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Keeping your emissions below average turns the carbon tax into savings // 5

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A new African restaurant on 118 Avenue plays it safe // 7

ARTS

Eight playwrights embedded themselves in local communities to write This is YEG // 9

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How Victoria's Aidan Knight let Each Other find its shape in the moment // 18

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Bathroom bill corporate supporters One good deed at home doesn't erase human rights violations abroad Last month, North Carolina passed what is known colloquially as "the bathroom law," and people are (rightfully) losing their minds. And because we're talking about the US, "people" includes both human beings and corporations. Here's the backstory: on February 22, Charlotte, NC passed an anti-discrimination ordinance that includes protection for LGBTQ folks in places of "public accommodation." In practice, this means things like preventing businesses from discriminating against queers. It also meant that trans* people could use a bathroom of their choice. While this is a fairly base-level anti-discrimination policy, state legislators lost their minds—particularly over the last point. "Won't someone think of the children!" they cried, as they rushed to enact legislation to prevent the busloads of predators disguised as trans* women already making their way to North Carolina. And rush they did: one month later, a mere 12 hours after it was first

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introduced, North Carolina passed an annual payroll of about $20 mil- Let's take PayPal. Sure, it took House Bill 2, a blanket bill that pre- lion. More recently, a group of more 400 jobs away from North Carovents any city, town or county from than 80 major CEOs signed a joint lina—but this is a company that blithely continues to passing an ordinance operate an office in that expands the Malaysia, a country state's current law on where queer rights anti-discrimination. So on the one hand, I'm glad that people are virtually non-exAlong with effecof both the human and corporate variety are istent and a sodomy tively nullifying the raising a stink about this bill. It's a disgusting charge can result in Charlotte ordinance, this new bill also prelaw that should be condemned in no uncertain 20 years imprisonment with the posvents local governterms. On the other hand, I can't help but sibility of fines and ments from passing throw some serious side-eye at these newly whippings. Raise that new minimum-wage rainbow flag high, laws, a bonus kiss-off woke corporations PayPal! And I wonder to places like Seattle how the company is that are experimentable to say, as it did ing with a $15 per hour letter requesting that the law be in its press release about this issue, minimum wage. that "this decision reflects PayPal's But in a wonderful and possibly repealed. So on the one hand, I'm glad that deepest values and our strong beterrifying turn of events, corporate leaders have turned out in droves people of both the human and corpo- lief that every person has the right opposing the bill. Lionsgate moved rate variety are raising a stink about to be treated equally, and with production of a new television se- this bill. It's a disgusting law that dignity and respect" after losing a ries from North Carolina to British should be condemned in no uncertain $25-million lawsuit for shady busiColumbia in protest; PayPal axed terms. On the other hand, I can't help ness practices which determined, in plans to build a new office in North but throw some serious side-eye at fact, that PayPal treated many of their customers without respect? Carolina, which would have brought these newly woke corporations.

We don't even need to stop there. Reddit (known child-porn distribution site), Apple (noted child-labour user), and Pfizer (your friendly multinational pharmaceutical company!) are just three examples that have publicly protested this law while maintaining questionable human-rights practices abroad. We all know why these companies are doing this: queers have money and it's good press to be seen on the "right side of history." Cynically, I wonder if I should just accept corporations' limits and be happy that they are at least speaking out. But I can't help think of cases like Hobby Lobby (a US Supreme Court case that determined religious corporations are exempt from providing certain forms of birth control to their employees) where this kind of corporate lobbying worked against human rights. Adversity makes strange bedfellows, I guess. Let's just not get too comfortable. V

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Hotter than it's ever been

Non-linear global warming rewrites our climate-change calculations If you spend a lot of time talking to scientists about climate change, there's one word you'll hear time and time again, and yet it's hardly ever mentioned in the public discussion of climate change. The word is "non-linear." Most people think of global warming as an incremental thing. It may be inexorable, but it's also predictable. Alas, most people are wrong. The climate is a very complex system, and complex systems can change in nonlinear ways. In other words, you cannot count on the average global temperature rising steadily but slowly as we pump more and more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. It may do that—but there may also be a sudden jump in the average global temperature that lands you in a world of hurt. That may be happening now. "We are moving into uncharted territory with frightening speed," said Michel Jarraud, secretary-general of the World Meteorological Organization, last November. He was referring to the fact that the warming is now accelerating in an unprecedented way. 2014 was the hottest year ever— until 2015 beat it by a wide margin. 2016 may beat that record by an even wider margin. It was the hottest January ever—and then the average

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global temperature in February was normally affect the average global top of the record warming of 2014 and 2015, it feels a lot more like part a full fifth of a degree Celsius higher temperature much. El Niño had not even begun when of a trend. than January. That was a huge jump, since the 2014 beat all the records for average "average global temperature" is an global temperature. It was a power- Could this be non-linear change, an average of all the temperatures over ful influence on weather patterns abrupt and irreversible change in the seas and the land in both the for all of 2015, but climate scientists the climate? Yes. And if it is, how far summer hemisphere and the winter estimate that it was responsible for will it go before it stabilizes again at hemisphere. It is normally a very only 10 percent of the record warm- some higher average global temperature? Nobody stable figure, knows. changing no Last year the more than average global a few hunBut March was not only hotter than February— temperature dredths of a it was hotter by an even wider margin than reached one degree from full degree year to year. February was over January. Indeed, each of the Celsius higher But March past 11 months has beaten the highest previously than the prewas not only industrial avhotter than recorded average temperature for that month erage. That is February—it halfway to the was hotter by plus-two dean even wider gree level which margin than February was over January. Indeed, ing in that year. 2015 would still all the world's governments have each of the past 11 months has beat- have been hotter than 2014 even if agreed we must never exceed, but at least we got to plus-one slowly, over en the highest previously recorded you subtracted the El Niño effect. average temperature for that month. And it was far hotter than the last a period of two centuries. The plus-two threshold matters Some people try to explain this all big El Niño year, 1997. As for the frightening acceleration because at that point the warming away by blaming it on El Niño, a periodical rise in the ocean surface tem- in the warming in the past three we have already caused will trigger perature in the eastern Pacific that months, that has no precedent in any natural feedbacks that we cannot moves the rainfall patterns around El Niño year, or indeed in any previ- control: the loss of the Arctic seaworldwide, causing droughts here ous year. It could be some random ice, the melting of the permafrost, and floods there. But El Niño is a lo- short-term fluctuation in average and immense releases of carbon cal rise in temperature, it does not global temperature, but coming on dioxide from the warming oceans. VUEWEEKLY.com | APR 21 – APR 27, 2016

After plus-two, we will no longer be able to stop the warming by ending our own greenhouse-gas emissions. Even at the global climate summit in Paris last December, there was still hope that we might avoid triggering the feedbacks, because the historic rate of warming would still give us about 25 years to work on cutting our emissions before we reach plus-two. But if the current non-linear surge in warming persists, we could have covered half the remaining distance and reached plus 1.5 degrees by the end of this year. Obviously most scientists will not go this far in public, but they are very worried. As Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research told The Guardian recently: "We are in a kind of climate emergency now." I'm not a scientist, but 10 years ago I spent almost a year interviewing almost all the world's leading climate scientists for a book I was writing. I learned that all our calculations for dealing with climate change could suddenly be swept aside by a nonlinear event—and this could be it.V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Keeping your emissions below average turns the carbon tax into savings

o one likes paying taxes, but they are one of the most effective ways to alter people's behaviours—and in the case of Alberta's new carbon levy, two-thirds of us will have the chance to turn that tax into money in the bank. A major component of the NDP's recently announced budget is the new Climate Leadership Plan, a multifaceted approach to addressing climate change in the province. In addition to targets of phasing out coal pollution, capping oilsands emissions and reducing methane emissions, the plan also

includes a carbon levy—essentially, a tax on carbon emissions. The carbon levy will most immediately affect the price you pay to fill up your car: as of January 1, 2017, gasoline is going up 4.49 cents per litre and diesel is going up 5.35 cents per litre; come January 1, 2018, those prices will climb again to 6.73 cents per litre and 8.03 cents per litre, respectively. It will also impact your monthly natural gas bill, to the tune of about $101 annually for a single person and $136 CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 >>

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DEFENDING ALBERTA'S NEW CARBON LEVY

all), and choose a more fuel-efficient vehicle. Reducing your utilities bill is << CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 also fairly straightforward, and can be addressed with both immediate and longer-term changes. for a couple with two kids. (That's as "You can change behaviours or you of January 1, 2017—in 2018, those can use new technologies or bettertotals will climb to $152 and $205, built environment to reduce your respectively.) emissions," Hastings-Simon says. All told, the projected increase on "Changing behaviours can be everyall your bills at the beginning of next thing like turning lights off when year is $191 for a single person, $259 you leave a room, or turning down for a couple and $338 for a couple the heat a bit in the with two kids. house, or turnThe new buding it down when get has been met gone. On the with expected The cost of gas at the pump goes up, but 60 you're technology side criticism from the percent of consumers are going to be getting you have things right wing. Of the like putting betcarbon levy in para rebate that covers that additional cost ter insulation in ticular, Wildrose your home, better leader Brian Jean windows, replacing remarked that it is light bulbs with LED "punishing families for bulbs that use substantially less elec(couples with two kids). driving their kids to hockey practice." tricity but give you just as good if not Detractors, including Jean, also arBut that's not actually the case. The better light." gue that taxes don't do anything to majority of Albertans will qualify for Obviously the latter approach rechange people's behaviour—but it's a carbon rebate that will completely quires investment and often isn't actually just the opposite. offset the increase in cost, so long as something that can be done over"It's pretty widely accepted—you your usage is at or below the average. night. Recognizing this, the Climate can look among economists who "The cost of gas at the pump goes Leadership Plan also includes the crehave very different approaches, and up, but 60 percent of consumers are ation of the Energy Efficiency Agency, pretty much everyone agrees that a going to be getting a rebate that covwhich will be funded with $645 milcarbon levy like this is effective and ers that additional cost," says Sara lion over five years (derived from it's sort of the most effective way Hastings-Simon, director of the Pemthe carbon levy) to support investto get real emissions reductions," bina Institute's clean energy program. ments in energy. What that will look Hastings-Simon says. "But you still have an incentive to like exactly is still unclear, though reduce your emissions, because your Hastings-Simon says that Alberta can So what sorts of things do we need rebate is based not on your own ussafely look to other jurisdictions for to start changing? Reducing the age, but on the average usage. So if insight into how it will likely operate. price you pay at the pump is pretty you reduce your usage, you're going And there are a lot of other examples straightforward: drive less (or not at to be ending up with more money at the end of the day." Single Albertans earning a net income of less than $47 500 annually will qualify for the full rebate of $200, while couples and families with a net income of less than $95 000 will qualify for $300 and $360, respectively. An additional six percent of Albertans will receive partial rebate amounts when their net earnings are up to $51 250 (singles), $100 000 (couples) and $101 000

(the PACE system in the US being just one of them), since Alberta is a laggard when it comes to implementing a climate-change plan. "I'm sure there will be an education component, but I also think there'll be direct support to consumers that want to do this kind of stuff," Hastings-Simon says. "Two of the big things that these agencies in other jurisdictions tend to do, are to give rebates that help offset the costs of energy-efficiency upgrades. So you know, you put in a new furnace and you get some money back. The other thing that they can do, which has been really effective as well, is to provide financing for people. So not just a rebate, but providing basically a loan that allows you to get the money up front to say, put more insulation in your home, and then you pay that back over time." Ultimately, each Albertan is going to start paying for their own individual

emissions—something that has been long overdue in this province. "I don't think it's completely fair to say you're putting it all on the consumers," Hastings-Simon says. She notes that industry is not included in the carbon levy, but significant changes are being made to the pricing in that separate system—Which will be announced later, after the government completes industry consultations. "I think that the consumers, they're going to be seeing the pieces that come from the choices that they make," Hastings-Simon says. "Everybody, industry and consumers, both have a responsibility to change. I think the good news for consumers—and industry—is that it's not impossible. A lot of this stuff, we know what needs to be done. For consumers in a lot of cases, actually changing those behaviours will lead to savings, in the end.

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Here's a quick summary of Alberta's new carbon pricing under the Climate Leadership Plan. The full details can be found at alberta.ca/climate. January 1, 2017 Fuel rate increases to $20/tonne Diesel: 5.35 c/L Gasoline: 4.49 c/L Natural Gas: 1.011 $/GJ Propane: 3.08 c/L Consumer rebate amounts $200 for an adult $100 for a spouse $30 for each child under 18 in the household (up to 4)

January 1, 2018 Fuel rate increases to $30/tonne Diesel: 8.03 c/L Gasoline: 6.73 c/L Natural Gas: 1.517 $/GJ Propane: 4.62 c/L Consumer rebate amounts $300 for an adult $150 for a spouse $45 for each child under 18 in the household (up to 4)

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The Supreme Court told Parliament to do something to give Canadians facing immense suffering the choice of peacefully ending their lives. The Liberals' announcement of Bill C-14 last week is technically a step in the right direction, in that it provides a way for some people to access physician-assisted death—namely, those with "intolerable" suffering who are also facing death in the "reasonably foreseeable" future. Anyone suffering from chronic, untreatable pain is excluded, and therefore the bill is, at best, a fumbling reach for what the government clearly believes is a "good enough" solution. An all-party parliamentary committee sat down, thought about this thing, and made several recommendations that included allowing assisted dying for competent psychiatric patients and dementia patients, so it's disappointing to see these groups excluded from the proposed law. Sure, it's a contentious issue, and there will be many MPs who will vote against any form of assisted dying for sincerely held convic-

tions, but there's a Supreme Court-imposed deadline of June 6. They have to pass something— might as well do it right. The cost of not getting it right the first time and passing the baton to the future is the condemnation of many Canadians to years more of needless suffering. It probably won't come up again until it makes its way back to court, because contentious laws we'll "fix later" have a way of not getting fixed later. The entire reason this whole matter finally got addressed at all wasn't because any legislative government was brave enough to do the right thing and even touch this complex matter, but because the judicial branch said it was about damn time. All of us should take some time to seriously think about how we'd like to go, because all of us will, and with a lack of endof-life choice, it's likely not going to be pretty. The prospect of our exits being horrific, lengthy and left to nature alone should prompt us to demand a lot more of our government than what they're offering.V

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Exploring Afr(ic)a

Afra Afro-Can Grill 12413 - 118 Avenue 780.705.7773 afragrill.ca

A new African restaurant on 118 Avenue plays it safe

wo—count 'em, two!—African restaurants have sprung up all of a sudden on 118 Avenue west of 124 Street, following the in footsteps of pioneers like Zembaba 2 and the late, lamented Nigist. And while Friendship Corner (in the former Chandler's space) follows its forbearer's pattern as a purveyor of Ethiopian cuisine, Afra Afro-Can Grill serves up Senegambian fare, of which it might be the only exemplar in the city or, for all I know, the province. Upon consulting a map, I learned that the small Islamic Republic of Gambia on Africa's Atlantic coast is otherwise surrounded by Senegal (a secular nation, but majority Muslim). Which is to say Afra serves halal food and no alcohol. The owners are a young couple— she's from Ottawa, he's from Montréal—trying to make a go of their diverse kitchen-based talents in the community where they reside. She is the meticulous hand behind Sheenalee Sweet Treats, which seems to be concerned primarily with dipping fruit and pretzels in chocolate, then dressing them up in various ways conspicuously on display at Afra's counter. Her Facebook page is a regular source of end-of-day discounts, for those who find themselves in the Sherbrooke-Inglewood corridor with last-minute chocolate-dipped strawberry needs. He, when not driving transit, is Afra's manager and cooks up its unpretentious entrées, as well as wraps, samosas and hand-cut fries. They also offer further sweetness in the form of banana-split crepes, panketto (West African donuts), fruit juices and smoothies. Afra feels like a stepping stone to a good restaurant. The paint is fresh and bright, but the room's a little scuffed. It's cheap and friendly, but decidedly unfancy in form and content, except for the neatly packaged, expertly rendered sweets and related promotional materials filling

the windows and walls. And the truth is, I don't mind a few rough edges at all. But my single visit didn't reveal, among Afra's myriad ramshackle charms, an aspect that inspires a unique craving. While Senegambian cuisine was new to me, the style of entrées was familiar from other African and Caribbean restaurants in town: platters heaped with rice and meat, accompanied by a very usual green salad. At Afra, which does boast vegetarian options, it amounts to a silly quantity of food, especially considering that the most expensive item on the menu is

