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Will Albertans be able to get stoned and camp? / Doug Johnson

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Government of Alberta is still unsure how cannabis regulations will be handled in provincial park campgrounds

ven though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed last Thursday that marijuana legalization will drop this summer in July, Alberta Parks is still unsure about its regulations in regards to consumption on provincial park land. This comes after the province of Saskatchewan has released that marijuana use in provincial park campsites will be allowed, as they consider a campsite to be a private place.

Saskatchewan has decided to handle its campsite cannabis use and regulation much like that of alcohol, but there has still been next to no movement on Alberta’s side.

“At this moment in time, there’s no change proposed to the Provincial Parks Act that will prohibit legalized cannabis use in Alberta’s provincial parks. Not to say that it could not change in the future,” says communications advisor of Alberta Parks, Tim Chamberlain.

Chamberlain says that once legalization is here, Alberta Parks will “monitor impacts that legal cannabis use has within [the] park system, including impacts to visitors,” which is their primary concern.

Currently, cannabis use within provincial parks has never been a direct issue the department has had to face. That’s not to say

people don’t smoke up in campgrounds. Just take a whiff of the air around Jasper Park in July.

“I wouldn’t say that is something that has come to the forefront of our customer surveys,” Chamberlain says. “Though I will say that it is obviously still illegal at this point in time, to partake in cannabis at our parks like it is across other jurisdictions in the province.”

So the regulations within Alberta Parks surrounding cannabis use are still up in smoke, but Chamberlain says that any legislation in regards to recreational cannabis in provincial parks will

be enforced at every campsite under the department.

“It will apply to the entire provincial park system,” he says.

If cannabis use is allowed on these sites, each campgrounds’ enforcement of cannabis supervision will be implemented by conservation officers. Basically, if you abuse the system, you pay the consequences.

“Conservation officers are the primary enforcement authority within the provincial parks and they will address inappropriate behaviour stemming from cannabis use once it’s legalized,” Chamberlain says.

Alberta Parks’ main concern with

cannabis use on its grounds is chiefly, roach fires. We all know what one little cigarette butt can do to a forest in minutes.

“The message would be the same as cigarette butts. You put them out in appropriate containers ‘cause much like cigarette butts, we don’t want their owners flicking them in the bushes or dropping them wherever they see fit,” Chamberlain says. “We would really be enforcing that much like a campfire, put it out, soak it, put it in a can with sand. We don’t want to have an incident.”

Stephan Boissonneault stephan@vueweekly.com

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SQUARE DANCE IN DECLINE

Fewer and fewer young people seek out heritage dance style, but some seek to reinvigorate it

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ewer and fewer young folk are willing or interested in donning plaid and shit-kickers, and dancing in square. While not an immediate threat to the activity’s lifespan in Alberta, some instructors and patrons of square dancing are concerned about its lack of youth, at least enough so to try to remedy it.

Over the years, the aggregate population of square dancing in Alberta has grown older, as fewer and fewer young people get involved in the activity. According to Olive Zwierschke, organizer with the Alberta Square and Round Dance Federation, square dancing in the province has a distinct lack of K-12 students, and young couples.

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concerned at the lack of young couples and families involved.

The organization likes to do demonstrations for grade school students, but in many cases, it’s also not feasible for the students to come and take lessons.

Not surprisingly, Zwierschke thinks this is a loss. “There’s lots of laughing and it’s good exercise,” she says. “It’s familyfriendly too. People can bring their kids, though not many people choose to do it that way.”

There’s a big time commitment involved in learning, which can be tricky for people with young families. Square dancing involves 68 distinct movements.

Music can also be a barrier for some people, Zwierschke says, adding that country music may not be everyone’s jam.

It’s not just square dancing,

though. Zwierschke says that couples dancing across the board seems less common than it was in decades prior. People take their kids to dance lessons, but the numbers of social or public dances that focus on a specific style, something that was once fairly common in Alberta, grows increasingly rare.

“I think dancing in general has declined quite a bit,” she adds.

The process to become an instructor or a caller—the people who call out the moves to everyone on the floor—can be lengthy. A would-be instructor needs to commit the moves to memory, and be able to improvise well enough to keep a dance going.

Becoming a square dancing instructor is, mostly, a matter of experience. However, there is a

group out of the United States called Callerlab, which provides its members with instruction materials, and acts as kind of an ad hoc form of certification, but joining it is not required.

Most people who train to be callers or instructors, now, go through Callerlab, Zwierschke says.

Some physical education teachers in Alberta include square dancing in their curriculums, but that’s a personal choice, rather than something passed down by the provincial government.

However, others see square dancing in a flux, rather than in a decline. According to Strathmore, Alta.-based instructor Claudia Littlefair, groups across the province are adapting their lessons to bring in young blood. The Calgary and District

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Square and Round Dancers Association—the group she works for—is making lesson times more accessible, changing the dress code, and opening up the music choices to Latin, rock, classical, etc.

Similarly, while Littlefair also sees the number of young people involved in the dance is low, the activity exist outside of Canada and The United States. Some people in Germany, Denmark, Holland, France, and the U.K. practice it, and the callers traditionally dictate the moves in English.

“I think there’s some misconceptions about what square dancing is. People think it’s old people who want to wear puffy skirts and big belt buckles and listen to country music,” she says.

Doug Johnson doug@vueweekly.com

POLITICAL INTERFERENCE

UCP SPEECH SIGNALS AUTHORITARIAN TENDENCIES A

For all Kenney’s cries for personal freedoms, his party leans to a decidedly reactionary side of the spectrum

s was to be expected, given the very large number of ultra-right political extremists that make up the base of the group, delegates and speakers at Alberta’s United Conservative Party’s (UCP) founding AGM and convention said some truly terrifying and disturbing things last week.

Some of the most noteworthy ones include former interim leader of the Wildrose Party Heather Forsyth telling delegates that the entire notion that women face systemic barriers in politics was nothing but “socialist crap,” and the one delegate who asserted from the floor that First Nations don’t pay taxes and how sick and tired she is of them “taking, taking, taking.”

Some of the most frightening things to be said, however, actu-

ally came from leader Jason Kenney during his speech on Saturday night. Of course, his speech was full of the usual and expected talk about balanced budgets, the evil federal government, the infallibility of oil corporations and their executives, and the insidious and destructive carbon tax. There was absolutely nothing new or noteworthy in any of that.

The parts that were most disturbing were the pieces where Kenney’s authoritarian and antidemocratic tendencies shone through loud and clear.

There was the section, for example, where he promised to take legal action against anything he deemed to be “bogus charities,” and work to have them stripped of their charitable status. He mentioned Tides

Canada and the David Suzuki Foundation by name, but unsurprisingly failed to mention the “bogus charities” like the Fraser Institute and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, who have always been cheerleaders for his political career. He clearly has in mind a witch hunt of McCarthyist proportions.

He also made clear that a UCP government would set up some sort of Department or Ministry of Truth, something he described as a rapid response war room, whose only purpose would be to “rebut lies told by the green left.” What this sounds like is a way of providing paid jobs to a pro-Kenney, pro-industry troll army that is the source of so much bile, anger, hatred, and verbal violence on social media.

Kenney asserted beyond a shadow of a doubt that if the NDP continues “to smuggle more of their policies into the classroom” he would shred the entire curriculum. The NDP doesn’t write the curriculum. He didn’t say specifically what he disagrees with, but a safe bet is he would axe topics like consent, and residential school history.

If none of those things actually scare you, perhaps knowing one of the people he name-dropped during his speech as someone who is already an ally will.

“Potential Ontario premier Doug Ford has told me that he is a complete ally of our resource industries, and will enthusiastically join our fight against the Trudeau carbon tax,” said Kenney.

Yes, the UCP convention handily passed policies forcing schools to out LGBTQ2S+ kids, vowing to fight an expensive court battle with Ottawa over the carbon tax, and cutting and privatizing anything they can find that might smell like a public service, all of which should scare the heck out of Albertans. But what is even more frightening are the things that Kenney clearly has in mind for our democracy: silencing of civil society, shredding and rewriting curriculum based on his ideology, and ‘truth soldiers’ on the government payroll. Kenney has a very different Alberta in mind than the one that exists today and all Albertans need to be aware of that, because we have a lot to lose otherwise.

