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CLIMATE CHANGE

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Edmonton is now in the global spotlight in regards to climate change

ith the conclusion of last week’s Cities and Climate Change Conference that brought in 800 guests from around the globe, this city turned a fiercer shade of green—and there is no going back. Edmonton pledged to be a leader in the global effort to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and combat global warming.

The irony of oil country hosting the most significant gathering of climate experts since 2015 was not lost on international media coverage. But Mayor Don Iveson accepted greater environmental responsibility on behalf of cities worldwide.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identified cities as the new frontier in the battle against climate change. Despite occupying just two percent of the Earth’s landmass, municipalities consume two-thirds of the world’s energy and generate 70 percent of global carbon emissions.

Last week’s conference armed

cities with the knowledge, game plans, and tools to take bold steps in sustainability initiatives. While failure to take significant action against climate change affects coastal cit-

lent emissions from 19 million tonnes to 14 million between 2010-2018, but the current rate has been stalled at 16.8 million tonnes for more than a year.

The goal to divert 90 per-

away from the masses willingly giving up their car keys.

It’s a massive task, but this city, at least for now, is all in.

One crucial measure governments generally lack is scientif-

“The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identified cities as the new frontier in the battle against climate change. Despite occupying just two percent of the Earth’s landmass, municipalities consume two-thirds of the world’s energy and generate 70 percent of global carbon emissions.” ies the heaviest, Albertans will also see serious impacts in the form of extreme weather, such as flash floods and wildfires.

Edmonton jumped on the green bandwagon more than a decade ago, and while ambition and language have been strong, execution has lagged. The city aimed to cut carbon equiva-

cent of residential waste from the landfill has fallen painfully short, with the actual figure ringing in at around 50 percent.

Retrofitting streetlights to more efficient LED models has stalled; the city’s first carbon-neutral community Blatchford is still a construction site and the public transportation network is years

ic expertise. Policy makers are bound by terms, politics, and budgets, which creates a gap between them and long-sighted scientists—often seen as white coats in faraway laboratories.

The IPCC conference sought to change that convention, emphasizing the need for scientists to get in the trenches

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and provide input and direction in sustainable policy. The only way to make tangible progress is to form working relationships between scientists, policy makers, and practitioners.

This spring marks an important point in the initiative because marching forward, words and ambition won’t cut it.

Edmontonians need to see action and world-class results, be it through new partnerships, offices or initiatives to drive results. Mayor Iveson and his team have staked their reputation on it, and failure to deliver must be a deal-breaker for voters in the 2021 election.

Regardless of whether Jason Kenney forms a government next year and steamrolls Alberta’s climate progress, the game board looks like this—Edmonton is now in the global spotlight for climate leadership. Our government, and their momentum, are ripe for a breakthrough.

It’s time for bold action.

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TRUMP AND KIM President Trump plans to talk denuclearization with North and South Korea, but with a different guy

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think I know why President Donald Trump suddenly agreed to hold talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un after a year of mutual threats and verbal abuse.

Anything short of a complete breakdown at the talks would virtually guarantee Trump next year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Moreover, it would seem bigger and shinier than the one they gave to Barack Obama, because Obama hadn’t actually earned it. He got it just for being a nice guy.

Oh, no, wait a minute. If they gave it to Trump they’d also have to give it to Kim Jong-un, and that would be even sillier.

Yet there probably won’t be a complete breakdown at the talks, which are due by May, because both men are strongly motivated to make themselves look successful.

Kim’s minimum goal is to establish North Korea as a legitimate sovereign state, one accepted by other sovereign states (including the United States) as an equal. Just having a one-on-one discussion with Trump about the security problems of the Korean peninsula

gives him that. He will do his best to keep the meeting civil, and under no circumstances will he break off the talks first.

Trump’s main goal is to look good—to get a ‘win’—and Kim’s advisers will have told him to let Trump win something. It doesn’t much matter what, so long as Trump can wave it in the air and claim victory when he gets home. But it will definitely not be an enforceable agreement to dismantle North Korea’s new nuclear weapons and their delivery vehicles.

Look at it from Kim Jong-un’s standpoint. Saddam Hussein gave up his nuclear weapons programme (involuntarily) after the first Gulf War in 199091, and 12 years later the United States invaded Iraq, overthrew Saddam, and hung him. Well, the new Iraqi regime provided the rope and the gallows, but the U.S. invasion would never have happened if Saddam really had nuclear weapons.

Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi gave up his quest for nuclear weapons too. It never really amounted to much, but it worried Western powers enough to make them leave him

alone most of the time. Then Gaddafi handed over all his pathetic scraps of nuclear weapons-related technologies—and NATO airpower subsequently backed the tribal rebels who finished him off with a bayonet up his backside.

So if the U.S. sees you as a problem and you value your life, don’t stop until you get your nukes, and never give them up.

The North Koreans understand this lesson very well.

No promise that Trump could make would persuade the North Koreans to surrender their nukes. As far as Kim is concerned, nuclear deterrence against the United States has now been achieved, and he’d be mad to give it up again.

It’s a pretty flimsy form of deterrence—his rockets aren’t very accurate and his nuclear weapons don’t always explode in a fully satisfactory way—but even a 10 percent chance that North Korea could kill half a million Americans in a ‘revenge from the grave’ attack should be enough to deter the U.S. from using nukes on North Korea.

A nuclear war between the

U.S. and North Korea would probably kill ten times as many North Koreans including practically every member of the regime—Pyongyang would be a glowing, radioactive pit—so Kim’s regime would never initiate such a conflict. But he needs the assurance that the United States will never resort to nuclear weapons either, and only North Korean nuclear weapons can provide the necessary deterrence.

You may deplore this kind of thinking, but it is entirely rational and it is at the heart of North Korea’s strategy. Kim’s willingness to talk about the “denuclearization of the Korean peninsula” is therefore just that: a willingness to talk, but not to act. And there’s plenty to talk about.

Does ‘denuclearization’ mean no American nuclear weapons can be located in South Korea, or in the entire region? Given the range of those weapons, how would that make North Korea any safer? Does it mean dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapons? Certainly not.

It’s just what Kim had to say to get the talks started.

His ultimate goal is to ‘normalise’ North Korean nukes, as Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons were eventually accepted as normal. This can only happen if the United States acknowledges a state of mutual nuclear deterrence between the two countries, which Trump is not yet ready to do. But even by talking to Kim about it, he begins to give the concept substance.

Kim can promise Trump a “moratorium on nuclear and missile tests” because he doesn’t really need more tests. His nuclear weapons and rockets are far fewer and much less sophisticated than their American counterparts, but mutual deterrence can work effectively even when one side has a hundred or a thousand times more nuclear weapons than the other.

So Trump gets an early ‘win,’ and Kim gets to nudge the United States a little closer to an understanding that its future relationship with North Korea will be one of mutual deterrence. Or maybe locking two narcissists in a room is bound to end in tears, but it’s well worth a try.

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ABSINTHE

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With an increase in local distilleries, Alberta may soon be home to absinthe production

ascinated by its sordid history, Edmonton distiller Adam Smith set out to create a few pungent test bottles of absinthe in the small, boom-town building that houses his fledgling operation, Strathcona Spirits.

Last year, Smith made this first foray into high-proof, herb-forward liquors using a trio of plants essential to absinthe: anise, sweet fennel and wormwood—the source of the drink’s alleged, non-alcohol-related psychoactive properties. Although, the local distiller may tinker with it a bit using a palette of plant-matter sourced from Strathcona Spirits’ “Funny Farm and Botanical Gardens,” a plot of land the distillery recently acquired near Pigeon Lake.

Interest in absinthe has increased among Albertan buyers and makers, but making it comes with some regulations beyond those governing other kinds of hooch. The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission (AGLC) limits the amount of thujone—a naturally-occurring compound in wormwood—in a product to 3.5 parts per million.

Most other provinces have similar limits, though the particulars vary.

According to Andrea Kicia, the AGLC’s supervisor of product pricing, the province prefers to “err on the side of caution” when it comes to the public safety aspect of the liquor.

For a bottle of absinthe to appear on Albertan liquor store shelves, it needs a certificate of analysis showing that its thujone content falls within the provincially-mandated legal limits.

Other provincial liquor boards have labs to test and certify beverages like absinthe but, according to the AGLC, in Alberta, distillers would need to go to a private lab or potentially the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.

While part of Smith’s fascination with absinthe comes from its status as a pariah among beverages, overall he doesn’t buy the negative press that surrounds it. He says that the tales of hallucinations and grizzly murders caused lawmakers to ban absinthe before they really understood everything about wormwood’s effect on the brain, if it even has one.

“The fact that we’re randomly going to pick thujone because people over 100 years ago decided that it was some devilish substance—it’s hilarious we’re still talking about it like that.”

So far, matters of absinthe production and regulation have been quiet in Alberta, and not many buyers or makers have contacted the AGLC about it.

But Alberta has seen an increase in the number of distilleries since 2013, when the provincial government removed a law dictating a distillery needed to produce at least 2,500 hectolitres of liquor per year to get its license. Some of these upstart businesses, as such, want to branch out to new liquors beyond gins and vodka.

While the AGLC wants these new operations to be successful, they should also be aware of the field’s rules and regulations, says Kathy Hibbs, manager of program services with the AGLC’s liquor services division.

She also hopes distillers looking to make absinthe will reach out to the AGLC so the organization can help them navigate its regulations.

Currently, there are no Albertamade absinthes sold in the province. However, as the number of home-grown hooch-makers grows, some of them inevitably want to expand their offerings from gins and vodkas—while their whiskeys age the requisite three years— says Ryan Engen, director of spirits with Liquor Stores North America, which owns Liquor Depot.

The liquor makes up only a small portion of Liquor Depot sales, right now, but the range of absinthe labels has grown, along with interest in the beverage. Five years ago, Liquor Depot sold only two absinthes, but now Albertan liquor stores have access to 22 through Connect Logistics, the province’s alcohol distributor.

The U.S. lifted its absinthe band in 2007, allowing its state-side production to begin in earnest.

This made accessing the beverage easier in Canada, and, since then,

distilleries in British Columbia and Ontario have started making the beverage, Engen says.

More than 20,000 cases of absinthe have been sold in Alberta since April of 2007, said an email from the AGLC, and Engen expects the number of labels to increase over the next few years.

“I think that stems from the classic cocktails. People are interested in making things like the Sazerac, which calls for that absinthe rinse,” he says.

While Smith’s interest in absinthe lies in its history, Geoff Stewart sees making absinthe as a logical next step for his business, Rig Hand Distillery. The Nisku, Alta.based operation has yet to make a test batch, but Stewart hopes to roll one out this summer—another step towards his goal to learn everything he can about distilling.

Stewart reached out to Range Road Garden Farms to grow the requisite wormwood.

Though it can grow wild in Alberta, a steady supply of the herb was one of the concerns he had getting started.

Now he is currently in the research stages of absinthe production.

Part of this—aside from working with AGLC regulations—involves taking a trip to Europe, to taste the absinthe made in the Old World, a trip Smith also hopes to take prior to releasing his finalized product.

“Every time we branch out into a different type of liquor, there’s a

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big learning curve,” Stewart says.

There’s probably a market for the beverage in Alberta, but Stewart isn’t 100 percent sure Rig Hand absinthe will sit on liquor store shelves in the future.

“It’s something we will do, and gauge if our clientele wants as a final product or not.”

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Biera wins over tastebuds with big flavours and local brews

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ince it opened its doors last year, Biera has been a going concern on the Edmonton food and drink scene—almost certainly not the kind of place you could casually drop by around supper time and expect to be seated right away. The big brick-lined room with a double-high ceiling and the gleaming tanks of Blind Enthusiasm Brewing encased in glass on the north and west walls seems to fill up quickly.

By way of consolation you can sit outside in the Ritchie Market common area and nurse a freshmade cold one while waiting for chairs to free up. Accolades have followed quickly; just this month one glossy local lifestyle publication proclaimed Biera as Edmonton’s best new restaurant.

Which is to say the menu is not just a pat, fried-and-salted enticement to drink more beer, but the product of thoughtful, imaginative deliberation embroidering

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bold flavours with elegant nuance that leaves you not knowing quite what to expect no matter what you order. It just makes sense to wash it down with a flight of Blind Enthusiasm’s varied beer styles—a few ounces each of their coppery lager, wheat beer with phantom fruit and spice aromas, a light-bodied ale with tea-like bitterness, and a strong red ale will run you $8.

That depth and originality of the fare almost leave you at a loss for where to start, even if you arrive too late to try the snacks and you leave aside the extensive selection of cheeses.

Maybe you’ll want to try Biera’s crusty, spongy sourdough ($12), not least because you can use it to mop up your plate throughout the meal. In a foretaste of the menu’s attention to detail, the bread comes with both creamy kefir butter drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and

salty whipped lardo topped with crisped crumbs.