$12. We got a rundown on what each dish comprised, then made our selections. We had to select again because they were out of domoda, the peanut-sauce-based meat on rice. Then we had to select again because they were out of beef. Co-diner and I agreed that the lamb yassa ($12) was the more interesting dish of the two we ordered, in which chunks of lamb and bell pepper were smothered in rich, onion-y gravy over basmati rice. The lamb was bone-in and somewhat fatty, and I had to get my hands involved to have much success eating it, but it was undeniably savoury and satisfy-

ing, with glints of sweet pepper to cut against the saltiness. The jollof rice with chicken ($11) was less remarkable. Jollof rice is cooked with tomato, spices and diced veggies, and this specimen seemed like it might have been at its best earlier in the day. It was topped by two huge portions of grilled chicken (drumstick and thigh, a bit dry), the requisite stock photo of a green salad (with Italian dressing) and some fried plantain slices, also from earlier in the day. In all, it was a bit bland. The manager brought us complimentary glasses of the house ginger drink, a sweet, throat-tingling concoction

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that did not skimp on the eponymous ingredient—tasty, but just about impossible for me to finish. For dessert, he presented us with samples of the chocolate-dipped pretzels as filigreed with iridescent frosting, which were as advertised. We took about half of each entrée home. At $24, it was an economical experiment, and inspired hope that Afra continues on its journey to consistent quality in everything they make. After all, someone's got to fill the Senegambian void in Edmonton's multifarious restaurant-scape. SCOTT LINGLEY

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Five hundred years of pure beer

The Reinheitsgebot German Beer Purity Law is still relevant today Mark it in your calendars: April 23, 2016 is the 500th anniversary of the enactment of the Reinheitsgebot. Beer drinkers, rejoice! Drinkers in North America might better know it as the German Beer Purity Law. It was (and still is) a law regulating the ingredients that can be used to make beer. The short story is that on April 23, 1516, Bavarian Duke Wilhelm IV issued a decree to restrict the making of beer to certain ingredients, namely barley, hops and water (yeast had not yet been discovered). The Reinheitsgebot went on to shape half a millennium of German brewing

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traditions and, in many respects, defined what most beer around the world is today. But history is never that clean, nor that simple. There have been more than one Reinheitsgebot in history. Munich created a similar law in 1487, years before Wilhelm's decree. In the 1800s, a second version was created to regulate other parts of what is now northern Germany. The Reinheitsgebot only became law for all of Germany upon unification of the Weimar Republic in 1918. The list of allowed ingredients has also been amended over the years to reflect realities. The biggest was the addition of yeast in the 1700s after Louis Pasteur discovered its key role in fermentation. There are also allowances for wheat and rye and certain sugar adjuncts in ale brewing. Historically, there were three motivations for the law. First, banning the use of wheat and rye in beer prevented price competition with bakers. In other words, it was a way to keep the price of bread affordable. Second, unregulated brewers would often add noxious and dangerous ingredients to their beer, either for bitterness or to mask off-flavours. Such ingredients included roots, mushrooms, animal by-products, henbane (a toxic plant) and soot. Third, at the time the church was in the process of stamping out the use of ingredients in beer associated with pagan practices, such as herbs and fruit, in favour of hops. The Reinheitsgebot is still in force today (sort of) as it is part of the German Tax Code. However, in 1987, it was struck down by a European Union court as a protectionist trade violation—a case launched

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by adjunct-happy French brewer Fischer, located in Strasbourg on the German border. Today, the Reinheitsgebot only applies to beer brewed in Germany. Five hundred years after its enactment, the Reinheitsgebot still has a powerful moral authority. It is a reflection of "pure" beer made in a traditional fashion. Being able to say you are "Reinheitsgebot–compliant" remains a powerful statement in some beer circles. While its legal authority is diminished, its marketing influence has grown, in large part alongside the rise of craft beer. Evidence of this is the sheer number of lager brewers who attempt to attach this title to their brand—though some are more legitimate descendants of the tradition than others. Craft brewing today, of course, prides itself on its use of experimentation and unusual ingredients. None of this would be allowed under the Reinheitsgebot. But when you speak to craft brewers, they understand and respect the basis of the law. It served an important purpose historically, and it is still relevant today. Ninety percent of beer produced in the world is almost half comprised of corn (or rice) syrup. This is what the Reinheitsgebot aimed to prevent, and it's what craft brewers are working against. The Reinheitsgebot might seem like a bit of dusty history. But it still shapes how we think about beer today. So grab a German lager and celebrate.V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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Representing the city to itself Eight playwrights embedded themselves in local communities to write This is YEG

hen I came back to Edmonton I noticed that the city had changed," says Vern Thiessen, artistic director of Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre. "And I was like, 'Wow, there's a lot of communities in this neighbourhood that I've never even paid any attention to.' So I started to talk to writers and ask them the question: 'If you could spend 30 days—if I gave you X amount of dollars to spend 30 days—in a community, where would you go?'" This is YEG: New Plays for a Changing City was born from this question. Over the past several months, eight playwrights have spread out across Edmonton, integrating themselves into wildly diverse communities and developing stories based on their experiences. From city hall to the South Side Memorial Chapel, from the University of Alberta's Math Department to the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, the playwrights chose locations that mattered to them— overlooked places, hidden-in-plainsight places, places whose stories needed to be told. "The purpose is really to create a different relationship between writers and the subjects that they write about," Thiessen explains. "And instead of having them in an ivory tower, in their office, writing about something that might be intellectual or theoretical, to embed them, kind of like a war correspondent, into a community. To parachute them in and have them watch, observe, inter-

act with and then to come up with a piece of art that is based on that experience." With support from the Edmonton Community Foundation, each writer is fashioning a 10-minute playlet, all eight of which will come together to produce a theatrical mosaic of Edmonton. Minister Faust, who's written several Edmonton-set novels including Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad and The Alchemists of Kush, chose Happy Harbor Comics as his home base for the project. He describes the comic book store as a hub for nerds and geeks, and a haven for anyone who feels excluded from other communities. "Happy Harbor, as the name suggests, is an outstanding place for people to enjoy themselves and to find a place where they're welcome," Faust says. "And [it's] a place where, with all the troubles in the world, or people having trouble paying their bills, or people facing various forms of discrimination, they come here, they get treated with kindness and friendliness and fun and respect ... I've been to lots of comic book stores over the last, let's say four decades. And I've gone to some comic stores in Edmonton or in the US or Canada that I've liked, but basically they were all just retail outlets. This place is a community. It's the host to numerous weekly sessions of groups such as Lady Geek Nite, which is female fans who do everything from cosplay and crafts to

presenting documentary films and academic discussions on women in science fiction and fantasy. It has its own artist in residence. It sponsors charitable events. It does educational outreach to schools. I think that this is the ideal model, this is what capitalism is at its absolute best." Faust has focused on Lady Geek Nite in the development of his play, seeing the integration of women into the traditionally male-centric sci-fi geek community as one of the major evolutions of this changing city. "When I was a kid there were a lot of women who were fans and who were involved," Faust recalls. "They were present, but I don't think that they had the same opportunities to drive programming. And if they did, so much of the content that they would've been discussing and building around was so male-focused that there was only so far that they could drive it." Now, Faust credits lady geeks and female fans for the blossoming of Edmonton cultural events, like Animethon. He's using his playlet to explore their contributions to the city, and to reaffirm his own artistic relationship with Edmonton—a city whose quirks and curiosities he has long defended. "When I was in university, a large number of my Euro-Canadian friends couldn't shut up about wanting to move to Vancouver, and a large number of my African-Canadian friends couldn't shut up about wanting to

move to Toronto," Faust says. "And in both cases they had this fantasy that this would be the place that they would find romance and an amazing job, et cetera et cetera. And in large measure the people who went to those places discovered that, you know what, they're just cities. And in fact, in those particular cases, particularly cold and unwelcoming cities. So I, at the time, was always fascinated with this city. I mean, I live here. There are fascinating people doing fascinating things here. Why would I have to go someplace else to make my dreams?" Megan Dart feels much the same way about Edmonton, describing her adopted city in somewhat earthier terms. "How do I say this without sounding so hokey—we're like this dirty, gritty town that's really fucking beautiful," she says. "There's just really beautiful people here who really care about this city and who care about the work they're doing and care about how the city's changing and who want to talk about it. And I think that for me was the most surprising thing." Dart chose the Edmonton Transit System as her area of study, and spent weeks riding busses and trains around the city, doing what she describes as active people-watching: "noticing the patterns in the way people move and the patterns in the way people interact."

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"I've been all over the place," Dart says. "And I purposefully went in directions I don't normally go. So I've been out to the Mill Woods area. I've gone fairly far east, I've gone west ... I've really tried to go to areas that are outside of my comfort zone. I definitely got lost—more than once—but found my way home. It's interesting. There's nothing outstanding about any one part of Edmonton, but you do see these shifts in people and patterns as you go from one direction to the other." Over the course of her rides, Dart overheard conversations about manslaughter convictions and what-if scenarios about ninjas jumping into LRT cars. She met a little boy who roared at her and showed her his toy dinosaurs. She saw urine running down the floor when a man peed on the bus, and encountered dozens of colourful and eccentric people. "When I first pitched the idea to ETS, that was one of the things [they said], they were like: 'There's a lot of characters on transit. You need to be really careful.' And I was like: 'Well, I am one of those characters, at this point, and I'm OK with that.'" Forcing herself to break her usual transit habits—earphones in, eyes looking down at her phone or book— Dart discovered a whole world of bizarre and fascinating people in this nominally mundane environment. "Every day there's something crazy that happens," she says. "I've met people who've lost their jobs up north and who had to go to pawn shops and sell all of their jewelry just to make ends meet. And I met a woman whose friend tried to commit suicide by jumping in front of the train, and she goes back to the same platform every year as a pay of respect for him. ... Usually it's just an exercise in listening, more than anything. I ask very few questions. People just kind of spill their story." Whether it's through comic book nights or metro-car conversations, both Faust and Dart (along with Jason Chinn, Heidi Janz, Conni Massing, Nicole Moeller, Cat Walsh and Kenneth T Williams) have encountered hundreds of stories in their various communities. Now, all that's left is to see what conversations they inspire in Edmontonians when they represent the city to itself. "Playwrights should be at the centre of civic discussion," Thiessen says. "They should be the people who are in the community who are the lightning rods, the shit disturbers, the mirrors, the comedians ... I think playwrights have always, to some extent, held that role in society. And this is just a more direct way to get them out there and to see how they reflect the city that we live in."

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ARTS PREVUE // SHAKESPEARE

Until Sat, Apr 23 (7:30 pm; 2 pm Saturday matinee) Directed by Brooklyn Ritchie Holy Trinity Anglican Church (Basement), $15 – 20 // BB Collective

WISH

t's been 400 years since William Shakespeare shuffled off this mortal coil. Counting this article, that makes it over 1.3 million times—just guessing here—that writers have described his passing as shuffling off a mortal coil, instead of simply saying he died. In a world where pop-culture references rarely survive the week they were born, that's a "damn Daniel" long time for one person to rest in our collective memory. Grindstone Theatre is marking this extraordinary anniversary with what

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) could be considered either a blasphemous or beholden take on the Bard's entire body of work by presenting The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). "It's just three actors trying to do the entire works of Shakespeare in 90 minutes," explains actor and Grindstone Theatre's artistic director Byron Martin. The original production of Shakespeare (Abridged) debuted in 1987 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and went on to a nine-year run at the Criterion Theatre in London. Injected with improvised moments, the actors walk on stage as themselves and end up jumping from character to character in an attempt to race through 37 plays, including merging all 16 comedies into a single scenario. "We play a lot on the fact that we're assuming that people think Shakespeare is pretty boring and they won't understand it," Martin says. "I like the irony of the play as well," he adds. "In that we present ourselves

ARTIFACTS The Object of Constellations by Christine Lesiak / until Sun, Apr 24 (8:30 pm – 10:30 pm) Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince has seen several adaptations over film, TV series and theatre, but this is the first time Edmontonians can see the story unfold in an observatory—thanks to Christine Lesiak's The Object of Constellation. A fitting venue for the French novella, visitors can enter the installation-style

as individuals who know a lot about Shakespeare, but it's like, 'Let's face it, we haven't read half of these plays.'" So it really doesn't matter if you've read his complete works (unabridged) or forgot the point of Hamlet the moment you passed your Grade 12 diploma exam, Shakespeare (Abridged) is for both the lovers and haters of the Bard. "It's definitely sacrilegious to Shakespeare," Martin says. "To a certain extent. Anyone who's super into Shakespeare, like really gets into it, I think they want it to be accessible and to be like, 'Yeah, it's not that complicated.' "I think the show has been so successful because of the fact that people get it," he continues. "When you break down the story into layman terms and sort of take the piss out of it a bit, it takes it off of its pedestal, so that we can all enjoy it." KATHLEEN BELL

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performance at any time over the evening, for whatever length they please, though it's recommended to set aside 40 minutes to one hour for a visit. (Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, free) What's Cooking? / Sun, Apr 24 (Noon and/or 6:30 pm) Hosted by Good Women Dance Collective, What's Cooking? is a sneak peek of works-in-progress across myriad artistic forms. The

audience plays a large role in the creation of these works by providing feedback via written surveys and a Q&A panel. Audiences can choose to attend the afternoon workshop and performance (Noon) or evening (6:30 pm) or both, with funds going towards future What's Cooking? events. Both events will have food provided by Remedy. (ATB Financial Arts Barns, admission by donation but suggested $10 per show or $15 for both) V

“She’s not a beast. She’s a person.”

