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Protecting and accessing Alberta’s archival information can be a tricky prospect in rural locales

he building that houses Wetaskiwin’s archives is up for sale—a move by the city that concerns historians in the region, and shows the fragility of these institutions and their historic documents.

The City of Wetaskiwin began

selling the building earlier this year. The structure, which has a temperature and humiditycontrolled vault, contains old copies of newspapers and obituaries, school, tax, cemetery and church records, along with more than 600 feet of archival mate-

rial. Some of these documents can be more than 100 years old.

According to Alice Hoyle, research committee member with the Wetaskiwin Branch of the Alberta Genealogical Society, the city has no firm plans on the collection’s future.

“It’s just been very up in the air ... That’s sort of an iffy proposition,” she says.

“The impact, if any, on the archives if and when the building is sold is unknown at this point,” says Lucien Cloutier, Wetaskiwin’s city clerk in an email.

The documents could be digitized and put online, but that process has yet to start and there’s always the question of the cost and time associated with the process.

Sometimes scanning documents in can result in errors in the copies, as mistakes get made during the process. In some cases, scanning can destroy the original, and Wetaskiwin currently has no plans on where aged, original copies will reside, Hoyle says. Further, she suggests online copies are not entirely secure and safe from deletion, and some of the people who donated their personal documents may not want them made available online.

“If you destroy the originals, they’re gone forever. If (scanning them) isn’t done properly, then it’s gone,” Hoyle says, adding that the genealogical society has actively petitioned the city and other groups to save the archives.

Losing these documents would be a hit for the organization, but would also harm those who donated to the archive, many of whom thought that their donations would be safe in the facility, Hoyle adds.

“It is very rare for a city of our size to even have a local archives, so it should be considered an asset, not a burden,” says the city’s archivist Rachel Knudsen.

As it stands, there is no provin-

cial law that protects archives from closure. According to Beryl Cullum, spokesperson with Alberta Culture and Tourism, municipalities handle local archives, while the province handles the Provincial Archives of Alberta, which also collaborates with its municipal counterparts.

“While we advocate for the preservation of valuable historic records and documents, it is a local decision to create or close a community archives,” she says, adding the province also sends annual funding to the Archives Society of Alberta (ASA).

According to Rene Georgopalis, the ASA’s executive director, some archives are protected by legal issues that demand their continued preservation.

For example, sometimes donors only give their documents under the stipulation that the city will keep them safe.

Archives closing or moving is not terribly common in Alberta, though it does happen, Georgopalis says. Recently a church archive in Edmonton went bankrupt, for instance.

According to Georgopalis, the coverage of archives in Alberta is good, but somewhat “ad hoc,” and there are many towns without dedicated archives.

Areas with low population density—like communities in northern Alberta—usually rely on country archives or the provincial archive, which may not have all the information about smaller municipalities.

“It’s not like someone was clever enough to have a grand plan and ensure that all areas are documented,” she says.

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Straight white people don’t have the best track record with prejudice, but everyone else has work to do as well

ast year, North America’s first openly gay Imam Daayiee Abdullah officiated an interracial marriage at the Islam and LGBTQ2S+ Muslims Conference at MacEwan University.

Some critics spurned this marriage between opposite-gender spouses of the same religion simply on the basis of their skin colour.

While many white people, both male and female, hold prejudices against relationships of this kind, non-white and LGBTQ2S+ people can also be guilty of viewing relationships through an entirely physical lens.

Several gay men of colour have written articles on racism in the gay community. Often the complaint is that gay white men avoid people of colour on ‘dating’ sites like Grindr. Such articles often allude to the “no fats, no fem, no Asian” clause in profiles. Alternatively, the com-

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plaint is that ethnic and racial groups like Arabic, black, and Asian people are often objectified as exotic.

The concern, therefore, is about experiencing no attention or receiving too much attention for the wrong reasons. The entire onus in such a narrative is placed on the white gay man to unlearn his racism. Such an approach places the responsibility on the other to check racism, whereas it ignores the responsibility to check within for internalized racism.

Often, those writing articles of this sort are venting frustrations that despite having “hard bodies,” and attractive features, they are unable to forge a personal relationship with white gay men. However, we have to distinguish between racist bigotry and honest, respectful communication of one’s libido and attraction. Indeed, just as

there are people of colour who feel more attracted to their own racial type on account of familiarity and values, so it is true for white gay men.

Preferences can be shaped by pornographic media and fashion displays, which predominately consist of white male models, but this affects both white and people of colour. Therefore, it is not unusual to observe many personal ads of gay men of colour who explicitly seek a ‘white boyfriend.’ This means where we address systemic racism, we must also address internalized racism.

Additionally, what is to be expected from sites like Grindr that are noted for headless torso shots and gratuitous dick pics? There is actually a picture of Kermit the Frog exposing his hind-side that is sometimes captioned as the average Grindr experience.

Such a culture of hookups is not restricted to gay men and permeates society at large, as noted through the College Humour video, “Tinderella: A Modern Fairy Tale.” In other words, the culture of rights but no personal responsibility leads to a disposition of entitlement wherein others are objectified and diminished to body parts, and physical attributes. Such a heightened sense of entitlement allows for unsolicited ‘dick pics’ and even harassment through the medium of ‘sexting.’

This is a general phenomenon that cannot be blamed squarely on the white gay man.

Indeed, many people of colour are complicit in perpetuating such a trend through their own contributions. Prizing the exterior, they too objectify the white man to the exclusion of other races including their own.

Such a predilection is based on a

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deep-rooted racism or inferiority complex where the white male is viewed as the blueprint for attractiveness.

While public discourse often focuses on the racism of the white male, it is important to nuance the discourse with the racism of people of colour. This is especially true as the Canadian milieu increasingly becomes more racially and ethnically diverse.

Such a discourse would include anti-blackness within Middle Eastern and Asian communities.

In essence, as they lead the battle cry against racism, it is important for gay people of colour to also look within for their own fetishization of pale skin, and blue eyes. The argument is simple: the instance of pointing a finger at the other should also remind one that three fingers point towards oneself for personal accountability and responsibility.

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HALAL BEEF OFFERS NEW MARKET FOR ALBERTA

Province’s ministry of agriculture and forestry keen on exporting beef given Islamic seal of approval

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he world’s halal market could be a new frontier for the province’s cattle ranchers, according to Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. Halal, which means “permitable” according to the Qur’an, is a designation and means of preparation that, so far, has seen little attention in Alberta’s beef industry. However, Grant Winton, unit manager with the province’s ministry of agriculture, says demand for halal beef, both at home and abroad, will likely change this.

“We’re always looking for new opportunities for Albertan ranchers, producers, and exporters,” Winton says, adding that the province regularly sends its staff abroad to tout Alberta-made products in international markets. “We have quite a good reputation around the world for the quality of our beef. This is one more way of building our profile.”

How much Alberta beef ends up in, say, the Middle East, Malaysia, and Indonesia, however, comes down to a matter of demand. In its ideal form, getting into these markets could represent a “massive” increase in revenue for the province, Winton says.

In 2015, the largest buyers of Alberta beef, in order, are The United States of America (166,074 tonnes), China (29,749 tonnes), Mexico (17,836 tonnes), and Japan (9,799 tonnes).

In 2016, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency mandated that, in order for food to be sold with a halal label, an outside agency with experience in the field must be present on-site to certify it, such as the Alberta Halal Monitoring and Certification Council.

Imad Kaddoura, director at Edmonton’s Al Rashid Mosque agrees with the department’s assessment, stating that global and domestic halal markets grow every year, and

offer a great opportunity for Albertan and Canadian beef producers.

According to Kaddoura, the global market for halal products is around $3 trillion USD. Other sources online suggest different numbers, but they all tend to be in the millions or billions.

Additionally, this market includes things like candy, clothing, finance, travel, pharmaceuticals, and other goods and services one might not think of.

“Most people think halal only relates to meat. That could not be further from the truth,” he says.

The number of people who follow Islam is also increasing both abroad and across Canada, and non-muslims are adopting the halal standard in some ways, he says.

For a product to be deemed halal, it must be made with certain specifications. In the case of beef, this, in short, boils down to a set of standards surrounding how a producer kills a cow. According to Kaddoura, the animals must be treated humanely, kept in a healthy and clean environment, and, when it comes time for their slaughter, a clean and sharp knife must be used to minimize pain.

“Animals should not be slaughtered in front of other animals ...

They should not be abused. They

should not be handled roughly,” he says. “When it comes time for slaughter, an animal should not be thirsty. It should not be hungry.

The animal should never be treated in any bad way, shape , or form.”

Similarly, there are specifica-

tions on the exact part of the cow’s throat that should be slit to reduce the amount of blood leftover in the cow’s body, and to reduce the pain the animal feels during the process.

“The person slaughtering the

animal should also say some verses from the Holy Qur’an, or say ‘This is in the name of God,’” Kaddoura says.

“When slaughter is done with halal standards, it is in line with Alberta’s animal welfare and traceability guidelines,” Winton said.

Around 25 years ago, when Kaddoura and his wife first moved to Edmonton, there were only a handful of specialty shops that sold halal meat. Now, however, most major grocers stock halal products, and the number of butchers that offer halal meat has increased. The same goes for restaurants.

“The mainstream industry is warming up and adopted halal because they can see the potential of this market,” Kaddoura says.

According to Thomas LynchStaunton, government relations manager with Alberta Beef Producers, there is indeed a growing market for halal meat around the world, and the province is capable of producing enough beef to meet the demand.

“The decision by our processors and exporters, regarding the pursuit of these opportunities, will depend on the standards and rules of the halal certification, the extra costs needed to produce halal beef, the actual size and strength of the halal market, and our ability to produce halal beef within our own regulations, codes of practice, and safety protocols.”

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dmonton cookie makers seek enough dough to open a new storefront in the city’s core. Cookie Love currently has a location open near the Art Gallery of Alberta, a space that draws in big crowds and that has recently reached its capacity.

“The current place we have is really busy, because it’s a café.

People are always in for coffee.

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“It’s kind of neat. There will be a bunch [of businesses] all together. It’s just a cool little spot that, we think, is going to make some big waves,” he says. “We want a tiny, cool little shop somewhat close to downtown,” he says.

Along with the new opening, Cookie Love will release a battery of new cookie flavours, available at both locations, though the new space will focus

They started selling their cookies, on a lark, at farmers’ markets. After two successful days, they decided to carry on, and soon became regulars at the downtown farmers’ market.

Eventually, they both quit their day jobs to pursue Cookie Love full time.

Cookie Love has a crowdfunding campaign on the ATB BoostR website. They hope to

“Everyone can do a chocolate chip cookie.

Everyone can do a ginger snap. How do we take it to the next level?”

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wiches. It’s nuts some days,” says co-founder Mike Stone.

Stone can’t say exactly where the new shop will be, though he says it’s in an upcoming development in the city’s core. However, the space will be around 37 square metres and will sport more economically-sized ovens, fridges, and racks.

