook: The Elegant Line: traditional Iranian decorative painting by Fatima Rahimi • Both exhibits run Feb 23-Apr 7

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Artwork by Phil Darrah; Mar 18-Apr 5 Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/ eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Marlena Wyman: Illuminating the Diary of Alda Dale Randall; Feb 2-Aug 20

dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Three Minute Miracle: artwork by Amalie Atkins Mar 10-Apr 16 • All Things to All Men (and Women): artwork by Cindy Baker; Mar 10-Apr 16 • Don't Breathe, Don't Drink: artwork by Ruth Cuthand; Mar 17-Apr 16

galLeries + Museums

10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Feature Gallery: X3: artwork by Alberta Potters' Association, Contextural | Fibre Arts Cooperative and the Nina Haggerty Centre; Apr 2-Jul 2 • What Grows in the Ditch: artwork by Donna Brunner; Feb 13-Mar 29 • Discovery Gallery: Inventing Narratives: artwork

by Corinne Cowell; Mar 26-Apr 30; Artist reception: Apr 2, 2-4pm • Discovery Gallery: Get a Handle on It: artwork by Mynthia McDaniel; Mar 26-Apr 30; Artist reception: Apr 2, 2-4pm

Lando Gallery • 103, 10310-124 St •

sNAP Gallery • Society of North-

Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave,

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY •

28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

scottgallery.com • Time Depth: artwork by Dick Der and Edward Epp; Mar 5-26

10150-104 St • michael@egs.ca • earthsgeneralstore.eventbrite.com • Screenings of documentaries with subjects such as: climate change, animal welfare, plant based diets, and much more. Attendees will then discuss the film • Every Sat, 7-9pm • Free (register at EventBrite)

• 590 Broadmoor Blvd • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Art Society Spring Show & Sale; Apr 15-17; Opening reception: Apr 15, 7-9pm

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy

creativepracticesinstitute.com • A House is a Home: Artwork by Emily Geen; Mar 9-Apr 16

thefrontgallery.com • Inner Perceptions, Outer Reflections: artwork by Blake Ward; Apr 2-19

A.J. Ottewell Community Centre

• Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Variety–the Spice of Life: featuring artwork by Sheila Bice, Elaine Butler, Linda Ensley, Rita Mittlesteadt, Joy Schlaut and Jean Weekes; Mar 3-31

Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St •

Saturday Documentary Screenings • Earth's General Store Downtown,

• 9534-87 St • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts. ca • acuarts.ca • Youth Night Out; Apr 9-23, 6-8pm; $40

Jeff Allen Art Gallery (JAAG)

• Bohemia, 10217-97 St • facebook.com/ YEGPoetryBrothel • Drink in the grit and grime of words from back alleys and glass bottoms spouted from the lips of the disowned children of Dionysus • Mar 26, 9pm • $15 (door, cash only)

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

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican

ern Alberta Print­- Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Ingrid Ledent; Feb 3-Apr 14

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

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY •

Shane Koyczan • Arden Theatre, 5

35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Featured Gallery: At Water's Edge: artwork by Joyce Boyer; Mar 22-Apr 16; Opening reception: Apr 2, 1-3pm • Fireplace Room: Shaun Peters; through Mar

Strathcona County Museum & Archives • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Making Their Mark: the Land Surveyor's Role in the Peaceful and Orderly Development of Alberta; Jan 4-Apr 30

Telus World of Science • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • The International Exhibition Of Sherlock Holmes; Mar 25-Sep 5

University of Alberta Hospital • Main floor, 8440-112 St • Mountain High: artwork by Donna Miller; Mar 8-Apr 4

U of A Museums Galleries at Enterprise square • Main floor, 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • China through the Lens of John Thomson (1868-1872): photos by John Thomson; Mar 18-Jul 31 • The Mactaggart Art Collection: Beyond the Lens: artwork by John Thomson; Mar 18-Jul 31 • Show Me Something I Don't Know: images, photographs and travelogues created by John Thomson; Mar 18-Jul 31

VAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Draw More Income: A mail-art exhibition by snail mail, email and fax where artists complete a drawing or artwork on a template that include an ornate frame and the words "draw more income"; Mar 3-May 28 VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Femme Noir: by Larissa Hauk and Marina Alekseeva; Mar 22-Apr 29

West End Gallery • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • This

St. Anne St, St. Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre.com • Shane Koyczan has emerged as a spoken-word virtuoso who dares to speak to people in their own voice • Apr 2, 7:30pm • $32

Shumka Presents The Poetry of KOBZAR: The Works of Taras Shevchenko…the Voice of Edmonton Poets • ACUA Gallery & Artisan Boutique, 9534-87 St • 780.975.0864 • shumka.com • Four Edmonton poets, including a former poet laureate, read the works of Taras Shevchenko, specifically the pieces inspiring Shumka's newest creation, KOBZAR • Apr 2, 7-9pm • $10

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com

Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets' Haven Reading Series: Most Mon (except holidays), 7pm, Sep-Mar; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

Theatre 11 O'Clock Number • The Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave (North Side of the ATB Financial Arts Barns) • grindstonetheatre. ca • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment that unveils scenes, songs and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Every Fri, starting Sep 25-Jun 25, 11pm • $15 (online, at the door)

A Picasso • Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • By Jeffrey Hatcher. Paris has fallen to Nazi invaders and armed forces occupy a city known for its art and liberty. Under the threat of imprisonment Pablo Picasso is summoned by a calculating cultural attaché and tasked with identifying which of a collection of confiscated paintings are genuine Picassos. But is Picasso

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telling? A thrilling and hilarious cat-and-mouse drama about the arts of politics, culture and sex • Mar 16-Apr 3

Chimprov • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre's longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun

CIRQUE ALFONSE Presents TIMBER! • Arden Theatre, 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre.com • In this family friendly event, a versatile group of acrobats, dancers and musicians plunge the audience deep into the heart of FrenchCanadian folklore by reviving a wacky world of lumberjacks and loggers • Mar 29, 7:30pm • $38 (adults), $35 (children)

Die-Nasty • The Backstage Theatre at the ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-83 Ave • communications@varsconatheatre.com • die-nasty.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs every Mon, 7:30-9:30pm • Until May 30 • $14 or $9 with a $30 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com Heathers the Musical • Theatre Lab, Centre for the Arts and Communications, 10045-156 St • A darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High – the Heathers. However, before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously sexy new kid J.D. • Mar 30-Apr 9 Improv Open Jam • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • grindstonetheatreyeg@gmail.com • grindstonetheatre.ca/ openjam.html • A space to share, swap games and ideas. For all levels • Last Tue every month until Jun 28, 7-9:30pm • Free Kaufman Kabaret • Timms Centre For The Arts, University of Alberta, 87 Ave and 112 St • Hannah Moscovitch, one of Canada's hottest playwrights, has been commissioned to create a brand-new play for the University of Alberta's BFA class of 2016. Studio Theatre patrons will be the first audiences to witness The Kaufman Kabaret, the story of A R Kaufman, the first entrepreneur to introduce birth-control devices to married workingclass women in Canada • Mar 23-Apr 2 • Sponsored by Vue Weekly LAST RESORT • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • The Last Resort has it all: comedy, mystery, music and murder. Nick Galeazzo has just testified against the mob in New York City and has escaped the big city with undercover FBI Agent Miller to hide out in the last place anyone would look for him—a secluded, run-down resort in Saskatchewan • Feb 9-Apr 3 Passion Of Narcisse Mondoux • La Cité Francophone, 8627, Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury (91 St) • northernlighttheatre. com • Narcisse Mondoux, retired Master Plumber, sets out to woo the recently widowed Laurencienne Robichaud—at her husband's funeral. Thinking he knows the secret to her heart, he soon discovers that she is a liberated woman who intends to fulfill her secret ambition by herself • Mar 31-Apr 9 • Sponsored by Vue Weekly Michael Jackson Is: Back From the Future • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, West Edmonton Mall, Phase II West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St • jubilations.ca • Amazing adventures with Doc and Marty, set to the timeless tunes of the legendary King of Pop – Michael Jackson and other hits from the '80s • Feb 7-Apr 10

Realistic Joneses • The Roxy on Gateway, 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork. ca • Presented as part of the Roxy Performance Series. Bob and Jennifer meet their new neighbors, John and Pony. These two suburban couples have even more in common than their shared last names. As their relationships begin to intertwine, the Joneses must decide between their idyllic fantasies and their imperfect realities • Mar 24-Apr 3, 8pm (2pm on Sun)

Social Scene • Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • grindstonetheatreyeg@gmail.com • grindstonetheatre.ca/scenestudy.html • Fellow theatre lovers share excerpts of plays that they have been reading • First Mon of every month, 6-8pm; until Jun 6 • Free TheatreSports • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • SepJun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

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REVUE // DOCUMENTARY

FILM

FILM EDITOR: PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

FLOWER IN THE SUN Janis: Little Girl Blue explores the complexities of Joplin's work

if you're familiar with Joplin but the names of those bands don't ring a bell, this too tells you something about Joplin the businesswoman. Joplin, rightly, understood that what she had to offer—arrestingly personal, wildly dynamic vocal performances that could at any moment detour into emotional spoken-word tangents—required that she be in the spotlight. (Though, had she lived longer, one can only guess at the more sophisticated, fully collaborative situations she may have entered into.) For Joplin, success and stardom were all about contact. Talent was important, she once stated, but when it comes to making it big, "the deciding factor is ambition." And one's degree of ambition, for Joplin, was equal to one's desire for love.

