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Ricardo Acuña // ricardo@vueweekly.com

Why a small business tax cut?

The Wildrose recommendation just doesn't measure up March 15 was a big day for small businesses in Alberta—and for the Wildrose opposition. It was the day that Brian Jean and the Wildrose Party released a document titled the Wildrose Jobs Action Plan, outlining 12 recommendations for actions the Alberta government could take to get "Albertans back to work and provid[e] stability for Alberta's energy sector."

First among the Wildrose's recommendations was a call to reduce Alberta's small business tax rate from three percent to two percent.

That same day, in a media scrum where reporters asked her about the Wildrose recommendations, Premier Rachel Notley hinted that a small business tax cut may actually be in the works as part of the provincial budget to be released April 14.

"On the issue of the small business tax, I would suggest that we simply all stay tuned for the budget," she said.

It's incredibly rare in our increasingly combative and oppositional system for the government and the opposition to agree on a policy move of this nature. When it does happen, it is usually in regards to a piece of public policy that carries obvious and substantial benefits for the public interest, the provincial economy or both.

Unfortunately, it does not appear

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that this move to take a percentage point off the small business tax rate passes either of those litmus tests.

The Wildrose document recommending the tax decrease offers up very little in terms of concrete justification or actual research by way of justifying the move. In fact, all the document really says is that Alberta's current three-percent rate is higher than that of both British Columbia (two-and-a-half percent) and Saskatchewan (two percent), and that cost to government revenues of dropping the rate by one percentage point would be negligible.

That's it. No evidence to show how dropping the rate would increase jobs or investment or even business confidence in Alberta. No reason given as to why our rates should be lower than, or as low as, BC and Saskatchewan. And certainly no explanation why, if the actual financial impact is so small, the Alberta government should even bother.

In order for a business to qualify for the small business tax rate, it must

generate under $500 000 a year in business income. Many of these are small mom-and-pop operations— businesses that, quite frankly, are not likely to pick up and move to BC or Saskatchewan in order to take advantage of a half-a-percent or one-percent tax difference, especially if the impact of that tax difference would be completely nullified by the provincial sales taxes that exist in both provinces.

by those households. In other words, reducing the small business tax rate does little to create jobs and actually serves as one more tax break for the top income earners in the province.

Then there's the question of what a one-percent tax cut would actually mean to a small business operating in Alberta. A business operating at the upper limit of the category would see its business taxes reduced by a grand total of $4 999 a year. While that may seem like a lot to an individual struggling to make ends meet, for most businesses it is meaningless—it would not be enough to fund an expansion or a renovation or increased investment, and it certainly would not be enough to hire more staff. In other words, it would have next to zero impact on job creation or the economy as a whole. The only thing it would accomplish is to remove between $100 and $150 million from provincial revenues at a time when the province is already facing a significant revenue shortfall.

It could be argued that, despite the

lack of impact on jobs and the economy, it would be a smart move politically for the government to implement this Wildrose recommendation.

The rhetoric from Alberta's right has been quite successful in convincing many Albertans that the government is simply not doing enough for jobs, businesses and the economy, and this is one move that might actually appease some of those folks.

The bottom line, however, is that there are a broad range of things the province could do with that kind of money that would have an equal or greater political impact while also benefitting the public interest much more significantly. Imagine, for example, what $150 million could do for long-term care, child care, classrooms or even school lunch programs. In tough economic times it is critical that governments find policies that are both low-cost and high-impact. A small business tax cut would simply not measure up.V

be cancelled if the number of returnees reaches 72 000. That's slightly more than one month's worth of migrants at the current rate of supply.

The goal behind this weirdly dysfunctional deal was twofold: to cut the total number of migrants drastically—more than a million made it into the EU last year—and at the same time to end the deaths that happen during the sea crossing: 460 drownings out of the 143 000 who tried to cross so far this year.

But it simply will not work.

The only way to really seal a frontier is to kill people who try to cross it illegally. After the first few hundred deaths, most people get the message and stop trying. (The Iron Curtain worked pretty well, for example.) But the EU isn't ready to do that yet—so how can it discourage migrants from making the crossing?

What if we ship almost all those who make it to the Greek islands back to Tur-

key, but promise to take one legitimate Syrian refugee out of the camps in Turkey for every Syrian we send back? The Turks will go along with it if we give them $3.3 billion now, promise them another $3.3 billion later, and allow visa-free travel to the EU for Turkish citizens. The deal is win-win all around.

What could possibly go wrong?

Well, there are around two-and-a-half million Syrian refugees in Turkey, and most of them are not even in camps.

If they have a good legal claim for asylum, why should they wait in the queue? And if they are not Syrian— Iraqi or Afghan refugees or African migrants—where is their incentive not to get in a boat and try their luck?

To its credit, the EU has not yet deployed the ultimate argument: that refugees are already safe in Turkey, a country that is still technically a democracy with the rule of law, and therefore have no right to go asylum-shopping in greener pastures elsewhere. But after this new deal collapses, it will almost certainly come to that in the end. V

In order for a business to qualify for the small business tax rate, it must generate under $500 000 a year in business income It is worth pointing out that not all small businesses are mom-andpop shops. In fact, as University of Calgary economist Jack Mintz has pointed out on numerous opportunities, across the country some 60 percent of small business deductions go to households with more than $150 000 in income, and that in many of those cases the small businesses simply exist as a method of reducing personal income tax paid

Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

The views and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute.

GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@vueweekly.com

Europe's migrant crisis

The deal between the EU and Turkey is about to blow up Early next week (April 4), the deal made between the European Union and Turkey to stem the flood of refugees into the EU goes into effect. It will promptly blow up in everybody's face, for three reasons.

First problem: the EU won't be able to "process" the arriving migrants as fast as new ones arrive. Migrants are arriving on the Greek islands of Chios and Lesbos at the rate of almost 2000 per day, and as the weather improves even larger numbers will attempt the short sea crossing from Turkey.

Up to now the migrants have quickly been moved on to the mainland of Greece, but the Turkish-EU deal means that new arrivals will now pile up on the islands in detention camps while awaiting a decision on their asylum claims. Living conditions will become intolerable and there will be protests, some of them violent.

The EU has authorized a force of 4000 security and migration officials and translators to register the new arrivals and investigate their claims for asylum. Even if these officials had all arrived on the islands (most haven't), they wouldn't be enough. It takes time to interview the claimants, write up the claims, make decisions to accept or reject them, and even allow appeals—

and meanwhile another 2000 will be arriving each day.

Second problem: within one or two weeks the time will come for the first rejected asylum claimants to be sent back to Turkey. Having spent all their money and endured great hardships to get this far, they will not go back willingly. It will require physical force to get some of them on the planes or boats that will take them back—enough force that there will be real casualties.

Third problem: by June, as part of this deal, Turkish citizens will have the right to visa-free travel to the European Union. Around one-fifth of Turkey's population, some 15 to 20 million people, are Kurds.

Since last summer, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government, having broken a two-year ceasefire with the separatists of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), has been waging a pitiless war against them in the towns and cit-

ies of the southeast.

Some parts of Kurdish-majority cities in Turkey now resemble the warravaged cities of Syria. The Kurds, as Turkish citizens, will be able to enter most EU countries not as refugees but as tourists—and it would be very surprising if several million of them do not

The goal behind this weirdly dysfunctional deal was twofold: to cut the total number of migrants drastically—more than a million made it into the EU last year—and at the same time to end the deaths that happen during the sea crossing avail themselves of the opportunity.

But the EU's goal in this deal was to stop the mass migration, not to change it from Syrian Arabs to Turkish Kurds.

In practice, things will never get that far. Long before the EU negotiators agree on the details of visa-free travel for Turkish citizens, the deal will collapse—because it will automatically

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

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Deeper inquiry

All aboriginal groups must have a voice in the national MMIWG investigation

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he national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) is a long-overdue step towards reconciling Canada's relationship with its aboriginal people. The inquiry, which is slated to begin this summer, seeks to present concrete and achievable recommendations to address and prevent violence against indigenous

women and girls.

The first step towards that was a pre-inquiry design process, which included 18 face-to-face meetings with over 2000 participants in centres across the country, over 4100 submissions through an online survey, and submissions received through email, phone and by mail. A final summary, which will capture what

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was heard during the pre-inquiry design process, will be made available sometime in the coming weeks. The information presented in this report will be used to help shape the inquiry itself.

While this process aims to give a voice to the people who have been silenced for so long, there was still at least one big oversight: the pre-

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Ghomeshi verdict I cried exactly two hot, angry tears when I read that Jian Ghomeshi was acquitted on four counts of sexual assault and one count of overcoming resistance by choking. But among all of the emotions I felt— heartbreak, rage, disgust—surprise was not one of them.

I wasn't surprised because I know our criminal justice system isn't kind to survivors of sexual assault. Most survivors of trauma cannot recall a cohesive narrative of their experience, and many continue to date their perpetrator after the assault.

But defence lawyers, Ghomeshi's included, interrogate these behaviours to raise enough reasonable doubt to not convict a perpetrator.

The false reporting rate for sexual assaults is the same as any other crime at less than four percent, but

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of the mere 10 percent of sexual assaults reported, only one in four cases result in a conviction. Compared to other crimes, where the guilty plea and conviction rate is often more than 90 percent, sexual assault cases are a pariah of the Canadian justice system.

It's unfair that survivors are expected to enter this system to gain control over their experience and tell their perpetrator, "You hurt me." While reporting can be empowering, it can also be traumatizing to be aggressively crossexamined and forced to recount the intimate details of an assault to a courtroom.

The way sexual assault is treated in law must change to better reflect the true nature of trauma.

But in the meantime, we have a

responsibility to create a culture where survivors of sexual assault do not need to rely on a broken system to feel heard and can see their perpetrators held accountable. Community action is easier than legal reform, and can take on simple actions: attending a bystander intervention workshop, intervening when rape culture inevitably presents itself, or, at the very least, believing survivors and supporting them no matter what they choose to do.

Survivors should be loved and supported for reporting. They should be loved and supported for not reporting. But ending rape culture should not be left up to survivors to fix by reporting to a system that puts them—not perpetrators—on trial.V

Sat, Apr 2 (10 am – 4 pm) Missing & Murdered Inuit Women & Girls pre-inquiry session Edmonton City Hall, Heritage Room

inquiry meetings didn't include any members of the Inuit community living south of the 60th parallel and within urban centres. Instead, the meetings were addressed to First Nations and Métis women only. That Inuit are not included under First Nations is a key distinction of which many Canadians are likely unaware.

"Inuit were never negotiated or invited into treaty—we are not First Nation in any way," Norma Dunning explains in an email. "We do not fall under the Indian Act. Unlike First Nations, Inuit are, as former Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) leader Mary Simon would say, 'Contributing citizens to Canada,' meaning we pay all taxes all the time, even if we are living and working within our home communities. We do not receive yearly annuities, and [we] are a distinct aboriginal group. Our language, customs, spiritual beliefs and forms of protocol are uniquely different. Sadly, the general population of Canada will think that we are [First Nation], but this is not at all true."

To address the exclusion of Inuit from the pre-inquiry process, two Inuit-specific groups, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami national advocacy organization and not-for-profit resource centre Ottawa Tungasuvvingat Inuit (TI), have taken the initiative to host Inuit-focused pre-inquiry meetings in seven Canadian cities. The findings from those meetings will be sent to Ottawa TI, which will forward the information to the federal government for inclusion in the pre-inquiry.

Ottawa TI asked Inuit Edmontonmiut—a local group that aims to foster community among Inuit living in the greater Edmonton area, and of which Dunning is vice-president—to hold one of the meetings here. This Inuit-specific pre-inquiry meeting will be held on Saturday, April 2 from 10 am to 4 pm in the Heritage Room at Edmonton City Hall.

"We believe in the voice of the Inuit to be inclusive, especially in a country that is so very focused on First Nations," Dunning writes. "This doesn't mean we are angry, it means that we want to be heard. Our population is so very small [and] our voice, on a national scale, is seldom given room to even be spoken. ...

Inuit do not carry the same inherent ways that First Nations or Métis do, and again this is not in anger, this is to be recognized as indigenous Canadians with our own ways of knowing and being and how these Inuitspecific ways are to be handled once the national inquiry begins."

Inuit represent a small—just 0.2 percent—proportion of the total Canadian population. But recognizing all aboriginal groups, no matter how small, is critical if the inquiry is to achieve any measurable results.

Each community will have experienced the MMIWG tragedy in their own unique way. It's too easy for people outside aboriginal communi-

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ties to view them as one indistinct group; that viewpoint isn't just inaccurate, it can be quite damaging.

As Inuit Edmontonmiut states on its Facebook page: "When distinct peoples are thought of as one, they lose autonomy. To be thought of as part of an imagined, fictional coalescence of stereotypes and generalizations, strips an individual, or a group, or an entire people, of their ability to define themselves according to their own actions and own words. There must to be an Inuit presence, and we need, and deserve, to be heard. We need to clearly define who we are, where we come from, and what being Inuit means to us."

The numbers are staggering. Aboriginal women make up four percent of the Canadian population, yet 16 percent of women murdered in Canada between 1980 and 2012 were aboriginal (as reported by Statistics Canada, drawing on data from police services across the country).

A 2015 United Nations report found that aboriginal women are five times more likely to die under violent circumstances, and they report rates of violence 3.5 times higher than non-aboriginal women.

And the federal government hasn't done anything about it until now.

"The Harper government refused an inquiry on the grounds that the high numbers of MMIWG was a criminal problem and not a demonstration of a racialized sociological problem," Dunning writes. "My biggest hope is that this inquiry begins to effect the mainstream thought pattern and realization that aboriginal people, on the whole, are overtly racialized within Canada, and it is time for mainstream to examine their own thoughts and beliefs of aboriginal Canadians.