Our server said the plates were made for sharing, so we decided to split the boudin noir sausage ($16) by way of an appetizer. The dark sausage in question is uncased, coarse and falling apart over a slather of brown butter with a layer of diaphanous pink lady apple slices on top and a strew of fragrant rosehips and sour oxalis. It’s velvety and earthy as only something made with blood can be, with a charred undertone playing against velvety smoothness and assertive garlic.

The tart-sweet al dente apple slices and floral accents were the perfect foil to all that richness.

Before long, the bok choy ($17) arrived with just enough of a head-start on the pork shoulder ($28) that we had a chance to divvy up the veggies. Looking at it, it was hard to take in what all

was going on with the tangle of grill-marked bok choy and microgreens seriously lavished with black and white sesame seeds and toasted hazelnuts, but it turned out there was a generous glob of smoked buttermilk cheese underneath, slowly sinking in a thick pool of black sesame sauce. This was co-diner’s favourite dish of the night—the smoky cheese might have had something to do with it, though the leafy bok choy was perfectly done, lending crunch and the juiciness to all that umami.

It seemed like serendipity that the grilled pork shoulder coincided with the last beer of my flight, as its salty savour—magnified by the sweet, chewy roasted beets on the side—paired nicely with the big flavour of the hoppy, high-test ACME Red. Citrusy sparkles of lemon balm further scintillated the palate.

We did not need dessert, but

we went ahead and ordered the Citra-hopped pear sorbet ($9) expecting some dainty crystal with a ping pong ball of fruited ice in it.

But the dessert felt substantial, a sizable scoop of the well calibrated sorbet, pear perfume and lemony hop in perfect balance, over slices of poached Bosc pear, with diaphanous apple slices and a stiff dose of matcha powder. It would have been refreshing if we weren’t already so sated, but it was at least delicious, excess of matcha notwithstanding.

Somehow all that food and drink—all those flavours, really—came in just under a hundred bucks, which felt like money well spent. Food-and-drink empires in Edmonton have been built on less than Biera’s top-flight eats and tipples, but until they decide to start propagating over the map, reservations are a likely requisite for the foreseeable future.

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THEATRE

Northern Light Theatre and L’UniThéâtre join forces to tell a heart wrenching story of lost naiveté

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ontréal, 1963, a 12-year-old Genevieve must soon learn the harsh realities of life. But life is also changing around her with civil rights groups and women’s liberation movements cropping up amongst a quickening world filled with major scientific advances and space exploration.

Using strong themes of magic realism, Do This in Memory of Me tells the story of young Genevieve’s journey away from how she imagines the world to be, toward a whole new world—the “life isn’t fair” adult world.

What started as only a piece of its current brilliance in the Citadel’s Playwrights Forum, Edmonton playwright Cat Walsh’s script was commissioned two years ago

by Northern Light Theatre and L’UniThéâtre as the third co-production between the two Edmonton theatre companies.

The storyline follows Genevieve’s relentless questioning of her earthly father, religious father, and heavenly Father as to why she cannot become an altar server. Soon after, she is faced with the harsh realities of life and death, and even worse,

abandonment. Walsh’s perceptive script examines how our perceptions of ourselves and those around us change as we grow up and lose our child-like views of the world and the events that happen within it.

“I remember when I was a kid and people didn’t have satisfactory answers to my questions. But then you get a little older, and you realize that there just sometimes aren’t answers,” Walsh says.

Walsh drew inspiration from her own desires to be an altar server growing up in the Catholic Church, which in the ‘60s still put strict regulations on what a girl could and could not do.

“In our parish, even in the ‘80s, they didn’t let girls do it, so I felt very ripped off,” Walsh says adding that she can remember further frustrations about the general lore of the church: “The girl saints are always ‘virgin martyr, virgin martyr’ where boys are just martyrs.”

Her desires were not rare either.

Actor Nicole St. Martin (Genevieve) can remember similar feelings as a young girl also growing up in the French Catholic Church.

“When I was really little, I wanted to be a priest. And I couldn’t understand why women couldn’t be priests,” St. Martin says. “I thought priests could have that opportunity to inspire others.”

Fellow actor Brian Dooley (Father Paul, Genevieve’s father) actually grew up as an altar boy in Montréal during the time the play is set.

“It does capture that kind of odd, clerical oppression that existed, particularly in Québec,” Dooley says. “The hold that the Catholic Church had on the population at the time was starting to loosen its grip—the quiet revolution had already begun.”

The set will use multiple forms of obscure surrealist projection to portray certain cadaverous characters that counsel Genevieve along her journey, including the notably overshadowed patron saint of children, Saint Pancras.

To explain the feel of the show, director Trevor Schmidt references the skeleton fairy GIF; look it up.

“The projections really ground us in a place, but we’re not sure how real any of those even are,” Schmidt says of the child’s world

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we are dropped into from the top to curtain call.

Do This in Memory of Me is a particularly special piece because of its bilingual performance schedule made possible by translator Manon Beaudoin. Performances will alternate between English and French throughout the run of the play, allowing for audiences to experience theatre in their native tongue or the opposite. To sort confusion: English tickets can be purchased through northernlighttheatre.com and French through lunitheatre.ca.

“It’s the exact same blocking, same lines and everything, but there’s always a very different tone in French,” Schmidt says. “In this show, French is automatically funny for timing and delivery and the way that they casually throw away some of the lines.”

Walsh’s script is unique in the ways she uses her dry and sarcastic humour to approach the dark and slightly macabre tones present in religious contexts.

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Until Sun., Mar. 25 Do This in Memory of Me/ En Mémoire de Moi L’UniThéâtre, La Cité Francophone From $21 if it’s not super laugh-out-loud funny,” Walsh says, “sometimes it’s more that recognition sort of humour. I find that’s a good way to get people thinking about really serious topics that they might otherwise feel a little uncomfortable discussing.”

It’s important to note that while the play circles around many religious settings, themes, and practices, the point is not to critique religion or any of those who are religious. The point is to show the pivotal moment in everyone’s life when our outlook is challenged, and explore that slightly surreal and tenuous time through the heart wrenching experiences of one girl.

“It’s that moment when you lose your innocence I think, about lots of things,” Schmidt says, “big things.”

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UNCHARTED TERRITORY OF THE MIND Edmonton artist Dr. Gloria Mok uses art as a way to explore her subconscious

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he starts by showing some of the items she’s collected over the years, which sit on a shelf spanning the entire far wall of the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) space: a model of a heart encased in clear plastic, little universes of coral, fossilized rocks, a turn-ofthe-century egg beater resting in a metal stand, and an encased butterfly hanging above.

Edmonton artist Gloria Mok’s inspirations range organic plant life, mechanical machines, and the human body, all of which inspire her either for their shape or function.

Trained as a doctor first, Mok’s art has always taken elements from her long-standing background in science and medicine, which has enriched her art, but art’s ability to explore the unknown holds a particularly special place in her heart.

“It’s a very important part of our brain during evolution, because that’s the first thing we did,” Mok says. “We have been drawing, as humans, longer than we have had writing. Just think of all the wonderful cave drawings of animals, they’re very alive tens of thousands of years later.”

The point of the AGA’s RBC Work Room is allowing gallery visitors the chance to see artists in action as they create pieces that will eventually fill the space, becoming a formal exhibition. Unlike her last show at the Art Gallery of Alberta (2001), which used “high-tech” Xray and computer technologies, her newest, Metamorphosis, will go back to basics, using collage and gouache.

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Gouache is a form of paint often compared to watercolour, but unique in its ability to layer dense, opaque colours as well as translucent due to its water solubility.

Serveral of her past gouache pieces will hang on the wall, until they are replaced by works she creates in the space over the span of six weeks.

Mok’s art book being published this spring, Into the Anthropocene, shows her inspiration from such collage talents as German experimental artist Max Ernst, who mixes the surreal with the formidably real. One such image she holds up is a man in a suit with the head of a bird set in front of an industrial harbour city scape (from Ernst’s A Week of Kindness). For her collages though, she uses illustrations of the human anatomy from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Mok is also heavily interested in the field of genetic engineering where mankind becomes a sort of mad scientist artist that paints the brush of genetic codes using methods like gene insertion and deletion. She takes it to perhaps the extreme and imagines what sort of surreal fantastical world we could potentially create.

“As an artist, you let your imagination grow. As a doctor, there are some huge medical advances, but with any new areas of research there are also negative sides—the ethics of it,” she adds.

This is why art is so important to Mok; as a family doctor, life is full of black-and-white knowledge—either you have a bladder infection or you don’t; the prescription is

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Until Sun., July 1 Metamorphosis RBC Work Room, Art Gallery of Alberta recommended or it’s not. Art offers a realm of imagination that sits on the opposite side of our brain from logic and language.

“We start drawing at age three, four, five, and then by age 10 to 12 everyone stops that—why is that?” she asks.

She’s right—it’s rare to meet a kid that doesn’t gravitate to a blank page and a set of markers, even if it’s just scribbles on a page, and yet, most children stop drawing by their pre-teens. Mok chalks it up to society’s values evolving over time, pushing language much heavier as school goes on.

“It doesn’t mean that we can’t draw,” she points out, “it’s just we have suppressed that ability.”

Drawing holds a unique power to better understand ourselves through the subconscious mind.

When you pick up a pencil or a brush, it just flows, and if you are thinking exhaustively, many artists would say you’re doing it wrong.

“Most of our day jobs depend on outcomes, but this is a whole different realm of uncharted territory,” Mok says. “When you put a dot on a piece of paper, you’re not sure where it’s going to end. For each of these drawings I have no preconception; I start somewhere, and the drawing just comes.”

If Mok had her way, she’d get everyone drawing, and if you plan to stop by her exhibition, expect to be prodded to explore your subconscious mind and sit down to a blank page—doctor’s orders.

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

BALLROOM DANCE ASSOCIATION • Central Lions Recreation Center, 11113-113 St • 780.893.6828 • ebda.ca • An evening of ballroom, latin, country dancing • First Sat of every month, 8pm (doors) BETROFFENHEIT • Citadel Theatre in the Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Choreographer Crystal Pite and actor/playwright Jonathon Young join forces to examine, with unflinching honesty, what happens to the individual in the wake of a trauma • Mar 30Apr 1 • Starting at $30

CAPITAL CITY BURLESQUE PRESENTS: A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES • Evolution Dillan Chiblow (Tom) surrounded by fellow castmates / David Cooper Photography

RECONCILING RELATIONS Children of God portrays a culture’s profound strength above all the dirt and muck

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he stains on the church. The pain of the parents and communities. The resilience of the children. The sorrow of a nation.

For artistic director Daryl Cloran’s first full season of programming at the Citadel, Corey Payette’s Children of God was always at the heart. The musical theatre piece discussing the too-long-ignored wounds of Canadian residential schools and clarifiying what reconciliation actually is deserves to be brought to audiences across the country for Canadians to explore each of our roles in the sometimes cloudy process.

Set in two time periods 20 years apart, Children of God follows an Ojib-Cree family, whose two children are forced to attend an Indian residential school. The story doesn’t stop there though; Father Christopher (David Keeley) and Sister Bernadette (Sarah Carlé) tell the side of those that enforced the horrible abuses on the students for their country and their faith, which included not only the Catholic Church, but multiple others as well.

Though it may seem like a period piece, Children of God in fact portrays the world we live in today as well. The institutionalization of Indigenous people is still happening.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) offers 94 calls to action following the cultural genocide inflicted upon Indigenous, Métis, and Inuit people of Canada by way of the residential school system whose mandate was to “take the Indian out of the child.” One of the

large areas the report (2015) pointed to was the growing crisis for Indigenous youth.

Indigenous children make up a disproportionate number of kids in the foster care system.

According to the most up to date study by Statistics Canada (2011), while Indigenous children under 14 make up seven percent of Canadian children they accounted for 48 percent of those in the foster system.

To put this musical on as large a stage as the Citadel’s, casting Indigenous actors in Indigenous roles, and conducting talk-backs aimed at bringing words to action is a step in the right direction. The hope is Children of God does not become a one-off moment of lipserviced reconciliation, but instead a part of programming both for the Citadel as well as smaller theatre companies in the city.

Payette’s masterpiece was able to portray not only the painful realities of residential school survivors and those that were lost, but something larger.

Despite horrifying circumstances and never-ending forms of every abuse, the strength and resilience of the children is what stands through the heartbreaking moments of Children of God. With a four-piece accompaniment including acoustic guitar, piano, violin, and double bass, the chilling music soars above the words spoken and adds an extra element of emotion to each number.

Actress Cheyenne Scott, who plays Julia, stands out for her voice and her ability to portray

Until Sat., Mar. 24 Children of God Shoctor Theatre Starting at $30 strength in the most terrifying of situations. Her brother, Tommy (Dillan Chiblow) also stands out for his voice, coarse with emotion; Chilblow’s portrayal of the young and sensitive Tommy as well as his older self, struggling to maintain alcoholism shows a chilling reality for some families today, torn by generation grief of residential schooling.

