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Mourning queer icons

The passing of our pop idols is a time to celebrate their contributions Either we have been cursed or the end-times are imminent and the first to ascend to the great beyond are some of the greatest Englishspeaking entertainers of the last half-century. I don't really see any other explanation as to why 2016 has been marked by such a rash of celebrity deaths. And to make matters worse, so many of those who have died have been queer icons.

First, there was the one-two punch in mid-January with the passing of David Bowie and Alan Rickman. (If Rickman's campy Sheriff of Nottingham didn't help shepherd some younglings into queerdom, I'll eat my hat. Also, I'm sure I'm not the only lesbian who would happily have had sex with him and that voice. Alan Rickman: the one

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person all queers could agree on.)

Other less-queer luminaries like Glenn Frey, two members of Jefferson Airplane, Maurice White and George Martin followed suit. And then two weeks ago, Prince was found unresponsive in an elevator in his home and declared dead on April 21. He was only 57.

All jokes aside (seriously though, someone tell Madonna to keep an eye out), the barrage of celebrity deaths has seemed particularly brutal this year. And it does make sense: queer culture and celebrity culture really took off with the Baby Boomers, and many of these folks are now entering their 60s and 70s. But what does this mean for queers and queer culture?

Queer culture has galvanized

around celebrity deaths before— one only need remember the impact of the deaths of Rock Hudson and Freddie Mercury on AIDS activism— but this time is different. Undoubtedly, Prince and Bowie seemed ageless—and the former especially was taken too young—but there's no sinister systemic crisis behind these deaths. Our stars are dying not because they burned too brightly but because they are getting old.

There is something extraordinary about the banality of this situation.

To think that someone like Bowie could bust out as a gender-bending bisexual alien in the '70s, proceed to meteoric mainstream success, and remain active literally until he passed away from cancer is astonishing. That one of the best-selling

recording artists of all time was an effeminate, bi-racial, flamboyant man who flaunted sex whenever he was on stage is mind-boggling. That both of these men were allowed to carve out success mostly on their own terms and be celebrated for it is precious and worth grieving.

We can grieve the loss of a particular kind of queer culture, as well.

Never again will there be pop stars quite like Prince and Bowie—others will follow who will be as talented, but they will step on the shards of gender molds that have already been broken. We don't have a contemporary equivalent to these men because we don't need one. The biggest English-speaking pop star in the world is a black

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Why are property prices in Baghdad as high as in London?

Property prices in central Baghdad are as high as London's, even though Iraq's national income is down by 70 percent since the collapse in the oil price. Islamic State's bombs regularly devastate parts of the capital, and still the real estate market booms. Why? Because there is so much "dirty money" in Iraq that needs to be laundered. If you lack the political clout to get your stolen money out of the country, then the safest course is to put it into residential property.

Although, that's not a very safe bet either when the entire pseudo-democratic system bequeathed to Iraq by the US invasion is on the brink of collapse.

Last weekend's intrusion into the Green Zone, the vast (10 square km) blast-walled government compound in Baghdad, by thousands of angry Iraqis was probably the beginning of the end of the current dispensation in Iraq. After only two days they left again, after delivering an ultimatum calling for wholesale reform of the government, but they vowed to return if it does not happen.

It will not happen, and they will be back in the streets soon. Former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, forced from power in 2014 after Islamic State forces conquered the western half of Iraq, has been plotting a comeback with other parties in parliament.

He may not succeed, but he and his allies are certainly able to block the passage of most measures they do not like.

The cement binding Maliki and the other plotters together is their determination to retain the utterly corrupt system that has allowed them to loot the country's oil wealth for so long. The oil wealth is a great deal less now, but it is still practically Iraq's only source of income and they have no in-

woman who is busy proving that black women are powerful. That is transgressive. A gender-bending rule breaker, though? Miley Cyrus's antics or Janelle Monáe's androgyny are just part of the pop landscape now.

So to the younger queers reading this, who are inspired by Cyrus or Monáe, I encourage you to pick up a copy of Diamond Dogs or Purple Rain and imagine what it would mean to be stuck in a small town without a bevy of queer idols just a few clicks away.

And to the older ones: let us grieve, and remember, and celebrate that we have come so far and were lucky to have been gathered together to get through this thing called life. V

tention of giving it up.

The man who replaced Maliki, President Haider al-Abadi, is in relative terms a reformer. He belongs to the same Dawa Party as Maliki and cannot afford to get too far out of touch with his power base. Nevertheless, almost a year ago he promised that he would replace many of his cabinet members, drawn from the various parties in the ruling coalition, with "technocrats" who would (theoretically) be less likely to steal the government's money.

He couldn't deliver on his promise, however, because any cabinet changes have to be approved by parliament. None of the parties there were willing to give up their own cabinet ministers, and with it their ability to divert the government's cash flow into their own pockets. Three times Abadi's proposed reforms were rejected by parliament.

It was after the last time, in April, that Muqtada al-Sadr, a populist cleric with a big following among Baghdad's multitudinous Shia poor, ordered the invasion of the fortified Green Zone. That did force parliament to approve of five of Abadi's cabinet changes, and more will probably follow.

But changing the figureheads in the government ministries will not end the looting of public funds, which permeates the system from top to bottom. Indeed, you might say that corruption is the system in Iraq.

Like several other oil-rich countries, Iraq distributes some of the cash-flow to the citizens by means of paying them to do non-jobs. Most of the rest is stolen by the 25 000 or so people who hold senior administrative, political or military positions, leaving a small amount for public works.

There are seven million government employees in Iraq—in other words, a large majority of the adult male population— and most of them do little or no work. Indeed, some of them don't even exist, like the "ghost soldiers" whose pay is collected by their officers. Collectively they were paid around $4 billion a month, which was all right when monthly oil income was up around $6 billion.

The oil revenue is now down to $2 billion a month. The Central Bank has been making up the difference from its reserves, but those are now running low. The system is about to go bankrupt and the economic crisis is now more urgent and more dangerous than the military confrontation with Islamic State, but that does not seem clear to many of the major players in Iraq's dysfunctional political system.

It is so dysfunctional that little is being done even to repair the Mosul Dam, which requires constant work on its foundations if it is not to break and drown Mosul, four hours downstream, under a 24-metre-high wave. The wave would be much lower when it reached Baghdad two days later, but it would still be big enough to wreck property values for a long time to come.

All this talk about the Iraqi army driving Islamic State back is just hot air. The only Iraqi military advances have happened under the cover of massive US air strikes, and the government's own attention is elsewhere.

So, increasingly, is that of the population.

But Islamic State is still paying attention. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Last Wednesday, the US Treasury Department confirmed it would be overseeing a complete overhaul of its widely used denominations—$5, $10 and $20 bills—to include new historical figures—six females and one male—on the front and back of the bills. Among those new faces will be Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill; Martin Luther King Jr, Marian Anderson and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on the $5 bill; and a redesign of the $10 depicting suffragists Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth.

While the makeover is being applauded for its depiction of women, it has been more than 100 years since a woman has been featured on US paper money—Martha Washington graced the silver dollar note in 1886, 1891 and 1896 (that year featured George Washington). It is also receiving accolades for its depiction of African-Americans for the first time in history, but that progress is undermined by bigotry—especially in regards to the $20 bill.

The redesign of the $20 bill will have Harriet Tubman sharing the proverbial stage with its current holder, former president Andrew Jackson.

Tubman will be placed on the front of the bill, where Jackson currently is; he'll be moved to the back, where the White House is currently shown.

What's wrong with that, you ask? Well, Tubman— an African-American born into slavery—fought rigorously for the freedom of slaves and led many to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

Jackson, however, was a slave owner in addition to being the seventh US president, and he had been involved in the systematic genocide of Native Americans in the Trail of Tears. Putting Tubman on the same bill as Jackson is not only tasteless and offensive, it disrespects Tubman entirely.

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Future historians

The annual Edmonton Regional Heritage Fair promotes history for teens

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ith the end of the school year approaching, elementary and junior high students across Edmonton are soon to be flooded with a tidal wave of extracurricular events—track meets and year-end concerts, patroller picnics and DARE graduations, school plays and field trips. But one subject is often overlooked amid the frenzy of spring activities: history.

"History's kind of a topic that gets left behind sometimes, [after] the sciences and math and all that other fun stuff," Kaisha Farkouh, Edmonton Regional Heritage Fair coordinator, says. "And the heritage fair really promotes Canadian history and Canadian heritage, and encourages the students to learn about what makes Canada, Canada—what makes our culture what it is today."

On Saturday, the Edmonton Regional Heritage Fair will bring together over 200 students in grades four to nine, each of whom has researched and developed a unique historical project.

"There's a huge range of topics," Farkouh says. "They could be anything from geography, culture, history. There's kids that have done things on maple syrup and Canadian inventions—I think one kid did one on Canadian obesity. Some of the kids, even granted [that] they're only 10 [or] 12 years old, some of them pick some pretty hard topics. One school that comes back every year is the Edmonton Islamic Academy, and a lot of times their students go for some hardcore topics. They've done Islamic Catholicism and racism in Canada. I think we have one this year that's doing aboriginal and Islamic beliefs, which I'm quite interested to see.

I know a few of them have done topics on residential schools."

The fair invites volunteer judges— teachers, professors, historians, archivists and regular community members who have an interest in history—to come explore the fruits of the students' labour.

"We try not to make it competitive in nature," Farkouh says. "It's more just about encouraging and wanting to get kids engaged. So the way our judging works is the judges will listen to the kids' presentations, and then we give them some recommended questions. ... We give our judges a comment card, and they fill out the comment card about what the students did well, what they liked. And then the students get to see those.

It's really more about just encouraging and being really positive."

The heritage fair has its own history: it's been running for over a decade, and many schools have made it a big part of their year—even hosting a mini-fair beforehand to select the students they'll send. Farkouh's main goal for future years is to introduce the concept to more teachers and find new schools to participate.

"It's a great opportunity for kids to get involved in something that they might not always think to get involved in," she says. "I love history; I love everything about it, and it's so great to see these kids come in and just get excited about it and be engaged in it and really actually enjoy what they're learning about. So it kind of gives you hope that there may be some other future historians who keep our history and our heritage alive."

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Everybody loves pizza

LOVEPIZZA a welcome addition to Edmonton's thin-crust landscape

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t has only been three months since the restaurant opened, and already there's talk of expanding: clearly, Edmonton was hungry for the quality pies that LOVEPIZZA offers.

Owners Braede Harris and Gavin Fedoruk met and fell in love over pizza, as a note on the wall of their restaurant describes. LOVEPIZZA inhabits Canterra Plaza on 109 Street and Jasper Avenue: a fairly banal framework that the duo has personalized with clean, modern lines and a black-and-white palette featuring floor-to-ceiling photographs stretching across one wall.

The pair is sitting at a table in one corder of the open dining area, on a weekday morning while their team is busy prepping for the day in the small kitchen tucked behind the long ordering counter. You need only step inside the place for evidence of their work, the air redolent of garlic and herbs. It's been pretty much non-stop work to get this place started, they note, acknowledging their (pleasant) surprise at the immediate positive response they've received. They've been so busy that they haven't needed to turn on the online ordering app they had designed, and Fedoruk—who is also one of the co-owners of Press'd Sandwich Company—has already started talking about expanding to more locations. But it's still early days, Harris counterpoints, and they are just trying to find LOVEPIZZA's place in the local community.

"We really want to build a business here, with LOVEPIZZA, that's about more than just a place to go and grab a quick pizza," Fedoruk says.

"In all aspects of what we're doing, the reason we started this—it is our family. We have [Braede] and I running it; we want our crew to get paid well; we want them to enjoy their work here; we want them to interact with customers."

"And feel like they're part of our family, too," Harris adds.

"It's about more than just serving that line today," Fedoruk continues.

"We just really want to build that holistic, 360 approach to a family run community business."

Further to this, they'll be starting up the LOVEPIZZAGIVES program right away, which will donate $1 for every pizza sold during a chosen week to a local charity; the first one is We All

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Believe in You, which supports the destigmatization of mental illness and runs until May 8.

Fedoruk and Harris are unique among the winners of the Best New Restaurant category of Vue's Golden Fork Awards—in which LOVEPIZZA took first place, and ranked in a handful of others—in that they are the only ones who aren't chefs themselves. They had been mulling over the idea of a pizza restaurant for a few years, until a confluence of events—finding the right space, connecting with others who were also interested in the concept—resulted in LOVEPIZZA. While the duo admits that they are fine home cooks, they are far from professional chefs. ("I wouldn't be able to be a chef," Fedoruk states plainly.) A culinary manager and cook handle all the food, which is all made in-house—from the dough and sauce to all the toppings. The menu was originally developed by Paul Shufelt, currently of Workshop Eatery (and another Golden Fork winner).

"My knife skills are terrible—like, terrible!" Harris admits. "I have every gadget to try to cut a good piece of cheese off a block and I'm still terrible. But I actually do most of the cooking at home, so I think I'm OK." "[She] is very good at the random, non-recipe recipe—just throwing it together, making something," Fedoruk adds.

Like many of the city's most celebrated restaurants, working with local suppliers and businesses is a fundamental part of LOVEPIZZA. A small freezer featuring Pinocchio Ice Cream sits right beside the beverage cooler behind the counter, and the duo sources a number of their ingredients from local farmers: their bacon comes from Irving's Farm Fresh and Gold Forest Grains supplies their whole wheat flour, to name a couple.

"It's definitely more expensive; it's kind of artisan products," Fedoruk says. "But I think it really helps. I think it drives traffic, too; it generates more buzz for our business."

LOVEPIZZA is still a very young restaurant, but if its initial reception is any indication, it's here to stay. It was high time for a new pizza place that isn't a generic fast-food chain, and Harris and Fedoruk's family

minded, community focus is obviously appealing to many.

And they've even brought their dog in the restaurant—metaphorically, that is. "[He] is pretty much another member of our family," Harris says, after she and Fedoruk both name—unanimously and immediately—The Q pizza as the menu item they'd choose to save above all others.

"His name's Quincy, and he has quite a personality and he's little spicy," Harris continues. "The chipotle barbecue sauce is a little zesty, so we thought that was a pretty good pizza for him to be named after. We had to have him in the restaurant somehow."

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Oliver got hooked on cooking back when he was 10 years old and started baking snacks after school. He worked professionally under "the firm hand" of a traditional German chef; that made him well versed in the fundamentals, but he's still learning other culinary skills from the younger cooks in his kitchen.

"I can't juggle a knife—the knife skills I could always work [on] a little bit more," he says with a laugh. "But there's the sciences behind some of the cooking. ... I'd love to start learning a bit more about it because I have

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kids in my kitchen who are learning to make head cheese [from me], but they're also teaching me how to do the molecular gastronomy."

Don't ask him about beans, though.

"If they're not pickled, I'm not touching them," he says. "It's one of those things where you grow up, as a kid, [having] string beans out of a can— they're yellow; they're green; two minutes cooking and three minutes they're overdone into mush. That kind of throws you off; I haven't been able to look at beans the same since."

Transparency is key at Farm to Fork, and Oliver hopes every guest will ask questions about the menu—he's ready with the story behind each ingredient.

"We very much pride ourselves in knowing that the food you're going to get on your plate—I can tell you the farmer, the garden it's coming from or the farmer's name," he says.

"I can tell you a little bit of his story.

We just like to say that we're honest and we're true about what we're giving everyone. And if we don't have it available today, or if I had to pick up a carrot from the big conglomerate just to get us through for the week or the weekend, I'd tell you. We're honest about our food."

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"You can't be looking into being the chef of a farm-to-fork [restaurant] and not be into the local scene," he continues. "For us, it's just a matter of a lot of research ... seeing where the freshness is coming from."

Farm to Fork's menu is short and to the point, spanning classic Western Canadian food, heavy on the meat: charcuterie, sliders, lamb, steak, wild boar, chicken and pork. Local veggies are well represented in the restaurant's salads and sides, as well as its lone vegetarian entrée (a squash and mushroom risotto).

The porterhouse is the star of their menu, and the item that Oliver identifies as the one he'd save above all others. "That's 26 days [aged], 24 ounces of pure goodness," he says with a grin.

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f all the places in town that have staked a claim in the local-food movement, Farm to Fork Eatery is possibly the most direct about it: after all, it's right there in the name.

You wouldn't necessarily expect a menu laden with ingredients from local farmers at a restaurant in a strip mall in Sherwood Park, however.

Farm to Fork is a chameleon: its modern, clean interior is decorated in neutral colours and doesn't look much different from any other restaurant in the area. An aquaponics system in the centre of the dining room—featuring a fish tank hooked up to lengths of PVC pipe out of which various greens are sprouting—is the only feature belying that impression.

That, and the menu of course: owner Justin Halabi had a farm-to-table concept in mind for some time, and executive chef Jason Oliver had been moving in that direction with his cooking for years as well. The two formed a partnership and have been knee-deep in the local food scene since then.

Since the restaurant's launch in January, its efforts haven't gone unnoticed: most recently, Farm to Fork netted a handful of Vue's Golden Fork Awards, including first place for Best Hidden Gem, Worth the Trip (Sherwood Park) and Best Menu Layout/ Design; second place for Best New Restaurant and Best Chef.

"We look at it the same way a lot of the local groups around Edmonton [do]: Alberta, Saskatchewan, BC," Oliver says, seated at a table in the restaurant's lounge. "We try to stay as much as possible around the YEG area code. We do branch out to BC because with the shutdown of the

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n a sunny spring morning, the floor-to-ceiling windows and airy interior make Workshop Eatery a bright, inviting spot. Tucked in the deep south of the city, just south of the Anthony Henday off Calgary Trail in the Mosaic Centre, Paul Shufelt's latest culinary endeavour has garnered high praise despite its less-than-central location. The restaurant, which features approachable, unpretentious food rooted in the seasons, has already established itself as a mainstay of the local food scene. Most recently, the restaurant earned third place in Vue's annual Golden Fork Awards for the Best New Restaurant category.

Sitting at a sunny table in Workshop, Shufelt gives some insight into his culinary career, what he's really into right now—and more importantly, which of his menu items he'd save from from a fire.

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"I wanted to get my passion back and wanted to just be able to cook whatever I wanted to create, and have fun with food again; sort of step away from the laptop and get in front of the cutting board again," he explains.

Shufelt fell into the kitchen when he was 16, through a dishwashing job at a restaurant in his small Quebec hometown. After moving up the ranks, he fell in love with the hectic lifestyle, eventually moving west to attend NAIT's culinary arts program and later take on the executive chef position for the Century Hospitality Group.

As his own space, Workshop Eatery affords Shufelt the chance to do everything his own way, he explains.

Part of that was getting his hands dirty—quite literally: he gestures to the rows of garden boxes, galvanized metal sides glinting in the sun, just on the other side of the window

from his table. The beds are still mostly bare earth, though the spinach he planted last fall is already mature; a few sprouts of other veggies have also popped up, thanks to this year's early spring.

"I'm really excited about the opportunity to work with what the garden gives us," Shufelt says, pointing out the makeshift indoor greenhouses he also has set up on a nearby counter.

He and his team are handling all of the garden chores right now, though he's looking for a consultant to give some advice on planning.

"It's not going to provide all of our food by any stretch, but [we] work with what the garden gives us and then have that opportunity to create from there, come up with dishes that highlight those ingredients," he says.

"When it's not from our garden, it's really focused on what's available at that time of year and what's seasonal."

Over the course of his career in the kitchen, Shufelt has prepared meals for countless people. If he could cook for anyone right now, however, he'd choose his grandmothers.

"I would probably ask them to join me in the kitchen and just cook with them, some of the simple stuff that I love and they used to [make]—my grandmother's beef-barley soup, or my other grandmother's spaghetti," he says. "Simple stuff like that, that you miss. We can cook all the fancy stuff at the restaurant, but there's something to be said about that just simple, delicious comfort food made with love."

As for which menu item he'd pick to save from a burning building, he hesitates briefly before making a choice.