"Overall, I think I would like to see Edmontonians increase their awareness of Inuit-specific issues within Edmonton," she continues. "MMWIG is a national tragedy and the result of continued colonial practices within our country. Alongside of this issue, Inuit within Edmonton continue to experience racism, and barriers within the education system to only name two of the many outcomes of present-day colonialism and assimilation. ... I would like to see Edmontonians engage respectfully with Inuit and eliminate the constant image of Inuit as people who are eaters of raw meat, or someone standing next to a seal breathing hole with a harpoon. We are here. We go to work and to university, we operate in everyday living just as other citizens do.

"I believe that, above all, I would like Edmontonians to listen with respectful intent and treat us with dignity."

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Give Turkish a chance Simit House proves itself not once but thrice

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lessed though it may be with its staggering array of dining options, Edmonton's vein of Turkish restaurants has never been deep.

In my recollection, only Sofra near MacEwan University achieves anything like profile (or longevity). As such, many Edmontonians don't really have a grounding in the distinctive charms of this particular Mediterranean cuisine, though we're bound to taste its influence in the Ottoman-spanning realm of kebabs.

Thus, we should all be pleased by the arrival of Simit House, a brand-spanking-new Turkish eatery in Old Strathcona that provides a more entry-level, child-friendly alternative to the prevailing model.

The space is bright and clean with a high open ceiling and a glowing service counter framed in red, and plenty of room for both tables and booths. A mild cacophony of slick Turkish pop and/or Turkish league

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Simit House 10540 - 82 Ave 587.469.2461 simithouse.ca football wafts through the place, which bustles with family brunchers on the weekend.

So it's fair to ask, what's a simit?

Turns out the eponymous foodstuff is a baked ring of bread that's a bit larger and less dense than a bagel, encrusted with dark-roasted poppy seeds. Simit House does indeed have simit, as well as a remarkable variety of other baked savouries and desserts. The unique deliciousness of the many forms of baking is something that sets Turkish food apart from neighbouring cuisines for me.

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about tacos Explosive origins The word "taco" traces back to 18thcentury silver mines in Mexico. A "taco" referred to paper-wrapped gunpowder, which was used to excavate ore from the ground.

Can it From the 1940s to the 1980s, corn tortillas were sold in cans in the US, which were first introduced by George N Ashley, founder of Ashley's Mexican Foods.

The tortillas were sold this way so they could lie flat. Canned tortillas are obsolete in supermarkets now, having been replaced by plastic bags.

The weight of popularity In 2015, more than 4.5 billion tacos were consumed in the United States.

That's 775-million pounds, which would equal the weight of two Empire State Buildings.

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Taco smarts Everything you need to know about tacos can be found in La Tacopedia, which is a thoroughly researched encyclopedia about regional Mexican tacos. The 320-page book—it's only available in Spanish—took five years of research to create. It details the history of corn and tortillas, the 16 types of tacos and more.

All in favour?

Taco Bell started a petition to get a taco emoji made. After 32 797 taco lovers signed it, the taco emoji was introduced in October 2015 with the iOS 9.1 update.

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Friday night, for my meal took a while to arrive relative to the number of customers in the restaurant (just me). But as the young server assured me at least once, it would be worth it. I'd opted for one of the kebab platters, unaware that it would handily feed myself and another. I decided to forego the şalgam, a drink made from fermented purple carrots that I'm not inclined to think of as a beverage.

The Adana kebab platter ($16.99) boasted two sizeable skewers of aromatically spiced (and garlicky)

ground beef and lamb over a whopping heap of flavourful, tomatotinted bulgur, stewed red cabbage, tomato-cucumber salad, fries and sides of sriracha mayo and yogurt dip, all capped with slice of grilled pide bread to keep the heat in. It's a lot of food, which wouldn't count for much if each element weren't delicious separately and together.

My next visit was a weekend breakfast, which might hold more options for the vegetarian, though you can add sucuk—Turkish dry sausage

which, like everything on the menu, is halal—as an optional part of most dishes. Co-diner tried the house omelette ($12), while I mustered the courage to say menemen ($12.50) out loud to the server.

The wait was worth it this time, too. I only had a small bite of codiner's omelette, but it was exceptional—slightly crisped and imbued with the flavour of the olives cooked into it. Menemen is stirfried onions, tomatoes and peppers mixed with eggs, and then some sort of magic happens to it to make

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it lightly creamy and absurdly tasty.

Our meals came with simit and a puff of fresh grilled bread for mopping up the tangy menemen residue.

On my most recent visit, I tried the iskender kebab ($15.99), which defied my understanding of kebab as mere skewered meat. This dish comprised thin slices of donair-style beef (but less tawdry) heaped over hunks of fresh pide bread and smothered in tomato-pepper sauce, with yogurt on the side, plus grilled peppers and tomato for a bit of roughage. I loved the taste of the tangy tomato sauce with the yogurt and the portion felt substantial, but I might opt for one of the other kebab platters for the multiplicity of sides.

I couldn't leave without taking something baked to go, so I grabbed a slab of börek, the crisp yet supple pastry that finds the sweet spot between phyllo and green onion cake, stuffed with spinach and feta ($6.50); cheese, beef and potato variations are also available. The portion was ample and didn't lose any of its savour or crispiness for being reheated the next day.

It didn't really take three separate visits for me to be fully sold on the quality and value laid on by Simit House, but I felt compelled to be thorough. Now I just need some of you to get on board and patronize this fine new eatery, such that we, as a community, may become better acquainted with wholesome, toothsome Turkish delicacies—at affordable prices. Who's with me?

SCOTT LINGLEY

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Alley Kat admits a mistake

Alley Kat Full Moon Pale Ale Edmonton, AB $12.95 for a six-pack

Full Moon returns to its pale-ale origins

ale's bigger sister: India Pale Ale (IPA). IPAs are quite hop-forward and people increasingly were looking for that lupulin hit. Alley Kat thought it might be able to revive Full Moon's fortunes by making it an IPA. Because Alley Kat is a brewery with integrity, staff didn't just swap out labels and tack a new name on the beer. The brewery changed the recipe to make it a real IPA, while still trying to keep some of the features that make Full Moon the beer it is. In that regard, Alley Kat actually succeeded. I remember tasting it shortly after the shift, and my first thought was: "This is still Full Moon." It was just a bit hoppier and a bit bigger.

So maybe it was a good idea: increase the beer's appeal while staying true to its base character.

come through more clearly. As I try both side-by-side, I realize that might be what I love about Full Moon; the malt character is nearperfect. The IPA version made the malt a bit player, while the pale ale gives it equal billing.

I am very glad Alley Kat is mature enough to recognize it made a mistake. And I am even more glad that I once again get to drink one of my go-to beers in town.V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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Just over a year ago, Alley Kat made an earth-shattering announcement (at least among local beer aficionados): the company decided to change the recipe for its flagship beer, Full Moon Pale Ale. For almost 20 years, Full Moon was the beer that defined Alley Kat. It wasn't necessarily its best seller, but it is what gave the brewery its reputation. It was widely regarded in the beer world as an excellent example of a Northwest Pale Ale: citrusy hop character balanced by a toasty, toffee malt base. Eminently drinkable and full-flavoured at the same time, I will readily admit it was a beer I regularly returned to for comfort, if nothing else.

But then Alley Kat decided to change it. Sales were flagging a bit as beer drinkers gravitated to pale

I have polled some Alley Kat drinkers since the announcement, and while there is some polarization, the majority of people I spoke with supported the return to the original recipe. Whether this results in a bump in sales, I can't say.

What I can say is that I was never a huge fan of the shift. My take was that Alley Kat turned what was an exemplary version of a pale ale into a fair-to-middling IPA. The beer was still very enjoyable, but didn't stand out in the way the original version did. It was kind of a Classic Coke versus New Coke kind of thing.

But because memory is a faulty thing, I decided to test my theory about Full Moon. I picked up a sixpack of the last batch of the IPA version, as well as a six-pack of the new/original pale ale, and tried them side by side. Both beers were very fresh, so I argue they are quite comparable.

Like I remembered, my first impression was just how similar the beers are. They are both worthy

of the Full Moon moniker. They looked identical, and the malt character and light fruitiness were the same. They are clearly sisters.

I found the IPA version more hopforward, offering extra bitterness. It has a sharper, bigger profile, while the pale ale is more balanced. They share a pleasant soft toffee malt, and the recognizable Cascade hop signature of rounded citrus accented by a touch of grassiness. Yet the pale ale version seems a bit more balanced, creating an impression that it is fuller and a bit sweeter.

What I like about the pale ale version is this increased balance. It allows the lovely malt character to

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Maybe. A year or so later, it seems like it didn't work out that way.

Neil Herbst, owner of Alley Kat, says that sales were OK, but they didn't get the bump he was looking for. Plus, he says, Alley Kat received a fair bit of grief from loyal Full Moon drinkers who weren't pleased with the shift.

So a couple weeks ago, Alley Kat admitted it made a mistake and announced that, as of now, Full Moon is once again a pale ale, brewed using the same recipe that has been used for decades. To mark its return, for a limited time Alley Kat is packaging Full Moon in its old-timey branding, complete with cats sitting at a bar and staring at a full moon.

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Tue, Apr 5 – Sun, Apr 10 Citadel Theatre, $12 in advance, $15 at the door ($15 advance, $20 at the door on Sunday) Full schedule at rapidfiretheatre.com That started at Bonfire as an idea they wanted to try and it has done a couple Fringe Festivals, it's done a couple tours, and it's been a regular instalment at Chimprov as well."

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apid Fire Theatre's Chimprov shows have used many different framing devices over the years to structure the long-form comedy.

From improvised TED talks to Doctor Who send-ups to fake movie trailers, Chimprov has developed a pool of recurring segments to draw from each week. But where do the concepts behind each long-form improv show come from?

"We do a bunch of different fes-

tivals throughout the year," says artistic director Matt Schuurman.

"Improvaganza brings in the big improv acts from around the world.

Wildfire is for our students and our teen improvisers to practice their stuff. But Bonfire is really the only festival that is truly just for us."

Describing the festival as a laboratory where the Rapid Fire ensemble experiments, Schuurman portrays Bonfire as a testing grounds for shows

that could eventually make their way into the regular Chimprov lineup.

"It's for us to have our biggest improv desires, stuff that we normally wouldn't attempt throughout the year because they're too big or too crazy or too ambitious," he says. "We cram those all into this one little festival. And it's a great opportunity for our ensemble to take some big risks and try stuff out, and for an audience to see us do a whole bunch of

stuff that we've never done before."

Each Bonfire show gets a single, make-or-break performance in the six-day festival. If they work, they have a chance to not only join the regular Chimprov season but to branch out to other venues as well.

"Many of the projects have gone on to other lives," Schuurman says.

"One of the more notable ones is our troupe Folk Lordz—that's Ben Gorodetsky and Todd Houseman.

Now in its fifth year, Bonfire will include a number of TV-inspired shows (from Game of Thrones to XFiles), a mock-rockumentary where a five-member band will improvise rock songs, and an Artificial Improvisation show where computing science PhD candidate Kory Mathewson will improvise one-on-one with an artificial intelligence.

Even if a show only gets this onetime Bonfire performance (and Schuurman says some of the shows are definitely just RFT cast members getting an idea out of their systems), its failed experiment will still be fun to watch.

"The joy of improv is [that] even when it's failing it's entertaining," Schuurman says. "Because that's kind of a promise we make to an audience—beyond just the Bonfire festival, that applies to all improv.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But either way it's just a joy to watch, because it's as much fun to watch someone absolutely crushing a scene as it is to watch someone crash and burn in a scene—as long as they're failing with grace and positivity, which [are] kind of the pillars of improv. So that kind of permeates into the psychology of the festival."

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The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux

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n our most enduring tales of love, youth is almost always a hallmark, from the blossom and tragic wilt of Romeo and Juliet to the general cultural emphasis placed on "first love" stories. Hell, even The Notebook's fond recollections of an elderly couple emphasize youth as the crucible that forged and strengthened its matters of the heart as a foundation for the rest of its lovers' lives.

But the romance in The Passion of Narcisse Monodoux begins at the end of another: more specifically, at the funeral of Laurencienne's husband, which is where the titular Narcisse begins making moves on the just-widowed. Time is, after all, of the essence.

"He doesn't want to waste any time," director Trevor Schmidt says.

"Now that she's free? Get in there."

So begins the courtship rom-com

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that looks for love in its characters' sunset years: though Narcisse thinks he knows exactly what to do, he finds his wooing somewhat more complicated.

Brian Dooley, who plays Narcisse, nods, sitting beside Schmidt in Café Bicyclette. The two artistic directors—Schmidt of Northern Light, Dooley of L'Uni Theatre—have partnered their companies to present Passion in both official languages: Dooley and co-star Manon Beaudoin will perform it in both English and French on alternating days. Which involves all of the sort of mental gymnastics you'd imagine, as well as an adjusted rehearsal process.

"Usually we do half the day in one language," Dooley says. "And then we'll flip, and do half the day in the other language."

It was a play Schmidt found years

ago in a second-hand bookstore and filed away for future considerations.

He brought it to Dooley as another potential pairing between their companies; as it happens, Dooley was already well-versed with the script.

"I've known this play since it was first produced in French," he recalls. "I worked with [the playwright] Gratien Gélinas when his wife wanted to do it in English. He wrote it for her, and he asked me to be their English coach."

The script—a French rom-com from the '80s—is a little lighter in subject matter than usual for NLT. Schmidt describes the style as "Mr Roper—remember Three's Company?'"

"There's a commedia quality," Dooley adds. "I wouldn't say so much clown, but there's a farcical dimension to it."

Passion marks the second show that NLT and L'Uni have partnered to present: 2014's Mercy of A Storm was the first. Having gone through the dual-language process once before gave them a sense of how to work with both versions of the script, even though Beaudoin was new to the process.

"We already felt we had a process that can basically work," Dooley says. "Extend the rehearsal by approximately a week, maybe 10 days longer than we would normally, just to have absorption time. We knew that that worked, and that doing the split days would work. ... We knew that those were part of a template that we could always go back to.

The dynamics of the play itself are the same in whatever language that is, and the rehearsal process and the rehearsal discoveries are the same,

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Until Sat, Apr 9 (7:30 pm; English performances on Mar 29, Mar 31, Apr 3, Apr 6, Apr 8 [7:30 pm & 11:30 pm], Apr 9) Directed by Trevor Schmidt La Cite Francophone, $23 – $28

whether it's French, English, German, Italian, whatever."