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his latest documentary from director Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil, West of Memphis) delves into the life of Janis Joplin, the voracious Texas fireball with the astonishing voice who burned through an impressive number of collaborators, lovers and psychedelic rhythm-and-blues operettas in her experience-saturated 27 years, which

came crashing to an end via an overdose in October 1970.

Addiction, rejection and sorrow certainly play decisive roles in Joplin's biography, but Janis: Little Girl Blue is, thankfully, not content to contribute to the simplistic heroine-on-heroin trajectory. Joplin was no mere singing savant but a shrewd artist in full control

of her talent: her live performances were the last part of her life to suffer compromise due to drug and alcohol abuse. Joplin was also in more control of her career than might be apparent to the casual listener, something attested to by surviving members of Big Brother and the Holding Company as well as the Kozmic Blues Band. And

Little Girl Blue is a valuable film in that it gets us thinking about such questions, moving past hagiography to explore the complexities of Joplin's work and the experiences that informed it: being mercilessly bullied as a kid; hitchhiking through Northern Brazil; collecting lovers of both genders, among them the Grateful Dead's Ron "Pigpen" McKernan and, it is suggested, Dick Cavett. (There is, alas, no mention of Leonard Cohen, though his "Chelsea Hotel No 2," purportedly about a dalliance with Joplin, eloquently remembers both Joplin's open-hearted promiscuity and the difficulties she experienced as a female singer who did not meet established standards of prettiness: " ... clenching your fists for

Fri, Mar 25 – Thu, Mar 31 Directed by Amy Berg Metro Cinema at the Garneau  the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty/ You fixed yourself, you said, Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music.")

It's only disappointing that Little Girl Blue follows the token template of tidily arranged interviews and archival materials currently employed by dozens of fashionable music documentaries. But those archival materials, the filmed performances most of all, are stunning, and seeing the glint in the eyes of say, Kris Kristofferson, when he recalls hearing Joplin's rendition of his "Me and Bobby McGee," is lovely.

Berg's one exceptional idea here is to have Joplin's correspondence provide the film with its structural scaffolding, and, more importantly, to have that correspondence read by Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power. Though many will point out many striking similarities between Joplin and Amy Winehouse, there is to me no sturdier contemporary analogue for Joplin's persona as a singer than Marshall—an analogue that is much more powerful because, despite her own difficulties with addiction and, I'm guessing, other mental health issues, Marshall has somehow outlived Joplin by 15 years and counting. Marshall's survival and continuation as a vital, ever-changing artist assures us that the archetype of the wounded woman blues singer driven to an early grave need not be adhered to with such morbid fidelity.

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REVUE // DYSTOPIA

Allegiant

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h, Divergent series. It feels like I've been growing up with you for years now. Or, at least, I've been badly aged by you. As for you actually maturing, well, Allegiant is a fancy-ass word for "loyal" and you're like man's allegiant best

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friend, though still stuck at the puppy-dog stage—mooching, lolling about, seeming so lovable and cute, but mostly just chasing your own tail, round and round, barking through the same old motions.

And so Tris Prior (Shailene Wood-

ley) frees brother Caleb (Ansel Elgort) and leads her beloved Four (Theo James) and her other friends/ followers out of civil war-riven Chicago and into the wilderness, where, verily, they happen upon a cool-looking, high-tech compound

whose adult leader, David (Jeff Daniels) can be trusted ... or can he?

Looking pretty much the same fresh-faced age as in Divergent and Insurgent, the actors here seem reemergent—cryogenically frozen, then thawed out, warmed up and set loose for yet another YA-dystopia teen-building exercise. (One sequence tastefully and pointlessly undresses Tris—it plays like a superstylized educational short promoting decontamination showers, shot by a fashion designer.) By now, this fluffy, sci-fi-ishy saga seems like one overly elaborate, epic-length subliminal ad for your local paintball or laser-tag course. Mind you, conspiracy theorists could reasonably see all the Rambo-style action—grapple hookand machine-assisted rappelling up a wall, using mini-drones in armed raids, flying a pod-like craft, UFCwannabe Four beating up fistfuls of baddies at a time in confined spaces—and wonder if Allegiant isn't a two-hour recruitment-campaign for the military-industrial complex.

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David's surveillance is left as little more than a slightly sinister video game, while the series' echoes of Hitler's Fatherland continue to hollowly reverberate here: clearing out ghetto-like encampments; an organized resistance movement; eugenics experiments; gassing people. Peter, perpetually side-switching—and role-reducing Miles Teller to scattershot wisecracking—has become an annoying, cheap script-contrivance. But then there's just so much protracted staring, purposeful striding, gruff talking, smooching by Tris and Four, and predictable tale-twisting here ... the Divergent series is a moviemaking-dystopia—formulafiction transferred to the big screen via computer-program plotting.

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Behind bars

Starred Up drops directly into the fray of a violent British prison

Year after year, in that strange, uncertain flight from the B-list to the Hollywood hive, this or that actor's said to be swarming his or her way among the honeyed crowd, golden at last. In 2014, after starring in the Irish Troubles thriller '71 and in Angelina Jolie's wartime epic Unbroken, the buzz hummed in the UK that this was Jack O'Connell's time. The working-class, Derby-born O'Connell had mostly been in TV series (including cop-show The Bill and teen-drama Skins, after playing loose-cannon skinhead Pukey in Shane Meadows' This is England) for nearly a decade before his arresting turn in David Mackenzie's eighth feature, Starred Up (2013).

The prison drama, shot in one narrow, constricted space after another, is all about containment, and what can barely be contained is the smoldering rage of Eric Love (O'Connell), a young offender so eager to "kick off" that he's been "starred up"—moved up, two years early, to an adult prison.

We enter the jail right alongside Eric, deemed "single cell, high-risk," watching as the guards process him—he strips down and squats so they can check, with a long-handled mirror, that he hasn't keistered anything—

and he goes through door after door, metal-lattice grille after metal-lattice grille barring and barrier-ing the way.

But once he's in his cell (which looks to be about 5' x 8'), he cannily goes to work, soldering together a makeshift razor-knife, just in case, hiding it up in the light fixture.

O'Connell's physicality as an actor—coiled intensity, searing stares, brooding fury, sudden violence—is blazingly showcased here. And it always feels as if we're caught up in among resentments, flare-ups, even long-running relationships of convenience. (It's not even clear at first that Neville [Ben Mendelsohn] is Eric's estranged father, in custody since before Eric was put in care as a young boy.) All this midst-of-theaction feel is largely because the script, by Jonathan Asser—distilled from his 12 years as a voluntary therapist at HM Prison Wandsworth, the UK's biggest jail—offers little context or excuse, just dropping us into the fray. There are the briefest of silent interludes, dreamy and plangent, where the sunlight comes in through the high window as Eric moves about his cell.

Another father figure is therapist Oliver Baumer (Rupert Friend), who tries to get Eric, snarly and seething, to sit down with his group.

They happen upon each other as guards are trying to get Eric under control—he's managed to get a grip, with his teeth, on one guard's delicate bits. This is a brutalize-orbe-brutalized world; encounters bristle with suspicion and edginess.

(The only glaring cliché is a brutal, colluding warden.) Racial tensions, sexual slagging-off and male territorialism snake their way about the jail's metal stairs, in and out of the cramped cells, their doors clanging shut. And all the volcanic volatility's only inflamed by Neville, eyeing Eric's chumminess with his fellow therapy-group members.

The final image here is a pointed one—a metal revolving door, leading back into the slammer, spins round, round, round until it comes to a creaky, tinny-sounding halt. In Starred Up, prison is no rehab centre for violent men or depressurization chamber for male rage—it's more like a giant chafing dish, watched over by heat lamps, its meaty contents kept stewing and simmering. V

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SNOWZONE // LOCAL

SNOW ZONE

EDITOR: JASMINE SALAZAR JASMINE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

// Magda Piwowarczyk

S

Rabbit Hill expands adaptive skiing program

ince the early 1980s, disabled skiers and snowboarders in Edmonton have been able to experience the unique thrill of sliding down snowcovered slopes, thanks to the Canadian Association for Disabled Skiing's Edmonton division.

From its home base at Rabbit Hill, just west of the city, CADS has given thousands of people a helping hand, enabling those who may otherwise not have the opportunity to ski or snowboard. While the program has grown to become a vital part of the Edmonton ski scene, the actual physical space the club operates out of has remained unchanged for decades.

Money raised in the past was largely put towards training volunteers and purchasing equipment needed for adaptive skiing.

"The trailer we currently reside in is a 1965 Atco trailer: 50 feet long and 10 feet wide, and it serves as our clubhouse [and] equipment storage room," explains Dale Loyer, president of CADS Edmonton. "As the club has grown, and the amount of equipment available has grown, we'd simply run out of space. We discussed various options with Rabbit Hill, like bringing in another trailer or taking on a piece of their lodge. We eventually decided to start fundraising to see just how much money can we raise and what would a new building cost us."

Fundraising took on many forms including noodle-and-sausage sales, golf tournaments, selling entertainment books, silent auctions and a casino. The provincial government also kicked in funding through Alberta Culture and Tourism's Community Facility Enhancement Program.

Once the fundraising for a new building started, plans began to expand, Loyer says.

"When we started looking at this about 10 years ago, it was just a simple garage package," he expalins. "And

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then as we fundraised we realized that we have a real foothold here; we could probably fundraise enough to put up a building that is something substantial and fit our needs for the long term."

Eventually they settled for a 1500 square foot, one-storey facility with a deck running the entire length of the building. As far as usable space, it will be about four times the size of the current building.

Once the ground is dry enough this spring, construction of the $135 000 facility will begin, starting with piles being drilled and pouring a foundation.