"It's like picking a favourite kid!" he exclaims. "It would change on a regular basis. Today it's probably

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the schwein. It's a real play on comfort food, reminiscent of my time in Switzerland. We have braised red cabbage and spaetzle and schnitzel. We put it on the menu sort of like a filler to get through until the summer ... [but] it's just become so popular; everyone loves it and we're just loving making it. It's sort of my guilty pleasure; every couple weeks I'll make one for myself."

Ultimately, Shufelt hopes that people won't be deterred by Workshop's southerly location.

"We're worth a trip," he says. "We try to make it worth the visit. Our food's approachable and comfortable and not too pretentious. And we really focus on seasonal cooking and supporting the region and the area as much as we can."

MEL PRIESTLEY

MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

FEATURE // GOLDEN FORK WINNER

The Local Omnivore 10933 - 120 Street 780.660.1051 thelocalomnivore.com

It’s almost roscato time

Sausages and sloppy tacos

// Meaghan Baxter

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The Local Omnivore successfully moved from food truck to brick-and-mortar shop

'I

haven't had a clue what I wanted to do with my life, ever—except now. Now I'm happy."

Tattooed, burly and gregarious, Mark Bellows isn't a man who minces words. He's seated beside his equally laid-back partner, Ryan Brodziak, in the brick-and-mortar incarnation of The Local Omnivore. After running their food truck for a couple years, which featured sandwiches, salads and other brunch and lunch items showcasing the duo's signature cured and smoked ingredients, they've settled down into permanent digs in a semi-industrial strip mall a few blocks from the 124 Street hub. It's a little out of the way, but the area is slated for revitalization, including a new pedestrian walkway that will run right up to the building.

Describing themselves as total opposites of one another, the pair developed an immediate rapport after they started working together in the same kitchen. That was after Bellows had attended NAIT's culinary arts program and then taken a long break from cooking ("I hated it," he says emphatically); after he was "dragged back" into the kitchen he met Brodziak— who was cooking out of necessity.

"I was playing in a band at the time and touring; no one would hire you except for crazy people who run restaurants," Brodziak explains. "I fell in love with the chaos; it was the only thing that would keep me motivated.

I'm terrible at a regular nine-to-five job. Apathy comes in and I just lose all will. Restaurants were kind of the only thing that would keep my attention focused and going."

A brick-and-mortar place was always part of their plan, but the two found it easier to test drive their menu and build up their reputation through a food truck until they found the right spot to lay down permanent roots— a trend that Edmonton has seen a couple other times already and will undoubtedly continue to see with our

now well-established contingent of food trucks. While they had already got a fair bit of attention for their food-truck fare, The Local Omnivore's permanent location picked up a number of Vue's Golden Fork Awards, including first place for Best Bacon.

(Tied with Irvings Farm Fresh.)

The restaurant's space embodies the duo's breezily idiosyncratic attitude: white-washed walls featuring artwork that ranges from abstract to graffiti; an old chainsaw resting on the top of a shelf; and a number of house "rules" scrawled across various surfaces throughout the place. ("Asking for help is not a weakness" reads one, running along the edge of a counter; "glue it and screw it" reads another inside the prep kitchen entrance.)

"It's for everybody," Bellows says, referring to both the restaurant and its menu. "We built it for everybody very mindfully. It's not super masculine; it's not super feminine. It's not just for old people; it's not just for young people."

Of course, The Local Omnivore has staked a large part of its reputation on various smoked and cured foods.

"I hate wasting stuff," Brodziak says with a laugh. Judging by the smells emanating from the kitchen—and the numerous preserved items peppered throughout the menu—that culinary focus is still going strong.

"Pickling, brining—everything to do with preserving food," Bellows adds.

Some of those items include the Canons, which feature a rotating house-made sausage, and is the item that Brodziak identifies as the one he'd choose to rescue from a burning building. "Mostly because I'd eat it every day from then on," he says. "I'd be like, 'I will never lose you again!'"

"A sloppy taco," Bellows states bluntly. "I would save the sloppy taco.

I would be able to eat sloppy tacos for ever and ever and ever."

MEL PRIESTLEY

MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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DISH 9

DISH SPIRITED AWAY

TARQUIN MELNYK // TARQUIN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

The golden age of Canadian distilling Q & A with Gordon Glanz of Vancouver's Odd Society Spirits It's a bright, hot April day in Vancouver and I'm speaking to Gordon Glanz, owner of Odd Society Spirits: a three-year-old distillery in the city. An Edmonton native, Glanz attended Strathcona Composite High School, and it was around that age that he first developed an interest in distilled spirits.

VUE WEEKLY: What did you do be-

fore you started distilling?

GORDON GLANZ: For some unknown reason, we used to distill our water at home. I'd use my mom's water distiller to make spirits from wine that I made. It was pretty awful, but my brothers and I found it fun.

What really planted the seed for making alcohol was right after high school: I lived in Mosel, Germany for a year and worked on a vineyard that had alembic stills to make kirsch [fruit brandy] and tresterschnaps [German grappa]. They even made a yeast schnapps, which I'd never seen before.

One day I walked in and the distiller had fallen asleep in front of the still, and that looked like the best thing in the world. I thought, "Someday I want to do that."

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VW: Is that where Odd Society

Crème de Cassis came from?

GG: Actually, the cassis was total serendipity. Where we live in East Van, our close neighbour is a French chef. He told me, 'If you have a distillery, you must make cassis.' His family has made cassis for generations. He came to the distillery and showed us his family recipe. We'd never have thought to make it and it fell into our laps.

VW: There's no shortage of Canadian gin, and (soon) new styles of Canadian whiskies. But there's a shortage of properly made Canadian liqueurs and amaro. Odd Society has entered the market at the right time with bittersweet vermouth.

Tell us about that.

GG: The vermouth was born of necessity. Originally, anything served in our distillery lounge had to be produced on site. We needed vermouth, which meant we had to learn to make it without knowing anything about how to make it.

Now, I'm absolutely bonkers about vermouth. I think it's amazing, neglected and super complex. Even

the cheap stuff has up to 40 herbs in it. I have so much respect for the category, and there's room to have craft vermouths that are different and interesting.

A friend gave me a book from the 20th century with recipes, and I started adding local botanicals.

I was headed in the direction of a dark red Italian-style vermouth, but stopped at the rosé bittersweet and said, "The next one will be red.'"

VW: The stills that you bought came

from Switzerland?

GG: Yes. Funny story: when the old

distiller came to Canada to help teach us how to use them, it turned out he couldn't speak any English— so my ability to translate German came in really handy. We became friends, and he gave me stacks of his old liqueur recipes, such as his coffee liqueur. Someday, I'm going to really explore them in our releases.

VW: What are the big releases for 2016?

GG: We have three. Mia, our daughter, is doing a wacky amaro. She studied ethnobotany at UBC and

learned about aphrodisiacs used by South American tribes. We decided to do a bitter liqueur using unique barks from Peru, mixed with local ingredients. These barks have really interesting flavours.

Secondly, we are going to have a tiny release of our single malt whisky.

Third, for summer we are releasing our Salal Gin. We are taking a big group and heading to Salt Spring Island to pick the salal berries and infuse the gin right on site. It's our version of sloe gin.

VW: Have you contemplated creat-

ing a spirit that is inspired by Edmonton, or the prairies?

GG: That's really interesting. My original idea was to produce whisky from the barley grown on my fam-

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ily's farm near Millet, AB. It can't work right now because of the rules for craft distillers. I would love to make a single malt whisky with grain grown just south of Edmonton.

VW: Do you have anything else to add?

GG: We thank our supporters. It's an exciting time. The rules regarding distilling changed in BC, in 2013, now we have over 50 distilleries. Alberta is starting, too. This is the start of the Golden Age for distillers in Canada. V Tarquin Melnyk is an Edmonton native who has been tending bar in numerous cities for the past six years.

Named bartender of the year at the 2013 Alberta Cup, he is a published cocktail writer and photographer, and a partner in justcocktails.org.

The Pump House family proposes a toast to the 18th annual Golden Fork Awards, its recipients and of course the voters!

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Best Salads Multiple locations: Chopped Leaf choppedleaf.ca Indie: Noorish | 8840 - 109 St | 780.756.6880 | noorish.ca 2nd place: The Next Act 3rd place: The Greenhouse

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Best Appetizers Multiple locations: The Keg kegsteakhouse.com Indie: Bar Bricco | 10347 Jasper Ave | 780.424.5588 | barbricco.com 2nd place: Corso 32 3rd place: The Buckingham

Best Soups Multiple locations: Fifendekel fifendekel.ca Indie: Block 1912 | 10361 - 82 Ave | 780.433.6575 | block 1912.com 2nd place: MRKT 3rd place: Continental Treat

2nd place: Bon Ton Bakery 3rd place: Dauphine Bakery and Bistro

Best Bakery Multiple locations: Cobs Bread cobsbread.com Indie: Duchess Bake Shop 10718 - 124 St | 780.488.4999 | duchessbakeshop.com 2nd place: Block 1912 3rd place: Bon Ton Bakery

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Best Breads Multiple locations: Cobs Bread cobsbread.com Indie: Boulangerie Bonjour 8608 - 99 St | 780.433.5924 | yvanchartrand.com

Best Comfort Food Multiple locations: Fifendekel fifendekel.ca Indie: The Next Act | 8224 - 104 St | 780.433.9345 | nextactpub.com 2nd place: Seoul Fried Chicken 3rd place: The Buckingham

Best Chili Multiple locations: Tim Horton's | timhortons.com Indie: The Sugarbowl 10922 - 88 Ave | 780.433.8369 | thesugarbowl.org 2nd place (TIE): Highlevel Diner and The Next Act

Best Mac 'n' Cheese Multiple locations: Chop Steakhouse & Bar | chop.ca Indie: The Next Act | 8224 - 104 St | 780.433.9345 | nextactpub.com

THANKS FOR ALL YOUR LOVELY VOTES! Join us on May 7th for a special Mother's Day Market.

The first 150 moms will receive a free potted pansy, $5 Market Bucks and a handcrafted chocolate treat!

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2nd place: MEAT 3rd place: The Sugarbowl

Best Fried Chicken Multiple locations: KFC | kfc.ca Indie: Seoul Fried Chicken 7904B - 104 St | 780.761.3616 2nd place: The Buckingham 3rd place: Coco's Deep Fried Chicken

Best Chicken Wings Multiple locations: Original Joe's originaljoes.ca Indie: The Buckingham 10439 - 82 Ave | 780.761.1002 | thebuckonwhyte.com 2nd place: Three Boars 3rd place: Dadeo New Orleans Diner & Bar

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3rd place (TIE): Vons Steakhouse & Oyster Bar, Ruth's Chris Steakhouse

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Best BBQ Multiple locations: Memphis Blues Barbeque House memphisbluesbbq.com Indie: MEAT | 8216 - 104 St | 587.520.6338 | meatfordinner.com 2nd place: Fired Up BBQ 3rd place: Smokehouse BBQ

Best Steaks Multiple locations: The Keg kegsteakhouse.com Indie: The Marc | 9940 - 106 St | 780.429.2828 | themarc.ca 2nd place: Pampa Brazilian Steakhouse

Multiple locations: Denny's dennys.com Indie (TIE): The Local Omnivore 10933 - 120 St | 780.660.1051 | thelocalomnivore.com Irvings Farm Fresh Township Rd 484, Roundhill | 780.672.2787 | irvingsfarmfresh. com 2nd place: Acme Meat Market 3rd place: MEAT

Best Butcher

Best Tapas

Multiple locations: Safeway safeway.ca Indie: Acme Meat Market 9531 76 Ave. | 780.433.1812 | acmemeatmarket.ca 2nd place: Real Deal Meats 3rd place: Ben's Meats and Deli

Indie: Tzin Wine and Tapas | 10115 - 104 St | 780.428.8946 | tzin.ca 2nd place: Bodega Tapas and Wine Bar at Sabor 3rd place: Three Boars

Best Dim Sum Winner: Golden Rice Bowl | 5365 Gateway Blvd | 780.435.3388 | goldenricebowl.ca 2nd place: Jumbo Dim Sum 3rd place: Tasty Noodle

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Best Seafood Multiple locations: Red Lobster redlobster.ca Indie: The Black Pearl Seafood Bar | 10132 - 104 St | 780.705.7887 | blackpearlseafood.ca 2nd place (TIE): Sabor, Vons Steak House & Oyster Bar 3rd place: Café Amore Bistro

Best Sushi Multiple locations (TIE): Mikado mikadorestaurant.com | Kyoto kyotojapanesecuisine.com Indie: Maki Maki 8109 - 101 St | 780.438.8298 | makiedmonton.com 2nd place: Sushi Wasabi

Best Tacos Winner: Tres Carnales 10119 - 100A St | 780.429.0911 | trescarnales.com 2nd place: El Cortez Mexican Kitchen + Tequila Bar 3rd place: HUMA Mexican Comfort

Best Pasta Multiple locations: Chianti Café chianticafe.ca

VEGAN N’ CHILL?

Indie: Corso 32 | 10345 Jasper Ave | 780.421.4622 | corso32.com 2nd place: Café Amore Bistro 3rd place: Sicilian Pasta Kitchen

Best African Winner: Langano Skies 9920 - 82 Ave | 780.432.3334 | langanoskies.com 2nd place: Blue Nile 3rd place (TIE): Abyssinia, African Safari Restaraunt

Best Ukrainian Winner: Uncle Ed's Restaurant 4842 - 118 Ave | 780.471.1010 2nd place: Taste of Ukraine 3rd place: Baba Fink's

Best Greek Multiple locations: OPA! Of Greece | opasouvlaki.ca Indie: Koutouki | 10719 124 St. | 780.452.5383 | koutouki.ca 2nd place: Yiannis Taverna

A BIG THANK YOU TO THE LOVELY HUMANS WHO SURPRISED US WITH THEIR VOTES!

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Best French Winner: The Marc | 9940 - 106 St | 780.429.2828 | themarc.ca 2nd place: The Creperie 3rd place (TIE): Café Bicyclette, Normand's

Best Italian Multiple locations: Chianti Café chianticafe.ca Indie: Corso 32 | 10345 Jasper Ave | 780.421.4622 | corso32.com 2nd place: Café Amore Bistro 3rd place: Bar Bricco

Best Spanish Winner: Sabor | 10220 - 103 St | 780.757.1114 | sabordivino.com 2nd place: Tzin Wine and Tapas 3rd place: Rostizado by Tres Carnales

Best Portuguese Winner: Sabor | 10220 - 103 St | 780.757.1114 | sabordivino.com

2nd place: Handy Bakery 3rd place: A Taverna

Best Lebanese Multiple locations: La Shish Taouk | lashish.ca Indie: Parkallen Restaurant 7018 - 109 St | 587.520.6401 | parkallen.com

Best Mediterranean Winner (TIE): Sofra Turkish Restaurant & Wine Cellar 10345 - 106 St | 780.423.3044 Koutouki 10719 - 124 St | 780.452.5383 | koutouki.ca 2nd place: Sunbake Pita Bakery 3rd place: Co Co Di

Best Middle Eastern Winner (Three-Way Tie):

Parkallen Restaurant 7018 - 109 St | 587.520.6401 Sunbake Pita & Bakery 10728 - 134 Ave | 780.472.8405 Al Salam Bakery & Restaurant 10141 34 Ave. | 780.944.0000

viphalay.com Indie: Bua Thai | 10049 - 113 St | 780.482.2277 | buathairestaurant. com 2nd place: Boualouang Laos & Thai Cuisine

Best Chinese

Best Japanese

Winner: The Lingnan | 10582 - 104 St | 780.426.3975 | thelingnan.com 2nd place: Loma House 3rd place (TIE): Veggie Garden, Szechuan Castle

Multiple locations: Mikado mikadorestaurant.com Indie: Izakaya Tomo | 3739 - 99 St | 780.440.9152 | izakayatomo.net 2nd place: Kyoto 3rd place: Japonais Bistro

Best Korean Winner (TIE): Nongbu Korean Eatery 8115 - 104 St | 780.989.0997 BulGoGi House 8813 - 92 St | 780.466.2330 | edmontonkoreanfood.com 2nd place: Lee House 3rd place: Tofu House

Best Thai Multiple locations: Viphalay

Best Vietnamese Winner: Pho Hoan Pasteur | 11443 Kingsway Ave | 780.761.1989 2nd place: Thanh Thanh Oriental Noodle House 3rd place (TIE): Phobulous, Lemongrass Café

Multiple locations: New Asian Village | newasianvillage.com Indie: Khazana | 10177 - 107 St | 780.702.0330 | khazana.ab.ca 2nd place: Guru Fine Indian Restaurant 3rd place: Zaika Bistro & Bar

Best Mexican/ Latin American Winner: Tres Carnales 10119 - 100A St | 780.429.0911 | trescarnales.com 2nd place: HUMA Mexican Comfort 3rd place: Rostizado by Tres Carnales

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Best Wraps Winner: Remedy | remedycafe.ca

Best Hamburgers Multiple locations: Queen Donair queendonair.com Indie: The Next Act | 8224 - 104 St | 780.433.9345 | nextactpub.com 2nd place: The Burger's Priest 3rd place: The Burg

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Best French Fries Multiple locations: New York Fries | newyorkfries.com Indie (TIE): La Poutine | 8720 - 109 St | 780.757.7222 | la-poutine.com

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Multiple locations: Famoso Neapolitan Pizzeria famoso.ca Indie: LOVEPIZZA | 10196 - 109 St | 587.520.9734 | lovepizza.ca 2nd place: Tony's Pizza Palace 3rd place: Rosso Pizzeria

Best Poutine Multiple locations: The Cheese Cake Cafe | cheesecakecafe.ca Indie: La Poutine | 8720 - 109 St | 780.757.7222 | la-poutine.com 2nd place: The Next Act 3rd place: The Local Omnivore

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Best Desserts Winner: Duchess Bake Shop 10718 - 124 St | 780.488-4999 | duchessbakeshop.com 2nd place: Block 1912 3rd place: Whimsical Custom Cake Studio & Edmonton Bakery

Best Sweets Shop Winner: Duchess Bake Shop 10718 - 124 St | 780.488-4999 | duchessbakeshop.com 2nd place: Block 1912 3rd place: Whimsical Custom Cake Studio & Edmonton Bakery

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Quickly comes to Edmonton

By Jane Marshall Before April 30 you had to travel to one of 19 other countries to sip on Quickly specialty drinks.

Now the bubble tea chain is coming to you.

What sets Quickly apart is authenticity. Ingredients are made in Taiwan and sent for rigorous testing (by SGS International for ISO 9001 - 20000).

Marketing and Development Manager Pierre Chan will be in Edmonton for the grand opening of Edmonton’s first store at Lendrum Place Shopping Centre on April 30. A second store will open at West Edmonton Mall upon completion of construction.

“Our drinks are 100-percent natural, authentic and safe,” Chan explains. “We make our own ingredients in Taiwan— even the straws and cups—and send our products for safety testing. Because we have our own manufacturer we can ensure authenticity and something healthy for your body.”

The Taiwanese-born brand was founded by Nancy Yang in 1996.

Nancy loved bubble tea so much she formulated a way to make the most pure bubble tea on earth using flavours derived from real food—not flavoured powders or syrup.

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Who thought of putting those gelatinous pearls into a drink?

They’re actually derived from traditional Chinese medicine to clean the digestive system. The bubbles are made from tapioca, which comes from cassava root.

Suck them up a straw and you’re doing something good for your body—especially because of the purity of Quickly’s ingredients.

and smoothies. Quickly brews tea hourly for freshness. And don’t forget to eat; try the shaved ice, a cross between ice-cream and gelato that’s served in smooth, folded layers and is a huge hit in Asia. Singapore Laksa (soup), deep-fried oysters and dessert waffles also await.

Bubble tea became popular almost two decades ago, and the trend keeps thriving; Quickly has over 2000 stores globally. There are endless customizations—add grass jelly or fresh fruit, drink it cold or hot, make a shake—you name it. And if bubbles aren’t your favourite, try avocado smoothies or decadent teas such as lavender.