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more on what Stone calls the “sexy cookies.”

“We’re going to bring the cookies up a notch. We’ll put booze in them, and make sandwich cookies,” he adds. “We really wanna pick our game up a little.

Everyone can do a chocolate chip cookie. Everyone can do a ginger snap. How do we take it to the next level?”

Every handmade Cookie Love cookie contains butter, a fact Stone brings up with a level of pride.

Cookie Love has sat in its current location near the Art Gallery of Alberta for the past three and a half years. Two years prior, it had a location in the Glenora Bed and Breakfast Inn, which is currently under construction. Stone and his wife began their carbohydrate-heavy journey 11 years ago.

raise more than $10,000 before June 4 to purchase better equipment and update their website, though, Stone says, they will carry on opening the shop regardless.

“If we don’t get it, we’ll have to scale back some things or try to borrow some money,” he says.

Donating to this campaign also comes with a variety of incentives. Donating $600, for instance, gets a donor free cookies for a year. Currently, the business has raised around $600.

Cookie Love’s products are available at different cafés and restaurants around Edmonton, including Remedy Cafe. Though, somewhat oddly, a big chunk of their business comes from selling their wares to mechanics and law firms.

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s I sit in the quaint living room of a house off of Whyte Avenue, three people are gathered around a table acting like dogs.

A wild, long-haired and bearded man has his left leg up over his head and mimes licking himself while a woman is sitting on her knees lapping up water from a dish. Another man is on the couch on all fours, growling with sheets of crumpled paper in his mouth.

A man in glasses with a notepad (the director) is carefully inspecting each of the ‘dogs’’ performances. He lets out a big breath and says “Alright … It’s Eric. He gets it.”

The other two dogs shout in disbelief. “Aww, come on, man. Eric always gets the big parts,” says the long-haired dog.

“You hate women, don’t you?” challenges the other canine.

This scene may seem a little absurd, and it is—although given the context it makes sense.

The actors make up Don’t Not Talk To Strangers (DNNTS), a local, modern sketch comedy troupe. The ‘who makes the best dog’ bit they just finished is for a promo video to debut their monthly hour-long comedy slot at Grindstone Theatre’s new location off of Whyte Avenue.

The group has been gaining traction and buzz in the local arts community, performing around Edmonton for a little less than a year in louder, more robust, venues like

The Buckingham, and Arcadia. The Grindstone Theatre shows will be the first time DNNTS has performed in a theatre setting.

“Now we can have a level of nuance so it’s not just loud, broad, physical strokes,” Dustin J. Allen says. “We can be more intentional about pacing out a scene and having different dynamics.”

“We also all have a background and knowledge in theatre so that helps the transition,” says Eric Smith, the winning dog.

DNNTS is made up of Smith, Allen, Jesse Harlton, Lauren Boyd, Eric Smith, Brooklyn Melnyk (who will rejoin the group in summer), and most recently, Julie Murphy.

The actors all worked together in some capacity before the sketch comedy group made its debut earlier this year.

“Eric and I had done a show together and we really wanted to do sketch,” Harlton says. “I had also done a show with Dustin in Calgary, and Lauren was at our first-ever performance and then became apart of the group.”

“I guess I was an enthusiastic audience member,” Boyd laughs. “I had never done sketch or improv or anything like that. I had just graduated from theatre school and was desperate for something to do, so bottom of the barrel, here I am. But it’s great ‘cause we’re all kind of goofy, weird, and have no friends.”

Murphy also recently joined the group after filling in for Boyd when she couldn’t make one show.

“Once I saw them live I knew I wanted to be a part of it,” Murphy says. “I think the writing is so clever and smart. You don’t have to lower yourself to enjoy it and I think you get a heightened experience watching this group.”

The group’s sketches are written by multiple members of the troupe and are all across the board, touching on aspects of crime, relationships, history, and situational comedy. A scene is quite reminiscent of something found on a program like Saturday Night Live, where actors summon wacky characters and throw them into nonsensical situations.

“As soon as anyone has any kind of idea, they can just bust it out,” Harlton says. “If somebody has an idea or a first draft it’s thrown on our Facebook page chat and sort of group edited.”

Sketches are then workshopped, scripted, and left with a little wiggle room for improvisation.

“The writer of the sketch kind of takes the helm of directing and casting, and seeing the vision of their sketch come to life,” Smith says.

Audience members at the Grindstone debut show will see nine to 10 sketches made up of some of the older, reworked

ones like “Chewing Gum,” and “Death Metal Storytime” as well as a few newer ones like “Solar Eclipse,” and “Crusaders.”

“Crusaders,” has Allen acting as a British Christian general, commanding his troops to wipe out the enemy that has made camp in Israel, The Holy Land.

This quickly descends into hilarious lunacy as the soldiers (Smith, Harlton, and Boyd) begin questioning why they have to kill the heretics.

“So if they’re non-believers, that means they don’ believe in God?” Boyd says in a thick English accent.

“Well, no,” Allen stammers.

“They believe in God, but they believe in a false prophet.”

“An’ we know that fo’ shore?”

Boyd interjects.

Maybe it was Allen’s John Cleese-esque accent, but as the group trotted about on their invisible horses on the squeaky hardwood floor, I laughed and saw a striking inspiration from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Murphy is right by saying you don’t have to lower yourself to find DNNTS funny. In fact, I’d call them a “thinking” comedy act.

“Comedy is kind of trial by fire,” Allen says. “You can’t kid yourself. If they don’t laugh then you gotta accept it. There’s no moral victory. What we think is the funniest might not be for the audience. Usually, they will

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The group also has a sketch where part of the cast sits in with the audience while Allen reads them a story like Green Eggs and Ham. The catch is that Allen is a death metal singer in corpse paint and the rest of the cast are children.

“He has to do community service by reading stories to children and he’s made a few appearances,” Allen says.

“It’s cool cause we’ve only been together for almost a year so any recurring characters we want to come to the surface are just starting to come out and be reworked,” Boyd says. “The audience also sorts to be a part of that one because Dustin is reading to us. It’s kind of become part of our signature—audience participation.”

“It’s kind of in our name too,” Smith says. “The audience are our strangers and we want to talk to them.”

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Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts to join first eight other nonprofits in ‘The Orange Hub’

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fter 15 years of supporting individuals with developmental disabilities to create their art, The Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts is growing beyond its Alberta Avenue origins.

Coming close to bursting the seams of their 118 Avenue space for lack of a better metaphor, the nonprofit is opening a secondary studio dubbed “the Nina West”

at “The Orange Hub,” previously MacEwan University’s centre for fine arts west campus. Last fall The Orange Hub was purchased by the city and redesigned to be a centre for the arts, recreation, wellness, and learning.

“We’re really excited to have a presence in a different part of the city,” says Wendy Hollo, executive director of the Nina.

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She adds that, up until now, it’s been difficult for artists wanting to paint larger pieces or create sculpture, both of which require a significant amount of space. The plan with Nina West is to take some of the collective’s more established artists who could really benefit from a bit more physical space as well as more one-on-one time with mentors to allow their grand ideas to come to life.

One of said grand ideas that Hollo mentions will use unrepairable instruments donated from the Winspear to be turned into “something big and sculptural,” she says with a laugh, adding that their artistic director Paul Freeman would do a much more graceful job of explaining.

There’s also the exciting benefit of cohabitating a space filled with local nonprofits much like themselves at The Orange Hub, which offers opportunities to collaborate and create some exciting ventures.

Last August the city was reported to be in the final stages of signing leases with 27 tenants for the hub. A second round of

Thu., May 3 (5 – 7 pm) Grand Opening of the Nina West Orange Hub Theatre Reserve seats at eventbrite.ca selections is slated to start in early spring. All of the nine nonprofits currently moving into The Orange Hub have long histories of providing arts programming or social support to the Edmonton community.

“It’ll be interesting to see who we gravitate to and who gravitates to us,” Hollo says. “I imagine a year from now, the building should be full of tenants and bustling with activity.”

The long-anticipated rental space for the Nina is leased for three years, with an option to renew once lapsed. The art collective expects to be fully moved in by the beginning of May and The Nina West will open to the public on May 3 for studio tours, with refreshments and a performance at 6 pm in the theatre featuring new music and dance by Nina artists.

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“It’s not a dissimilar area than where we currently are, in that there’s a Stony Plain Business Association the way there is the Alberta Avenue Business Association that’s working to improve the area. They’re both areas that are in a bit of transition—lots of pawn shops and so forth, so it’s a comfortable neighbourhood for us.”

With more 1,200 square feet of studio space built for the exclusive use of the arts, including art studios, dance studios, sound studios, a photography darkroom, and the (previouslyknown) John L. Haar theatre on-site to rent out for performances, the Nina is excited for the possibilities the space will offer to their artists.

“We do have some artists that have been coming all 15 years we’ve been around, so some of these artists have developed some pretty serious art practices,” Hollo says. “Our studios have gotten increasingly busy—there’s 200 artists plus that come here every week and half a dozen staff here daily— so every day is quite busy.”

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Edmonton Youth Pipe Band is Edmonton’s oldest pipe band, inspiring young people to learn the music and lore of the Scottish Highlands bagpipes.

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The Red Road Healing Society is an Indigenous organization that offers professional services and programs from a cultural community grassroots perspective.

Society for Talent Education offers Suzuki Method instruction to over 300 students in violin, viola, cello, and bass.

The Stony Plain Road and Area Business Association coordinates activities to promote the business community in the area and organizes the local farmers’ market.

THEATRE

FRACTURED TIES INTERROGATED BY TIME Theatre Network’s production of Infinity presents an exploration of love through the lens of time

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

BALLROOM DANCE ASSOCIATION • Central Lions Recreation Centre, 11113-113 St • 780.893.6828 • ebda.ca • An evening of ballroom, latin, country dancing • 1st Sat of every month, 8pm (doors)

DAMN+GOOD • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St • media@goodwomen.ca • goodwomen. ca/archive/damn-good • An improvisational performance • May 3-4, 7:30-9:30pm • $20 (general), $15 (CADA members/students/ seniors)

DANCE CLASSES WITH GOOD WOMEN DANCE COLLECTIVE • Muriel Taylor Studio at Ruth Carse Centre for Dance, 11205-107 Ave • info@goodwomen.ca • goodwomen.ca/classes • Every Tue, Thu, Fri; 10-11:30am • $15 (drop-in), $65 (5 class pack), $100 (10 class pack)

DIRT BUFFET CABARET• Spazio Performativo, 10816 95 St • milezerodance. com • This multidisciplinary, diverse variety show allows audiences to discover Edmonton’s most unique, challenging, and wide-ranging performances, curated by an array of artists who will share different niches within the Edmonton scene • Apr 26, 8pm • $10 or best offer at the door

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From left: Ryan Parker, Cayley Thomas, and Larissa Pohoreski // Ian Jackson, EPIC Photography

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he story follows violinist and composer Carmen (Larissa Pohoreski), and theoretical physicist Elliot (Ryan Parker) from their first meeting at a house party, to their eventual married life together and beyond. Between their scenes filled with equal parts friction and genuine love, monologues from their mathematician daughter Sarah Jean (Caley Thomas) shift the focus of Infinity through time, as she tries to understand her place in relation to her parent’s world.