Ricardo Acuña

DYER STRAIGHT

MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICAL PERFORMANCE ART No one, no matter how rational, makes it out of Israeli-Palestinian politics without losing touch with reality

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n Monday we were treated to two pieces of public performance art, one by Israeli Prime Minister “Bibi” Binyamin Netanyahu and the other by Mahmoud Abbas, the closest person to a national leader that the Palestinians can agree on (which isn’t very close). Both performances were beyond bizarre. Taken together, they demonstrate how politicians whose lives are dominated by the Arab-Israeli dispute are ultimately reduced to self-caricature.

Abbas’ contribution was a rambling 90-minute speech to the Palestinian National Council, the (unelected) legislature of the Palestine Liberation Organisation.

It’s the first full meeting of the Council in 22 years, and an attempt by Abbas to restore some measure of legitimacy to his own position as president.

The Middle Eastern ‘peace process’ has been dead for 20 years.

President Trump is moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv up to Jerusalem despite anguished Palestinian protests. Hamas, the Islamist rival to Abbas’s Fatah movement, controls the Gaza Strip and almost half the Palestinian population in the occupied territories, and it doesn’t even deign to send delegates to Abbas’ meeting. So what was Abbas’ speech about? History.

Not even real history. Fantasy history, in which the Jews of Europe brought the Holocaust down upon themselves by choos-

ing to fulfill a specific (and lucrative) social function. “The Jewish question that was widespread throughout Europe,” Abbas explained, “was not against their religion but against their social function which relates to usury and banking and such.”

Whatever Abbas may believe privately—and he may not believe much of anything after 30 years in Palestinian politics—he would once have known better than to say such vile nonsense in public. But all hope is gone, and there is nothing useful left to say, so he just dredges up the weary old Holocaust denial stuff he played with as a student and serves it raw to an equally despairing audience.

now he has an ally in Trump, who also wants to kill the 2015 deal.

So Bibi did another show-andtell performance on prime-time Israeli television, all in English and aimed at the global audience, in which he kind of claimed that Iran was cheating on the agreement and still working on nuclear weapons.

Netanyahu didn’t lie, of course; politicians seldom do. He just stood in front of aerial photos and images of documents and talked about recently acquired Iranian secret documents that showed the country had an active nuclear weapons program. And it was

all true—except that Iran closed down its program mostly in 2003, and completely by 2009.

“There was nothing there,” said Alexandra Bell, senior policy director at the Centre for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.

“There was nothing the International Atomic Energy Agency didn’t know, and all the theatrics and circa-2004 Power Point were a bit silly.”

So why did Netanyahu do it?

Partly it was to provide something resembling a justification for his friend Trump’s forthcoming abandonment of the 2015 Iran deal. People who were not

paying close attention might walk away from Netanyahu’s dog-and-pony show thinking he had proved that Iran was cheating on its commitments.

But mainly he did it because he lives in a political environment so polarized, so toxic, that people who are immersed in it gradually lose touch with reality. Even as Netanyahu manipulated the facts in order to create a false impression, at another level he probably believed that he was expressing a deeper truth. He’s a winner, not a loser, but he is just as much trapped on the wheel as Abbas.

Gwynne Dyer

Netanyahu, by contrast, delivered an up-market, updated version of his celebrated performance at the United Nations in 2012. That was when he showed the General Assembly a child-like drawing of a bomb (the kind 19th-century terrorists used to throw, with a fizzing fuse at the top) and warned the diplomats that Iran would have a nuclear weapon by 2013.

In 2015, Tehran agreed to allow strict international inspections to guarantee that no work on nuclear weapons—even of the most preliminary sort—would be done for the next 10 years. Netanyahu would have greatly preferred a ‘pre-emptive’ attack on Iran—and

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A drone flying over a farm / Cameron Carlyle

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FROM RESEARCH TO THE RANCH Farmers have varying speeds of uptake for using the new tech and data that come from universities

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researcher out of the Univerity of Alberta has some lofty goals involving drones and agriculture.

Cameron Carlyle, assistant professor in the school’s faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, recently received a grant to use small, flying robots with specialized cameras to investigate how cattle’s coat colour affects their susceptibility to heat stress, and also to understand how grazing management affects carbon sequestration in grasslands.

Carried out in conjuncture with John Church, a professor at Thompson Rivers University, the project will see the researchers fly drones over the U of A’s two test farms, the Roy Berg Kinsella test ranch, and the Mattheis Research Ranch, starting in June.

“For the most part, cows don’t really seem to care about the drones at all. They seem to ignore them. We can get reasonably close to an animal,” Carlyle says.

It’s still unclear what, if any, effect a cow’s colouration has on its wel-

fare during summers, or going forward as Earth continues to warm, Carlyle says. But, in theory, farmers could one day use this tech to monitor their own herds, but most likely that won’t be for awhile.

While farmers are incredibly quick to pick up some pieces of research and tech, they can be slower on the uptake for others.

Usually, the matter of which pieces make it into an agriculturists’ arsenal comes down to cost, durability, and supporting research.

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gies, feeding regimes, and breeding techniques, for instance, they readily and quite easily employ.

Widespread use of these techniques usually occurs between three or four years after their introduction.

“You’re looking at increased efficiency and production. That has reached down to the farmer quite quickly,” says Keith Degenhardt, vice president of the Alberta Federation of Agriculture (AFA).

On the other side of the spectrum: most farmers shy away from high-tech gadgets. Farms are incredibly dusty, which can interfere with the proper working of precision electronics, Degenhardt says.

Similarly, it’s rare that farms purchase new technology immediately when it comes out, and most often, farmers wait until they can buy it used. For example: high-clearance crop sprayers— for fertilizer and pesticide—are more versatile than the old models, which were dragged behind another vehicle. But it’s hard for some farmers to justify spending $500,000 on a new one with all the bells and whistles. It’s also unlikely for a farmer to buy drones: more often they end up paying an outside company for their use in, say, crop insurance, where the small machines can take stock of a field easier than an agent on foot.

Larger-scale farmers—8,000 to 30,000 acres—either buy, or more commonly lease, sometimes with a buy option, these pieces of equipment. Its easier for them to swallow the cost.

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After a good run of use, either the farmer or the dealership leasing the equipment, will sell it at half or three-quarters of the price, where smaller operations purchase them.

“Farmers are often a little slower to use this. They want to make sure they will get a return on their investment,” Degenhardt adds.

Farmers are also less quick to adopt new research is when they get conflicting data on its efficacy.

Most often, larger operations hire consultants to keep track of applicable developments, while smaller ones slowly accumulate new data, and talk to their peers and suppliers.

The university and agriculture have a long-lasting relationship.

Most of the research that makes its way down to farmers from the school goes through TEC Edmonton, the school’s business accelerator, which helps faculty members commercialize technology through one of two methods, generally speaking. The first is to license tech to existing companies; the second is to license tech through start-up companies.

For instance: Quantum Canola came out of the U of A in the mid-1990s with some sponsorship from within the agriculture industry. At the time, the farmers saw lost crops due to stem rot, a self-explanatory disease that in extreme cases could decimate 30 percent of a crop.

Quantum Canola’s genetics made it resistant to stem rot, and these genetics can still be found in modern plants.

According to Darrell Petras, TEC Edmonton’s executive vice president of business development, it can take some time between researchers starting work on a project, and the project finally reaching the agriculture sector.

“I think every technology is a unique opportunity and a unique challenge at the same time,” he says.

Doug Johnson doug@vueweekly.com

PRETZELS

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PARAGON OF PRETZELS

Zwick’s Pretzels deliver unheard-of quality for an unheardof price, the zenith of the carb/protein art form

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stensible foodies—odious coinage—like to gratify and enrich our palates with grand, rarefied, possibly exotic comestibles.

But who among us wouldn’t give it all up for a really good sandwich? It would be a great day if critics acclaimed Edmonton for its fantastic sandwich scene the way Condé Nast Traveler singled it out for great pizza.

We’ve already got the makings of a great sandwich culture: the Italian Centre’s simple but satisfying take-out torpedoes; the multitude of worthy banh mi that proliferate about Chinatown; sumptuous tortas from Calle Mexico, and La Patrona; Local Omnivore’s towering meat-stacks; and the polyglot masterpieces imagined by Farrow—I could go on.