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Indie: Block 1912 | 10361 - 82 Ave | 780.433.6575 | block 1912.com 2nd place: Noorish 3rd place: LOVEPIZZA

10844 - 82 Ave | 780.433.9702 | cafemosaics.com 2nd place: Lan's Asian Grill 3rd place(TIE): LOVEPIZZA, Ikki Izakaya

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Best Vegetarian

Best Food Truck

Winner (TIE): Cafe Mosaics | 10844 - 82 Ave | 780.433.9702 | cafemosaics.com Padmanadi Vegetarian Restaurant 10740 - 101 St | 780.428.8899 | padmanadi.com 2nd place: Veggie Garden 3rd place (TIE): The Buckingham, Noorish

Winner: Sailin' On | sailinon.ca 2nd place: Drift 3rd place: Bully Food Truck

Best Take Out Multiple locations: Oodle Noodle oodlenoodle.ca Indie: Padmanadi Vegetarian Restaurant | 10740 - 101 St | 780.428.8899 | padmanadi.com 2nd place (TIE): Seoul Fried Chicken, Lan's Asian Grill

Best Takeout Containers Multiple locations: Oodle Noodle oodlenoodle.ca Indie: Cafe Mosaics

Best Vegan Winner: Padmanadi Vegetarian Restaurant | 10740 - 101 St | 780.428.8899 | padmanadi.com 2nd place: Cafe Mosaics 3rd place: Noorish

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Best Gluten-Free

Best Caterer

Multiple locations: Remedy remedycafe.ca

Winner: Elm Café | 10140 - 117 St | 780.756.3356 | elmcafe.ca

2nd place: Mercer's Catering 3rd place: La Olivia Gluten-Free Kitchen

Best Chef Winner: Daniel Costa at Corso 32 10345 Jasper Ave | 780.421.4622 | corso32.com 2nd place: Jason Oliver at Farm to Fork Eatery 3rd place: Blair Lebsack at RGE RD

Best Bargain (-$15 ENTREE) Winner: Veggie Garden | 10582 100 St | 780.757.9060 2nd place: The Next Act

Best Hidden Gem Winner: Farm to Fork Eatery Unit 148 2755 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park | 780.400.8999 | farktoforkeatery.com 2nd place: Whimsical Custom Cake Studio & Edmonton Bakery 3rd place (TIE): Veggie Garden, Langano Skies

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Best Fine Dining (+$30 ENTREE) Multiple locations: The Keg kegsteakhouse.com Indie: Corso 32 | 10345 Jasper Ave | 780.421.4622 | corso32.com 2nd place: RGE RD 3rd place: The Marc

Best Mid-price (+/- $20 ENTREE) Multiple locations: The Keg kegsteakhouse.com Indie: Langano Skies 9920 - 82 Ave | 780.432.3334 | langanoskies.com 2nd place: The Marc 3rd place: Rostizado by Tres Carnales

Multiple locations: Cora chezcora.com Indie (TIE): New York Bagel Café | 8430 Gateway Blvd | 780.432.2003 The Sugarbowl 10922 - 88 Ave | 780.433.8369 | thesugarbowl.org 2nd place: De Dutch 3rd place: Barb & Ernie's Old Country Inn

Best Brunch Multiple locations: Culina culinafamily.com Indie: The Sugarbowl 10922 - 88 Ave | 780.433.8369 | thesugarbowl.org 2nd place: Canteen 3rd place (TIE): Urban Diner, Farm to Fork Eatery

Best Lunchtime Grab and Go Multiple locations: Remedy remedycafe.ca Indie: Farrow 8422 - 109 St | 780.757.4160 | farrowsandwiches.ca 2nd place: Dovetail Delicatessen 3rd place: Block 1912

Best Pre-Theatre Dining

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Multiple locations: Famoso Neapolitan Pizzeria famoso.ca Indie: Block 1912 | 10361 - 82 Ave | 780.433.6575 | block 1912.com 2nd place (TIE): Woodwork, Normand's 3rd place: The Next Act

Best Late Night/ All Night Multiple locations: Denny's dennys.ca Indie: North 53 | 10240 - 124 St | 587.524.5353 | north53.com 2nd place (TIE): Steel Wheels Pizzeria, All Happy Family Restaurant 3rd place (TIE): The Next Act, Ikki Izakaya

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Indie: The Tea Girl 12411 Stony Plain Road | 780.732.4832 |theteagirl.com 2nd place: Cally's Teas 3rd place: Block 1912

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Best Coffee Shop Multiple locations (TIE): Transcend Coffee transcendcoffee.ca Remedy | remedycafe.ca Indie: Block 1912 | 10361 - 82 Ave | 780.433.6575 | block 1912.com 2nd place: Coffee Bureau 3rd place (TIE): Farrow, Iconoclast Coffee

Best tea shop Multiple locations: David's Tea davidstea.com

Best Cocktails Winner: North 53 | 10240 - 124 St | 587.524.5353 | north53.com 2nd place: Woodwork 3rd place: Three Boars

Best Coffee Roasters

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Multiple locations: Transcend Coffee transcendcoffee.ca Indie: Iconoclast Coffee 11807 - 105 Ave | 780.705.1450 | iconoclastcoffee.com 2nd place: Ace 3rd place: Rogue Wave Coffee

Best Bubble Tea Shop Winner: Dream Tea House dreamtea.ca

Best Pub Multiple locations: Canadian Brewhouse | thecanadianbrewhouse.com Indie: The Next Act | 8224 - 104 St | 780.433.9345 | nextactpub.com 2nd place: The Buckingham 3rd place: Empress Ale House

Best Wine Bar Winner: Bibo Wine Bar 9919 - 89 Ave | 780.437.5588 2nd place: Bar Bricco 3rd place: Tzin Wine and Tapas

Best Wine List ( - glass)

Multiple locations: The Keg kegsteakhouse.com Indie (TIE): Bar Bricco | 10347 Jasper Ave | 780.424.5588 | barbricco.com Bibo Wine Bar | 9919 - 89 Ave | 780.437.5588

Best Wine List - bottle)

Indie (TIE): Bar Bricco | 10347 Jasper Ave | 780.424.5588 | barbricco.com, Characters Fine Dining | 10257 105 St | 780.421.4100 | characters.ca

2nd place: The Marc 3rd place (TIE): Corso 32, Sabor

Best Beer List - Tap

Winner: Craft Beer Market 10013 - 101A Ave | 780.424.2337 | craftbeermarket.ca 2nd place: The Sugarbowl 3rd place (TIE): Beer Revolution, The Underground Tap & Grill

Best Beer List - Bottle

Winner: The Sugarbowl 10922 - 88 Ave | 780.433.8369 | thesugarbowl.org 2nd place: Langano Skies

Best Happy Hour Multiple locations (TIE): Earls Kitchen + Bar | earls.ca Original Joe's | originaljoes.ca Indie: The Buckingham

Thanks for Your Votes!

Winner for

Best Soups & Best Comfort Food Readers Choice for the Golden Fork Awards for Best Hotel Restaurant & Best Interior Design

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10439 - 82 Ave | 780.761.1002 | thebuckonwhyte.com 2nd place: Beer Revolution

CHEER ON THE CULINARY ACTION THIS SUMMER IN CHURCHILL SQUARE Congrats to all 2016 Golden Fork winners! We look forward to hosting the winners of Burger, Bacon, Seafood, Sandwich, Steak, & Dessert this summer at the Canadian Food Championships!

July 22-24, 2016 | Edmonton, AB Think you have what it takes to be one of Canada’s Food Champs? Register as a Wild Card competitor at canadianfoodchampionships.ca

July 22-24, 201 Burger | Bacon | Seafood | Sandwich | Steak | Dessert

SO LONG AND THANKS FOR EATING ALL OUR FISH! We are closing Culina and Bibo Mid October, 2016 to pursue other culinary ventures in the beautiful River Valley. It's truly been an honour to have been part of the Millcreek community for the last 12 years. Thank you for all your patronage and support.

Love your friendly neighbourhood bistro, Culina

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Best When Going Solo delicious

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Multiple locations: Remedy | remedycafe.ca Indie: Block 1912 | 10361 - 82 Ave | 780.433.6575 | block 1912.com

Best All You Can Eat

Best New Restaurant

Winner: Watari Japanese Restaurant | 10108 - 124 St | 780.756.9988 | watarigroup.com 2nd place (TIE): Daawat, Narayanni's 3rd place: Pampa Brazilian Steakhouse

(OPENED AFTER MAY 2015) Winner: LOVEPIZZA 10196 - 109 St | 587.520.9734 | lovepizza.ca 2nd place: Farm to Fork Eatery 3rd place: Workshop Eatery

Best Date Night Restaurant

Best Service

Multiple locations: Famoso Neapolitan Pizzeria | famoso.ca Indie: Block 1912 10361 - 82 Ave | 780.433.6575 | block 1912.com 2nd place: Corso 32 3rd place: Langano Skies

Multiple locations: The Keg thekegsteakhouse.com Indie: The Marc | 9940 - 106 St | 780.429.2828 | themarc.ca 2nd place (TIE): Block 1912, Corso 32 3rd place: The Next Act

Best Bartending

Most Surprising Dish in the City Winner: Motsuni Stew at Ikki Izakaya 11931 Jasper Ave | 780.454.4230 | www.ikki.ca

Winner: Woodwork | 10132 100 St | 780.757.4100 | woodworkyeg.com 2nd place: Three Boars 3rd place: North 53

Best Patio Winner: Craft Beer Market 10013 - 101A Ave | 780.424.2337 |

LANGANO SKIES Ethiopian Restaurant

WINNER! Best African Best mid-price 2nd Best Beer List (Bottle)

We are honoured to win our 11th Golden Fork Award for Best African Restaurant. We could not have done it without our amazing customers and we would not be here without your support.

We are excited to spend another year serving Edmonton's best authentic Ethiopian food!

9920 82 AVE 780-432-3334 LANGANOSKIES.COM

LANGANO SKIES WILL BE AT THE FESTS THIS SUMMER! Visit us at

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Multiple locations: Harvest Room, Hotel Macdonald Fairmont.com/macdonald-edmonton/dining/harvestroom Indie: Madison's Grill, Union Bank Inn | 10053 Jasper Ave | 780.401.2222 | unionbankinn.com/ madisons-grill-and-restaurant 2nd place: Alberta Hotel Bar + Kitchen 3rd place: Ampersand 27

Best for People Watching Multiple locations: Julio's Barrio juliosbarrio.com Indie: Block 1912 | 10361 - 82 Ave | 780.433.6575 | block 1912.com 2nd place: The Next Act 3rd place: Café Mosaics

Best Interior Design Multiple locations: Harvest Room, Hotel Macdonald Indie: Block 1912 | 10361 - 82 Ave | 780.433.6575 | block 1912.com 2nd place: Ampersand 27 3rd place: El Cortez Mexican Kitchen + Tequila Bar

Best Menu Layout/Design Winner: Farm to Fork Eatery Unit 148 2755 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park | 780.400.8999 | farktoforkeatery.com

Multiple locations: Famoso Neapolitan Pizzeria | famoso.ca Indie: Block 1912 | 10361 - 82 Ave | 780.433.6575 | block 1912.com 2nd place: The Next Act

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3rd Best Date Night Restaurant

Best Hotel Restaurant

Best Atmosphere

THANKS FOR YOUR

3rd Best Hidden Gem (tie)

craftbeermarket.ca 2nd place (TIE): El Cortez Mexican Kitchen + Tequila Bar , The Buckingham

Most Kid-Friendly Winner: Red Robin redrobincanada.com 2nd place: Boston Pizza

Best Cookware Store Winner: Knifewear | 10814 Whyte Ave | 587.521.2034 | knifewear.com 2nd place: Williams-Sonoma 3rd place: Crate and Barrel

Best Grocery Store Winner: Italian Centre Shop italiancentre.ca 2nd place: Earth's General Store 3rd place: Save On Foods

Best Beer Store

Best Wine Store

Multiple locations: Wine and Beyond | wineandbeyond.ca Indie: Sherbrooke Liquor 11819 St Albert Trail | 780.455.4556 | sherbrookeliquor.com 2nd place: Keg n Cork Liquor Company 3rd place: Color de Vino Wine & Spirits

Multiple locations: Wine and Beyond | wineandbeyond.ca Indie: deVine Wines & Spirits | 10111 - 104 St | 780.421.9463 | devinewines.ca 2nd place: Color de Vino 3rd place: Sherbrooke Liquor

Best Spirits Store Multiple locations: Wine and Beyond | wineandbeyond.ca Indie: Sherbrooke Liquor 11819 St Albert Trail | 780.455.4556 | sherbrookeliquor.com 2nd place: Color de Vino Wine & Spirits 3rd place: Chateau Louis Liquor Store

Best Cheese Shop Multiple locations: Italian Centre italiancentre.ca Indie: Paddy's International Cheese Market | 12509 - 102 Ave | 780.413.0367 2nd place: Cavern 3rd place: The Cheese Factory

Best Farmers' Market

3rd place: The Grand Markets Edmonton

Best Food Festival/Event

Best Organic Grocery

Winner: Taste of Edmonton tasteofedm.ca 2nd place: Heritage Festival 3rd place: Gluten Free Cravings

Multiple locations: Earth's General Store earthsgeneralstore.ca 2nd place: Blush Lane Organic Market 3rd place: Planet Organic

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Best Beverage Festival/Event Winner (TIE): Rocky Mountain Wine and Food Festival | rockymountainwine.com Winefest Edmonton | celebratewinefest.com Craft Beer Festival | albertabeerfestivals.com 2nd place: Edmonton International Beerfest 3rd place: Taste of Edmonton

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Winner: City Market Downtown | 780.429.5713 | city-market.ca 2nd place: Old Strathcona Farmers' Market

Thank you to all voters!

• Best Hidden Gem (1st) • Worth the Trip to Sherwood Park (1st) • Best Menu Layout/Design (1st) • And More...

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A Great Italian Restaurant, Reasonably Priced!

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10501-82 Avenue 780-439-9829

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e would love to thank all of our wonderful customers for voting for Daawat Authentic East Indian Cuisine!

Daawat offers take out as well as delivery.

Street parking available. Serving Halal.

Lunch and dinner buffet available 7 days a week.

Buffet hours: Lunch 11 am to 2 pm Dinner 5 pm to 9 pm Whyte Avenue: 10015 82 Ave (Parking at rear) 28 GOLDEN FORK AWARDS

Phone to make reservations: 780-469-3517

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2nd Place for Best All You Can Eat! Monday to Saturday 11 am to 11 pm Sunday 11 am to 10 pm

Ampersand 27

Langano Skies

2nd: Best Interior Design 3rd: Best Hotel Restaurant

Winner: Best African, Best Mid-price 2nd: Best Beer List (Bottle) 3rd: Best Hidden Gem, Best Date Night Restaurant

Block 1912 Winner: Best Soups, Best Ice Cream/ Frozen Yogurt/Gelato, Best GlutenFree, Best Pre-theatre Dining, Best Coffee Shop, Best Date Night Restaurant, Best When Going Solo, Best for People-Watching, Best Interior Design, Best Atmosphere 2nd: Best Bakery, Best Sandwiches, Best Desserts, Best Sweets Shop, Best Service 3rd: Best Lunchtime Grab + Go, Best Tea Shop

Blush Lane Organic Market 2nd: Best Organic Grocery 3rd: Best Specialty Grocery

The Buckingham Winner: Best Chicken Wings, Best Happy Hour 2nd: Best Fried Chicken, Best Nachos, Best Pub Food, Best Pub, Best Patio 3rd: Best Appetizers, Best Fries, Best Comfort Food, Best Vegetarian

Cally’s Teas 2nd: Best Tea Shop

golden fork awards

2016

Over 30 of Edmonton’s best culinary products, ingredients and dining experiences can be found in Old Strathcona.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Maki Maki 2nd: Best Sushi

MEAT Winner: Best BBQ, Best Restaurant Name, Best Place for the Meat Sweats 2nd: Best Mac ’n’ Cheese 3rd: Best Meat

New York Bagel Cafe Winner: Best Breakfast

The Next Act Pub Winner: Best Mac ’n’ Cheese, Best Hamburgers, Best Fries, Best Nachos, Best Pub Food, Best Comfort Food, Best Pub, Favourite Mainstay, Best Hangover Cure 2nd: Best Salads, Best Chili, Best Poutine, Best Bargain, Best for People-Watching, Best Atmosphere, Best Kid-Friendly 3rd: Best Pre-theatre Dining, Best Late-Night/All-Night, Best Service

NongBu Korean Eatery

Cafe Mosaics

Winner: Best Korean

Winner: Best Takeout Containers, Best Vegetarian 2nd: Best Vegan, Favourite Mainstay 3rd: Best for People-Watching, Most Innovative Menu

Winner: Best Takeout, Best Takeout Containers

Planet Organic

Chianti Cafe & Restaurant

3rd: Best Organic Grocery

Oodle Noodle

Winner: Best Pasta, Best Italian

Remedy Cafe

Continental Treat Fine Bistro

Winner: Best Wraps, Best GlutenFree, Best Lunchtime Grab + Go, Best Coffee Shop, Best When Going Solo, Favourite Mainstay

3rd: Best Soup

Daawat 2nd: Best All-You-Can-Eat

DaDeO 2nd: Best Fries 3rd: Best Chicken Wings

DAVIDsTEA Winner: Best Tea Shop

Dream Tea House Winner: Best Bubble Tea Shop

El Cortez Winner: Best Washroom 2nd: Best Tacos, Best Patio 3rd: Best Interior Design

Save-On-Foods 3rd: Best Grocery Store

Seoul Fried Chicken Winner: Best Fried Chicken 2nd: Best Comfort Food, Best Hangover Cure, Best Takeout Containers

Steel Wheels Rock & Roll Pizzeria 2nd: Best Late-Night/All-Night

Tim Hortons Winner: Best Chili

Empress Ale House

Tutti Frutti

3rd: Best Pub

Winner: Best Ice Cream/Frozen Yogurt/Gelato

Famoso Neapolitan Pizzeria Winner: Best Pizza (Classic), Best Pizza (Thin Crust), Best Pre-theatre Dining, Best Date Night Restaurant, Best Atmosphere

Julio’s Barrio Winner: Best for People-Watching

Vons Steak House & Oyster Bar 2nd: Best Seafood 3rd: Best Steaks

Yiannis Taverna 2nd: Best Greek

The Keg Steakhouse + Bar OldStrathcona.ca OldStrathcona

Winner: Best Appetizers, Best Steaks, Best Fine Dining, Best Mid-price, Best Wine List (Glass), Best Service, Best Place for the Meat Sweats

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3rd place (TIE): Pasta Pantry, Ruamit Thai

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Worth the Trip (Calgary) Multiple locations: Peter's Drive-in petersdrivein.com Indie: The Coup 924 - 17 Ave Calgary | 403.541.1041 | thecoup.ca 2nd place: Charcut Roast House 3rd place: Una Pizza + Wine

Worth the Trip (St Albert) Winner: Jack's Burger Shack #130 15 Perron St, St Albert | 780.458.0055 | jacksburgershack.ca 2nd place: Yuzen Japanese Restaurant 3rd place: Multiple winners

Worth the Trip (Sherwood Park) Winner: Farm to Fork Eatery Unit 148 2755 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park | 780.400.8999 | farktoforkeatery.com 2nd place: Sumo Sumo

Worth the Trip (Leduc) Winner: Habaneros Mexican Grill 5015 48A St, Leduc | 780.986.1377 2nd place: Zambelli's

Worth the Trip (Spruce Grove) Winner (TIE): Jack's Drive-in | 123 First Ave, Spruce Grove | 780.962.2727 | jacksdrivein.ca Porta Romana | 420 King St, Spruce Grove | 780.293.8719 | portaromana.ca 2nd place: Tasty Vietnamese

Worth the Trip (Fort Saskatchewan)

Best Nachos Multiple locations: Julio's Barrio juliosbarrio.com Indie: The Next Act | 8224 104 St | 780.433.9345 | nextactpub.com 2nd place: The Buckingham 3rd place: Original Joe's

Best Wing Night Winner: Brewsters Brewing Company | brewsters.ca

Best Pub Food Multiple locations: Original Joe's originaljoes.ca Indie: The Next Act | 8224 104 St | 780.433.9345 | nextactpub.com 2nd place: The Buckingham 3rd place: Daravara

Favourite Mainstay

Winner: The Downtown Diner 10209 - 100 Ave | 780.998.1435 2nd place: Modo Mio

Multiple locations: Remedy remedycafe.ca Indie: The Next Act | 8224 104 St | 780.433.9345 | nextactpub.com 2nd place: Cafe Mosaics 3rd place: Padmanadi

Best Alberta Brewery

Most Innovative Menu

Winner: Alley Kat Brewing Company | 9929 - 60 Ave | 780.436.8922 | alleykatbeer.com 2nd place: Yellowhead Brewery 3rd place: Blindman Brewing

Winner: RGE RD | 10643 - 123 St | 780.447.4577 | rgerd.ca 2nd place: Three Boars 3rd place (TIE): Café Mosaics, North 53

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Best Restaurant Name

Sun- Fri 9-9 Saturday 8-9

780-988-5655

8135-102 St. NW - Old Strathcona Organic Produce, Meat & Dairy Organic & Natural Grocery Vegetarian, Vegan & Gluten Free Foods Artisan Cheeses, Deli & Bakery

Winner: MEAT | 8216 - 104 St | 587.520.6338 | meatfordinner.com 2nd place: LOVEPIZZA 3rd place (TIE): Farm to Fork Eatery, Woodwork

Best Place for the Meat Sweats Multiple locations: The Keg kegsteakhouse.com Indie: MEAT | 8216 - 104 St | 587.520.6338 | meatfordinner.com 2nd place: Pampa Brazilian Steakhouse 3rd place (TIE): The Local Omnivore, Sloppy Hoggs

Best Hangover Cure Multiple locations: Denny's dennys.com Indie: The Next Act | 8224 - 104 St | 780.433.9345 | nextactpub.com 2nd place: Seoul Fried Chicken 3rd place (TIE): The Local Omnivore, Barb & Ernie's, La Poutine

Best Washroom Proud to be part of the LOCAL ORGANIC FOOD MOVEMENT

THANK YOU for YOUR SUPPORT! 30 GOLDEN FORK AWARDS

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Multiple locations: Cactus Club Café | cactusclubcafe.com Indie: El Cortez Mexican Kitchen + Tequila Bar | 8230 Gateway Blvd | 780.760.0200 | elcortezcantina.com 2nd place: Farm to Fork Eatery

Thank You for voting us #1 Vegetarian & Vegan Restaurant in Edmonton!