You’re not expected to understand every nuance of Elliot’s attempts to unify theories of time, but as he rummages through his notes in the middle of the night—tormented by a nagging contradiction in his submitted thesis—you see his devotion and Carmen’s anguish. She’s driven anxious simply by being near him in this state when he promised he’d be there for her. And when all three characters finally interact directly near the end of

Until Sun., May 6 Infinity The Roxy, 8529 Gateway Blvd.

From $26 – $30 between her life performances and recordings help get the characters on and off stage.

Sometimes the lights on the screen appear as digital waveforms, fluid labyrinthine structures or concentric diagrams

“You’re not expected to understand every nuance of Elliot’s attempt to unify theories of time, but as he rumages through his notes—tormented by a nagging contradiction in his submitted thesis—you see his devotion and Carmen’s anguish.”

Elliot’s dogged focus on his PhD work (which theorizes that time may not be real) pulls his heart away from Carmen and their frank conversations about their relationship, during both good times and the bad. Carmen questions their resilient love continually, but never quite finds decisive answers—such is the complex reality that playwright Hannah Moscovitch creates for her characters. That complexity appears in the language of both a physicist and musician, drawn together by their understanding of time, but the emotion within their jargon is ever-present, too.

the first act, the inclusion of a whip-smart, daughter into the conversations about love and interpersonal needs reinforces the strength of the family’s relationship, despite its tensions.

These emotions are sustained during Infinity’s scene transitions. A transparent screen on the stage serves as a canvas for a projection of multiple panes of light. Glyph-like musical notes animate on a staff, sometimes scribbled or appearing pristine alongside the live music of Carmen’s violin, wonderfully played by Pohoreski.

A near imperceptible shift

that reflect Elliot’s work. The abstractions of these shapes ebb and flow to set the tone and emotion of each scene, and they help anchor the timeline of the show’s story as well.

Time leaps in the plot are easy to parse, thanks to explicit cues in Moscovitch’s writing and subtle character actions brought forth by Bradley Moss’ direction. Despite the nonlinear jumps in the family’s journey through life, Infinity feels like a unified and focussed story that anyone who’s ever loved should see.

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Studio, 10575-115 St NW • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail.com • flamencoenvivo.com • Every Sun until Jun 10, 11:30am-12:30pm

MILE ZERO DANCE DROP-IN DANCE & MOVEMENT CLASSES • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • 780.424.1573 • mzdsociety@ gmail.com • milezerodance.com/classes • Mile Zero Dance holds a number of drop-in dance & movement classes for people of all experience levels & ages; Mon: Contact Improv (7-9pm); Tue: House/Hip Hop with Sekou (6-7pm), Butoh with Sonja Myllymaki (7-9pm); Wed: Noguchi Taiso (10-11:30am), Beginner Modern with Kathleen Hughes (6-7pm); Thu: Authentic Movement with Isabelle Rousseau (*Must pre-register*) (10am-12pm), Kids’ Dance with Jeannie Vandekerkhove (ages 3–5) (1-1:45pm) • $15 (regular drop-in), $12 (members drop-in), $15 (annual memberships), $100 (10-Class Card, which can be used for various classes.

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SACRED CIRCLE DANCE • Riverdale Community Hall, 9231-100 Ave • edmontonsacredcircledance@gmail.com • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music.

No partner required • 2nd Wed of the month (beginners), 4th Wed of the month (experienced), 7-9pm • $10

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

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

FILM EDMONTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL • Landmark Cinemas Edmonton City Centre, 10200-102 Ave • jewishedmonton.org • Films deal with a broad range of topics: the Holocaust and post-Holocaust periods, politics, racism, religion, music, and sports • May 6-16

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • Visit metrocinema.org for daily listings • AFTERNOON TEA: Iron Road (May 20) • ALLEY KAT CASK AND KEG NIGHTS: An American Werewolf in London (Apr 29) • BAD GIRLS MOVIE CLUB: I, Tonya (May 16) • CINEMA OF PSYCHEDELIA: The Visitor (May 26) • METRO RETRO: Clerks (May 14, May 16) • MUSIC DOC: What We Started (May 1) • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Paddington 2 (Apr 28), Early Man (May 19), Babe (May 26) • SCI-FI: Liquid Sky (May 27, May 29) • SUNDAY CLASSICS: Vertigo–60th Anniversary (Apr 29, May 2), To Kill a Mockingbird (May 27)

NORTHWESTFEST • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • northwestfest.ca • The documentary and media arts festival. Featuring more than 30 feature films and 20 short films • May 3-13

ROMEO + JULIET: LADIES NIGHT IN THE IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • Arrive early and relax with a nice glass of wine or cold beer, enjoy a sit down meal at the Purple Pear restaurant and participate in fun science activities • Apr 26, 6-10pm • $7.95-$11.95 • 18+ only

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca •The Art of Hide Tanning–Tradition Inspiring The Present and Future: artwork by Amy Malbeuf and Ruby Sweetman; Apr 14-May 26 • Home: artwork by various artists; May 5-Aug 18; Artist talk and reception: Jun 23, 2-4pm ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Melcor Cultural Centre, 355th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Open Sculpture Show; Apr 16-May 4

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • Songs for Pythagoras: artwork by Peter von Tiesenhausen; Jan 27-May 6 • Manning Hall: The Pre-History of M.N. Hutchinson: Site 24; until Dec 31 • BMO World of Creativity: Wild Wood; until Dec 31 • RBC Work Room: Metamorphosis: artwork by Gloria Mok; until Jul 1 • Painting Alberta, Details of Canada: artwork

by William Townsend; until Jul 1 • WEEKLY DROP-IN ACTIVITIES: Tours for Tots, Every Wed, 10-11am • Youth Workshops, ages 13-17, Every Thu, 4-6pm • Kids’ Open Studio, Every Sat, 1-3pm • Exhibition Tours; Every Sat-Sun, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm • Art for Lunch; 3rd Thu of the month, 12-1pm • VIBE; 3rd Fri of the month, 5-9pm

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Inside Out: artwork by Wei Li; Apr 5-28 • High Energy 23: Cultivating Change: artwork by St. Albert High School Art Students; May 3-Jun 2; Opening reception: May 3, 6-9pm

ARTWALK • Person District, St. Albert • artwalkstalbert.com • The art hits the streets again! Discover a place to enjoy, view and buy art to suit all tastes and budgets. Featuring returning artists and new ones • May-Sep, 1st Thu of every month, 6-8:30pm (exhibits run all month) BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 9132-118 Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Artwork by Stephanie Jonsson; Apr 21-May 12 BOREALIS GALLERY • 9820-107 St • assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/borealis.html • Fur: The Fabric of Our Nation; Apr 25-Jul 3 BRUCE PEEL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS • Lower level, Rutherford South, University of Alberta • bpsc.library.ualberta.ca • Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination; Apr 27-Aug 24

SUGAR FOOT STOMP! • Sugar Swing Ballroom, 10019-80 Ave NW • 587.786.6554 • dance@sugarswing.com • sugarswing.com • Swing dance social • Every Fri-Sat, 8pm (beginner lesson begins) • $12, $2 (lesson with entry) • All ages

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-

UKRAINIAN SHUMKA DANCERS PRESENT ANCESTORS & ELDERS • Jubilee

780.461.3427 • galeriecava.com • The End of The Earth: artwork by Valerian Mazataud; May 4-Jun 8

Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • A project borne from a desire to connect the Ukrainian settler experience to that of the indigenous people of Treaty 6 territory. In a production to feature a cast of Shumka Dancers and multidisciplinary indigenous artists • Apr 27-28, 7:30-9:30pm • $15-$60

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124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Colour Spelled with a U: artwork by Les Graff (RCA); Apr 28-May 12; Opening reception: Apr 28, 10am-5pm

CAVA GALLERY • 9103-95 Ave •

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Crash Pad: artwork by Cindy Baker; May 4-Jun 9 • Zachari Logan; May 4-Jun 9

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This Juncture" Book Launch; May 5, 2-4pm • AJ Devlin "Cobra Clutch" Book Launch; May 8, 2-5pm

ENTERPRISE SQUARE • 10230 Jasper Ave • Rock Water Wind Exhibition; Apr 10-29

EDMONTON POETRY FESTIVAL • Various

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FAB GALLERY • Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • ualberta.ca/ artshows • lacuna: artwork by Becky Thera; Feb 20-May 17 • BFA 2018; Apr 17-28 • Light/ Matter: Art at the Intersection of Photography and Printmaking, 1954-2017; May 8-Jun 2

FRONT GALLERY • 10402-124 St • thefrontgallery.com • Connectivity: artwork by Dave & Allan Thomas; Apr 26, 7-9pm

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • The Art of Truth and Reconciliation: artwork by George Littlechild; Mar 9-Apr 29 • Strathcona Salon Series: artwork by various artists; May 15-Jun 23

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl,

Sat., Apr. 28 / Edmonton Resilience Festival / Waldorf Independent School of Edmonton / edmontonresiliencefestival.com for tickets and information With workshops ranging from homemade mouth care to cider brewing to making your own bee hotel, there’s likely something for everyone interested in sustainability. The festival will also feature a resilience market filled with local makers, artists, and food producers showcasing their bobbles and delights as well as activities for the little ones.

The roots of the festival lie in sustainable living through community, which the Edmonton Permaculture Guild and the Lo-

cal Good (the creators of the festival) believe is the groundwork of a resilient community.

By giving Edmontonians the opportunity to learn valuable skills and contribute to a better society, the fabric of our community is strengthened.

The festival will also host conversation cafes and a resilience forum with Godo Stoyke (Carbon Busters) and Omar Yaqub (Alif Partners) to discuss how we can transition our society and build communities that support us.