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BONDAGE T

he high-heeled shoe is a multifaceted symbol; for some it represents femininity and sex appeal, for others it's a painful reminder of the expectations put on women's bodies. For the men of Man Up, an all-male dance and burlesque troupe, the footwear takes on a new double-entendre. "Literally we're up on a three- to five-inch heel, and there's the challenge to 'man up' and be yourself," explains Gregory Caswell, founder and choreographer for the group, which had a much-celebrated start at last year's Fringe Festival with its held-over romp, MAN UP!. Challenging cultural stigmas of gender was what interested Caswell initially—that and what he describes as a three-month-long YouTube wormhole of Yanis Marshall dance videos. "What the heel really became for us was a metaphor: when I put on my heels I feel that I move a lot differently. And it makes your legs look fantastic," he nods. "There are so many layers to the act of a man putting on high heels." He says that fellow performer Violette Coquette, who is a burlesque artist appearing in BONDAGE's opening act, Vespers, put it to him in a way that stuck: "One day where we were talking about boylesque versus burlesque, and she said, 'The simple act of you doing a burlesque show, there's already a message.' It's the excitement of rebellion." Returning to the Edmonton stage hot off their run at the Jasper Pride Festival earlier this year, Man Up brings their tribute to the most storied of

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masculine tropes: the camp and glory of James Bond. Five performers, including Caswell himself under the stage name G Venchy, will animate different aspects of the fawned-over secret agent's franchise. Expect a take on the famed 007 opening sequence, drag and boylesque numbers, pole dancing and a big finale—with plenty of height provided by the costume department. Other performers include Fitzgerald Bitchwilliam III (Joshua Wolchansky), Beau Creep (Brennan Doucet), Teen Jesus Barbie (Joshua William Carter), and Rusty Kingfisher (CJ Rowein). The parody, Caswell explains, puts the hyper-masculine pop-culture brand through the true Man Up treatment. "It does stay with the Man Up brand, which is really all about any gender, but primarily for men to take away the social stereotype and social criteria of gender. For example, the Bond girl is played by a male in this situation. For lack of a better term, there's a lot of gender fuckery going on onstage." For those used to seeing (and being) in heels, the show opens with an allfemale burlesque act, Vespers, featuring the aforementioned Coquette, as well as Charlie Vegas, LeTabby Lexington, Cherry Monroe, Dame Perignon and Maila Mustang (in all seriousness, typing the burlesque Yellow Pages would be a very entertaining job). As the folk from Man Up guarantee, BONDAGE is a show that will leave you shaken, not stirred.

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ARTS REVUE // THEATRE

The Supine Cobbler S

he first appears as a silhouette in the doorway, drawing stares, projecting equal parts flesh-and-blood figure and mythical legend. The Cobbler (Kristi Hansen), saddles up to the bar, takes in a western on the television, does a shot of whisky and soon after, The Supine Cobbler begins proper, gang fully assembled, waiting for high noon.

A renegade western is one layer of Cobbler, overlapping with the story of a modern-day abortion procedure. It takes us from waiting room, through the screening-questions of a doctor, the encroaching sentiments of friends, the procedure itself and its immediate aftermath. The Cobbler is someone who's made a decision for herself, and

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she's here to see it through; the western genre elements elevate and widen that central story in this Maggie Tree production, injecting it with humour (it's veeeeerry funny) and access. And in that, this production finds its shape as one the most inventive, playful and skillfully told shows of the season. The should-she-shouldn't-see moral-

izing isn't the concern here: instead, it remains in the present, focused on the minutiae rather than grandstanding. Consistently one of the most inventive playwrights in the country, Jill Connell's work frequently uses alternative frameworks to reveal something vital in our collective, real-world psyche: In The Tall Building, it was a post-apocalyptic framework that let it explore the loneliness of people-per-square-inch living; with Hroses: An Affront to Reason, magical realism allowed a tragic, cyclical love story show how massive those first-love moments actually feel. Here, it seems to be how the ways we treat choices like abortion make it feel like a lawless, lone-gun scenario to the ones actually making the choice, alone and assailed on all sides, even in a crowd of close, if tenuous, bonds that aren't all well-meaning or at least not totally selfless. Saddling up with the Cobbler are her young apprentice (Jayce McKenzie),

Until Sat, Apr 23 (7:30 pm; 2pm Saturday matinee) Directed by Vanessa Sabourin Backstage Theatre, $20 – $25 a former best friend (Melissa Thingelstad), a ballet-dancer sister (Lora Brovold) and the doctor (Michelle Milenkovic). It's a roundly excellent cast—Milenkovic, in particular, shines in a scatter of roles—and director Vanessa Sabourin keeps it all moving at a clip. The genre elements land as deft comic punchlines in addition to offering a certain poignancy that grows as the production goes on. It all plays out in an alleyway configuration, so you watch half the audience consider what you're considering, too. There's even a live band—and a whisky bar—to give it that rustic, lively feel, which The Supine Cobbler so richly earns: it's rare to see a show so effectively using the trappings of style to heighten its substance. PAUL BLINOV

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REVUE // THEATRE

// Ian Jackson, EPIC Photography

Other Desert Cities

ther Desert Cities tells the story of Brooke Wyeth (Liisa RepoMartell), a writer who returns to her parents' home for Christmas and shares her latest manuscript with them—a memoir about her brother Henry, who committed suicide 20 years earlier. When Polly and Lyman Wyeth (Deborah Kipp and Robin Ward) don't react with the unfailing support that Brooke has come to expect from them, the Wyeth family Christmas becomes a bloodbath of buried secrets and long-festering resentments. Although the climax of this family drama delivers a riveting revelation, Other Desert Cities is otherwise a surprisingly uninvolving play. The scenes before the grande finale don't really build up to it, instead just slogging through clunky exposition—like when Brooke tells her brother Trip (Derek Moran) about Henry's past, which he definitely knows about already.

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The show is always reaching for something deep and poetical to say, with actual lines like "I am California!" that feel at once pretentious and fake. A lot of this falls on Jon Robin Baitz's script, which prefers its characters to make grand statements rather than to merely talk. Unfortunately, the artificiality of the script is only intensified by the delivery of the dialogue. The actors don't speak so much as speechify, and Repo-Martell in particular prefers to bellow rather than to banter. This tendency to overact an overwritten script is especially apparent in a small exchange where Trip hands Brooke a joint. For just one second, Moran drops his voice and says "have some" as an off-the-cuff remark. These two words shatter the grandiose style, and give us a tiny glimpse of the play that could've been if the messy emotional subject matter was actually allowed to get messy.

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To be fair, the overwrought style works well for some of the actors. Kipp in particular is wickedly hilarious as Polly Wyeth, a sort of Lucille Bluth-Emily Gilmore type whose nature is very performative to begin with. But ultimately, Other Desert Cities feels as sterile as its title suggests. The play has an engaging story to tell, but it's trapped beneath a barren, smooth, overly polished script and actors who deliver thunderous speeches in booming tones rather than engaging with the muddy, fertile humanity of their characters.

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Dance Ballroom Dance Party • Central Lions Recreation Centre, 11113-113 St • May 7, 7:45pm (door), 8pm-midnight (dance)

Burlesque Marathong - Edmonton Edition • Freemasons' Hall, 10318-100 Ave • hellothere@violettecoquette.com • marathong. eventbrite.com • Cheer performers on as they put their best pasties forward on film in order to submit these acts to burlesque festivals, including the Edmonton and Calgary Burlesque Festivals • Apr 28, 6:30-9pm • $15 (adv), $20 (door)

Contemporary Technique Dance Classes • GWDC Studio Space, 11205-107 Ave • 780.802.6867 • info@goodwomendance.ca • goodwomen.ca/classes • Contemporary technique dance instruction • Every Tue, Thu-Fri in Apr, 10-11:30am • $100 (10 class pack), $65 (5 class pack), $15 (drop-in)

Dirt Buffet Cabaret #10 • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St NW • mzdsociety@ milezerodance.com • milezerodance.com • Edmonton's monthly performance lab & avant-garde variety show. Featuring 10-minute performances of dance, spoken word, music and more • Apr 28, May 26, Jun 9; 9-11pm • $10 (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)

Flamenco Dance Classes (Beginner or Advanced) • Dance Code Studio, 10575-115 St NW #204 • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail.com • Every Sun, 11:30am12:30pm

MZD Mainstage: Bam (beings and Matter) • Mile Zero Dance Company, Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • 780.424.1573 • milezerodance.com • An MZD mainstage production in Spazio Performativo featuring choreography by Gerry Morita in collaboration with sound artist Parker Thiessen and scenographer Patrick Arès-Pilon, exploring notions of hoarding and immediacy • Apr 22-24, 8pm • $15 (MZD members), $20 (non-members)

Nova Blues - Fusion night • Shanti Yoga Studio, 10026-102 St • novablues.com • Move to the Blues and other musical styles. A social dance. Shoes not permitted (guest must bring socks) • Apr 22, 9:15pm (beginner lesson), 10pm (dance) • $8-$12 (sliding scale) Sacred Circle Dance • Riverdale Hall, 9231-100 Ave • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music. No partner required • Every Wed, 7-9pm • $10

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave •

metro • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • Music Doc: Bayou Maharajah (May 3) • Reel Family Cinema: Stuart Little (Apr 23), The Secret Garden (Apr 30), Little Women (May 7) • They Came From Projector X: The Day the Earth Stood Still (Apr 23, 7pm; Apr 24, 4:30pm; Apr 27, 9:30pm) • Turkey Shoot: Victor Frankenstein (Apr 21, 9:30pm)

Lando Gallery • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Lando Gallery April Group Selling Exhibition; until Apr 29 Latitude 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • War. 11: portraits by Taras Polataiko; Mar 24-Apr 30 • The Reflex: artwork by Paul Bernhardt, Mar 24-Apr 30

MacEwan University City Centre Campus • Room 7-266 • amatejko@telusplanet.

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

net • Pre-Suburbia, Utopian Desires: Photography by Jason Symington; Mar 30-Jun 24

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Discovery Gallery: Inventing Narratives: artwork by Corinne Cowell; Mar 26-Apr 30 • Discovery Gallery: Get a Handle on It: artwork by Mynthia McDaniel; Mar 26-Apr 30 • Feature Gallery: #ABCRAFT: artists using digital technologies; Apr 2-Jul 2

St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • hiraeth: artwork by Gillian Willans; Apr 3-29

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir

• paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: Mountain walks, paintings by Marla Schole • Artisan Nook: Finding frames & framing finds, upcycled artworks by Gail Rydman • Both exhibitions run Apr 7-May 19

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • The Blur in Between: artwork by an international roster of artists from Chile, the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, as well as Canada; Jan 23-May 8 • The Flood: artwork by Sean Caulfield; Feb 6-Aug 14 • 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc; Mar 5-Jul 3 • Little Cree Women (Sisters, Secrets & Stories): artwork by Brittney Bear Hat & Richelle Bear Hat; Mar 5-Jul 3 • A Parallel Excavation: artwork by Duane Linklater & Tanya Lukin Linklater; Apr 30-Sep 18 • The Unvarnished Truth: Exploring the Material History of Painting; Apr 30-Sep 18 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm • Art for Lunch: 3rd Thu of the month, 12:10-12:50pm; Schedule: 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc (Apr 21)

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Overburden: artwork by Jessica Plattner; Mar 3-Apr 30 • High Energy 21: The Future Museum: artwork by St. Albert high schools; May 5-31; Opening reception: May 5, 6-8:30pm

Bear Claw Gallery • 10403-124 St •

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

Musée Héritage Museum • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • Celebrate St. Albert: looking back at 150 years of celebrations in the community; Apr 26-Jun 19

Paint Spot • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery. com • The point is...: artwork by Alice Teichert; Apr 15-May 1 Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/ eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Marlena Wyman: Illuminating the Diary of Alda Dale Randall; Feb 2-Aug 20

Robertson-Wesley United Church

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • The Opening Act: artwork by Natasha Pestich; Apr 28-Jun 11

St. Joseph High School • 10830-109

780.451.8890 • cafeblackbird.ca • Artwork by Odette Lackey; Through Apr

Creative Practices Institute • 10149122 St, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute. com • Solo Exhibition of Kasie Campbell; Apr 27May 21; Opening reception: Apr 27, 7-9pm

Street NW • Heroes of 107th: community exhibit to share some of the comic book pages, photography and also a short video along with having community roundtable discussions • Apr 30, 124pm; exhibit will travel through May-Jun

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

Telus World of Science • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free$117.95 • The International Exhibition Of Sherlock Holmes; Mar 25-Sep 5 U of A Museums Galleries at Enterprise square • Main floor, 10230 Jasper Ave

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

dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St •

Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Members Show & Sale; Apr 1-May 1

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

SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner

VAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

• Ranch Roadhouse, 6107-104 St NW • ticketfly. com • Featuring a geeky twist to burlesque • Apr 30, 7-10pm • $32.50 (general), $102.50 (VIP)

What's cooking • PCL Theatre, Art Barns • 780.802.6867 • goodwomen.ca • Presented by Good Women Dance Collective • Apr 24, 12-9pm

780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Artwork by Sean Caulfield; From May until Jun

FAb Gallery • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • Graduation exhibit; Apr 19-30

Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood

Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Marks of Meaning: artworks by Bonnie Patton; Through Apr • Display cases and cubes: Quiet Moments: Wood carvings by Crystal Dreidger; through Apr • Live creation session with Crystal Dreidger: Apr 23 & 30, 10am-2pm; in the Gallery

FILM

Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl, 10215-

Cinema at the Centre • Stanley Milner

112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Disbound: artwork by Kim Bruce; Apr 21-May 27 • Meanders: artwork by François-Matthieu Bouchard; Apr 21-May 27

Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free • Schedule: Turbo Kid (Apr 27)

First International Screening of Thomas Chapin, Night Bird Song •

Yardbird Suite, 10203-86 Ave • 780.432.0428 • info@yardbirdsuite.com • thomaschapinfilm.com • Tells the story of an gifted alto sax and flute master who was on his way to becoming a well-known virtuoso of jazz when he died after a year-long battle with leukemia at age 40 in 1998 • Apr 30, 8-10pm • $10

From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Schedule: To Sir, With Love (Apr 22), In the Heat of the Night (Apr 29)

visualartsalberta.com • Draw More Income: A mail-art exhibition by snail mail, email and fax where artists complete a drawing or artwork on a template that include an ornate frame and the words "draw more income"; Mar 3-May 28

VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Femme Noir: by Larissa Hauk and Marina Alekseeva; Mar 22-Apr 29

West End Gallery • 10337-124 St •

Jake's Gallery and Framing • 10441123 St • 780.426.4649 • jake@jakesframing. ca • The Great Outdoors Indoors: artwork by Jason Blower; Apr 11-Apr 30 • vice-president@ imagesalberta.ca • imagesalberta.ca/iacc-exhibitmay-2016.html • Images Alberta Camera Exhibit 2016: exhibition of photographic works by 40 members of Images Alberta Camera Club; May 2-31; Opening reception: May 7, 7-9pm

Jeff Allen Art Gallery (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • A Fiesta of Colour: artwork by Maura McGarrigle and Joyce Bjerke; Mar 31-Apr 27

2016 Human Library • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ca/humanlibrary • Borrow a person instead of a book! Over a cup of coffee, listen to your book tell his or her story and be able to ask questions • May 1, 1:15-4pm • Free Edmonton Poetry Festival • Various venues, varying prices (many free events) • edmontonpoetryfestival.com • Celebrating poetry in all its forms and showcasing local, national and international poets • Apr 17-24 • Sponsored by Vue Weekly Edmonton Resilience Festival • Boyle Street Plaza, 9538-103A Ave • edmontonresiliencefestival.com • Consisting of hands-on practical workshops, guided conversation cafés and a fair showcasing the work of community organizations called the Community Connections Fair. Also featuring family friendly activities indoors and outdoors and film screenings • Apr 29-May 1 • Tickets available at edmontonresiliencefestival.com

Ave NW • happyharborcomics.com • Apr 27, 4-7pm

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

Bleeding Heart Art Space • 9132-118

Cafe Blackbird • 9640-142 St •

hair • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Set in an East Village park in the age of Aquarius, when sex and drugs were used as vehicles to evade reality, Hair is the musical story of a group of hippies who celebrate peace and love—and their long-hair—in the shadow of the Vietnam War • Apr 12-Jun 12