But the acting and singing transcends typical theatre criticism; the cumbersome portrayals of the children, the mother, the nun, and the priest tell a story that too long went untold. A story that by opening it up, wounds can begin to be healed, both for those with direct connections to the schools, and those who must learn to better understand those they pass on the street or in the store.

The TRC calls reconciliation “a process of healing relationships that requires public truth sharing, apology, and commemoration that acknowledge and redress past harms.” In order to do so we “must create a more equitable and inclusive society by closing the gaps in social, health, and economic outcomes that exist between Aboriginal and nonAboriginal Canadians.”

By accepting our Canadian citizenship and our above average indexes of life, we are all treaty people, no matter what side of the treaty that may be.

Sierra Bilton sierra@vueweekly.com

Wonderlounge, 10220-103 St • hello@ capitalcityburlesque.com • This one-night-only event is a cheeky celebration of cinema, featuring brand-new, first-time solo performances, a teaser from our upcoming feature production and more • Apr 7, 7-10pm • Tickets start at $15 + fees and GST (available at Eventbrite)

CINDERELLA • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Presented by the Alberta Ballet. Inspired by Charles Perrault’s 1697 version–and complete with all of its delightful elements–Cinderella is the story of a heroine empowered by a persevering optimistic spirit ... and a special pair of shoes • Mar 22-24 DANCE CLASSES WITH GOOD WOMEN DANCE COLLECTIVE • Muriel Taylor Studio at Ruth Carse Centre for Dance, 11205-107 Ave • info@goodwomen.ca • goodwomen.ca/classes • Every Tue, Thu, Fri; 10-11:30am • $15 (drop-in), $65 (5 class pack), $100 (10 class pack)

FLAMENCO DANCE CLASSES (BEGINNER OR ADVANCED) • Dance Code Studio, 10575-115 St NW • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail.com • flamencoenvivo. com • Every Sun until Jun 10, 11:30am12:30pm

HOUSE OF HUSH PRESENTS: BROADWAY RAG • Crash Hotel Lobby, 10266103 St • hellothere@violettecoquette.com • houseofhushmarch23.eventbrite.com • houseofhushburlesque.com • An all-Broadway themed show. House of Hush brings guests back to the golden age of live theatre • Mar 23, 7pm (doors), 8-9:30pm (show) • $30 (include a complimentary feature cocktail) • 18+ only

HOUSE OF HUSH PRESENTS: IT'S YOUR LUCKY DAY! • Crash Hotel Lobby, 10266-103 St • hellothere@violettecoquette. com • houseofhushapril13.eventbrite.com • houseofhushburlesque.com • Representing Lady Luck and the Roman goddess Fortuna, luck be a lady tonight • Apr 13, 7pm (door), 8-9:30pm (show) • $30 (include a complimentary feature cocktail) • 18+ only

MILE ZERO DANCE DROP-IN DANCE & MOVEMENT CLASSES • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • 780.424.1573 • mzdsociety@ gmail.com • milezerodance.com/classes • Mile Zero Dance holds a number of drop-in dance & movement classes for people of all experience levels & ages; Mon: Professional Technique (10-11:30am), Contact Improv (7-9pm); Tue: Kids 6-10 (4:30-5:15pm), Toonie Yoga (5:306:45pm), Butoh (7-9pm); Wed: Noguchi Taiso (10-11:30am); Thu: Preschool 3-5 (10-10:45am), Beginner Contemporary (5-6:15pm); Sat: House (7-9pm) • $15 (regular), $12 (members), 10-class cards available for $100

SACRED CIRCLE DANCE • Riverdale Community Hall, 9231-100 Ave • edmontonsacredcircledance@gmail.com • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music. No partner required • 2nd Wed of the month (beginners), 4th Wed of the month (experienced), 7-9pm • $10

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SUBARTIC IMPROV & EXPERIMENTAL ARTS • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St

• milezerodance.com • Co-curated by Jen Mesch and Allison Balcetis, these unique events combine forces of local and visiting artists, who share with the audience to a melange of dance, visual art, music, and text • Apr 6, May 4 • $15 or best offer at the door

SUGAR FOOT STOMP! • Sugar Swing Ballroom, 10019-80 Ave NW • 587.786.6554 • dance@sugarswing.com • sugarswing.com • Swing dance social • Every Fri-Sat, 8pm (beginner lesson begins) • $12, $2 (lesson with entry) • All ages FILM METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema. org • Visit metrocinema.org for daily listings • Le Festival du Film Français / The French Film Festival; Mar 16-18, Mar 20 • ALLEY KAT CASK AND KEG NIGHTS: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Mar 31) • Bad Girls Movie CluB: Sunset Boulevard (Mar 14) • do the riGht thinGs: Life Inside Out (Mar 18) • Gateway to CineMa: Lady Bird (Mar 28) • GuillerMo del toro: The Devil's Backbone (Mar 25-26) • hoMo-Cidal draG show: Death Becomes Her (Mar 29) • Metro retro: Up in Smoke (Mar 24) • niGht Gallery: starMan: Invaders from Space (Mar 17) • reel FaMily CineMa: Ferdinand (Mar 24) • reel learninG: The Martian (Mar 27) • sCienCe in THE CINEMA: Concussion (Mar 15) • spotliGht: Peter Lynch (Mar 21-22)

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ACUA GALLERY & ARTISAN BOUTIQUE • 9534-87 St • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts.ca • acuarts.ca • Signature Artist Series: artwork by Daena Diduck and Emma Plumb; Mar 2-29

A. J. OTTEWELL ARTS CENTRE • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artsoc@telus.net • artstrathcona.com • Spring Fling 2018 Art Show and Sale; Apr 13-15 ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Process; Thinking Through: artwork by Charles Lewton-Brain; Jan 20-Apr 21 • Spirals: artwork by Dalia Saafan; Mar 3-Apr 7 ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Melcor Cultural Centre, 355th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Figuratively Speaking: artwork by various artists; Mar 6-23 • Artwork by Stephanie Medford; Mar 6-23

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • WordMark: A New Chapter Acquisition Project; Oct 28-Mar 25 • Songs for Pythagoras: artwork by Peter von Tiesenhausen; Jan 27-May 6 • Undaunted: Canadian Women Painters of the 19th Century; Dec 2-Mar 25 • WEEKLY DROP-IN ACTIVITIES: Tours for Tots, Every Wed, 10-11am • Youth Workshops, ages 13-17, Every Thu, 4-6pm • Kids’ Open Studio, Every Sat, 1-3pm • Exhibition Tours; Every Sat-Sun, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm • Art for Lunch; 3rd Thu of the month, 12-1pm • VIBE; 3rd Fri of the month, 5-9pm • Refinery: Material World; Mar 24, 9pm

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Retinal Circus: artwork by the Nina Haggerty Collective; Feb 1-Mar 31

BEAR CLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St • 780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • Ancestral Memories: artwork by Jessica Desmoulin; Runs until Mar 22 BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 9132-118 Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Regarding Mary: artwork by Marlena Wyman; Mar 10-Apr 7 BOREALIS GALLERY • 9820-107 St • assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/borealis.html • A Call for Justice: Fighting for Japanese Canadian Redress (1977-1988); Jan 15-Apr 2 BRUCE PEEL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS • Lower level, Rutherford South, University of Alberta • bpsc.library.ualberta.ca • Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination; Apr 27-Aug 24

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Presence: artwork by Jim Visser; Apr 7-21

CARROT COFFEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • thecarrot.ca • Artwork by Jill Thomson & Sara Norquay; through the month of Mar

Cava Gallery • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • galeriecava.com • Art & Film Installation with Lana Whiskeyjack and Beth Wishart MacKenzie; Jan 21-Mar 31 • Art exhibition; Mar 16, 7-9pm

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LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • March Group Exhibition; Through Mar

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DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St •

LATITUDE 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-106

780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Artwork

by Aganetha Dyck; Mar 15-Apr 14

St NW • latitude53.org • Figures as index: artwork by Luther Konadu; Feb 23-Mar 31 • Linage: artwork by Brittany Bear Hat; Feb 23-Mar 31

ENJOY CENTRE • 101 Riel Drive, St Albert • 780.718.7635 • phil@muralmosaic.com • nightofartists.com • Night of Artists Opening Gala; Mar 16, 7-11pm • Night of Artists Indoor Art Walk; Mar 17-18

LOFT GALLERY & GIFT SHOP • A.J. Ottewell Arts Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Sat-Sun, 12-4pm (excluding long weekends) • Artwork by Desserrie Plewis, Lynda McAmmond, Lynn Sinfield, Joyce Boyer, Kay McCormick, and Terrie Shaw; Mar 3-Jul 8

FAB GALLERY • Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • ualberta.ca/artshows • lacuna: artwork by Becky Thera; Feb 20-May 17 • Not Yet Earth: artwork by Madeline Mackay; Feb 20-Mar 17 • BDES 2018; Mar 27-Apr 7 • BFA 2018; Apr 17-28

LOTUS ART GALLERY • 10321-124 St • lotus-gallery.com • Sexy & Wild: artwork by various artists; Jan-Mar

FRONT GALLERY • 10402-124 St • thefrontgallery.com • Big Screen TVs: artwork

by Robert Lemay; Opening reception: Mar 22, 7-9pm

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • A Taste of Science–La science a bon goût!; Until Mar 25

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona. ca/artgallery • The Art of Truth and Reconciliation: artwork by George Littlechild; Mar 9-Apr 29

PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • NAESS GALLERY: Human Soul, Human Body, Human Being: artwork by Jorge Arango, Michael Conforti, Dolly Dennis; Until Apr 7 • ARTISTAN NOOK: Powerful Words: artwork

by Jennifer Valliere; Until Apr 5; Reception: Mar 15, 7-9pm (artists in attendance)

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse. ab.ca • Macromea: artwork by Alana Biffert and Marta Gorski; Feb 1-Mar 17 • The Book of 7: artwork by Stephen Ferris; Feb 1-Mar 17

LOCAL BEST SELLER LIST Week of March 3 - 11, 2018

1. Welcome to the Anthropocene - Alice Major *+ 2. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal 3. The Grave’s a Fine and Private Place - Alan Bradley 4. American War - Omar El Akkad

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STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • strathconacountymuseum.ca •Hidden Treasures: Community Service Champions; Runs until Apr 20

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments • POPnology Exhibition; Feb 9-May 6 • Terry Fox–Running to the Heart of Canada; Feb 16-Sep 16 UDELL XHIBITIONS • 10332-124 St NW • 780.488.4445 • udellxhibitions.com • Open TueSat, 10am-5pm • Spring Exhibition; Apr 7, 2-4pm UNION HALL • 6240-99 St • michelle. bylow@rawartists.org • RAWartists.org/ edmonton • RAW Artists Edmonton present ENVISION; Mar 22-23 VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art. com • Uncovered and Unashamed: artwork by Andréa Schmidt; Feb 27-Mar 31

• La Cité Francophone 2nd Pavillon, #200, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury (91 St) • 780.803.2016 • info@wamsoc.ca • wamsoc. ca • RE: The Current Narrative of Collecting Women’s Art; Mar 8-Apr 20

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12 Rules for Life - Jordan Peterson *

Flanders "The Year of Less" Book Launch; Mar 15, 7-9pm • Jeanne Martinson "Leadership Lessons From Downton Abbey" Signing; Mar 16, 12-1pm • Pedlar Press Poetry event with Jack Davis and concetta principe; Mar 16, 7-9pm • Raymond Yakeleya "The Tree by the Woodpile" Book Launch; Mar 18, 1-3pm

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7. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari

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Fire and Fury - Michael Wolff

10. The Girl in the Woods Camilla Lackberg

ta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Eyes Water Fire: artwork

by Tomoyo Ihaya; Feb 23-Mar 31

Trumpocracy - David Frum

6. The Marrow Thieves Cherie Dimaline

9. Indian Horse - Richard Wagamese

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alber-

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Feeding my Mother- Jann Arden *

780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series • Most Mon (except holidays), 7pm, Sep 18-Mar; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Basement

scottgallery.com • Spring Pop: group art show; Through Mar

LITERARY

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UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave •

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WOMEN'S ART MUSEUM OF CANADA

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Cait

Elon Musk: Telsla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Ashlee Vance

Supper x Club, 10765 Jasper Ave • Every Tue

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St •

Where it Hurts - Sarah De Leeuw

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ROUGE POETRY SLAM HOSTED BY BREATH IN POETRY COLLECTIVE • BLVD

• 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/ eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Open TueSat, 9am • 150 Firsts: How Alberta Changed Canada…Forever; Until Aug 1

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This Idea is Brilliant John Brockman

8. Die on Your Feet - SG Wong *

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA

780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Artwork by Dana Irving; Mar 3-15