10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse. ab.ca • Wetlands: artwork by Florin Hategan; Mar 29-May 12 • Citizen of the World: artwork

by Sara Norquay; Mar 29-May 12

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • April Group Selling Exhibition; Apr 4-28

LATITUDE 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St NW • latitude53.org • Les Transformables: curarated by Eric Mattson; Apr 13-May 26

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

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@ artsandheritage.ca • Witness Blanket/ForgetMe-Not Métis Rose; Apr 3-Jun 3

PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • NAESS GALLERY: Mountain Mystic: paintings by Sandie Kanak; Apr 10-May 9 • ARTISTAN NOOK: A Feast for the Eyes: paintings by Shelly Banks; Apr 10-May 9

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12323104 Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery. com • Artwork by Jonathan Forrest; May 24-Jun 9; Opening reception: May 24, 7-9pm (artist in attendance)

ROYAL WOOD W/ FIONN

Friday, May 18th The Winspear Centre

THE GOOD LOVELIES W/ GUESTS

Wednesday, June 6th Triffo Theatre, Allard Hall, MacEwan University

W/ GUESTS

Tuesday, June 12th & Wednesday, June 13th Myer Horowitz Theatre, SUB, U of A

STEEP CANYON RANGERS W/ BIRDS OF CHICAGO

Saturday, June 23rd Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • 9910, 9910B-109 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • facebook.com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 donation

ROUGE POETRY SLAM HOSTED BY BREATH IN POETRY COLLECTIVE • BLVD Supper x Club, 10765 Jasper Ave • Every Tue

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • Every 2nd Sun of the month, 7:30pm • Free (donations accepted at the door)

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly Tellaround: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series • Most Mon (except holidays), 7pm, Sep 18-Mar; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

THEATRE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • The Grindstone, 10019-81 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • This completely improvised musical comedy is based on the suggestions from the audience who will get to experience a brand new story unfold in front of them, complete with impromptu songs, dance breaks and show stopping numbers • Every Fri

THE BALANCE • ATB Art Barns, Door 1, 10330-84 Ave • 780.399.9192 • thebalancemovie@gmail.com • A female take on the typical man-makes-it-big-but-stands-to-lose-it-all plot • May 4-5, 7:30-9pm CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s long form comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm; Sep 10-Jun 9 • $15 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) COMPANY • L'Unitheatre, 8627-91 St • On the

959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • info@picturethisgallery.com • picturethisgallery. com • Spring It On! Art Show; Apr 14-Jun 30

night of his 35th birthday, confirmed bachelor, Robert, contemplates his unmarried state. Over the course of a series of dinners, drinks and even a wedding, his friends explain the pros and cons of taking on a spouse • Apr 20-28

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA

COYOTE COMEDY • Grindstone Theatre,

PICTURE THIS! FRAMING & GALLERY •

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

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • Recent Paintings: artwork by Marianne Watchel; Apr 14-May 5

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • India Inked!: currated

by Nirmal Raja and Santosh Sakhinala; Apr 27-Jun 2

ST. ALBERT PLACE • 5 St. Anne Street St.

XAVIER RUDD

locations throughout the city • 780.420.1757 • info@edmontonpoetryfestival.com • edmontonpoetryfestival.com • Celebrating the voice of poetry by showcasing authors from Edmonton and across the country who question, experiment and lead the way • Apr 22-29

Albert • stalbertpotters.ca • St. Albert Potter's Guild Spring Sale; May 3-5

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments • POPnology Exhibition; Feb 9-May 6 • Terry Fox– Running to the Heart of Canada; Feb 16-Sep 16

UDELL XHIBITIONS • 10332-124 St NW • 780.488.4445 • udellxhibitions.com • April's Feautred Artist; Hua Jin; through Apr

10019-81 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • A 50 minute long form improv show that has lots of short little scenes throughout it. Grindstone gets a suggestion (or two) from the audience and then they cut loose • Apr 26, 7pm • $10

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • die-nasty.com • Live improvised soap opera.

Join the whole Die-Nasty family REBORN, for a whole season of great artists, earth-shaking discovery, glorious music, hilarious hi jinx...but mostly Machiavellian Intrigue • Runs every Mon, 6:30pm (doors), 7:30-9:30pm • Oct 23-May 29

DON'T NOT TALK TO STRANGERS • Grindstone Theatre, 10019-81 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • Fast-paced, high-energy, and wildly physical–DNTTS showcases ridiculous characters in absurd situations to make mockeries of the mundane. This group of Edmontonbased theatre comedians is influenced by the titans of physical comedy and sketch • Apr 28, 9pm • $12

FLY ME TO THE MOON • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • shadowtheatre@interbaun.com • Frances and Loretta are home care workers in Belfast. When one

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of their patients dies unexpectedly, the two cash strapped ladies are faced with an awful choice, cash in his pension and keep the news of his death a secret for a little while, or call the police? • Apr 25-May 13, 7:30pm (2pm on weekends) • $37 (general), $35 (seniors/ students), $22 (under 18); $27 (matinee), $22 (youth matinee), in adv. Buy one, get one free (Tue)

FOOTLOOSE • ATB Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • When Ren and his mother move from Chicago to a small town Bomont he is confronted with rigorous local laws, including a ban on dancing instituted by the local preacher • Apr 23-28 • $15 (preview night), $25, plus applicable fees FOUR BANGER FRIDAYS • Grindstone Theatre, 10019-81 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • Edmonton’s premiere independent stand-up comedy show. Host Simon Gorsak curates a staggering four comic showcase and plays host to the funniest people he knows from across Canada, and you • Every Fri, 9pm • $12

INFINITY • Roxy on Gateway, 8529 Gateway Blvd • How does a new Theory of Time change everything we know about ourselves? In this Dora-Award Winner for Best New Play, three brilliant minds–a musician, a mathematician, and a theoretical physicist–collide like particles, and together they learn that love and time are connected in ways they could never have imagined • Apr 17-May 6

LATE NIGHT EDMONTON • Grindstone Theatre, 10019-81 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • A filmed talk show performed on stage with a live audience • Apr 28, 11pm • $12 MONTHLY MAGIC • Grindstone Theatre, 10019-81 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • A monthly magic showcase hosted by the incredible Ron Pearson • Apr 26, 9pm • $15 OPEN JAM • The Grindstone, 10019-81 Ave • 780.907.2975 • grindstonetheatre.ca • Facilitated by Grindstone Theatre. Swap games and ideas and get an opportunity to play. For those of all levels • Last Tue of each month

PRETTY GOBLINS • ATB Financial Arts Barns (Backstage Theatre), 10330-84 Ave • Sisters.

Twins. Together. Forever. In the middle of a cold, dark, night Laura discovers her estranged fraternal twin sister, Lizzie, howling in her living room. Lizzie’s sudden appearance loosens Laura’s grip on reality sending the sisters on a journey of tragic discovery • Apr 18-29

THE SILVER ARROW: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ROBIN HOOD • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • The world premiere of a new twist on the classic Robin Hood adventure story, featuring a female protagonist and awe-inspiring aerial acrobatics • Apr 21-May 13

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

THUNDERPROV • Grindstone Theatre, 1001981 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • A fast-paced, narrative-fuelled improv show crackling with energy and wit. Using a suggestion provided by the audience, the Sorry, Not Sorry players will explore a character-driven story, peppered with scenes that dig into the narrative’s themes and concepts • Apr 28, 7pm • $10

UNDERCOVER • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • One grizzled cop.

One audience-member-turned-rookie-detective.

One unsolved case • Apr 4-29

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN • L'Uni Theatre, 8627-91 St • elopemusicaltheatre@gmail. com • elopemusicaltheatre.ca • Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor, and a leggy lab assistant, Inga, Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors • May 3-12 • $30 (adult), $25 (student/senior); available at TIX on the Square or the door

Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art. com • Members Spring Exhibition; Apr 3-28 • Friends of Mine: artwork by Denise Lefebvre; May 1-Jun 2

WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • No Thru Traffic: artwork by Blu Smith; May 6-May 17; Reception: May 6, 1-3pm

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave

JCLPRODUCTIONS.CA • WORLDWIDEMUSICVENTURES.COM

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• Dawn Ius "Lizzie" Book Launch; Apr 26, 7-8:30pm • Nationalism Book Launch; Apr 26, 7-8pm • Family Ties; Apr 28, 1-3pm • Raffy Boudjikanian "Journey Through Genocide" Book Launch; May 2, 7-8:30pm • Rona Altrows "At

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CAN LIT

FROM THE MARITIMES TO THE DUST BOWL

Edmonton area author carries on tradition of ‘immortalizing’ the lives of average Canadians with new book

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or author Corrine Jeffery, working within the tropes and themes of Canadian literature is something of a moral obligation. The St. Albert-based writer built her career on dustbowl and maritime tales, documenting the lives of everyday Canadians with a keen eye on historical accuracy.

Jeffery is a voracious reader and has been ever since her youth in Manitoba, but she found herself always reading about faraway cities and places, and the rich and powerful who lived in them, something that never quite sat well with her.

“Even as a young person, I kept asking ‘Where are all the good Canadian stories?’” she says.

“I think (Canada is) every bit as interesting as every other nation in the world. What I wanted to do was to immortalize the real, ordinary Canadian, you and me, not the rich and famous and the politicians and, now, the sports stars ... We’re never going to be Connor McDavid, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have a right to a voice.”

Jeffery’s latest novel Lords and Lepers carries on this goal. It’s the tale of four women living in Manitoba from 1950-80. The main protagonist, Francine Stonehenge, escaped to the province’s flat expanse from Prince Edward Island after her parents disappear at sea. There, Stonehenge must try to eek out a life, battling solitude, alienation, and heartbreak with her three new friends.

In writing Lords and Lepers, Jeffery challenged herself to create all original characters, while still maintaining the historical accuracy of the setting. This was something new for her: she based her previous release, the Understanding

Sat., Apr. 28 Lords and Lepers book launch with Corrine Jeffery St. Albert Public Library Free admission Ursula Trilogy, on five generations of women in her family, so the narrative was already there.

This isn’t to say she’s above taking inspiration from her daily life, though. Jeffery notes, with a laugh, that her friends and family have become careful about what they say around her, out of fear their words may appear in one of her books.

“They often will,” she says.

Jeffery began writing Lords and Lepers in 2013, shortly after releasing her previous trilogy, over the course of four years.

Jeffery writes, mostly, without a plan. She doesn’t have a table of contents in mind, nor a list of characters. She just comes up with a title, then starts typing away. She goes through this process bit by bit, never quite able to cloister herself away for long stints of writing.

“I’m a grandmother, a mother, a wife. At least for women, life gets in the way. I write when I have time,” Jeffery says.

Public engagement is something of a passion for Jeffery. She loves getting out and talking to people, perhaps, in particular, those who read her books. She credits her success as an author to this dedication, and will hold a book launch for Lords and Lepers at St. Albert Public Library on April 28.

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Sierra Bilton sierra@vueweekly.com COMPANY the Musical / Until Sun., Apr. 28 (7:30 PM) / L’UniThéâtre, La Cité Francophone / $21 – $25 at tixonthesquare.ca or eventbrite.ca From Edmonton’s own Foote in the Door Productions comes the Broadway musical Company, winner of seven Tony Awards. With choreography from Adam Kuss and direction from Morgan Kunitz, the wildly hilarious musical is the season closer for the theatre troupe.

Company the Musical takes place over a series of dinner parties, dates, and conversations with friends, who all have their perenially single and afraid of commitment friend, Bobby’s best interests

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at heart. Bobby is given sage words of wisdom and advice about marriage and the meaning of commitment with some funny sidebars mixed in.

With a score by Stephen Sondheim performed by an 11-piece orchestra, the musical is full of such favourites as “Being Alive,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” and “Not Getting Married Today.” Brought into modern-day New York, the local cast is sure to have bellies sore with laughter tracing the hilarity of every day married life.