Instead, I’ll just add Zwick’s Pret-

zels to the list. Of course their main thing is pretzels—perhaps the most affordable gourmet experience to be had in the whole town—but their sandwichzels, served on oversize iterations of their core product, should not, nay, must not be overlooked.

Did I mention the pretzels are excellent? Zwick’s dusted and cheese versions—one with feta and guajillo chili!—were tempting, but I felt compelled to test-drive the basic models—butter and garlic butter with salt ($2 each)—the pretzels’ essential qualities. Examplars of pretzel-king, they evinced these fundamentals in spades: warm, buttery twists of firm, yet fluffy, dough baked to glossy perfection and served with a variety of dip possibilities.

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makes it very tempting to survey many of their pretzels dips. I limited myself to beer cheese and smoky horseradish, which were both so good I kept the scant remnants to spread on a homemade burger.

But we’re here to talk about sandwiches. Though you know what goes really well with a sandwich? House-made soda. I sampled Zwick’s strawberry-apple shrub ($3), made with old-time-y syrup created by steeping fruit and sugar in vinegar, which turned out to be fresh and refreshing, served with a mint leaf garnish.

And so we come to the sandwichzel. I had the pleasure of trying two variants. On my first visit I had the chorizo sausage rendition ($6) with pickled red onions with a

generous portion of chimichurri— a portion large enough to beg the question: “What am I going to do with all this chimichurri?”

The obvious answer is to get another pretzel.

The soft but sturdy hot dogstyle pretzel bun was the perfect foil to the bold flavours of juicy, oregano and cumin-scented sausage and Argentina’s favourite tangy parsley-and-garlic condiment. The meat/bread texture combo is sublime.

Naturally, I had to return to try the McZwick ($8), which luckily bears no resemblance to anything on a fast food menu, but instead bespeaks a genius for combining complementary ingredients. The house sandwich fills a pretzel bun with thick sliced roasted chicken, candied bacon,

Zwick’s Pretzels 12415-107 Ave. (780) 451-8882 zwickspretzels.com tomato, just the right portion of melting mozza, and tingly paprika aioli—and, my god, that bun! I could eat these buns all day. My perennial co-diner, also, vouches for the simple bacon and egg pretzel sandwich.

Zwick’s is definitely doing its bit to put Edmonton on the map as a sandwich city, and every such enterprise in Edmonton should strive to offer the value for money they exemplify. So how about it? Who will step up and outdo them?

Scott Lingley

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Bibliophile David McKnight donates his impressive Canadian small press collection—on display now—to the University of Alberta

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hen you come across something that peaks your curiosity, something that intrigues you, something worth studying, even worth searching for, you pursue it. This is the short version of what brought rare book librarian David McKnight to acquire his collection of nearly a century’s worth of Canadian small press print editions.

It took him roughly four decades to suss out thousands—eight thousand, to be a little more exact—of rare little magazines full of serious literary writings and avant garde poetry, as well as hundreds of Canadian small press and micropress books, imprints, and ephemera (posters, LPs, etc.). While some, like SubTerrain, weren’t incredibly difficult to track down, others proved to be much more elusive.

“In some cases, it was like a 30year trip from getting my first five or six issues to completion,” McKnight says. “Your goal is to get number one; find a number one and you can start to build from that.”

For the elusive periodicals, often collected retrospectively, McKnight describes the process as entering “this kind of dark world of second-hand bookstores, and antiquarian stores.”

Typically, small press and micropress publications held an entire subculture following behind their 8 arts

pages of poets, artists, authors, philosophers, and musicians that either followed the publication religiously, or were the very ones aligning the letters of each copy published. These too, were the bubbles in which Canadian greats like Leonard Cohen (Torontobased Beatnik publication Evidence) and P.K. Page (Montréalbased Preview) got their start.

“When you go into a bookstore today, the books all look the same,” McKnight says. “One of the beauties of this collection is it illustrates the diversity of

adigm between printer, poet, and artist, which resulted in singular books like The LSD Leacock (pictured). The rest followed, as McKnight set his sights on collecting “every book printed by the Coach House Press.”

After amassing a sizeable collection from Coach House, McKnight realized he had the beginnings of a research collection to document Canada’s small press heritage. From there, began three threads: the Coach House collection, other Canadian small press

with the rival literary magazines First Statement and Preview. The former was known for its forwardlooking contributors and modernist aesthetic that was originally founded as a counterpoint to the latter; where Preview tended to favour the more mainstream moderate aesthetic, First Statement stood out amongst a sea of traditionally conservative Canadian literature in the ‘40s. After holding a friendly rivalry for a few years, the two merged in 1945, giving way to the first trans-Canadian independent literary and art mag-

“When you look across the country—if you go decade by decade—there’s like one magazine in the ‘20s, there were four in the ‘30s, there were 10 in the ‘40s, ‘50s there were about 15, and in the ‘60s there were hundreds.” approaches to printing and approaches to the materiality of the magazines and small presses.”

For McKnight, it all began with Coach House Press. The publishing house is still among some of the most important and influential literary press houses in Canada, and was a key player during the experimental literary boom of the 1960s. Coach House was known for their collaboration par-

publications, and Canadian little magazines.

“When you look across the country—if you go decade by decade—there’s like one magazine in the ‘20s, there were four in the ‘30s, there were 10 in the ‘40s, ‘50s there were about 15, and in the ‘60s there were hundreds,” he says.

McKnight’s starting point for little mags began in Montréal

azine, Northern Review. The McKnight collection holds full runs of all three of the above amongst its 700 individual Canadian magazine titles, published between 1929 and the present. Though McKnight completed much of the collection, it is donated in memory of his mentor Wynne Francis, who both knew and collected many of the poets and publishers within the final joint collection.

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Until Fri., Aug. 24 Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination Bruce Peel Special Collections Rutherford Library, University of Alberta But not all publications aimed to represent such a vast population, both geographically and ideologically. As the publications popped up with exponentially increasing speed, distinct voices were able to be heard as well. Northern Ontario’s Boréal (‘70s) published in French, English, and Ojibway, McGill University’s Fireweed and Hejira (‘80s) held exclusively female perspectives, and the Monréalbased Kola (‘80s) was produced by the Afro-Canadian literary community.

Each run of little mags represents a substantial snapshot of Canadian history from the 1920s through till 2010. Some tell of cultural movements that shaped Canadian viewpoints, others showcase strong political movements and the philosophies behind them. Most importantly though, small press publications played a crucial role in developing Canadian poetry throughout the modern and postmodern periods.

As a self-proclaimed modernist himself, McKnight willingly put a sizeable amount of time and work into amassing the collection, something he says comes down to an intense curiosity, considerable patience and “just sheer luck.”

The collection can also be found in the University of Alberta’s online library catalogue.

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Local improv troupe Folk Lordz jumps from stage to the web

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ometimes, the corporate world can get a little dull. All that paperwork starts piling up, your boss is breathing down your neck asking when the next report will be in, and the coffee just isn’t cutting it anymore. What you need to do is take 15—a 15-hour LSD break to get those creative juices flowing.

This is just one of the sketches that the Edmonton-based comedy troupe Folk Lordz recently released online. Folk Lordz originally started as a live improv show that combined Cree oral history traditions with Chekhovian literature (as well as throwing in a genre of the audiences choosing), but over the last two years the troupe has been working to release a web series. Just recently, the final episode of the first season premiered on YouTube.

“It is a political, absurd, super dark, super in-your-face comedy series that reflects what we’re all about—which is Indigenous identity,” says Ben Gorodetsky, one of the co-creators of the web series.

The first season of Folk Lordz consists of 15 sketches poking fun at everything from climate change to author Joseph Boyden and Cree grandmothers. Boyden has come under fire in the past couple of years for his claims to Indigenous heritage. This idea of Indigenous identity is a strong theme throughout many of the troupe’s sketches. Todd Houseman, the other co-creator of the series, is a Cree activist and educator and it shows throughout the series.

“It’s so important for Indigenous people in todays climate to be proud and to showcase our cultures and to practice our own cultural ways,” Houseman says.

“It’s important for me to bring my culture into all aspects of things that I do—specifically comedy—

Find Folk Lordz at youtube.com because I think that it’s an easier way to digest a lot of the political things that we’re talking about in a way that is both entertaining and maybe eye opening.”