780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Glass Buffalo: That Becomes You - Edmonton Poetry Festival; Apr 21, 5:30pm • The Café Readings - Edmonton Poetry Festival; Apr 24, 1:30-4:30pm • Billi J Miller "Farmwives in Profile" Signing; Apr 26, 12pm • Adriana Davies "The Rise and Fall of Emilio Picariello" Book Launch; Apr 27, 7pm • Walter Hildebrandt "Documentaries" Book Launch; Apr 28, 7pm

Royal Alexandra Hospital Gallery

St. Albert Potters' Guild Show and Sale; Apr 28-30

St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Revelations: artwork by Jim Visser; Apr 8-21 • Seeking Horizons: artwork by Pascale Ouellet; Apr 29-May 13

Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave •

In-store signing at Happy Harbor Comics featuring Kyle Charles and David Croteau • Happy Harbor, 10729-104

St Albert Place • 5 St. Anne St, St. Albert •

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124

Gordon • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd •

• 10209-123 St • Annual Art Sale: featuring paintings, prints, sculptures, fine jewelry, and ceramics; Apr 23, 10am-4pm

780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • Artwork by Maxine Noel; Apr 16-28 Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Sweet Jesus: artwork by Borys Tarasenko; Mar 19-Apr 30

will join a host of Alberta poets for an evening celebration, including an open mic session for those who want to share their own works. Wine & cheese will be served • Apr 23, 7-9pm • $5 (pre-register online or by phone; pick tickets up at the door) • 18+ only

780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • This Urban Life: artwork by Fraser Brinsmead; Apr 9-21 • Joanne Gauthier; Apr 23-May 5 • Destinations: artwork by Destinations; Apr 23-May 5

Women's Art Museum of Canada • La Cité Francophone 2nd Pavillon, #200, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury (91 St) • 780.803.2016 • info@wamsoc.ca • wamsoc.ca • Bookmarks: variety show; Apr 2-May 14

Literary 10th ANNUAL EVENING OF POETRY • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ca • Metro Federation Writer in Residence Marty Chan

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@ gmail.com Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 1022597 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

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

THIS IS YEG: New Plays for a Changing City • La Cite Francophone, 8627-91 St • workshopwest.org • Writers will share works based on their connecting guests to personal stories with real people, and exploring YEG in ways they've never experienced before • Apr 22-24

Theatre 11 O'Clock Number • The Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave (North Side of the ATB Financial Arts Barns) • grindstonetheatre.ca • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment that unveils scenes, songs and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Every Fri, starting Sep 25-Jun 25, 11pm • $15 (online, at the door) Annie • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • edmonton.broadway.com • The world's best-loved musical returns. Annie includes such unforgettable songs as “It's the Hard Knock Life,” “Easy Street,” “I Don't Need Anything But You,” plus the eternal anthem of optimism, “Tomorrow” • Apr 30-May 1

Chimprov • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre's longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun

City of Angels • Auditorium at Campus St Jean, 8604-91 St • elopemusicaltheatre.ca • May 5-14, 7:30pm (2pm on Sun); No shows Mon-Tue

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) • Basement Theatre at Holy Trinity, 10037-83 Ave • Actors attempt to perform all 37 of William Shakespeare's plays in 90 minutes • Apr 19-23

Die-Nasty • The Backstage Theatre at the ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-83 Ave • communications@varsconatheatre.com • die-nasty. com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs every Mon, 7:30-9:30pm • Until May 30 • $14 or $9 with a $30 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com

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theatrenetwork.ca • A scheming delinquent breaks into the home of his father. Gordon has dreams of a building a criminal empire, but Gord is determined to set his son on the right path at last • Apr 26-May 15

Hey, Pretty Woman! • Phase II West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St • jubilations.ca • A spoof on the hugely popular movie released in 1990 • Apr 15-Jun 12 Improv Open Jam • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • grindstonetheatreyeg@ gmail.com • grindstonetheatre.ca/openjam.html • A space to share, swap games and ideas. For all levels • Last Tue every month until Jun 28, 7-9:30pm • Free MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a high-stakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door) Mary Stuart • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • 780.429.1000 • edmontonopera.com • Sparks fly in this historical fiction set in the Tudor era as Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, face off in a desperate love triangle • Apr 21; 10pm • Tickets start at $40

Murder at the Howard Johnson's • St. Albert Theatre Troupe, 47 Riel Drive, St. Albert • 780.222.0102 • stalberttheatre.com • All is fair in love....and murder, in this dark-ish comedy by Sam Bobrick and Ron Clark. It's two against one, three different ways, and nobody's very good at it • Apr 28-May 14 • Dinner theatre: $55 (adult), $50 (senior) Other Desert Cities • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • A searing comedy drama about the reunion of an elite Republican family in California. All unravels over the daughter's determination to publish a memoir of family secrets. Nominated for five Tony Awards and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • Apr 9-May 1

Rent • ATB Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • The telling of a group of struggling artists trying to survive and create in New York's gritty Alphabet City in 1989-1990 • Apr 18-23

Social Scene • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • grindstonetheatreyeg@gmail.com • grindstonetheatre.ca/scenestudy.html • Fellow theatre lovers share excerpts of plays that they have been reading • First Mon of every month, 6-8pm; until Jun 6 • Free Supine Cobbler • The Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • The Cobbler is an outlaw. A genius, but an outlaw just the same. She meets the Doctor for a procedure at high noon, accompanied by her apprentice (a turncoat), her estranged sister (dead by hanging), and her former best friend (missing, presumed dead). Together they negotiate integrity in a lawless world • Apr 14-23 • $20-$35 TheatreSports • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

Under Cover • La Cité francophone, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury (91 St) • On the surface, Ella is just like any other girl wandering the halls of a Canadian High School. Although she has immigrant parents, she was raised to embrace western values. But when Ella makes the decision to wear a hijab after a life changing summer with her grandmother overseas, suddenly her religion is front and centre • Apr 29-Apr 30, 7:30pm (1pm on Apr 29, 2pm on Apr 30) • $19 (adults), $16 (seniors/students) & pay-what-you-can (Apr 30, 2pm performance) • Available at Tix on the Square or by cash at the door West Side Story • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story is one of the greatest musicals of the 20th century—a love story set on opposite sides of a turf war between rival street gangs • Apr 23-May 22

Wish • Northern Light Theatre, 201, 8908 99 St • 780.471.1586 • northernlighttheatre.com • A coproduction with Good Women Dance Collective. The hearing son of deaf parents, J J agrees to teach sign language to the mysterious Eliza, a gorilla rescued from a research lab by animal-rights activists. Eliza demonstrates a gift for signing and bonds passionately with her new teacher until they face an ethical conundrum• Apr 29-May 7

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PREVUE // TELEVISION

POP

POP EDITOR: PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

POPCULTURE HAPPENINGS HEATHER SKINNER // SKINNER@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Toying with ideas Locally made Tiny Plastic Men an ode to nerds and nerd-dom

n a popcorn factory, an actual film studio, an abandoned extended care facility and a disused contact lens manufacturing facility, local television is being filmed. "We don't know where we'll be [next season], and every year there's been a consistent joke about remodelling the place," Matt Alden says. He's sitting at a table in Accent Lounge beside his fellow executive producers/creators/writers/stars— Chris Craddock and Mark Meer— for the TV show in question: Tiny Plastic Men. They've just wrapped up filming the show's fourth season, which will première in May on Super Channel; this year it will also be available on Hulu and Hulu Plus in the US, and they've got a few episodes on YouTube as well. Part sitcom, part sketch comedy, Tiny Plastic Men is an ode to nerds and nerd-dom—and all three are quick to admit that comes from a very real place. "It's about three low-status employees who work in the basement of a toy company, and we use toys as the flash point to comment on all

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aspects of popular culture," Craddock explains. "We explore different edges of the nerd-o-verse through our pop culture references." "Which only makes sense because we're all nerds in real life as well as on TV," Meer adds. Whether or not there will be a fifth season is still uncertain, though the trio says the outlook is positive. Tiny Plastic Men has already done quite well for Canadian television, where three seasons is commonly cited as a good run. "The first season was a true shoestring budget," Meer says. "[It was] sort of proof of concept, more than anything." Since then they've honed their characters and the overall projection of the show, he explains, which now includes more continuity and wider story arcs than its original episodic nature. Various local actors have made guest appearances throughout the show's run, including several from the trio's improv troupe alma mater, Rapid Fire Theatre. Season four also

includes Canadian comedy greats Colin Mochrie and Joe Flaherty. They may be the little guy on the block, as Craddock names them, but Tiny Plastic Men hasn't gone unnoticed—the show has netted several nominations for the Canadian Screen Awards and the Canadian Comedy Awards. And they're here to stay, despite the lack of a permanent studio space. "I was thinking about that just today—I think it all just comes down to a wicked work-life balance," Craddock says, recalling a conversation he had recently with his wife. "I remarked, 'The one thing that could really screw that up is all my dreams coming true.' ... It's always been my dream, of course, to be in popular culture on some level, to make people feel the way the shows that I love have made me feel. But it's also the fact that I love my life here in Edmonton. I'm not looking to trade it in for LA freeways or even the Toronto drear—I'm from Ontario; I hope I can say that without offending people." "One of the reasons I stay in Ed-

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monton is the quality of the work that gets done here in theatre, and especially in improv," Meer says. "I've been around the world; I go to improv all over the world, and some of the best improv on the planet is here in Edmonton." "I remember the exact day I decided to stay here," Alden recalls, describing the opportunity he had to move to Toronto—he had a callback for Second City, and family there to boot—which he turned down in order to stay in Edmonton with his comedy troupe here. "That, hilariously, was the troupe that got picked up to do television, that led us into this circle where now we can do our own stuff and we didn't have to go out there, and now I can [work with] the people who were there for me when I was struggling." MEL PRIESTLEY

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April Nerds Night Out / Thu, Apr 21 (5:30 pm – 8:30 pm) An Edmonton designer and developer meet-up that features no presentations—just a social meet-up for local talent hoping to network, share their experiences and catch up about anything new in the industry. Anyone is encouraged to attend, from students to seasoned professionals. (Brewsters in Oliver Square) Serenity/Firefly board game day with the Alberta Browncoats / Sat, Apr 23 (Noon – 4 pm) Joss Whedon's cult classic Firefly only got one season and a film (Serenity) but it's lived on in the form of various board games. The Alberta Browncoats are inviting guests to Happy Harbor to indulge in a few of those games this Saturday: Firefly: The Game, Shiny Fluxx, Firefly Clue, Tall Card (the game from the show) and many more. (Happy Harbor, donations to Edmonton's Food Bank will be collected) In-store signing at Happy Harbor Comics featuring Kyle Charles and David Croteau / Wed, Apr 27 (4 pm – 7 pm) Happy Harbor will be wrapping the month of April with another signing featuring local creators who will be making their debut in Heavy Metal Magazine Issue 280 (released on April 27). Kyle Charles—artist of the Image Comics series Roche Limit—and David Croteau will be showcasing their newest addition to the magazine, Time Served. Copies of the issue will be available for sale, so you can get them signed by the duo while talking about their experiences with underground comics. (Happy Harbor) V

FILM

REVUE // DRAMA

FILM EDITOR: PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Endless summer Sleeping Giant succeeds in the telling of its coming-of-age tale and too addled with hormones and self-consciousness to take the time to really look. And it's those kids, above all, that make Sleeping Giant memorable. Its trio of young leads, most possessing little or no previous professional experience, are remarkably attuned to Cividino's vision.

oronto-based director Andrew Cividino's feature debut transports us up north along the shores of Lake Superior for a summer vacation of adolescent mischief, anxiety and self-actualization. It follows three boys as they pursue girls, reckon with a philandering dad, steal beer, smoke weed, do all kinds of stupid shit and, perhaps stupidest of all, work up the gumption to

dive off the looming challenge of Todd's Cliff. When reduced to a plot synopsis Sleeping Giant is largely indistinguishable from countless other bucolic summertime comingof-age films, but it's the details that impress here, not the story itself but the way it's told. Hours and days become unmoored from the regimented dictates of school and chores. Cividino and edi-

tor James Vandewater graft scenes together with minimal transitional fuss—certain cuts could be eliding minutes or days, and it hardly matters because childhood summers last forever and most days there's little difference between one day and the next. James Klopko's camerawork sweeps across magisterial landscapes with the gaze of kids at once awed by their surroundings

Adam (Jackson Martin) is the sweet, pretty, most often quiet one, the one with the more affluent and engaged parents, the one least interested in overt displays of alpha-male domination. The dopily ingratiating Riley (Reece Moffett) comes from a more troubled background but seems determined to cruise through life at mellowdude speed. Riley's cousin Nate (Nick Serino, from whom you will surely be seeing more), meanwhile, is a habitually antagonistic runt, uncouth and no doubt annoying to be around, but also by far the film's funniest, most interesting character. Badly dressed, in need of haircuts, eager for experience that might inaugurate them into a lessawkward phase of pre-adulthood, the boys are emblematic of an old cottage culture of uniformly white people who like to play badminton and barbecue. The boys befriend a pot-dealing twentysomething loser who lives in a trailer, masters video games and apparently has no friends his own age.

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The dealer boasts of how he's the sole surviving lunatic to dare and leap off the edge of Todd, an ambassador of those dumbest dreams of macho glory that usually, if we're lucky, disintegrate upon impact with adult ambition. The dealer casts a precarious spell on Nate especially, helping to push Sleeping Giant toward its dramatic climax. I wonder about that climax. I wonder if this film, so laudably non-judgmental and inscribed with careful behavioral observation, might not have been bolder and braver to avoid such drama altogether and focus on what it seems to know so well: the very ordinary and eventless. But Sleeping Giant's last act, for all its artifice, which includes an over-determined confrontation between Adam and the nice fish-selling lady his dad's been getting it on with, still works fairly well, ushering the film from a place of naturalism to one of myth.

JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // BIOPIC Opens Friday Directed by Don Cheadle 

Miles Ahead I

f there's one thing I dread more than a biopic it's a biopic about someone I admire. Few filmic prospects filled me with as much dread as the long-circulating threat of a Miles Davis movie. An immensely complicated, mercurial, at times downright nasty dude, Davis, who died in 1991 at age 65, was also a restless, enigmatic, ultimately uncategorizable musical visionary, a very particular emblem of Africa-American success, and one of the two or three artists whose work has meant just about everything to me for most of my life. Davis would sometimes turn his back on the audience; he was once dubbed "the prince of darkness." He would seem especially resistant to what is characteristically the most reductive of popular genres—and if there were ever an artist who loathed looking back and resurrecting greatest hits, it was Miles. The only thing that alleviated my dread was the knowledge that the Davis project was the baby of Don Cheadle, a talented, charismatic actor who's long lingered in the margins of the mainstream without ever getting fully sucked into the soul-draining tractor beam of

mega-stardom. Cheadle has played a superhero, been nominated for an Oscar and co-starred in a successful heist movie franchise, but the films for which he's beloved tend to be far more interesting: Devil in a Blue Dress, Boogie Nights, Out of Sight, Traffic, The Guard. If any famous person was going to impersonate Miles it might as well be Cheadle, and as it turns out, Miles Ahead, which also serves as Cheadle's feature directorial debut, is in many ways as inventive, intriguing and kooky as Cheadle's best performances. Set in 1979, at the tail end of Davis' silent period, when after decades of prolificacy the trumpeter, composer and bandleader neither performed live nor released a recording for five years, Miles Ahead captures its subject as his most hermetic, paranoid, drug-addled and creatively paralyzed, living in his bunker-like New York brownstone with his private recording studio, his vast and flamboyant wardrobe, his heavy bag and gloves, and more than one handgun. An insistent journalist (Ewan McGregor) manages to force himself inside under the pretense of a Rolling Stone assignment and the

promise of a solid cocaine connection. The journalist is soon accompanying Miles on a tense visit to his record label's offices and, a few wild plot twists later, an expansive urban trek to track down an ambitious young horn-player and a sleazy industry troll (A Serious Man's Michael Stuhlbarg) who've stolen the only tapes of Miles' longpromised comeback. With gunplay, drug abuse, breaking and entering and even a car chase, Miles Ahead careens its way into becoming an entertainingly bizarre sort of crime caper—and largely a work of fiction.