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ACTION-THRILLER

Lynne Ramsay mounts a brilliant reworking of the action-thriller

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he second shot in Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here is of a man, Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) with a plastic bag wrapped around his head.

It recalls another diaphanous image—young James, in Ramsay’s debut Ratcatcher (1999), windingly wrapping himself in white drapes. (And there’s soon a split-second flashback to young Joe shrouding himself in a plastic wrap, in a closet, as his parents fight.) But it’s easy to notice rhyming moments in the oeuvre of cinema’s least-prolific major auteur. This, a radical reworking of the action-thriller, is just Ramsay’s fourth feature in two decades. And it’s another worth-waiting-for gem, glinting in the shadows.

Grizzled, ghoulish, and near death, he flirts with pain, even suicide, amid jolting flashes of trauma, re-heard as much as reseen. Joe’s a beefy, bearded veteran now on solo missions as a hitman and rescuer.

His latest job’s for a senator who wants his daughter, sextrafficked, returned to him; the father tells Joe: “I want you to hurt them.” But Ramsay and cinematographer Tom Townend— offering up only stunning shots—tend to circle around or veer away from explicit violence,

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You Were Never Really Here Directed by Lynne Ramsay Now playing  instead eyeing the stain seeping and spreading out from it. Even when Joe’s at home with his elderly mother (Judith Roberts), there’s a haunted-ness to him.

Early on, this is psychological horror in broad daylight, Jonny Greenwood’s score burbling and synthing us deeper into dread, as when Joe’s picking out a ball-peen hammer at a hardware store.

This is a gilt-edged portrait of maimed, and maiming, masculinity. (There’s an amusing moment, which soon curdles, of Joe joking with his mom about Psycho.) The soundscape can overwhelm, bubbling us into a sense of submergence, or running out of air. And Ramsay, with Joe as both actionhero and trauma victim, astonishingly fuses reverie and nightmare.

In its skittering vision of innocence corrupted, the film’s beauty spellbinds even more—as if, in a world so depraved, where Joe can’t edit out of his mind the many horrors that have altered him, we must snatch at beauty when we can glimpse it. And maybe, just maybe, those glimpses will lead us to a better place.

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IN THE FRAY

Samuel Moaz’s biting drama Foxtrot shows a more human side to the never-ending Israel-Palestine conflict

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t has a 96 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes; need I say more? That score is a testament to the amount of humans who enjoy films with artistry, depth of plot, and universality of story, movies that can never fit in the realms of black or white.

A German-French-Israeli-Swiss co-production, Samuel Moaz’s Foxtrot is a film you don’t want to let pass by. With a story that lies squarely in the grey areas of life, between joy and misery, the film holds a bruising sociopolitical statement about war and the

the response at home has been complex, to say the least, though one should expect nothing less from Moaz.

The story—one of so many Israeli soldiers and their families—tries to grapple with the quagmire that is the seemingly endless Israel-Palestine conflict.

Delving into the realities of deadlocked military conflict and the prejudices that inevitably bubble to the surface, the controversial film was condemned by Israel’s Minister of Culture, Miri Regev.

Opening Fri., Apr. 26 Showing until Tue., May 1 Foxtrot Directed by Samuel Moaz Metro Cinema $13  Symbolism and imagery are also ever-present in Foxtrot with the black ‘X’ on a family heirloom Playboy magazine that perhaps represents sin and atheism, which eventually scars the face of a soldier, haunted by his past. The introspective piece will

“Told through bleak, dream-like images of life inbetween—from sizzling canned meat to camels passing through desolate military checkstops—the film draws you in visually, then suddenly drops the floor from beneath you, interrogating war.” soldiers and loved ones that lie in the crossfire.

Winning the Grand Jury Prize award at the Venice Film Festival last year, there are very few—if any—pieces that feel missing in the hilariously dry and painfully devastating film.

Foxtrot follows Michael Feldmann (Lior Ashkenazi), an Israeli veteran who’s son, Jonathan, now serves in the Israel Defense Forces. As the triptych progresses, we get shots of Feldmann and his family as the story switches from Michael, to his son, to Dafna, his wife (Sarah Adler). The story almost moves backward and then forward again, pivoting from one single moment. While the film has received high praise and awards from critics worldwide,

Despite this controversy, the film is a masterpiece. The cinematography stands out from the first shot of Michael watching his wife answer a knock at the door. The close up of an eyeball, waist-down shots, aerials of small rooms in his Tel Aviv apartment, and wide frames of vast desert expanses give the viewer just enough information to still imagine some parts and become connected and heavily invested.

Told through bleak, dream-like images of life in-between—from sizzling canned meat to camels passing through desolate military checkstops—the film draws you in visually, then suddenly drops the floor from beneath you, interrogating war and the emotions that follow.

too, leave a mark on those that get to see it, which, most likely, is the point.

Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s “Spiegel Im Spiegel” stands out as concluding the film, undoubtedly leaving you heavier than before, but more appreciative of the moments we do have that may not have seemed as beautiful as they do after.

There are also several moments of visceral silence that last just long enough to make you shift in your seat once or twice, before a stark change is made sonically—the quick drum beats of the tropics, or the obnoxious buzz of a doorbell that will change everything.

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POST-PUNK

Preoccupations’ Scott Munro talks the experimental approach with creating New Material

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reoccupations, the band formerly known as Viet Cong, had a fair share of controversy back in 2016 for their past moniker, leading their debut self-titled album to be slightly overshadowed. But for this latest record New Material, the postpunk four-piece has come back, more resilient and experimental.

“Our last few albums were kind of surrounded by all that name-change stuff, and it was bound to happen and it was what it was, but it’s sort of nice to be out of the woods with this new one,” says multiinstrumentalist Scott “Monty” Munro. “We still have some Internet trolls for changing our name, screaming stuff like ‘freedom of speech,’ but it’s just like ‘C’mon, can we just let this go?’ But for the most part, it’s been pretty reasonable.”

For New Material, released this last March, the recording and engineering was handled chiefly by Munro with tracks being worked on in Ymir, British Columbia, Mexico, Los Angeles, and Montana.

“It was kind of all over the place, and down to the wire on a couple of tracks,” Munro says. “We went to Montana last February where Matt Flegel’s [bass and vocals] parents have a cabin/house and that’s where we recorded half of the drums. We went to Ymir for another month. It was just me and Mike [drummer] for two weeks where we recorded the drums for ‘Antidote’ and worked on ‘Manipulation.’”

Munro and Flegel also rented a studio in Montreal, owned Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire.

“It was his kind of home studio and it had this beautiful gear all in one room,” Munro says. “We recorded some of the vocals for that song ‘Antidote’ in Mexico when we were down there for this festival called NRML.” New Material is definitely a subtler work for Preoccupations. Tracks are made up of reverb-soaked apparitions that Munro recorded with various members of the band, fused together with specific sampler sounds like distorted drums. It’s the perfect marriage of violent, digital insanity.

Songs like “Disarray” and “Antidote,” that are held together by obscure time signatures and indecipherable instrumentation, test your patience and are meant to be listened to in great detail. This isn’t the kind of album you throw on at a party for background noise.

“My ultimate goal—I felt like we got there on a few songs on the Preoccupations album—is to have something that sounds

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kind of confusing where you don’t know what instruments are being played,” Munro says. “I ultimately want to make a record where you’re really not sure of what everything is, but it still sounds like a band and sounds like music.”

Munro describes the recording process behind each song on New Material like a mad scientist would for their newest otherworldly experiment or creature. He’s also a firm believer and utilizer of the sampler (an instrument that plays back recorded bits of audio). Samplers have been used in Preoccupations’ music since they were Viet Cong, and it’s always been a core aspect of their unique sound that falls somewhere between New Order, and Echo and the Bunnymen.

“I really like the amount of manipulation you can do with sound in the context of a sampler,” Munro says. “Those songs ‘Antidote’ and ‘Decompose,’ are almost all played on samplers as far as the melodic content goes. I recorded Matt jamming on guitar or whatever and Danny our guitar player doing some cool stuff on keyboards.”

Together with his band, Munro records every idea he can think of for a track and slowly dissects the parts that stick.

“There’s not really any dogma around like ‘Oh this is my guitar part for this song so I’m going to play it,’” Munro says. “Usually, it’s a process of subtraction. The vocals come last and usually, that changes what parts we leave and take out. Then you have a really cool part that might not have worked with that song, but you can use it later.”

Preoccupations have also started using samplers religiously during their live sets.

This means an audience will actually hear the pre-recorded sounds that are found on the album. Along with an accompaniment of lyrics that touch of everything from depression to nuclear holocaust, this puts a Preoccupations show somewhere in the realm of a rigorous dance-punk show mixed with the subtle, quieter nuances of an instrumental post-rock performance.

“There’s a lot of times live where I play the sampler live where I’m just going into the actual recordings and cutting up, say, the keyboard part I play and sampling each note, but I’m still just playing the sound off of the record which is kind of cool,” Munro says.

“Mike does that too with some of the drum hits on the record. I don’t feel like we’re cheating anyone from doing that and I think it’s a pretty good way to bridge the gap.”

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eaves released their selftitled debut album in June 2016 and it gained mass critical acclaim. Soon after they were invited to play Glastonbury in wake of the album’s arrival, which was shortlisted for Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno awards, so it was surprising that the Toronto-based quartet had their sophomore album Wide Open release so quickly by October 2017.

The band wrote Wide Open as they toured their debut album.

Lead singer Jasmyn Burke felt compelled to write because of the world surrounding her at the time. While not overtly political herself, Weaves’ tour in the United Kingdom fell during Brexit and their United States tour fell during the 2016 presidential elections. The conflict of these two events was in the air everywhere the band went. After hearing countless stories and opinions about the situation from fans they met on tour, politics eventually dipped into their music.

“I think they’re two seperate things,” Burke explains, “but you can’t help but be aware of what’s happening. I think some choose to insert it in their music and some people don’t, and that’s OK. Sometimes you need to escape from it all. I think music can

either be a form of escapism or it can articulate what you’re thinking about.”

Burke is joined by guitarist Morgan Waters, bassist Zach Bines, and drummer Spencer Cole to make up Weaves. It’s not easy to pinpoint a genre for their sound so describing it as indie alternative is the best way to sum up the grunge-rock pop-fusion they create.

Wide Open showcases the range of this sound to a tee. Songs like “Gasoline” feel like a warm hug whereas anthems like “Scream” fill the listener with power and confidence, both running themes for Burke. It was this confidence that allowed Weaves to write, record, and produce a full album within six months.

“It just seemed like the climate of the world is sort of this place where things are falling apart but also being rebuilt,” Burke says.

“Whatever I was feeling that day recording just came out and I didn’t really try to edit myself.”

The idea of not overthinking the music drew Burke to indigenous throat singer, Tanya Tagaq who is featured on Wide Open’s single “Scream.” The pair met en route to Iceland years before and after writing the track, Weaves approached Tagaq to join them on the song.