Gorodetsky and Houseman first met while working for Edmonton’s Rapid Fire Theatre improv company. Gorodetsky was working as the associate artistic director and Houseman was a senior player in the company. Almost immediately, the two of them hit it off, and the first rendition of Folk Lordz was formed.

To make the jump from live stage to the web, Folk Lordz received funding from the Canada Council of the Arts’ (CCA) New Chapter program— a one-off grant that coincided with Canada 150. Gorodetsky and Houseman decided to put their live comedy and writing backgrounds (Gorodetsky is a playwright and Houseman is a graphic novelist) to the test and pitched the idea of a Folk Lordz web series.

“We proposed to them that we take the fire and the light and chaos of that live show, and transform it into a written digital video series,” Gorodetsky says.

The CCA accepted their pitch and Folk Lordz received $50,000 to produce the first season of the web series.

Season two of the series is already in the works. Gorodetsky and Houseman are currently looking for co-producers or a production company to help with the second season, and are hoping to have it written by the end of this year to begin shooting next summer.

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A LIFE NOT JUST ABOUT WAR

An Edmonton student and his ESL teacher tell his story with a joint-authored book

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bu Bakr al Rabeeah is an Edmonton high school student. Winnie Yeung is an English language arts teacher in Edmonton. But this isn’t where the story begins. The story in fact begins long before Yeung met al Rabeeah, in Iraq, one of al Rabeeah’s many homes.

Al Rabeeah’s childhood in Baserah was a sweet one, full of friends, soccer, and his prized red bike—nothing like western interpretations of a war-torn conflict zone. The neighbourhood he lived in did have a considerable rift between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims, which is what led to one of the major changes in his life.

But in 2010, at age nine, al Rabeeah and his family moved to Homs, in Syria—just before the Syrian civil war broke out—to escape religious persecution and threats. But this was only the beginning of a long and difficult journey to Canada for al Rabeeah.

When Yeung met al Rabeeah she was his Grade 9 ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher in Edmonton.

Given this, he was a quiet kid when she first met him, but she could see from the glint in his eye, there was so much more beneath his shy smiles.

For an English class project that year he was to write about some memories of his. Al Rabeeah wrote

about Syria, and Homs, and what his life was like there in Google Translate, as he was still learning English with Ms. Yeung. When his English teacher read the stories, she was shocked—both at what was happening there and also at how typical his childhood was—and soon encouraged him to tell his story.

“As he was getting to know new friends and everything, he really got a sense that people had no idea what Syrian society was like,” Yeung says of October of 2015—a time when many Syrian refugees were coming to Canada. “I remember he told me once, someone asked him if they have chairs in classrooms and if they even have schools. But I mean, even myself, I really had no idea what Syrian society was like.”

With his permission and the blessing of his family, Yeung began to work with al Rabeeah in October of 2015 to get his story told. The process involved several after school and lunchtime interviews to gather memories and details from a list of stories that al Rabeeah and his father put together from his childhood in Iraq and Syria.

The interviewing process alone took about four months, and to avoid language miscommunications, as al Ra-

beeah was still learning English and Yeung does not speak Arabic, she would tell his stories back to him and use pictures to double and even triple check potential misunderstandings— like “jaw” versus “beard.”

“In the best of times our memory is unreliable but then you throw in the trauma and how that affects your memory,” Yeung says. “So, it was very much a family effort.”

What resulted is their creative nonfiction book, Homes: A Refugee Story, both al Rabeeah and Yeung’s first book. Later in 2016, they published the book on a self-publishing website, lulu.com, but never assumed to later be picked up by publishing house Freehand Books a year later. Homes can be found at Audrey’s Books, Mandolin Books, and Chapters.

Their goal was to educate al Rabeeah’s peers, but the process of writing the story has already begun to educate many others about these conflicts and the love that still dominates, something they hope will continue.

“It’s really important,” al Rabeeah says, “especially right now with so many refugees coming, to let you know how to deal with refugees and to know that their life is not just about war.”

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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

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dmonton artist Cindy Baker’s latest exhibition explores the fat female body through inviting blue watercolour prints and evocative, yet relaxing, performance art.

Crash Pad was first shown at the Tangled Art Gallery in Toronto last December, and it features images of diverse women at home, lounging in varying states of undress as they prepare to begin or end their days.

Baker chose Somerset paper for these prints to preserve the feel of the original watercolour paper, and within each image she presents a soft feeling of domesticity. Laundry baskets, wheelchairs, canes, furniture, indoor plants, dogs, and cats all fill the frames in service of this goal.

“Without those things, I think that the work might have come across as bit more cold and maybe more sexual than I was aiming for,” Baker says. “Naked people on beds definitely skews sexual, so I really wanted to bring it in to be something that was more about home and comfort and daily routine.”

When Baker first conceptualized the project more than two years ago, she envisioned the images appearing on a blue toile bedspread, evoking the blue writing found on the foil packet of a Zomig Rapimelt migraine pill.

“It’s not just any pill packet,” she says. “I designed it as a portrait of my favourite pill.”

And as the larger watercolour prints hang on the walls and smaller versions create an endless pattern along the bedspread and the exhibition’s wallpaper—forming curious angles that are a pleasure to trace with your eyes—Baker puts her own body on display next to her art.

Baker wears worn-in sleep wear and moves around a circular white cushion seated within the concave

Until Sat., June 16 Crash Pad Performances on Thursdays 5 – 8pm and Saturdays 12 – 5pm dc3 Art Projects portion of a square, two-metre-wide silver frame.

The four corners of the pill packet-like frame rhythmically clack against the concrete, as she tumbles in bed or walks on its edges, balancing on it like a boogie board. In her own reverie, she never says a word.

“Whenever I perform, people are like: ‘Oh, this is about a fat woman’—no, I just am a fat woman … I wanted to put fat bodies on display in a way that made clear that you were supposed to find them attractive or beautiful or sensual, and yet not fetishize them. That’s why it was important for me to make it really domestic and sweet.”

Baker’s performances will occasionally feature guest artists who collaborate with dancing and sound, but sometimes impromptu partnerships form too.

Halfway through the exhibition’s opening performance, Baker used only her eyes to invite an audience member to doff his shoes and socks and join her on the pad for several minutes of cuddling and dance-like movement as they sought to keep the bed balanced. Their breathing matched pace as they embraced, and they shared chuckles as they guided each other around the frame.

“I want to challenge people’s idea about what is beauty and what is acceptable,” Baker says. “But I think my art is most successful when I am asking questions and trying to figure something out.”

So when Baker creates art and questions what she sees in the world: social injustices, gender disparities, restrictions around physical identity and more, she hopes her audience tags along.

“Who else is interested in finding out the answer to this question with me?”

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FOUR BANGER FRIDAYS • Grindstone Theatre, 10019-81 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • Edmonton’s premiere independent stand-up comedy show. Host Simon Gorsak curates a staggering four comic showcase and plays host to the funniest people he knows from across Canada, and you • Every Fri, 9pm • $12

FREEDOM SKETCH '90 • The Grindstone, 10019-81 Ave • Every month Ms. Perfect Boy attempts its magnum opus Freedom Sketch ‘90: a takedown of the current social zeitgeist that at the same time celebrates the shared human experience • May 12, 9pm • $10 LATE NIGHT EDMONTON • The Grindstone, 10019-81 Ave • A filmed talk show performed on stage with a live audience • May 12, 11pm • $12 THUNDERPROV • The Grindstone, 1001981 Ave • A fast-paced, narrative-fuelled improv show crackling with energy and wit.