Which doesn't make it immune to certain biopic tropes. The most tokenistic and least interesting aspects of Miles Ahead are its flashbacks, which mainly serve to remind nonfans that they're watching a movie about that handsome, moody icon who made Kind of Blue and Sketches of Spain, and to render Davis' longsuffering and now absent wife Frances (Emayatzy Corinealdi) as his Rosebud, the precious one that got away and left him all alone with his bat-shit self. The conflation of time is more interesting when Cheadle lets past and present coexist in a single frame, such

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as the sequence in which middle-aged Miles goes to a boxing match where, hallucinatorily, younger Miles is performing in the ring. It's one of several moments of quiet daring on Cheadle's part as a director—the sort of daringness that would seem de rigueur when dealing with Miles Davis. In any case, Miles Ahead is, blessedly, neither authoritative nor iconoclastic, but it is mischievous, fun and pulses with the funky runs and switchback rhythms of a filmmaker who knows the measures of the man he invokes.

JOSEF BRAUN

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FILM REVUE // REMAKE

The Jungle Book S

winging into theatres before an update of that other apehouse adventure, Tarzan, can get there, The Jungle Book is a live-action remake of Disney's '60s animated feature. Rudyard Kipling's two mid-1890s storycollections—a cross of animal fables and moral lessons, many centred on feral boy Mowgli—have kept their tenacious grip on the imagination, from comic versions and Neil Gaiman's novel riff to Soviet and Japanese cartoon-series. It gets the full actionadventure treatment here, providing some thrills, though the cute-animal factor and tame storyline make it more furry family fun than a beastly tale that digs its claws right into you. Wooshing back from the Magic Kingdom and deep into the trees, vines and undergrowth of a vast jungle world, director Jon Favreau sends us running after loincloth-swaddled Mowgli (star-in-the-making Neel

Sethi), a "man-cub" raised by a wolf pack but forced to leave when scarred tiger Shere Khan (silkily voiced by Idris Elba) demands the outsider's little carcass. The clear artificiality of the place—a geographical and talking fauna hodge-podge, with bears, tigers, wolves and panthers crossing paths—makes it even more of a Disney world we're rollicking through, in 3D, as this flick tries to bring out your thrill-seeking, wild inner child. The faint rustle, rustle, then pounce! of Shere Khan amid the tall grasses; the mesmerizing eyes of hissssing Kaa (Scarlett Johansson), slithering 'round and 'round Mowgli high up in the jungle canopy; Mowgli lying atop bear-buddy Baloo (Bill Murray, at his scoundrel-ish best) as they drift lazily downstream ... all these sequences are brought off with a near-magical touch. The note that rings hollow is

Now playing Directed by Jon Favreau  Christopher Walken's distracting, tooAmerican voice for the Gigantopithecus (an extinct giant ape) King Louie. The story never runs deep, though. Mowgli's ingenuity—crafting a waterbowl or a vine-pulleyed hoist—seems at odds with his accidental burningdown of the forest after he'd been told of the dangers of mankind's "red flower" (fire). And the movie makes sure, in keeping with its cutesy-quotient (many shots of wolf cubs, a baby elephant's rescued, etc), not to ever show the red of blood. By the end, The Jungle Book starts to pad and slink along like a safari fantasy. BRIAN GIBSON

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REVUE // DOCUMENTARY

Requiem for the American Dream

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oam Chomsky's said to be the most -quoted or most-cited intellectual alive, the eighth-most quoted intellectual ever, etc. Such statistics miss the point—after all, reducing critical thinking to numbers can lead to the 30-second soundbites so often demanded of Chomsky. But in the long-form lecture-meets-interview doc Requiem for the American Dream, the Harvard professor's lucid, even pellucid, statements of matterof-fact political criticism are on shimmering display. The film tenders a somewhat simplistic, almost conspiracy-minded plan—10 "principles" for turning American democracy into a "plutonomy," concentrating wealth and power in the hands of the few. But the directors do bring to filmic life Chomsky's calm, composed talking-points—his measured, reasonable long-view of history and policy—with inventive framing of archival footage and coolly sharp images: animation using cutup bits of a $1 bill for each principle's title-card; aerial shots of financial districts; a silent drift past a busi-

ness meeting in a corner glass office; pans of shuttered homes. (The shots of such houses and Chomsky's point about citizens' movements reframed as dangerous special-interest groups recall Michael Moore's Reagan-era autopsy Roger & Me, with its eviction scenes and Flint-native Moore called a "private interest" by one GM spokesperson.) Chomsky draws on top-level documents (like the Powell memo), political philosophy (Adam Smith, Walter Lippmann), and officials' statements to make his case. He draws razorsharp lines from, say, corporations' exploitation of the 14th Amendment to be considered persons, through the 1976 Supreme Court determination that "money is free speech," to the Court's 2009 "Citizens United" decision (allowing unlimited corporate-funding of elections). Such reactions to moments of "significant democratization" (notably the '60s)—along with increased financialization of the economy, manufacturing migrated offshore, social-se-

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Sat, Apr 23 – Thu, Apr 28 Directed by Peter D Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P Scott Metro Cinema at the Garneau  curity defunded, union busting, and less state support for universities (thus skyrocketing student debt)— have reversed "civilizing effects," increased inequality and swelled the "precariat," bolstered the superwealthy and generally undermined American democracy. The film finishes, though, with a tribute to (and implied call for) collective activism. Requiem for the American Dream is a potent Panama Papers-era dissection of power and an eloquent elegy (Chomsky's now 87) for a thinker and critic whose incisive arguments, couched in reason but steeped in morality, have long been made in the service of the disempowered. BRIAN GIBSON

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PREVUE // WEB SERIES

Thu, Apr 28 (7:30 pm) Metro Cinema at the Garneau, $15 in advance, $20 at the door

Mental Case / I'm in Love with a Dead Girl

e talked about it for years, and in 2011, it came to the point: let's just do it," Brandon Rhiness recalls. "It's now or never, right? Let's just dive in, and figure out how to make a comic." Which is exactly what he and collaborator Adam Storoschuk did: they found an artist and produced their very first comic, Misfits. Another, Star Girl, followed that same year; now under the banner of The Higher Universe Comics, they're producing seven ongoing series, with 18 issues out so far. But Rhiness' creativity started reaching beyond the medium: he wanted to return to film, something he'd dabbled with in the past. He started going to the Edmonton Filmmakers' Group meetings, which is where he met Afton Rentz, a fight choreographer look-

ing for projects that would let her put that skillset to good use—"Something where she had an excuse to fight in each episode," Rhiness notes. The result of their meeting is Mental Case, a DIY web series following a woman (played by Rentz) with a predilection for brawling and a questionable state of mind. (There's a Mental Case comic now, too, in among the other Higher Universe titles.) Thursday will see a screening of two current episodes of Mental Case, plus another Rhiness-made short, I'm In Love With A Dead Girl, and a live fight demo by Rentz and her team, as a fundraiser: proceeds from the screening will all go back into future projects. Most immediately that means another episode of Mental Case. In ad-

dition to the screening, they're running another Indiegogoto to generate funding. Rhiness had a few reservations about returning to that type of fundraising so soon after the last time, but he's found a level of support he wasn't anticipating. "I figured it'd be a bit harder this time—you can't keep going back to the same family and friends and asking them for more money every time," he says. "But since [the last campaign], my network has grown way bigger, and people seem eager to help. ... I'll put it on Twitter, pitch what I'm doing, and complete strangers will be like 'Oh, that's great—here's $50.' Those little bits add up." PAUL BLINOV

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EFS Film Series: For Laughter's Sake

hen comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle took a fall in September 1921, it was no laughing matter. A fatal-rape allegation, after a San Francisco hotel party awash with bootlegged-alcohol, brought two hung-jury trials before the third ended with an acquittal and apology, but Arbuckle's career was ruined amid public outrage. Hollywood's self-policing Hays Code was established by decade's end. It lasted into the '60s, but cross-dressing comedy Some Like It Hot (1959)—kicking off Edmonton Film Society's series "For Laughter's Sake" on April 25—dealt a serious, cold blow to the code. Billy Wilder's classic, with musicians Joe/Josephine (Tony Curtis) and Jerry/ Daphne (Jack Lemmon) dragging it up to escape gangsters in Prohibition-era Chicago, sees the two (wo)men shoo away male suitors and Marilyn Monroe's Sugar Kane share a train berth with "Daphne," then recalling bedtime frolics with her sister for a titillated Jerry. Despite its release without Hays

Code approval, Some Like It Hot did boffo box-office, to the tune of $40 million. Lemmon riffed off that hot-to-trot character as Felix in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple (1968; May 16). His neatnik-ness struggles against the slobbishness of Oscar (Walter Matthau) as these new apartment-mates discover that two's a crowd. In the spinoff TV sitcom, Tony Randall was Felix but, nine years earlier, he'd played the Madison Avenue boss to Rock Hudson's ad-man, in torrid rivalry with Carol Templeton (Doris Day) in Lover Come Back (1961; May 30). Tony Curtis and Cary Grant man the Second World War submarinefarce Operation Petticoat (1959; May 2), featuring a misfired torpedo, pink warship and long-standing requisition for toilet paper (based on truth!). Howard Hawks' Ball of Fire (1941; May 9) culture-clashes encyclopediaresearching professors and a nightclub performer (Barbara Stanwyck).

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Flirting with Hays violations, Preston Sturges' screwball-comedy The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944; June 6) has small-town gal Trudy Kockenlocker confuse patriotism with promiscuity during the Second World War. Chicken-farmer tale The Egg and I (1947; June 13), adapting Betty MacDonald's hit memoir, hatched Universal's bankruptcy-saving (but hillbilly stereotype-perpetuating) Ma and Pa Kettle movie-series. And "For Laughter's Sake" ends with prickles meeting tickles in Cactus Flower (1969; June 20), starring Matthau, Ingrid Bergman and Goldie Hawn, who potted a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. BRIAN GIBSON

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EARNING EVERY PART

How Victoria's Aidan Knight let Each Other find its shape in the moment

think the chart was a bit of a— not a joke, but more of a wink," Knight says, almost sheepishly, over the phone. He's talking about a list of songs that was up in the studio while he and his band were crafting the album that's become Each Other: beside each track, the chart denoted the feeling each was trying to capture. "The five of us, coming together, and trying to come up with song ideas, we put together this chart as a style guide, or something like that," Knight continues. "So the whole collection of songs would fit together." They eventually abandoned it—"It wasn't a very strict list," he admits— but that sort of attention to detail is still evident in Each Other, Knight's third album, which finds him and his bandmates—drummer David Barry, bass player Colin Nealis, as well as

Olivier Clements and Julia Knight on keys—in fine form. It's a spacious, shifting album, one that lets its instrumentation both swell up in collective triumph and sink down to minimal sounds as need be. "We wanted every part to be so great, that if you took it away, the song just couldn't be as good," Knight says. "Each part had to deserve its place at the table; that was one of the most difficult parts of having those rules. ... That translated into, you didn't have to play at every moment of every song: if you wanted to be silent at a part because you thought that was of greater benefit to the song, that was always on the table as well. To be able to sit back and go: this section of the song is actually much better with this concise instrumentation, or

this part doesn't need to have a vocal overtop of it, so on and so forth." Taking that approach meant only about half the songs were finalized by the time the band went into the studio with producer Marcus Paquin— who's worked with the National and Stars, among myriad others, and who pushed the band towards making a live-off-the-floor recording. "When [Paquin] came out to Victoria to spend a couple days with us, to hear what we had been working on, I think he was concerned that we didn't have fully complete songs," Knight says. "And I completely understand—it's just not the way that I feel the most comfortable. Maybe this is something that will change, but it's not the way I operate the best in music. The thing that I love in music

is working on something that's very much teetering on the edge, barely held together, and it's not really fully formed, and the life hasn't been beaten out of a song by the time that I want to take it into the studio. "I'm not saying that there's not a way to make great records by going in and doing a lot of pre-production and thinking and a lot of setting it up," he continues. "But there's also something quite charging to me in making the musical idea happen in the moment: hitting record, and seeing what happens, and piecing together the ideas in that way. Which is not the very economical way of making records, and I fully get that. But it just seems like a more human expression, if I can use that term. ... My attempt is to make something that is as unguarded and vulnerable as possible. And the way

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Laser

've always been attracted to warm sounds," Lisa Lobsinger offers, after a moment's reflection. "In high school, I played French horn. I always chose to sing alto when I'd sing in choir, because it's just a round sound." The same sentiment applies to the thermal washes of synthesizer that propel her band Laser's debut record, Night Driver. Lobsinger discovered them while learning how to use home recording software LogicPro; the cavalcade of dayglo synth sounds she uncovered in the program carried a certain gravitas for her. "To me, the record sounds quite cinematic, and I think it reminds me of my childhood," she says. "It reminds me of '80s movies." Hence the band name, too. But If Lobsinger's own name sounds familiar, there's good reason: her early 2000s were spent fronting Calgary's Reverie Sound Revue, and the band’s self-titled EP got noticed by Bro-

ken Social Scene keystone Brendan Canning. He subsequently recruited Lobsinger for Broken Social Scene's touring unit (she was here when the group played Red's years ago); later, she contributed to the band's fourth LP, Forgiveness Rock Record. After BSS wound down, Laser began to develop, albeit at a casual clip. Lobsinger started working on material, and brought in her partner Paul Pfisterer—of legendary Toronto cover band the Beauties—to help hone what she was developing. Then BSS's long-time sound engineer/member of Transistor Sound & Light Co Marty Kinack joined up on drums, which is when Laser started to go from informal creativity to something more tangible. "Once the songs started really developing, and once Paul and Marty were putting their parts on the songs, it really started to feel like a band,"

she says. "That's when we came up with the name Laser, and were like, 'Yeah, let's do this.' I also really love those guys, and love hanging out with them. We were like, 'We all play music. Why don't we just tour together? Go on tour-cations?'" Everything else followed a similar, friendly approach: Laser's first two gigs—the band bordered up to a five-piece for its live takes—were opening for friends' bands. But those friends' bands were Rhye and Stars, which made for a fairly auspicious debut: Laser's first-ever live gigs were in front of 900 and 1000 people, respectively. "They were huge shows—we were like, 'OK, here it goes!'" Lobsinger laughs. "But it felt really good. It was also nice just to play the short set, the opening slot, to be like, OK, we did that. Our second show was definitely better than our first."