Wed., May 2 (8 pm) Weaves w/ Leisure Club Temple Stage—Starlite Room $13 via ticketfly.com “It was amazing to see her record because it was like two or three takes,” Burke says. “She’s also a person that doesn’t overthink and just does rather than figuring a master plan.”

The product is a moving song depicting self love, confidence, and empowerment. “Scream” is easily one of the strongest on the album and surely a major reason Wide Open was shortlisted at the Junos this year. The quick turnaround and lack of excessive planning paid off for Weaves. It was also fitting for Burke’s raw emotions as they were being turned into songs.

The album, in its entirety, reflects on the roller coaster of emotions that encompass life.

The themes range from activism to empowerment to love, and love lost. Through all of this Burke explains there is one major point Weaves’ Wide Open wants to share: “Just be confident and not be afraid to make music.”

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BLUEGRASS

BEATING A NEW PATH OF TRADITION

The Slocan Ramblers are representing Canada right with their fiery bluegrass jams The Slocan Ramblers, L-R: Alastair Whitehead, Frank Evans, Darryl Poulsen, Adrian Gross / Jen Squires

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ollin’ over hills and mountains, through valleys and plains, around the bends and corners of this illustrious country, The Slocan Ramblers continue ramblin’ on their Canadian tour.

The Toronto-based four piece are on tour for their third album in six years, Queen City Jubilee, and honing their skills

“In the States, like North Carolina, they’ll ask where you’re from, and the response is usually ‘They have bluegrass up there?’ But you go to B.C., and they have a scene; or Alberta, and they have their own scene; no matter where you are.” through experience has only made the band stronger as they continue down their own road of musical fortitude.

After a winter spent touring through the United States, guitarist Darryl Poulsen notices their influence getting bigger and bigger. From humble beginnings jamming in bassist Alastair Whitehead’s garage, to playing festivals, Poulsen says, “It’s been a nice trajectory. We’re getting better shows, touring more, meeting our heroes, and getting down to those bigger bluegrass festivals.”

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Poulsen’s right; bluegrass is a universal language, an ancient romance not privy to the winds and the whines of one-hit wonders or Top 40 fads. While the crowds in the United States may not be aware of the bluegrass scene in Canada, The Slocan Ramblers are thriving off it.

The band’s latest record, Queen City Jubilee (due June 15), is full of romantic orchestras of traditional bluegrass instruments— banjo, mandolin, guitar, and bass —and is sure to be their tightest yet.

“We’ve performed so much that we’ve gotten very professional, and still keep the energy. We’re critical and honest

“We play everything way too fast. It’s a high energy show,” Poulsen says.

Bluegrass is no longer the sunken man in tattered overalls with his beard down to his knees; it’s an experience.

“Once you see it live, and how it happens and works, you’re hooked,” Poulsen says. “And with our show, you see something you don’t see from listening to the record.”

With only one microphone between three harmonizing singers, accompanied by fast fingerpicks, rolling bass lines, and emphatic melodies, the band pays homage to tradition while invigorating a modern audience.

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guys from a place they didn’t even know bluegrass existed.

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Wonder Women 2018; 7pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door); No minors HILLTOP PUB Open stage

hosted by Simon, Dan and Pascal; Every Sat, 4-7pm; Free LEAF BAR AND GRILL

Homemade Jam; 3-7pm; Free MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands

every Sat ON THE ROCKS Rubix Cube;

9pm PARKVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Northern Lights Folk Club presents Martyn Joseph; 8pm REC ROOM–SOUTH EDMONTON COMMON High

Tides; 8:30pm; Free

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Chris Bruce spins

britpop/punk/garage/indie; Every Sat; Wooftop: Sound It Up! with DJ Instigate spinning classic hip-hop and reggae; Underdog: hip-hop open Mic followed by DJ Marack THE COMMON Get Down

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

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

Resolution Saturdays: top 40, throwbacks and club anthems

REC ROOM–WEST EDMONTON MALL The 9's; 9:30pm; Free

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

RICHARD'S PUB Cool Dads;

THE PROVINCIAL PUB

7-10pm ROSE & CROWN PUB Chance

Devlin; 9pm SEWING MACHINE FACTORY

Wares, Dead Soft, Alloys; 7pm; $10; No minors SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Mark

Ammar’s Saturday Sessions Jam; Every Sat, 4-8pm • Eagle Eyes; 9pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door); All ages SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Andrew Scott;

9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Rhythm Revolver; 9pm STARLIGHT CASINO Jason

Greeley; 10pm STARLITE ROOM Manu

Crook$, So Loki, ILLYMINIACHI; 8pm; $15; No minors TEMPLE–STARLITE ROOM

Johnny 2 Fingers & The Deformities, Hell County X; 8pm; $10; 18+ only UNION HALL I Mother Earth

and Finger Eleven; 7pm; $20-$59.50 UPTOWN FOLK CLUB Slocan

Rumblers; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $18 (members), $20 (non-members) YARDBIRD SUITE Willie Jones III Quintet; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $26 (members), $30 (guests)

Wong every Sat Saturday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice; 9pm-2am TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,

motown, funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am Y AFTERHOURS Live DJs;

Every Fri-Sat

SANDS INN & SUITES Open

Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm

Classical

ALIBI PUB AND EATERY Open mic night; Every Sun, 6-9pm BAILEY THEATRE–CAMROSE

The Bailey Buckaroos; 2pm; $15 at the Bailey Box Office or online BLIND PIG PUB Blind Pig Pub Ham Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm; No cover

britpop/punk/garage/indie; Every Tue

UNION HALL Uriah Heep; 7pm;

EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Taco Tuesday

$34.50; No minors

ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL Pro Coro Canada

presents Missae V; 3pm; Tickets at Pro Coro website

DJs

WED MAY 2

CONVOCATION HALL Vertex

Lunchpail

Quartet Concert: Take 5; 2pm

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic

AVIARY Stephen Ferris Art Show, with music featuring Pigeon Breeders; 7pm; $10 (adv at YEGLive)

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Edmonton

Metropolitian Chamber Choir presents Men Sing, doh!; 3pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door) OTTEWELL UNITED CHURCH

Jazz and Reflections featuring the Sandro Dominelli Trio; 3:30-5pm; Admission by donation at the door

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

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

Spades; 9pm

AVIARY Slow Leaves with Micah Erenberg; 7:30pm; $10 (adv at YEGLive), $12 (door)

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

BLUES ON WHYTE The Loose

GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm

Strings; 9pm

HAVE MERCY Piano Karaoke

FESTIVAL PLACE Clay Walker

2018; 7:30pm; $78-$85

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

FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle

LEAF BAR & GRILL Wang

Floor: DJ Zyppy with DJ Late

GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm

Fee; Every Sun

HAVE MERCY Outlaw Country

GAS PUMP Kizomba-DJ; 8pm

Vinyl Night with Sheriff Taylor; Every 3rd Tue of the month • To-Do Tuesday: open mic night hosted by Justin Perkins

MON APR 30 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop: Metal Mondays with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox

LB'S PUB Tuesday Night Open Jam Hosted by Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge

BLUES ON WHYTE The Loose

SEWING MACHINE FACTORY

Strings; 9pm DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB

Karaoke night; Every Mon, 9pm; Free FESTIVAL PLACE Clay Walker

2018; 7:30pm; $78-$85 Stage; 7-11pm PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild Rose Old Tyme

Vide Noir

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APR 27

MIKE WATT & THE MISSING MEN

w/ Gary Debussy and Hex Beat

APR 28

HIGH TIDES

WEST EDMONTON MALL APR 26

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

TEMPLE–STARLITE ROOM

Session: Tom Van Seters Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

SIDELINER’S PUB Singer/

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Chris Bruce spins

9pm

APR 27

THROWBACK THURSDAY with The Sissy Fits DUELING DJS: 80S VS 90S

ft. Thomas Culture & Rudy Roman

Weaves, and Leisure Club; 8pm; $13-$15; No minors

APR 28

DJs

For tickets and full listings TheRecRoom.com

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee; Every Wed

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SC MIRA with daysormay and Guests

Lynne and The Grinders; 7:30-11pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke;

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SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Lady

STARLITE ROOM Born Ruffians; 8pm; $17.50; No minors

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EVENTS

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Rod

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Karaoke

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UPCOMING

ON THE ROCKS Karaoke Wednesdays hosted by ED; Every Wed, 9pm

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

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Dang Wednesdays; Every Wed, 7-11pm; Free

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass

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Wednesday

Jewell Band Open stage

CD / LP

blackbyrd

Borrachera, The Dog Indiana, Machines Like These; 7pm; $10; No minorss

Fiddlers Acoustic Music Jam & Dancing; 7-10pm Songwriter Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon

LORD HURON

BLUES ON WHYTE Sam

TUE MAY 1

Jam Circle; 7:30-11:30pm

10442 whyte ave 439.1273 10442 whyte ave 439.1273

with resident DJs

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Substance with Eddie

FIDDLER'S ROOST Open

SUN APR 29

(except long weekends), 8:30pm

THE 9s The Rec Room is owned by Cineplex Entertainment L. P.

/ Supplied

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday

Brunch with PM Bossa; 9am2pm; By donation BLUES ON WHYTE A Tribute to

Jason Buie; 9pm CHURCH OF HOLY CITY Live

Music Series: Bernard Quill; 1pm HAVE MERCY Bring Your

Own Vinyl ON THE ROCKS Canadian

Coldwater Revival; 9pm RICHARD’S PUB Live musician

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

Brickhouse Horizon Stage Apr 27, 7:30pm $35 (adult), $30 (students and seniors 65+)

VENUEGUIDE 9910 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ALBERTA AVENUE COMMUNITY LEAGUE–HODSON HALL 9210118 Ave ALIBI PUB & EATERY 17328 Stony Plain Rd ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CHURCH 10035-103 St ARIA'S BISTRO 10332-81 Ave, 780.972.4842, ariasbistro.com AVIARY 9314-111 Ave B-STREET BAR 11818-111 Ave BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne Street St. Albert BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BLVD SUPPER X CLUB 10765 Jasper Ave BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 BRICK & WHISKEY PUBLIC HOUSE 8937-82 Ave THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca

CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CAPITOL THEATRE–FORT EDMONTON PARK 7000-143 St 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 CENTURY CASINO–EDMONTON 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT 24 Boudreau Rd, St. Albert, 780.460.8092 CHURCH OF HOLY CITY 9119128a Ave 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 DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB 1111387 Ave NW, devaneyspub.com

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR 8230 Gateway Blvd, elcortezcantina.com EMPRESS ALE HOUSE 9912-82 Ave NW ENVY NIGHT CLUB West Edmonton Mall, 8882 170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca THE FORGE ON WHYTE 1054982 Ave (Whyte Ave) GAS PUMP NIGHT CLUB & BAR 10166-114 St HAVE MERCY SOUTHERN TABLE + BAR 8232 Gateway Blvd, havemercy.ca HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave NW HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage. com L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR & GRILL 9016132 Ave MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337

MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OTTEWELL UNITED CHURCH 6611-93a Ave PARKVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 9135-146 St PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RANCH ROADHOUSE 6107104 St REC ROOM–SOUTH EDMONTON COMMON 1725-99 St NW REC ROOM–WEST EDMONTON MALL 8882-170 St NW RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD’S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3117 ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton. com SEWING MACHINE FACTORY 9562-82 Ave SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SQUARE 1 COFFEE 15 Fairway Drive STARLIGHT CASINO 8882-170 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TEMPLE–STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 1150-82 St URBAN TAVERN 11606 Jasper Ave WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.428.1414 WOODRACK CAFE 7603-109 St, 780. 757.0380, thewoodrackcafe.com Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428

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ALTERNATIVE ROCK

THE END IS NIGH...