Angela Archipelago of Hope - Gleb Raygorodetsky*

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5. A Wake for the Dreamland - Laurel Deedrick- Mayne

104 Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery. com • This Is Not A Century For Paradises: artwork by Julian Forrest; Mar 15-Apr 7

WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St •

Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12323-

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

GLASS BUFFALO WINTER 2018 LAUNCH PARTY • Yellowhead Brewery, 10229-105 St • glassbuffalowinter2018launch.eventbrite. com • Celebrate Glass Buffalo's sweet sixteenth issue and mingle over libations as you listen to engaging stories and poems from the magazine’s contributors • Mar 20, 6:30-10:30pm

Theatre at Holy Trinity, 10037-84 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • This completely improvised musical comedy is based on the suggestions from the audience who will get to experience a brand new story unfold in front of them, complete with impromptu songs, dance breaks and show stopping numbers • Every Fri, Oct 13-Dec 15, 11pm

BEWITCHING ELVIS • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, West Edmonton Mall, #2061 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • edmonton.jubilations.ca • Samantha Stephens and her husband Darren are trying to live a normal married life, but Samantha’s witch mother, Endora, doesn’t make it very easy for them. Samantha throws a party and is greeted by the real Elvis • Jan 26-Apr 1

CHILDREN OF GOD • Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • A haunting tale of two siblings taken away to a residential school. A story of redemption: for a mother who was never let past the school’s gate, and her kids, who never knew she came • Mar 3-24 CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s long form comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm; Sep 10-Jun 9 • $15 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) CITY OF ANGELS • Triffo Theatre in Allard Hall, 11110-104 Ave • Set in the glamorous, seductive Hollywood of the 40’s—the world of film studios and flimsy negligees—the show chronicles the misadventures of Stine, a young novelist attempting a screenplay of his bestselling novel for movie producer Buddy Fiedler • Mar 21-31, 7:30pm (2pm matinee on Mar 25) • $15-$25 via MacEwan Box Office COUGAR ANNIE TALES • The Aviary, 9314111 Ave • A one woman play about a legendary west coast pioneer settler. Cougar Annie trapped over 70 cougars, outlived four husbands, bore 11 children and carved a life out of a remote west coast rainforest bog in the early 1900s • Apr 16, 7-10pm

THE DADA PLAY BY MIEKO OUCHI • Al and Trish Huehn Theatre, 7128 Ada Boulevard • The Birth and Death of the Dadaist movement as told by the people who were there • Mar 9-18 • $20 (regular), $15 (students and seniors), plus applicable fees

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 1032983 Ave • die-nasty.com • Live improvised soap opera. Join the whole Die-Nasty family REBORN, for a whole season of great artists, earth-shaking discovery, glorious music, hilarious hi jinx...but mostly Machiavellian Intrigue • Runs every Mon, 6:30pm (doors), 7:30-9:30pm • Oct 23-May 29

DON GIOVANNI • Jubilee Auditorium, 1145587 Ave • 780.429.1000 • edmontonopera.com

10. Seven Fallen Feathers Tanya Talaga

EN MÉMOIRE DE MOI // DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME • Theatre of La Cité francophone, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury (91 St) • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre@lunitheatre. ca • lunitheatre.ca • Set in Montreal, 1963– when the world was on a precipice of major change in the fields of science, civil rights and women’s liberation • Mar 13-24

GREEN THUMB THEATRE: STILL/FALLING • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove • horizonstage.com • Still/Falling follows a young woman, Nina, as she tries to come to terms with what it means to struggle with anxiety and depression, and to rise above it with as much strength, and as few scars, as possible • Mar 19, 7:30pm • $10

LADIES FOURSOME • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Imagine Sex and the City on a golf course! It’s the day after the funeral, and three women gather for a round of golf in honour of their recently departed fourth. They are joined at the tee by an old friend of the deceased and many surprises, secrets and confessions come to the surface • Feb 6-Apr 1 MAMMA MIA! • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • Chase away the winter blues with the smash hit musical featuring all favourite ABBA songs • Feb 17-Mar 18 POISON • Roxy on Gateway, 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.ca • A couple meets again after a painful separation. Loss drove them apart but binds them still. This an extraordinary play about grief, closure, and the awkward dance of going forward • Mar 15-25 THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL • Timms Centre for the Arts, 87 Ave & 112 St, University of Alberta • ualberta.ca/artshows • Lady Sneerwell sets out to spread scandal in this quintessential Comedy of Manners. Set in the 18th century, this is a play full of wit, mistaken identities and intrigue • Mar 29-Apr 7

SHADOW THEATRE PRESENTS OUTSIDE MULLINGAR • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • shadowtheatre.org • Anthony and Rosemary are two introverted misfits straddling 40. When romantic troubles begin to surface, these yearning, eccentric souls fight their way towards solid ground and some kind of happiness • Mar 7-25 • $22-27

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep 9-Jun 8 • $15

UNDERCOVER • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • One grizzled cop. One audience-member-turned-rookie-detective. One unsolved case • Apr 4-29

Green Thumb Theatre: Still/Falling Horizon Stage Mar 19, 7:30pm $10 / Supplied

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SURREALISM

“This Is Not A Century For Paradises” / Julian Forrest

HALLUCINATORY PARADISE Julian Forrest paints dream-like worlds filled with exceptionally strange characters

Until Apr. 15 This Is Not A Century For Paradises Q & A with Julian Forrest Sat., Mar. 17 (4 pm) Peter Robertson Gallery

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irector Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Bladerunner 2049) once said that most of a human’s life is spent either dreaming or being awake and that films make connections between the two states. Local artist Julian Forrest believes that art does the exact same thing.

“I think painting is very similar,” Forrest says. “I’m trying to access something familiar, but there is something unreal about what I am creating.”

Forrest’s paintings are established in the hallucinatory worlds of magical realism, surrealism, and sometimes figurative art.

Characters, each with their own stories, are painted in fantastic surreal colour and interact with one another in ambiguous fashions.

A perfect example is in his This Is Not A Century For Paradises exhibtion. In a diptych of the same name, two burgundy-painted men stand off to the left while a man in a coonskin cap fires a musket off canvas. An older man with angel wings leans down to touch a strange crimson satellite, while other men with muskets pose and lean up against a mid-century car. Standing off to the right is a diver in a cherry-blossomed helmet and suit watching the scene unfold. Behind him, a house looks like it met an untimely death from a tornado.

These diptychs Forrest creates resemble scene paintings from the Renaissance, only Forrest’s characters and environments seem like they have been ripped out of their own universes and are stuck in a dimension of frozen dreams.

“Some of the characters I’ve stolen are from historical public collections,” Forrest says. “The New York Public Library released a public domain collection. So I’ll take characters from different periods and start by doing loose sketches in Photoshop of photos I’ve found, and start putting them together.”

Forrest also enjoys using the likeness of characters found in other pieces of art.

“This is the head of an old diving mask. This is found from a clothing ad in the 1940s. This is from an El Greco painting. This is from a Francis Bacon painting,” he says, while pointing at a few of his creations.

Forrest also works with local actors to act out various scenes that are photographed and used for inspiration.

“What’s great about working with actors is that they don’t just do what I say, but they improvise and bring their own unique ideas,” he says. “It’s a great collaboration because they all bring new things that I sometimes use when I’m making the painting.”

This is how the pseudo-priest character, who dons hot pink cowboys boots and frequently appears in a few of Forrest’s paintings, was born.

“This priest character happened from the actor bringing the cos-

tume for that character. I’m not particularly religious, but I’m deeply curious about that lineage,” he says.

Every one of Forrest’s paintings is part of what he calls a “haphazard narrative.”

“It’s all loosely based on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and sort of the hero’s journey. That’s what is underpinning this work, but really it’s the stuff I always do, which is about the West and men and our masculinities in place,” Forrest says.

Though each of Forrest’s characters is deeply unique and look like they have their own short story, they all have a longing expression that seems forlorn.

“Something has happened and collapsed in these paintings in some metaphorical way,” Forrest says. “I don’t feel they are pessimistic paintings. I actually think they are very fun, but there is a sense of lament throughout them.”

The Germans have the perfect word to describe this feeling of lament within Forrest’s work—’ ‘torschlusspanik’—which translates to “gate-shut-panic.” The term dates back to the Middle Ages when peasants constantly feared being left outside of the city gates during nightfall.

“There’s also this great Welsh word ‘hiraeth,’” Forrest says. “It means the longing to go back to a place that’s been so changed in our memory that it cannot really be said to exist outside of our imagination. That’s what I think is happening in some of these.”

Stephan Boissonneault stephan@vueweekly.com

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A few of the films / Criterion Collection

FILM FESTIVAL

The fifth annual French Film Festival has some interesting features from past decades

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he Alberta government has proclaimed March as Alberta Francophonie Month and to celebrate, Alliance Française of Edmonton (in partnership with Metro Cinema) will host the fifth annual French Film Festival, a rare opportunity to watch and relive a few French films that have seldom screenings in Canada. The festival will begin with Robin Campillo’s 2017 rights activist film 120 battements par minute (120 BPM) and end with Henri-Georges Clouzot’s dramatic thriller 1953 Le salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear).

Between the two films are the Parisian 1970 jewel heist caper Le cercle rouge (The Red Circle), Simon Rouby’s animated 2015 drama Adama, and the regal drama Ridicule, as well as Medecin de Campagne (Irreplaceable). Below are reviews for two of the films.

Le cercle rouge After getting out of prison early for good behaviour, expert thief and all around cool guy, Corey (Alain Delon) is asked to pull off one last job. After declining, he unexpectedly meets up with Vogel (Gian-Maria Volantè), a crimi-

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nal on the run looking for one last score. While Vogel is hunted down by the hardworking commissioner Mattei (André Bourvil), both he and Corey scope out the location for a heist, a store with over $20 million in diamonds.

All they need is an expert marksman capable of firing a perfectly executed shot that doesn’t trip the alarm system. Jansen (Yves Montand), a retired alcoholic policeman fits the requirements.

The film, shot in quintessential ‘70s retro filter, mostly builds up from the intricate planning of the heist to the actual heist scene. Director Jean-Pierre Melville takes his time developing the trio and their surroundings.

We are thrown into the shadowy gangster world of Paris—ripe with crooked cops, thick cigarette smoke, trench coats, and eccentric nightclubs. One scene in Jansen’s psychedelic pinstripewallpaper apartment uses camera tricks to depict the “demons” he sees while wallowing in a powerful drug bender.

The scene’s vibe is reminiscent and just as iconic as the nightmare baby scene in Danny Boyle’s

Trainspotting. The real payoff of Le cercle rouge is the actual heist that Corey and Vogel act out with master precision. It’s no wonder films like Ocean’s Eleven took direct inspiration from Le cercle rouge. The 30-minute heist is stunningly calculated with the duo using an array of burglary tools that really plays up the suspense the film was building to. It makes you side with the calm collected criminals. You truly believe they are all professionals and you want them to get away with the caper.

While the film does have a bit of throw away dialogue (a useless love interest thread and the hinted at dark past of Mattei) Le cercle rouge is quite enjoyable and will perhaps make you discover a few other films in the French gangster-heist genre.  Stephan Boissonneault stephan@vueweekly.com Le salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) Director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1953 Le salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) turned out to be a French black-and-white classic and one of his most im-

portant films of his career, landing him the rights to make Les Diaboliques—much to the chagrin of Alfred Hitchcock who also tried to secure the rights.

Le salaire de la peur stars Yves Montand as Mario, a sarcastic everyman stuck in a South American town due to lack of dough, much like everyone living there.

After an oil company announces that it needs brave men to deliver a huge supply of nitroglycerin to a faraway location without the proper safety equipment (i.e. trucks with shock resistant tires and proper suspension) in exchange for $2,000 (close to $20,000 in 2018), Mario and his newfound older friend Jo (Charles Vanel) decide to throw their hats in the ring.

Along with them are Luigi, (Folco Lulli) Mario’s roommate (Yes, Mario and Luigi are roommates) and Bimba (Peter van Eyck).

The job is essentially a suicide mission on account of the roads being poorly maintained, requiring the trucks to speed up and maintain a steady pace at the risk of triggering the nitroglycerin to explode.

The film takes quite a bit of time until it gets to the actual drive, which is the real meat of the sto-

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ry. For the first 40 minutes we are stuck in this decrepit town with a useless plot that doesn’t really drive the story forward. I understand that it is meant to show the dire situation that leads the men to risk their lives, but this could have easily been done in 15 minutes with some short dialogue.

The perfect example is with Luigi, an underpaid cement worker who is told that he was cement in his lungs and that if he continues working he will die. This gives him quick motivation to take the job and set a better life for himself.

The actual driving scenes are full of suspense and bit of humour. You can tell Clouzot has fun putting the viewer in a false sense of security. Just when everything seems fine … it isn’t.