This time around they've found that layering the process—finding the natural take on a scene in rehearsal, then heightening the physical comedy of it—as a way of approaching its comedy, especially when it has to be found in both languages.

"To take a romantic comedy from the '80s [in] Quebec," he notes, "and to blow the dust off it the way that Trevor has, in a way that elevates the comedic aspects, the comedic dynamics, has been a lot of fun."

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Fractions I

nside SNAP's intimate main galley space is Fractions, which displays meticulous prints by Belgian artist Ingrid Ledent. Hanging on the walls is a series of black-andwhite, grey-and-white, and red-andblack lithographs characterized by the geometric patters and organic shapes imprinted on their surfaces.

A careful, detailed process has left its mark on each of the prints. It doesn't seem like an artist's hands were involved; instead, you get the impression that the paper instinctively exhaled the images onto its surface.

Despite what it seems, Ledent's prints were created by hand through a complicated technique. With lithography, you print images by using a stone; the stone's flat surface is manipulated to repel ink in certain areas, except from where the maker has drawn an image. When the stone is inked and pressed with paper, the drawn image is imprinted on the paper's surface.

When you look closely at Ledent's prints, the paper appears to have a tactile quality. It's as if Ledent printed on wood veneer: the lines and curves in the patterns on the

ARTIFACTS Express Yourself: Fundraiser & 2nd Birthday Party / Thu, Mar 31 (7 pm) Having offered much-needed dedicated creative space in the city for two years now, the Creative Practices Institute has cause to celebrate.

In that spirit, Express Yourself packs in a cavalcade of entertainment: music from Maria Phillipos, Ranni and the Gibson Block; there's a giant print of the CPI house that you can colour; plus some takeaway canvases, door prizes and imbibements galore. All the funds raised go directly towards CPI's programming. (The Almanac, $20 in advance, $25 at the door) V Richard Lett: Sober But Never Clean / Sun, Apr 3 (8 pm) Richard Lett did his first stand-up set

Until Sat, Apr 16 Works by Ingrid Ledent SNAP Gallery lithographs are similar to the patterns of wood grain.

The prints on the walls interact with two large-scale images in the centre of the room that rest on a flat plinth. On one side of the plinth is a grey-and-white print with a pattern that resembles waves of sand repeatedly kissed by gusts of wind.

The ink on the paper flows back and forth from light to dark, projecting depth into the pattern. Next to this print is an image projected onto a layer of sand. The image on the sand ebbs and flows, carrying geometric shapes across a multitude of tiny rock particles. The shapes the projected image creates in the sand seem to be part of the sand itself, as if the sand has moulded itself to the image of the print.

Staring at Ledent's work is mesmerizing. The images seem innate to paper and to the sand, gracing these surfaces with the presence of her ideas and thoughts. You will likely leave Fractions wishing you could see the artist's printmaking process for yourself.

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at the Sidetrack Café back in 1986. It was a launchpad evening for a lifelong career in comedy, but this is a show that looks at the bad times that followed: his years of addiction and recovery, in a show that's played Fringe Festivals, and is presently touring through Yuk Yuk's across the country. So it'll be funny and serious.

(Yuk Yuk's [Century Casino], $20) Return to Grace / Until Sat, Apr 2 Billing itself as the concert of a lifetime, Return to Grace is a tribute musical to Elvis Presley. The show, which enjoyed a successful run in Toronto in 2014, spans his life: the Memphis days to the '68 Comeback Special and beyond, as interpreted by a cast of 30 singers, musicians and dancers.

(Jubilee Auditorium, $35 – $99)

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The Realistic Joneses T

he Realistic Joneses is supposed to be a story about the omnipresence of death looming over banal suburban life.

"It's a story of people doing what people do—you drive around and get groceries, and you do all this in the valley of the shadow of death."

That's how playwright Will Eno described his play in an interview with New York Times theatre critic Mervyn Rothstein (an excerpt of which is included on the back of Theatre Network's program). But despite a subplot about a degenerative illness, the show never really explores this idea in any depth. It just sort of begins and then just sort of ends, having gone through a series of talk-heavy scenes where our four characters perform clever conversational gymnastics without really saying anything.

The play begins by throwing two couples, both surnamed Jones, together on a warm summer night. For the next hour, the play shuffles them into different configurations so that they can exchange quick and easy banter with each other.

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The four actors do a great job bringing unique voices to the uniformly written dialogue. Jennifer (Belinda

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

Cornish) is clipped and serious, the grown-up among all these childish people. Bob (Robert Benz) is grumbly and grumpy, a John Goodman-esque bear of a man. Pony (Amber Borotsik) is spacey and anxious, a manic pixie dream girl with rapidly changing moods. And John (Jesse Gervais) tries to be suave and comes off as a bit of a pretentious dick. All of them skate across the weightless dialogue with perfect comedic timing, setting off hilariously stilted conversations.

There are plenty of comical moments and tons of clever lines in The Realistic Joneses. But it feels like you could cut out half the play, or add another half-hour of banter, and not substantially change the story.

"I love how you're always joking around, but sometimes I hate it though," says Pony to John at one point. The line gets a laugh not only because John is always choosing to go with a meaningless joke and celebrating his own cleverness rather than really talking, but also because the play does the exact same thing.

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Heathers: the Musical Until Sat, Apr 9 (7:30 pm; 2 pm matinee on Sun, Apr 3) Directed by Trevor Schmidt John L Harr Theatre, $15 – $20

U of A Studio Theatre presents: The Kaufman Kabaret

by Hannah Moscovitch Mar 23−Apr 2

Northern Light Theatre Presents: The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux Mar 31−Apr 9

Walterdale Theatre Presents: Glengarry Glen Ross

By David Mamet Apr 6−Apr 16

Horizon Stage Up Close & Personal: David Myles Apr 15 // Ian Jackson, EPIC Photography

Arden Theatre Professional Series: Matthew & Jill Barber The Family Album Apr 16

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2016 Edmonton Poetry Festival Apr 17−24

U of A Studio Theatre Northern Light presents: The Whale Theatre presents:

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f you haven't seen the film Heathers, put down this paper (or whatever device you're currently reading this story on) and go watch it. The enduring '80s cult hit remains a touchstone of its era, possibly because of just how bluntly it mixes the usual teenage tropes with gallows humour: featuring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater—both rising stars at the time—as high school sweethearts: as the popularbut-unhappy Veronica (Ryder) starts to fall for new-to-school loner J D (Slater), the clique of vicious teen queens start to die off around them in accidental, then much less acci-

dental ways. Think Mean Girls but, well, meaner, bolstered with plenty of shocking, of-its-era dialogue.

"It was terribly groundbreaking at the time," Trevor Schmidt recalls.

"You just didn't see shows like that; the idea of killing your enemies, killing your high school bullies was not something that had really something that had ever been examined before."

Heathers first arrived in theatres when Schmidt was in university, about the same age as the director's Grant McEwan cast is now as they finish prepping Heathers: the Musical. The stage version of the film is a

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recent creation: it debuted off-broadway in 2010, where it was nominated for a handful of Drama Desk Awards.

And, to Schmidt, its pitch-black comedy transfers very well to the songand-stage setting.

"It's a great musical," he says. "It's a tough, tough show to sing, but I think it translates exceedingly well. I'm surprised more people don't know about it, and it isn't being done more, now that the rights are being released after its off-Broadway production.

"It definitely keeps all of the classic lines, and the classic sense of humour," he continues. "It's very, very dark. But you get all those lines like 'Fuck me with a chainsaw.'"

Heathers came out in '88, well before its MacEwan cast was even born, meaning they hadn't seen the film prior to this. Schmidt organized a viewing a few months back, where its resonance with the younger generation was apparent. Mostly, anyway.

"They totally get the black sense of humour," he says. "They were more grossed out by the fashion."

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The Kaufman Kabaret W

ith a naughty German accent, the emcee at The Kaufman Kabaret delights in teasing the audience with the Canadian history we could be covering—the Meech Lake Accord, the War of 1812, Quebec separatism—but thankfully are not.

Instead, Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch has dug up a far sexier story from our collective past: the legalization of birth control.

Following the story of A R Kaufman, a wealthy boot-manufacturer whose factory employed hundreds of workers living on the edge of despair in the late 1920s and '30s, the world première of The Kaufman Kabaret is a captivating trip through Canada's lesser known, but no less important history.

Kaufman (Corben Kushneryk) is concerned about the desperate existence of his workers and decides if they could just have fewer children, their fortunes would turn. He then sets out on a mission to find an effective birth-prevention device and to distribute it to those in need, with the help of willing nurses and doctors. Eventually, his pushing of preventative measures lands one of his nurses, Dorothea Palmer, in jail and a landmark trial follows.

The play flips back and forth between a cabaret-style, with our German-ish host, and the more traditional staging of Kaufman's journey. Kushneryk relishes his dual roll as impish Master of Ceremonies and the affable Kaufman, tran-

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

sitioning with ease and humour, as well as dealing fairly well with a few hecklers.

There are quite a few standout moments, like when the leaders of various religious communities take the stand at trial simultaneously, creating a cacophony of sanctimonious opinion about the issue. Or when the prosecution argues that a higher standard of living and more effective social policy might help the situation of these workers more than condoms.

However, it would have been nice to return to the "cabaret" moments more frequently—though interesting, some stretches of storytelling were so long, the cabaret seemed all but forgotten. And some moments didn't carry as well as others—like when Palmer relives her escape from a violent attack—as the drama of the situation is slightly lost in its re-telling.

But these are minor grievances.

Funny, thought provoking and, at times, truly chilling, The Kaufman Kabaret is a welcome addition to the Canadian theatre landscape.

KATHLEEN BELL

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Dance Bones In Motion Dance • GWDC Studio Space, 11205-107 Ave • 780.802.6867 • info@ goodwomendance.ca • A gentle warm up and variety of combinations moving in, out and across the floor, exploring the sense of bone • Apr 5, Apr 7-8, 1011:30am • $100 (10 class pack), $65 (5 class pack), $15 (drop-in)

Contemporary Technique Dance Classes • GWDC Studio Space, 11205-107 Ave • 780.802.6867 • info@goodwomendance.ca • goodwomen.ca/classes • Contemporary technique dance instruction • Every Tue, Thu-Fri in Apr, 1011:30am • $100 (10 class pack), $65 (5 class pack), $15 (drop-in)

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, 9231100 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 Ancient Greece at the Movies Film Series • Tory Breezeway 1, University of Alberta • kelly.macfarlane@ualberta.ca • Featuring the film Black Orpheus in Portugese with English subtitles and a pre-show talk by university staff • Apr 3-17, 2-5pm

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: Freeheld (Apr 6), Le régne de la beauté (Apr 13), Meet the Patels (Apr 20), Turbo Kid (Apr 27) 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), To Have and Have Not (Apr 11) • 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 • Schedule: Lilies of the Field (Apr 1), A Patch of Blue (Apr 8), Slender Thread (Apr 15), To Sir, With Love (Apr 22), In the Heat of the Night (Apr 29)

metro • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • Auteurs: Hitchcock/Truffaut: Hitchcock/Truffaut (Apr 1-3); Psycho (Apr 2, 9pm); Jules and Jim (Apr 3, 3:30pm) • Metro Bizarro: Reform School Girls (Apr 13, 7pm) • 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); The Hateful Eight (Apr 9-10, Apr 14); Pulp Fiction (Apr 10, Apr 12) • Science in the Cinema: Amour (Mar 31, 6:30pm) • Staff Pics: Tootsie (Apr 11, 7pm) • They Came From Projector X: The Day the Earth Stood Still (Apr 23, 7pm; Apr 24, 4:30pm; Apr 27, 9:30pm) • Turkey Shoot: Victor Frankenstein (Apr 21, 9:30pm)

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

galLeries + Museums ACUA Gallery & Artisan Boutique • 9534-87 St • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts.ca • acuarts.ca • Youth Night Out; Apr 9-23, 6-8pm; $40

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A.J. Ottewell Community Centre • 590 Broadmoor Blvd • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Art Society Spring Show & Sale; Apr 15-17; Opening reception: Apr 15, 7-9pm ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • 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 • Feature Gallery: #ABCRAFT: artists using digital technologies; Apr 2-Jul 2; Artist reception: Apr 2, 2-4pm 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 • Conversation with the Artist: Sean Caulfield: The Flood (Apr 10, 2-3pm) • Curator’s Walkthrough: The Blur In Between (Apr 20, 7pm) • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm • Art for Lunch: 3rd Thu of the month, 12:10-12:50pm; Schedule: 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc (Apr 21) • VIBE: The gallery is transformed into a laid-back lounge with Vibe, a pop-up live music showcase; Apr 15, May 6, Jun 17, Jul 15, Aug 19; 5-9pm

Jake's Gallery and Framing • 10441-123 St • 780.426.4649 • jake@jakesframing.ca • Inspired Creations: artwork by Saeed Hojjati; Mar 14-Apr 9 • The Great Outdoors Indoors: artwork by Jason Blower; Apr 11-Apr 30 Jeff Allen Art Gallery (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • A Fiesta of Colour: artwork by Maura McGarrigle and Joyce Bjerke; Mar 31-Apr 27; Opening reception: Apr 13, 6:30-8:30pm

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

Latitude 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • War. 11: portraits by Taras Polataiko; Mar 24-Apr 30 • The Reflex: artwork by Paul Bernhardt, Mar 24-Apr 30 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

Paint Spot • 10032-81 Ave • 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

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 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; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alberta Print­Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • Ingrid Ledent; Feb 3-Apr 14

Bear Claw Gallery • 10403-124 St •

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave,

780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • Artwork by Maxine Noel; Apr 16-28

Bleeding Heart Art Space • 9132-118 Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Sweet Jesus: artwork by Borys Tarasenko; Mar 19-Apr 30 BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • New Works: artwork

by Jim Visser; Apr 8-21; Artist reception: Apr 8, 6-9pm, Apr 9, 1-4pm

Creative Practices Institute • 10149-122

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

Royal Alexandra Hospital Gallery • 10240 Kingsway Ave • Community: artwork by various artists; Mar 28-May 9