Using a suggestion provided by the audience, the Sorry, Not Sorry players will explore a character-driven story, peppered with scenes that dig into the narrative’s themes and concepts • May 12, 7pm • $10 UP LATE WITH DANA ANDERSEN • The Grindstone, 10019-81 Ave • The legendary, Dana Andersen, is taking back comedy in his all new, uninhibited late night talk show • May 11, 11pm • $14

DANCE ALBERTA BALLET'S "ALL OF US" • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Inspired by the Tragically Hip’s most loved songs, this postapocalyptic rock ballet is the newest creation by Jean Grand-Maître • May 10-12

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BHOF OR BUST: BURLESQUE HALL OF FAME FUNDRAISER • Denizen Hall, 10311103 Ave • hello@houseofhushburlesque.com • bhoforbust.eventbrite.com • Violette Coquette, Dame Perignon, Flora Pistol and Prof Eugene Organ will be heading to BHOF (that's short for the "Burlesque Hall of Fame") to proudly represent Edmonton and the #yegburlesque community • May 10, 7-10pm • $20 (adv), $25 (door) • 18+ only

CELEBRATION OF SPRING • Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, 25 minutes east of Edmonton on Hwy #16 • 780.662.3640 • ukrainianvillage.ca • Featuring numerous dance groups of all ages from across Alberta.

Meanwhile, in the historical village, families can visit with costumed role players and celebrate spring on the farm with a full day of authentic activities • May 21, 10am-5pm

DIRT BUFFET CABARET• Spazio Performativo, 10816 95 St • milezerodance.com • This multidisciplinary, diverse variety show allows audiences to discover Edmonton’s most unique, challenging, and wide-ranging performances, curated by an array of artists who will share different niches within the Edmonton scene • May 24, 8pm • $10 or best offer at the door

HOUSE OF HUSH PRESENTS: PARIS EN YEG • Crash Hotel Lobby, 10266103 St • hellothere@violettecoquette.com • houseofhushmay18.eventbrite.com • houseofhushburlesque.com • Bringing Parisian flavour and that certain je ne sais quoi • May 18, 7pm (doors), 8-9:30pm (show) • $30 (include a complimentary feature cocktail) • 18+ only

FILM A PLACE BETWEEN • Westwood Unitarian Church, 11135-65 Ave • The film portraits the adoption of two native boys by a white family and their return to their own native family • May 11, 7pm • Free

EDMONTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL • Landmark Cinemas Edmonton City Centre, 10200102 Ave • jewishedmonton.org • Films deal with a broad range of topics: the Holocaust and post-Holocaust periods, politics, racism, religion, music, and sports • May 6-16

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • Visit metrocinema.org for daily listings • AFTERNOON TEA: Iron Road (May 20) • BAD GIRLS MOVIE CLUB: I, Tonya (May 16) • CINEMA OF PSYCHEDELIA: The Visitor (May 26) • METRO RETRO: Clerks (May 14, May 16) • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Early Man (May 19), Babe (May 26) • SCI-FI: Liquid Sky (May 27, May 29) • SUNDAY CLASSICS: To Kill a Mockingbird (May 27)

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

SHORT FILMS WITH THE EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL • Pehonan Theatre, Legislative Assembly Visitor Centre, 9820-107 St • 780.427.7362 • visitorinfo@ assembly.ab.ca • assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/ events.html • An evening of short films which will include these animation and claymation works • May 17, 6-8pm • Free

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca •The Art of Hide Tanning–Tradition Inspiring The Present and Future: artwork by Amy Malbeuf and Ruby Sweetman; Apr 14-May 26 • Home: artwork by various artists; May 5-Aug 18; Artist talk and reception: Jun 23, 2-4pm ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34 St • 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends May 19-Sep 3 • $7 (adult), $6 (senior/student), $3.50 (child 3-12)/child under 3 free; $5 (train rides), $3 (motor car rides)

ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil. com • High School Art Show; May 7-25; Reception: May 12, 1-3pm • Open Seniors Show; May 28-Jun 22; Reception: Jun 2, 1-3pm

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • Manning Hall: The Pre-History of M.N. Hutchinson: Site 24; until Dec 31 • BMO World of Creativity: Wild Wood; until Dec 31 • RBC Work Room: Metamorphosis: artwork by Gloria Mok; until Jul 1 • Painting Alberta, Details of Canada: artwork by William Townsend; until Jul 1 • WEEKLY DROP-IN ACTIVITIES: Tours for Tots, Every Wed, 1011am • Youth Workshops, ages 13-17, Every Thu, 4-6pm • Kids’ Open Studio, Every Sat, 1-3pm • Exhibition Tours; Every Sat-Sun, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm • Art for Lunch; 3rd Thu of the month, 12-1pm • VIBE; 3rd Fri of the month, 5-9pm

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ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • High Energy 23: Cultivating Change: artwork by St. Albert High School Art Students; May 3-Jun 2 • Birds, Bees, and Ambergris: artwork by Gerri Harden; Jun 7-Jul 28

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St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Colour Spelled with a U: artwork by Les Graff (RCA); Apr 28-May 12 • Close Encounters: artwork by Ian Rawlinson; Jun 2-16

10. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City Tanya Talaga

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

• Lower level, Rutherford South, University of Alberta • bpsc.library.ualberta.ca • Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination; Apr 27-Aug 24 • Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination; May 4-Aug 24

CAVA GAllery • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • galeriecava.com • The End of The Earth: artwork by Valerian Mazataud; May 4-Jun 8 • Members Exhibit; May 4-Jun 8 DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Crash Pad: artwork by Cindy Baker; May 4-Jun 9 • Zachari Logan; May 4-Jun 9

FAB GALLERY • Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • ualberta.ca/artshows • lacuna: artwork by Becky Thera; Feb 20-May 17 • Light/Matter: Art at the Intersection of Photography and Printmaking, 1954-2017; May 8-Jun 2 FRONT GALLERY • 10402-124 St • thefrontgallery.com • Pictures From Rome: artwork by Tony Scherman; Jun 7, 7-9pm GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Strathcona Salon Series: artwork by various artists; May 15-Jun 23 HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse. ab.ca • Wetlands: artwork by Florin Hategan; Mar 29-May 12 • Citizen of the World: artwork by Sara Norquay; Mar 29-May 12 LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • May Group Selling Exhibition; May 10-31

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

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@ artsandheritage.ca • Witness Blanket/Forget-MeNot Métis Rose; Apr 3-Jun 3

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PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery & Artisan Nook: From Earth to Sky: paintings by Brie Craner, Sabine Hahnel, & Cindy James. Reception, Saturday, May 12, 2:30-5pm; Artists in attendance PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Colour Coherence: artwork by Jonathan Forrest; May 24-Jun 9; Opening reception: May 24, 7-9pm (artist in attendance)

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9. What Are We Doing Here? Marilynne Robinson

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6. A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo - Marlon Bundo, EG Keller, Jill Twiss

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5. The Dutch Wife - Ellen Keith

8. The Home for Unwanted Girls - Joanna Goodman

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St •

St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments • Terry Fox–Running to the Heart of Canada; Feb 16-Sep 16 • Dinosaurs Unearthed: Down to the Bone; Opens Jun 1

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

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AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • R. Harlan Smith "Hitch Your Wagon to a Star" Book Launch; May 10, 7-10pm • Michael Hingston "Let's Go Exploring: Calvin and Hobbes" Launch; May 12, 2-3:30pm • Richard Cumyn "The Sign for Migrant Soul" Book Launch; May 13, 2-4pm • Tamara Plant "Love: Because Death Doesn't F*ck Around" Book Launch; May 14, 7-8:30pm • Shawna Lemay "The Flower can always be changing" Book Launch; May 17, 7-8:30pm

BOOK SIGNING: THE MORAL WORK OF NURSING: ASKING AND LIVING WITH THE QUESTIONS • Indigo Books, South Edmonton Common, 1837-99 St • hazelmagnussen.com • May 12, 11am-4pm

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • 9910, 9910B109 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • facebook. com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 donation

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SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • Every 2nd Sun of the month, 7:30pm • Free (donations accepted at the door) TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly Tellaround: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series • Most Mon (except holidays), 7pm, Sep 18-Mar; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

THEATRE ALL SHOOK UP • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • Built around the songs made famous by Elvis Presley, this show follows the tale of a small town girl with big dreams and the motorcycle-riding stud she falls for • Now playing, showtimes vary (Tue - Sun) • $80 and up

CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s long form comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm; Sep 10-Jun 9 • $15 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square)

for a little while, or call the police? • Apr 25-May 13, 7:30pm (2pm on weekends) • $37 (general), $35 (seniors/students), $22 (under 18); $27 (matinee), $22 (youth matinee), in adv. Buy one, get one free (Tue)