Men turn on each other, heroes fall, cowards come to light, it’s just downright enjoyable. It’s a shame that the heroes are all pretty unlikable except Luigi and at times, Bimba. The film does have one of the most satisfying endings I’ve ever scene, when Mario’s hubris backfires.  Stephan Boissonneault stephan@vueweekly.com

YOUNG ADULT SCI-FI

A WRINKLE IN FILM A Wrinkle in Time focuses on the loveyness and CGI rather than the plot Now Playing A Wrinkle in Time Directed by Ava DuVernay 

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n the words of another adventuresome girl, it’s curiouser and curiouser that one of last century’s beloved children’s books, A Wrinkle in Time, begins with that old cliché: “It was a dark and stormy night.” The problem with the latest adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 novel, though, isn’t triteness but treacly preciousness (and trying precociousness). Even in the depths of space-time, you can smell this stink—it’s the exhaust-fumes from 2018’s first big-budget bust.

The physicist Father of Meg Murry (Storm Reid) has been gone for four years but, one day, Meg’s little brother, Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe), brings a trio of intergalactic ladies— Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon), Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling), Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey)—to the Murrys’ backyard. (As for these guardianangels’ scenes, well, imagine what you’d get after pixiedusting glitter-makeup, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, glam-rock looks, and Enya album covers into a Disney centrifuge.) One trip through a “tesseract” later and Charles, Meg, and sudden loveinterest Calvin (Levi Miller)

are closer to rescuing Mr. Murry from The It, a black, spiky neuron-cloud of evil.

There are precisely two and a half good moments: an eerie scene of suburban conformity; a warning of intelligence’s malignancy when Charles Wallace gets all snotty and mean; Meg’s “tessering” home, a leap through ribbons of light that teeter-totters into vapid prettiness.

Director Ava DuVernay’s made a huge misstep here; her recent films (Selma, 13th) were political and potent. But this take on a kids’ classic isn’t confident enough to comfort in tone and mood, instead overstating, over and over, its lovey-ness. (There are more hugs per half-hour than in the most touchy-feely group-therapy session.)

A beyond-Earth-Mother Oprah, looming beatifically and talking of being “one with the universe,” doesn’t help. The tale’s reduced to a New-Agey American story of self-esteem and self-actualization. Charles Wallace, a “prodigy,” is so irritatingly precocious that he’s basically an adult writ small. So, Meg’s glorious love for her brother doesn’t make sense, especially because we never see any of their little, quirky moments together. The movie prefers to drift into CGI mistiness, big-budget FX supplanting any emotional subtleties. There’s no wonderland here at all.

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STONER METAL

Fri., Mar. 23 (8 pm) The Mothercraft Pillars EP release w/ Chron Goblin, Sparrow Blue, and Fear The Mammoth Starlite Room $10 The Mothercraft / JProcktor

We are taken through the origins and daily routine of The Mothercraft

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s I walk up to a house in Cloverdale on a warm March early afternoon, I see a bunch of longhaired hooligans hanging around the driveway down the back alley, sipping on cans of cheap beer. Next to them is an old , matte-black Dodge Van 200, the side doors swung open to reveal its red carpet interior.

Beer cans cover the ground beside the van, sinking into the slush of melting snow. Hanging off the side mirror of the van is an astronaut’s helmet. I walk up to them and introduce myself, and within minutes of my arrival, they spark a J and hand me a beer. I have officially boarded The Mothercraft.

According to their Facebook, The Mothercraft is “a vehicle designed for travel or operation in space beyond the Earth’s atmo-

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sphere to deliver righteous riffs into the reaches of the universe.”

When they’re not travelling through space, The Mothercraft is an Edmonton-based stoner metal band delivering heavy grooves to our city and beyond.

The band was formed in January 2015, and was originally a trio consisting of Geoff Keller on drums, Devon “Grizz” Penner on bass and vocals, and Jordan LeMoine on guitar and vocals.

In the last couple months, however, the band has added Riley Quinlan as a second guitarist.

“A lot of our songs are really riff -based, and I always thought they would sound a lot cooler if there was harmonies and whatnot peppered in there—just to build a bigger sound,” LeMoine says about the addition of Quinlan. “We were

a pretty loud three-piece as it was. Adding another howevermany speakers into that just adds to the depth of it.”

As the afternoon progresses, more beer cans start to pile up around the van. Every time one of the band members finishes a can, they toss it onto the driveway. They even drag out a barbecue, and then realize that no one brought any meat to grill. Keller walks out of the house with a bong in hand and is met with a resounding “Surf’s up!” from the rest of the guys.

“It’s a pretty accurate representation of how we live our lives,” Quinlan says, with a laugh. “We wouldn’t want to lie to the public.”

The Almost Famous jokes start rolling out, too. More than once, Quinlan channels Jason Lee’s Jeff

Bebe as he says what I can and can’t quote him on.

“I’m going to run inside and take a squirt,” he says. “You can write that.”

The Mothercraft just released their first EP Pillars, which has been in the works for a few years now. The four-song EP was recorded in two parts at two different studios—Dancing Crow Audio and Bachelor Castle.

“We recorded two [songs], and that kicked us off, then we relentlessly played shows forever,” Keller says. “That helped us get our chops up.”

Despite not having an EP out until recently, The Mothercraft already has a list of high-profile artists that they have played alongside, including Portland-based band Black Pussy and Swedish stoner rock veterans Truckfighters. Their cata-

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logue of songs is deeper than the four-song EP would imply.

“We built a live set before we ever built a recording basis,” LeMoine says.

“The next step is to work on a full length album, [and] hopefully release that next year,” Keller adds.

“We’re probably 75 percent towards a new album, a full length,” says LeMoine. “Not including any of the songs that are on the EP.” The afternoon begins to wind down as Quinlan keeps trying to convince the rest of the band to go to a kegger in Fort Saskatchewan. After what I’ve seen, I’m a little disappointed they don’t want to. I can just imagine the trouble they’d get into.

As I head out, I look at my clock and realize it’s 4:21.

Alexander Sorochan

SPAGHETTI WESTERN

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hanneling a gothic Dolly Parton-esque aesthetic, Lindi Ortega is coming to St. Albert ahead of her fifth studio album, Liberty, due out March 30. For her new album, the Toronto-born country musician decided to take a different route than her previous work, moving away from the boot-stomping country she is known for and instead opting for a spaghetti western feel.

Liberty was recorded at Battle Tapes studio, in Nashville, with the help of producer Skylar Wilson. Wilson is an American Music Awards award-winning producer and musician who has worked with the likes of Justin Townes Earl and Andrew Combs.

“We both had a mutual love for Quentin Tarantino soundtracks and movies and films. When we went and got together, that’s how I knew I wanted to work with him,” Ortega says. “The whole idea was that we wanted to make a record that could—or would sound like—it would end up on a Quentin Tarantino movie soundtrack.”

Besides Tarantino’s influence on the album, Ortega also says that

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Ennio Morricone—the composer known for his work on films like A Fist Full of Dollars and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly—had a major roll to play in the sound of the album.

“I listened a lot to his greatest hits collection before going into the studio,” she says. “We have segues, like musical interludes —there’s one that starts the record, there’s one in the middle, and there’s one at the end and before the final song. It’s kind of like these musical interludes that are very much inspired by his music and take a lot of queues from Ennio Morricone.”

Two singles from the album have been released already.

“The Comeback Kid” was released in January, and the second, “Lovers in Love,” dropped on Valentines Day. The concept album is divided into three parts, Through The Dust Part I, II, and III, and follows a character as they go on a classic hero’s journey through the darkness and into the light.

“It definitely starts out with darker material songs, and then there’s a very obvious tide turning with it, and then it ends up on a very positive note,” she says.

The idea for the concept album came out of talking to her audi-

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ence and hearing their stories. “[It] really came from fans who came up to me after shows and shared a lot of their experiences and struggles and dark times with me,” she says. “They would tell me that the songs from my previous records had helped them through these dark times.

So, I was just inspired to make an entire record for people that were going through things like that, as opposed to just having a song here and there.”

Building this kind of strong relationship with her fans is something that Ortega strives for.

“I go out and I talk to them after every single show. One’s that come back, or frequent online, I remember them and we know a lot about each other. Some of us have become really good friends.”

Also featured on the album is Country Music Hall of Fame member Charlie McCoy, who has worked with everybody from Elvis Presley to Johnny Cash.

“I was just kind of in awe of the history he’s had, and the people he’s worked with, and the fact that he would take the time to record on little-old-me’s record. It’s kind of amazing,” she says about the experience.

“I’m just so honoured that he wanted to be a part of it.”

Alexander Sorochan

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ROCKABILLY

A CONVERSATION WITH THE REVEREND Jim Heath a.k.a. Reverend Horton Heat talks style, beginnings, and his ‘zany’ sermons

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Jim Heath has been called the “Godfather of modern rockabilly and psychobilly” by magazines like Vintage Guitar and Guitar World, and for good reason. No one in the genre has ever matched Heath’s speed, technique, and overall vision for a song. It’s what separates the Reverend Horton’s sound from other groups—an Americana speed demon sound lead and sung by a man who has lived the rockabilly lifestyle for more than four decades.

“It’s something that I was still working on this afternoon,” Heath says during the first day of his umpteenth world tour. “I like the fast guitar playing and I’m good at it, but I’m really more than that. It’s fun to play and challenging but I’m just as drawn to soulful guitar playing. I try to make sure that whatever I’m doing, even if it’s fast, has a soulful and listenable quality to it.”

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every Sat ON THE ROCKS Jelly Bean; 9pm REC ROOM–WEST EDMONTON MALL St. Patrick's Day with 3 Of

Diamonds; 6pm; Free

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

Wong every Sat THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday

Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice; 9pm-2am

Retson-Spalding; 9pm Dead Fibres, Subjectivity, Fitness, Hex Beat, Floral Department; 7:30pm; $10; 18+ only

BLUES ON WHYTE Pete Turland;

‘Tony Ferguson of Interscope Records is gonna be here tonight. We’d better kill it.’ Now none of that matters. I don’t care. I just get out there, smile, and let it rip.”

Heath got his musical start in the mid ‘80s when he was a sound guy for various clubs around Dallas, Texas. While playing Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” in his unique rockabilly style during an open mic, an inebriated man shouted ‘Go Reverend!’ and Heath liked the way it sounded. He then combined Reverend with Horton as an ode to the late country singer Johnny Horton and Reverend Horton Heat was born.

After taking up the rockabilly torch from American punk rock group The Cramps, in the late ‘80s to early ‘90s, Reverend Horton Heat became one of the biggest rockabilly acts in the world. They also gained an-

Now at 59-years-old and having Reverend Horton Heat going for more than 32 years, it’s getting harder and harder for Heath to leave his family for months at multiple times of the year, when he goes on tour.

“The tour started around 1986 and we just take a break every now and then,” Heath laughs.

“In all seriousness, last night it hit me probably harder than it’s ever hit me. I really didn’t wanna leave, but it’s what I do and of course my little daughter is crying cause I gotta leave again. So it’s getting hard.”