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 •

Strathcona County Museum & Archives • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park •

Lie" & Garry Ryan "Indiana Pulcinella" Double Launch; Apr 12, 7pm • Jennifer Cockrall-King "Food Artisans of the Okanagan" Book Launch; Apr 13, 7pm • Karen Bass "The Hill" Book Launch; Apr 14, 7pm

Creative Connections • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ca • Writer in Residence Marty Chan to learn all about the perks and pitfalls of indie publishing • Apr 14, 7-9pm • Free (register online sclibrary.ca, or 780.410.8600) 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

Margaret Atwood • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Presented by the Canadian Literature Centre. Part of the 10th Annual Kreisel Lecture • Apr 7, 7:30pm • $36 (adult), $20 (student) Naked Girls Reading • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St NW • 780.691.1691 • There will be different themes each month. Get Baked! Recipes for the 420 (Apr) • Every 2nd Tue of month, 8:3010:30pm • $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 Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright Shane Koyczan • Arden Theatre, 5 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

strathconacountymuseum.ca • Making Their Mark: the Land Surveyor's Role in the Peaceful and Orderly Development of Alberta; Jan 4-Apr 30

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

Telus World of Science • 11211-142 St •

Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave •

telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • The International Exhibition Of Sherlock Holmes; Mar 25-Sep 5

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)

St, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute.com • A House is a Home: Artwork by Emily Geen; Mar 9-Apr 16

University of Alberta Hospital • Main

dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St •

floor, 8440-112 St • Mountain High: artwork by Donna Miller; Mar 8-Apr 4

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U of A Museums Galleries at Enterprise square • Main floor, 10230 Jasper Ave •

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)

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

Douglas Udell Gallery (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • View From a Painting Place: Milne, Roberts, Cowley, Kipling; until Apr 9

Drawing Room • 10253-97 St • 780.760.7284 • admin@drawingroomedmonton.com • Photography Workshop With David Hernandez; Apr 16-17; $40 (one day), $80 (both days)

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 •

FAb Gallery • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • Bachelor of Design Graduate Show 2016; Mar 29-Apr 9

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

front gallery • 12323-104 Ave •

VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St

thefrontgallery.com • Inner Perceptions, Outer Reflections: artwork by Blake Ward; Apr 2-19; Opening reception: Apr 2, 2-4pm

Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Best Seat in the House: a collection of photographs and stories by Ethan Russell; Feb 26-Mar 29 • Members Show & Sale; Apr 1-May 1; Opening reception: Apr 8, 7pm

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Marks of Meaning: artworks by Bonnie Patton; Through Apr • Display cases and cubes: Quiet Moments: Wood carvings by Crystal Dreidger; through Apr • Live creation session with Crystal Dreidger: Apr 2, 9, 23 & 30, 10am-2pm; in the Gallery Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Dead Record Office: artwork by Audint; Mar 10-Apr 15 • Bed Linens: artwork by Sara Mckarney; Mar 10-Apr 15

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 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 • 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, 13-4pm • Vern Thiessen "Of Human Bondage" Book Launch; Apr 4, 7pm • Wendy Newman "121 First Dates" Reading and Signing; Apr 7, 7pm • Blaine Greenwood "Black Cat in the Shadows" Reading & Signing; Apr 9, 2pm • Mark Lisac "Where the Bodies

11 O'Clock Number • The Backstage Theatre,

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 telling? A thrilling and hilarious cat-andmouse drama about the arts of politics, culture and sex • Mar 16-Apr 3 Bonfire Festival • The Citadel Theatre - Ziedler Hall, 9828-101A Ave NW • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s annual romp of new ideas in longform improv. Featuring sketches such as Edmonton, I Love You, The Kevin McDonald Show, SherlockFringe Files and much more • Apr 5-10 Chimprov • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun 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 DuffleBag Theatre: Snow White • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove •

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780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • Known for their retellings of original fairy tales and Shakespearean classics, this time DuffleBag Theatre is taking on Snow White—complete with a wicked stepmother, a talking mirror and plenty of dwarves • Apr 9, 2pm • $12, all ages

glengarry glen ross • Walterdale Theatre, 10322-83 Ave • 780.439.3058 • walterdaletheatre. com • A play about desperate men in a real-estate office. Using unethical and illegal acts to sell bad properties to unsuspecting buyers, the men compete to be top salesman or risk losing their jobs.

Unfortunately, much of the play resonates today as it did in the early '80s. Desperation and the hunt for the mighty dollar keep this play relevant in the most uncomfortable ways • Apr 6-16 • Sponsored by Vue Weekly hair • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Set in an East Village park in the age of Aquarius, when sex and drugs were used as vehicles to evade reality, Hair is the musical story of a group of hippies who celebrate peace and love—and their long-hair—in the shadow of the Vietnam War • Apr 12-Jun 12

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 Kaufman Kabaret • Timms Centre For The Arts, University of Alberta, 87 Ave and 112 St • 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, 16615109 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, rundown 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 MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a high-stakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door)

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

Other Desert Cities • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • A searing comedy drama about the reunion of an elite Republican family in California. All unravels over the daughter's determination to publish a memoir of family secrets. Nominated for five Tony Awards and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Apr 9-May 1

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) Snow White • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage. com • Known for their retellings of original fairy tales and Shakespearean classics, this time DuffleBag Theatre is taking on Snow White - complete with a wicked step-mother, a talking mirror, and plenty of dwarves. Their goofy antics tickle children’s funny bones and their wit entertains parents • Apr 9, 2pm • $12; All ages Social Scene • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A 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, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

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The history of Canadian comics, from early political cartoons to the return of superhero Canucks stories, books (the first collection sold over a million copies), plays and strips (English Canada's first non-political comics) they appeared in, the Brownies were widely merchandised—appearing in ads, on cards, as dolls on mugs, on package labels, and more. Cox's critters grew so famous that Eastman Kodak's iconic, snapshot-taking brownie camera (1900) was named after them.

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id you know about Yvette Mailloux's "Father Robert," très populaire in rural Quebec in the '50s? Or Bartley Munn's Kao-Kuk, of the Royal Canadian Astro-Men, debuting in 1956? Ever hear tell of the shadowy Sol Gertzman's '60s hero Canada Jack?

What about those mini-gumball strips starring Jocko, the Little Scotsman?

As intriguing as these snippets of Canuck comic history sound, they're all made-up—by Ontario's Seth (Gregory Gallant), for his 2011 sketchbook-turned-graphic novel The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists. In a caption above a picture of our supposed National Cartoon Library, Seth wryly imagines a time when "Canadians (and their leaders) loved and supported cartooning"—a notional North where Pierre Trudeau's own cartooning juvenilia is preserved in a (cold-storage?) archive.

The truth of the printed matter, though—the Can-did history of Cancom—is more circuitous, curious, colourful, cross-cultural and deux-solitudes (with bande dessinée québécoise [BDQ] and Anglo-Canada comics rarely crossing paths) than even Seth's creative cartoon conjuring. Take the case of Jacob Maydanyk: the Ukrainian came to Canada at 20 in 1911, running the Providence Church Goods Store in Winnipeg until 1979, but moonlighted as an adept cartoonist (and icon painter); his figure-of-fun Vykjo Shteef Tabachniuk (Uncle Steve Tobacco), satirizing the Ukrainian immigrant, appeared in Canadian Farmer and other papers, with a book of his cartoons selling 10 000 copies in the midst of the Depression.

Canadian comix began not 'round the campfire but near the battlefield,

the quill-pen deployed as a backstabbing sword. In 1759, third-in-command George Townshend inked caricatures and cartoons in the months before the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, lampooning his leader, General James Wolfe, in a series of sketches (one mocks Wolfe's impressive height and apparent hauteur). Townshend would assume command, accepting Quebec City's surrender, but be derided on his return to England for having attacked the dearly departed Wolfe. Back here, speech balloons appeared on political posters in late-1700s Quebec. Then came decades of political cartooning across our newfound land, often in short-lived journals (Punch in Canada, Grinchuckle and others). Uncle Sam and John Bull's younger cousin Johnny Canuck, a down-to-earth, simple-minded fellow resisting American and British bullying, debuted in editorial cartoons two years after Confederation.

(During the 1904 election, the Liberal Party would even issue a comic titled "LAURIER DOES THINGS. THE RECORD OF THE GOVERNMENT 1896 TO 1904. DISPLAYED IN A SERIES OF CARTOONS".) Whitby's John Wilson Bengough, in his satirical weekly Grip (1873 – 94), famously and regularly caricatured John A Macdonald; Henri Julien became the country's first full-time newspaper cartoonist at the Montreal Star in 1888.

Palmer Cox, born and raised in Granby—a day's horse-ride east of Montréal—ushered in the commercial era of cartoon characters with the Brownies (1881 – 1924) after he moved to the US. Cox's creatures were mischievous yet also helpful sprites, based on Scottish and English folklore passed down to him by his grandmother. Beyond the

As we come to the 20th century, many Can-toonists headed south for funnypages fame. Nova Scotian Harold A MacGill, once in New York, did strips usually about young labourers in the big city—Percy and Ferdie became his best-known. Halifax-born Hal Foster, an artist with the Hudson's Bay Company in Winnipeg, bicycled down to Chicago in 1919; by 1929, he was drawing a Tarzan strip and then, from 1937 to 1971, he wrote and drew his creation, Prince Valiant, a widely influential Arthurian adventure. Scotland-born Manitoban homesteader Arch Dale, after moving to the Windy City in '21, syndicated his Brownies-like strip, The Doo Dads, in over 50 papers, though its success was short-lived. The same year, though, Toronto Star's weekend supplement went for Jimmy Frise, and his Birdseye Centre became the country's longest-running comic-strip, changing names (Juniper Junction) and papers (Montreal Standard) in 1947. By the late '50s, the first and so far longest-running character in bande dessinée québécoise, Père Ladébauche (a round-hatted bourgeoisie with monocle and cane, then a toqued peasant with clay pipe and ceinture fléchée [colourful sash]), who'd been created in 1879 by Hector Berthelot and remade as the married Baptiste after 1905 by Albéric Bourgeois, saw his cartoon career peter out. But Onésime had already taken over—Albert Chartier's rural-life strip (set in Saint-Jean-deMatha), chock-a-block with drollery, dash and affable bumblers, ran monthly in Bulletin des agriculteurs from 1943 until 2002.

The Second World War launched Canada's brief, gilded age of comics— "Canadian Whites," so-called because of their black-and-white pages—and first caped crusaders, fusing wartime symbolism and patriotic pride, thanks to protectionism. With the foreign currency-rationing War Exchange Conservation Act, meant to curb a trade-deficit with the US by restricting "non-essential goods," American comics were banned from border-crossing, so homegrown comic publishers and their heroes quickly pop-cultured up.

Wales-born, Toronto-raised Adrian Dingle, a landscape painter and illustrator, created superheroine Nelvana of the Northern Lights for Toronto's Hillborough Studios in 1941, four months before Wonder Woman appeared. That "Canada Jack" in Seth's GNBCC? He was an actual character— though created by George Rae—appearing in Canadian Heroes (from Montréal's Educational Projects) from

1943 to 1945. Johnny Canuck returned as a war-hero in a '42 comic series (and as the pre-NHL Vancouver Canucks' lumberjack mascot, resurrected again recently as the team's alternate logo).

Once the war ended, the nation's comics industry (five publishers issuing a total of 20 titles) collapsed; the late '40s saw a crime-comics ban and anti-comics crusading (anticipating the US's moral outrage over comics in the '50s), but newspaper strips ran on. Walter Ball's Rural Route ribboned from '56 to '68. Doug Wright went from briefly continuing Frise's work after he died to creating his own, all-time-great strip, Nipper (changed to Doug Wright's Family in Canada's centennial year), running from 1949 to 1980; now, the Doug Wright Awards for Canadian Cartooning are handed out annually. George Feyer's work in Maclean's encapsulated the '50s and '60s; James Simpkins' Jasper the Bear also appeared there from 1948 to 1968 before being syndicated in newspapers until '72, and then remained the national park's official mascot.

The rise of the counterculture, fandom, and small presses made for the underground scene in the '60s and '70s, paving the way for comics to be seen as more adult and sophisticated. In 1967, concrete poet bp Nichols produced Scraptures, Canada's first comics 'zine.

Underground books like SFU Comix and Snore Comix emerged, though the underground-comix wave crested in the early '70s, even as Coach House published Martin Vaughn-James' wordless, literature-like masterpiece The Cage.

Meanwhile, BDQ (long influenced by Franco-Belgian "albums") was experiencing its "spring": poetic, psychedelic or experimental comics flourished; magazines popped up all over; Jacques Hurtubise (Zyx) burst onto the scene, eventually founding the short-lived Titanic and the Mad-like Croc—launching many cartoonists' careers, it would be bested in the '90s by competitor Safarir. David Boswell's Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman led Englishlanguage alternative comics in the late '70s. And Lynn Johnston began Canada's most popular comic-strip ever, the Patterson family saga For Better or For Worse (1979 – 2008), still in syndication in over 2000 papers in more than 20 countries.

In the '80s, an ink-splash of Cancontent in mainstream comics saw the emergence of Marvel's squad Alpha Flight (1983 – '94)—Northstar, Puck, Sasquatch, Snowbird and co—and Caliber Comics' Northguard and Fleur de Lys (1984 – 91). (Today, heroes Booster Gold, Wolverine, Deadpool and the openly gay Northstar all have Canadian origins.) Calgary-born-and-raised Todd McFarlane (Spawn) triggered a wave of creator-owned comics when he cofounded Image in the '90s. This era also saw the ascent of graphic novels, with more and more Canadian artist-writers widely read, even beyond our borders.

(Dave Sim's sword-and-sorcery spoof

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Cerebus, 1977 – 2004, became the longest-running English-language comicbook series by a single creator.) In 1990, Chris Oliveros founded Drawn & Quarterly, soon one of the most respected graphic-novel publishers in the country, known for its attention to design and its stabling of renowned artists.