"The next thing for us is furnishing the new building and setting it up right for the ski club," Loyer says. "So there is still fundraising going on for that portion."

While the building will be for CADS use, consultations had to made with Rabbit Hill to determine the exact location of the facility on Rabbit Hill's property, Loyer explains.

"From the parking lot, the CADS building will be the very first one you come across even before you see [the Rabbit Hill] lodge. They've given us a prime location. It gives us easy access to the rope tow and chair lift.

Our deck will have front-row seating to watch people come down the hill."

Because of its prominent location, the building had to be the right fit for the entire resort.

"Part of the negotiations with Rabbit Hill was ensuring that the building fit in with their alpine esthetic," Loyer says. "They gave us a glimpse of their plans for a new daylodge in the future, so the exterior was designed to match the direction that they are going. That adds up to extra cost as well, but rightfully so [as] it should fit in with what they have planned."

With a bigger building to operate out of starting next winter, CADS

Edmonton is already looking at how it can expand its offerings and best utilize the facility. This past winter, CADS had 60 students and 100 volunteers, which took part in an eight-week program held on Monday nights from January to early March.

That program, along with filling requests from school groups and other local hills for instructors and adaptive equipment throughout the winter, has been the club's standard operating schedule for years.

Loyer notes that getting even more people involved and making the equipment available outside of just Monday nights is the organization's priority.

"We want our program to be more accessible to the skiing public, so if there was a member of the disabled community or an adaptive instructor that had the proper training and wanted to use the equipment on a weekend, we would like to be able to open up our equipment and building to them," he says. "Our plan is to staff the building on the weekends so anyone from the disabled community could drop in and ski or snowboard if they wanted to and access the adaptive equipment."

Another aspect of expanding its offerings is to make the CADS Rabbit Hill location a centre for instructor training, not only for the Capital region but for the entire northern part of the province. Neighbouring ski hills will be invited to come to Edmonton for specialized instruction on adaptive skiing and teaching techniques.

The new facility at Rabbit Hill will be a major change for CADS Edmonton, and it comes at a time when the national body of CADS is itself on the verge of major changes.

A partnership was struck earlier this year between the Canadian Ski Instructors' Association (CSIA) and the various associations represent-

ing adaptive alpine snow sports throughout Canada—of which CADS is the largest member. The agreement is to explore common initiatives related to instructor education, training and certification.

Ozzie Sawicki, program director for CADS Alberta, says CADS divisions across the country are assessing the information on the new partnerships to see how it will work with their volunteer groups.

"Each province has a bit of a different volunteer structure. Some work more through ski schools in BC and utilize a ski-school model," Sawicki says. "In Alberta we are very strongly volunteer-based."

One of the concerns is the amount of training and information that may be required through the new partnership.

"It's a significant change in volume.

In the past there was an expectation to learn what was needed to work with different impairments," Sawicki

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continues. "Now that material has become quite a bit more detailed. The question for ourselves right now is wanting to understand what is the cost element, and a fear for us is potentially losing a number of volunteers due to the high cost of having to do a number of modules."

Sawicki would like to see the provincial CADS program aim for a provincewide outreach in which people from all areas of Alberta have the same opportunities to take part in a higher level of competition, if they wish.

"We are developing what we are calling Slide and Ride camps for every zone in the province next year," he says. "The camps are designed to have experienced instructors and coaches to work with people who want to do things like fun races, and instructors can take certification modules at the camps as well."

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Though temperatures have been rising in recent weeks, great snow conditions can be found at the major ski resorts. As the warm weather continues, prices for lift tickets and accommodations are dropping: in Jasper you can get a room and a lift ticket to Marmot Basin for as little as $105 to $150 per night. Some resorts, such as Sawridge Inn, Mountain Park Lodges, Mount Robson Inn and Maligne Lodge have breakfast included in their rates. Lake Louise is offering a spring pass that goes for $400 (or less, depending on your age), which gets you on the slopes every day until May 8—fingers crossed the snow stays until then. If you're planning for five or more days on the slopes, this pass pays off in a hurry. I wish I lived closer to Lake Louise for that price. If you have some vacation dollars stashed—and the American destination is looking a little pricey—consider a ski vacation up on the hill in the Lodge at Sunshine Village. For $1000 to $1200 you get five nights, including lift tickets, four two-hour lessons and nightly celebratory receptions. If you're not an accomplished skier or boarder, this would be one heck of a way to improve your game.

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The ski-out at Sunshine Village is nice to take down at the end of the day, but riding up on a fat bike sounds like a serious effort to me. On Friday, April 1, the inaugural Sunshine Grind will take place at Sunshine Village. Dual or solo teams are encouraged to enter. Starting at the parking lot, the rise over the first 3200 metres averages around 11 degrees, and the next 2200 metres are a little flatter at about 6.6 degrees. There aren't many flats, so this will be a whole lot of work.

Good thing the race ends at Mad Trapper's Saloon, where the refreshments will be flowing.

On a less work and more fun note, Snowchella is coming to Sunshine Village this spring. Starting on the weekend of April 16, live music will be on the slopes every Saturday and Sunday. You can expect the following musicians in order: Rustic Brother Band, New Moon, Middle Coast, Tim Hus, Scenic Route to Alaska and Michael Bernard Fitzgerald. The lineup looks pretty good—expect the atmosphere in the beer gardens to be fantastic. V

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Necessary Evil lets hell take the shape of corporate office culture

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just checked with my boss, and although he's an ass, he said I could take this call."

Randy Brososky says it in a certain deadpan tone—after all, he works for himself, running a digital marketing and communications agency.

But the idea of a bad boss remains present in his mind: the usual office hierarchy is where he's set the pilot

of Necessary Evil, a comedy web series in which hell takes the shape of corporate business culture, and follows a few beleaguered souls trapped within it.

"I wanted to create a very accessible story, a story that rings a little too familiar," he says. "I don't want hell to be a place of lakes of fire, where you're thrown into them

POPCULTURE HAPPENINGS Only Yesterday / Fri, Mar 25 – Tue, Mar 29 Metro Cinema is showcasing another Studio Ghibli classic that's just been released in North America, written and directed by Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata. Released in 1991, Only Yesterday was seen as a progressive film, exploring realistic dramas written for adults—a genre traditionally not seen in animated subjects. The film follows unmarried career woman Taeko—voiced by Daisy Ridley from Star Wars: The Force Awakens—who travels to visit her sister's family. As her vacation progresses, she flashes back to her childhood and wonders if her stress-filled adult life is what her younger self would have wanted. (Metro Cinema at the Garneau)

Charity Scotch Testing / Sat, Mar 26 (6:30 pm) We've learned from Nerd Nite that drinking and presentations go together quite well—but what about scotch tasting and comics? That theory will be tested as two teams of comic superheroes will be facing off alongside a drink selection pitting Iron Man, Black Widow and Batman against Captain America, Sharon Carter (Agent 13) and Superman. Attendees will be matching each hero to their preferred beverage while collecting six custom-made superhero trading cards. (Happy Harbor, $50)

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for torment or you're whipped or you're flailed. I want the monotony of some of the things we've already built for ourselves in the real world that are hellish to be what hell is defined by."

Recruiting Hell, now joining the pilot episode online, is the second instalment in Necessary Evil: it finds the office looking for new

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employees, and follows the marketing team dispatched to make its recruitment video. In an economy like this, at least somewhere's hiring, right?

It's an idea that's been simmering in Brososky's head for a long time now. Years ago, with a comedy troupe The Wombats, he toured Fringe Festivals with a show called God: An Unauthorized Biography.

Since then, he'd been considering trying to revisit the idea, but on the sinner side of things.

"So toying with the idea of evil, and what is evil, and more importantly, why is evil?" Brososky offers.

"One of the main atheist challenges to theology is the problem of evil, which is, if you have a benevolent, omnipotent god, why does he let people suffer? So I'd been thinking, OK, why is evil necessary?"

As far as storytelling method goes, a web series seemed ideal: not only has the quality of film equipment gone up, generally speaking, but the range is effectively limitless.

"With film, you can reach a much wider audience," he says. "Once it's out there you can keep propagating and sharing, whereas if you people don't come to see the live show they don't get to see it. I wanted that permanence for this concept, and I wanted to reach a larger audience—being a marketing person in digital media, I'm also interested in the fact that we're getting stories in our pockets. How do you reach more people? If we've all got a story-consumption device in their pockets, why not get on it? Go

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where the people are."

Both of the currently finished portions of Necessary Evil—both online—were made and funded through STORYHIVE, the funding program that's gained profile in the last few years. Helping see emergent filmmakers' ideas for web series, music videos and shorts through to completion via funding that gets distributed partly through audience vote. Which Brososky's found a valuable resource as he continues to develop the world of Necessary Evil, searching for resources to continue the series.

"It's filling in a gap," Brososky says, of STORYHIVE. "When I got out of college, trying to shoot a film was stupidly expensive, because the gear was expensive and it was really, really ambitious, trying to do your own thing. And with some friends we tried to do some of our own things, and they were way too ambitious for us, and they never got finished. [...] And so to have a good experience and a learning experience, you need to be able to bring in some people who have some experience, or find some mentorship or whatnot. That has both time barriers, it has some financial barriers, it has accessibility barriers. STORYHIVE is removing a bunch of those barriers."

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Metric's Jimmy Shaw on new sonic territory and the next album

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nce a band finds its sound, it can be tempting to rest on what works, that magic formula that continues to satisfy fans years later. Of course, experimenting beyond that reach can be a double-edged sword that draws equal parts intrigue and ire from those who have remained faithful to an artist.