Ammar’s Saturday Sessions Jam; Every Sat, 4-8pm • Wild T Experience; 9pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door); All ages

SUN MAR 18 ALIBI PUB AND EATERY Open

mic night; Every Sun, 6-9pm AVIARY Red Moon Road

with Post Script and guests; 6pm; $13 (adv at YEGLive or Blackbyrd), $15 (door) BLIND PIG PUB Blind Pig Pub

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Andrew Scott; 9pm

Ham Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm; No cover

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Stan

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Jazz

Gallant; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Joanne Janzen; 9pm

Brunch with Will Cramer and Ted Bishop; 10am-1pm; By donation BLUES ON WHYTE Pete Turland;

Every Mon, 8:30pm (sign up); No cover

REC ROOM–SOUTH EDMONTON COMMON Spring Fling; 7pm;

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild Rose Old Tyme

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Rod

Fiddlers Acoustic Music Jam & Dancing; 7-10pm

UNION HALL Motionless In

Williams Celebration: Music from the Movies and more; 7:30pmv

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Substance with Eddie

Lunchpail

TUE MAR 20 THE ALMANAC Caveboy; 7pm;

jam with live karaoke, hosted by the Ralph Pretz Band; Every Sun, 4-8pm

YARDBIRD SUITE Nels Cline & Scott Amendola Are Stretch Woven; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $30 (members), $34 (guests)

Classical BETTY ANDREWS RECITAL HALL

Contemporary Combos Concert featuring MacEwan Student Musicians; 7:30pm; $15 (general), $10 (seniors), $5 (students); In adv, service fees may apply WINSPEAR CENTRE The University Of Alberta Mixed Chorus: 74th Annual Spring Concert, Faculty Of Education Handbell Ringers; 7:30pm; $18-$20

Every Sun, 7-11pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

Jarrett Bordian; 5:30pm

Classical BETTY ANDREWS RECITAL HALL

Contemporary Combos Concert featuring MacEwan Student Musicians; 7:30pm; $15 (general), $10 (seniors), $5 (students); In adv, service fees may apply MUTTART HALL Main Series 5:

Music Among Friends; 7:3010:30pm; $35 (adult), $25 (senior), $10 (student) WINSPEAR CENTRE Edmonton

Symphony Orchestra presents Concerto-Rama conducted

by Andrei Feher; 2pm; $15-$68

DJs

DJs

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Zyppy with DJ Late

Floor: DJ Chris Bruce spins britpop/punk/garage/indie; Every Sat; Wooftop: Sound It Up! with DJ Instigate spinning classic hip-hop and reggae; Underdog: hip-hop open Mic followed by DJ Marack

THE COMMON Get Down It's

Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with Wright & Wong, Dane EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Resident DJs

playing the best in hip-hop, dance and classics; Every FriSat, 9pm; No cover ENVY NIGHT CLUB Resolution

Saturdays: top 40, throwbacks and club anthems

Fee; Every Sun

MON MAR 19 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop:

Metal Mondays with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox BLUES ON WHYTE Electric

Audrey 2; 9pm DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Karaoke

night; Every Mon, 9pm; Free FIDDLER'S ROOST Open Stage;

7-11pm HAVE MERCY Mississippi Monday Night Blues Jam hosted by the Dylan Farrell Ban;

Honest Heart Collective with guests Backcurrents, and Maylong; 8pm; $10; 18+ only

ON THE ROCKS Karaoke

STARLITE ROOM St. Pat's with

18+ only

featuring with Tiff Hall; Every Wed, 8:30pm

WINSPEAR CENTRE John

BLUES ON WHYTE The New

UNION HALL Pennywise; 7pm;

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

Wednesdays; Every Wed, 7-11pm; Free

ON THE ROCKS Radioactive; 9pm

SANDS INN & SUITES Open Jam;

HAVE MERCY Piano Karaoke

Classical

Em Hell Boys with Whyte Ave Womprats; 9pm; $5 (door) the Reverend Horton Heat , Unknown Hinson & Igor & The Red Elvises; 7pm; $27.50; 18+ only

Jewell Band Open stage

No cover

LEAF BAR & GRILL Wang Dang

$10; All ages

RICHARD’S PUB Live musician

SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE

Session: Jeff Hendrick Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

White; 6pm; $24-$35; All ages

Groovement; 9pm FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle Jam Circle; 7:30-11:30pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Chris Bruce spins

britpop/punk/garage/indie; Every Tue EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Taco Tuesday with resident DJs

WED MAR 21

Wednesdays hosted by ED; Every Wed, 9pm PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass

jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Guests and newcomers always welcome; every Wed, 7pm; $2 (donation, per person), free coffee available

NF–Perception World Tour; 7pm; $29-$30 (Ticketmaster) TEMPLE–STARLITE ROOM

Classical MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH

Music Wednesdays at Noon: Dorothy Beyer, Hiromi Takahashi and Josephine van Lier (recorder, oboe and cello); 12:1012:50pm; Free

WINSPEAR CENTRE Winspear Overture Tour; 12pm; Free; Email Michelle Jones to RSVP • Rusty Musicians: B-Sides; 7pm

DJs AVIARY Paradise Sandwich Shop Pop Up! featuring DJ Wayne Jetski; 5pm; No cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee;

Every Wed

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Karaoke

Wednesday SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Country

Jam with 4 Dollar Bill

BAILEY THEATRE–CAMROSE A

HAVE MERCY To-Do Tuesday: open mic night hosted by Justin Perkins; Every Tue (except for the 3rd of every month) • Outlaw Country Vinyl Night with Sheriff Taylor; Every 3rd Tue of the month

Night of Bowie: The Definitive Bowie Experience; 7:30pm; $39.50 at the Bailey Box Office or online

LB'S PUB Tuesday Night Open

open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm

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

a Southern Baptist Evangelist and then the band would embellish parts,” Heath says. “It used to get me in trouble too man. One time we played this college back when Michael Jackson was alive and he used to have this chimpanzee named Bubbles. So I had this whole sermon that I had to do an exorcism of Michael Jackson’s chimpanzee and of course this one college calls me racist.

Man, I did one where I healed Madonna, but I guess that would be sexist.”

Heath no longer performs the sermons, but he may bring them back one day.

“Comedy is getting harder and harder with the more political correctness, but hey Canadians are some of the greatest comedians in the world,” he says. “I’ve always liked your sense of humour.”

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FESTIVAL PLACE Randy Bachman Vinyl Tap Tour Every Song Tells a Story; 7:30pm; Sold out

SIDELINER’S PUB Singer/ Songwriter Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:30pm

9pm

SIDELINER'S PUB The Give

other burst of fame during the early 2000s after having their music featured in games like Tony Hawk’s Underground and Guitar Hero.

Since their 2014 album Rev, the band has been touring like crazy and reworking songs to fit a new album. Heath promises they have “10 songs that are close to being finished,” with a release date later in 2018.

“There’s a little less country focus on this new one and a little more old style rock ‘n’ roll. We used a bunch of vintage gear,” he says. “Sometimes it doesn’t sound vintage you know? The top of the line microphones are the same design as the ones they had in the ‘30s.”

Heath used to play on the Reverend moniker by delivering personalized sermons during every tour.

“I would give these ridiculous, zany sermons in the style of

BLUES ON WHYTE Kenny

"Blues Boss" Wayne; 9pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed

Ray Bonneville Festival Place Mar 15, 7:30pm $25 / Supplied

VENUEGUIDE 99TEN 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ACCENT LOUNGE 8223-104 St ALIBI PUB & EATERY 17328 Stony Plain Rd THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ARCADIA BAR 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ARIA'S BISTRO 10332-81 Ave, 780.972.4842, ariasbistro.com ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com AVIARY 9314-111 Ave B-STREET BAR 11818-111 Ave BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BETTY ANDREWS RECITAL HALL Rm 11-150, 11110-104 Ave, MacEwan University BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne Street St. Albert BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BLVD SUPPER X CLUB 10765 Jasper Ave

BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BRICK & WHISKEY PUBLIC HOUSE 8937-82 Ave CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780.424 9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041-104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTURY CASINO–EDMONTON 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT 24 Boudreau Rd, St. Albert, 780.460.8092 CHVRCH OF JOHN 10260-103 St, 780.884.8994, thechvrchofjohn. com CKUA RADIO NETWORK 9804 Jasper Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall.com DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB 1111387 Ave NW, devaneyspub.com DIRT BAG CAFÉ 10505-107 St

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DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR 8230 Gateway Blvd, elcortezcantina.com EMPRESS ALE HOUSE 9912-82 Ave NW ENVY NIGHT CLUB West Edmonton Mall, 8882 170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca THE FORGE ON WHYTE 10549-82 Ave (Whyte Ave) HAVE MERCY SOUTHERN TABLE + BAR 8232 Gateway Blvd, havemercy.ca HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave NW JR BAR & GRILL 4003-106 St JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 11455-87 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com LATITUDE 53 10242-106 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR & GRILL 9016-132 Ave LEGION BRANCH 27 9964-93 Ave 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 MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RANCH ROADHOUSE 6107104 St REC ROOM–SOUTH EDMONTON COMMON 1725-99 St NW REC ROOM–WEST EDMONTON MALL 8882-170 St NW RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD’S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3117 ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209-123 St ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com SEWING MACHINE FACTORY 9562-82 Ave

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE 9797 Jasper Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784 SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882170 St, 780.444.1752 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SQUARE 1 COFFEE 15 Fairway Drive ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch.com STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 TEMPLE–STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 11150-82 St, 780.436.1554 WILD EARTH BAKERY–MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.428.1414 WOODRACK CAFE 7603-109 St, 780. 757.0380, thewoodrackcafe. com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428

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ALT-DREAM POP

UPCOMING

EVENTS

SOUTH EDMONTON COMMON MAR 16

HYPNOTIST KEITH MILLER / LIVE BAND KARAOKE

MAR 20

SPRING FLING PARTY

MAR 21

THE LIFE AQUATIC w/ Steve Zissou & Prince Bunny

WEST EDMONTON MALL MAR 15

THROWBACK THURSDAY w/ The Sissy Fits

MAR 16

DUELING DJS: DJ JON VIRATA VS KEVIN HAYES

MAR 17

ST. PATRICK’S DAY w/ 3 of Diamonds

For tickets and full listings TheRecRoom.com The Rec Room is owned by Cineplex Entertainment L. P.

Caveboy / Ryan Lague

HOME IS WHERE THE CAVE IS Caveboy brings a unique twist to synth-pop

Tue., Mar. 20 (7 pm) Caveboy w/ guests The Almanac $10 via yeglive.ca, $14 at the door. hile gender disparity in the Canadian music scene W still runs rampant, bands like

Caveboy are more than just refreshing—they’re inspiring.

The badass Montreal synthpop trio have been together for three years and played the PreGrammy Celebration of Canadian Musical Excellence in Los Angeles, festivals like Osheaga and SXSW, and won a grant to record at the esteemed Grouse Lodge Studios in Ireland.

Some conditions may apply. Promotion subject to change without notice and AGLC approval.

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Fronted by Michelle Bensimon (vocals, guitar, and synth) with Isabelle Banos (synth and bass) and Lana Cooney (drums), the group of friends knew they wanted to make music together well before Caveboy’s formation.

Banos started collaborating with Cooney 12 years ago in post-secondary, and seven years later Banos’ childhood friend Bensimon joined the outfit. Caveboy was born from the three experimenting with their talents and have since represented Canadian music in the United States and Ireland.

“It’s one of the situations where we had no idea what to expect at all,” Banos says about the Grouse Lodge experience.

“It’s like, ‘We’re going down to Ireland; we’re going to go record for two weeks in this magical studio in the middle of nowhere and it’s great.’”

They spent the time at Grouse Lodge Studios recording new music with even more of a 1980s vibe than their self-titled EP. Their very first single, “Home is Where,” was an experiment of sounds that’s become a timeless Lorde-esque ballad to the city of Montreal. In comparison, their latest single, “Landslide” is confident, giving a synth-pop dance aura. There’s a certain delicate, often rare, balance between catchy lyrics and poetic melodies, which makes it very addictive to listen to.

The inspiration for their oldschool, dance-fusion sound goes back a long way for the trio, growing up with the sounds of The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac. “That was the type of music that our three respective dads would just blast through the house,” Cooney says. “So we all

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had a good musical upbringing in that sense.”

They’ve taken these influences and wrapped them into their recordings but they also ooze out of their live act. Each of the multi- talented musicians play multiple instruments and join in on vocals throughout the set, making a three-piece band sound a lot larger than they really are. The sound is wild and free, meant to make the audience dance. When asked to describe their set in five words, Cooney and Banos thought hard and responded as a group effort: “sweaty, electric, energetic, passionate, and cathartic.”

Their visit to The Almanac will be their first ever visit to Edmonton as they make their way to the 2018 Juno Awards in Vancouver as a part of the JUNO Masterclass for emerging artists.

“It’s our first time going across Canada, doing the drive and everything,” Banos says. “So that’s for sure a check off the bucket list for the band. That’s super exciting. We don’t really know fully what our year is looking like from now but we know there’s going to be some really amazing things that come up.”

Tamanna Khurana

EVENTS

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COMEDY BIG ROCK PRESENTS: DEVANEY’S COMEDY NIGHT • Devaney's, 11113-87 Ave • 780.433.6364 • stephen.f.mcgovern@gmail. com • Weekly open-mic hosted by Stephen McGovern • Sep 6-Apr 25, Every Wed, 8:30pm • Free

BIG ROCK PRESENTS: URBAN TAVERN COMEDY NIGHT HOSTED BY LARS CALLIEOU • Urban Tavern, 11606 Jasper Ave • Every Sun, 8pm

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu-Fri: 8pm; Sat: 7:30pm & 10pm (until Apr) • Sean Baptiste; Mar 15-17 • Ethan Sir; Mar 22-24

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Ben Gleib; Mar 15-17 • Fortune Feimster; Mar 22-24

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

JEFF DUNHAM • Rogers Place, 10220-104 Ave • 855.985.5000 • jeffdunham.com • Bringing his cast of characters on the road, Jeff Dunham is America’s favorite ventriloquist • Mar 23, 7-9pm • $67

"LAUGH IT UP" AT THE 48TH ANNUAL BEVERLY HEIGHTS VARIETY SHOW • Beverly Heights Community League Hall, 4209111 Ave • 780.471.3600 • Every Fri-Sat (until Mar 17), 6:30pm (doors), 7:30pm (seating) • $20

LAUGH STEADY • Nook Cafe, 10153-97 St • Live stand-up comedy hosted by Kevin Cianciolo • Last Fri of the month, 7:30-9:30pm • $5 (door) GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS ADULT DANCE CLASSES • Quantum Leap Dance, 11232-163 St • 780.974.0309 • MON: Adult Tap, 7-8pm; Stretch & Strength with Jazz, 8-9:15pm • Wed: Floor Barre 6:45-7:45, Adult Ballet 7:45-9:15pm • Drop in Rate $15.75 (inc.