FROM CRADLE TO STAGE: AN EVENING OF NEW WORKS • Walterdale Theatre, 1032283 Ave • Walterdale Theatre’s annual festival dedicated to developing new one-act plays that have not been previously staged • May 14-19

HEY LADIES! • The Roxy on Gateway (formerly C103), 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.ca • Edmonton’s premier comedy, info-tainment, musical, game, talk show spectacular that’s suitable for all sexes! • May 11, 8pm • $26 (call 780.453.2440) or TIX on the Square

LAST CHANCE LEDUC • Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • fringetheatre.ca • Set during the 1947 Leduc oil strike, Wes and Ev struggle in the oil and water of a young marriage in peril, in winter, in a tarpaper shack in the woods, with a baby and another dry well. He wants a gusher, she wants a garden, and Tricky wants a girl like Ev, his best friend’s wife. While the men work all day and all night, Ev meets a lady trapper in the woods, Nôhkom, who shows her the power of the river • May 8-19, 8pm (2pm on May 12 & 19) • Tickets start at $12 OLD STOCK: A REFUGEE LOVE STORY • Citadel Theatre, Sir Winston Churchill Sq. • Inspired by the real-life story of two Romanian Jews, examines the refugee immigration experience of a century ago • May 9-13

OPEN JAM • The Grindstone, 10019-81 Ave • 780.907.2975 • grindstonetheatre.ca • Facilitated by Grindstone Theatre. Swap games and ideas and get an opportunity to play. For those of all levels • Last Tue of each month PATTYZEE@THE ROXY–MOTHER’S DAY EDITION • The Roxy on Gateway, 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.ca • The theme this month: mothers • May 12, 8pm

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

TERRY AND THE DOG • Studio Theatre at the Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • As Terry Mire–a recovering alcoholic in his sixties–waits for his dead dog to come back to life, he tells a story about his wife, his son, and his dog’s previous deaths • May 9-19 • $20 (adults), $15 (students and seniors 60+)

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep 9-Jun 8 • $15 YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN • L'Uni Theatre, 8627-91 St • elopemusicaltheatre@gmail.com • elopemusicaltheatre.ca • Grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein inherits his family's estate in Transylvania. With the help of a hunchbacked sidekick, Igor, and a leggy lab assistant, Inga, Frederick finds himself in the mad scientist shoes of his ancestors • May 3-12 • $30 (adult), $25 (student/senior); available at TIX on the Square or the door

House of Hush presents: Paris en YEG Crash Hotel Lobby May 18, 7pm (doors), 8-9:30pm (show) $30 (include a complimentary feature cocktail) 18+ only

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

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

EXIT THE KING • Timms Centre for the Arts, 87 Ave & 112 St, University of Alberta • ualberta. ca/artshows • A great classic following King Berenger, who believes himself immortal. Upon discovering he is dying, he becomes fascinated with every sensation from the lives he has not lived • May 17-26

FLY ME TO THE MOON • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • shadowtheatre@interbaun.com • Frances and Loretta are home care workers in Belfast. When one of their patients dies unexpectedly, the two cash strapped ladies are faced with an awful choice, cash in his pension and keep the news of his death a secret

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MARVEL SUPERHERO

JUST MARVELOUS.

A gut-punch of a superhero film that impacts a genre hopefully for years to come

DARK THRILLER COMEDY

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BLESSED ARE THE MEEK

Lowlife follows the sordid lives of a few wannabe bumble criminals

A

luchador, a criminal, and a motel clerk all walk into a Los Angeles fish taco joint. The motel clerk, Crystal, is armed with a 12-gauge, the criminal, Randy is wielding a sledgehammer, and the masked luchador, El Monstruo, is shirtless, equipped with nothing but his bare hands. This is the climactic scene of Lowlife, a dark comedy/drama that touches on the depravity of human existence.

The film begins with Agent Fowler (Jose Rosete) arresting a group of illegal Mexican immigrants who are living in Crystal’s (Nicki Micheaux) rundown motel. We quickly learn that Fowler is actually a dirty, scumbag cop who works with Teddy ‘Bear’ Haynes (Mark Burnham), a man who owns a fish taco shack, yet, his main source of income comes from sex trafficking and black market organ harvesting.

The film’s intro sets it up to be a gritty, gory almost Sawesque thriller, but then quickly changes its tone after introducing El Monstruo (Ricardo Adam Zarate), a man who believes he is the reincarnation of his father and his father before him, Mexico’s luchador saviour. El Monstruo essentially sees red and goes beast-mode whenever he sees violence. Usually the result is him murdering someone with his bare hands off camera. He also has a son on the way, who will be forced to live up to the luchador lineage.

to have a nasty habit of firing plot and backstory at a machine gun’s rate. This makes it ridiculously confusing until the last episode, “Criminals.”

Each character has a stake after El Monstruo’s pregnant wife Kaylee (Santana Dempsey) is slated to be the donor of a kidney. Some extreme violence— involving a shotgun and a face— later and we are introduced to Randy (Jon Oswald) a newly excon who has an unfortunate tattoo bedazzled on his face. Here’s a hint: it rhymes with “twastika.”

While Randy isn’t actually a racist white supremacist, he is a criminal. So, after his friend Keith (Shaye Ogbonna) is conscripted to play errand boy for Teddy, Randy unwillingly jumps on. Their goal: kidnap Kaylee for the shady kidney operation.

The film is a piece of dark absurdist humour, and even though each actor does have chops, there’s no really main character.

This makes it hard for the viewer to actually care about what is occurring. There will also be many ‘wait, isn’t that guy dead’ moments during this film as it doesn’t really explain the fate of a few main characters. With a bit of editing and smoother plot development Lowlife could have been expertly unique, but as is, it kind of shoots itself in the face.

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PRESENTS

Avengers: Infinity War Now Playing  himself is played with immense gravitas by Josh Brolin, who brings a sympathetic edge to the character, as his motivations aren’t simply steeped in: ‘I’m bad; you’re good; let’s fight.’ Sympathy is hard to pull off for cosmic horrors and by doing so, it results as one of this film’s greatest strengths.

Avengers: Infinity War showcases brilliant action that isn’t cookie cutter via a low gravity planet showdown and a final battle in Black Panther’s Wakanda that feels more from the pages of Tolkein than Stan Lee. The directing duo of the Russo brothers have proven time and again that they are wonderful weavers of character interaction, and they use that as their glue to hold this massive cinematic attempt together. You’ll get team ups you’d have never expected as well as instances where a hero you once loved fumbles so hard you’ll find yourself fuming at them.

Although, due to the fact that this film at times boils over with content, certain heroes don’t get as much play as they deserve.

But don’t fret, Avengers: Infinity War ends on a bleak as hell cliffhanger—that could very well be the end of the franchise if they so please.

Who knows what next summer’s sequel will bring, hopefully it’ll give a chance for certain characters to have a little bit more breathing room. But as for now, Avengers: Infinity War, is just marvelous.

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The film’s tone change from a grisly thriller to a goofy, dark comedy is immediate, but it’s not seamless. As we are introduced to more characters in the three part episodic plot—the creators of this film are obvious Quentin Tarantino fanboys—we slowly realize all of these stories interconnect. Yet, the movie seems

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Don’t worry sweetie; it’s just a movie,” said a mother to her weeping child as the end credits rolled for Marvel Studio’s Avengers: Infinity War. As well as teary eyes, the theatre was full of declarations of fury—one in particular that sticks to mind firmly stated, “That’s not how you end a fucking movie!”

These pleas to the cosmos are merited, as this film is unlike any that has come before it.

For the past decade Marvel Studios has been supplying us with heroic tales of comic book yore, where the catharsis is a triumphant victory in which the good guys win and bad guys lose.

Avengers: Infinity War, while hitting some traditional bases, drastically changes the decade-long mold that this particular studio has been adhering to.

Directors Joe and Anthony Russo have knocked it out of the park with this one by featuring just about every hero the franchise has on its roster, save for a few. In a film that almost seemed doomed to be congested, the directors manage to make it flow in a way that doesn’t fringe on being boring, even with its convoluted nature. Avengers: Infinity War also pulls off something seldom seen executed correctly, where the narrative actually feels like a comic book and not just a studiomandated superhero punch up.