10740 - 101 Street Edmonton, AB T5H 2S3 (780) 428-8899 www.Padmanadi.com

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Northern Light Theatre presents: Wish

By Humphrey Bower Apr 29–May 7

FEW THINGS IN LIFE ARE SWEETER THAN SUCCESS.

U of A Studio Theatre presents: The Whale by Christopher Bullough w/ Michael Peng & Wishbone Theatre May 11−21

Walterdale Theatre Presents: From Cradle To Stage - An Evening of New Work May 16−21

21st Annual Whyte Avenue ArtWalk July 8−10

2016 Pets In The Park June 2016

Walterdale Theatre presents: Chess (Book: Richard Nelson, Lyrics: Tim Rice, Music: Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Anderson) July 6−16

If you’re aged 18-39 and have a passion for making artisanal goods, we can help take you from foodie to founder.

Best Delivery Service Winner: Skip the Dishes skipthedishes.com 2nd place (TIE): Panago Pizza and Domino's 3rd place: SPUD | spud.ca

Best Specialty Grocery Winner: Italian Centre italiancentre.ca 2nd place: Earth's General Store 3rd place: Blush Lane Organic Market

Best Fish Monger Indie: Ocean Odyssey Inland 10027 - 167 St | 780.930.1901 2nd place: Fin's Seafood Distributors 3rd place (TIE): T & T, BiCostal Seafoods

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ARTS EDITOR: PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

// Mat Busby

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Reincarnation romance Ten Times Two traces a relationship over 675 years

laywright David Belke remembers the exact moment he got the idea for his reincarnation romance Ten Times Two: The Eternal Courtship.

"It was at the 1998 Fringe ... I was attending a show and it wasn't a terribly engaging show, so my mind was already wandering and so on and so forth. But there was a scene that caught my attention and my imagination. It was a scene in which the protagonist visited a graveyard and encountered the ghost of a lost love ... I just remember watching the thing and thinking 'Wait a minute.

You're together again. Why don't you take this opportunity to make the most of it? Why not reconnect?

Why not see if you can redeem the relationship? Why not make the attempt to fix the problems rather than dwelling on them?' ... So for the rest of the play, which was still not terribly engaging, I started turning that idea over in my mind."

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The result is the story of Ephraim and Constance, a couple torn apart and reconnected 10 times over seven centuries. In 1400, Ephraim is cursed with immortality, and every 75 years, in the same room at the same inn, he meets another version of Constance.

"She keeps coming back fresh and new and contemporary," Belke explains. "He, on the other hand, is going through this journey on the long way and carrying the memory and the experience of the past encounters, the weights of those failures and the determination to win her heart."

Despite its grand, transhistorical scale, Ten Times Two is grounded in the emotional universality of longterm relationships, which are always being reinvented as partners become new people throughout their lives.

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Until Sun, May 22 (7:30 pm; 2 pm Sunday matinees) Directed by John Hudson The Backstage Theatre, $18 – $27 "We're talking about a relationship that crosses 675 years of history, so I guess you could term that as long-term," Belke says. "But really it's [about] that constant sense of rediscovery and that constant sense of recommitment, and finding the person you love within the person who is there in front of you now. ... The world changes and history unfolds and humanity evolves, but that connection, that initial connection, that's the root. That's the foundation that you build the relationship on."

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// Ian Jackson, EPIC Photography

WISH I

t's not every day that you get to see a love story unfold between a man and a 300-pound silverback gorilla. WISH begins innocently enough—sign language instructor JJ (Christopher Schulz) meets an eccentric couple in one of his classes and agrees to tutor their eight-year-old daughter. But when Eliza (Ainsley Hillyard) finally takes the stage, the play quickly spirals into a romance that's as creepy as it is touching.

Schulz is an excellent storyteller, and the first half hour of the play is left entirely on his shoulders. He fluidly transforms from JJ the melancholy narrator to his deaf parents to a fiery old professor to a silky vixen with an agenda of her own. On an empty stage with nothing but his voice and his hands, Schulz manages to create a sympathetic protagonist and an entire community of characters. With a gorilla staring out from WISH's poster and program, it's hard not to be waiting for Hillyard to appear.

It's to Schulz's credit that this first, gorilla-free section is just as compelling as the rest of the story.

When Hillyard does finally burst onto the stage, she manages to project the massive physicality of her character onto her own slim body. She doesn't wear any kind of big comical

Until Sat, May 7 (7:30 pm; additional 11:30pm show on Fri, May 6) Directed by Trevor Schmidt ATB Financial Arts Barns, $22 – $28 gorilla suit, but the way she squats and lumbers around and rolls and jumps and jerks her head makes it easy to suspend your disbelief and see only Eliza the gorilla. Just as effective are Hillyard's vocalizations—low, guttural grunts and snorts that underline the rough sign language of her restless hands.

WISH has an undercurrent of animal rights politics informing almost every scene, and sometimes this manifests itself in very overt discussions. But most of the time the political questions and social issues take a back seat to the personal relationship between JJ and Eliza.

Hillyard and Schulz work so well together that even though their connection is culturally repulsive, it's hard not to end up rooting for them as a romantic pairing. And it's that kind of slipperiness and ambivalence that make WISH an exciting and challenging show.

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Gordon I

t's the only house on the block, some unnamed street in Hamilton, ON, in the wake of the steel industry's economy-gutting collapse. It's derelict—one of the cupboards is just, uh, gone, save a single shelf and some lingering frame—but it's where Gordon (Joe Perry)'s brought his prison buddy Carl (Ben Stevens) and girlfriend Dee (Patricia Cerra) as a new base of operations for a would-be-criminal empire.

His childhood home.

Despite appearances, it isn't unoccupied: the other Gordon (Brian Dooley) wanders home in short order, drunk, talking out loud to a long-dead friend, dreaming of a trip to Arizona by way of a noose. Except now his boy's come back, and he has someone to project onto.

If that sounds like the set-up for a feel-good redemption story, well, Marris Panych's script prefers to take the nihilistic road home: Gordon is, in its way, a play about what happens when one's intentions are finally forced to collide with a stark reality.

It's a slow-burn of a script: the first half slowly scatters some emotional tics and hot-buttons to be picked up and pushed later, but it's effective in that. Bradley Moss's production mines both comedy and drama out of those situation, though I'd say the latter lands with a fuller force in this Theatre Network season-ender: the production isn't without laughs (and they're necessary when they come), but the darker moments that offers the most impact. Young Gordon's

budding criminal empire starts to get undercut by his own arrogance and the ineptitude of the company he keeps; old Gordon's trying not to see who his son's actually become, or gaze inward to the reasons he turned out the way that he did. The other two are caught somewhere in the middle, increasingly damaged and distraught by all the unease.

The cast carries it all well: Perry's young, brutal Gordon is an unflinching performance, a guy for whom relying on violence has become a guiding principle. Carl and Dee both mention how leaving prison changed him; his sense of ambition's proven a violent one. Dooley is equally compelling as his father, a burnt-out boozer who's trying not to see what's right in front of his eyes. Stevens' hapless, fidgety Carl is given much of the script's levity, which he makes the most of with an adamant nervousness, and, as Dee, Cerra adds a certain firebrand spirit to

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the person who seems the most sensible of the lot of them.

So as far as family reunions go, Gordon's hardly heartwarming, but especially as it finds its climax—set almost totally in tense darkness—it proves riveting.

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REVUE // MUSICAL

Until Sun, May 22 (7:30 pm; additional 1:30 pm matinees on Sunday) Directed by Bob Baker Citadel Theatre, $30 – $120.75

WISH

pipes—the staging feels crisp and alive: the thrust stage, jutting into the audience, keeps the action close, feeling more dynamic and less like, well, choreography. Director Bob Baker, as well as fight director Jonathan Purvis and choreographer Laura Krewski, keep it all flowing, with the set (designed by Nick Blais) reshaping itself on-stage as necessary.

West Side Story “She’s not a beast. She’s a person.”

LOCATION: PCL STUDIO, ATB FINANCIAL ARTS BARNS, 10330-84 AVENUE TICKETS: PLEASE CALL NORTHERN LIGHT THEATRE AT 780-471-1586 OR VISIT WWW.NORTHERNLIGHTTHEATRE.COM

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Until Sun, May 15 (8 pm; 2 pm Sunday matinees) Directed by Bradley Moss The Roxy on Gateway, $24 – $30

I

t begins, as it's wont to do, with finger snaps.

On a scaffold-like set that breaks apart to reconfigure as need be, we meet the Sharks and Jets, whose bitter rivalry, brawling for turf on the streets of New York, propels West Side Story. It's 1957: cops are openly racist to the Puerto Rican Jets— something that resonates vividly today, in the wake of the last few years of unrest in modern-day America— and few are the prospects of a better life for youth like these. It's a violent world, where even expressions like dancing seem to be as much about defiance as anything else.

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The Romeo and Juliet story at its heart—Tony (George Krissa), a Jet, falls into doomed romance with Maria (Eva Tavares), sister of a Shark—is defiant, too: blindly naive, something that doesn't fit into the well-defined, us-or-them rules of the gang world.

And while West Side Story is an everenduring musical, with a production like this season-ending Citadel one, it's easy to see why. It doesn't feel like an obligatory classic—it's a legitimately lively one.

The music, for the most part, soars—the cast, all from the Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program, possess some willfully gilded

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But where Baker's take on West Side Story really crackles to life is in playing up the danger in the air, and the posturing of its wayward youth.

What comes through clearest in this production, in among joyful songs and blooming romance, is its dark social undercurrent: that these are kids raised by a violent world (and played by 20-something actors).

You can see it in the uncertainty that crosses their face after an accidental stabbing that sets the story's central romance on its doomy, final path; the way Anybodys (Melanie Piatocha) hides in a corner when her crew harass Anita (Pamela Gordon, truly excellent throughout).

The song "Officer Krupke" plays for comedy—the Jets impersonate their way through the legal and punitive and rehabilitative systems that they're easily capable of slipping through because adults don't know how to handle them—but has an unspoken darkness underneath that lingers. That it all still works today is a testament to the script and music, of course, but also to all of this production's moving parts, all of which make it feel so realized in execution.

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PREVUE // SKETCH COMEDY

Odd Wednesday S

ketch is like porn: it can be difficult to define, but you know it when you see it. Robyn Slack, member of the Débutantes sketch group and host of Odd Wednesday—a new sketch comedy night being held every second Wednesday in the Sewing Machine Factory (underneath the Mill Creek Cafe on Whyte Avenue)— admits that sketch has a pretty loose definition.

"It can basically be anything prewritten, or pre-conceived comedy in the short form," Slack says. "But as we're finding with the show, that has a lot of different meanings to different people and a lot of different interpretations. ... We're basically accepting any type of comedy or any type of comedic performance that isn't traditional stand-up or improv. We're trying to give a home to groups, to solo performers who want to try out character work, and to just performance art of various kinds."

The inaugural Odd Wednesday was held in mid-April. It set the tone for

what Slack hopes will be evenings filled not just with sketch, but also with performance art and pieces that blend various disciplines together.

"Every time I've been to a show like this, you get that feeling of, 'I saw something special here and this is never going to be recreated again,'" Slack says. "It's just an opportunity to see the kind of performances that you're never going to see recreated anywhere else."

Odd Wednesday will feature a rotating set of performers, both new people—Slack encourages everyone to reach out if they're interested— and regular groups, including his own, Marv N' Berry and Blackout. They are also accepting submissions of video sketches, and Slack hopes the evening will become multi-disciplinary.

"I feel that we have a really thriving stand-up scene at the moment.

It's just been blowing up for the past two years and at this point it's in really good shape," Slack says, identify-

Every second Wednesday; next show May 11 (9 pm) Sewing Machine Factory, $5 ing that as a major factor in why they felt a sketch night was needed. "On those kind of nights we were finding more and more the spaces just aren't equipped [technically], and the comedy suffers for it, so we'd rather give groups a chance to thrive in that [new] environment.

"We'll give anybody a shot at the very least, because we want to encourage that," he continues. "One of my favourite things about this has been people who haven't done sketch before or this isn't in their wheelhouse, and they've reached out to me to try something new. We're really hoping that this can be a stage for that, for people to get out of their comfort zone."

Elope Musical Theatre Presents

City of

Angels

MAY 5-14, 2016

AUDITORIUM at CAMPUS ST. JEAN 8406 91 STREET NW, EDMONTON, ALBERTA

7:30PM

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SUNDAY MATINÉE - 2PM (NO SHOW MON. OR TUES.)

ARTIFACTS Look Up / Fri, May 6 (3 pm – 9 pm); Sat, May 7 (1 pm – 4 pm); Mon, May 9 (5 pm – 8 pm); Fri, May 13 (3 pm – 8 pm) Filmmaker Scott Portingale's latest—which he's billing as a "handmade cosmos"—aims to replicate the stargazing experience. The "analog virtual reality installation" called Look Up in the Ortona Armoury (where he's currently the artist in residence), begins when you enter an 8'' by 8'' box, lay back on its "lawn" (read: astroturf), put on some headphones, and then watch the cosmos play out before your eyes. The film within, Infinitude, works through the evolution of our universe with the help of animated media, some non-digital effects and "a

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galactic sand painting." RSVP at scott@scottportingale.com.

(Ortona Armoury) Royal Bison / Fri, May 6 – Sun, May 8 Closing in on a decade of offering independently made arts, crafts and other goods, Royal Bison's drawn acclaim from far and wide— among mass amounts of local prasie, it made Buzzfeed's 2015 list of 35 Indie Craft Fairs Every Creative Person Needs To Visit. For its spring iteration, some 75 vendors are showing their wares, with delicious treats available from Culina, Moonshine Doughnuts (which are vegan) and Bloom Cookie Co. (Cosmopolitan Music Society, [8426 Gateway Blvd], $3 [kids get in free])

STUDENT/SENIOR $22 ADULT $27.50

Burlesque of the Ages / Sat, May 7 (9:30 pm) Send In the Girls Burlesque finds itself in a bit of an in-between moment—having just closed a show, The Bust Em Up Burlesque, it's months away from its yet-unannounced offering at this year's Fringe Festival. So the company's bridging the time by throwing a party of a fundraiser: a mix of acts from within the company (LeTabby Lexington, Alabaster Albright) and the burlesque community at large (Violette Coquette of Secret Burlesque Society, Cherry Monroe of The Velvet Cupcakes) will perform.

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Book by Larry Gelbart Music by Cy Coleman Lyrics by David Zippel

Originally Produced on Broadway by Nick Vanoff, Roger Berlind, Jujamcyn Theaters, Suntory International Corp. and The Shubert Organization

Director/Choreographer Barbara Mah Music Director Michael Clark www.elopemusicaltheatre.ca

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DANCE BALLROOM DANCE PARTY • Central Lions Recreation Centre, 11113-113 St • May 7, 7:45pm (door), 8-midnight (dance)

CAPITAL CITY BURLESQUE'S MOUSTACHE PRIDE • Shoctor Stage at The Citadel, 9828-101A Ave • capitalcityburlesque@gmail.com • citadeltheatre.com/ event/ccb-moustache-pride • Featuring burlesque and guest performances set to live music celebrating the best of 70s Moustache Rock, from Heart and Scorpions, to Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, and more • May 14, 8-10pm • $30-$45 • 18+ only

FLAMENCO DANCE CLASSES (BEGINNER OR ADVANCED) • Dance Code Studio, 10575-115 St NW #204 • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail.com • Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm

LOVE LIES BLEEDING • Alberta Ballet • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • Excess, drama, eroticism and a profusion of extravagant costumes. Acclaimed by audiences and critics across North America, Jean Grand-Maître's mesmerizing multimedia ballet fuses the joy of pop/rock with the breathtaking physicality of ballet in a dance spectacular on par with the boldest Broadway productions • May 13-14, 7:30pm NOVA BLUES - BLUES NIGHT • Shanti Yoga Studio

Apr 30-Sep 18 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm • VIBE: The gallery is transformed into a laid-back lounge with Vibe, a pop-up live music showcase; May 6, Jun 17, Jul 15, Aug 19; 5-9pm

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • High Energy 21: The Future Museum: artwork by St. Albert high schools; May 5-31; Opening reception: May 5, 6-8:30pm • Art Ventures: Self portraits (May 21), 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: Handmade notebooks – small and simple (May 19), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Watercolour self portraits (May 21); for 3-5 yrs; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member) ARTWALK • Perron District, downtown St Albert. Includes WARES (Hosting SAPVAC), Musée Héritage Museum, St Albert Library, Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA), Bookstore on Perron, VASA, Musée Héritage Museum, A Boutique Gallery Bar By Gracie Jane • artwalkstalbert.com • The art hits the streets again for its 15th year! Discover this art destination, a place to enjoy, view and buy art to suit all tastes and budgets.