GST); 5, 10, 15 Class passes available

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

AMITABHA KADAMPA BUDDHIST CENTRE • 9550-87 St • 780.235.8257

Volunteers Wanted

Become a Volunteer Advocate and provide assistance to victims of crime and trauma in Strathcona County!

Please call (780) 449-0153.

Can You Read This?

Help Someone Who Can’t!

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

Call Valerie at P.A.L.S. 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca Have you always wanted to volunteer at Folk Fest, but couldn’t get past the wait list?

Why don’t you try volunteering with Heart of the City Music and Arts Festival, June 2 & 3?

We are looking for numerous types of helping hands!

To find out more, contact hotcvolunteer@gmail.com

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CARROT COFFEE FRIENDSHIP CLUB • Carrot Coffeehouse, 9351-118 Ave • Have a cup of coffee with 55+ individuals single, divorced, or widowed who are looking to make new friends with neighbours in our local communities of: Delton, Eastwood, Parkdale – Cromdale, Westwood, Spruce Ave, and Alberta Avenue • Every Wed, 1-2pm

DROP-IN D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc. For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue & Wed, 7pm • $5 (with drink purchase)

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

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com EDMONTON PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORIAL SOCIETY • Highlands Library • 780.436.3878 • edm_photographic_hist_society_2@yahoo. ca • All interested in sharing the joys of film photography, such as experiences or favourite equipment • 3rd Wed of the month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul & Aug)

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 10728-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext. 237 • mstannard@gmail. com • hfh.org/volunteer/vin • Learn about taking the next steps and what opportunities are available at Habitat for Humanity • Every 3rd Thu of the month, excluding Dec; 6-7pm • Free

LGNYEG • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave NW • happyharborcomics.com • Events may include guest speakers, movie nights, board game nights, video game nights and much more • Mar 22

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

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

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

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

St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 9888 Jasper Ave. 10th floor; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Foresters Toastmaster Club: SEESA, 9350-82 St; 587.596.5277; Every Tue, 7-8:30pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: norators. com; meet every Thu, 7pm • Norwood Toastmasters: Norwood Legion, 11150-82 St NW; norwoodtoastmasters.ca; Every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); yclubtoastmasters@ gmail.com; Meet every Tue, 7-9pm

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Volunteers Wanted

The easiest way to sign up is to email us enorthey@bissellcentre.org

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ART CLASSES FOR ADULTS, YOUTH, AND CHILDREN Check The Paint Spot’s website, paintspot.ca/events/workshops for up-to-date information on art classes for all ages, beginner and intermediate.

Register in person, by phone or online.

Contact: 780.432.0240 email: accounts@paintspot.ca

Artist to Artist

Are you an artist with knowledge to share? Then you’re in luck! Heart of the City Music and Arts Festival, June 2 & 3, is looking for 2-3 artists to facilitate a creative workshop. Open to innovative ideas!

Contact Fay at heartcityart@gmail.com

“What Am I Doing Here?”-- somehow in the middle.

OPEN DOOR COMIC CREATOR MEETINGS • Happy Harbor Comics,

• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION NIGHT • Habitat for

Matt Jones

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

TOASTMASTERS

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

JONESIN’ CROSSWORD

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

780.479-8667 (Bob) • bobmurra@telus.net • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm

FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • A&W, 10101-88 Ave,

We are looking for volunteers to help us with a free service for tax season that our participants can access.

‘Make Tax Time Pay’ is through our financial empowerment program alongside E4C. The opportunity is once a week on Mondays during March and April, for approx., 3.5 hours12:00pm-3:30pm.

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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)

• info@meditationedmonton.org • meditationedmonton.org • Weekly meditation classes and events. All welcome • Every Sun, Tue, Thu

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MONDAY MINGLE • Hexagon Board Game

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3100. Appliances/Furniture Old Appliance Removal Removal of unwanted appliances. Must be outside or in your garage.

Rates start as low as $30.

Call James @780.231.7511 for details

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15 Buddy, slangily 16 Russian speed skater Graf who turned down the 2018 Winter Olympics 17 Request in exchange for some ones, maybe?

19 “Roseanne” of “Roseanne” 20 Confused 21 It’s sung twice after “que” 23 “Uh-huh” 24 Prepares leather 27 Bedtime, for some 29 Golden-coated horse 33 The Rock’s real first name 36 66 and I-95, e.g.

37 Surveillance needs, for short 39 1966 Michael Caine movie 40 Pound sound 41 Io’s planet 43 “You’ve got mail!” company 44 “The Great Gatsby,” for one 46 Harry and William’s school 47 General feeling 48 Some circus performers 50 Split into splinters 52 Harnesses for oxen 54 Garden of Genesis 55 Scrooge’s outburst 57 Bacon portion 59 Search (through) 63 Shaped like a zero 65 Sand down some menswear?

68 NPR correspondent Totenberg 69 Wonderstruck 70 Bauxite, et al.

71 “Electric Avenue” singer Grant (who turned 70 in 2018) 72 “I Got Rhythm” singer Merman 73 Abbr. in a Broadway address

10 Convulsive sigh 11 Demand for your favorite band to perform at a county gathering?

12 Beast 13 Camping need 18 Palindromic address with an apostrophe 22 1978 Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Sadat 25 Preemie’s ward, for short 26 Rickman, in the “Harry Potter” films 28 Buddy 29 “Guardians of the Galaxy” star Chris 30 Heart chambers 31 Walked away from the poker table with cards face down?

32 Leaves off 34 Mythical weeper (and namesake of element #41) 35 Caught lampreys 38 Took the wrong way?

41 People who cut you off in traffic, say 42 Oklahoma city near Oklahoma City 45 Shortest of the signs 47 Meat that somehow sparked a 2017 Arby’s craze 49 Pic taken alone, or together (as the name doesn’t suggest) 51 Extremely 53 Canonized figure 55 Fibula or ulna 56 Dedicated 58 Dullsville 60 Emotion that’s unleashed 61 Claim on property 62 Crafty website 64 Make some eggs?

66 Ma who says “baa” 67 Blanc with many voices ©2018 Jonesin’ Crosswords

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WASKAHEGAN TRAIL ASSOCIATION GUIDE HIKE • Century Park (Section D of

music and whimsy in celebration of the fans of Alberta-made podcasts. We'll hear Doug Hoyer, composer of more Alberta podcast music than anyone, and test your knowledge of podcast trivia • Mar 17, 7-10pm • $20 (adv)

paid lot), 2515-111 St • waskahegantrail.ca • Miquelon Lakes Trails; Mar 18, 9:45am-3pm

ANNEKE'S ANTIQUE SALE • Heritage

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WOMEN'S CRICKET • Meyonohk Elementary School Gym • incogswomens@gmail.com • Learn the game of cricket. The group plays for fun and no experience is necessary. Kids and men welcome • Mar 16, 7-9pm; Mar 23, 8-9pm; Apr 6, 6-8pm; Apr 13, 6-8pm; Apr 20, 6-8pm

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS NERD NITE • Westbury Theatre at the ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • edmonton.nerdnite.com • Lectures and drinks– nothing could be better. Featuring "Cities are Going Green with Weed-Whacking Goats" with Michael Glazier, "The Fort McMurray Wildfire: One firefighter’s story" with Andrew Pearson and "Cellular Agriculture: ‘Frankenmeat’ and the Future of Food" with Matt Anderson-Baron • Mar 20, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (shows) • $20 (adv online) • 18+ only

OPERA 101: DON GIOVANNI • CKUA Radio Network, 9804 Jasper Ave • An evening of discussion surrounding Edmonton Opera's upcoming production of Mozart's timeless masterpiece Don Giovanni. Host Stephan Bonfield will contextualize the history and music of this piece and explain what makes Don Giovanni one of the major works in the opera canon • Mar 28, 7pm • Free STORIES OF ENHANCING EVERYDAY LIFE: 100 YEARS OF HOME ECONOMICS AND HUMAN ECOLOGY AT THE U OF A • Edmonton Clinical Health Academy (ECHA) 2-490, 11405-87 Ave • skatzeff@ualberta.ca • Dr. Sherry Ann Chapman uses home economics history as a reference point to explore how the discipline of human ecology is evolving to support quality of life in our communities • Mar 15, 5-6pm • Free

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ART WORLD EXPO • Muttart Conservatory, 9626-96a St NW • theartworldexpo.com • Featuring 50+ artists from Edmonton/Vancouver, body painting competition, live art • Mar 16 DUMPLING POP-UP • Prairie Noodle Shop, 10350-124 St • gourmaicooking@gmail.com • A dumplings only pop-up • Mar 25, 12-3pm (reservations), 3-8pm (walk-ins) EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA AT RUTHERFORD HOUSE • Rutherford House Provincial Historic Site, 11153 Saskatchewan Drive • 780.427.3995 • rutherford.House@gov.ab.ca • rutherfordhousehistoricsite.org • Enjoy freshly baked cookies and a spring-themed craft. Learn about a variety of natural dyes and how they were used to colour eggs • Mar 25, 12-4pm • $5-$7 •

EDMONTON STAMP CLUB SPRING STAMP SHOW • Central Lion's Centre, 11113113 St • 780.420.7243 • edmontonstampclub. com • Stamps for sale from many vendors across western Canada, competitive exhibits (stamps on display) and more • Mar 24-25, 10am-5pm (Sat), 10am-4pm (Sun) • Free

FESTIVAL HATZAFON • Westbury Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barn, 10330-84 Ave • festivalhatzafon.com • A Jewish cultural event.

A improv night and dance performance • Mar 17-18 • $18 (each event), $30 (both events)

HEMPFEST CANNABIS EXPO • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • hempfestcanada.com • Focused on all aspects of the Hemp and Cannabis industries • Mar 24-25 • $15.47 plus fees (Eventbrite), $20 (door, cash)

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PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 2nd Floor, 10618-105 Ave • Wheelchair-accessible elevator at 10610 105 Avenue • (780) 488-3234 • pridecentreofedmonton.org/calendar.html • OFFICE & DROP IN HOURS: Mon-Fri 12-7pm; Closed Sat-Sun and holidays • YOGA: (all ages), 2nd and 4th Mon of every month • TTIQ: (18+ Trans Group) 2nd Mon of every month, 7-9pm • TRANS YOUTH GROUP & PARENTS/CAREGIVERS SUPPORT: (24 and under) 3rd Mon of every month, 7-9pm • FIERCE FUN: (24 and under) Biweekly Tue, 7-9pm, games and activities for youth • JAMOUT: (12-24) Biweekly Tue, 7-8:30pm, music mentorship and instruction for youth • TWO SPIRIT GATHERING: 4th Wed of every month, 6-8pm, gathering for First Nations Two Spirit people • MEN’S SOCIAL CIRCLE: (18+) 1st and 3rd Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone masculineidentified • WOMEN’S SOCIAL CIRCLE: (18+) 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone feminineidentified • MOVIES & GAMES NIGHT: Biweekly Fri, 6-8:30pm • ARTS & IDENTITY: Biweekly Fri, 6-8:30pm • CREATING SAFER SPACES TRAINING: Interactive professional development workshops, with full or half-day options • QUEER YOUTH MENTORING: (Youth: 12–24) (Adults 26+)

• makeitshow.ca • Featuring more than 175 artisans selling beautiful handmade items • Mar 23-25 Glenora Club, 11160 River Valley Road • Before each opera, start the opera experience with brunch at the Royal Glenora Club, featuring fantastic food and intimate recitals by the artists starring in the upcoming production • Mar 25, 11am-1:30pm • $85 (adult), $35 (child)

SUGAR SHACK | TERRRASSE À SUCRE • Café Bicyclette, Patio, La Cité Francophone, 8627, Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury (91 St) • 780.463.1144 • lacite@lacitefranco.ca • cafebicyclette.ca/sugar-shack • A dinner in a wood fire heated outfitter tent, this rustic fine dining dinner brings a new approach to maple harvest season in Edmonton • Mar 16-17, Mar 23-24, Mar 3031, Apr 6, Apr 13-14; 6-9pm • $75 (gratuity and TPS included), alcohol not included

Stories of Enhancing Everyday Life Edmonton Clinical Health Academy (ECHA) 2-490 Mar 15, 5-6pm Free

TEAM EDMONTON • Locations vary • teamedmonton.ca • LGBTQ2+ inclusive.

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SAVAGELOVE WHAT IS LOVE?