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Sightlines

assettes, split seven-inches and even a floppy disk—all of these formats have been used to record Sightlines' music at one point or another. "That was kind of a joke," frontman Eric Axen chuckles about the aforementioned floppy disk. "When we put out a cassette a lot of people were like, 'Why tapes? Tapes are from the '90s,' And it was like, 'Oh, yeah? You think that's antiquated? Here's a three-and-a-half-inch floppy disk.' I've heard a couple people have loaded it, and computer geeks have loaded it and played it. The file is so awful, because it's so compressed." Joking aside, the decision to record singles on these formats was made

for economical reasons. The poppunk trio released its Summer EP in 2012, but recording a full-length album is an expensive undertaking, and the band chose to release a string of one-offs in the interim. Fast forward a couple of years, and Sightlines has completed its debut LP, North (which features nine new tracks and two new versions of older ones from a split with Crystal Swells), though naturally there'll be no CDs to be had—it's only available on vinyl or as a digital download. "In my mind it was an LP, and it had an A side and a B side. I could see it as a record," Axen explains. "I love cassettes; I love doing cassette EPs—I have a tiny cassette label—

but if something is conceptualized artistically as an LP and I settle for a cassette or digital, I just feel like it never came out; it was never properly released, and I didn't want that to happen because I'm pretty proud of this record." It makes sense, then, that Axen and his bandmates—bassist C A Chux and drummer Graeme McDonald— would want to carefully select how they chose to release North, particularly when you consider the album has essentially been several years in the making. The trio had all been involved with other bands within the Vancouver scene, and Axen started Sightlines as an outlet for songs he

was writing that didn't fit with his other groups. He notes it was originally intended to be a side project, but momentum picked up faster than he expected and he began to take it more seriously—despite some challenges working around everyone's other commitments. "To have only released an LP now says something about our scheduling because we write very quickly, and when we do things we are very active, but it's not uncommon for us to take six months off while someone else is completely away with another band," Axen explains. "Everyone's got other

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writer cliché," acknowledges Couture, who went through a separation and eventual divorce following The Living Record. "I didn't want it to be cliché, and I didn't want it to be sad ... God knows I love the sad breakup albums, where you just light a candle and sit in your living room and listen to that album. But I didn't want to make that: I wanted to make something that was upbeat and uptempo and that I would have fun making, and that would be fun to listen to."

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Christa Couture

great drag queen once told me that if you can't hide it, accessorize it," says Christa Couture with a warm laugh. Wise words, indeed, and ones the Vancouver-based singer-songwriter (originally from Edmonton) appears to have taken to heart with her newly adorned prosthetic leg. Couture, whose left leg was amputated above the knee during her teen years after a battle with cancer, never really hid the fact that she was an amputee, but it wasn't something she put on

display either. Earlier in her career, she didn't want to be known as "the girl with one leg," but a friend helped shift her perspective and embrace it. In fact, she now calls her madeover prosthesis her "new favourite accessory." "People used to just ask me, oh, what happened? Are you hurt? Why are you limping? And people were uncomfortable. Now people come up just to tell me it's beautiful," says Couture, whose prosthesis is wrapped in a vibrant floral-printed fabric. "They

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To that end, Long Time Leaving (which was produced with the help of Steve Dawson), is more about resilience and endurance than it is about dwelling on heartbreak and sorrow. Couture points out that the theme of loss hasn't left her work by any means, but a breakup reflects a different kind of loss—albeit still a difficult one—than what she's experienced in the past. But despite it being born from the end of a relationship, Long Time Leaving certainly fulfils Couture's goal of making a breakup record that defies the usual tropes: multifaceted melodies ranging from some Nashville-inspired twang to pop-tinged beats provide the backdrop for clever lyrics and creative storytelling, such as the musical-theatre inspired track "Zookeeper," which compares a couple receiving counselling to caged animals ready to pounce on one another. "I wanted to make something that would be a bit of a reprieve for me and that would just be fun to make," Couture notes. "It's not going to make me cry, it's not going to make the audience cry, and I hadn't really done that before. So as far as doing something different, it was at least going to be different for me." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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lthough their history seems quite straightforward on paper and in any interview they've ever granted, Toronto's raunchy dance-punk duo Death From Above 1979 still manage to project an air of mystery. After a five-year breakup, drummervocalist Sebastien Grainger and bassist-keyboardist Jesse F Keeler were surprised to find immense excitement and lingering support remained for the project. About a year into their reunion in 2012, the pair began to write new material, resulting in 2014's Physical World, which recently won them a Juno for Rock Album of the Year. Grainger trolled the Q & A period

at the Junos with AV Club jokes and sharp responses to innocent questions. Never ones to pander to the press, Grainger and Keeler have earned a small reputation for being difficult personalities. This degree of public difficulty was part of the reason for their original split, having spent too much time together on the roadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and Grainger admits the two still aren't the closest of friends. "Is it natural for grown adults to have best buds? I don't know if it is," he says. "As you get older you have different social priorities. We also, most of the time, live in different cities. I think the difference between the band now

and its infancy is that music is the only thing we come together and relate for. The one thing we have together is the music, and there doesn't need to be any other pressures. I think the music is a plausible-enough connection." Thankfully, breaking up their tour schedule and making room for their individual lives has done wonders for the duo's on-the-road dynamic. Although they may not be "best buds," it sounds like Grainger and Keeler are both handling DFA 1979's resurgence more gracefully, as a result. While Grainger would only say "not to give away too many details, but

there's a conversation to be had," when asked about a potential new album, he seems content to head out on the road again, especially to a particular local gun range. "We like to shoot guns at West Edmonton Mall. I think it's a good thing to engage in intellectually," he notes. "The first time I shot a gun at WEM, there was no violent idea in my mind, or nothing aggressive about it. It was just me engaging with a piece of technology that is very powerful. Then, after shooting, you can philosophize." And word to the wise, if you plan on attending any of DFA's upcoming

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shows, toss on a Canadian tuxedo to get sweaty in. "I think there's a rough-and-tumble working-class, kind of '70s leftover concept of what being Canadian is, internationally," Grainger explains. "Jeans on jeans. Denim on denim. It's a strong look. I would recommend not to clean it. Wear it with pride." BRITTANY RUDYCK

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ommon phrases recur when discussing the music of Edmonton ex-pat Shuyler Jansen. Genre-bending. Genre-hopping. Genre-mash-up. But these phrases seem over-stated while listening to his latest release, The Long Shadow, and especially when considering his musical roots. The Long Shadow is sometimes driving and loud, sometimes mid-tempo folk, and at many other times an eerily calm and atmospheric record, replete with sparse guitar work and Jansen's familiar voice paired with synth lines and other treatments washing over the album. As a member of revered Edmonton bands the Naked and the Dead and Old Reliable, Jansen cut his teeth both going to and playing shows that routinely gathered up any available miscreants around town, musical styling be damned. "Maybe it's just a 'being from Edmonton' thing," Jansen explains. "So much of our past is informed with— I mean, if you start with SNFU and then go through to Mac DeMarco or the latest biggest band to come out of Edmonton—all that stuff is really diverse in its ways, and the shows that we all grew up seeing would be a punk band, a metal band, a math-y kind of band, a songwriter—so for me it's not weird at all. But if you hand it off to some of the more traditional kind of people, and they're hoping

for a more straight-ahead kind of approach to it, maybe it seems strange. But I don't understand it either, because bands like Wilco have already knocked down those barriers again and again. I mean, John Cale was doing it in the '70s." The process of recording The Long Shadow involved gathering a pile of equipment and co-conspirators and heading to the isolation of a Wakaw, SK cabin in the dead of winter. The crew set up a makeshift studio with whatever could be transported from Edmonton's Riverdale Recorders, which was further augmented by long-time collaborator (and Deep Dark Woods band member) Chris Mason's rare microphone collection. Luckily, the cabin was already acoustically treated with "some shitty carpet and wood panelling." "It was sunny and beautiful, but there was a ton of snow," Jansen says. "The only people out there were icefishermen and people skidoo-ing on the lake. The band had all played together a lot before, so we were already pretty familiar with each other. Being away from the eighthour studio day and everyone being so relaxed made it happen pretty fast. And the way the cabin was laid out, we couldn't even see each other—the drums were in one room, I'd be up in the kitchen and Chris and

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Thu, Apr 28 (8:30 pm) The Almanac, $15 Paul [Rigby] would be down in these little camp-style bedrooms, so it was like being a teenager sitting in your bedroom and playing, but actually recording a record." The Long Shadow was produced by David Carswell of Vancouver's JC/ DC studios. It's a partnership that goes back years, and one born from Jansen's appreciation of having a new perspective on the material he writes. "John [Collins] and Dave have made lots of records, and they definitely love a whole other genre of stuff than I grew up listening to. They're really into Nick Lowe, Bryan Ferry, Steely Dan—it's not stuff I dislike, it's just stuff I didn't spend a lot of time listening too. Dave has a totally different perspective, which is a great thing to have as a musician, because if you have a whole bunch of people around you who are going to take you down the same road every time then you're probably just going to keep making the same record. That may lead to success, but it would lead me to be totally bored and want to kill myself," Jansen laughs. "I'd rather try to diversify things and strive for new things every time and not get stuck." JAMES STEWART

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Renaissance; 8:3010:30pm; $10 BLUES ON WHYTE Alex

Danita; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Doug Stroud

Zayas; 9pm

(country/pop/rock); 9pm

BOHEMIA Dead Honey, The

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Jake Buckley (blues/

BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; 7pm

Fridays

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro (country); Every Thu, 7pm; No minors

Y AFTERHOURS Freedom

Joe Satriani; 7pm (door), 9pm (show); Tickets start at $29.50

Dropouts, No Room for Subtlety; 8pm; $10 (door)

NEW WEST HOTEL Canadian

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Rain - A Tribute to the Beatles; 8pm; $40-$85

Bands every Sat; this week: Campfire Hero's

Jonathan Byrd, Corin Raymond; 8pm; $25 (general), $15 (student)

open stage; 7pm Happy Hour featuring The Steadies; 5:30pm

HORIZON STAGE The Contenders: Valdy and Gary Fjellgaard; 7:30pm; $35 (adults), $30 (students and seniors); Sponsored by Vue Weekly

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local

northlands.com

9pm

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu

GAS PUMP Saturday Jam;

3-7pm

Ritual (hard rock) with Tides of Kharon and guests; 8pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

Decoys (hard rock) with Redemption Sons and guests; 7pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door)

(folk/roots/world); 8pm; No minors

music; 9:30pm

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

MERCURY ROOM The

(folk/punk); 8pm; No cover FIONN MACCOOL'S– MAYFIELD Adam Holm

MERCURY ROOM Red Skull

night of D&B, jungle, dub, and bass; Every Thu, 9pm (runs until Apr 28); Free

Every Thu, 7-11pm

FIONN MACCOOL'S– DOWNTOWN Old Towns

the Project; No minors

EL CORTEZ Bombshelter: a

LIZARD LOUNGE Jam Night;

Spekters with guests Sound Bodacious; 4pm; No cover

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Live

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every

hosted by Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

LB'S PUB Paula Perro and

Thu; 7pm

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE

Rural Routes (folk); 9pm DV8 Colossal Empire

FESTIVAL PLACE Lizz Wright (jazz); 7:30pm; $48-$55

CAFE BLACKBIRD Michael Reinhart; 7:30pm; $6

Thu, 7:30pm; Free

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY The

DRUID IRISH PUB Live DJs;

Every Fri, 9pm

THE BUCKINGHAM Pretty Archie (bluegrass/country/ folk) with Grant Fuhry; 9pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door)

Karaoke; Every Thu, 7pm

CENTURY CASINO David James & Big River: A tribute to Johnny Cash; 5pm (door), 5:30pm (dinner), 7pm (show); $69.95 (dinner/show), $39.95 (show only); No minors

Presents: Hip Hop; 8pm; No minors

BRIXX BAR Rend with guests; 8pm (door), 8:30pm (show); $15; 18+ only

FIDDLER'S ROOST Acoustic

The Jealous Hearts; 4-6pm; No cover; All ages

Control Fridays with DJ Echo & Freshlan

Lakes EP release (alternative/rock) with We Were Friends and Evan Freeman with guests; 8pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door) Early: Happy Hour featuring Evan Freeman; 5:30pm • Later: Jeff Hendrick's Love Jones Band; 9pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

CASK AND BARREL Mariel &

Live music; Every Fri; Free BOURBON ROOM Live music

each week with a different band each week; 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm BRIXX BAR MSA's 7" Vinyl Split Release Party; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $10; 18+ only CAFE BLACKBIRD Helena

Magerowski; 8pm; $15 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK The

Ruminator's; 9pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Wow

country/folk); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Mike "The Party Hog" (blues/rock); 9pm TIRAMISU BISTRO Live

music every Fri with local musicians WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK Live Music

Fridays; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation YARDBIRD SUITE David

Friesen and Glen Moore; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $24 (member), $28 (guest)

Classical ROBERT TEGLER CENTRE– CONCORDIA Voicestra

Symphony Orchestra Mahler's 1st & Berlioz with Elizabeth Hoyt-Surdhar; 7:30pm WINSPEAR CENTRE

Hollywood: The Epics; 8pm; $24-$93

Amie Weyes and the Atta Boys; 8pm Hair of the Dog: Choir and Marching Band (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFE Christa

Coutoure with Tzadeka; 8:30-10:30pm; $10 BLUES ON WHYTE Alex

Zayas; 9pm BOHEMIA Sparrow Blue,

Forbidden Rhythm, 3 Brothers & A Bud and Darryl Matthews; 9pm BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB

Live music; Every Sat; Free BOURBON ROOM Live music

each week with a different band each week; 9pm BRIXX BAR Whale and The Wolf, Magik Spells, Savage Playground; 8pm (door), 8:30pm (show); $10; 18+ only THE BUCKINGHAM Ray Rocket (rock) with KJ Jansen and Ryan Dix; 8pm; $20 (adv) CAFE BLACKBIRD Kim Lesaca Group; 8pm; $10 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK The

Ruminator's; 9pm

NAKED CYBER CAFE Three Corners with Xiphias; 6:30pm; $9 (adv), $11 (door); 16+ only; cash event only NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Laser with Tropic Harbour and Lyra Brown; 8pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Early:

Saturday Country Jam (country); Every Sat, 3pm • Later: Silverado; 9pm ON THE ROCKS Chronic

Rock; 9pm PALACE CASINO Heather McKenzie Band; 9:30pm RENDEZVOUS PUB DiedRed,

Senient, The Press Gang, The Drop Outs RIVER CREE–The Venue

Cheap Trick; 7pm (door), 9pm (show); Tickets start at $39.50 SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Saturday Electric Blues Jam with Rotten Dan and Sean Stephens (blues); Every Sat, 2-6pm; No minors • Later: Danita; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Doug Stroud

(country/pop/rock); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Jake Buckley (blues/

country/folk); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Mike "The Party Hog" (blues/rock); 9pm SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder

Sparks K-DJ Show; 9pm-1am STARLITE ROOM Rockwell,

Truth, Skiitour; 9pm (door); $25; 18+ only TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE

Mikey Wong and his lineup of guest DJs YARDBIRD SUITE Brett

Hansen Trio featuring Mallory Chipman; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $16 (member), $20 (guest)

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

Open mic; 7pm; $2

(pop); 9pm

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MUSIC 23

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE

Hollywood: The Epics; 8pm; $24-$93

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace

APR/23 APR/29 SOLD OUT

APR/30

Sessions with Miss Mannered featuring Alt. Rock/Electro/Trash; Wooftop: Sound It Up! with DJ Sonny Grimezz spinning classic Hip-Hop and Reggae; Underdog: Hip Hop open Mic followed by DJ Marack