To that end, Metric's latest album, Pagans in Vegas, is a testament to a band that doesn't pander to what's expected in order to placate—quite the opposite, actually. The Canadian act has spent the better part of 15 years solidifying its collective identity as synth-rock darlings, its previous albums calling to mind anthems like "Help I'm Alive," "Monster Hospital," "Stadium Love," "Gimme Sympathy" and "Youth Without Youth," but Pagans—while still easily identifiable as Metric at its core—added a new dimension to the band's already colourful sonic palette.

"Our impetus going into it was: let's just let this music be what this music is, as opposed to something that we've done in the past, you know?" says guitarist Jimmy Shaw while in—where else?—Vegas. "It felt very much like Fantasies and Synthetica were sort of like brother-sister records, and we didn't want a third kid: we wanted a whole other thing.

It gave us confidence to have songs without drums or without guitars— just go full into whatever we were feeling at the time, which is what we ended up doing."

Indeed, the guitar chords that existed in abundance on Metric's previous two records are far less discernible on Pagans, giving way to keyboardand-synth-focused instrumentation—the lead single, "The Shade," is a prime example and offered an accurate preview of what fans were in for this time around. Shaw notes that he was increasingly drawn to synths and found himself moving further away from "rock 'n' roll bar chords" in favour of stronger melody lines and single-note licks. But how does this shift impact Metric's live show?

"It hasn't really, weirdly," Shaw says emphatically. "Even stuff that was based around a live band playing on record, it still goes through a moment of adaptation to getting it into what we're going to do onstage, and this stuff was the same thing. When we play 'Cascades' now, there's a lot of synthesizers going on, but Joules [Scott-Key] is still playing the drums, Josh [Winstead] is still playing bass for half the song, I'm still playing guitar for half the song. Generally these things are still on the record, but it's still very much the song."

He happens to be explaining this while the infamous High Roller is in sight—the biggest ferris wheel he's ever seen, at that—which he uses to further illustrate his point.

"It's like the records are the little pods on the ferris wheel that go all the way around; they're like the extremities of ideas, whereas the live show is the hub in the middle," Shaw

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says. "It all kind of comes back into the live show, and that show is really the essence of the band. It's the four people there onstage. It's something we've never really done on record, have it just be the straight essence of the band. It would have been much easier to do in 1971, when there were no other options. But now there's so many options, and records are so rarely done like that, that it's almost like a gimmick to go into the studio, turn on all the microphones and just play all your songs. ... So they ended up being these ideas and conceptual pieces of which you take parts of and bring it back to the thing, which is the stage."

The divergent nature of Pagans could be attributed to the fact that when Shaw and frontwoman Emily Haines began writing new material, it wasn't necessarily with a new album in mind. The band had planned to take much some time off after touring Synthetica, but the pair soon began writing songs separately (Haines in Nicaragua, Shaw in Toronto).

While writing apart isn't necessarily new for Haines and Shaw, he notes that they were both executing much more complete, cohesive ideas than they had in the past.

"A lot of the stuff I wrote that ended up on Pagans was during this process where I was just going into the studio everyday—it was mostly winter in Toronto, and there's not a whole hell of a lot to do—and so I would just get up in the morning, go into

the studio, make a coffee and just do something for the sake of it, because it's fun," Shaw explains. "I was convinced I wasn't writing for Metric.

I didn't think I was writing at all; I was just fucking around in the studio, you know? But I made myself come up with complete ideas on a daily basis and then go back and attempt to finish them early on. ... Just a complete, three-and-a-half-minute idea and then put it in a folder, put it in a vault and listen to it later."

Shaw notes there's an inherent pressure when he and Haines get together to write—someone travelled to be there or there's a time limit—but the ability to flesh out fully formed ideas independent of one another meant that when they did meet up they had two very distinct sides to their work.

Rather than "bending the material" and having it all coalesce into one record, Shaw and Haines decided to make two albums. There's no release date for the second one yet (the album's working title is LP7), but the upside of Metric being an independent band working under its own label (Metric Music International) means its got the freedom to see it through on its own terms.

"We recorded the album last summer while on tour with Imagine Dragons, but we were so busy, and it was a classic Metric thing where we probably bit off more than we could chew," Shaw says with a soft laugh, noting that when the band wrapped the tour the release date for Pagans

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was only a month away, which meant being slammed with promo and press—leaving little time to give a yet another new album any thought.

"We didn't even really get a chance to listen to what we'd done in the summer until almost Christmas, when we had the space of mind to sit down in the studio and listen with some sort of objective view on what we'd done."

Listening back to the tracks made the band realize the album was nowhere near finished, Shaw recalls, but he adds that there was a positive flip-side to that in the sense that there was also the opportunity to make the record so much more than originally planned.

"I think what this one might end up being is a combination of everything we've done, whereas Pagans was a new thing that we've never done," Shaw explains. "At this point everything from parts of Live It Out— which is the most raw, sort of punk just straight-up rock band—to parts of Pagans where there's no rock at all, and probably something like 'Help I'm Alive' is the thing that resides right in the middle. I think we can now encompass all of those things and bring it all together, including the acoustic stuff and including Emily's solo record and everything else that we've ever done. So ideally, I think this thing could be a giant stew of everything that we're capable of."

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He hasn't found the massive music/arts/industry festival's saturation off-putting, mind you: Chapman answers his phone while making use of a couple gift cards Nap Eyes earned playing an "unofficial" showcase. And SXSW aside, there's no shortage of interest in the Nova Scotia-based band down

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"It was more relaxing, for sure, than being in Montréal—just a different vibe, I guess," Chapman says.

"We had four days where it was just quiet, really peaceful, and we could really take our time with it. Although, by the end of the sessions, we were rushing to make sure we could finish everything.

"I think, in one way, it was just the setting of the record and the recording, and also the nature of the songs, the way they were written, they were more laid-back songs," he continues. "But also, maybe we unconsciously, or somewhat consciously, tried to play in a more restrained way. We didn't want to bother our neighbours up there."

Like Whine, Thought Rock was recorded live, with no overdubs; many of its songs were fully fleshed out during those scant few recording days, a liveliness that Chapman notes offers something tangible to a recording, even when time's a pressing issue.

"For some of the songs, if we've been playing them live before we get to recording, in that case it's obviously pretty practiced. But for the most part, 60 to 70 percent of the songs, at least on this last record, you learn at the session," he says. "Which is fine; if you've been playing the song for months and months, you might be a little tighter with it. There's something else if you're learning a new song: you get to capture the newness and the spontaneity of it on the recording.

But it's mostly been out of necessity that we've had to do that. We only had four days."

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With a sound that pulls on '90s college radio, Lou Reed's disaffected delivery and warmer, seaside folk, the band's debut LP, Whine of the Mystic, saw a quiet, 200-run release in 2014, but its acclaimed reception dwarfed availability; the album was re-released in 2015 on You've Changed Records, lending the band the wider reach that's now greeting its follow-up, Thought Rock Fish Scale.

The album finds Nap Eyes more

relaxed than before: songs feel spacious, like they could take a long walk down the beach at any moment, while Chapman's lyrics remain precise in imagery and questioning in intent. The songs on Whine skewed a little more dramatic, perhaps, but Thought Rock Fish Scale feels like a band stretching out instead of overreaching, getting comfortable with its powers without letting their potency diminish.

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Wintersleep

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t's been four years since fans were able to get their hands on a new Wintersleep album, but that stretch of radio silence ended earlier this month with the release of The Great Detachment.

The break between albums wasn't intentional. Rather, it was a byproduct of the Halifax indie-rock group searching for a new label (it's now on Dine Alone) and parting ways with its management.

"It just seemed like the right time to kind of hit reset," says Tim D'Eon

during a day off while in Austin for SXSW. "That's basically it. It was nothing crazy or anything; it just felt like the right thing to do at the time."

Without looming deadlines, Wintersleep was able to take its time fleshing out the new batch of songs, which began to take shape in 2013 and resulted in some 40 demos that were eventually whittled down to 11 tracks. D'Eon notes the songs that didn't make the album weren't throwaways by any means, but the final group was chosen because they

seemed most cohesive together.

"It was kind of relaxing, to tell you the truth," he says of being timelinefree for the album. "Since Welcome to the Night Sky we've just always been touring, and we'd get back and we'd be writing and there'd be a deadline for the record, so this time there was no deadline. We didn't have a label yet, so it was really relaxed."

But not having a specified end point can also mean it's difficult to know when to say enough's enough and leave a song as it is, too.

"At a certain point we were like, OK, we have to cut ourselves off, this record has to be finished," D'Eon adds. "We can work well under pressure too, but it was just nice to have some time."

It also helped that Wintersleep did a short tour of Canada's East Coast about midway through the process, since that allowed the group to road test some of the new tracks. D'Eon notes the band hasn't done that since Welcome to the Night Sky in 2007, but it proved to be a valuable experience that generated largely positive feedback for the material.

"Everybody seemed pretty into it.

Going into the shows we had announced we were going to be playing some new songs, but it's always kind of weird playing songs for the first time to people that have never heard them, right? You're just kind of looking and seeing people get into it by the end of the song," he adds. "We just did the first run of the tour since the album came out, and it was great to see people singing along already."

The Great Detachment, Wintersleep's sixth studio album, reflects a warmth that's drawn comparisons to the era of its breakthrough hit

Tue, Mar 29 (8 pm) With Evening Hymns, Walrus Starlite Room, $20 "Weighty Ghost" back in 2007. The tracklist is replete with hook-laden melodies and sing-along-ready choruses that move between danceable alt-rock anthems like "Santa Fe" to more mellow, hook-driven reprieves such as the lovelorn track "More Than." The album's lead single, "Amerika"—largely inspired by Walt Whitman poetry—earned the group its highest chart position to date, reaching the coveted No 1 spot on the Billboard Rock Chart.