Fools Tongue explores love at the end of the world on the latest album Sky

EVENTS

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

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

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Tom Liske; Apr 2728 • Chris Heward; May 4-5

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Adam Ray; Apr 26-29 • Kountry Wayne; May 3-6

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

GST); 5, 10, 15 Class passes available

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

AMITABHA KADAMPA BUDDHIST CENTRE • 9550-87 St • 780.235.8257 • info@ meditationedmonton.org • meditationedmonton. org • Weekly meditation classes and events. All welcome • Every Sun, Tue, Thu

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wo and a half years in the making, Edmonton-based altrockers Fools Tongue have finally released their new album, Sky. Though not a true concept album, Sky explores the idea of love at the end of the world. Each song on the album looks at a different character or situation as they deal with the world ending in their own way. “Drive,” for example, follows a young couple as they spend their final moments on earth driving towards the ocean.

The idea for the album came to Luke Ertman (who plays chapmin stick and sings), while he was working in Vancouver on a theatre production. He looked out the window of his hotel room, and was surrounded by hundreds of other windows looking back at him.

“I had this moment where I was like ‘How do you find out what is important to all these people, and how do you see into their souls?’” Ertman says. “So we had this idea. The quickest way to get to the heart of a person is to face them with the end. It’s the classic sort of last night on earth.”

The end of the world is something that Ertman says has been on the world’s mind lately, especially with climate change and the Trump presidency. But despite all these factors, Ertman says that he’s optimistic about 18 music

the future, and even the album doesn’t necessarily say that the apocalypse is nigh.

“Nowhere in the album do we talk about a disease that’s going to come and wipe us all out, or nuclear winter,” he says. “We’re using the concept of the end of the world as a construct, and within the context of that construct, we want to look at what that means to the emotional core of somebody who sees that. It’s a way of delving into people’s hearts. A way of understanding what’s important to people and why we do the things we do.”

The list of instruments used on the album is expansive. One of the main things that Ertman and Jeff Ramsey, the guitar player, wanted to do with this album was use real instruments for a more human feel. Their last album, 2013’s New World, was made mostly using samples.

“One thing we quickly realized is that you can’t tread lightly on this kind of thing,” Ertman says. “We ended up writing a ton of songs with string parts, with horn parts, with some crazy synth parts. There’s a ton of percussion. It’s epic in its sound.”

What kicked off the multitude of instruments on the album was

Sat., Apr. 28 (7:30 pm) Fools Tongue Album release Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park $30 at doors

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

the band’s drummer, Josh Littlechild, having pow-wow drums and other Indigenous percussion instruments on hand. The band began experimenting with them in Littlechild’s basement on the Maskwacis reserve, and loved the sound. From there, the band decided to see what other percussion they could add and ended up including Ewe drums from Africa, thunder sheets, djembes, and a doumbek.

Looking to thicken up the lower vocal tones of the album, Ertman also performed Mongolian throat singing on some of the tracks. He learned the skill for a theatre production a few years ago, and thought it would be the perfect fit for the album.

With such a big project and sound, Ertman admits that there can be some difficulties performing the songs live on stage, but he won’t let that stop him.

“There’s difficulty, but it always ends up creating something cool,” he says.

Alexander Sorochan

9351-118 Ave • Edmonton Police Service invites the community to an open discussion • 1st Tue of every month, 10-11am

DeepSoul.ca • 780.217.2464; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Most Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins and Les Paul Standard; Pink Floyd-ish originals plus great covers of classics: some free; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 10728-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group offering conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION NIGHT • Habitat for Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext. 237 • mstannard@gmail.com • hfh.org/ volunteer/vin • Learn about taking the next steps and what opportunities are available at Habitat for Humanity • Every May 17, Jun 21; 6-7pm • Free

LGNYEG • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave NW • happyharborcomics.com • Events may include guest speakers, movie nights, board game nights, video game nights and much more • 1st Thu of the month

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

MONTHLY MEDITATION AND VEGAN BRUNCH • Padmanadi Vegetarian Restaurant, 10740-101 St • info@vofa.ca • bit.ly/2hO97nq • 1st Sat of every month, 9am-12pm • Free (confirm via Facebook or email)

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

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

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

PAINTING FOR PLEASURE • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • karenbishopartist@ gmail.com • mcdougallunited.com • A weekly group for those who like to paint, draw or otherwise be creative on paper • Every Thu, 10am-noon SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • 780.452.4661 • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta offers a variety of services and support programs for those who are living with the illness, family members, caregivers, and friends • 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm • Free

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

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

• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 9888 Jasper Ave. 10th floor; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:051pm • Foresters Toastmaster Club: SEESA, 9350-82 St; 587.596.5277; Every Tue, 7-8:30pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: norators. com; meet every Thu, 7pm • Norwood Toastmasters: Norwood Legion, 1115082 St NW; norwoodtoastmasters.ca; Every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); yclubtoastmasters@ gmail.com; Meet every Tue, 7-9pm

FERTILITY AWARENESS CHARTING CIRCLE • Remedy Cafe, 8631-109 St • facced-

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL ASSOCIATION GUIDE HIKE • waskahegantrail.ca •

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

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

monton@gmail.com • fertilityawarenesschartingcircle.org • 1st Mon each month (Oct-Jun), 6:30-8:30pm • $10 (suggested donation) • RSVP at faccedmonton@gmail.com

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McDonalds Riverbend, 494 Riverbend Square:

Terwilleger Park–Terwilleger and Fort Edmonton Footbridges; Apr 29, 9:45am-3pm • Century Park (Section D of paid lot): East Battle River (Duhamel) to Rest & Be Thankful; May 6, 8:45am-3pm

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS DRIVERLESS CARS: RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER • Telus World of Science, 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca/sciencetap • 780.451.3344 • info@twose.ca • What do driverless cars mean for our way of life, society, and economy? Join a panel of experts on driverless cars as we discuss the opportunities and challenges of bringing driverless cars to Edmonton in the near future • May 4, 7-9pm • $10 (adv), $15 (door)

GREAT EXPEDITIONS TRAVEL SLIDE • St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 84240-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 (Gerry Staring), 780.435.6406 (John Woollard), 780.454.6216 (Sylvia Krogh) • Tanzania & Rwanda (May 7), Barbeque at Sylvia Krogh’s, 11561-136 St • First Mon of the month, 7:30pm • $3 donation (guests are asked to bring snacks to share); everyone welcome

NERD NITE SEASON FINALE • Westbury Theatre at the ATB Financial Arts Barns, 1033084 Ave NW • edmonton.nerdnite.com • Where drinking and lectures go hand in hand. Lectures: "Why it’s good to be dirty: how bacteria keep you healthy" by Monica Davis, "Give it Away, Give it Away, Give it Away Now" by Scott Lundell, "Maple Flavoured Recoil: Firearms Law and Ownership in Canada" by Jason Arnold • May 8, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show) • $20 (service charges apply) • 18+ only

QUEER AFFIRM GROUP • garysdeskcom@hotmail. com • mcdougallunited.com • Part of the United Church network supporting LGBTQ men and women • Meet the last Sun of every month at State & Main (101 St and Jasper Ave) for coffee and conversation at 12:30pm; Special speaker events are held throughout the year over lunch at McDougall Church

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912-82 Ave • With DJ Jos • Last Thu of every month • Free • 18+ only

EDMONTON SENIORS CENTRE GLBTQ • Edmonton General Hospital - Edmonton Seniors Centre, 11111 Jasper Ave • office@edmontonseniorscentre.ca • edmontonseniorscentre. ca/lgbtq-support.html • A safe environment to share: education, stories, and activities • 1st and 3rd Mon of the month, 10:30am-12pm (in the boardroom) • Free G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.4235510 (Sage) • tuff69@telus.net • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Tue, 1-4pm PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 2nd Floor, 10618-105 Ave • Wheelchair-accessible elevator at 10610 105 Avenue • (780) 488-3234 • pridecentreofedmonton.org/calendar.html • OFFICE & DROP IN HOURS: Mon-Fri 12-7pm; Closed Sat-Sun and holidays • YOGA: (all ages), 2nd and 4th Mon of every month • TTIQ: (18+ Trans Group) 2nd Mon of every month, 7-9pm • TRANS YOUTH GROUP & PARENTS/CAREGIVERS SUPPORT: (24 and under) 3rd Mon of every month, 7-9pm • FIERCE FUN: (24 and under) Biweekly Tue, 7-9pm, games and activities for youth • JAMOUT: (12-24) Biweekly Tue, 7-8:30pm, music mentorship and instruction for youth • TWO SPIRIT GATHERING: 4th Wed of every month, 6-8pm, gathering for First Nations Two Spirit people • MEN’S SOCIAL CIRCLE: (18+) 1st and 3rd Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone masculineidentified • WOMEN’S SOCIAL CIRCLE: (18+) 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone feminineidentified • MOVIES & GAMES NIGHT: Biweekly Fri, 6-8:30pm • ARTS & IDENTITY: Biweekly Fri, 6-8:30pm • CREATING SAFER SPACES TRAINING: Interactive professional development workshops, with full or half-day options • QUEER YOUTH MENTORING: (Youth: 12–24) (Adults 26+)

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I’m a straight male in my 30s.

I’ve been with my wife for 12 years. I have had several affairs.

Not one-night-stand scenarios, but longer-term connections. I didn’t pursue any of these relationships. Instead, women who knew I was in an “exclusive” relationship have approached me. These have included what turned into a one-year affair with a single woman, a three-year affair with a close friend of my wife, a seven-month affair with a married co-worker, and now a fairly serious four-monthsand-counting relationship with a woman who approached me on Instagram. On the one hand, I do not regret my time with any of these women. On the other hand, I have been deceitful and manipulative for almost my entire adult life. I am a terrible husband in this respect. Also, I’m going to get busted eventually, right? Finding out about this would crush my wife. I love her, we get along great, and the sex is good—if I wasn’t such a lying piece of shit, you could even say we make a pretty good team.