The Montréal-based publisher brought more graphic novels into bookstores—Chester Brown's historystrip Louis Riel (2003, the same year Ho Che Anderson finished his threevolume bio-pictorial King), for instance, has sold more than 36 000 copies.

Brown led the movement in English Canada towards a more adult, personal, unsettling, Robert Crumb-like style of comics. Underground cartoonist Julie Doucet broke new ground with Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary.

Seth (Palookaville) still looks back on collectors and small businesses in Southwestern Ontario through sepiatoned, melancholy-tinted glasses. Michel Rabagliati's semi-autobiographical Paul series melds personal and political histories in la belle province. Bryan Lee O'Malley's manga-inspired books about Scott Pilgrim (2004 – '10) was capped by a movie-adaptation. Calgarian Jillian Tamaki and her Toronto-based cousin, Mariko Tamaki (Skim, This One Summer), are at the forefront of a new generation of female comic-creators. More Canadian cartoonists are now turning to or coming out of webcomics, from Kate Beaton and Emily Carroll to Faith Erin Hicks and Michael Deforge. And graphic novels newly graced the hallowed halls of Canacademe when the University of Windsor, in 2015, made Scott Chantler its writer-in-residence—the first in the country to be a cartoonist.

Nowadays, amid the Hollywood-fuelled resurgence of interest in superheroes, classic Canadiana super-saviour strips are being resurrected and other comics are getting virtual support.

Kickstarter campaigns bankrolled a recent collection of North American indigenous comics, Moonshot; Winnipegger Hope Nicholson's reprinting of Dingle's Nelvana of the Northern Lights and John Stables' sci-fi strip Brok Windsor (1944 – '46, from Vancouver's Maple Leaf Comics); Torontonian Rachel Richey's reprinting of Johnny Canuck and Doc Stearn ... Mr. Monster (1946 – '47). Jason Loo crowdfunded his series about Hogtown's latest hero, The Pitiful Human-Lizard. After a successful Captain Canuck animated web series in 2013, his comic's been relaunched.

Will Pascoe's documentary Lost Heroes: The Untold Story of Canadian Superheroes, saw limited release in 2014.

And in June that year, Woodslee, ON's Jeff Lemire (Essex County Trilogy) introduced Moose Factory Island's Cree teen Miiyahbin Marten, aka Equinox, to DC Comics. That's eight decades on but not so far away from Toronto-born Joe Shuster co-creating, in 1933, some guy called "The Superman."

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Cinematic primer

Hitchcock/Truffaut a satisfying look back at a legendary meeting

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n 1962 French filmmaker François Truffaut's The 400 Blows, an arresting coming-of-age film and one of the key breakthrough works of the nouvelle vague, had only been in circulation a few years. Truffaut's more radically playful Jules and Jim had just started to tour the festival circuit. Truffaut, like his fellow newwavers Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol, et al, had

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established himself as an iconoclastic critic at Cahiers du cinema before making movies. Truffaut was poised at the frontlines of the international avant-garde, so it's that much more delightfully counterintuitive that the young Turk would invest his renown in heralding the mastery of Alfred Hitchcock, the British-American filmmaker considered by many at the time a deft entertainer at best.

Hitchcock/Truffaut, the book that resulted from Truffaut's week of conversations with Hitchcock in a wood-panelled office at Universal Studios, has over the years become one of the few essential cinemastudies texts. Its film-by-film consideration solidified the idea of auteurist analysis for a broad readership by taking for granted that Hitchcock's entire filmography—including early

lost films—merited scrutiny as a single body of work with a consistent and coherent point-of-view. And it's a pretty breezy read, all things considered. Very smart but not pretentious, it unfolds as a genuine, engaged conversation between two artists who are passionate about their art yet hesitant to freight the art with undue context.

Hitchcock and Truffaut both died in the 1980s, and their legacies have only burgeoned in the ensuing years, Hitch most of all: his once-maligned Vertigo now holds the numberone spot in the British Film Institute's best-of-all-time critics' poll. The tapes of these conversations still exist, as well as some archival photos of the sessions, providing a savvy documentarian with some vital raw materials to revisit the event. Essayist and New York Film Festival director Kent Jones, one of my favourite contemporary writers on film, has done just

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Fri, Apr 1 – Wed, Apr 6 Directed by Kent Jones Metro Cinema at the Garneau  this, making a satisfying feature film about this now-legendary cinematic summit meeting, fattening up the looking back with new commentary from several other filmmakers, such as David Fincher, Olivier Assayas, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Martin Scorsese, Richard Linklater and Arnaud Desplechin. Jones' Hitchcock/ Truffaut is a hugely enjoyable doubleportrait. It might seem something of a cinephiles-only affair, but the truth is that Hitchcock fans won't find any especially startling new insights here; rather, the film will probably work most effectively as a primer for those curious about the titular directors and ready to delve deeper.

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he big fat S in DC's superseismichero-showdown is for Snyder.

Coming off the mind-blowing emptiness of Sucker Punch (2011) to turn Man of Steel (2013) into a supersombre, scuzzily 9/11-fetishizing disaster-porn show, director Zack Snyder's now gone even more drab and dire for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, even as he's determined to lay siege to all our senses (and plot). First comes a super-stupor grief-a-thon, cutting between young Bruce Wayne fleeing his parents' burial only to fall into a bat cave and Wayne's etched-in-mind memory of his parents killed by a mugger on a Gotham street—not super subtly, the pearls breaking off mom's necklace are like tears, slo-mo falling to earth. (This is, believe it or not, the least bat-shitty of four dream sequences.) Then we're among the last bits and pieces of skyscrapers falling (9/11 and terrorism references

here are crass—both offhanded and over-the-top) in Metropolis—it's the endtimes-like events of Man of Steel, from a now-Batman (Ben Affleck) Bruce Wayne's point-of-view. Eighteen months later and a Kryptonitecollecting Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg, his villainy soon devolving into a series of twitches) is going after Superman (Henry Cavill) by turning both the public and a hulking, bodyarmoured Dark Knight against him.

The stone keeps rolling and the grey keeps spreading—the big battle's a cataclysmic CGI-cyclone of hellfire, brimstone and one stupidlooking mega-monster (Doomsday) that spans the stratosphere, then slugs and drags itself over square miles of blasted buildings, with only ash and embers and the vast spectrum of slate colours swirling around our dulled heroes. Even a Kansas cornfield, near movie's end, looks

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dismal. Holy guano, Batman! All the fun and pop of DC's pop-cult supercapers has been lost!

The self-importance of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is suffocating; the score pumps its musical muscles persistently; the ending staggers on; golden lasso tie-ins and Justice League follow-ups are strung out. There's just so much glowering, gloominess and good-ness talk (how can anyone believe in bright-eyed virtue when everything looks so goddamn dark?) that it's hard to imagine the sun, let alone justice, ever dawning for this disastrous cavalcade of dreary characters.

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 arly 2002: Britney Spears had her first starring role in a feature flick (Crossroads), Chicago won the Best Picture Oscar, and an American-Canadian movie became the top-grossing rom-com ever ($368-million worldwide). Now, 14 years older, Nia Vardalos' My Big Fat Greek Wedding has its sequel, with its very own teenager—Toula's daughter Paris (Elena Kampouris). If only this slice of Hellenic humour would mature—instead, it flames out with moments cheesier than saganaki and more honeyed than the sickly sweetest baklava.

Chicago's Portokalos clan remains too close for comfort—next-door neighbours, four houses in a row— but Toula's father Kostas (Michael Constantine) discovers one day that his and Maria's (Lainie Kazan) marriage certificate was never signed.

Meanwhile, Toula (Vardalos) and Ian (John Corbett) fret over Paris

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parting the Parthenon-roost for college. The former dilemma makes for a few moments of thoughtful comedy, as Maria stubbornly refuses to marry the longtime father of her children, so often grouchy and lordly with her, unless he proposes and softens up a bit. But the empty-nest nonsense is cringingly overwrought (the Arrival of College-Acceptance Letters and the Descent of the Stairs in a Prom Dress are moments to curdle your blood into monthold tzatziki). Some of the messiness of a sprawling, multi-generational family is amusing at first, but the movie soon devolves into a bland celebration of family as all-good, even avoiding any consideration of immigration (Kostas and Maria left Greece for America in the '60s).

Andrea Martin's best here as brassy Aunt Voula, while the allin-black, peasant-like, near-silent

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One character's coming out seems at least a decade late in its downwith-the-times-ness (and the script, shrugging, seems to know it), while bit parts from John Stamos and Rita Wilson seem like tossed-in afterthoughts. Pathetically, Vardalos reduces her Toula to a super-smiley wife rediscovering the spirited ouzo in her marriage. But it's the simpering, self-congratulatory, happyschmappy, lovey-dovey, gaggingly saccharine finale that really sinks My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 like an Attic Atlantis, lost and incontinent.

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FILM REVUE // MALICK

Knight of Cups

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ick (Christian Bale), an apparently successful screenwriter slipping into the spiritual miasma of middle age, wanders a purgatorial Los Angeles in Knight of Cups. Early in the film he wakes in the midst of a tremor, one of those little reminders that this fantasy-factory world rests on unstable ground. Perhaps it's this tremor that forces Rick to realize that, to quote Lou Reed, he's left his soul in someone's rented car. No doubt a luxury model.

Constructed from a dazzling, seemingly infinite bank of sounds and images, edited so as to invoke a headlong sense of rhythm, Knight of Cups is arranged into oneiric, largely plotless sequences divided by the titles of tarot cards, as though the film were a series of associative musings prompted by a reading. The tarot tells us that

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the Knight of Cups represents "a man who is a graceful dilettante ... sensual but idle ... prone to melancholy," which sounds about right if we're describing Rick. Character development in any conventional sense doesn't fall under this film's list of ambitions, but we spend enough time with Rick— whose thoughts, like those of other passing characters, are heard in voiceover, whose interactions with others are either sensual and needy or vacuous and distracted—to know him in a way that only a Terrence Malick film allows us to know someone.

This latest incarnation of Malick's late-career creative surge both solidifies the director's ongoing determination to forge films as spectacular meditations while also marking an thematic about-face. Through his '70s landmarks, Badlands and Days

of Heaven, to his more recent works, like The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life, Malick has favoured images of nature, rural communities and small towns as sites of wonder. With Knight of Cups, Malick's gaze is just as engaged and enraptured with Californian opulence. Though untamed decadence is clearly regarded as a troubling force in Rick's search for purpose, we can hardly understand Rick's dilemma if we aren't able to apprehend the allure of his Hollywood high-life of womanizing in hotels and limos and attending lavish parties, like the one hosted by Antonio Banderas in the film's most mischievous, cameo-studded sequence.

People come and go, offering stimulation, solace or riddle-like advice.

There's Rick's gruff father (Brian Den-

nehy) and recovering-addict brother (Wes Bentley). There are many women: a young actress (Imogen Poots), both suspicious and inviting of Rick's attentions; Rick's estranged wife (Cate Blanchett), a doctor who tends to the city's at-risk population; a model (Freida Pinto); a married woman (Natalie Portman) with whom Rick has an affair and believes to be the ideal receptacle of all this love he still has to give. There are countless Hollywood cohorts, some recognizable and famous, though most are of no greater significance than the palm trees poking up from the edges of those vast concrete freeways, promising self-reinvention and endless possibility. The late author Peter Matthiessen also appears, tending a Zen garden and praising the monastic life—another possibility Rick will en-

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Malick offers us a shifting palimpsest of people, memories, essences, the layers shedding, then accumulating, the impressions accruing without moving toward anything conclusive. Like every Malick film, Knight of Cups is hugely divisive and easy enough to ridicule should one be so inclined, but if you accept it on its own terms, if you get on its wavelength, it is exquisite, mysterious and resonant, worldly and wise.

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poken-word artist and performer Shane Koyczan deals in the uplifting and the positive. But rather than focus solely on introspection and selfexamination, his deeply personal reflections always have one eye trained outward, as he looks to inspire and motivate his audience to find comfort in their shared experiences—and to accept their emotional responses as not only natural, but human.

"All I'm really doing is telling people that, 'Look, you're being told that you can't be emotional.' If you're feeling emotional at work, they have to send you home," Koyczan explains.

"There are all of these places where you can't publicly be emotional, and all I'm saying is that we're emotional creatures, and it's OK. This is a safe space to be that, and I'm going to be that—in front of all of you, and you're strangers. I'm trusting you more than I trust people I know."

With subject matter ranging from depression to bullying to body image, the topics of Koyczan's lyrics can be dark, but he is committed to find-

ing common ground between people through shared experience.

"I think people get enough negative news in their life as it is," he says.

"It's not a mountain that I want to keep piling stuff on top of. We have challenges—and not just personal challenges— community challenges, global challenges. And a good way to tackle those challenges is through a sense of togetherness.

Not people coming together and their ideas are suddenly all the same, but maybe I can show people that, 'Yeah, you're different, but you're still connected. And while maybe you haven't had the exact same experiences, I'm willing to bet that you've had experiences that connect you emotionally.'"

Koyczan, whose music is so often married to melody and the emotional ebb and flow of improvised pieces, will be taking the stage alone. It's a stark contrast, but the immediacy of just one performer and an audience creates the opportunity for unique

brance Year [2012] was all based of memory. Debris [2015] is based on keeping yourself together even though you're falling apart. The next album I'm working on is going to be about desire—not necessarily sexual desire, but that thing in our lives where there are things we want versus things we need. I'll probably perform a couple of new pieces, at least. I don't get to go to open mics as much as I'd like to, so the testing ground is kind of these shows. I'm excited, though; I really like the new stuff."

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asides and stream-of-consciousness detours. It also gives Koyczan a chance to try out new material for his next album.

"There's always some kind of theme running through the pieces," he explains. "Something like Remem-

Debris also features a vocal appearance on the title track from Ani DiFranco, an inspiration both musically and professionally to Koyczan.

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A long-time appreciator of DiFranco's music, Koyczan also looked to her DIY approach to releasing her work as a template that he could use for getting his material out into the world, while still maintaining complete creative control.