See returning artists and new ones • May 5, Jun 2, Jul 7, Aug 4, Sep 1 (exhibits run all month)

Alberta, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • Canadian director and writer Michael Dowse will share stories from his career and offer advice to emerging filmmakers • May 12, 6pm (talk), 7:15pm (networking cocktail) • Free (space is limited)

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free • Schedule: Amy (May 11), Carol (May 18), Son of Saul (May 25)

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Schedule: King of Kings (May 6), Exodus (May 13), Noah (May 20), The Prince of Egypt (May 27)

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • AsiAn CAnAdiAn Film series: Evangeline (May 11) • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Little Women (May 7) NORTHWESTFEST • Various venues • northwestfest. ca • Canada's longest-running documentary film festival, kicking off Edmonton's summer festival season with eight days and nights of the world's greatest docs, live music, panels, workshops and much mores • May 6-13

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS A. J. OTTEWELL CENTRE • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Annual Strathcona County High School Art Competition and Show; May 6-7 • Annual Mothers' Day Tea & Art Sale; May 8, 12-4pm

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: #ABCRAFT: artists using digital technologies; Apr 2-Jul 2 • Discovery Gallery: Echoes: artwork by Mia Riley; May 7-Jun 11; Artist reception: May 14, 2-4pm • Discovery Gallery: The Inhabited Landscape: artwork by Bettina Matzkuhn; May 7-Jun 11; Artist reception: May 14, 2-4pm

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • The Blur in Between: artwork by an international roster of artists from Chile, the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, as well as Canada; Jan 23-May 8 • The Flood: artwork by Sean Caulfield; Feb 6-Aug 14 • 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc; Mar 5-Jul 3 • Little Cree Women (Sisters, Secrets & Stories): artwork by Brittney Bear Hat & Richelle Bear Hat; Mar 5-Jul 3 • A Parallel Excavation: artwork by Duane Linklater & Tanya Lukin Linklater; Apr 30-Sep 18 • The Unvarnished Truth: Exploring the Material History of Painting;

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ST. JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL • 10830-109 Street NW

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

• westendgalleryltd.com • Heart and Soul: artwork by Joanne Gauthier; May 7-19

WOMEN'S ART MUSEUM OF CANADA • La Cité Francophone 2nd Pavillon, #200, 8627 Rue Marie-AnneGaboury (91 St) • 780.803.2016 • info@wamsoc.ca • wamsoc.ca • Bookmarks: variety show; Apr 2-May 14

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

LITERARY

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St •

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487

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

• audreys.ca • Freehand Spring launch Party; May 8, 2pm • Mercury Room: Wayne Arthurson "Blood Red Summer"

THEATRE

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

CITY OF ANGELS • Auditorium at Campus St Jean, 860491 St • elopemusicaltheatre.ca • May 5-14, 7:30pm (2pm on Sun); No shows Mon-Tue

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

dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • What Bernice Sees: artwork by Bernice Caligiuri; May 21

Gordon • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St •

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

bugeramathesongallery.com • Seeking Horizons: artwork by Pascale Ouellet; Apr 29-May 13

CENTRE D'ARTS VISUELS DE L'ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.com • Artwork

by Leonie Poole, Rhéa Royer Plouffe and Elaine Berglun; Apr 22-May 11

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211

EDMONTON FILMMAKERS FORUM • Art Gallery of

Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • The Opening Act: artwork by Natasha Pestich; Apr 28-Jun 11

WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892

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

FROM CRADLE TO STAGE • Walterdale Theatre, 10322-83 Ave • 780.439.3058 • walterdaletheatre.com• May 16-21 • Sponsored by Vue Weekly

SACRED CIRCLE DANCE • Riverdale Hall, 9231-100

FILM

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen

BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 9132-118 Ave •

CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 ST, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute.com • Solo Exhibition of Kasie Campbell; Apr 27-May 21

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome.

Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • A Prairie Light: artwork by Jim Stokes; May 7-28; Opening reception: May 7, 2-5pm

VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta. com • Draw More Income: A mail-art exhibition by snail mail, email and fax where artists complete a drawing or artwork on a template that include an ornate frame and the words "draw more income"; Mar 3-May 28

BEAR CLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St • 780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • Artwork by Alex Janvier; May 7-19

10026-102 St • novablues.com • A social dance. Guests must bring socks–shoes not permitted • May 6, 9:15pm (beginner lesson), 10pm (dance) • $8-$12 (sliding scale) Ave • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music. No partner required • Every Wed, 7-9pm • $10

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

HARVEY • Knox-Metropolitan United Church, 8307-109 St NW • 780.454.8606 • The celebrated story of a perfect gentleman, Elwood P. Dowd, and his best friend, Harvey–a six-foot tall, invisible rabbit • May 13-15 • $15 (adults), $10 (students/seniors); available at the door

MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a high-stakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door)

• dc3artprojects.com • Firedamp: Artwork by Sean Caulfield; May 6-Jun 11; Opening reception: May 6, 5-9pm; Artist talk: May 6, 5:30pm

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St •

MURDER AT THE HOWARD JOHNSON'S • St. Albert Theatre Troupe, 47 Riel Drive, St. Albert • 780.222.0102 • stalberttheatre.com • All is fair in love....and murder, in this dark-ish comedy by Sam Bobrick and Ron Clark. It's two against one, three different ways, and nobody's very good at it • Apr 28-May 14 • Dinner theatre: $55 (adult), $50 (senior)

douglasudellgallery.com • Next to Nothing: artwork by Dean Drever; Apr 23-May 14

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Strathcona Salon Series: various artists; May 14-Jun 26

OR THE WHALE • Timms Centre for the Arts, 87 Ave &

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main

112 St • uab.ca/shows • Or The Whale is a physical and poetic exploration of the classic source material conceived, developed, designed and staged by Alberta-based artists; an epic adventure of camaraderie, madness, betrayal and revenge, performed by five actors • May 12-16, 7:30pm • $25 (adults), $22 (seniors), $12 (students)

Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/galleryat-milner • Gallery Walls: The Transient Nature of a Young Woman: Paintings by Jacquline Ohm; Through May • Cases and plexi-glass cubes: A selection of works by the Canadian Book Binders and Book Artists' Guild; Through May

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St •

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE • Holy Trinity Anglican

780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Disbound: artwork

by Kim Bruce; Apr 21-May 27 • Meanders: artwork by François-Matthieu Bouchard; Apr 21-May 27

Church, 10037-84 Ave • twoonewaytickets.com • The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. He meets Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley, and the two young people fall instantly in love.

Frederic soon learns, however, that he was born on February 29, and so, technically, he only has a birthday each leap year. His indenture specifies that he remain apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday and that he must serve for another 63 years. Bound by his own sense of duty, Frederic's only solace is that Mabel agrees to wait for him faithfully • May 15-16

JAKE'S GALLERY AND FRAMING • 10441-123 St • 780.426.4649 • jake@jakesframing.ca • vice-president@ imagesalberta.ca • imagesalberta.ca/iacc-exhibitmay-2016.html • Images Alberta Camera Exhibit 2016: exhibition of photographic works by 40 members of Images Alberta Camera Club; May 2-31; Opening reception: May 7, 7-9pm

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Earth and Sky, Watercolours and Drawings: artwork by Michael Mott; Apr 29-May 25; Reception: May 11, 6:30-8:30pm

TEN TIMES TWO: THE ETERNAL COURTSHIP • Backstage Theatre 10330-84 Ave • Cursed with immortality and spurred on by a mysterious host, evil doer Ephraim vows to capture the heart of the serving wench Constance after meeting her in the Middle Ages. First driven by lust and then by love he woos her repeatedly over the millennia, as she is reincarnated in an astonishing parade of unpredictable women. It's an epic pursuit that turns into a wild and witty exploration of the heart of humanity • May 4-22

MACEWAN UNIVERSITY CITY CENTRE CAMPUS • Room 7-266 • amatejko@telusplanet.net • Pre-Suburbia, Utopian Desires: Photography by Jason Symington; Mar 30-Jun 24

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullen-gallery • Works from the Field: artwork by Dan Bagan; May 7-Jul 3

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

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

WEST SIDE STORY • Citadel Theatre, 9828 101A book launch; May 10, 7pm

THE TEA GIRL • 12411 Stony Plain Road • 780.932.0095

PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: Mountain walks, paintings by Marla Schole • Artisan Nook: Finding frames & framing finds, upcycled artworks by Gail Rydman • Both exhibitions run Apr 7-May 19

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • A Conversation with Colour: artwork by Jonathan Forrest; May 26-Jun 14; Opening reception: May 26, 7-9pm

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta. ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Marlena Wyman: Illuminating the Diary of Alda Dale Randall; Feb 2-Aug 20

• karenbishopartist@gmail.com • karenbishop.ca/a-nicecup-of-tea.html • Paintings by Karen Bishop and tiny teapots

by P J Groeneveldt; May 1-31; Tea party: May 7, 7-9pm

U OF A MUSEUMS GALLERIES AT ENTERPRISE SQUARE • Main floor, 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • China through the Lens of John Thomson (1868-1872): photos by John Thomson; Mar 18-Jul 31 • The Mactaggart Art Collection: Beyond the Lens: artwork by John Thomson; Mar 18-Jul 31 • Show Me Something I Don't Know: images, photographs and travelogues created by John Thomson; Mar 18-Jul 31 • My Heritage 2016 Exhibit: 78 competitive original fibre art entries; May until Aug; Opening reception: May 5, 7pm

Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story is one of the greatest musicals of the 20th century—a love story set on opposite sides of a turf war between rival street gangs • Apr 23-May 22

NAKED GIRLS READING • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St NW • 780.691.1691 • There will be different themes each month. Myths and Legends (May) • Every 2nd Tue of month, 8:30-10:30pm • $20 (door); 18+ only

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Bullough with Michael Peng and Wishbone Theatre • May 11-21

• Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

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

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

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A deeper truth

With Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, Chester Brown makes a case for an alt-reading of the Bible

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hester Brown has a lot to say about prostitution. It's personal to him. He admits to being Christian.

And he advocates not only for sexworker rights, but for a change to how prostitution is viewed by society, what he calls a "whorephobic" culture. According to Brown, the roots of this culture are found in the Bible. The writers of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament chose to depict prostitution negatively, and as Christianity spread, so did negative views of prostitution.

But with Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, Brown reveals a deeper truth not only about prostitution, but a perspective on God's attitude toward individual freedom and morality.

This all starts for Brown when he reads Matthew wrote the genealogy of Jesus in his gospel to include women—a rare decision. But more importantly, they are women depicted as prostitutes, or women who use their sexuality to secure work or a living.

Brown examines the mythology, and historical re-interpretations of Bible stories on prostitution to take a fresh look at how and why women's sexuality, and stories of sex work, are hidden or maintained in the Bible. The graphic novel portion is a quick and engaging look at what at first appears to be wellknown Bible tales about Bathsheba, Ruth, Tamar and Mary of Bethany.

But with the benefit of Brown's research and his unique perspective on sex work the stories take on new, or perhaps an original, meaning. The graphic novel achieves what Bible tales themselves were first intended to do: convey deeper meaning through narrative. And

Brown does this well, with a few laughs in between.

But the real benefit of Brown's take on Bible tales is a renewed perspective on how prostitution functioned at the time of and before Jesus. His retellings strip away historical layers to reveal potential original intent. Or those tricky hidden meanings the writers of the gospel wanted to include on difficult subjects. Brown's retellings reveal the power of the women within these stories and creates an understanding of a loving God who welcomes free will.

This work is a return to Brown's more historical-biographical content that won him acclaim with Louis Riel. In 170 pages Brown deftly depicts complex histories and representations of Biblical stories in an engaging comic narrative. The close to 100 pages of an afterword and notes are just as engaging and worthy of a read. His investigation into the issue, weighing of different historical interpretations, readings and religious reasoning and doctrine are all well laid out.

Brown admits his biases and intent. He has maintained an 11-year relationship with one prostitute.

He advocates the freedom from the "possessive monogamy" of relationships, wanting sex but not a girlfriend, and that sex as a business transaction doesn't have to be empty or demeaning for either party. And with Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus, he makes a good argument that Christianity messed up a relationship humanity once viewed as practical.

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POPCULTURE HAPPENINGS Free Comic Book Day / Sat, May 7 It's like Christmas, but in May and exclusively with comics. Each year, comic book stores around the world give away comics to introduce potential readers to their awesomeness, entice former fans back into the addiction and thank current book buyers for their support. A few of the comics that will be available this Saturday include: Suicide Squad issue 1, One Punch Man, My Hero Academia, the newly revamped Archie by Fiona Staples and a sneak peek into Marvel's summer comic event, Civil War II with an introduction to the all-new Wasp. (Comic stores everywhere)

Game Discovery Exhibition / Sat May 7 – Sun, May 8 Game development in Edmonton is blooming, and what better way to celebrate than with an exhibition? At this event, game developers can network with industry professionals, showcase their new work to the public, and players can test the new video games, board games and new hardware while competing in tournaments or attending panels. More info at gdxedmonton.com. (MacEwan University, $16 – $28)

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Hacking Edmonton's Name: Intro into Geocaching / Sat, May 7 (1 pm – 2:30 pm) The weather has been beautiful going into the month of May, and the Edmonton Public Library hopes to encourage folks to enjoy the warm temperatures by taking up geocaching. For those not familiar with it, geocaching is an outdoor activity where participants use a GPS device or other navigational tools to find containers that have been hidden anywhere in the world (or to hide their own for others to find). This special lecture will focus on how to geocache using new technologies and geographic skills. Attendees will be starting their journey at the Strathcona Library, and then continue into the river valley.

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Selection of non-fiction films from the freshly renamed Northwestfest Until Sat, May 14 Northwestfest Various venues Full schedule at northwestfest.ca performance of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" in front of the congregation is the documentary's spine, holding it up for everyone to see. As joy and cathartic release fly from her lips, the words of a fellow band member come alive: "the show is her therapy." CH Raiders!

Sun, May 8, (3 pm) Directed by Jeremy Coon & Tim Skousen Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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hough its new name, Northwestfest, reflects a certain re-imagining of what was up until last year the Global Visions Film Festival, at its heart, the festival's MO remains the same, if expanded: a curated selection of fine non-fiction films, spanning every type of subject matter, from all around the globe.

That renaming was the capstone in a three-year process of changes— expanding from three days to 10, a time-of-year move from November to May—for Canada's longest-running documentary fest. Name changes aside, this is year 33 for the festival, and in advance of its opening, we watched as many screeners as we could to offer up some reviews of its 2016 selections. There are, of course, far more films, but here's a smattering to get you started.

Reviews by Brian Gibson (BG), Ryan Bromsgrove (RB), Saliha Chattoo (SC) and Claire Hoffman (CH).

Don't Blink: Robert Frank Sat, May 7 (5 pm) Directed by Laura Israel Landmark Cinemas City Centre

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Skipping and zipping about, snipping snatches of thought and glimpses of images, Laura Israel's documentary captures the scattershot Beat in Robert Frank's 1950s work, along with his nearstoic flippancy (asked about his drive in a 1986 interview, he notes, "It's better to do something than to do nothing").

Frank's distanced, reportage-like photos in his famous book The Americans (1958)—culled from 767 rolls of film— are succeeded by self-conscious, experimental documentaries as personal grief clouds his life. The portrait of this artist as a rambling man includes scenes of his backwoods shack-life in stark

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Mabou, NS, where Frank spent part of each year for two decades. Less an overview of this great photographer's work than an impressionistic, Frankesque, idiosyncratic immersion in it, rollicking and snapping along, his work and life inseparable, Don't Blink ensures that you won't want to. BG Gayby Baby Sun, May 8, (4 pm) Directed by Maya Newell Landmark Cinemas City Centre

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Gus, Ebony, Matt and Graham are the tween subjects and narrators of this Australian documentary about children of same-sex couples.

The film opens with photos of opposite-sex parents and their kids.

Slowly, faceless voices insisting that "children need both a mother and a father" begin to alternate on top of one another until they devolve into meaningless noise.

Director Maya Newell's observation of her four subjects and their families functions as an unspoken rebuttal to those voices. Her message is simple: the love these gay and lesbian parents give their kids every day speaks for itself. Owing in large part to the fact that it's never explicitly stated, that message does not become selfrighteous or tedious, and it doesn't draw attention from the compelling narratives at the heart of the film. At the same time, hearing the children tell their own stories is a fascinating peek into their lives. CH Here Come The Videofreex Thu, May 12 (8pm) Directed by Jon Nealon & Jenny Raskin Landmark Cinemas City Centre

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Worth watching for this pioneering New York video collective's frontline-reportage from the counterculture wars of 1969 – '71, mixed with homevideo-like footage of their arts-and-journalism group coming into its own. Members' insights are few and far-between—founder David Cort's departure is never satisfyingly explained—even as this doc can feel too insider-ish. (Why are there no media historians, say, to opine on the collective's legacy or impact?) There's scant mention of members' shooting philosophies and no thoughts on the handheld, lightweight Sony Portapak powering their passion.

Black-and-white, raggedly intimate looks at protests, art happenings or women's-liberation rallies offer a boxed-in, antagonistic sense of Nixonera USA (even Woodstock seems ragtag and fragmented here). An interview with Black Panther leader Fred Hampton takes on a ghostly aura.

The bizarre '69 shotgun-marriage between the Videofreex and CBS dissolves, amusingly, before the honeymoon. The ending, though, makes too much of the group's community-TV project for a Catskills town of just a few hundred people. BG I Am the Blues Fri, May 6 (9:15 pm) Directed by Daniel Cross Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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There's a feeling of comfort and familiarity offered to the viewer from the start of I Am the Blues, as though we've often sat in the churches, small towns and community halls of Louisiana and Mississippi. Following a now-aging community of blues legends, this documentary is a beautifully paced exploration of

both the personal and the cultural meaning of the blues. Several affecting moments are captured, and the quiet gaze of the camera's lens is crafted into a remarkably successful narrator. The words and the music of the documentary's subjects are given equal roles as storytellers, and these tales become much more than personal nostalgic musings: they reveal a world of artistry and expression wherein the weight of national, social and political histories remain. The meaning of blues music "not just in the black community," but to "America, period" is expressed through myriad identities: the blues as respite, as lament, as sanctuary, as commentary, as outlet, as reaction and as creation. In setting out to demonstrate that there is "always a story behind the song," I Am the Blues has documented a story well worth hearing. SC Miss Sharon Jones Thu, May 5 (7 pm) Directed by Barbara Kopple Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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The show must go on for Sharon Jones, a funk/soul vocalist battling stage-two pancreatic cancer as she prepares to go on tour with her band, the Dap-Kings. Perhaps the most compelling thread woven into the film is the relationship between Jones and her holistic nutritionist friend, Megan Holken. When the singer undergoes months of chemotherapy treatment, Holken opens up her home so she can take care of her.

The bond that results from this selfless act is moving and pure.

During a period of fragile strength, Jones attends service at her church for the first time in a long time. Her

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Back in the '80s, some kids spent seven summers remaking, shot-for-shot, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Raiders! takes a look at what they did and how the tape they made lived on during the following years, centred around a compelling hook: decades later, the kids are back to shoot the one scene that always eluded them.

Raiders! is at its best when examining the teenagers' impossible dream of reshooting a complex, state-ofthe-art movie with no expertise, little money and resorting to pulling in family members and friends. It's hard not to root for the kids, but you can't then help but feel that the Kickstarter-funded attempt to shoot that exploding airplane scene, with investors in the background, high-quality props, and cameras, while impressive, is not exactly of the same spirit of the original project. Coming across generally as cheerleading, the film's a treat for movie geeks, but a few more interesting questions are just out of reach. RB Spaceship Earth Sat, May 7 (4 pm) Directed by Kevin McMahon Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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Taking the concept of the Earth as a spacecraft, Spaceship Earth is a deep look at how humans ought to be managing the planet. It weaves the story of humanity's progress and growth through spectacular imagery of the Earth and its nature, showing quite clearly what's at stake if we're unable to adequately manage that growth.

The film's an engrossing two-hour overview that smartly covers the climate-change problem and potential solutions, peppered with expert input from around the world. In straightforward terms, we go from how fossil fuels enabled our civilization and the mathematical unsustainability of the current path, to the technological solutions and social paradigms that need to change to prevent collapse.

While there may not be anything particularly new to anyone already upto-date on the issues, it's nonetheless a must-see for anyone who intends to continue living on our planet. RB

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Evangeline

Wed, May 11 (9:30 pm) Evangeline

Asian Canadian Film Series

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he impetus for Alexis Kienlen's curated Metro Cinema series— its first-ever run of exclusively AsianCanadian films—comes down to a simple question.

"I said to a bunch of people I know, 'Can you name an Asian-Canadian filmmaker?'" she recalls. "And a lot of people couldn't. They couldn't think of one person."

Kienlen, herself of mixed-Asian heritage, had been mulling over pitching a curated film series when the idea emerged: an Asian series for Asian Heritage Month. It was then further honed to Asian-Canadian films through conversations Kienlen had with friends.