D'Eon credits the energy that resonates throughout The Great Detachment to recording the majority of the album live off the floor, noting that the songs were composed with a live band in mind, whereas Wintersleep's previous record, Hello Hum, was largely pieced together in the studio.

"It was hard to play certain songs live," he notes of Hello Hum. "We can play the songs straight away, whereas with Hello Hum there were certain songs that we couldn't really get right live because they were created in the studio, and we weren't really thinking about that so much."

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uring the production of TongueIn-Cheek Vows, the upcoming release from Sam Cash & The Romantic Dogs, the eponymous frontman admits he was initially thrown off by the laissez-faire attitude of producer Ian Blurton (the Weakerthans, C'Mon).

"I didn't really know him before. We were trying to vibe each other out," he recalls over the phone, en route to WaWa, ON. "On the first day of pre-production, [we were] practicing, [and] he didn't say anything. I was like, 'Oh man, he hates this. He's reading a magazine. He doesn't even want to be here.'

"But then the moment we stumbled on something that we could work on, he was like, 'That, that, right there. Do that 10 times over and over again,'" Cash says. "He knew when to let us do our thing, and he knew when he would be helpful to us."

That process, which involved one month of pre-production work with Blurton, Cash explains, allowed the Toronto-based group to really flesh out a blues-rock sound, so when it came time to hit the recording studio, the group could do it live off the floor.

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Tongue-In-Cheek Vows took the band a year to complete—compared to the two days it took to finish 2013's Stand Together, Fall Together—which allowed it to experiment with overdubs, layering and rearrangments of songs this time around.

"The album is a lot more developed, and sonically there's a lot more depth. The last record we sort of just did live off the floor with very little overdub, which is something you normally try to do on records," he says. "It was sort of bare bones: there it is and there it was.

But with this one, there's a lot more to dig into."

The aforementioned depth comes from the album's grittiness, loaded with crunchy guitars and heavy reverbs, which marks an intentional move away from the Canadiana label that is often tacked on Cash's music for his honest songwriting capabilities.

Though Cash admits there is still Canadiana flavour in his music—you can hear the influence of Joel Plaskett and Jason Collett in it—but there are some nods to UK-based rock 'n' rollers Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. Other tracks lean a bit more pop ("Radio

Fri, Mar 25 (9 pm) With Electric Six, the Fronts Starlite Room, $20 Waves," "Act Like We're In Love"), outfitted with catchy hooks and clever lyrics.

"I'm trying to find a balance between honest songwriting and pop music," he says.

Despite employing constrasting approaches to recording, what connects Cash's sophomore album with Tongue-In-Cheek Vows is the continual themes of maturity and adulthood.

"It's sort of documenting the growing-up process that I find myself in, generally," Cash explains. "It's sort of a documenting adulthood but also an ode to my youth as well."

Driving that theme is the album's title, which Cash notes is a phrase he has been kicking around for a while. "'Tongue-In-Cheek Vows' was my first gut reaction and that unintentionally summed up the whole vibe of the record, which is vows—not in marriage but in promises—and things you say and the way you live your life," he says. "When you're in your early 20s, everything is a bit tongue-in-cheek, you know? You're just trying stuff out and trying to see what works for you."

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Royal Thunder, the Atlanta hardrock band that once played a Valentine's Day show in Edmonton with Enslaved, has also travelled the US as the opening act for Wilco.

"I think Wilco's audience is such a diverse crowd that just loves music," Josh Weaver, Royal Thunder's guitarist and main songwriter, says. "It really went over well. The shows were great; we had a really great response.

"We really had fun on the Enslaved tour, we really had fun on the Wilco tour. ... Every tour we've done has

been pretty incredible."

Weaver's searing guitar lines and singer/bassist Mlny Parsonz's commanding vocals mesh better than ever on the band's latest album, Crooked Doors.

The dark stoner-metal-meets-classic-rock album is the manifestation of deep turmoil that would have sent most bands packing.

Weaver and Parsonz, who had been a couple throughout Royal Thunder's existence, ended their marriage but kept the band going. Parsonz, whose voice is mesmerizing live, purged her feelings in the album's lyrics.

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One song, "Floor," is about a church that the couple belonged to in Seattle in their 20s, long before the band took off. Parsonz has previously described it in the media as a cult and said she had a harrowing experience escaping.

The pair has declined to name the church, and while Weaver is hesitant to go into details, he says the "crazy stuff" they endured there has had a lasting impact.

"Anything in life, to me, is a source of inspiration, whether it be hard times or good times," he says. "It's a part of who we are, a part of who I am.

"That definitely would be a part of my story, and when I was going through that [it was] a source of inspiration for writing," he adds.

Despite the personal hardships, Royal Thunder has no intention of pulling back its heavy touring schedule.

"No, man, we love being on the road," Weaver says. "That's really where we all come alive."

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Emmett Miller, one of the band's four guitarists, turns to Star Wars when explaining how they all work together.

"Everybody's role is analogous to a different starfighter in the Rebel Alliance fleet," Miller says. "Jordan [Smith] is the Millenium Falcon, Brent [Toler] is the Y-Wing, etc."

The Nashville sextet started as a noise project—hence the outrageous name—and Miller and fellow guitarist Evan Bird initially joined as a joke.

Their goal was to write excessive, noodling guitar leads that would get them booed off the stage.

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thing," says Miller, a classically trained guitarist who plays without a pick. "[We thought] it would be so ludicrous that we'd get kicked out of DP, and that would be hilarious."

Instead, their harmonized tapping lead in the song "Ice Age" won them an invite to join full time.

"It backfired in the best way," Miller says.

Cramming six people and five amps into a van isn't always easy, and neither is squeezing onto tiny club stages, although Miller says the band's getting better at "consolidating the wall of amps."

"It takes a little bit of extra work, but I think we're a finely oiled machine when it comes to guitar orchestration now," he notes.

Nearly every review of Diarrhea Planet's loud live shows mentions the smiling faces of audience members when they see four guitarists letting loose.

While pondering where this elation comes from, Miller uses another cinematic reference.

"I just want to share the feeling that I had when I saw School of Rock for the first time," he says. "[It makes] you want to pick up the guitar in the first place. It's the greatest joy to share that pleasure."

The band's overdriven guitar quartet weaves in and out of unassuming pop hooks on its latest EP, Aliens in the Outfield. A full-length follow-up, Turn to Gold, is set for release in June.

While the band has been told many times to change its name for mass consumption, its crappy moniker seems to draw as much positive attention as negative these days.

"We joke that it's kind of a litmus test," Miller says. "If you can't get under the name Diarrhea Planet, then you wouldn't enjoy all the crowdsurfing and volume of the set."

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9:30pm

FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW, 780.433.5530, holytrinity.ab.ca HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage.com HUMMINGBIRD BISTRO CAFE 8336-160 Ave, 780.401.3313, hummingbirdbistro.ca IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St NW, 780.451.8825, kellyspubedmonton.com L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LIZARD LOUNGE 11827 St. Albert Tr, 780.451.9180, facebook.com/ The-Lizard-Lounge MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, mcdougallunited.com MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524 Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca

NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PALACE CASINO 8882-170 St NW, 780.444.2112, palacecasino. com PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RANCH ROADHOUSE 6107-104 St NW RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St REXALL PLACE 7424-118 Ave RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE 9797 Jasper Ave NW SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St, 780.431.0091, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com

Classical

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Music Wednesdays

At Noon: Mattia Berrini and Sylvia Buttiglione (violin and cello); 12:10-12:50pm; Free

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHVRCH OF JOHN 10260-103 St, 780.884.8994, thechvrchofjohn. com COMMON 9910-109 St CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta, music.ualberta.ca DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall. com DRAFT COUNTRY NIGHT CLUB 12912-50 St NW, 780.371.7272, draftbargrill.com DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EL CORTEZ 10322-83 Ave NW, elcortezcantina.com EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE 10220-103 St NW, 780.

424.0077, yourgaybar.com FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca

SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch. com STUDIO 96 10909-96 St NW SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY 17118-90 Ave TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW, 780.433.1604, trinity-lutheran. ab.ca TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE 10324-82 Whyte Ave UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB 10746 Jasper Ave, 780.951.2705 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

COUNTERPARTS THE STARLITE ROOM & SONIC 102.9 PRESENT

WINTERSLEEP W/ GUESTS

MAR/30

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

THE SWORD W/ ROYAL THUNDER

APR/1 - 2

THE SIXTH ANNUAL

ACT A FOOL

FEAT 6 HEADLINERS, DANCERS, LIVE ART, CIRCUS PERFORMERS & PK SOUND

APR/6

STARLITE ROOM IN ASSOCIATION WITH FOOSH & PLUSH SKATEBOARDS & SNOWBOARDS PRESENT

APR/15

STARLITE ROOM PRESENTS

A-TRAK

BEAR MOUNTAIN W/ GUESTS

APR/16

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

THE STORY SO FAR W/ COMEBACK KID, & CULTURE ABUSE

APR/19

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

KALMAH

W/ VESPERIA, TROLLBAND, & MONGOL

MAY/4

Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

VENUEGUIDE 9910 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 THE ALLEY 9562-82 Ave NW THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ARCADIA BAR 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ARDEN THEATRE 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1542, stalbert.ca/ experience/arden-theatre ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com THE AVIARY 9314-111 Ave, 780.233.3635, facebook.com/ arteryyeg BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523,

MAR/29

CONVOCATION HALL The

Kilburn Memorial Concert 2016 featuring University of Alberta Department of Music with Michel Lethiec (clarinet) and Adam Zukiewicz (piano); 7:30pm; Free

ELECTRIC SIX W/ EXPIRE, GIDEON, & KNOCKED LOOSE

STARLITE ROOM The Sword

WED MAR 30

Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every TueFri, 5-8pm

MAR/26

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Wailin' Wednesday Jam with Hosts Wang Dang Doodle (variety); Every Wed, 7:30-11:30pm; All ages

SFEAR.CA PRESENTS

W/ SAM CASH AND THE ROMANTIC DOGS & THE FRONTS

Live: hosted by dueling piano players

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Eddie Lunchpail

MAR/25

THE STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

ANTI-FLAG W/ GUESTS

THE STARLITE ROOM IS A PRIVATE VENUE FOR OUR MEMBERS AND THEIR GUESTS. IF YOU REQUIRE A MEMBERSHIP YOU CAN PURCHASE ONE AT THE VENUE PRIOR TO / OR AFTER THE DOOR TIMES FOR EACH SHOW.