"We managed to get the track to her, and she listened to it and wanted to do it. And our heads all exploded and we melted into our seats, and we couldn't believe our incredible fortune," Koyczan laughs.

"She's a person that has really influenced what I do. And not just the pieces I write and the style that I wrote in, but also how to exist as an artist. She didn't go the traditional route: she built her own empire.

And that's what I've tried to do. So it was a really special opportunity to do that with her, and especially on a piece that was so near and dear to me, that deals with depression. She really brought it, and I have a huge debt of gratitude to her."

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"Honestly, keeping time and feeling the flow of everyone together," she says of her greatest challenge. "Learning to, say if they were to make a mistake, to go with it versus singing to a back track at competitions. You know how it's going to be, there's not going to be a screw-up. If you're screwing up it's your own fault, right? If something goes wrong in the band, or if I forget a verse, they have to learn to go with it.

It was really just getting to know everyone's rhythm."

The band—currently rounded out

by Kyle Donohue (bass), Jonathan Davis (guitar), Chad Nafe (drums) and Trevor Cameron (guitar) following a lineup change—has settled into that rhythm over the past two years or so, and Muzichuk notes there's plenty of room to experiment and collaborate within the group, rather than the creative direction being dictated by one individual.

PREVUE // RURAL ROCK

Railtown Park

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hen all else fails and your music doesn't fit neatly into one genre, it may be time to make up your own.

Railtown Park, a band that hails from communities within the periphery of Edmonton, had originally promoted itself as "roots" but felt that it wasn't an entirely accurate description of the music it was creating—plus, it was struggling to find other acts to share bills with as a "roots" band. And thus the term "rural rock" was coined. What does that mean, exactly? Think Fleetwood Mac meets Arkells with a little

bit of Kacey Musgraves' narrative-driven lyrical style added to the mix.

"It all depends on my mood ... but I'm heavily influenced by rock: Fleetwood Mac, specifically Taylor Momsen from the Pretty Reckless, but that's just me," laughs vocalist and rhythm guitarist Jackie Muzichuk. "She can put on a show, let me tell you."

It's an eclectic mix to draw from, to be sure, but Muzichuk has found a place for her breadth of tastes within Railtown Park, the first band she's been involved with since returning

to singing. She'd competed in singing competitions and pursued music during her teen years, but decided to step back from it while studying marketing at NAIT. Muzichuk was accustomed to performing solo, so being part of a group inevitably took some getting

Now Railtown Park is gearing up to release its debut self-titled EP, which offers a taste of its rural-rock esthetic as it moves between heavier riffs, like the opening track, "Thunder," to more folk-inspired melodies on "Position of Trust" or "Blue Rose." The five songs, which were written by either Muzichuk or Cameron, began to take shape in early 2014, and she notes it's been a long road to see them through to completion.

"We were trying to achieve doing an EP, but at the time, being in college ... there wasn't a whole lot of money to go around, and we weren't too sure how to achieve grant writing and all

such a project—"Shit District has nice ring to it / But who's really going to benefit?" is the refrain throughout.

It's a strong statement, but that doesn't mean the record is entirely charged by social commentary. Rather, this cassette is a way to release songs Schelske penned during a period of fluctuating membership in

the band.

"I ended up having a bunch of songs written, but not necessarily a band to play them," he says. "There's a couple of songs that came out of those writing sessions, and then a couple of older ones that had been sitting around.

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that kind of stuff," Muzichuk says, adding the band recorded "Blue Rose" and "North Wind" at Electric Treehouse in St Albert at the time. "It was this year when I was talking to the band, and it was like, OK, let's do this; let's finish these songs off. They're good enough; let's get them recorded and call it a day."

The final three tracks were recorded at Two Bodies of Water, including "Thunder," a song Muzichuk is glad they held off on so it had time to reach its full potential.

"We tried to record it [before], and in my gut I knew it wasn't done," she recalls. "There's a part in it when it goes into the bridge, and I go into a pretty high note, and that song was missing that for a long time. I couldn't figure out what was going on, and in the studio that's actually when I was like, 'OK, guys, I'm just going to try this out.' And it worked and it clicked, and I was like, 'OK, it's done.'"

Crafting the EP may have been an unexpectedly lengthy, arduous endeavour, but Muzichuk feels the band was able to learn how all the parts of the process come together, and even how something as ostensibly simple as song order can impact a record's effectiveness.

"I have a rather large group of friends who were at NAIT with me in marketing, and so I always discuss with them which order should the songs go in?" she says. "It's like a setlist where you can't have a slow song to kick off the set—that's a little weird. It's a drainer, right?"

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Latcho Drom

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ight now I'm playing with this idea of describing it as music for smart 14-year-olds," says Elliott Schelske with a wry laugh.

Schelske, who's the vocalist and one of two guitarists in local punk group Latcho Drom, has heard a multitude of descriptors for the band since its inception—"Wussy, indie-rocky, post hardcore" being among the most enduring of them.

"I remember when I was that age, just not necessarily relating to what was popular at the time," Schelske continues, noting there was no one in his peer group who shared his penchant for bands like the Cure or the Smiths. "Although, I feel like those bands have kind of come back into people's consciousness since I was in junior high and high school. But at the time, nobody in my peer group was listening to old-school punk rock. I remember bands like MXPX and Blink 182 being really popular—everybody was talking about how punk it was."

He may have been on the fringe for favouring Fugazi over more pop-driven mainstream "punk," but Schelske has since found a crew of like-minded bandmates in Aaron de Leon (drums), Matthew Gooding (bass), David Letersky (guitar) and Corey Polo (keys). Schelske, who's also a member of Scrapbooker, gathered the rest of the group through a smattering of

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connections in the local music scene in the fall of 2011, with the intent of creating an outlet for songs he'd written that didn't necessarily fit Scrapbooker's style.

"For me, Scrapbooker was a really sort of loud, intense project, and so I had these songs that weren't necessarily so in-your-face," he explains. "So I put this new thing together, and I wanted it to just be more fun, more relaxing, less intensive and just something [where] everybody could get together and almost relax while they're playing, I guess."

That's not to say Latcho Drom is built on a foundation of soft, mellow arrangements—far from it, actually. Schelske notes that the tunes he writes for Latcho Drom are often "fun pop songs" that just happened to be cranked to 10. A spin through the band's back catalogue finds bombastic, shout-sung vocals, rumbling bass and guitar riffs and frenetic drumming that continues on Latcho Drom's new cassette, Don't Measure, Cut Yourself (also available as a digital download), set to be released this weekend. For now, you can get a preview of it with the single "Shit District," a scathing commentary on the forthcoming Ice District downtown that questions who stands to gain anything from the behemoth arena and the costs of

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re-record with the new lineup of the band and kind of showcase the songs with slightly different arrangements."

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Sentimental Gentlemen

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rom the parking lot of Vista Ridge Ski Hill in Fort McMurray, Mackenzie Walas, lead singer of the rock four-piece Sentimental Gentlemen is on the verge of completing what will likely be his last winter in Northern Alberta's struggling oiland-gas epicentre.

"We had a come-to-Jesus meeting back in October [2015]" Walas recalls.

That pivotal meeting occurred in the wake of signing a management deal with local industry player Sin Agency. With the ink still drying, opportunities began to flow at Walas and company in defiant contrast to the crude-soaked sand surrounding Fort Mac. The band released The

Devil's in the Details in 2015, and the ramshackle troupe of would-be roughnecks who call Fort Mac home are rolling up camp and taking to the road for a 40-plus date cross-Canada tour. Once the tour wraps up at the end of May, the group plans to relocate from Alberta's oilsands capital to Calgary. But the guys' departure will not be without some wellearned sentiment for their soon-tobe former hometown.

"Fort Mac is really supportive; [the people have] been really awesome for just trying to help us, promote us, do whatever they can," Walas says. "There is a sense of community here I really have never seen anywhere else."

Community is something all four of the Gentlemen know a thing or two about, with each band member having relocated to Fort McMurray independently. Walas and lead guitarist Joe Howes hail from Ontario, while drummer Rob Eustis made his way from Campbell River, BC and bassist Jeremy Connell—in true Fort Mac fashion—arrived from St John's, Newfoundland. Walas, Howes and Eustis met while playing at local open-mic nights in the spring of 2013 before recruiting Connell to complete the lineup in early 2014.

In a period of intense uncertainty and strife for the beleaguered, retracting boomtown, the growing success of Sentimental Gentlemen

is a true-to-form Fort Mac accomplishment. In a city no one is from, these boys embody the frontier spirit that brought countless others up Highway 63.

"It's kind of like Cinderella," Walas reflects. "When you meet four guys randomly and it all fits.

"We all came up here to do hardcore labour—blue-collar jobs," he continues. "Every single one of us in the band, minus Rob, has all worked at site at one point. I drove a haul truck, Joe's worked as a heavy-duty mechanic, Jeremy is an apprentice electrician—and Rob, even through he's a subcontractor, worked for a company that worked for the mine."

Given all this, it is not without a measure of irony that the band is gaining momentum at a time where other industries are struggling.

"I see the hardship; I have friends that have lost jobs, friends that have had to go home," he says. "I have friends that have a mortgage they can't afford anymore."

As Sentimental Gentlemen prepare to depart, Walas notes, in a fashion befitting the band's name: "We came up to find jobs, and we're leaving Fort McMurray as a band."

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usicians are blessed with an infinitely pliable medium in which to exercise their abilities. It's an amazing thing when the resulting music is created and executed with the purpose of evoking deep emotions from the listener. And when musicians make a conscious effort to reach these depths, their art turns into something more than a combination of instruments and words: they create an experience that gives listeners a voice, hope and something to relate to.

This is what Toronto-based hardrock band Van Halst hopes to do with its new album, World of Make Believe, released earlier this month. The quartet, led by vocalist Kami Van Halst, churns out an imposing mix of rock and metal influences that provides the bedrock for Kami's seemingly limitless vocal range. And while the musicians themselves are on point, so is their agenda to address isolated, downtrodden individuals—and encourage the perseverance it takes to crush preconception.

Kami began working with homeless and incarcerated youth when she attended the University of Alberta to pursue a degree in criminology. From volunteering at homeless shelters to teaching music programs at Youth Empowerment and Support Services, she found a way to connect with the less fortunate through her music.

"I really got to talk to a lot of these kids, and I got to hear their stories—

and I started writing songs about them to raise awareness," she says.

"Music is a great platform to give them a voice."

Van Halst—which includes Scott Greene on guitar, Brett Seaton on drums and Brendan McMillan on bass—will spend much of the next year promoting World of Make Believe. The band's heading to the US in the fall, with plans to continue writing new music and tour in Europe next year. But the busy schedule isn't keeping Van Halst from perpetuating positive social impact.

This May, Van Halst will participate in the Because I'm a Girl benefit concert. The foundation is a global program that aims to end gender inequality and promote girls' rights, and the show will raise money for the foundation.

"Every year we try and do a charity show, typically for something we're passionate about, and this year we were approached by the organizers of Because I'm a Girl. I said, 'Absolutely,'" Kami explains, reiterating the importance of a personal connection between the band and the organizations it supports. "We're very selective about the charities we work with because we want to do them justice.

If you spread yourself too thin then you're not able to get to know the charity and do a good job advocating for them."

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PREVUE // ALTERNATIVE

Ron Hawkins A

s a member of many different musical enterprises, musician and painter Ron Hawkins has become a venerable name in the Canadian music world: as the frontman and primary songwriter for alternative-rockers the Lowest of the Low, Hawkins, along with his band, released the critically acclaimed album Shakespeare My Butt, which in 1991 was the best-selling independent release in Canadian history before being overtaken by The Yellow Tape by the Barenaked Ladies.

When he's not busy with the Lowest of the Low or his other band, the Do Good Assassins, Hawkins is hard at work at promoting his solo career. He is marking off his 15th studio album with Spit, Sputter, and Sparkle, which was recorded in his tiny nine-feet-bynine-feet home studio.

"It's just jammed from the ceiling to floor with gear, but to me, it's kind of the perfect way to make a contemporary record," Hawkins says.

"Spending the hours just fiddling around with weird arrangements and trying every crazy idea you have at like two in the morning when it's not costing you any money."

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Hawkins released a music video for the album's first single, "Beautiful Girl," which is about his 10-year-old daughter Ruby. The video features alternating shots of him and his daughter singing—the footage of Hawkins on the guitar was actually shot by Ruby.

"On a punk-rock level, it was really DIY. I rented out this white room for 75 bucks and knew I wanted my daughter to be the main focus in the video," Hawkins explains. "She's a bit of a ham and she said she wanted to be behind the camera too, so she shot a lot of it."

Spit, Sputter and Sparkle was planned as a record for the Do Good Assassins, but when the other members weren't able to commit to the two-month recording process, Hawkins decided to make it a solo album.

"The overall picture is that I am constantly writing and recording demos without always thinking about anybody specific," he says.

Having been a musician for 25 years or so, Hawkins has acquired an impressive body of songs. While some may fall to the wayside, there are oth-

ers that will always be as prevailing as the day they were conceived.

"I like to think of songs as friends," Hawkins notes. "You sort of have cycles with them where you're super close, but maybe you have a fall out for a few years and don't come back to them, or maybe you rediscover them."

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Maria Dunn T

he world can be disheartening right now: turn on the news and you'll be inundated with headlines reporting society's disorderliness and violent demeanor. But amid all that turmoil is some positivity, which has inspired singer-songwriter Maria Dunn to focus on human compassion for her sixth album, Gathering.

"I think it can be discouraging to feel like we aren't going anywhere or things aren't changing and things are the same old thing," Dunn explains of what prompted the album's subject matter. "I think people do get weighed down by what they hear about in the world, and they think: 'What's the point in going out and trying to take action?''... It can feel very disempowering."