Because, as the lack of answers to her question showcased, diverse representation's still an incredible issue in mainstream cinema: you only have to look to Hollywood news of the past month or so—Tilda Swinton being cast as a Tibetan character, The Ancient One,

in Marvel's Doctor Strange; Scarlett Johansson's anchoring the live-action remake of acclaimed Japanese manga/ anime Ghost in the Shell.

"It's really important to have representation on screen," Kienlen notes. "A lot of people who are Asian or mixed-Asian, you don't see. It's getting better now, with stuff like [TV series] Fresh Off The Boat, there are some Asian roles on TV shows, but you don't see a lot of Asians in film."

So the series itself, already underway, is spanning a variety of types of film: coming up shortly is Evangeline (May 11), a Vancouver-made horror film that finds a university student taking her revenge, with the help of a spirit, on those who left her for dead—its presentation here is a co-production with DEDfest.

Following that comes The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (May 18), a documentary sifting through the life of legendary performance artist Lung Te Shan.

Closing out the series is Double Happiness (May 25), a '90s drama that finds an actor (Sandra Oh) trying to detach herself from the expectations of her traditionally minded family.

All of the filmmakers are involved with their screenings in some way: Evangeline's director, Karen Lam, will give a Skype introduction to her film, while the other two films will feature post-screening Q & As with their directors, also via Skype.

And beyond simply screening the films, Kienlen's looking to prompt a couple of conversations about Asian history in Canada, too.

"I hope it gets people talking about Asian-identity issues, and a lot of the history," Kienlen says of the film series. "'A lot of people don't know the history.

My grandpa was actually a head-tax payer [a fixed immigration fee, intended to discourage Chinese immigration after the Canadian Pacific Railway

was finished]. Then his Chinese wife couldn't come because of the Chinese Exclusion Act. But a lot of people don't even know that we had an act that was like, the Chinese can't come here."

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this decidedly un-sensational, unsentimental film, and each of these acts somehow draw Si'r and Ming closer into each other's orbits—setting them on a path toward tragedy.

There's so much to be taken away from A Brighter Summer Day. Every viewing yields new impressions.

What sticks with me now especially is Yang's masterful camerawork, which sometimes views scenes of great drama from a great distance, or even allows key exchanges to happen offscreen, and the way Yang fills this film with so many artifacts of Taiwan's tumultuous recent history: the samurai sword left behind from the Japanese; the tape recorder left behind

by American GIs; the old, rarely functioning radio brought by Si'r's father from Shanghai, all of them foreign objects that will over time become domesticated. These talismanic items speak to the ongoing transformation of a country's modern identity, just as the intimate A-story of A Bright Summer Day speaks to the long thread of events, some hugely entertaining, some touching, some harrowing, that go into the transformation of a boy into a man. V

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A Brighter Summer Day a too-rarely-seen contemporary classic his family, like millions of other families, moved to Taiwan so as to escape Mainland China's radical shift to communism. Not knowing what the future would hold, these families constituted an enormous yet tenuous kind of community in Taiwan, a country already scarred with many cultural fissures, having been ruled by the Japanese for nearly half a century. The factions dividing the country Si'r grows up in can be detected even within his own age group, with violent rival street gangs claiming dominion over certain territories. Si'r doesn't belong to either of the big local gangs, nor does he do well in school, nor does he try his hand at performing in the rock 'n' roll groups popping up among his peers. Si'r isn't especially introverted. He has friends involved both in the gangs and music. But in a culture that rewards conformity, Si'r feels more comfortable standing apart. Over the course of A Brighter Summer Day, however, he gradually becomes deeply attached to Ming (Lisa Yang), the lovely girl who begins the film as the girlfriend of one of the gangs' leaders and is treated by the boys as a kind of collateral. Several acts of terrible violence punctuate

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Pivotal transformations The centerpiece—and masterpiece— in the late Edward Yang's short but beloved body of work, A Brighter Summer Day (1991) captures a moment of pivotal transition for both its adolescent protagonist and the culture he and his family inhabit. Set between 1959 and 1961 in Taipei, the film was inspired by a shocking real-life crime, though Yang's interest doesn't appear to be on resolving or dissecting the crime, per se. Rather, Yang seems to have been above all determined to get right the troubled spirit of a particular moment in time. With its four-hour runtime, sprawling cast of characters and abundance of plot, A Brighter Summer Day transports, telling the story of a boy resistant to the lure of belonging but drawn helplessly into the mire of infatuation. The film offers insight into its subjects through the careful accumulation of incident, the framing of sometimes highly emotional exchanges, and the slow-burn development of character and place. This is a too-rarely seen classic of contemporary cinema and a most welcome addition to the Criterion Collection, who have released it on DVD, Blu-ray and iTunes.

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eyond its near-wincingly sharp spoofery of US racial politics, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele's five-season sketch series (2012 – '15) saw the pair joke around in cars, play-act being street-tough or indulge their inner nerds. Those three Key & Peele strands skein through their first feature, along with the pair's penchant for genreplay (horror, the action-thriller and the animal-adventure movie). But Keanu can still feel like sketch-work stretched and splayed too far, though the sheer, dogged commitment of both men to this material (written by Peele and series-writer Alex Rubens) makes for enough laughs.

After a druglord's kitten flees a massacre by the ghoulish Allentown Boys, the whiskered, furry orphan mewls on the doorstep of Rell (Peele), down-and-out after a break-up. One weekend, though, Rell and his cousin Clarence (Key) find Keanu gone, apparently cat-napped by the Blips (rejects of the Bloods and Crips), mistaking Rell's apartment for his weed-dealer's place next door. Rell and Clarence adopt their best gangsta attitudes to go undercover and get Keanu back.

As uptight, minivan-driving, George Michael-loving Clarence, Key is brilliantly high-strung and high-energy.

When the writing's weirdly, wonkily detailed—as in a hilarious dick-apitation boast or Clarence's explanation of his music obsession to skeptical Blips—this comedy-vehicle purrs right along. Visually, though, the movie doesn't go big-screen: a dreamsequence isn't as wild and boldly imaginative as it could be, and director Peter Atencio overuses slo-mo, with the story indulging in shoot-out and stand-off clichés.

As particular and peculiar as the middle-class cousins are, the gangsters remain stock types (Anna Faris, pretending to play herself as a risk-addicted, samurai-sword-wielding druggie, stands out more), as if black criminals can't be made comically complex. The ending formulaically sees both guys get their gals, though the opposite sex remains under-served (tellingly, "bitch" is dropped unironically by a still-bitter Rell, whereas "bitch" was said timidly and ever-farther from their wives' keen earshots by two husbands pretending to be all-assertive in a famous Key & Peele sketch). Beyond some good lines and funny moments, Keanu just isn't radical or daring enough to be a deepdown damn fine film.

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Mother's Day G

arry Marshall is the master of administering shots of syrup straight to the heart. In the '70s and '80s, he made America fall in love with "The Fonz" as the creator of Happy Days. After that, his directing credits read like a list of sugar-rush-inducing hits: Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride and The Princess Diaries, to name a few.

So it's no surprise that his celebrity jam-packed "holiday" movies have had audiences lining up in droves for a taste of the good stuff. Only the coldest of hearts can sneer at a measured spoonful of high-fructose corniness. Unfortunately, there's little to be found in Mother's Day, which stars Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis. Instead, the film hands you a stale, flavourless bran muffin and calls it a cupcake.

Time and time again, you are expected to care about the characters without a reason. For instance, Bradley (Sudeikis) is a grieving widower who spends his days watching a karaoke video of his late wife (Jennifer Garner). By this blatant and clunky bit of exposition, it follows that he loves and misses her.

Despite being told these things, there is no evidence of them in Sudeikis' acting. It's like that editing technique where a shot of a face

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with a blank stare is cut together with a shot of a steaming bowl of soup. You imagine you see a trace of hunger in the person's eyes because you're meant to, but it's really just an empty gaze.

Marshall's Valentine's Day (2010) and New Year's Eve (2011) are lightas-air entertainment, and this flick fails in its attempt to be similar.

Billed as a comedy, its jokes are cheap and poorly written. Case in point: the owner of the bar where Britt Robertson's character works is a little person named "Shorty."

When it's not borderline offensive, the movie glosses over four messy and often weighty storylines in order to get to its big, shiny, happy ending: the perfectly positioned bow on top of a Mother's Day present wrapped in-store, with none of the genuine rough edges of homemade.

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New haunts

Dead Ghosts ventured to a creepy rural barn to record Love and Death and All The Rest

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ancouver's Dead Ghosts released its third full-length, Love and Death and All the Rest, in October 2015. The band's ensuing tour has taken it to, well, Edmonton. Full stop. As vocalist/guitarist Bryan Nicol explains, he and his bandmates are just fine with removing themselves from the non-stop album/ tour cycle, and are frankly just looking to write and record on their own terms—and have fun wherever they can find it.

"Moe [Chiumento, bass] is from Edmonton, and Chvrch of John wanted us to play one of the first few shows there," Nicol explains. "We're super excited to go back to Edmonton. We

always have a super good time, and people are really down to party. It's a lot different than Vancouver—they don't really have fun playing rock 'n' roll; they take it pretty seriously, like 'We're a cold-wave band.' So it's fun for us to go to a city that's down to have a good time."

With previous albums, Dead Ghosts would record live-off-the-floor, or amass a pile of songs and then sit on them and work them to death.

For Love and Death, the band took a different approach, tracking down a barn outside Vancouver on a blueberry farm that was run by a group of artists and admittedly pretty weird characters. For six months,

the guys would venture out every couple of days to write a song and then record it while it was still immediate and exciting, a process that they found much more appealing.

"Our friends had this barn outside of Vancouver, and we basically had a free space to go out and record," Nicol explains. "Studio time is so expensive and we never really got the sound we wanted, so we thought, 'Fuck it, let's do it ourselves.' We've bought a bunch of gear over the years, so we took it out there and basically just wrote the songs and recorded them as we wrote them, which felt really natural. And it was a pretty fun experience—just going

out every couple of days and writing a new song and recording it as we wrote it, in the moment."

The barn itself was run-down and infested with animals, including an owl that would visit the band while it was tracking. Even so, Dead Ghosts found the atmosphere conducive to creating an album, despite some pretty creepy occurrences.

"There were rats and mice and this owl—it was flying around in the barn when we were recording," Nicol recalls. "There's like an artist space there, and the guy who owns the barn is this artist guy. One day we came back and the owl was nailed to

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he name Labradoodle is becoming more synonymous with a particular style of riff-rock than it is a breed of fluffy canine—around these parts, at least.

The aforementioned moniker has been taken on by a local trio—Brent Underschultz (guitar), Adam Prins (drums) and Daryl Freson (bass, vocals)—began as a two-piece jam band

back in late 2011, early 2012. Originally a shared project between Underschultz and Prins, Labradoodle found its current iteration with the addition of Freson. Drawing on melodies reminiscent of Led Zeppelin and the like, Labradoodle released its debut self-titled album in 2013, and it's now ready to unleash its follow-up, Lawn Chair Destroyer.

"This album's a much more collaborative piece where everybody contributes, whereas the first one was me and [Adam] mostly who had written half the album," Underschultz explains. "We did the bed tracks almost a year-and-a-half ago, and then our friend's studio moved—he had to relocate because he got a house. ... We were hoping to release it around this

time last year."

Making the album may have been a longer process than Labradoodle initially bargained for, but Underschultz is able to view the delay as a positive, in hindsight: it allowed he and his bandmates to re-record the record's closing track, which was rushed initially, as well as spend some more time fleshing out different recordings. He also credits the collaborative nature of the record for its final outcome, whether that happened between he and his bandmates or with producer Gavin Dunn of the Hearts, whom Labradoodle worked with on its previous album.

"We don't care who comes up with the idea, but we kind of would arrange it and take out parts and ditch parts collectively, as a group. Usually somebody has a better idea than the songwriter initially would have, or at least we found that. So other perspectives always helped," he explains. "Daryl, he's been playing music for so long, and having him in on the whole process, it's just a little more interesting trying to change song structures and stuff like that to make it a little more interesting for ourselves. It's hard to change from the verse-chorus-verse dynamic, but we're just putting in fun little tidbits for ourselves to keep ourselves interested in it. I'm much more proud of the songs we did this time, and I think everybody is collectively."

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uzzed-out, gritty—these are a couple of the descriptors tossed around in an effort to capture an apt sense of the wall of sound emitted from the four members of Outtacontroller.

The Halifax-based group met through mutual connections in the city's music scene several years ago—all of the band members are active in other projects—but the impetus of Outtacontroller was to create something fun for all involved.

"We started out trying out all kinds of different things, and it took a few months before we got into the sound we have now, the punk-rock kind of thing," says vocalist/guitarist Terry A'hearn over the phone from Halifax.

The band released its first fulllength, Don't Play Dumb, in 2012— there were a trio of shorter releases prior to that—with its most recent record being Television Zombies.

The album was fittingly released on October 31 of last year, but A'hearn chalks the ostensibly spooky date and the undead references on the album up to a fortuitous coincidence.

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ed on Labradoodle's Bandcamp page that offer up a sampling of what's to be expected from the album: the crunchy guitar track "Ernest Borgnine" and proggy-punk tune "Tacos For All, But Burritos For Some." The quirky titles fall in line with those of Labradoodle's previous work, as well as the anecdote that inspired the album name—the tale goes that Freson proclaimed himself "Lawn Chair Destroyer" after decimating his fair share of them during the course of a camping trip.

"All of our songs don't really connect with the lyrics all the time. We just name a song so we can remember it—'Ernest Borgnine,' that's probably one of the only ones that's related because we wrote the riff on the day he died. He's kind of a classic actor we all thought was pretty cool," Underschultz says, adding it's a track that made sense to release early due to the positive reaction it's elicited during live shows. "[It] certainly captures the sound of the band. ... It has kind of a trashy outro, which we like, and the vocals on that one seem to capture people's attention, because Daryl sings pretty high on that one."

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That and the subject matter draws a little bit more on nostalgia than it does on the quintessential macabre imagery zombies often conjure.

"Some of the old times and TV and different things like that—it's just more about parties with our friends, things that happened with our friends, the basic stuff," he explains.

"We're big Troma film fans, like The Toxic Avenger and stuff like that, so songs like 'Mutations' draw on that."

While Television Zombie is firmly rooted in punk riffs, A'hearn says Outtacontroller's next record will go in a different direction, which he credits to the addition off a new rhythm section in the band.

"I think this is the third lineup, but we've had a few replacement drummers in between," he says of the change-up—something not unfamiliar to many bands. "It has [been challenging], but we kind of invite it because it changes the sound a little bit. It'll usually add something, and having new guys who are excited gives it a breath of fresh air."

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Ginger St James S

top pigeonholing Ginger St James as a rockabilly performer.

"We don't always walk around with pompadours," St James says with a soft laugh.

While there are some rockabilly tendencies at the crux of One For The Money, the second full-length album from the Hamilton-based singer-songwriter—and her appearance certainly can reflect elements of rockabilly style—the album leans more towards country than the current punk-rock manifestations rockabilly is often associated with.

"I'm inspired by the original pioneers of rockabilly, J o h n n y Cash or Elvis or Wanda Jackson, who were doing it back in the '50s, late '40s even," she explains. "But I don't feel like we really fit into the current rockabilly culture. My band's not covered in tattoos—sometimes we use an electric bass. ... If we were around in the '50s, we certainly would [fit that]."

The incumbent punk elements are absent from St James' music, but they're replaced with lots of country, blues and and jazz influences that make it difficult to neatly classify her style.

"I feel like we can fit in many genres," she says. "I think if you're classified in, let's say as a blues band, you're expected to play blues music all the time. I'm inspired by so much music. I don't want to limit my experiences."

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In order to capture those sundry influences, St James collaborated with a number of people—a first for her—to materialize One For The Money. "Hair of the Dog" sees collaboration with guitarist S n o w H e e l Slim, who added a hard-rock flavour to that track, whereas "Honeymoon Stage" is a Patsy Clineinspired country number, which St James acknowledges is a track she wouldn't have written on her own but did thanks to the workings of musician Chris Altmann.

That collaboration process enabled St James to "graduate" her songwriting capabilties to a much more evolved stature, she notes.

"It opened my mind to other options on how to write songs," she says. "Everyone offers something new to the mix, and it allowed me to create songs that I wouldn't have done on my own.

"It was allowing myself to step out of my comfort zone," she continues. I'm kind of a private person, even though I perform in front of everybody, but I'm most comfortable when I'm on my own."

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Push & Pull I

t's not a common thing to hear someone say they make the majority of their living playing music. Kyle Shabada of Push & Pull is one such exception. Formerly of Feast Or Famine, Shabada couldn't stay away from pop-punk for long—Push & Pull is the result of finishing a Bachelor of Music degree at Grant MacEwan, having access to a plethora of talented musicians and a bunch of leftover songs.

The past few years of Push & Pull have been sporadic at best, but Shabada seems to feel like there's space for the project to evolve this summer.

"Feast Or Famine started out fun, then we just kept levelling up and pushing it further and further. So we tried to move to Toronto and suffered a typical band break-up," he explains over coffee. "We moved back home; I went to school and kept writing.

I began jamming with musicians at school; we recorded some demos, and Push & Pull went from there."

The three-piece punk outfit— rounded out by Brenden Lyons on drums and Andreas Wegner on bass—has been playing a few gigs, recording Slackers covers and switching between band members since its inception around 2012.

But with a few shows on the way,

Shabada feels like the time is right to continue writing and evolving within the group.

"Everyone's out of school and seems to have more time," Shabada says optimistically. "The band's priority scale, to me, is right above paying the rent. Writing music takes a lot of time, too. Coming out of school I was so exhausted. I didn't even touch my guitar for about two months. Art takes time."

Since music naturally sounds more fun when the band members are enjoying themselves, Push & Pull is simply an expression of passion.

Shabada studied a great deal of jazz while in school, and the effect on his style of punk-rock has been an experiment in becoming more technical with his methodology.

As for what the future holds for Push & Pull, Shabada has a few things in mind.

"The next thing I want to do is record more demos and apply for more grants. I like recordings that are wellproduced, personally," he says. "I'd also like to do some videos, musically or otherwise. And it'd be nice to collaborate with someone too."

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Get Up Front A

ll-ages shows are making a comeback in the Edmonton music community, and two local musicians are looking to diversify this resurgence.

Maria Martire of Borscht and Jackie Nuc of Banshee have collaborated on a new promotions group called Get Up Front, or GUF. "There are a lot of punk all-ages shows, which is great, but I find the kids I teach music to who are into rock or pop or indie don't seem to have as many options," Martire explains. "We wanted to bridge the gap between all of these talented young musicians and the older, experienced crowd in town."

One of the main goals of GUF is to involve at least one underage band at each show, which will begin with Ripe Fruits of the West. Maddie Strombecky, 15, and Daniel Blade, 18, are the masterminds of the band, of which Martire is the drummer.

"We started jamming, and they wanted to do an original along with all of the covers we're doing. So Daniel did the bones of the song, and Maddie wrote the lyrics and is the singer," she says. "They'll also be switching instruments for the song. I truly consider this to be one of my bands now."

The younger bands involved in these all-ages shows will get a chance to play a "real" gig, where they'll be exposed to a potentially older crowd—

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Martire also spoke to the level of communication GUF wishes to employ for parents and young folk alike to have a great time at these shows.

In the end, the goal is to help educate and empower youth in the local music scene.

"It freaks me out that shows aren't even on the kids' radar," Martire says.

"They don't think shows are a thing they can go to until they're drinking age. We want to change that."

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in the scene," he says. "The average guy isn't going to care about bringing in the editor of Revolver. A journalist might, but it's not something a band is going to be excited about."

Scythia, one of many bands performing this year

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hat Edmonton may be lacking in a designated "metal bar," it seems to make up for in pure enthusiasm. The open-air metal fest, Farmaggedon, has been blasting central Alberta with bands from near and far since 2012, while its sister festival, ShrEdmonton, will make its first appearance this month.

ShrEdmonton is a metal festival and conference ostensibly unlike any other, seeking to join the raw love for all types of metal with an industryinfused perspective on the genre.