I’m a 33-year-old woman from Melbourne, Australia, dating a 24-yearold man. We’ve been dating for about eight months; it is exclusive and official. He’s kind and sweet, caring and giving, and his penis is divine. The thing is, he confessed to me recently that he doesn’t really “feel.” The way he explained it is, the only emotions he feels are fear and anxiousness that he’ll disappoint the people he cares about. He says he’s never been in love. He said his dad is the same way. The only time I see him really “feel” are when he’s high, which he is semi-frequently. He uses MDMA and he comes alive. He seems the way a “normal” person does when they’re in love, but when he’s sober, it’s like he’s trying to mimic the things a person in love would say or do. I confessed I am falling in love with him recently and told him I wasn’t saying this with any expectation of him feeling the same; I just wanted him to know.

He responded that he cares for me a lot—but that’s it. I’m now worried that he’ll never love me. I don’t want kids, so time isn’t critical for me, but I don’t want to be with someone who won’t ever love me.

LACKING ONE VAUNTED EMOTION You didn’t use the P-word (psychopath) or the S-word (sociopath), LOVE, but both came to mind as I was reading your letter. Someone who isn’t capable of feeling?

Isn’t that textbook P-word/S-word stuff? “The fear with someone who doesn’t ‘feel’ is that they may be a psychopath or a sociopath, terms that are used interchangeably,” said Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry. “And lots of the items on the psychopath checklist relate to an inability to experience deep emotions—like shallow affect, lack of empathy and lack of remorse. However, I have good news for LOVE! This line: ‘The only emotions he really feels are fear and anxiousness that he’ll disappoint the people he cares about’ is the critical one. Psychopaths do not feel anxiety. In fact, my favourite thing a psychologist said to me about this was: ‘If you’re worried you may be psychopath, that means you aren’t one.’ Also, psychopaths don’t care about disappointing loved-ones! All those emotions that relate to an overactive amygdala—fear, remorse, guilt, regret, empathy—psychopaths don’t feel them.” So your boyfriend’s not a psychopath. Not that you asked. But, you know, just in case you were worried. Anyway … My hunch is that your boyfriend’s problem isn’t an inability to feel love, LOVE, but an inability to recognize the feelings he’s having as love. (Or potentially love, as it’s only been eight months.) What is romantic love but a strong desire to be with someone? The urge to be sweet to them, to take care of them, to do for them? Maybe he’s just going through the motions with you—a conscious mimic-it-till-you-make

it strategy—or maybe the double whammy of a damaged dad and that toxic masculinity stuff sloshing around out there left him blocked, LOVE, or emotionally constipated.

And while MDMA can definitely be abused—moderation in all things, kids, including moderation—the effect it has on him is a hopeful sign. MDMA is not an emotional hallucinogen; the drug has been used in couples counselling and to treat PTSD, not because it makes us feel things that aren’t there (in the way a hallucinogen makes us see things that aren’t there), but because it allows genuine feelings to surface and, for a few hours, to be felt intensely. So he can feel love—he just has to learn how to tap into those feelings and/or recognize them without an assist from MDMA. Jon Ronson had one last bit of advice for you, LOVE: “Marry him and his divine penis!” I agree with Jon, of course, but a long, leisurely engagement is definitely in order. You’ve only been seeing this guy and his divinity dick for eight months—don’t propose to him for at least another year, LOVE, and make marriage conditional upon him seeing a shrink four times as often as he sees his MDMA dealer.

Follow Jon Ronson on Twitter @ jonronson, read all of his books (So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed? is urgently required reading for anyone who spends time online), and check out his amazing podcast, The Butterfly Effect. To access all things Jon Ronson, go to JonRonson.com.

THREE’S A CROWD

My boyfriend of 1.5 years shared (several months into dating) that he has a fantasy of having a threesome. I shared that I had also fantasized about this but I never took my fantasies seriously. Right away, he started sending me Craigslist posts from women and couples looking for casual sex partners. I told him I wasn’t interested in doing anything for real. A few months later, we went on vacation and I said I wanted to get a massage. He found a place that did “sensual” couples massage.

I wanted nothing to do with this.

During sex, he talks about the idea of someone else being around. This does turn me on and I like thinking about it when we are messing around. But I don’t want to have any other partners. I’m like a mashup of Jessica Day, Leslie Knope, and Liz Lemon if that gives you an idea of how not-for-me this all is. When I say no to one idea, he comes up with another one. I would truly appreciate some advice.

BOYFRIEND INTO GROUP SEX I’M NOT

Short answer: Sexual compatibility is important. It’s particularly important in a sexually-exclusive relationship. You want a sexuallyexclusive relationship; your boyfriend doesn’t want a sexually-exclusive relationship—so you two aren’t sexually compatible, BIGSIN, and you should break up. Slightly longer answer: Your boyfriend did the right thing by laying his kink cards on the table early in the re-

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lationship—he’s into threesomes, group sex, and public sex—and you copped to having fantasies about threesomes, BIGSIN, but not a desire to experience one. He took that as an opening: maybe if he could find the right person/ couple/scenario/club, you would change your mind. Further fueling his false hopes: you get turned on when he talks about having “someone else around” when you two have sex. Now lots of people who very much enjoy threesomes and/ or group sex were unsure or hesitant at first, but gave in to please (or shut up) a partner, and wound up being glad they did. If you’re certain you could never be one of those people—reluctant at first but happy your partner pressed the issue—you need to shut this shit down, Liz Lemon style. Tell him no more dirty talking about this shit during sex, no more entertaining the idea at all. Being with you means giving up this fantasy, BIGSIN, and if he’s not willing to give it up—and to shut up about it—then you’ll have to break up.

COPS AND ROBBERS

I’m an 18-year-old woman who has been with my current boyfriend for a year, but this has been an issue across all of my sexual relationships. In order to reach climax, I have to fantasize about kinky roleplay-type situations. I don’t think I want to actually act out the situations/roles because of the degrading/shameful feelings they dredge up, but the idea of other people doing them is so hot. This frustrates me because it takes me out of the moment with my partner.

I’m literally thinking about other people during sex when I should be thinking about him! What can I do to be more in the moment?

DISTRACTED EARNEST GIRLFRIEND REQUIRES A DIFFERENT EXCITEMENT Actually, doing the kinky roleplay-type things you “have to” fantasize about in order to come would help you feel more connected to your boyfriend—but to do that, DEGRADE, you need to stop kink-shaming yourself. So instead of thinking of those kinky role-play-type things as degrading or shameful, think of them as exciting and playful. Exciting because they excite you (duh), and playful because that’s literally what kinky role-play-type things are: play. It’s cops and robbers for grownups with your pants off, DEGRADE, but this game doesn’t end when mom calls you in for dinner, it ends when you come. So long as you suppress your kinks—so long as you’re in flight from the stuff that really arouses you—your boyfriend will never truly know you and you’ll never feel truly connected to him.

On the Lovecast—A sexy toy review that will send you packing: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @FakeDanSavage on Twitter www.ITMFA.org

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ALBERTA-WIDECLASSIFIEDS •• auctions •• 4 RESIDENTIAL DUPLEX LOTS - Vulcan, Alberta.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The British science fiction TV show Doctor Who has appeared on BBC in 40 of the last 54 years. Over that span, the titular character has been played by 13 different actors.

From 2005 until 2010, Aries actor David Tennant was the magic, immortal, time-traveling Doctor Who. His ascendance to the role fulfilled a hopeful prophecy he had made about himself when he was 13 years old. Now is an excellent time for you, too, to predict a glorious, satisfying, or successful occurrence in your own future. Think big and beautiful.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): New York City is the most densely populated city in North America. Its land is among the most expensive on earth; one estimate says the average price per acre is $16 million. Yet there are two uninhabited islands less than a mile off shore in the East River: North Brother Island and South Brother Island.

Their combined 26 acres are theoretically worth $416 million. But no one goes there or enjoys it; it’s not even parkland. I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because I suspect it’s an apt metaphor for a certain situation in your life: a potentially rich resource or influence that you’re not using. Now is a good time to update your relationship with it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The iconic 1942 movie Casablancawon three Academy Awards and has often appeared on critics’ lists of the greatest films ever made.

That’s amazing considering the fact that the production was so hectic.

When shooting started, the script was incomplete. The writing team frequently presented the finished version of each new scene on the day it was to be filmed. Neither the director nor the actors knew how the plot would resolve until the end of the process. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because it reminds me of a project you have been working on. I suggest you start improvising less and planning more. How do you want this phase of your life to climax?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If all goes well in the coming weeks, you will hone your wisdom about how and when and why to give your abundant gifts to deserving recipients—as well as how and when and why to not give your abundant gifts to deserving recipients. If my hopes come to pass, you will refine your ability to share your tender depths with worthy allies—and you will refine your understanding of when to not share your tender depths with worthy allies. Finally, Cancerian, if you are as smart as I think you are, you will have a sixth sense about how to receive as many blessings as you disseminate.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How adept are you at playing along the boundaries between the dark and the

light, between confounding dreams and liberated joy, between “Is it real?” and “Do I need it?” You now have an excellent opportunity to find out more about your capacity to thrive on delightful complexity.

But I should warn you. The temptation to prematurely simplify things might be hard to resist. There may be cautious pressure coming from a timid voice in your head that’s not fierce enough to want you to grow into your best and biggest self. But here’s what I predict: You will bravely explore the possibilities for self-transformation that are available outside the predictable niches.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Cultivating a robust sense of humour makes you more attractive to people you want to be attractive to. An inclination to be fun-loving is another endearing quality that’s worthy of being part of your intimate repertoire. There’s a third virtue related to these two: playfulness. Many humans of all genders are drawn to those who display joking, lighthearted behaviour. I hope you will make maximum use of these qualities during the coming weeks, Virgo. You have a cosmic mandate to be as alluring and inviting as you dare.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I suggest you gaze at exquisitely wrought Japanese woodcuts ... and listen to jazz trumpeter Miles Davis collaborating with saxophonist John Coltrane . . . and inhale the aroma of the earth as you stroll through groves of very old trees.

Catch my drift, Libra? Surround yourself with soulful beauty —or else! Or else what? Or else I’ll be sad. Or else you might be susceptible to buying into the demoralizing thoughts that people around you are propagating. Or else you may become blind to the subtle miracles that are unfolding, and fail to love them well enough to coax them into their fullest ripening. Now get out there and hunt for soulful beauty that awakens your deepest reverence for life.

Feeling awe is a necessity for you right now, not a luxury.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the Sikh religion, devotees are urged to attack weakness and sin with five “spiritual weapons”: contentment, charity, kindness, positive energy, and humility. Even if you’re not a Sikh, I think you’ll be wise to employ this strategy in the next two weeks. Why? Because your instinctual nature will be overflowing with martial force, and you’ll have to work hard to channel it constructively rather than destructively. The best way to do that is to be a vehement perpetrator of benevolence and healing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1970, a biologist was hiking through a Brazilian forest when a small monkey landed on his head, having jumped from a tree branch.

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ic. He realized that his visitor was a member of the species known as the golden-rumped lion tamarin, which had been regarded as extinct for 65 years. His lucky accident led to a renewed search for the elusive creatures, and soon more were discovered. I foresee a metaphorically comparable experience coming your way, Sagittarius. A resource or influence or marvel you assumed was gone will reappear. How will you respond? With alacrity, I hope.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Velcro fastener is a handy invention that came into the world thanks to a Swiss engineer named George de Mestral. While wandering around the Alps with his dog, he got curious about the bristly seeds of the burdock plants that adhered to his pants and his dog.

After examining them under a microscope, he got the idea to create a clothing fastener that imitated their sticking mechanism. In accordance with the astrological omens, Capricorn, I invite you to be alert for comparable breakthroughs. Be receptive to help that comes in unexpected ways. Study your environment for potentially useful clues and tips. Turn the whole world into your classroom and laboratory. It’s impossible to predict where and when you may receive a solution to a long-running dilemma.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed to the top of Mount Everest. They were celebrated as intrepid heroes.

But they couldn’t have done it without massive support. Their expedition was powered by 20 Sherpa guides, 13 other mountaineers, and 362 porters who lugged 10,000 pounds of baggage. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, in the hope that it will inspire you.

The coming weeks will be an excellent time to gather more of the human resources and raw materials you will need for your rousing expedition later this year.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Although her work is among the best Russian literature of the twentieth century, poet Marina Tsvetayeva lived in poverty. When fellow poet Rainer Maria Rilke asked her to describe the kingdom of heaven, she said, “Never again to sweep floors.”

I can relate. To earn a living in my early adulthood, I washed tens of thousands of dishes in restaurant kitchens. Now that I’m grown up, one of my great joys is to avoid washing dishes. I invite you to think along these lines, Pisces.

What seemingly minor improvements in your life are actually huge triumphs that evoke profound satisfaction? Take inventory of small pleasures that are really quite miraculous.If you’ve read this far, you are already feeling more disciplined and organized. Soon you’ll be coming up with new schemes about how to actually materialize a favorite fairy tale in the form of real-life experiences.

CURTIS HAUSER

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