Gathering, which will be released on April 7, continues the social and political narrative found on 2012's Piece By Piece. But where Piece By Piece took on a more local standpoint—following the stories of the women employed at the Great Western Garment Company in Edmonton—Gathering expands on a much more global perspective, touching on topics of immigration ("Hans' Song"), girls' rights to an education in Paki-

stan ("Malala"), the injustices suffered by First Nation children ("Little One"), the environmental impact of the oil industry on First Nation communities ("When I Was Young") and child soldiers ("The Milkman").

While those topics are dour in nature, Dunn parcels them in a way that the positive outcomes shine through and ultimately encourage listeners to be more proactive.

"There's so much violence and negativity and so much distress in the world," she says. "As someone who is very much aware of what is going on in the world, I cling to and gleen and gather these stories of real grace and real positive outcome and positive influence of these people who have the courage to take action. It's so important to share the positive stories so they can see that when other people have taken action, there has been a good outcome."

Social injustices are at the forefront of this album, but Dunn contrasts that with upbeat melodies of the world-folk variety—she enlisted the help of Ojas Joshi on tabla and Sharmila Mathur on sitar for a number of tracks on the record. By continuing the inclusion of the tabla and

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sitar—that instrumention was first introduced on Piece by Piece—along with the vocals of local Sufi singers, Dunn was able achieve a worldly ambience to her narratives. Dunn notes it was her participation in the Indian Music Ensemble at the University of Alberta that inspired her to stretch her musical palette, and that helped her to better understand the milieu in which these stories take place— "When the Grandmothers Meet" explores the concept of solidarity among African grandmothers, for example.

To that end, Dunn hopes to encourage others to be as proactive as the subjects in her songs.

"We hear these discouraging things and want to give up," she notes. "Or you can increase your resolve and [think], how can I put out my positive energy in a way that can continue to move things forward and make things better?"

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POWER BUDDIES / THU, MAR 31 (8:30 PM)

Some cool garage rock by way of local trio Power Buddies. Support from Caity Fisher and Vancouver's Dead Soft. (The Buckingham, $10)

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The folk-roots husband-wife duo is on their first "Family Band" tour, with their five-year-old son accompanying them on the road. (Café Blackbird, $6)

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These days, you can find him touring solo or collaborating with the likes of Lazy Lester and the Rockin' Highliners or touring with Sue Foley. (Uptown Folk Club, $15 in advance, $18 at the door)

ALESSIA CARA / FRI, APR 1 (7 PM)

This 18-year-old from Toronto has some soulful pipes, which garnered her first single, "Here," over 500 000 streams in its first week. (Union Hall, $25)

KIERAN MERCER / FRI, APR 1 (7 PM)

What do One Direction, Andy Grammer and Kieran Mercer have in common? They all have records produced by LA's Jon Levin. Mercer's latest EP, Help Me Help You, is filled to the brim with pop-rock melodies. See him before Walk off the Earth and Marianas Trench. (Rexall Place, $35 – $69.50)

BANDS OF YEG PRESENTS: PAYING IT FORWARD / SAT, APR 2 (7 PM)

All the money raised from ticket sales go towards funding the Neighbour Centre, a charitable organization that addresses the needs of homeless persons. Music will be provided by a mix of local bands: Dead Honey, the Misfires, the Drop Outs, WTHCNVCTN and Within the Fury. (Mercury Room, $10 in advance, $15 at the door) COMEDY AT THE CENTURY CASINO

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HOT PANDA / SUN, APR 3 (7 PM)

The Vancouver-based rockers are often described in the same vein as Destroyer, but with more fuzzy guitars and a lot of badass attitude. (Mercury Room, $13 in advance, $16 at the door)

MACEWAN BIG BAND CONCERT / MON, APR 4 (7:30 PM)

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Students from MacEwan's music program will perform a setlist of Latin, funk and jazz tunes. (John L Haar Theatre, $13.75 adult, $11.75 student/senior)

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SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Tony

WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK Live Music

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Rodney Carrington; 7pm (door), 9pm (show); Tickets start at $39.50

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NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open

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ALLEY Strangled (metal/

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CHVRCH OF JOHN The Chvrch

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MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands

ALLEY Latcho Drom album

9910 Mod Club; 9pm; $7

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L.B.'S PUB Open Jam hosted

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PALACE CASINO Vera; 9:30pm

Thu; 7pm

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Novelists; 7:30pm; $6

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open

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Johnson (of the Soulicitors); 9pm; $10

CAFE BLACKBIRD The Young

Return to Grace; 7:30pm; Tickets start at $35; Runs until Apr 2

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Old school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri

Justice; 9pm

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APR/19

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APR/30

Night Live on the South Side: live bands; Free; All ages; 7-10:30pm

DJs

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Sacrilege Sundays: All metal all day

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

MERCURY ROOM Hot panda

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Sunday BBQ Jam Every Sunday hosted by the Marshall Lawrence Band (variety); Every Sun, 5pm; All ages

Classical JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE

MacEwan University presents Big Band Concert; 7:30-9:30pm; $13.75 (adults), $11.75 (full-time students/seniors) WINSPEAR CENTRE

University of Alberta Faculty of Arts Dept. of Music Panta Rei; 3pm; $20 (adult), $15 (senior), $10 (student)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays with DJ

Zyppy ~ A fantastic voyage through 60's and 70's funk, soul & R&B; Every Sun

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SHORT OF ABLE

NEW WEST HOTEL Hurtin

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EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

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O'BYRNE'S Open mic every

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ROCKWELL // TRUTH // SKIITOUR

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(alternative/pop) with 36? and Banshee; 7pm; $13 (adv), $16 (door)

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Classic

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Flamenco Guitar Classes; Every Sun, 11:30am12:30pm

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WINSPEAR CENTRE UAMC

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APR/16

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G-Eazy - When It's Dark Out; 6:30pm; $45

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Tuesday Night Jam with host Harry Gregg and Geoffrey O'Brien (blues); Every Tue, 7:30pm; All ages YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

Session: Mike Morrisseau Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

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BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Eddie Lunchpail spins

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic

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TUE APR 5 BLUES ON WHYTE Pete

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE

Karaoke Kraziness with host Ryan Kasteel; 8pm-2am NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Happy

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Horsemen; 9pm

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ON THE ROCKS Amnesty International U of A Chapter Annual Benefit Concert; 7-11:30pm; $12; 18+ only

Big Band Concert; 7:30pm; $11.75-$13.75

HORIZON STAGE Lisa Brokop: The Patsy Cline Project; 7:30pm; $35 (adult), $30 (students and senior)

NEW WEST HOTEL Hurtin

Horsemen; 9pm

SIDELINERS PUB Singer/

JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE

GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass

O'BYRNE'S Guinness Celtic jam every Tue; 9:30pm

Classical

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Mother Cluckin' Wednesdays

Hour featuring Mohsin uz Zaman; 5:30pm

Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon Songwriter Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:30-11:30pm; Free

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm

ON THE ROCKS Turn't Up

Tuesday

Turland; 9pm

WED APR 6

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

THE PROVINCIAL PUB

Karaoke Wednesday RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower

Open Stage since 1998; 8-11pm (door); no cover/ donations SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Wailin' Wednesday Jam with Hosts Wang Dang Doodle (variety); Every Wed, 7:30-11:30pm; All ages STARLITE ROOM A-Trak; 8pm (door); $30; 18+ only TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke;

9pm TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY

Live music Wednesday's; Every Wed

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

DJs

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

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

BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

THE BUCKINGHAM Walrus

DRUID IRISH PUB Karaoke

Every Wed

(alternative/pop) and guests; 8:30pm; $10

Wednesdays

10813-170 St NW 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 JOHN L. HAAR 10045-155 St NW 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 LENDRUM MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH 11210-59 Ave NW 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 PARKVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 9135-146 St NW PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave PORTUGESE CANADIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY 12964-52 St NW THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St 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 RITCHIE COMMUNITY HALL 7727-98 St NW 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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Kevin Martin;

VENUEGUIDE

APR/9

THE FORGE PROUDLY BRINGS TO YOU

THE SOULICITORS W/ THE HILLTIES, & GRAY

APR/16

PURE ALT 90’S

APR/21

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

APR/22

THE FORGE PROUDLY BRINGS TO YOU

REND

W/ ROCOCODE

MSA’S 7” VINYL SPLIT RELEASE PARTY! W/ PERVCORE, ABUSE OF SUBSTANCE, THE DIRTBAGS

APR/23

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

WHALE AND THE WOLF W/ MAGIK SPELLS, SAVAGE PLAYGROUND

APR/28

24 MUSIC

THE FORGE PRESENTS

BENDER

W/ ULTRA MAGNUS & DJ SLAM, DJ WEEZL, ROYCEBIRTH, TOUCH CONFIRMED, J-REDS & WEEZL, BOOSH & THE DIP, FATTY JONES, NIXON DA CROOK, DIRTNAP

9910 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 THE ALLEY 9562-82 Ave 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, 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 FILTHY MCNASTY'S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN 10200-102 Ave NW FIONN MACCOOL'S–MAYFIELD

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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 ST. JOSEPH'S BASILICA 10044113 St NW 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

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

COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • 10425-82 Ave • Underdog Comedy Show • Every Thu

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd •

Toastmasters

St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/ workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue ea month, 7:30pm

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 • Chamber Toastmasters Club:

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@ edmontonoutdoorclub.com

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

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

Fort Saskatchewan 45+ Singles Coffee Group • A&W, 10101-88

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertain-

Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

ment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Chris Sadleir; Apr 1-2

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM •

LGNYEG (Lady Geeks Unite) • Happy

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 • Ian Bagg; Mar 31-Apr 3

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 •

Club, 12912-50 St NW • Apr 1, 7:30pm

Connie's Comedy hosts The Dating Game • On the Rocks, 11740 Jasper Ave • ith Sterling Scott and The Nervous Flirts • Apr 10, 8pm

Connie's Comedy presents Comedy • Draft Country Nightclub, 12912-50 St NW • Apr 8, 7:30pm

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

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 Richard Lett: Sober But Never Clean • Yuk Yuk's, Century Casino, 13103 Fort Road NW • yukyuks.com/edmonton • Apr 3, 8pm

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm Groups/CLUBS/meetings

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

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)

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

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

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm

Poor Vote Turnout • Rossdale Hall,

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

Raw Vegan Edmonton Potlucks •

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

Babes In Arms • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • A casual parent group • Every Fri, 10am-12pm

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

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 premade 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 Atheists • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • edmontonatheists.ca • Monthly roundtable discussion group. Topics change each month • 1st Tue, 7pm; each month

Edmonton Needlecraft Guild • Avonmore United Church Bsmt, 82 Ave, 79

• Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club:

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E

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

Bldg, main floor Cafe, Or in confidence oneon-one in the Craft Room • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance. One-on-one meetings are also available in the craft room • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net

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

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

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

Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group • Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • 780.452.4661 • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta offers a variety of services and support programs for those who are living with the illness, family members, caregivers, and friends • 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm • Free

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 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

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

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

700 (City of Edmonton) Wing RCAF Association Luncheon • Chateau Nova Yellowhead, 13920 Yellowhead Trail NW • Guest Speaker Laurie Hawn, Honourary Colonel of 401 Squadron, will be presenting a talk on his recent visit to Kuwait to visit Canadian Forces personnel participating in Operation Impact, the military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) • Apr 9, 11:30am-2pm • $40 (adv), $45 (door); RSVP: 780.918.0967 or maritimer@telus.net

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

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 • 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)

Preserving Value: Conservation of the Royal Alberta Museum's Collections • Royal Alberta Museum, 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)

QUEER Beers for Queers • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

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 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 Paul's United Church • 1152676 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) Team Edmonton • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton. ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • Swimming: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • Water Polo: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • Yoga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • Taekwondo: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • Abs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:15-8:15pm • Dodgeball: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • Running: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • Spin: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• Volleyball: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • Meditation: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:30-6:15pm • Board Games: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per

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month, 3-7pm • All Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8468-81 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm

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

SPECIAL EVENTS 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

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 non-alcoholic drinks • Apr 1, 7-10pm • $25

Bohemian Tea Zone Grand Opening • Bohemian Tea Zone, 10173-109 St • info@bteaz.com • bteaz.com • Apr 12, 10am-9pm • Free

Edmonton International Beer Festival • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave NW • internationalbeerfest. com • Featuring over 200 beers to taste, live music, and much more • Apr 1-2

Farewell to Winter Street Party • Rice Howard Way • Featuring live music, wagon rides, EPL colouring & story stop, food, and much more • Apr 2, 11am-7pm

Green Drinks: Local Resilience • Yellowhead Brewery, 10229-105 St NW • greendrinksyeg@gmail.com • greendrinkslocalresilience.eventbrite.ca • Meet and greet people who are re-localizing the economy, strengthening community connections, and sharing their skills and knowledge • Apr 6, 7-10pm • $10 (adv), $15 (door, cash only)

ORCHID FAIR • The Enjoy Centre, 101 Riel Drive, St. Albert • orchidsalberta.com • Includes displays, art and photography and a variety of workshops and lectures for budding and expert growers alike for the beautiful orchid • Apr 1-3 • $10 (free for children under 12) Spring Birth & Baby Fair • Grow Centre, 10516-82 Ave • Doulas, ayurveda, prenatal education, reiki, massage, pre/ postnatal yoga, hypnobabies, photography, nutrition, discovery toys, sacred pregnancy, and more • Apr 2, 11-11:45am (yoga, by donation); 1-5pm (professionals & talks) • Free

Spring Break on the Square • Sir Winston Churchill Square, 100 St. & 102 Ave • edmontonarts.ca • Featuring family-friendly events for all. Activities include: Picnics in the Pyramid of Seasons, improvised theatre adventures with EPIC? The Journey, lightsaber training for young Padawans, street art and much more • Mar 28-Apr 1, 12-4pm Walk for Water • Aveda Edmonton Salon, 10632 Whyte Ave • 416.532.9035 • collegaearthmonth.com/walk-for-water • A 6 km walk symbolic of the average distance women and children walk everyday in rural, developing cities worldwide to collect water • Apr 25, 9-11am

Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton Run Wild & Walk for Wildlife and Migratory Bird Festival • John Janzen Nature Centre, 7000-143 St NW • events.runningroom.com • wildlife-edm.ca/events • Includes familyoriented fun, including face painting, games, and nature walks • Apr 24, 10am • Free (festival only), $35-$45 (run cost)

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TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): "People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages," says philosopher Alain de Botton. If that's true, Taurus, you must be on the verge of becoming very interesting. Metaphorically speaking, you're not just rattling the bars of your cage. You're also smacking your tin cup against the bars and trying to saw through them with your plastic knife. APRIL FOOL! I lied. You're not literally in a prison cell. And I got a bit carried away with the metaphor.