MAR/25

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

BLACK MASTIFF W/ CHRON GOBLIN, THE MOTHERCRAFT

MAR/26

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

LAMS

W/ HELLFIRE SPECIAL, THRILLHOUSE, SWILL CITY

MAR/29

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

NAP EYES APR/9 THE SOULICITORS

W/ CIAN NUGENT, THE VELVETEINS

THE FORGE PROUDLY BRINGS TO YOU

W/ THE HILLTIES, & GRAY

PURE ALT 90’S APR/21 REND APR/16

VUEWEEKLY.com | MAR 24 – MAR 30, 2016

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

W/ ROCOCODE

MUSIC 25

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

DROP-IN D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • An epic adventure featuring a variety of pre-made characters, characters that guests can make on their own, or one that has already been started.

Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc. For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue, 7pm • $5 EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com

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

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Sean Baptiste; Mar 24 • Danny Acappella; Mar 25-26 • Brian Link; Mar 31 • Chris Sadleir; Apr 1-2

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 17028-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

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

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 7:30pm; Fri-Sat 9:45pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; every Mon at 7:30pm • Triple Threat Tuesday; every Tue at 7:30pm • Jeff Richards; Mar 23-27 • Ian Bagg; Mar 31-Apr 3

LGNYEG (LADY GEEKS UNITE) • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave • lgnyeg. blogspot.ca • Geek out with fellow geek ladies.

Featuring movies, board games, artists and so much more • Apr 7, 7-9pm • Free

CONNIE'S COMEDY • Draft Country Night

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.695.4588 • Downtown • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every Thu

Club, 12912-50 St NW • Apr 1, 7:30pm

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou. DJ to follow • Every Sun, 9pm

MONDAY MINGLE • Hexagon Board Game Cafe, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Meet new gamers. Go to the event solo or with a group • Every Mon, 5-11pm • $5 (one drink per person)

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

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm

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

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS

OPEN DOOR COMIC CREATOR MEETINGS

AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave,

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

Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15 • A casual parent group • Every Fri, 10am-12pm

CARROT BOARD GAMES NIGHT • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • An evening of lattes, laughs and board games! Bring your favourite board games to share or choose one from the Carrot's collection • Mar 29, 7-9pm • All ages

DEEPSOUL.CA • 780.217.2464; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages

Coming Events

Speed Dating Event March 26 35-45 at Fionn MacCool’s Gateway www.datendash.net

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Coming Events

Is communicating a challenge?

Toastmasters is the Answer!

Downtowners Toastmasters is having an OPEN HOUSE on Wednesday, April 6, 2016.

The meeting will be held in Room 4XL (4th floor) in Commerce Place (10155 – 102 Street) from 12:00pm – 1:00pm. Light refreshments will be served.

Mixer - March 25 Meet, Mix, and Mingle Singles Mixer at The Druid 6:00 to 8:30pm. $5 admission and free drink per single. 11606 Jasper Avenue

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TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.479-8667 (Bob) • bobmurra@telus.net • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm TOASTMASTERS • Chamber Toastmasters Club: 6th

floor, World Trade Centre, 9990 Jasper Ave; Contact: 780.462.1878/RonChapman@shaw.ca (Ron Chapman); 780.424.6364/dkorpany@ telusplanet.net (Darryl Korpany); Meet every Thu from Sep-Jun, 6-7:45pm • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact vpm@norators. com, 780.807.4696, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo. com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward.toastmastersclubs. org; reader1@shaw.ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS BDS, DISSIDENCE, AND THE FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH • Edmonton Clinic Health

POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall,

EDMONTON POETRY BROTHEL: REVIVIAL

10135-96 Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm

RAW VEGAN EDMONTON POTLUCKS • Address provided when you pre-register • 780.469.1448 • rawveganedmonton@gmail. com • rawveganedmonton.com • Find out more about the raw food diet, meet other raw or rawcurious people and taste some amazing raw food dishes. Bring a a raw vegan dish to serve at least 6 people, plus your own plate, cup, cutlery and serving spoon • Apr 9, 5:30pm • Free

• Bohemia, 10217-97 St • facebook.com/ YEGPoetryBrothel • Featuring music, dance, unexpected performances, and one-on-one poetry readings • Mar 26, 8pm (door), 9pm (show) • 18+ only

EDMONTON PRE-INQUIRY ON MISSING AND MURDERED INUIT WOMEN AND GIRLS ENGAGEMENT SESSION • Heritage Room, Edmonton City Hall, 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square • Guests will share their thoughts on how Inuit can fully participate in the upcoming national inquiry • Apr 2, 1am-4pm • Register at meeka@ ualberta.ca or dunning1@ualberta.ca

To Book Your Classifieds, Contact Andy at 780.426.1996 or at adultclassifieds@vueweekly.com

Volunteers Wanted

Can You Read This?

Help Someone Who Can’t!

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

Call Valerie at P.A.L.S. 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca Volunteer At The Carrot Be part of a great team by volunteering as a barista at The Carrot! If you have a hankering to learn coffee art and the ins & outs of being a barista, or just getting involved in the community, please contact Eva at carrotassist@gmail.com.

Volunteers can enjoy gettogethers throughout the year, as well as incentives and gifts.

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FERTILITY AWARENESS CHARTING CIRCLE • Remedy Cafe, 8631-109 St • faccedmonton@gmail.com • fertilityawarenesschartingcircle.org • First Mon each month (Oct-May), 6:30-8:30pm • $10 (suggested donation) • RSVP at faccedmonton@gmail.com

GREAT EXPEDITIONS TRAVEL SLIDE

Volunteers Wanted

Seeking: Healthy, Overweight (BMI=25-35) volunteers aged 19-45 needed to test how fiber effects our gut bacteria and health.

What do you have to do: - add fiber to your normal diet for 6 weeks - attend 5 clinic meetings on campus to complete questionnaires, and provide blood & stool samples - complete questionnaires during the study period You will receive an honorarium upon completion of study, and a diet counseling session with our registered dietitian.

Please contact us at uafyber@ualberta.ca or 780-492-9506 if you are interested!

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Artist to Artist

ENJOY ART ALWAYZ www.bdcdrawz.com

3100. Appliances/Furniture

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

Rates start as low as $30.

Call James @780.231.7511 for details

kids aged 5-14; 2nd Sun of the month, 3-5pm • ReachOUT: Just For Men: peer facilitated wellness support group for GBT (male identified) people; 3rd Sun of the month, 3-5pm • Men Talking with Pride: Social discussion group for gay and bisexual men; Every Sun, 7-9pm • Pagan Women’s Group: 1st Sun of every month, 2-5pm

• St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 (Gerry)/ 780.435.6406 (John)/ 780.454.6216 (Sylvia) • Ecumenical Accompaniment Program In Palestine & Israel (2015) - by Debbie Hubbard & Dean Reidt (Apr 4)

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76

PRESERVING VALUE: CONSERVATION OF THE ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM'S COLLECTIONS • Royal Alberta Museum,

recreation activities • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; bootcamp@teamedmonton. ca; Every Mon, 7-8pm • Swimming: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue & Thu, 7:30-8:30pm • Water Polo: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • Yoga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm; $10 (drop-in, confirm attendance with yoga@teamedmonton.ca) • Taekwondo: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Every Thu, 6-7pm

12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • From rubber stamps to iron lungs to beaded moccasins, find out how RAM's conservators tailor conservation treatments and approaches to preserve what is significant for each object • Apr 6, 7-8pm • Free

UKRAINIAN AVANT GARDE MOVEMENT AND LVIV ART PROJECT • ACUA Art Gallery & Artisan Boutique, 9534-87 St • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts.ca • acuarts.ca • Aimed to erase the distinction between art and life • Apr 8, 6-8pm • $10 (member), $15 (non-member)

WE CAN DO IT WORKSHOPS • Grow Centre, 10516-82 Ave • contactseeds@shaw. ca • fertilityawarenesschartingcircle.org • Part of a series on Women's Health. Schedule: How to Get off the Pill (Mar 24), Personalized PMS Survival Strategies (Apr 21), Preparing for Pregnancy (May 26) • Mar 24, Apr 21, May 26; 6:30-8:30pm • Suggested donation $10 (can be waived in case of financial necessity); Preregister at contactseeds@shaw.ca