The stakes have never been higher as the big, bad Thanos— who, being teased for the past six years—is coming with the direct goal of eradicating half of all life from the known universe, with the aid of the infinity stones. Thanos

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VIDEO GAME JAZZ

Classic and new video game tunes get an extra life through local cover band Experience Points

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t’s the end of the school year, and you’re back home. You turn the power on and the T.V. sparks to life; white noise sears on the screen.

You are transported into fictional, digital, worlds of a blue hedgehog rolling around at the speed of sound, an elf boy with the Hyrulian Shield and Master Sword in hand,

and an Italian plumber jumping on Goombas and hitting blocks with his head. Local video game cover band Experience Points brings back those childhood memories with their jazzified reworks of classic and modern video game tunes fans love, blue shells and all.

Experience Points is made of

musical tinkerers, creating arrangements of classic and modern titles, such as Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Sonic The Hedgehog, Undertale, and Animal Crossing.

“A lot of our repertoire especially is going back to the original iterations of these themes, I guess, and because of the technical limitations at the time, they didn’t have this incredibly wide pallet of sounds to choose from,” guitarist Brian Raine says.

All members of the band have different musical backgrounds. Ryan Pliska, the drummer, has played for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Aretha Tillotson has worked on musicals in the area, such as Mamma Mia!, 80’s Town, and the upcoming Matilda. Raine is about to release a new CD with his band Ways in Waves and he just worked on the musical Children of God. Pianist Stephanie Urquhart has her own modern jazz group called the Stephanie Urquhart Quartet and writes big band music for the River City Big Band and MacEwan Alumni Big Band. She is also a music director in Edmonton’s theatre scene.

“I arranged ‘Clock Town’ from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask just using a real melodica instead of a melodica sample, even that, is allowing it to have this real sound to it and then having Steph on piano and adding a drum kit instead

of the tambale samples—it has a bit more oomph to it, whereas in the original game it’s not meant to be in the forefront; it’s in the background,” Raine says.

Video games arguably should be one thing: fun. The band brings that quality in spades with high-energy covers that combine funk, jazz, and groove into a frenzy of delightful twists on melodies with creative on-the-fly improvisation.

Urquhart, who learned how to play piano because of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’s “Lost Woods,” says, “A lot of it is keeping the melody the same so people can recognize it. If you honour [the song] in the beginning of the arrangement as it gets going, people can follow along easier. They trust you already in the beginning, so you can take them along on a trip.”

All four of the members came together last June with a passion for video games. They met while taking MacEwan University’s music program.

Raine says that there is a comradery in the group and he has fun playing with them whenever he can.

“I think video games are a great way, especially for our generation, to have something in common with one another.”

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Fri., May 18 (8 pm) Experience Points Direct Play Expo 8426 Gateway Blvd dieGoGo for their debut album. It will feature songs they have performed live in the past, but they are taking requests for video game covers from those who pledge $250 or over. Depending on the end result, it might actually get on the album.

The band’s next gig is at this week’s Edmonton gaming convention Direct Play Expo. The set will feature covers from Megaman, Undertale, Kirby, Mario, and The Legend of Zelda. They plan to have a set of entirely new arrangements for the show and will perform three 45-minute sessions for the event’s opening night.

Experience Points thinks both gaming and non-gaming fans can enjoy their music. Gaming fans even scream at the shows.

“I don’t think there’s anything worse as a musician to play to an audience that’s apathetic and I would say the audiences we’ve had for this kind of music has been anything but apathetic,” says Raine. When they were playing at The Yardbird Suite, one guy in the crowd shouted, “Mute City!” According to Raine, “he lost his mind.”

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PROGRESSIVE DJENT METAL

METAL IN FOUR DIMENSIONS TesseracT’s latest album Sonder features baby hearts, cat vomit, and a mom at breakfast

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etal musician Devin Townsend once wrote, “While we all have lots of bands who influence, still we all rip off Meshuggah.” And he wasn’t wrong. Djent metal—a style of progressive metal guitar made popular by Meshuggah that consists of high-gain, distortion, and complex palmmuting—has a propensity to devolve into thousands of versions of the same thing with minor to lesser tweaks on the formula. A ninth guitar string is added, and the album art becomes more esoteric, and the whole thing becomes a short race to the bottom.

That’s why it’s refreshing when a band like TesseracT releases new material, or announces a tour.

Vocalist Daniel Tompkins, bassist Amos Williams, drummer Jay Postones, lead guitarist Alec “Acle” Kahney, and rhythm guitarist James Monteith, are known for deviating from that formula in substantive and innovative ways. And their latest album, Sonder, is proof.

“We’re the most solid that we’ve ever been now I think,” says Monteith. “This lineup: we’re all working together really well and very pleased with the direction we’re going.”

The album is the fourth fulllength release from the U.K. based progressive metal band, and its title is something of a neologism.

The band stumbled upon ‘sonder’

in a forthcoming book called The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It describes a sudden appreciation that everyone around you has a life just as complex and as intricate as your own.

Monteith says the thematic concept of sonder is primarily one of selflessness.

“I think it is very relevant now,” he says. “I think we’re kind of living in an age where people do get kind of very self-obsessed, especially with social media. Without really sounding like a grand-dad … It’s quite easy to forget that there’s an actual world out there that is way more important than what your Instagram post or picture looks like.”

Sonder also features something of a unique production element.

The band’s front of house engineer, Aidan O’Brien, came up with the idea of sourcing TesseracT fans for audio recordings and field samples.

Some of the samples the band received include public areas, infant heartbeats, a cat vomiting, and a fan’s mother singing in the kitchen while cooking breakfast. All are mixed and distorted into the familiar atmospheric, aethereal passages for which TesseracT is known.

“He’s really into field recordings.

Wherever he goes, he’s always like, if he hears an interesting sound, he records it and uses it to make music. I think we had over 80 submissions. Forty of them actually made it onto the record in various forms.”

Fri., May 11 (6 pm) TesseracT w/ Plini, and Astronoid Starlite Room $27 TesseracT formed in 2003, in Milton Keynes, U.K. Originally a bedroom project and MySpace page for lead guitarist Alec “Acle” Kahney, TesseracT would gain momentum and release a four-song demo in 2007. That demo layed the groundwork for a series of musical experimentation that would follow.

“We kind of thought what Acle was doing was completely unique and exciting and different,” Monteith says. “We felt that we could all work together to take it some place. I guess we had no idea what that ambition would be and what it could do. I guess we never envisioned that 12 years later we’d be headlining a big tour across the U.S. and Canada.”

If it weren’t the sounds of baby heartbeats or cat vomit, or the popularization of new words into the metal lexicon, it would be something else. TesseracT is about innovation, and within the field of djent, that’s a precious rarity. Though more of a symptom than an outright goal, they are one of a few djent bands that continue to prove Devin Townsend’s statement wrong.

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NEWSOUNDS

Can’t Wake Up Shakey Graves Dualtone Records Alejandro Rose-Garcia a.k.a.

Shakey Graves has always been the kind of musician to absorb any sort of inspiration or genre and apply it to his own work. He once told me one of his favourite live acts was A Place to Bury Strangers, a noise rock band that mixes synth and wall-of-sound postpunk vibrations.

Seriously, Shakey’s inspirations are all across a bizarre, rugged map, so it shouldn’t come as any

surprise that he went for a completely different sound for his latest album Can’t Wake Up. This is easily Shakey Graves’ most radio-friendly album to date, which could be considereda good thing—depending on how and why you listen to his records. It’s interesting, considering this album utilizes an array of supplementary instrumentation from the organ, synth, harp, a string section, and sparse electronic drums.

The album opens with a jangly, delayed, indie-guitar lead on “Counting Sheep,” until it explodes into a soft-rock chorus. The guitar melody echos on a later song called “Mansion Door.”

Fans looking for the same consistent, raw Americana blues-rock tenacity that was present on And The War Came won’t find it on Can’t Wake Up. Instead, they all get hints of it on songs like “Dining

Alone,” and “Excuses,” which both contain Shakey’s classic, dissonant fingerpicking, and slide guitar.

Some fans may feel a little betrayed when they hear a song like “My Neighbor,” a poppy, bass-led, and wispy tune that has Shakey playing with vocals tricks. For me, the song falls apart during the chorus, which has an incessant “la la la la la.”