But there is a grain of truth to what I said. You are getting close to breaking free of at least some of your mind-forged manacles.

And it's making you more attractive and intriguing.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): If I had to decide what natural phenomenon you most closely resemble right now, I'd consider comparing you to a warm, restless breeze or a busily playful dolphin. But my first choice would be the mushrooms known as Schizophyllum commune.

They're highly adaptable: able to go dormant when the weather's dry and spring to life when rain comes. They really get around, too, making their homes on every continent except Antarctica. But the main reason I'd link you with them is that they come in over 28 000 different sexes. Their versatility is unprecedented. APRIL FOOL! I exaggerated a bit. It's true that these days, you're polymorphous and multifaceted and well-rounded. But you're probably not capable of expressing 28 000 varieties of anything.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): "Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting," warns Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. If that's true, why bother? Why expend all your precious yearning if the net result won't even satisfy your yearning?! That's why I advise you to ABANDON YOUR BELOVED PLANS! Save your energy for trivial wishes. That way you won't be disappointed when they are fulfilled in unanticipated ways. APRIL FOOL! I was messing with you. It's true that what you want won't arrive in the form

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LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): You're due to make a pilgrimage, aren't you? It might be time to shave your head, sell your possessions, and head out on a long trek to a holy place where you can get back in touch with what the hell you're doing here on this planet. APRIL FOOL! I was kidding about the head-shaving and possessions-dumping. But there might be value in embarking on a less melodramatic pilgrimage. I think you're ready to seek radical bliss of a higher order—and get back in touch with what the hell you're doing here on this planet.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): Are you ready to fight the monster?

Do you have the courage and strength and stamina and guile to overcome the ugly beast that's blocking the path to the treasure? If not, turn around and head back to your comfort zone until you're better prepared.

APRIL FOOL! I lied. There is a monster, but it's not the literal embodiment of a beastly adversary. Rather, it's inside you. It's an unripe part of yourself that needs to be taught and tamed and cared for. Until you develop a better relationship with it, it will just keep testing you. (PS: Now would be a good time to develop a better relationship with it.)

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): Your advice for the near future comes from poet Stephen Dunn. "If the Devil sits down," he says, "offer companionship, tell her you've always admired her magnificent, false moves." I think that's an excellent plan, Libra! Maybe you'll even be lucky enough to make the acquaintance of many different devils with a wide variety of magnificent, false moves. APRIL FOOL! I lied. In fact, I think you should avoid contact with all devils, no matter how enticing they might be. Now is a key time to surround yourself with positive influences.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): In 1841, a British medical journal prescribed the following remedy for the common cold: "Nail a hat on the wall near the foot of your bed, then retire to that bed, and drink spirits until you see two hats." My expert astrological analysis reveals that this treatment is likely to cure not just the sniffles, but also any other discomforts you're suffering from, whether physical or emotional or spiritual. So I hope you own a hat, hammer and nails. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The method I suggested probably won't help alleviate what ails you. But here's a strategy that might: get rid of anything that's superfluous, rotten, outdated or burdensome.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): To begin your oracle, I'll borrow the words of author Ray Bradbury: "May you be in love every day for the next 20 000 days, and out of that love, remake a world." I have reason to believe that this optimistic projection has a good chance of coming true for you. Imagine it, Sagittarius: daily swoons of delight and rapture from now until the year 2071. APRIL FOOL! I lied, sort of. It would be foolish to predict that you'll be giddy with amorous feelings nonstop for the next 54 years and 10 months. But I don't think it's unrealistic for you to expect a lot of that sweet stuff over the course of the next three weeks.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): "I am tired of being brave," groaned Anne Sexton in one of her poems.

"I'm sick of following my dreams," moaned comedian Mitch Hedberg, adding, "I'm just going to ask my dreams where they're going and hook up with them later." In my opinion, Capricorn, you have every right to unleash grumbles similar to Hedberg's and Sexton's.

APRIL FOOL! The advice I just gave you is only half-correct. It's true that you need and deserve a respite from your earnest struggles. Now is indeed a good time to take a break so you can recharge your spiritual batteries. But don't you dare feel sorry for yourself.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): In 1991, hikers in the Italian Alps discovered the well-preserved corpse of a Bronze Age hunter.

Buried in the frigid terrain, the man who came to be known as Otzi the Iceman had been there for 5000 years. Soon the museum that claimed his body began receiving inquiries from women who wanted to be impregnated with Otzi's sperm. I think this is an apt metaphor for you, Aquarius. Consider the possibility that you might benefit from being fertilized by an influence from long ago. APRIL FOOL! I was just messing with you. It's true you can generate good mojo by engaging with inspirational influences from the past. But I'd never urge you to be guided by a vulgar metaphor related to Otzi's sperm.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): Caligula was an eccentric Roman emperor who had a physical resemblance to a goat. He was sensitive about it. That's why he made it illegal for anyone to refer to goats in his company. I mention this, Pisces, because I'd like to propose a list of words you should forbid to be used in your presence during the coming weeks: "money," "cash," "finances," "loot," "savings" or "investments." Why? Because I'm afraid it would be distracting, even confusing or embarrassing, for you to think about these sore subjects right now. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, now is a perfect time for you to be focused on getting richer quicker. V

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Sexual assault survivors

The Ghomeshi verdict shows the justice system needs to change Given the lack of corroborating evidence in the Ghomeshi trial, last week's not guilty verdict was not difficult to predict. What was troubling to me was the way Justice William Horkins interpreted the complainants' behaviour and their confusion about details of events that took place more than a decade ago. In the ruling, he wrote that the complainants "engaged in conduct regarding Mr Ghomeshi, after the fact, which seems out of harmony with the assaultive behaviour ascribed to him" and that they were "shown to be deceptive and manipulative in giving their evidence."

I spent the day of the ruling chatting with survivors of sexual assault, and it's clear that the behaviour of the three women in the Ghomeshi trial is not at all unusual for someone who

has been sexually assaulted. All conversations below occurred on Facebook messaging, and all names have been withheld to protect privacy.

Much like the complainants in the Ghomeshi case, many of the people who shared their stories with me did not know how to react to their assault. This caused them to do things that might seem strange to outsiders.

"I put my clothes on and made us breakfast, then walked with him downstairs to my car and pretended everything was normal," M writes.

"If you raise a fuss, god only knows what could happen, right?"

L was assaulted by a family friend.

"I saw him in family gatherings and always acted normal, like nothing happened, because I didn't know what to do and who to talk to," she writes. "I think it would be hard for

some family members to believe it because I didn't say anything all these years."

Most of the survivors who spoke with me did not go to the police because they did not think they would be believed. B was scared of anyone, particularly their parents, finding out what happened, so they did their best to cover up the assault. When they decided to report to the police a year later, they were eventually told there was not enough evidence to move forward with a charge.

S reported three separate incidents before she was an adult. In all three cases, nothing was done. She felt the police did not believe her. When she was assaulted again as an adult, she did not tell anyone.

"It set the stage for not reporting a rape," she writes. "They would not believe me, even now."

The Ghomeshi trial has made many people feel that they were right not to report.

"I'm angry with the verdict," R writes.

"It makes me feel even more alone with what happened to me. I know that I will never be able to tell the police. It's been two years, and I try every day to forget what happened."

When people are traumatized in a sexual assault, they don't remember minute details or think about collecting evidence. They focus on the immediate concerns: how to survive and get to safety, how to put their lives back together and how to make sense of something that makes no sense at all. When they look back on the incident, possibly years later,

their perspective on it—and even their memories of it—may change.

Few people will be able to provide the kind of inscrutable proof our criminal justice system requires.

In the Ghomeshi trial, victims saw their fears confirmed: if they report an assault, their actions and motives will be questioned—even more than the defendant's. They will be asked for proof they cannot provide. We need to start looking at new ways of handling sexual assault within our justice system. Until we do, most victims will continue to stay silent.V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

Dan savage savagelove@vueweekly.com

I was honoured to speak at JCCSF— Jewish Community Center of San Francisco—last week as a part of their "Uninhibited: About Sex" lecture series. The audience submitted questions on cards, which were ably put to me by Jourdan Abel, who was wearing a wonderful uterus-themed sweater. (Check out my Instagram account—@dansavage—to see Abel's sweater!) Here are some of the questions submitted by the uninhibited JCCSF audience that Abel and I didn't manage to get to during our conversation.

I had the best sex of my life with my ex. He fucked me hard, had a huge cock, and made me eat his come with a spoon. I loved it. Needless to say, we were incompatible in other ways. My current BF is vanilla. Very. Vanilla.

When I masturbate, I think about my ex and can't help but wish my current guy would make me slurp his come up from a utensil. We are very compatible in other (non-sex) ways. Am I doomed to fantasize about my ex?

You are—unless you open up to your current BF about what's missing in your sex life and/or get his permission to get your hard-fucking/spoon-feeding needs met elsewhere.

How do you combat homophobic remarks in a culture that condones and promotes homophobic tendencies?

You combat homophobia—and misogyny, its big sister—one terrified middle-schooler at a time. Bearing in mind, of course, that "terrified middle-schooler" is a state of mind, not an age bracket.

Got any advice for a bi girl, formerly submissive, who wants to start dominating men?

Move to San Francisco—oh, wait.

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You're already in San Francisco. Leave the house—get involved in local kink orgs, if you aren't already involved, check out local sex-positive events (bawdystorytelling.com is a great place to start), and let people know what you're looking for. There's no shortage of submissive guys in the Bay Area, and no shortage of dominant women up for mentoring women who are curious about topping.

In gay male relationships, what can you say about the psychological boundary between being Alpha in the world and beta in bed?

The boundary between Alpha In World/Beta In Bed is pretty fucking porous—it's not studded with guard towers, barbed wire and death strips, à la the Berlin Wall.

(Google it, kids.)

That boundary only exists in our heads.

And once we get that fact through our thick heads, not only do we discover that the Alpha/beta boundary is easily crossed, we quickly learn that crossing it repeatedly—brutally and joyfully violating it at will—is a total blast.

Me? I hand him back his dick and go get myself some ice cream—but you shouldn't do what I do when you can't make your partner come. Here's what you should do: keep trying, ask your partner what they need and encourage them, if need be, to "finish themselves off" (without pouting, without laying a guilt trip on them about how they've made you feel inadequate, and without treating them like they're broken). Cheerfully offer to hold 'em or play with their tits or eat their ass while they finish themselves off—or, hell, offer to go get 'em ice cream. Whatever helps!

Porn is so accessible today. How has it affected society?

cation—in the United States and Canada—has resulted in porn doing something it isn't designed to do and consequently does not do well. And that would be, of course, educating young people about sex. If we don't want porn doing that, and we don't, we need to create comprehensive sex ed programs that cover everything— hetero sex, queer sex, partnered sex, solo sex, gender identity, consent, kinks and how to be a thoughtful, informed and critical consumer of porn.

What is the one thing that concerns you most about the current political climate/election cycle?

Donald Trump getting the Republican nomination.

I'm not at all concerned about the potential destruction/implosion of the GOP—those fuckers have it coming— but with the likelihood of political violence. I'm concerned that black and brown people—Mexicans, Muslims, African Americans—will be subjected to more political/social/economic violence than they already are. People will die as a direct result of Trump getting the GOP nomination. This is a terrifying moment.

Porn's wider accessibility forced us to stop pretending there's one kind of sex— heterosexual, man-on-top—that absolutely everyone is interested in

Is Savage your real last name? It's mine, too! My mother kept her maiden name, I took her name, and she's a sex therapist! We're both huge fans.

Could you say hi to Dr Linda Savage?

She'll die!

Hi, Dr Linda Savage! Please don't die.

What do you do when you can't make your partner come?

One positive effect (among many): Porn's wider accessibility forced us to stop pretending there's one kind of sex—heterosexual, manon-top—that absolutely everyone is interested in. Thanks to the Interwebs, we can track what people are actually searching for (it's not all hetero), where they're searching for it (a shout-out to the great state of Utah, which has the highest porn consumption rates per capita in the nation!), and how long they're lingering over it (long enough to finish themselves off).

One negative effect (among many): The ubiquity of porn coupled with the general lousiness of sex edu-

What kind of sexual fluid or act would you name after Donald Trump?

Trump, as I pointed out in a previous column, already has an alternate/ more accurate meaning. There is no authority higher than the Oxford English Dictionary, and here's what you'll find under "trump" at oed. com: "in reference to a sound like a

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trumpet ... the act of breaking wind audibly." So remember, kids, when you see Donald Trump standing in front of a microphone ... Trump isn't talking. He's trumping.

What is the etiquette when it comes to social media and open relationships?

It all depends on the preferences of the couple/throuple/quad/squad in question. If a particular couple, etc, wants to maintain the appearance of being monogamous, if they want to avoid stigma, judgment, freaked out parents, etc, then they're not going to want evidence of their open relationship popping up all over Facebook and/or Instagram. If there's internal disagreement in a particular couple/throuple/quad/squad about keeping things quiet on social media, not outing the person(s) who want to keep things discreet may be the price of admission their other partners have to pay.

What was your favourite aspect of the orgy held in honour of your 50th birthday?

The fact that I wasn't invited. #NotAnOrgyFan "Uninhibited: About Sex" continues at the JCCSF through the end of May. Upcoming speakers and events include Esther Perel, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Nicole Prause, Jules Howard, films, poetry readings, and live musical performances. For a full schedule of events: jccsf.org/arts-ideas/uninhibited. V On the Lovecast, power poly kinkster Allena Gabosch on poly complications: savagelovecast.com @fakedansavage on Twitter

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