"We made a point of keeping the conference itself all ages," says festival manager Tyson Travnik. "Unfortunately, we can't keep the festival itself all ages, but we did want to give younger bands a chance to network. The main goal of the confer-

ence is to break down any barriers or misconceptions about what a promoter does, what a publicist actually does, when it's appropriate to spend money on a music video, for example. We'd love for a band to go there and take something away to put back into their own craft."

While the conference is geared towards musicians, anyone craving knowledge about the music industry is welcome to attend. Organizers made sure to place an emphasis on local presenters who are relatable and know the local musical climate, as Travnik spelled out with a few examples.

"People are going to know who Rod Gillis is in Edmonton because he handles DV8 and he's usually the first point of contact for a lot of people

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Building and supporting Alberta's metal scene is also a huge piece of the ShrEdmonton puzzle—the festival features performances from With Malice, Mortillery, Scythia and Exit Strategy, for example. Travnik is also quick to point out the various styles of metal and just how vast its fandom really is.

"The underground metal scene is tight-knit and strong, but it's small.

That said, the population that is into metal is bigger than most people think it is," he points out. "A band like Cannibal Corpse comes through, and it's a packed show. You'll recognize some people in the underground scene, but the majority of those people you never see at local shows. People need to realize that for 10 bucks, you can get just as good music in your backyard. That's the ultimate goal of the festival."

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member plays each show in the matching attire.

"I actually never take it off," Evans jokes.

The suits make another appearance in the band's retro-styled "Rocknrollin," music video. The very entertaining video includes a '90s-era TV wall, stroller rampage and capering musical skeletons.

"I'm super happy with the way the video turned out," he says. "My passion outside of music is video, and this music video was sort of my project for the past couple months. It was sort of a bunch of crazy ideas mashed into one, and it's pretty nuts."

Like the "Rocknrollin," music video, Fancy Diamonds' sound is a mishmash of genres with elements of punk, disco, blues, surf and funk. None of the songs span longer than three minutes and always begin with a catchy hook from either the doo-wop vocals or the '80s-sounding keyboard.

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Dylan Evans of Saskatoon's catchy lo-fi surf-dance-pop band Fancy Diamonds has been around the scene long enough to see this time and time again.

"We've seen so many acts take themselves way too seriously and only make music to try and get famous," he says. "We just want to diversify the scene, make friends with people and contribute our little bit of music to the Canadian music scene."

That sense of community is evident in Fancy Diamonds, which was born out of Evans collaborating with a group of musicians he met at various shows in Saskatoon.

"We started playing some of my solo stuff and after awhile we were like, 'Why don't we give ourselves a funky name and get some vintage matching blue tuxedos?'"

The matching baby-blue tuxedos have since become the band's trademark. The classic suits are featured on the cover of Fancy Diamonds' debut EP, Sparkle Party, and every

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The audience was certainly more than entertained during the last Fancy Diamonds show in late March when Evans dislocated his knee, mid-solo, and continued to finish the whole set.

"It was a wild show, but yeah, I felt my knee pop out of place and I just took my few first steps a couple days ago," he says.

Evans is determined to entertain everyone during each Fancy Diamonds gig, but because of his knee brace, he may not be dancing as much as he normally does when the band comes through Edmonton.

"I guess I'll just have to find some new moves," Evans laughs. "I'm dedicated to this. I don't care if I break both my legs."

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music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Mike

Dominey (pop); 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD Beat

Generation (rock/pop); 9pm CENTURY CASINO The

Stampeders; 7pm (door); $54.95; No minors DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY

Choral Festival; 10:30am4pm; $5 (door)

Chokeouts (punk) with Streetlight Saints, Suicide Helpline and Street League; 9pm; $10 (door)

Thu Main Fl: Throwback

FILTHY MCNASTY'S The

FIONN MACCOOL'S– DOWNTOWN Fat Dave

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Y AFTERHOURS Freedom

Saturday Electric Blues Jam with Rotten Dan and Sean Stephens (blues); Every Sat, 2-6pm; No minors • Later: The Express (country); 9pm

Fridays

Stan Gallant (rock); 9pm

SAT MAY 7

(alternative/rock); 9pm

SIDELINER PUB Wafer Thin

9910 Smiling Faces

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

Mints (alternative/pop); 9pm; No cover

Live presents. Borys & Paronomasiac; 9pm; $12

Adam Holm (folk/pop); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

STARLITE ROOM Day 1 -

THE ALMANAC Brad Bucknell and The Ohno Band (blues/folk/jazz) with Elliot Thomas; 9:30pm; $10 (door)

Stan Gallant (rock); 9pm

feauring Disciples of Power with guests; 7:15pm (door), 8:15pm (show); $30

UNION HALL Royce 5’9;

BRIXX BAR Day 1 -

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

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

Nines; 9:30pm

Adam Holm (folk/pop); 9pm

TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music every Fri with local musicians

Andrew Scott; 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

each week with a different band each week; 8pm

BOURBON ROOM Live music

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH AMFA Provincial

DJs

PALACE CASINO Rule of

northlands.com

L.B.'S PUB Open Jam hosted by Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

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CASK AND BARREL Levi

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE Flashback

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

DENIZEN HALL Taking Back

THE COMMON Quality Control Fridays with DJ Echo & Freshlan

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

9910 Future Roots with DJ

Thu; 7pm

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

EL CORTEZ TEQUILA BAR AND KITCHEN Kys the Sky;

FRI MAY 6

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every

THE BOWER Strictly Goods:

Crowd; 9pm

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

Hop with DJ Babr; every Fri

NEW WEST HOTEL 4's A

Edmonton's best solo musicians

BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Kevin Martin; Wooftop: DJ Remo & Guests; Underdog: Rap, House, Hip-

every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow House Function Thursdays; 9pm

Dos Santos; 9pm

DJs

8pm UPTOWN FOLK CLUB Barry

Allen & The New Rebels; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $18 (members), $20 (non-members) WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK Live Music Fridays; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation YARDBIRD SUITE Uri Gurvich Quartet; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)

APEX CASINO Colleen Rae &

Cornerstone; 9pm ARCADIA BAR In the House

featuring Fort Wendy; 9pm; $5 ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Duff

UNION HALL Ben Nicky; 9pm

BAILEY THEATRE–CAMROSE

YARDBIRD SUITE Nick Fraser, Tony Malaby, Kris Davis Trio; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $24 (member), $28 (guest)

Ginger St. James; 8pm; $25 (general), $15 (students) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Hair of the Dog: Wheels of Industry (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Krystle

Dos Santos; 9pm

ALL SAINTS’ ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL The Show That

BOURBON ROOM Live music

Choral Festival; 10:30am4pm; $5 (door) ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH The Mill

Creek Colliery Band– 2015– 16 season finale concert, ‘The Last Night of the Proms’; 7pm; $20 (general), $15 (student/senior), no charge for those under 18 years old

STARLITE ROOM Day 2 featuring Goatwhore with guests; 6:15pm (door), 7:15pm (show); $35

Robison; 9pm

Classical

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH AMFA Provincial

SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder Sparks K-DJ Show; 9pm-1am

TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE Mikey Wong and his lineup of guest DJs

BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB

Goes Like This; 7:30pm; $15 (adv, Tixo n the Square), $18 (door)

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Cody Mack

Live music; Every Sat; Free each week with a different band each week; 9pm BRIXX BAR Day 2 -

featuring Planet Eater with guests; 6pm (door), 7pm (show); $20 CAFE BLACKBIRD River and

Castle with Sean Brewer; 8pm; $10 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK

Heather Mckenzie's Band; 9pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON Mike

Dominey (pop); 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD Beat Generation (rock/pop); 9pm

Classical IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF ROSENTHAL

Opus@12 Chamber Concert Society; 7pm; $15 and up (adv), $20 and up (door) MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH AMFA Provincial

Choral Festival; 10:30am4pm; $5 (door) ST ANDREW'S UNITED CHURCH Kokopelli Choir

presents Share Thy Light; 7:30pm WINSPEAR CENTRE Fun &

Games; 2pm; $15-$30

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace

Sessions with Miss Mannered featuring Alt. Rock/Electro/Trash; Wooftop: Sound It Up! with DJ Sonny Grimezz spinning classic Hip-Hop

and Reggae; Underdog: Hip Hop open Mic followed by DJ Marack THE BOWER For Those Who

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

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

DV8 Stellafox's First official

THE COMMON Get Down

Sacrilege Sundays: All metal all day

It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with Wright & Wong, Dane DRUID IRISH PUB Live DJs

every Sat; 9pm EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

Rotating DJs Velix and Suco; every Sat MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

Wong every Sat THE PROVINCIAL PUB

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

Psyturdays: various DJs; 9pm SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

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

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Har

MON MAY 9

NEW WEST HOTEL

Wooftop: Metal Mondays

BAILEY THEATRE–CAMROSE Early: Songbook Sunday; 2pm; Free • Later: Battle

River Big Band Mother's Day Dinner & Show; 6:30pm (dinner), 7:30pm (show); $50 (dinner & show), $25 (show only) BLUE CHAIR CAFÈ Brunch

- Hawaiian Dreamers; 9am2:30pm; By donation

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

Outtacontroller (alternative/ pop/punk/rock) with The Real Sickies and Leftover Pizza; 7:30pm; $10 (adv)

DRUID IRISH PUB Karaoke

Wednesdays DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S Mother Cluckin’ Wednesdays

9:30pm

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

THE BUCKINGHAM Rockin' 4

Bingo! Tuesdays

Happy Hour featuring James Renton; 5:30pm

Hits 50!; 7:30pm; $54-$165 (available at TicketMaster)

Dollars; 9pm; $3 (door)

GAS PUMP Karaoke;

NEW WEST HOTEL

FIDDLER'S ROOST Open

9:30pm

Rodeowind; 9pm

RICHARD'S PUB Mark Ammar's Sunday Sessions Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm

Stage; 7-11pm

KELLY'S PUB Open Stage:

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Classic

Rock Monday

SANDS INN & SUITES Open

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

featuring host Naomi Carmack and guest; 9pm; No cover

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass

ON THE ROCKS Live music REXALL PLACE The Who

Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm Sir Ma'am Ma'am (hard rock) with Feed Dogs, Pike and Ripe Fruits of The West; 8pm; $5 (door) SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Happy Hour with Olivia Rose Leaf; 5:30pm NEW WEST HOTEL

Rodeowind; 9pm ON THE ROCKS Killer Karaoke Monday PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild Rose Old Tyme

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night

Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Early:

Happy Hour featuring Ella Coyes and Jasper Smith; 5:30pm • Big Dreamer Jam featuring Sean Stephens; 8pm

STARLITE ROOM Ft Dying Fetus, Acacia Strain - Metal Alliance Tour; 4:30pm (door), 5:30pm (show); $35

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

jam every Tue; 9:30pm

RED PIANO BAR Swingin'

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Classical

Monday Jam with $4 Bill; Every Mon, 8-11pm

ALBERTA AVIATION MUSEUM The Loyal

Edmonton Regiment Band Presents a Spring Concert; 2pm; $12 (at the door; concert & museum access) HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH An Original

STANLEY MILNER LIBRARY THEATRE Tabla Solo

DANCE CODE STUDIO

Concert by Pandit Yogesh Samsi; 1pm; $15 (online and at door)

Mondays; 8-11pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon SIDELINERS PUB Singer/

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

NEW WEST HOTEL

Rodeowind; 9pm O’BYRNE’S Guinness Celtic

Crazy Dave's Rock & Roll Renegade Jam; 7:30pm YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session: Marc Beaudin Coalition Quintet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Eddie Lunchpail

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

DJs

Tuesday

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

WED MAY 11

Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy

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

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

BLUES ON WHYTE Ginger

St.James; 9pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all

DISCIPLES OF POWER W/GUESTS

MAY/7

SHREDMONTON METAL FESTIVAL AND CONFRENCE PRESENTS

SHRED MONTON

MAY/8 SHRED MONTON

Karaoke Wednesday RED PIANO BAR Wed Night

DYING FETUS, ACACIA STRAIN

MAY/14

UBK PRESENTS

MAY/18

PRESENTED BY 2016 UP AND DOWNTOWN MUSIC FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER

Live: hosted by dueling piano players ROSSDALE HALL Little

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

DJEMBA DJEMBA GANZ BLACK MOUNTAIN W/GUESTS ASHLEY SHADOW

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

MAY/20

TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke;

9pm TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY Live music

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE

W/ GUESTS ARKAVELLO

Wednesday's; Every Wed

MAY/21

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO &

BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

SHREDMONTON METAL FESTIVAL AND CONFRENCE PRESENTS

METAL ALLIANCE TOUR

THE PROVINCIAL PUB

DJs

GOATWHORE W/GUESTS

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

Winspear Overture Tour; 12-1pm

SHREDMONTON METAL FESTIVAL AND CONFRENCE PRESENTS

MONTON

SHRED

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE

Jam Circle; 7:30-11:30pm

with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox

MAY/6

GAS PUMP Karaoke;

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy

Gilbert (folk/rock); 7pm; No cover Flamenco Guitar Classes; Every Sun, 11:30am12:30pm

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Buie; 9pm

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Tyler

Buie; 9pm

Buie; 9pm

mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every TueFri, 5-8pm

FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle

Composition featuring Vaughan String Quartet; 3pm; $25 (general), $15 (student), $5 (kids under 12); in adv

BLUES ON WHYTE Jason

BLUES ON WHYTE Jason

BLUES ON WHYTE Jason

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm

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

SUN MAY 8

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

TUE MAY 10

Karaoke Kraziness with host Ryan Kasteel; 8pm-2am

Rodeowind; 9pm

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,

Saturdays

Main Floor: Soul Sundays

Mar Superstar with Carter & the Capitals; 8pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door)

SEWING MACHINE FACTORY

Y AFTERHOURS Release

DJs

E.P. release party; 8pm; $10 (door, adv)

Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am

ST JOSEPH’S BASILICA

New Festival of Sacred Music; 2:30pm

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENT

ZIMMERS HOLE W/ GUESTS

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

Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Kevin Martin;

Every Wed

VENUEGUIDE 9910 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALBERTA AVIATION MUSEUM 11410 Kingsway ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CHURCH 10035-103 St NW THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ARCADIA BAR 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ARDEN THEATRE 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1542, stalbert.ca/ experience/arden-theatre ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com THE AVIARY 9314-111 Ave, 780.233.3635, facebook.com/ arteryyeg BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca

CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHVRCH OF JOHN 10260-103 St, 780.884.8994, thechvrchofjohn. com CLUB AT THE CITADEL 9828101A Ave COMMON 9910-109 St CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta, music.ualberta.ca DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall. com DRAFT COUNTRY NIGHT CLUB 12912-50 St NW, 780.371.7272, draftbargrill.com DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EL CORTEZ 10322-83 Ave NW, elcortezcantina.com EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE 10220-103 St NW, 780.

424.0077, yourgaybar.com FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN 10200-102 Ave NW HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW, 780.433.5530, holytrinity.ab.ca HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage.com HUMMINGBIRD BISTRO CAFE 8336-160 Ave, 780.401.3313, hummingbirdbistro.ca IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St NW, 780.451.8825, kellyspubedmonton.com L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LIZARD LOUNGE 11827 St. Albert Tr, 780.451.9180, facebook.com/ The-Lizard-Lounge MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, mcdougallunited.com MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MOONSHINERS–STONY PLAIN 5202-50 St, Stony Plain MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524 Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PALACE CASINO 8882-170 St NW, 780.444.2112, palacecasino. com PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209-123 St NW ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com SEWING MACHINE FACTORY 9562-82 Ave NW SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St, 780.431.0091, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch. com ST. JOSEPH'S BASILICA 10044113 St STUDIO 96 10909-96 St NW SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STANLEY A. MILNER 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY 17118-90 Ave TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW, 780.433.1604, trinity-lutheran. ab.ca TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE 10324-82 Whyte Ave UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB 10746 Jasper Ave, 780.951.2705 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr

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PLANET EATER W/GUESTS

MAY/13

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

DUSTY TUCKER CD RELEASE W/GUESTS FORESTER, SLEEP DEMON

MAY/14

STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

BELVEDERE CD RELEASE

W/GUESTS GRIZZLY TRAIL, POINT PLACE AND MORE

MAY/21

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

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm Colin Mochrie & Wayne Jones • Shoctor Theatre at The Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • johnwaynejones11@gmail.com • whiterhinocomedy.com • May 22, 7:30-9pm • $37.50 (+ taxes & fees general), $32.50 (+ taxes & fees student/senior)

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Paul Sveen; May 5-7 • Chris Sadleir; May 13-14 • Danny Acappella; May 20-21 • Bob Angeli; May 27-28 Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Ben Gleib; May 5-8 • Daren Carter; May 11-15 • Steve Simeone; May 1822 • Mo Amer; May 25-29

Connie's Comedy hosts Comedy/ Dinner Show • Checkers/Good Buddy Restaurant in Sherwood Park • With Ken Valgardson • May 19, 7pm (supper), 8pm (show)

on their own, or one that has already been started. Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc. For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue, 7pm • $5

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

Illusions Social Club • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • pridecentreofedmonton.org • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7-9pm

Edmonton Atheists • Stanley Milner

Seventies Forever Music Society

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

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

Edmonton Needlecraft Guild • Avonmore United Church Bsmt, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue ea month, 7:30pm EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC)

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

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

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

Lightsaber Training • Sir Winston

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou. DJ to follow • Every Sun, 9pm Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave •

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Just For Laughs Presents Jimmy Carr • Myer Horowitz Theatre, Student's

Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave • lgnyeg. blogspot.ca • Geek out with fellow geek ladies. Featuring movies, board games, artists and so much more • 1st Thu of the month • Free

Union Building U of A • May 5, 7pm • $45.50

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Rick Mercer Live in Edmonton • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • winspearcentre.com • In support of The John Howard Society of Alberta. In "A Nation Worth Ranting About", Rick Mercer chronicles, satirizes, and ultimately celebrates all that is great and irreverent about this country • May 10, 7:30pm • $130-$150 (tickets include a catered reception and meet-andgreet with Rick Mercer)

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy

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)

Nia Dance • Roots on Whyte, #305 8135-102 St • nianow.cm/lightwalker • 780.850.2757 • Combo of dance, yoga, martial arts • Every Mon until May 23, 6-7pm • Contact 780.850.2757 for cost and details

Groove every Wed; 9pm

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

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

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

Open Door Comic Creator Meetings • Happy Harbor Comics,

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

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

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

Drop-In D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • An epic adventure featuring a variety of pre-made characters, characters that guests can make

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Churchill Square • Celebrating all things Star Wars. Featuring lightsaber training for the young and young at heart. Guests must bring their own lightsabers (makeshift lightsabers are welcome) • Every Wed during the summer; 7-7:45pm for young padawans, 7-8:30pm for mature padawans • Free

Connie's Comedy hosts The Dating Game • On the Rocks • With Sterling Scott

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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

• Chamber Toastmasters Club: 6th floor, World Trade Centre, 9990 Jasper Ave; Contact: 780.462.1878/RonChapman@shaw.ca (Ron Chapman); 780.424.6364/dkorpany@ telusplanet.net (Darryl Korpany); Meet every Thu from Sep-Jun, 6-7:45pm • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club:

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

Wiccan Assembly • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • womeninblackedmonton.org • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence LECTURES/Presentations Gentle Potty Training from 0-30mo.: Introduction to Elimination Communication and Non-Coercive Potty Training • Lendrum Community League Hall, 11335-57 Ave • godiaperfree.com • May 7, 10:30-12pm • $20 (individual), $25 (couples) - register at danielle@godiaperfree.com

Habitat for Humanity Basic Tool Training Workshop & Info Session • HFH Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext. 232 • kdedeugd@hfh. org • hfh.org • Open to people interested in volunteering at Habitat for Humanity. Featuring information about the charity and tool training • May 6-7, May 13-14; 8:30am-4:30pm • Free

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

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

Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group •

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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

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

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St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