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

TEAM EDMONTON • Various sports and

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Sun: Last Sun each month, Woodys Jam Session with the talented regular customers; Jugs of Canadian or Kokanee only $13 • Mon: Massive Mondays features talented comedians • Tue: Domestic bottle beer special only $3.75 all night long • Wed: Jugs of Canadian and Kokanee for $13; Karaoke with Shirley from 7pm-12:30am • Thu: Highballs on special only $3.75 all night long; Karaoke with Bubbles 7pm-12:30am • Fri: Comming soon: DJ Arrow Chaser's new TGIF Party • Sat: Pool Tournement, 4pm; Jager shots on special only $4; Coming soon, DJ Jazzy

WELLNESS IN THE GARDEN – HOW TO USE FEATURES, PLANTS AND ACTIVITIES TO CREATE WELLBEING • Wildbird

SPECIAL EVENTS

General Store, 4712-99 St • wildgreen.ca • Mar 24, 7-9pm • Free (limited seating, register at wildgreen.weebly.com/workshops.html

2016 SPRING STAMP SHOW • Central Lion’s Centre, 113 St & 111 Ave • edmontonstampclub.com • Featuring stamps that are for sale, exhibits, and so much more. Presented by the Edmonton Stamp Club • Apr 2-3

QUEER BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

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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

Academy (ECHA), Room 1-190, SW corner of 87 Ave & 114 St, U of A campus • psnedmonton. ca • A panel discussion on the recent House of Commons motion to reject and condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement • Mar 24, 7-9 pm • Free

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

BABES IN ARMS • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Mon: Drag Race in the White Room; 7pm • Wed: Monthly games night/trivia • Thu: Happy hour, 6-8pm; Karaoke, 7-12:30am • Fri: Flashback Friday with your favourite hits of the 80s/90s/2000s; rotating drag and burlesque events • Sat: Rotating DJs Velix and Suco • Sun: Weekly drag show, 10:30pm

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • pridecentreofedmonton.org • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7-9pm PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Drop in hours: Mon, Wed 4-7pm; Fri 6-9pm; Closed Sat-Sun and Holidays • Trans* Youth Group: Support, discussion, and networking group for trans* and questioning youth; 3rd Mon each month, 7-9pm • JamOUT: Music mentorship and instruction for youth aged 12-24; Every other Tue, 7-9pm • Equal Fierce Fit & Fabulous: recreational fitness program, ages 12-24; every other Tue, 6-8pm, every other Tue • Queer Lens: weekly education and discussion group open to everyone; every Wed, 7-8:30pm • Mindfulness Meditation: open to everyone; every Thu, 6-6:50pm • Men's Social Circle: A social support group for all male-identified persons over 18 years of age in the LGBT*Q community; 1st and 3rd Thu each month; 7-9pm • WoSC (Women's Social Circle): A social support group for all female-identified persons over 18 years of age in the GLBT community; 2nd and 4th Thu of the month; 7-9pm • TTIQ (18+ Trans* Group): 2nd Mon of the month, 7-9pm • Art & Identity: exploring identity through the arts, a wellness initiative; Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Edmonton Illusions: cross-dressing and transgender group 18+; 2nd Fri of each month, 7-9pm • Movies & Games Night: Every other Fri, 6-9pm • ALL Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8648-81 St; An opportunity for people to swim in a safe space whether trans, non-binary, scarred, differently abled, or any body that finds regular swimming space uncomfortable. Note: change rooms and bathrooms will be gender neutral; 3rd Sat of the month, 9:30-10:30pm; $5 (suggested donation) • Thought OUT: Altview’s all-ages discussion group; every Sat, 7-9pm • Polyamory Edmonton: Community social group; 3rd Sat of the month, 1-3pm • Seahorse Support Circle: facilitated meet up for families with trans and gender creative

VUEWEEKLY.com | MAR 24 – MAR 30, 2016

APRIL FOOLISH FRIDAY: FUN AND FUNDRAISING WITH STREETFEST • CKUA Building, 9804 Jasper Ave • Participate in be your own busker workshops (juggling, wire walking and balloon sculpting), sample a variety of festival fun foods and enjoy some free nonalcoholic drinks • Apr 1, 7-10pm • $25

CHARITY SCOTCH TESTING • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave NW • 780.452.8211 • happyharborcomics.com • Featuring two teams of comic superheroes facing off alongside a drink selection featuring Iron Man, Black Widow and Batman against Captain America, Sharon Carter (Agent 13) and Superman. Attendees will be matching each hero to their preferred beverage while collecting six custom-made superhero trading cards • Mar 26, 6:30pm • $50

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): When Orville and Wilbur Wright were kids, their father gave them a toy helicopter powered by a rubber band. The year was 1878. Twenty-five years later, the brothers became the first humans to sail above the earth in a flying machine.

They testified that the toy helicopter had been a key inspiration as they worked to develop their pioneering invention. In the spirit of the Wright Brothers' magic seed, Aries, I invite you to revive your connection to a seminal influence from your past. The coming weeks will be a favourable time to feed a dream that was foreshadowed in you a long time ago.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): "The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly," said Russian writer Anton Chekhov. Whether or not you're a writer, Taurus, that is also your special task in the coming weeks.

The riddle that has begun to captivate your imagination is not yet ripe enough for you to work on in earnest. It has not been defined with sufficient clarity. Luckily, you have the resources you need to research all the contingencies, and you have the acuity to come up with a set of empowering questions.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): The good news is that if you eat enormous amounts of chocolate, you will boost your memory. Science has proven it.

The bad news is that in order to get the full effect of the memory enhancement, you would have to consume so much chocolate that you would get sick. I propose that we consider this scenario as a metaphor for what may be going on in your life. Is it possible you're doing things that are healthy for you in one way but diminish you in another? Or are you perhaps getting or doing too much of a good thing—going to unbalanced extremes as you pursue a worthy goal?

Now is a favourable time to figure out if you're engaged in such behavior, and to change it if you are.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): When the young director Richard Lester got his big break, he took full advantage. It happened in 1964, when the early Beatles asked him to do their first movie, A Hard Day's Night. Lester's innovative approach to the project propelled his career to a higher level that brought him many further opportunities. Writing of Lester's readiness, critic Alexander Walker said, "No filmmaker ... appeared more punctually when his hour struck."

That's what I hope you will soon be doing in your own chosen field, Cancerian.

Do you understand how important it will be to have impeccable timing? No procrastination or hemming and hawing, please. Be crisply proactive.

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LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): As a young man, the poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854 – 1891) left his home in France and settled in Abyssinia, which these days is known as Ethiopia. "I sought voyages," he wrote, "to disperse the enchantments that had colonized my mind." You might want to consider a similar strategy in the coming weeks, Leo. From an astrological perspective, it's going to be an excellent time both to wander free of your usual haunts and to disperse the enchantments that have colonized your mind.

Why not find ways to synergize these two opportunities?

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): At one point in his life, author C S Lewis had a rude awakening as he took stock of the progress he thought he had been making. "I am appalled to see how much of the change I thought I had undergone lately was only imaginary," he wrote. I want to make sure that something similar doesn't happen to you, Virgo. You're in the midst of what should be a Golden Age of Self-Transformation. Make sure you're actually doing the work that you imagine you're doing—and not just talking about it and thinking about it.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): "There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers," wrote Agatha Christie. I would add that there are also questions you don't ask because you mistakenly think you already know the answers. And then there are questions you don't ask because their answers would burst your beloved illusions, which you'd rather preserve. I'm here to urge you to risk posing all these types of questions, Libra. I think you're strong enough and smart enough, and in just the right ways, to deal constructively with the answers. I'm not saying you'll be pleased with everything you find out. But you will ultimately be glad you finally made the inquiries.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): If you are enmeshed in a jumble that makes you squirm, or if you are caught in a tangle that stifles your self-love, you have three choices. Here's how Eckhart Tolle defines them: 1) Get out of the situation; 2) Transform the situation; 3) Completely accept the situation. Does that sound reasonable, Scorpio? I hope so, because the time has come to act.

Don't wait to make your decision. Do it soon. After that, there will be no whining allowed. You can no longer indulge in excuses. You must accept the consequences. On the bright side, imagine the new freedom and power you will have at your disposal.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): Here's a proposed experiment. Sidle up to a creature you'd love to be closer to, and softly sing the following lyrics: "Come with me, go with me. Burn with

me, glow with me. Sleep with me, wake with me." At this point, run three circles around the creature as you flap your arms like a bird's wings. Then continue your singing: "Rise with me, fall with me.

Work with me, play with me. Pray with me, sin with me." At this point, leap up into the air three times, unleashing a burst of laughter each time you hit the ground. Continue singing: "Let me get high with you. Laugh with you, cry with you. Make me your partner in crime." At this point blow three kisses toward the creature, then run away. (PS: The lyrics I'm quoting here were composed by songwriter Fran Landesman.)

CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): In getting energy from food, we humans have at our disposal over 50 000 edible plants. And yet we choose to concentrate on just a few. Wheat, corn, rice and potatoes make up two-thirds of our diet, and 11 other staples comprise most of the rest. Let's use this as a metaphor for the kind of behaviour you should avoid in the coming weeks. I think it will be crucial for you to draw physical, emotional and spiritual sustenance from a relatively wide variety of sources.

There's nothing wrong with your usual providers, but for now you need to expand your approach to getting the nurturing you need.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): "We teach each other how to live." Poet Anne Michaels said that, and now I'm passing it on to you—just in time for the phase of your cycle when acting like a curious student is your sacred duty and your best gift to yourself. I don't necessarily mean that you should take a workshop or enroll in a school. Your task is to presume that everyone you meet and every encounter you have may bring you rich learning experiences. If you're willing to go as far as I hope you will, even your dreams at night will be opportunities to get further educated. Even your vigils in front of the TV. Even your trips to the convenience store to buy ice cream.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): In her poem "Time," Piscean poet Lia Purpura wonders about "not picking up a penny because it's only a little luck." Presumably she is referring to a moment when you're walking down a street and you spy an almost-but-not-quite-worthless coin lying on the concrete. She theorizes that you may just leave it there. It adds next to nothing to your wealth, right?