We are also very socially and financially entangled. I don’t want to leave, but I suspect I should.

And if so, I need help considering an exit strategy. Part of my motivation for writing is that I am particularly attached to the woman I’m having an affair with now, and both of us fantasize about being together openly.

I’m a liar, a cheat, a user, and a manipulator—and it just keeps happening.

A SERIOUSLY SHITTY HUSBAND ON LOSING EVERYTHING P.S. I’m expecting you to rip me to shreds.

It doesn’t “just keep happening,” ASSHOLE, you keep doing it. And these women didn’t “turn into” one-year, three-year,

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seven-month, and four-monthsand-counting affairs on their own. You turned them into affairs by continuing to show up.

And while you claim that each of these women pursued you despite knowing you were in an exclusive relationship, it doesn’t sound like you ran from any of them. At best, you broke into (or slowed to) a trot, which allowed each one of these lady predators to overtake you.

The first step toward holding yourself accountable for your appalling actions—a close friend of your wife? really?— is doing away with the passive voice. Don’t ask yourself, “How’d that happen?!?” as if the universe was conspiring against you somehow. You weren’t hit by a pussy meteor every time you left the house. You did these things. You had these affairs. You. Zooming out: If all it takes for some rando to get her hands on your otherwise committed cock is to DM you on Instagram, you have no business making monogamous commitments. If you’d sought out a partner who wanted an open relationship—a wide-open one—you could have had concurrent, committed, nonexclusive relationships and avoided being “a liar, a cheat, a user,” etc.

Seeing as you’re a reader, ASSHOLE, I suspect you knew an honest open relationship was an option—that ethical nonmonogamy was an option—but you didn’t pursue that. And why not? Maybe because you don’t want to be with a woman who is free to sit on other dicks.

Or maybe the wrongness and the self-loathing—the whole bad-boy-on-the-rack routine— turns you on. Or maybe you’re the wrong kind of sadist: the un-self-aware emotional sadist. You say you love your

wife, but you also say she’d be crushed—destroyed—if she discovered what you’ve been doing. Be honest, ASSHOLE, just this once: Is the destruction of your wife a bug or is it a feature? I suspect the latter. Because cheating on this scale isn’t about succumbing to temptation or reacting to neglect. It’s about the annihilation of your partner—a (hopefully) subconscious desire to punish and destroy someone, anyone, fool enough to love you.

The tragedy is how unnecessary your choices have been.

There are women out there who aren’t interested in monogamy, there are female cuckolds out there (cuckqueans) who want cheating husbands, and there are masochistic women (and men) out there who get off on the thought of being with a person who would like to crush them. So long as those desires are consciously eroticized, fully compartmentalized, and safely expressed, you could have done everything you wanted, ASSHOLE, without harming anyone.

So what do you do now?

It seems like you want out, and your wife definitely deserves better, so cop to one affair, since copping to all of them would crush her—or so you think. People are often way more resilient than we give them credit for, and convincing ourselves that our partners can’t handle the truth is often a convenient justification for lying to them. But on the off chance it would crush your wife to be told everything, just tell her about Ms. Instagram. That should be enough.

P.S. Get your ass into therapy, ASSHOLE.

HOOKUP ULTIMATUM

I’m a 42-year-old gay man. I’ve been with my husband for 21 years. We met in college and,

except for a six-month break, we’ve been together ever since.

I made an open relationship a requirement at the start. While my husband had jealousy and trust issues, he hooked up with others regularly. After a few tense years, we started couples therapy. During therapy, my husband revealed that he was never in favour of the openness.

After trying some new arrangements—only together, only at sex parties, DADT (Don’t ask, Don’t tell)—he realized he wasn’t comfortable with any situation. He told our therapist that every time I hooked up with someone, he was retraumatized because it reminded him of the time I broke up with him for six months 20 years ago. I agreed to a monogamous relationship, and I’ve gone a year without hooking up with anyone else. He seemed genuinely relieved and said he felt more secure. But almost immediately, he began talking about how he wanted to hook up with others. I’m at a loss. I feel tremendous guilt for even thinking about splitting up, so I keep hoping we’ll stumble on the thing that will work for us.

I don’t know what to say when he says I should be monogamous to him while he gets to hook up with others. He says this would be best, since my hooking up triggers him. We are at an impasse. It sucks that we could break up over this.

GAY MARRIAGE HAVING CRISIS I’ve written about a few gay couples—and a few straight ones—where one half gets to hook up with others while the other half doesn’t. But they were cuckold couples, GMHC, and the half who didn’t “get to” hook up with others didn’t want to hook up with others. The cuck half of a cuckold couple

gets off on their partner “cheating” on them. While people outside the relationship might perceive that as unfair—one gets to cheat, the other doesn’t— what’s more ideal than both halves of a couple getting just what they want?

But if an eroticized power imbalance—an honestly erotized one—doesn’t turn you on, the creepily manipulative arrangement your husband is proposing certainly isn’t going to work.

Which means it’s both ultimatum and bluff-calling time. So long as your husband thinks he can dictate terms by pointing to his triggers and his trauma, GMHC, he has every incentive to continue being triggered and traumatized. So with your couples therapist there to mediate, tell him your marriage is either open or closed. You’re not interested in being his cuckold and he can’t point to his trauma to force you into that role.

You’re a handsome couple— thanks for enclosing the lovely picture (sometimes it’s nice to see the face of the person I’m responding to!)—with a long history together, and here’s hoping things work out. But if they don’t, GMHC, neither of you is going to have a problem finding a new partner. He can get himself a guy who likes being dictated to, if that’s really what he wants. And you can find a guy who wants an open and egalitarian relationship, which is what you deserve.

P.S. If your therapist is taking your husband’s side in this, GMHC, get a new therapist.

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The oft-chosen solution is to be partially intimate: not as close as we would like to be, but only as much as we can bear. Now everything I just said, Aries, is a preface for better news: In the coming weeks, neither your own quills nor those of the people you care about will be as sharp or as long as usual.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Simpsons is the longest-running American TV sitcom and animated series. But it had a rough start.

In the fall of 1989, when producers staged a private pre-release screening of the first episode, they realized the animation was mediocre. They worked hard to redo it, replacing 70 percent of the original content. After that slow start, the process got easier and the results got better. When the program completes its 30th season in 2019, it will have aired 669 episodes. I don’t know if your own burgeoning project will ultimately have as enduring a presence, Taurus, but I’m pretty sure that, like The Simpsons, it will eventually become better than it is in the early going. Stick with it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming weeks might be an interesting time to resurrect a frustrated dream you abandoned in a wasteland; or rescue and restore a moldering treasure you stopped taking care of a while back; or revive a faltering commitment you’ve been ignoring for reasons that aren’t very high-minded. Is there a secret joy you’ve been denying yourself without good cause? Renew your relationship with it. Is there a rough prize you received before you were ready to make smart use of it? Maybe you’re finally ready. Are you brave enough to dismantle a bad habit that hampers your self-mastery?

I suspect you are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Hollywood film industry relies heavily on recycled ideas. In 2014, for example, only one of the ten top-grossing movies—Interstellar—was not a sequel, remake, reboot, or episode in a franchise.

In the coming weeks and months, Cancerian, you’ll generate maximum health and wisdom for yourself by being more like Interstellar than like The Amazing

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Long ago, in the land we now call Italy, humans regarded Mars as the divine protector of fields. He was the fertility god who ripened the food crops. Farmers said prayers to him before planting seeds, asking for his blessings. But as the Roman Empire arose, and warriors began to outnumber farmers; the deity who once served as a kind benefactor evolved into a militant champion, even a fierce and belligerent conqueror. In accordance with current astrological omens, Leo, I encourage you to evolve in the opposite direction. Now is an excellent time to transmute aggressiveness and combativeness into fecundity and tenderness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You sometimes get superstitious when life is going well. You worry about growing overconfident.

You’re afraid that if you enjoy yourself too much, you will anger the gods and jinx your good fortune. Is any of that noise clouding your mood these days? I hope not; it shouldn’t be. The truth, as I see it, is that your intuition is extra-strong and your decision-making is especially adroit.

More luck than usual is flowing in your vicinity, and you have an enhanced knack for capitalizing on it. In my estimation, therefore, the coming weeks will be a favourable time to build up your hunger for vivid adventures and bring your fantasies at least one step closer to becoming concrete realities. Whisper the following to yourself as you drop off to sleep each night: “I will allow myself to think bigger and bolder than usual.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The bad news is that 60 percent of Nevada’s Lake Mead has dried up. The good news—at least for historians, tourists, and hikers—is that the Old West town of St. Thomas has re-emerged.

It had sunk beneath the water in 1936, when the government built the dam that created the lake. But as the lake has shrunk in recent years, old buildings and roads have reappeared. I foresee a comparable resurfacing in your life, Libra: the return of a lost resource or vanished possibility or departed influence.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I hope the next seven weeks will be a time of renaissance for your most engaging alliances. The astrological omens suggest it can be. Would you like to take advantage of this cosmic invitation? If so, try the following strategies.

1.) Arrange for you and each of your close companions to relive the time when you first met.

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sation that originally brought you together. 2.) Talk about the influences you’ve had on each other and the ways your relationship has evolved. 3.) Fantasize about the inspirations and help you’d like to offer each other in the future. 4.) Brainstorm about the benefits your connection has provided and will provide for the rest of the world.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Now is one of the rare times when you should be alert for the potential downsides of blessings that usually sustain you. Even the best things in life could require adjustments. Even your most enlightened attitudes and mature beliefs may have pockets of ignorance. So don’t be a prisoner of your own success or a slave of good habits. Your ability to adjust and make corrections will be key to the most interesting kind of progress you can achieve in the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Simone de Beauvoir was a French feminist and activist. In her book A Transatlantic Love Affair, she made a surprising confession: Thanks to the assistance of a new lover, Nelson Algren, she finally had her first orgasm at age 39. Better late than never, right? I suspect that you, too, are currently a good candidate to be transported to a higher octave of pleasure. Even if you’re an old pro at sexual climax, there may be a new level of bliss awaiting you in some other way.

Ask for it! Seek it out! Solicit it!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Can you afford to hire someone to do your busy work for a while?

If so, do it. If not, see if you can avoid the busy work for a while. In my astrological opinion, you need to deepen and refine your skills at lounging around and doing nothing. The cosmic omens strongly and loudly and energetically suggest that you should be soft and quiet and placid. It’s time for you to recharge your psychospiritual batteries as you dream up new approaches to making love, making money, and making sweet nonsense. Please say a demure “no, thanks” to the strident demands of the status quo, my dear.

Trust the stars in your own eyes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I believe it’s a favourable time for you to add a new mentor to your entourage. If you don’t have a mentor, go exploring until you find one. In the next five weeks, you might even consider mustering a host of fresh teachers, guides, trainers, coaches, and initiators. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you’re primed to learn twice as much and twice as fast about every subject that will be important for you during the next two years. Your future educational needs require your full attention.

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