Team Edmonton • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • Swimming: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • Water Polo: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • Yoga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:309pm • Taekwondo: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • Abs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:15-8:15pm • Dodgeball: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • Running: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • Spin: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• Volleyball: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • Meditation: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:30-6:15pm • Board Games: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per month, 3-7pm • All Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8468-81 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Sun: Last Sun each month, Woodys Jam Session with the talented regular customers; Jugs of Canadian or Kokanee only $13 • Mon: Massive Mondays features talented comedians • Tue: Domestic bottle beer special only $3.75 all night long • Wed: Jugs of Canadian and Kokanee for $13; Karaoke with Shirley from 7pm-12:30am • Thu: Highballs on special only $3.75 all night long; Karaoke with Bubbles 7pm-12:30am • Fri: Comming soon: DJ Arrow Chaser's new TGIF Party • Sat: Pool Tournement, 4pm; Jager shots on special only $4; Coming soon, DJ Jazzy SPECIAL EVENTS Around the World with Fabu-

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Featuring vendors, food, entertainment and more • May 14, 10am-5pm • $10 (adv), $15 (door) Art & Zen Mother's Day Paint, wine & Yoga • 4 Points Health & Wellness Studio, 12406-112 Ave • 780.983.1862 • 4pointshealth.com/letsparty.com • May 7, 1-4pm • $40, $30 (mothers); available at Eventbrite

Arts on the Ave Ultimate Garage Sale • Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse, 9351-118 Ave • artsontheave.org • For those vintage vixens, nerds for nostalgia and collectors of kitsch. All profits from the sale will be donated to support community events produced by Arts on the Ave such as Kaleido Family Arts Festival and Deep Freeze: Byzantine Winter Festival • May 7, 9am-4pm • Free

AWARE Health Fair • Churchill Square • Promoting a healthy lifestyle and a healthy environment. Featuring local vendors, groups and much more • May 7, 11am-4pm

Best of Broadway Revue Gala • Upper Hall in Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • 780.222.3909 • rachel_ dkent@hotmail.com • Featuring an evening of show tunes, cocktails and hor d'oeuvres in support of Grindstone Theatre. Listen to live jazz and be serenaded by selections from Sondheim to Gershwin performed by your favourite cast members of The 11 0'Clock Number! • May 7, 6:30-11pm • $20 (adv), $25 (door)

DBG Annual Plant Sale • Devonian Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • 780.987.3054 ext. 2243 • dbg. events@ualberta.ca • devonian.ualberta.ca • An interesting selection of hardy perennials, edibles, shrubs, indoor plants, and more are offered at very reasonable prices. See what the DBG Horticulturists have been experimenting with in the greenhouses over the winter • May 14-Jun 30 Edmonton Gem & Mineral Show • Oliver Arena, 10335-119 St NW • edmontongemshow@gmail.com • edmontongemshow.com • Featuring unique gems, fine minerals, rare fossils, handmade jewellery, fancy beads, lapidary art, gold panning and demonstrations • May 6-8, 2-5pm • $7 (general), $5 (senior/student) Edmonton Traditional Rug Hooking Guild Annual Spring Tea and Rug Show • Pleasantview Community Hall, 10860-57 Ave • May 5, 11am-2pm • $3 (members), $5 (general)

E-Ville Roller Derby Presents: Double Header • Edmonton Sportsdome, 10104-32 Ave • e-villerollerderby.com • First up, the E-Ville Dead (the A Level Travel Team) takes on the Anarchy Angels followed by E-Ville's B level travel team, the Living Dead skating against Rated PG Northstars • May 14, 6-10pm • $10 (adv), $15 (door), free (kids 10 and under); adv tickets available at Mars & Venus or through Brown Paper Tickets

Fashion Show • Southminster-Steinhauer United Church, 10740-19 Ave • 780.437.1896 • edmgrandmothers.org • A fundraiser to support African Grandmothers who are raising the millions of children orphaned by AIDS. All proceeds go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation • May 14, 2-4pm • $30 (adv only) Night Market Edmonton • Beaverhill House Park, Jasper Ave & 105 St • nightmarketedmonton@gmail.com • 780.934.1568 • nightmarketedmonton.com • Watch an old movie, eat some food, or shop at the vendor’s stalls • Every Fri, 7-11pm, May 20-Aug • Free

Royal Bison Art + Craft Fair • Cosmopolitan Music Society, 8426 Gateway Blvd • royalbison.ca • Featuring the best and quirkiest art, craft and design this city has to offer. Items such as prints, apparel, jewelry, books, food and more will be available for purchase • May 6-8 • $3 (kids are free) Yelloweek • Various locations throughout Edmonton • yelloweek.com • A festival-style ‘tribute to creativity’ showcasing gastronomy, arts, fashion and lifestyle. Events will featur a five course dinner, from Fairmont Hotel MacDonald's head chef, champagne with a paired amuse-bouche and much more • May 1-7 • Prices vary see event website for more

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BC Musician Magazine - Alberta Edition BC Musician Magazine is seeking the services of an Editor to be responsible for content for a separate Alberta edition.

The Editor will be engaged with the greater Alberta Arts and Culture Community and have experience managing a network of contributors.

A substantial portion of the content of the magazine will be prepared by musicians and artists who are not professional writers. The Editor must be willing to represent a range of viewpoints and be able to shape content from a variety of sources without losing the originality of the contributing voices.

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and then he dumped me. We'd been dating for four months and he said that he got checked, so we had sex without a condom. A few weeks later I broke out in sores. When I confronted him, he freaked out and broke up with me. He's adamant that he doesn't have herpes and accused me of lying and cheating. I haven't been with anyone else for almost a year before him, so I don't know how else I could have got it. I'm so mad.

But mostly, I'm terrified. I don't think I can trust anyone, and I'm so embarrassed and scared of telling anyone about the herpes.

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: Before we dive into the dating

problem, let's clear a few things up. Herpes is a virus that is transmitted through sloughed skin cells.

While it's easier to contract the virus during an active outbreak of sores, it is possible for the virus to shed from seemingly healthy tissue. This happens when a person is prodromal (pre-outbreak), healing or asymptomatic. In fact, people frequently pass on the virus without even realizing they have it. Also, because herpes is transmitted through skin cells—not exclusively fluids—you can get it even if you use a condom.

There are two types of the herpes simplex virus, type one and type two (HSV1 and HSV2, respectively). A lot of genital lesions are the same strain as cold sores (HSV1), which tend to produce a milder form of outbreak

than HSV2. As well, the herpes virus affects more women than men, in part because of the receptive tissue in the vagina, which more easily absorbs the sloughed virulent cells.

You can be infected for up to six months before symptoms occur, but if you haven't been sexually active for a year prior to dating your ex, then you contracted the virus from him. He may not be comfortable learning this, but it's important for him to know, as I'm sure he doesn't want to become the herpetic "Typhoid Mary" of Edmonton.

As for your herpes, I'm sorry to hear about your discomfort. It's pretty shitty to wake up with an incurable infection and a bunch of red blisters on your genitals. And I'm particularly sorry for your ex-boyfriend's response, which was misinformed and needlessly harsh. Given his reaction, it seems you dodged a bullet.

While I'm incredibly sympathetic to the emotional and social challenges of genital herpes, I don't want to reinforce the stigma or shame.

The fact is, herpes isn't a big deal.

The virus itself can't be cured, but it can definitely be treated—I'm sure your physician has already prescribed some anti-viral medication—and a lot of people with the virus only have the one outbreak.

Other complications, like the risk to children during birth, have manageable solutions.

Most importantly, you are not

alone. Statistics about herpes vary; some state that as many as one in four women and one in eight men have the infection. A study published by Statistics Canada indicated rates of about one in seven, which translates into six percent of individuals aged 14 to 34 and 19 percent of people aged 35 years and older.

Herpes is so common that there is a dating site (positivesingles.com) dedicated for helping people find a match with someone else who has the virus. And if you find yourself with an unaffected partner, you can reassure them that there are many ways to stave off passing on the virus. In other words, HSV may put a damper on the casual hook-up, but dating is definitely doable.

I get that you are heading into some awkward conversations, but I can't stress enough that you don't have anything to be embarrassed or ashamed of. You had sex and unfortunately you caught a virus. You are not dirty or less than someone without the virus, and anyone that sees it that way is not worth your time.V Tami-lee Duncan is a Registered Psychologist in Edmonton, specializing in sexual health. Please note that the information and advice given above is not a substitute for therapeutic treatment with a licensed professional. For information or to submit a question, please contact tami-lee@vueweekly.com.

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY aries (mar 21 – apr 19): "Silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing," writes Jane Hirshfield in her poem "Everything Has Two Endings." This observation is apropos for you right now. There are potentially important messages you're not registering and catalytic influences you can't detect.

But their apparent absence is due to a blank spot in your awareness, or maybe a willful ignorance left over from the old days. Now here's the good news: you are primed to expand your listening field. You have an enhanced ability to open certain doors of perception that have been closed. If you capitalize on this opportunity, silence will give way to revelation. taurus (apr 20 – may 20): Your ability to accomplish magic is at a peak, and will continue to soar for at least two more weeks. And when I use that word "magic," I'm not referring to the hocus-pocus performed by illusionists like Criss Angel or Harry Houdini. I'm talking about real feats of transformation that will generate practical benefits in your day-to-day life. Now study the following definitions by writer W Somerset Maugham, and have faith in your ability to embody them: "Magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician." gemini (may 21 – jun 20): According to author Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian word toska means "a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness."

Linguist Anna Wierzbicka says it conveys an emotion that blends melancholy, boredom and yearning. Journalist Nick Ashdown suggests that for someone experiencing toska, the thing that's yearned for may be "intangible and impossible to actually obtain." How are you doing with your own toska, Gemini? Is it conceivable that you could escape it—maybe even heal it? I think you can. I think you will. Before you do, though, I hope you'll take time to explore it further. Toska has more to teach you about the previously hidden meaning of your life. cancer (jun 21 – jul 22): "Gandhi's autobiography is on my pillow," writes Cancerian poet Buddy Wakefield. "I put it there every morning after making my bed so I'll remember to read it before falling asleep. I've been reading it for six years.

I'm on Chapter 2." What's the equivalent phenomenon in your world, my fellow Crab?

What good deed or righteous activity have you been pursuing with glacial diligence? Is there a healthy change you've been thinking about forever, but not

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making much progress on? The mood and the sway of the coming days will bring you a good chance to expedite the process.

In Wakefield's case, he could get up to Chapter 17. leo (jul 23 – aug 22): In the 16th century, European explorers searched South America in quest of a mythical city of gold known as El Dorado. Tibetan Buddhist tradition speaks of Shambhala, a magical holy kingdom where only enlightened beings live. In the legends of ancient Greece, Hyperborea was a sunny paradise where the average human life span was 1000 years and happiness was normal. Now is an excellent time for you to fantasize about your own version of utopia, Leo. Why? First, your imagination is primed to expand. Second, dreaming big will be good for your mental and physical health. There's another reason, too: by envisioning the most beautiful world possible, you will mobilize your idealism and boost your ability to create the best life for yourself in the coming months. virgo (aug 23 – sep 22): "Anytime you're going to grow, you're going to lose something," said psychologist James Hillman.

"You're losing what you're hanging onto to keep safe. You're losing habits that you're comfortable with; you're losing familiarity." I nominate these thoughts to serve as your words of wisdom in the coming weeks, Virgo. From an astrological perspective, you are in a phase when luxuriant growth is possible. To harvest the fullness of the lush opportunities, you should be willing to shed outworn stuff that might interfere. libra (sep 23 – oct 22): On Cracked.com, Auntie Meme tells us that many commonly held ideas about history are wrong.

There were no such things as chastity belts in the Middle Ages, for example. Napoleon's soldiers didn't shoot off the nose of the Sphinx when they were stationed in Egypt. In regards to starving peasants, Marie Antoinette never derisively said, "Let them eat cake." And no Christians ever became meals for lions in ancient Rome's Colosseum. (More: tinyurl.com/historicaljive.) In the spirit of Auntie Meme's exposé, and in alignment with the astrological omens, I invite you to uncover and correct at least three fabrications, fables and lies about your own past. scorpio (oct 23 – nov 21): Poet Charles Wright marvels at the hummingbird, "who has to eat 60 times his own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that's a life on the edge." In the coming weeks, Scorpio, your modus operandi may have resemblances to the hummingbird's approach. I don't mean to suggest that you will be in a manic survival mode.

Rather, I expect you'll feel called

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to nourish your soul with more intensity than usual. You'll need to continuously fill yourself up with experiences that inspire, teach and transform you. sagittarius (nov 22 – dec 21): "Anybody can become angry," said Greek philosopher Aristotle.

"That is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." I'm pleased to inform you, Sagittarius, that now is a time when you have an exceptional capacity for meeting Aristotle's high standards. In fact, I encourage you to honour and learn all you can from your finely honed and well-expressed anger. Make it work wonders for you. Use it so constructively that no one can complain. capricorn (dec 22 – jan 19): To celebrate your arrival at the height of your sex appeal, I'm resurrecting the old-fashioned word "vavoom." Feel free to use it as your nickname. Pepper it into your conversations in place of terms like "awesome," "wow" or "yikes." Use a felt-tip marker to make a temporary VAVOOM tattoo on your beautiful body. Here are other enchanted words you should take charge of and make an intimate part of your daily presentation: verve, vim, vivid, vitality, vigour, voracious, vivacious, visceral, valor, victory and VIVA! aquarius (jan 20 – feb 18): When he was a boy, Mayan poet Humberto Ak'ab'al asked his mother, "What are those things that shine in the sky?" "Bees," she answered mischievously. "Every night since then," Humberto writes, "my eyes eat honey." In response to this lyrical play, the logical part of our brains might rise up and say, "What a load of nonsense!" But I will ask you to set aside the logical part of your brain for now, Aquarius. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, the coming days will be a time when you need a big dose of sweet fantasies, dreamy stories, and maybe even beautiful nonsense. What are your equivalents of seeing bees making honey in the night sky's pinpoints of light? pisces (feb 19 – mar 20): "Sometimes, a seemingly insignificant detail reveals a whole world," says artist Pierre Cordier.

"Like the messages hidden by spies in the dot of an i." These are precisely the minutiae that you should be extra alert for in the coming days, Pisces. Major revelations may emerge from what at first seems trivial. Generous insights could ignite in response to small acts of beauty and subtle shifts of tone. Do you want glimpses of the big picture and the long-range future? Then be reverent toward the fine points and modest specifics.V

VIRGIN TERRITORY

I'm a 31-year-old straight woman. I have a good job, great friends and average attractiveness.

I've dated close to 30 men at this point, and I can't wrap my head around this: I've never had a boyfriend or dated anyone for more than a couple months. It's really starting to wear on my self-esteem. I don't believe anything is wrong with me, but the more time goes on, the more I think I have to be doing something wrong. The guys ghost me or things fizzle out or we're not at the same point in our lives. This is particularly true for one guy I've remained friends with (common social circle) who is struggling with his career, though things are still awkward because it's clear there's still something there. Another area of concern: I'm still a virgin. Catholic guilt resulted in me being a late bloomer, with my first kiss at 21. Once I got more into dating, my low self-esteem coupled with the fact that I've basically decided I want to be in a monogamous committed relationship with a guy before having sex, relationships just never happened. I don't have unrealistic expectations that I'll marry the first dick that sticks itself into me—but I've waited this long, so I'm not going to jump into the sack with just anyone without knowing that I can at least trust them. The only guy I really do trust is Somewhat Depressed Guy, but propositioning him could further complicate our already awkward friendship. Is something wrong with me, and what the hell should I do?

What's Wrong With Me? I get variations on the first half of your question—is something wrong with me?—all the time. But it's not a question I'm in a position to answer, WWWM, as I would need to depose a random sampling of the guys you've dated, interrogate your friends, and grill you under a bare lightbulb for a few days to figure out what's wrong with you.

And you know what? Nothing could be wrong with you. You may have pulled the short straw 30 times in a row, and you just need to keep getting out there and eventually you'll pull a guy who won't ghost or fizzle on you.

As for the second half of your question ...

What the hell should you do? Well, gee.

What you've been doing hasn't worked, WWWM, so maybe it's time to do something else. Like fuck some dude on the first date. Or if that's too drastic, fuck some dude on the second date. Or better yet, go to Somewhat Depressed Guy and say: "I don't think you want a relationship right now, and I'm not sure I do either. But I like you and trust you, and I could really use your help with something ..."

While the commitment-and-monogamy-first approach has worked for some, WWWM, it hasn't worked for you. And being a virgin at 31 isn't boosting your self-esteem. There are lots of people out there who jumped in the sack and did a little dick-sticking with people they barely knew but had a good feeling about. The jumping/sticking/dicking approach doesn't always lead to committed and/or monogamous relationships, but it can and it has and it does.

Somewhat Depressed Guy might be somewhat less depressed if he was getting some, you might have higher self-esteem if you finally got some, and dispensing with your virginity might make dating after you part ways—if you part ways with him (you never know)—seem a lot less fraught.

FUTURE MRS?

I'm a virgin in my late 20s. I'm not waiting until marriage, just for the right person. I've dated enough and had enough fun to continue being a happy, normal, socially competent guy, much to the disbelief of my various knuckle-dragging, vagina-blinded pals. I've been dating this gal for a few months. She's special—we have tons of chemistry and she cares about me. We had a brief conversation about my lack of sexperience

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when we first started dating, and she was very cool about it. I really like this girl, but I'm not sure yet if she's the future Mrs. I am a worrier (thanks, mom!) and I find myself thinking that if I share this with her and somewhere down the road we end up breaking up, she's going to be even more devastated because I shared my first time with her. Am I just having silly virgin worries? Not only am I concerned about her feelings if things don't work out, but I'm also concerned that I might become vagina-blinded—that I might immediately tell this girl I want to spend my life with her just because she's having sex with me only to find myself a few years down the road feeling trapped. What should I do?

Very Indecisive, Really Gettin' Naughty You should fuck this girl already—provided, of course, that this girl wants to fuck you.

You could wind up saying things you come to regret or have to walk back—her vagina might be that bedazzling—but that's an unavoidable risk, and not one that's unique to virgins. The right vagina, ass, face, skill set or bank balance can blind a fucker with decades of experience.

The only way to avoid vagina-blindness—or ass-blindness, etc—is to never have sex with anyone. And I don't think you're interested in celibacy, so stop freaking out about the risk that you'll imprint, duckling-like, on the first vagina your pee-pee sees the inside of.

You must also eliminate "sexperience" from your vocabulary, VIRGN, as it's equal parts cloying and annoying.

WRONG HOLE

I've been with my boyfriend for more than a year. He's the first person I've had sex with. Four times now while we were having passionate sex, he has slipped out of my vagina and accidentally penetrated me anally. That shit hurts and I can't help but cry. I know he feels super guilty each time. I love sex, but I'm kind of scared every time we have it now. We've engaged in a little anal play before and I wasn't really a fan. But I'm not adverse to the idea of using a butt plug.

Do you think this would work? Surely other people have this problem too, right?

Wrong Hole, Anal Torment My own personal sexperience with anal led me to doubt claims of accidental anal penetration, WHAT, as anal penetration always required focus, precision and proper breathing techniques—in my own sexperience. But listeners of the Savage Lovecast schooled me in Episode 340, and I'm now convinced that accidental anal penetration is something too many women have sexperienced. (Do you see how annoying that is, VIRGN?) A strategically deployed butt plug sounds like a sexcellent solution to the problem, WHAT, but get yourself a plug with a wider-than-usual base to prevent your boyfriend's misdirected cock from pushing the plug, base and all, all the way in you (ouch) or his misdirected cock from sliding in alongside the plug. (If you hate single penetration, you'll really hate double penetration.)

If the problem persists even with a plug—if your boyfriend's cock is constantly slamming into the plug in a way that you find uncomfortable—a thumbtack glued to the base of the plug will inspire your boyfriend to be more focused and precise. V And speaking of the Savage Lovecast, we're coming up on our 500th episode, which is a significant milestone for this relatively new genre/platform/doohickey. If you're not already listening, find it here: savagelovecast. com. And a big thanks to Nancy Hartunian, the Lovecast's producer since Episode 1, and to the tech-savvy, at-risk youth who pushed me to start podcasting before it was cool. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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