UBK PRESENTS THE FIRST ANNUAL FULLY FADED

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Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

THE COMMON Get Down

It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with Wright & Wong, Dane

W/ CADENCE & NATHAN

MAY/1

LIVENATION.COM PRESENTS

DRUID IRISH PUB Live DJs

MAGIC MAN & THE GRISWOLDS

every Sat; 9pm EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

Rotating DJs Velix and Suco; every Sat

W/ GUESTS

MAY/4

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

Wong every Sat THE STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

ANTI-FLAG

THE PROVINCIAL PUB

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

W/ GUESTS

MAY/6 MAY/7

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

SHREDMONTON METAL FESTIVAL AND CONFRENCE PRESENTS

Psyturdays: various DJs; 9pm

DISCIPLES OF POWER W/GUESTS

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

SHREDMONTON METAL FESTIVAL AND CONFRENCE PRESENTS

GOATWHORE

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,

W/GUESTS

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

Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am Y AFTERHOURS Release

APR/22

W/ ROCOCODE

THE FORGE PROUDLY BRINGS TO YOU

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

APR/23

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

WHALE AND THE WOLF W/ MAGIK SPELLS, SAVAGE PLAYGROUND

APR/27

THE STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

JPNSGRLS W/FINE TIMES & MORE

APR/28

THE FORGE PRESENTS

APR/29

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

BENDER

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

JFK’S BIRTHDAY & CHARITY SHOW FUNDRAISER FOR CHILDREN’S TUMOR FOUNDATION UNANNOUNCED SURPRISE LINE UP

APR/28

DUB KONTROLLA PRESENTS

AXH (TEMPA/WHEEL & DEAL/SUB.MISSION)

24 MUSIC

James & Big River: A Tribute To Johnny Cash; 5pm (door), 5:30pm (dinner), 7pm (show); $69.95 (dinner/show), $39.95 (show only); No minors DANCE CODE STUDIO

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

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

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

MON APR 25 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop: Metal Mondays

with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox BLUES ON WHYTE Wild T &

the Spirit; 9pm THE BUCKINGHAM Rockin' 4 Dollars (alternative/folk/ other/pop/rock); 9pm; $3 (door) FIDDLER'S ROOST Open

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

Stage; 7-11pm

Sacrilege Sundays: All metal all day

Rock Monday

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Classic NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Tribute to Joe Cocker Keep It Greasy; 9pm; $5

Happy Hour featuring Post Script; 5:30pm

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm

Boogie; 9pm

ON THE ROCKS Matt Blaid

ON THE ROCKS Killer

with guests; 9pm RICHARD'S PUB Mark

Ammar's Sunday Sessions Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm SANDS INN & SUITES Open

Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

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

Classical

NEW WEST HOTEL Boots &

Karaoke Monday PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild Rose Old Tyme

Fiddlers Association: Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm RED PIANO BAR Swingin'

Mondays; 8-11pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Monday Jam with $4 Bill; Every Mon, 8-11pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

ALL SAINTS' ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL Chronos Vocal

Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon

Ensemble presents The Simplest Way; 7:30pm

SIDELINERS PUB Singer/

OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE

Cosmopolitan Music Society with Edmonton Recorder Society and with Wednesday Band and Beginner+ Band; 2:30pm; $25

SUN APR 24

The World: Jubiloso! Bells; 3pm

BAILEY THEATRE–CAMROSE

ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Bach -

Hawaiian Dreamers; 9am2:30pm; By donation

REND

CENTURY CASINO David

ROBERT TEGLER CENTRE– CONCORDIA Ring Around

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Brunch:

APR/21

Zayas; 9pm

Saturdays

The Bailey Buckaroos; 2pm; $12

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

BLUES ON WHYTE Alex

Handel; 3pm

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

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy

Nest with DJ Blue Jay mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic

Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

DJs

TUE APR 26

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

BLUES ON WHYTE Wild T &

Main Floor: Soul Sundays

the Spirit; 9pm

cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHVRCH OF JOHN 10260-103 St, 780.884.8994, thechvrchofjohn. com COMMON 9910-109 St CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta, music.ualberta.ca DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall. com DRAFT COUNTRY NIGHT CLUB 12912-50 St NW, 780.371.7272, draftbargrill.com DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EL CORTEZ 10322-83 Ave NW, elcortezcantina.com EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE 10220-103 St NW, 780. 424.0077, yourgaybar.com FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557

FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN 10200-102 Ave FIONN MACCOOL'S–MAYFIELD 10813-170 St HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW, 780.433.5530, holytrinity.ab.ca HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage.com HUMMINGBIRD BISTRO CAFE 8336-160 Ave, 780.401.3313, hummingbirdbistro.ca IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St NW, 780.451.8825, kellyspubedmonton.com L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEDCOR THEATRE 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square LIZARD LOUNGE 11827 St. Albert Tr, 780.451.9180, facebook.com/ The-Lizard-Lounge MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, mcdougallunited.com MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

5-8pm

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

BRIXX BAR JPNSGRLS with

THE BUCKINGHAM

open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm

guests Fine Times; 8pm (door), 8:30pm (show); $15; 18+ only DRUID IRISH PUB Karaoke

Wednesdays DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed

Jonathan Becker and the North Fields (country/folk/ punk/rock) with Swear By The Moon and Old Towns; 8pm; $10 (door)

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Mother Cluckin’ Wednesdays

FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle

9:30pm

Jam Circle; 7:30-11:30pm

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy

Karaoke Kraziness with host Ryan Kasteel; 8pm2am

Bingo! Tuesdays GAS PUMP Karaoke;

9:30pm JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

George Thorogood and the Destroyers; 7:30pm; $35-$235 KELLY'S PUB Open Stage:

featuring host Naomi Carmack and guest; 9pm; No cover L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night

Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge NEW WEST HOTEL Boots &

Boogie; 9pm O’BYRNE’S Guinness Celtic jam every Tue; 9:30pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Crazy Dave's Rock & Roll Renegade Jam; 7:30pm YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

Session: Murray Wood Trio; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Eddie Lunchpail

spins alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic & euro; Every Tue ON THE ROCKS Turn't Up

GAS PUMP Karaoke;

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Early: Max Uhlich; 5:30pm • Later: Aidan Knight and

guests; 7pm; $18 (adv), $24 (door) • Then: Big Dreamer JamFeaturing Trevor McNeely; 8pm NEW WEST HOTEL Boots &

Boogie; 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 THE PROVINCIAL PUB

Karaoke Wednesday RED PIANO BAR Wed Night

Live: hosted by dueling piano players ROSSDALE HALL Little

Flower Open Stage since 1998; 8-11pm (door); no cover/donations SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

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

Tuesday

TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke;

WED APR 27

TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY Live music

BLUES ON WHYTE Jason

Elmore & the Hoodoo Witch; 9pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

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

9pm

Wednesday's; Every Wed

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Kevin Martin;

Every Wed

VENUEGUIDE 9910 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALL SAINTS' ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL 10035-103 St THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ARCADIA BAR 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ARDEN THEATRE 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1542, stalbert.ca/ experience/arden-theatre ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com THE AVIARY 9314-111 Ave, 780.233.3635, facebook.com/ arteryyeg BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523,

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Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE 8426 Gateway Boulevard O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PALACE CASINO 8882-170 St NW, 780.444.2112, palacecasino. com PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 ROBERT TEGLER CENTRE– CONCORDIA 7128 Ada Boulevard ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209-123 St NW ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St, 780.431.0091, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752,

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

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

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Kirk McHenry; Apr 21-23 • Bob Beddow; Apr 2830 • Paul Sveen; May 5-7

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Dustin Ybarra; Apr 20-24 • Harland Williams; Apr 28-May 1 • Funniest Person with a Day Job; May 3 • Ben Gleib; May 5-8 • Daren Carter; May 11-15

Connie's Comedy • Checkers/Good Buddy Lounge • With Dave Stawnichy and Brian Stollery • Apr 28, 7:30pm (dinner), 9pm (show) • Tickets available at Eventbrite

The Dating Game • On the Rocks, 11740 Jasper Ave • With Sterling Scott and The Nervous Flirts • May 1, 8pm

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou. DJ to follow • Every Sun, 9pm Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free

group. Topics change each month • 1st Tue, 7pm; each month

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

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

Footbridge Picnic and Protest • Cloverdale footbridge, Between Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards Parks • savethefootbridge.com • Picnic and protest to urge the city to pause and review the Valley Line LRT. Featuring food, entertainment and more • Apr 23, 12:30-3pm • Free

Fort Saskatchewan 45+ Singles Coffee Group • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

Habitat for Humanity Volunteer Information Night • Habitat for Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext. 236 • vbatten@hfh.org • 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

Lotus Qigong • 780.695.4588 • Downtown • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every Thu Monday Mingle • Hexagon Board Game

Groove every Wed; 9pm

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)

Groups/CLUBS/meetings

Nia Dance • Roots on Whyte, #305 8135-102

Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old

St • nianow.cm/lightwalker • 780.850.2757 • Combo of dance, yoga, martial arts • Every Mon until May 23, 6-7pm • Contact 780.850.2757 for cost and details

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy

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

Amnesty International Edmonton • 8307-109 St • amnesty@edmontonamnesty. org • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug, Dec) • Free

April Nerds Night Out • Brewsters in Oliver Square • An Edmonton designer and developer meet up that features networking, stories of experiences and catch up withanything new in the industry • Apr 21, 5:30-8:30pm

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

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

Community Drum Circle • Roots on Whyte, #305 8135-102 St • soundpeace@ outlook.com • No experience required. Everyone is welcome, all ages, all experience. Drum provided • Apr 21, 7-9pm • $15 (door), $5 (if guests bring their own drum)

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

Drop-In D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • An epic adventure featuring a variety of pre-made characters, characters that guests can make on their own, or one that has already been started. Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc. For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue, 7pm • $5

Edmonton Atheists • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • edmontonatheists.ca • Monthly roundtable discussion

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

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

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

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

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

LECTURES/Presentations The Efficacious Habit of Sages-An Exploration of the Chinese Character Wu • Roots on Whyte # 305- 8135-102 St • Learning how to effectively move the energy in your body and express the vital energy within • Apr 21, 7-9pm • Free

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

Groundbreaking Food Gardening • Central Lions Seniors Recreation Centre, 11113113 St NW • 780.456.3324 • edmontonhort.com/ speakers/april-2016 • Niki Jabbour, author of the award winning The Year Round Vegetable Gardener and the recently released Groundbreaking Food Gardens, for a talk that showcases just how easy it is to grow more food • Apr 25, 6:15pm (door), 7:30-9pm (lecture) • $10 (non-members of Edmonton Horticultural Society)

Haunted Edmonton • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave • paranormalexplorers.com • thewitcherymarket.com • Paranormal Rona–an experienced paranormal investigator, rescue medium and member of the Paranormal Explorers from Edmonton–will tell all about the dark history of Edmonton • Apr 30, 4-5pm • Free Regulatory Scrutiny of Mergers and Acquisitions in the EU and Canada • Room TELUS 134, Telus Centre,

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

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

Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 1022597 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

Serenity/Firefly board game day with the Alberta Browncoats • Happy Harbor, 10729-104 Ave • Featuring various board games based on Firefly, such as Firefly: the Game, Shiny Fluxx, Firefly Clue, Tall Card (the game from the show) and many more • Apr 23, 12-4pm

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

University of Alberta • eucentre.ualberta.ca • A lecture that examines and explains the European Commission’s scrutiny of big M&A in Europe and compares this to regulatory developments in Canada with a focus on the recent acquisition of Talisman Energy by Spain’s Repsol • Apr 21, 5-6:30pm • Free

Spiritual Café • Strathcona Branch, Edmonton Public Library, 8331-104 St • 780.490.1129 • spiritualexperience.org • Past lives, dreams and soul travel, spiritual discussion and tea • Apr 30, 1-3pm

Study and Go Abroad Fair Fall 2016 • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • info@studyandgoabroad.com • studyandgoabroad.com • Featuring top-ranked universities from around the world, undergrad and postgrad degree programs, scholarship tips and info and much more • Apr 25, 1-5pm

TRC & You: Art as Expressions of Truth & Reconciliation • Main floor atrium, Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave • 780.248.1217 • macrae@ualberta.ca • metislifeskills.com/lunchtime-series • Dr. Diana Steinhauer will share insight into the artistic work of stone-carver Stewart Steinhauer • Apr 22, 121pm • Free (register at Eventbrite)

Ukrainian Cinematography, Dovzhenko's "ZEMLIA" • ACUA Art Gallery & Artisan Boutique, 9534-87 St • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts.ca • acuarts.ca • The topic of the film is the period of collectivization in Ukraine at the end of the 1920s • Apr 22, 6-8:30pm • $10 (member), $15 (non-member)

We Can Do It Workshops • Grow Centre, 10516-82 Ave • contactseeds@shaw. ca • fertilityawarenesschartingcircle.org • Part of a series on Women's Health. Schedule: How to Personalized PMS Survival Strategies (Apr 21), Preparing for Pregnancy (May 26) • Apr 21, May 26; 6:30-8:30pm • Suggested donation $10 (can be waived in case of financial necessity); Preregister at contactseeds@shaw.ca

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

Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Mon: Drag Race in the White Room; 7pm • Wed: Monthly games night/trivia • Thu: Happy hour, 6-8pm; Karaoke, 7-12:30am • Fri: Flashback Friday with your favourite hits of the 80s/90s/2000s; rotating drag and burlesque events • Sat: Rotating DJs Velix and Suco • Sun: Weekly drag show, 10:30pm G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, Or in confidence one-on-one in the Craft Room • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance. One-onone meetings are also available in the craft room • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net

Illusions Social Club • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • pridecentreofedmonton.org • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7-9pm Pride Centre of Edmonton • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Drop in hours: Mon, Wed 4-7pm; Fri 6-9pm; Closed Sat-Sun and Holidays • Trans* Youth Group: Support, discussion, and networking group for trans* and questioning youth; 3rd Mon each month, 7-9pm • JamOUT: Music mentorship and instruction for youth aged 12-24; Every other Tue, 7-9pm • Equal Fierce Fit & Fabulous: recreational fitness program, ages 12-24; every other Tue, 6-8pm, every other Tue • Queer Lens: weekly education and discussion group open to everyone; every Wed, 7-8:30pm • Mindfulness Meditation: open to everyone; every Thu, 6-6:50pm • Men's Social Circle: A social support group for all male-identified persons over 18 years of age in the LGBT*Q community; 1st and 3rd Thu each month; 7-9pm • WoSC (Women's Social Circle): A social support group for all female-identified persons over 18 years of age in the GLBT community; 2nd and 4th Thu of the month; 7-9pm • TTIQ (18+ Trans* Group): 2nd Mon of the month, 7-9pm • Art & Identity: exploring identity through the arts, a wellness initiative; Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Edmonton Illusions: cross-dressing and transgender group 18+; 2nd Fri of each month, 7-9pm • Movies & Games Night: Every other Fri, 6-9pm • ALL Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8648-81 St; An opportunity for people to swim in a safe space whether trans, non-binary, scarred, differently abled, or any body that finds regular swimming space uncomfortable. Note: change rooms and bathrooms will be gender neutral; 3rd Sat of the month, 9:30-10:30pm; $5 (suggested donation) • Thought OUT: Altview’s all-ages discussion group; every Sat, 7-9pm • Polyamory Edmonton: Community social group; 3rd Sat of the month, 1-3pm • Seahorse Support Circle: facilitated meet up for families with trans and gender creative kids aged 5-14; 2nd Sun of the month, 3-5pm • ReachOUT: Just For Men: peer facilitated wellness support group for GBT (male identified) people; 3rd Sun of the month, 3-5pm • Men Talking with Pride: Social discussion group for gay and bisexual men; Every Sun, 7-9pm • Pagan Women’s Group: 1st Sun of every month, 2-5pm