Which suggests that it also doesn't have much value as a symbol of good fortune. But I urge you to reject this line of thought in the coming weeks, Pisces. In my astrological opinion, you'll be wise to capitalize on the smallest opportunities.

There will be plenty of them, and they will add up.V

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Explosive relationships

Conflict is normal but it depends on the degree and frequency

Q

: I've been dating my boyfriend for two years, and we've been living together for six months. Since I moved in, we fight way more and I've seen a side of him that worries me. He can be explosive, and his anger comes out of nowhere. I love him and when things are good, they're great. I know that it's normal for couples to fight, but how much is normal?

A

: You are correct that fighting is a normal part of relationships—it is nearly impossible to live with someone you are emotionally invested in and not occasionally find yourself sparring. In fact, if a couple says they don't fight, it usually means they've stopped caring—so fighting is not only normal; it can actually be healthy. With that said, I want to be very clear that it's never OK to belittle, humiliate, insult, threaten, manipulate, intimidate or shame a partner— this constitutes emotional abuse.

Assuming your relationship does not cross into abusive territory, then the question becomes about your individual conflict-tolerance threshold.

If you were teaching a 10-year-old

about relationships, what would you tell them is a healthy amount (volume and frequency) of conflict?

Start by defining volume on a scale of one to 10. This will be different for everyone, but for example: one equals calm, agreeable conversation; five equals argumentative, voices raised; and 10 equals screaming, name calling and punching things. Then consider frequency. You might conclude that it is acceptable to get to a three or four once a week, and that an eight is OK no more than twice a year, but a 10 is never acceptable. Once you've got your objective rubric, apply it to your relationship. How far out of range are you? Is the discrepancy related to volume, frequency or both?

Allow me to reassure you that most of the time, discrepancies between styles and tolerance levels of conflict

are surmountable, though usually not without a significant amount of work.

Part of that work is letting yourself see things how they really are, as objectivity can provide direction for how to address the problem. If you haven't already, tell your boyfriend how you experience the conflict. It's important to create safety for the

into his outbursts, and while insight doesn't excuse his behaviour, it might point to ways to fix it.

Also, be open to his feedback. Relationships require reciprocity and mutual respect and consideration. Listen to what he says and work together to set meaningful targets for what you'd like your relationship to look like.

Once you have your targets, set specific times to check in and review the progress.

Everyone can be on his or her best behaviour for a short period, so how long do you need to trust that the change is real? Formal check-ins also help to take the pressure off.

You don't need him to become a Zen master—there will still be conflict sometimes—so setting a check-in date a few months down the road allows for perspective, so you don't

Allow me to reassure you that most of the time, discrepancies between styles and tolerance levels of conflict are surmountable, though usually not without a significant amount of work. conversation by emphasizing compassionate understanding and hope for the relationship. And of course, avoid inflammatory language, strong emotions, blame or ultimatums. It's also important to be specific about your concerns regarding volume, frequency, etc. He might have some insight

over-interpret when things get tense and can better see if there has been a meaningful shift in the dynamic. If there is no change, then you potentially face a harder choice.

I realize that relationships are more complicated than my pragmatic rubric suggests, and that discrepancy in conflict tolerance is only one of infinite factors considered in evaluating the merit of a relationship. That's part of why it's so easy to overlook these important challenges—perhaps to our own detriment. That is why it's so important to be objective and empirical. You do not want to end up having the same argument about needing to fight less for the rest of your life.V Tami-lee Duncan is a Registered Psychologist in Edmonton, specializing in sexual health. Please note that the information and advice given above is not a substitute for therapeutic treatment with a licensed professional. For information or to submit a question, please contact tami-lee@vueweekly.com.

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ORAL FIXATION

I'm a 24-year-old male, married three years, monogamous. My wife and I are religious and were both virgins when we got married. I'm sexually frustrated with two things. 1) How can I get her to give me oral sex? (She has never given and I have never received oral sex. I regularly give her oral sex.)

She is afraid to try it, saying she's not ready yet. About every six months, I bring it up and it leads to a fight.

She is a germophobe, but I think she believes fellatio is done only in porn.

(I used to look at porn, which nearly ended our then-dating relationship.)

2) I feel like I'm always giving and never receiving any type of affection: massages, kisses, caresses, you name it. It's like having sex with a sex doll— no reciprocation. How do I broaden our sex life without making her feel like we're in a porno?

Sexually Frustrated If you don't already have children— you don't mention kids—please don't have any, SF, at least not with your first wife.

You're a religious person, SF, a lifestyle choice I don't fully understand.

But you're also a sexual person, and that I do understand. And if you want a lifelong, sexually exclusive and sexually fulfilling relationship, then you must prioritize sexual compatibility during your search for the second Mrs SF. Because your next marriage is likelier to survive for the long haul if you're partnered with someone who is attracted to you physically and is aroused—roughly speaking— by the same sex acts, positions and

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fantasies you are.

In other words: Don't marry someone and hope she likes sucking your dick. You tried that, and it didn't work.

Find someone who likes sucking your dick and marry her.

AGE AND ORAL

I'm a straight woman in my early 30s, and I just don't like receiving oral sex. I love giving blowjobs and can orgasm from PIV sex, but I seem to be one of the few women who don't enjoy guys going down on me. I'm not uncomfortable with it, but it doesn't get me off. I also get wet easily, so it's not like I need it as foreplay. As I've gotten older, and the guys I sleep with have gotten older, it seems like most want to spend a great deal of time down there. I've tried being up front about not liking it in general, but guys either get offended or double down and do it more because they assume I've never been with a guy who "could do it right." Any ideas on how to handle this?

Needs Oral Preference Explainer The observation you make regarding older straight guys—older straight guys are more enthusiastic about going down on women—is something I've heard from other female friends.

They couldn't get guys to go down on them in their 20s, and they can't get guys in their 30s and 40s to stop going down on them. (SF, above, is clearly an outlier.) The obvious solution to your dilemma, NOPE: Only fuck guys in their 20s.

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Fan from Sweden here! Question: My fetish has no name. It is a "worshipping" fetish, for want of a better term, where I am the one being worshipped.

Not by one man, but all men of the earth. The worshipping itself, while sexual, is not bound to my body parts.

It would be great to have this named.

Lack Of Vocabulary Enervates My Experiences A year ago, I would've diagnosed you with "caligulaphilia," LOVEME, after the Roman emperor Caligula, who considered himself a living god, and -philia, the go-to suffix meaning "abnormal appetite or liking for." But these days, I'd say you were suffering from a bad case of "trumpophilia."

DIAPER DILEMMA

I'm a 24-year-old female who met my 26-year-old boyfriend five months ago through Fetlife. We do not share the same fetish, but we have other overlapping interests and he is lovely, smart and funny. He has a diaper and incontinence fetish. Not my jam, but I'm GGG. The issue: He has the most one-dimensional sexuality I have ever seen. He can get off only in the missionary position, with a diaper under us, and with incontinence dirty talk.

Even with all of the above, it's difficult to get him to orgasm. And it's only very recently that we've been able to have penetrative sex—since he was used to getting off with his hand and a diaper—always with diapers under us and with lots and lots and lots of pee talk. But there's only so long I can talk about losing control and

peeing myself before I lose interest in the activities at hand. I do not mind getting him off this way sometimes, but this does absolutely nada for me and it's the only way he gets off. He's otherwise an amazing person, but I'm getting frustrated. We've talked about how my needs aren't being met, and he claims he's done standard vanilla before and managed to satisfy his partners. I've yet to experience it myself, however, and I'd really like to be able to enjoy some vanilla sex—let alone my kinks!—with him!

Please, I'm Sexually Saddened

nored me. I asked a straight guy, and he considered it but never followed through, and I feel weird about asking him again. I told another straight guy who was shocked that I would ever ask him such a thing, but he still talks to me and makes light of the incident. Whereas another guy unfriended me on Facebook after I messaged him and told him I liked his feet. What should I do? Is there a proper way to ask to rub someone's feet? It's not like I'm asking to suck on people's toes.

Crazed About Lads' Feet

Your lovely, smart boyfriend is a lousy, selfish lay, PISS, and you two aren't sexually compatible. DTMFA.

You remind me of those straight guys who send unsolicited dick pics to women they barely know—they don't do it because it never works, they do it because it works on rare/ random occasions. But you have to ask yourself if those rare/random instances when an attractive male friend allowed you to perv on their feet—the handful of times you've gotten a yes—are worth the sacrificing of all the friendships you've lost.

Foot rubs are a form of intimacy, particularly when performed by foot fetishists, and you've gotta stop pestering your hot friends about their feet. There are tons of other foot fetishists out there— most male, loads gay, tons online.

Go find some fellow foot pervs and swap rubs with them. V

FANCY FEET

I am a 26-year-old guy and I have an overwhelming foot fetish. I cannot help but think about the male foot every hour of every day. I often find myself pushing boundaries with attractive male friends and acquaintances to satisfy my urges, which has caused me a lot of stress and anxiety.

I'm obsessed with the idea of offering some of my friends and acquaintances foot massages, but I just don't know how to bring up the subject, given my mixed experiences. A lot of people think of foot rubs as intimate and believe they should be restricted to romantic relationships. While I've been lucky on very random occasions, I've had some fuckups. I asked a gay friend whether he would like a foot massage, but he declined— and while he was polite about it in the initial exchange, he has since ig-

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