St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) Team Edmonton • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • Swimming: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • Water Polo: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • Yoga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • Taekwondo: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • Abs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu,

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7:15-8:15pm • Dodgeball: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • Running: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • Spin: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• Volleyball: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • Meditation: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:30-6:15pm • Board Games: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per month, 3-7pm • All Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8468-81 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave

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

SPECIAL EVENTS Cash Mob Edmonton • Mercer Warehouse, 10363-104 St • Guests will be able to watch makers create their wares in Vacancy Hall and take home an incredible keepsake, tour Startup Edmonton and more • Apr 23, 12-4pm • Mobbers are asked to bring $20, a tote bag and friends

Community Clothing Swap • Variant Edition Comics, 102-10441-123 St • 780.452.9886 • variantedmonton.com • Guests may bring in items that they no longer want or need, and help others nab things they’ve been searching for • Apr 24, 12-5pm • Free

Edmonton Tattoo & Arts Festival • Edmonton Expo Centre, 7515-118 Ave • albertatattooshows.com • Over 200 of the best local and international artists will be on hand for Edmonton’s largest tattoo expo yet! Entertainment, contests, seminars, retail and tattooing happening all weekend long. Special guests include artists from Ink Masters • Apr 29-May 1 • $25 (general), $50 (weekend pass)

E-Ville Roller Derby Presents: Spring Slam • Edmonton Sportsdome, 10104-32 Ave NW • eville.publicrelations@gmail. com • e-villerollerderby.com • Guests can watch Berzerkhers face off against the Las Pistolitas • Apr 30, 7-9:30pm • $10 (adv at Mars & Venus, Brown Paper Tickets), $15 (door)

Hand2Hand Mothers Day Market • Whitemud Creek Community League, 951 Ogilvie Blvd NW • hand2hand.ca • Featuring 43 local premium handmade artisans representing their designs: pottery, artwork, cards, jewelry, wood work and more • Apr 30, 10am-3pm • Free Kidney Run & Walk • ACT Centre in Rundle Park • kidney.ab.ca • A 2 km walk or 5 km/10 km run • May 1, 9:30am Run Wild or Walk for Wildlife • John Janzen Nature Centre, 7000-143 St NW • wildlifeedm.ca/events • An annual walk/run to raise funds for injured wildlife • Apr 24, 10am-2pm • Register online at events.runningroom.com

Spring Into Sprinkles 5 k Fun Run • Rundle Park, 2909-113 Ave • springintosprinkles. com • A family oriented 5km fun run/walk around Edmonton’s beautiful Rundle Park. For all ages • Apr 30, 10am-12pm • $40 (portion of the proceeds will go towards opening a Girls on the Run Council); register at Running Room website)

Ukrainian Wedding Fair • St. Andrews Ukrainian Orthodox Cultural Centre, 9831-75 St • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts.ca • acuarts. ca • Featuring workshops, lectures, vendor marketplace and food • Apr 15-22

Walk for Water • Aveda Edmonton Salon, 10632 Whyte Ave • 416.532.9035 • collegaearthmonth.com/walk-for-water • A 6 km walk symbolic of the average distance women and children walk everyday in rural, developing cities worldwide to collect water • Apr 25, 9-11am

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

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The Big, Big Portrait Show Calling all artists! We're ﬁlling our Naess Gallery walls, ﬂoor to ceiling, with portraits. Our goal is 100+ paintings. The exhibition will be promoted as an event during the famous Whyte Avenue Art Walk. Process couldn't be easier: Get a 12x12" canvas here, paint any portrait you want on it, bring it into The Paint Spot before Canada Day! Further information at The Paint Spot, 10032 81 Avenue, Edmonton, or e. accounts@paintspot.ca or p. 780.432.0240. Show runs July 7 – August 23. Please join us!

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): "The writer should never be ashamed of staring," said Aries writer Flannery O'Connor. "There is nothing that does not require his attention." This is also true for all of you Aries folks, not just the writers among you. And the coming weeks will be an especially important time for you to cultivate a piercing gaze that sees deeply and shrewdly. You will thrive to the degree that you notice details you might normally miss or regard as unimportant. What you believe and what you think won't be as important as what you perceive. Trust your eyes. TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): The ancient Greek geographer Pausanias told a story about how the famous poet Pindar got his start. One summer day, young Pindar decided to walk from his home in Thebes to a city 20 miles away. During his trek, he got tired and lay down to take a nap by the side of the road. As he slept, bees swarmed around him and coated his lips with wax. He didn't wake up until one of the bees stung him. For anyone else, this might have been a bother. But Pindar took it as an omen that he should become a lyric poet, a composer of honeyed verses. And that's exactly what he did in the ensuing years. I foresee you having an experience comparable to Pindar's sometime soon, Taurus. How you interpret it will be crucial. GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): "I measure the strength of a spirit by how much truth it can take," said philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Measured by that standard, your strength of spirit has been growing—and may be poised to reach an all-time high. In my estimation, you now have an unusually expansive capacity to hold surprising, effervescent, catalytic truths. Do you dare invite all these insights and revelations to come pouring toward you? I hope so. I'll be cheering you on, praying for you to be brave enough to ask for as much as you can possibly accommodate. CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): Göbekli Tepe was a monumental religious sanctuary built 11 600 years ago in the place we now call Turkey. Modern archaeologists are confounded by the skill and artistry with which its massive stone pillars were arranged and carved. According to conventional wisdom, humans of that era were primitive nomads who hunted animals and foraged for plants. So it's hard to understand how they could have constructed such an impressive structure 7000 years before the Great Pyramid of Giza. Writing in National Geographic, science journalist Charles C Mann said, "Discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Göbekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a

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: I'm a 50-something woman who has been happily married for over 20 years. Over time, sex has become a chore akin to grocery shopping, and I rarely orgasm anymore. I believed this was normal, so I was content. However, I recently reconnected with an old friend and have discovered that my libido is not dead, just sleeping. I would like to rekindle my sex life, and I know that working on my marriage (versus an affair) is the mature thing to do. It's also the more difficult thing to do. I spoke to a psychologist who recommended I focus on my career, and my doctor gave a prescription for hormone pills. No help at all! I need to start a conversation with my husband ... but where to start? Do I tell him that I'm attracted to another man? That our sex life hasn't been good for years? Do we need a marriage counsellor? Please advise!

: Like many things in life, libido and sexual pleasure will wax and wane, influenced by myriad physiological, relational, emotional and practical factors. In that sense, you are absolutely correct that your sexual stagnation is "normal." You're also correct that working on your relationship is harder than having sex with someone new—though I assure you that while easier in the short term, an affair often comes with substantial work in the long run. Since your hope is to revive your sex drive in your marriage, then a conversation with your husband will likely be necessary. But before you speak with him, think about the issues at play: clarification will prompt you on how to best approach it. Usually the obvious issues relate to health and lifestyle. You've seen a physician, so I'm going to assume you're OK in that department. As for your

daily life, are there any impediments or stressors that get in the way of sexy feelings? If there are, then a first step might be developing strategies to minimize those obstacles. Another common culprit of lost drive is habituation. Not unlike alcohol tolerance, after time we require more stimulation to achieve the same degree of arousal or pleasure response. Introducing novelty into the partnership is a great way to get the gears turning again. This might include switching up the sex schedule, being a bit more spontaneous, introducing toys or sex play, or just making a conscious effort to make sex fun again. As an aside, the novelty effect is often the cause of renewed sexual interest with a new partner—meaning that over time, it will likely wane too. A factor that's often more challenging to evaluate is the overall health of the relationship. There can be insidious,

often unconscious resentments that interrupt intimacy. Some common complaints include unequal distribution of labour, feeling unimportant/ unheard/unappreciated, feeling pressured sexually, reduced physical attractiveness—the list could go on forever. While couples therapy would be helpful in addressing any of the above issues, it is particularly useful if you highlighted relationship concerns. Sex can be a sensitive subject and egos are easily bruised. For that reason, you probably shouldn't lead with: "I still get horny—just not for you." In fact, I'd leave the other man out of it all together. I'd also avoid making any harsh statements about the sex not being "good" as that's likely to get a shut-down or defensive response. Instead, invite the conversation by asking how he's been feeling about your sex life—who knows, maybe he's on the same page. When it comes

back to you, start by stressing your love for him before gently expressing that you haven't enjoyed sex as much in recent years, and then implore him to help you make it great again. Warmly emphasizing the mutual benefit is a nice way to gain compliance for what might be a difficult journey. If he's on board, then you can share what you've already figured out to be factors and work together to strategize solutions—possibly with the help of a couple's therapist.V Tami-lee Duncan is a Registered Psychologist in Edmonton, specializing in sexual health. Please note that the information and advice given above is not a substitute for therapeutic treatment with a licensed professional. For information or to submit a question, please contact tami-lee@vueweekly.com. Follow on Twitter @SexOlogyYEG. Dan savage savagelove@vueweekly.com

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I've been aware of my emetophilia since a very young age and have always kept it private. No need to tell me about the health risks, I'm aware, and I've only ever indulged this kink through videos online. The actual substance doesn't turn me on—I have no desire to be puked on. For me, the fantasy involves being with someone as they begin to feel sick, and then taking care of them as they puke. It has something to do with the buildup and release. Who knows? I'm married, and I told my husband about my kink exactly once, a few years ago. He wasn't judgmental, but he never brought it up again. We have a great sex life otherwise, and I've always assumed I'd have satisfying, normal sex with my husband and masturbate to this kink in private. But recently, on a whim, I posted a message on a kink site. A few weeks later, a guy reached out to say the description exactly mirrored his own kink. We've been texting for a few weeks. He makes me feel like less of a freak, it's been super hot, and we've talked about meeting up and roleplaying for each other. It makes me go crazy just to think about this. In light of the health risks—and the fact that I'm married—this would be a one-time thing. Do I have to tell my husband? I don't want to have sex with this person; I just want to live out my fantasy for one night, which doesn't necessarily involve getting naked. But obviously we will both get off, so there's a definite sexual element. My husband and I have had threesomes, so he's not a "strictly monogamous" guy, but it is new for me to strike out on my own. But more than that, I'm mortified at the thought of him knowing about the kind of night I'm having, asking me about it later, etc. I would just rather him not know. But is that cheating?

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So you could make—as I've just made—an argument for sparing your husband the reminder, and sparing yourself the discomfort, by not telling and/or asking him, and then discreetly meeting up with your VB just this once. (The counterargument is also easily made: he never brought it up again because he picked up on your shame, he didn't want to distress you, etc.) But if you decide to meet your VB, ALEMHM, weigh the risks (what happens if you get caught?) against the rewards (scratching this off your kidney dish list!), meet up with your

Propose to him, RINGS. Don't informally propose a formal proposal— don't ask him to ask you to marry him—but go get a ring (for him) and ask him to marry you (for fuck's sake). You have the power to pop the question and call it at the same time. Good luck; I hope he says yes.

The answer to your last question— is that cheating?—is obvious. If that wasn't cheating, ALEMHM, or if you thought your husband wouldn't regard it as cheating, you would be asking him for permission to meet up FINDING REAL SUPPORT with your vomit buddy. So let's just I met a man two and a half years ago run with the assumption that getting on Tinder. Our relationship was built together with your VB would constion lies from the start. I lied to him tute infidelity, if the low-grade, nonabout having a child so I could put a penetrative, not-for-everyone kind. wedge between us. I came clean after So do you have to tell your huswe slept together band? You could a few times— tell your husthe most band—and mind-blowing lots of peoIf your husband worked at stuffing your disclosex I've ever ple will insist sure down the memory hole, because it interferes had—because you must tell with his ability to connect with you sexually, askI was afraid your hushe might band—but ing permission to spend an evening with your VB want to meet I'm sitting could come as an unwelcome reminder my made-up here, in this child. I caught Starbucks on feelings. But Lex and 78th, wondering if your husband would VB in public first, and let someone Tinder man is married and lives in know where you are and who you're France. I see him only three times a rather not be told. year. Fast-forward to now. He purYou shared your kink with your hus- with on the big night. sues other people. Women throw band once, and he never brought it themselves at him. We were at the up again. We can reasonably assume POPPING THE QUESTION that your husband isn't interested in I find myself in the most boring of mall, and he picked up a girl while discussing, much less indulging, this straight white girl pickles: my boy- I was getting my hair done. He's not very particular sexual interest of friend is dragging his feet on propos- my boyfriend. He hurts me. I am teryours. Another reasonable assump- ing. I'm 29 and he's 31. We've been dat- rified of losing him. Here comes the tion: your kink may not be some- ing for three years. Things are great. tricky part: my doctor found a tumor thing your husband wants to think We talk about our future a lot—buy- on my lymph nodes. I go in for tests about. The awareness of your kink, ing a house, vacations, blah blah blah. on Friday. I'm ready to pick out my to use Emily "Dear Prudence Emeri- Lack of proposal aside, we're solid. coffin at this point. I contacted my tus" Yoffe's phrase, could be a libido But I would hate to waste another lover's ex-wife and asked why they killer for him. If your husband worked year in this city for this guy when I divorced, and she said because he at stuffing your disclosure down the could have been working toward ten- cheated all the time. I know what he's memory hole, because it interferes ure somewhere else. (I'm in academia.) capable of. I don't want to change with his ability to connect with you I've tried bringing this up to him sev- him. I love him. I go insane when we don't talk. He told me he doesn't resexually, asking permission to spend eral times with no concrete results. spect me any more than he respects an evening with your VB could come Really Into Not Going Solo his current wife. I'm so scared. as an unwelcome reminder. VUEWEEKLY.com | apr 21 – apr 27, 2016

Help Me Please Um … you won't find the help you need wedged between escort ads at the back of a weekly newspaper, HMP, or on a website underneath pop-up ads for vaporizers. You need a therapist, someone who can help you work through legitimate-butpossibly-premature fears for your health (let's wait for those test results to come back before we pick out your coffin, OK?) and your emotional dependence on a man who isn't your boyfriend, isn't your husband, isn't around much and has told you he doesn't respect you. He's not the kind of guy who's going to come through for you during a health crisis—that guy couldn't come through for you during a haircut. Don't get me wrong: I sleep with men, I understand the sexual appeal of a man who treats you like shit, I'm a huge Peggy Lee fan (youtube.com/ watch?v=QBsEH9q63Uk). But you can't depend on a guy like that at a time like this. If it turns out you're seriously ill, HMP, you need to lean on family and friends, join a support group, buy one of those vaporizers, and concentrate on getting healthy. And take comfort: if/when your health is restored, there are plenty of shitty, selfish, sadistic guys on the planet who'll treat you badly, cheat on you flagrantly and—not coincidentally—get you off spectacularly. I'm sorry you may be ill, HMP, and I'm sorry you're scared. Best wishes for a speedy physical, emotional and sexual recovery. On the Lovecast, the live Q&A from Madison! Listen at savagelovecast. com. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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