This is remedied, however, with the closing song “Back Seat Driver,” which subtly employs all of the classic Shakey guitar tricks.

The closing tune “Tin Man,” is also a charming, acoustic tongue-andcheek track inspired by The Wizard of Oz. Compared to his previous work, this is a very poppy album for Shakey. He may turn the heads of some new and old fans with this one but it will take me a few more listens until I’m convinced.

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8pm; $10

Little, Wine Alot (house, hip-hop and reggae music); Every Thu; No cover

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Big Rockin' Thursday Jam & Open Mic; Every Thu, 8pm CAFE BLACKBIRD Pete Eastmure;

Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers every Thu; 7pm REC ROOM–SOUTH EDMONTON COMMON Karaoke with live

band, The Nervous Flirts; Every other Thu, 7pm REC ROOM–WEST EDMONTON

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CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Radio CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live

music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON D’Island

Fusion; 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD Cody Ray

Slaughter as Elvis; 9pm CENTURY CASINO–EDMONTON

Herman's Hermits Starring Peter Noone; 7-11pm; $59.95 plus GST; No minors; Reserved seating CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT The

Inconceivable Brute Squad; 9pm

Remo, Noosh, Fingertips & guests; Underdog: Rap, House, Hip-Hop with DJ Teddy Plenti; every Fri THE COMMON Quality Control Fridays with DJ Echo & Freshlan EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Resident DJs

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BETTY ANDEWS RECITAL HALL, MACEWAN UNIVERSITY Big Band

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Janzen; 9pm THE FORGE ON WHYTE Petrify,

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SHAKERS ROADHOUSE The Katz

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MALL Throwback Thursday with The Sissy Fits; Every Thu, 8:30pm; Free

Keylation with City of Strays and The Dabs; 8pm; $10 (door)

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The Nervous Flirts; 9:30pm; Free

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Shufflehounds; 9pm; No cover

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Joanne

Of Rock! Tribute Show; 9pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door); All ages

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Jake

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SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Women

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DENIZEN HALL Champ City Soundtrack; Every Fri-Sat

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THE COMMON The Common Uncommon Thursday: Rotating guests each week

Active; 9pm

Moving Bodies with Red Hot Gospel and Strange Planes; 8pm; $10 (door)

tet; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $11 (members), $15 (guests)

Fl: Rock N' Roll, Funk & Soul with DJ Modest Mike; Every Thu; Wooftop Lounge: Dear Hip Hop with Freshlan; Underdog: Underdog Comedy Show

JOHN BUTLER TRIO

BLUES ON WHYTE Wild T & The

CAFE BLACKBIRD Carrie Day;

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8:30-10:30pm; $15

BLUES ON WHYTE Wild T & The

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LINDI ORTEGA

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Dana Wylie;

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Russell Johnston

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Symphony Orchestra presents Late Night Soundscapes conducted by Alexander Prior; 9:30pm; $24

Spirit; 9pm

Launch featuring Jeff Morris with Ego the Jackal; 7:30pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door)

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Mills, Doug Hoyer and Baby Jey; 8pm; $6 (adv), $10 (door)

Garrett James; 6-10pm; All ages

HAVE MERCY Thigh Thursdays with El Niven & The Alibi and friends; Every Thu, 8:30pm; No cover

ROYAL WOOD

Monday: Celebrating 10 Years of A Joyful Noise; 7:30pm; $20

AVIARY Tropic Harbour with Mark

Jam; 7:30-11:30pm

MAY 18

THE ALMANAC Summertime

Single Release Party featuring Baby Boy Blue with GLMR and Mickey Green; 8:30pm

FIDDLER'S ROOST Acoustic Circle

MARTIN KERR

Classical

EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 12PM

7pm; $6

MAY 15

9910 Tin Man with Khotin, Nik 7 and Jaycie Jayce; 9pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door)

The Rural Routes; 9pm Buckley; 9pm

STARLIGHT CASINO Mike

Dominey; 10pm STARLITE ROOM Tesseract, Plini,

Astronoid; 6pm; $27 UNION HALL The Glitch Mob;

9pm; 18+ only WILD EARTH BAKERY–MILLCREEK

Live Music Fridays; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation YARDBIRD SUITE Subtone; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)

Janzen; 9pm EMPRESS ALE HOUSE Bands at

the Empress; Every Sat, 4-6pm; Free; 18+ only THE FORGE ON WHYTE 1st Annual Edmonton Synth Meet; 2-7pm • Medical Pilot EP release with, Strange Charm and Crooked Spies; 8pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door); 18+ only HILLTOP PUB Open stage hosted

by Simon, Dan and Pascal; Every Sat, 4-7pm; Free • Fifteen Pounds of Beets with Men Who Fell to Earth; 9pm JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Alberta

Ballet presents All of Us (The Tragically Hip Ballet); 2pm & 7:30pm LB'S PUB Head Over Heels

Showcase; 6pm; No minors • Shred Of Dignity; 9pm; No minors

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Homemade Jam;

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong

3-7pm; Free

every Sat

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday Nights:

Live Local Bands every Sat MOONSHINERS Jennie Harluk; 8pm;

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

$20 (adv)

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, motown,

ON THE ROCKS Chronic Rock; 9pm

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

REC ROOM–SOUTH EDMONTON COMMON Josh Sahunta & Soap Box

Y AFTERHOURS Live DJs; Every Fri-Sat

Duo; 7pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Substance with Eddie Lunchpail TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic hip-hop

with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm2am

TUE MAY 15 BLUES ON WHYTE The Travellin Band;

9pm

SUN MAY 13

REC ROOM–WEST EDMONTON MALL

Notorious YEG; 10pm

GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm HAVE MERCY Outlaw Country Vinyl

Evrey Fri-Sat, 9pm

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch with

the Hawaiian Dreamers; 9am-2pm; Music by donation

7pm (doors), 9pm (show); Tickets starting at $39.99

BLUES ON WHYTE Wild T & The Spirit;

ROSE & CROWN PUB Sean Sonego;

9pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Mark Ammar’s

Saturday Sessions Jam; Every Sat, 4-8pm • Women Of Rock! Tribute Show; 9pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door); All ages SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN The

CARTAGO CartagoYeg Brunch Series Presents: Dylan Ella; 12-2pm

ROGERS PLACE Eagles with special

Buckley; 9pm

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Rusty Reed

Band; Every Tue, 7:30-11pm

ON THE ROCKS The Last Calls; 9pm

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session: Karen Porkka And Whirldish; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

RICHARD’S PUB Live musician jam

SANDS INN & SUITES Open Jam; Every

STARLIGHT CASINO Mike Dominey;

Sun, 7-11pm

10pm TEMPLE–STARLITE ROOM This Is

Classical

A Standoff withguests Fire Next Time,Wolfrik, A Gentleman's Pact; 8pm; $15

CONVOCATION HALL Celebrating 88 Keys; 3pm; $20 (adult), $10 (student/senior)

YARDBIRD SUITE Piotr Lemanczyk Trio

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH

featuring Walter Smith III and Tyler Hornby; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $22 (members), $26 (guests)

Mother's Day Concert featuring Vaughan String Quartet; 2pm; $25 (adult), $15 (student)

Classical

DJs

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Kokopelli

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ

Sings For Africa; 7:30pm; $25 (adults), $20 (students) WEST END CHRISTIAN REFORM CHURCH Vocal Alchemy presents

Classical

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Wednesdays; Every Wed, 7-11pm; Free

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Wednesday

SOUTH EDMONTON COMMON MAY 11

TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke; 9pm TEMPLE–STARLITE ROOM The

Supersuckers with guests The Devil's Sons, and Sparrow Blue; 8pm; $15

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

DJs

Chris Bruce spins britpop/punk/ garage/indie; Every Tue

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ

Late Fee; Every Wed

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FACE FIRST

w/ Chase Havoc and The Railtown Park Band

MAY 12

BEFORE & AFTER TOUR

Josh Sahunta & Soap Box Duo

MAY 16

ZOEY DOLLAZ w/ Guest

WEST EDMONTON MALL

EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Taco Tuesday with

MAY 11

LIVE BAND KARAOKE w/ Nervous Flirts

resident DJs

MAY 12

NOTORIOUS YEG

MAY 17

THROWBACK THURSDAY w/ The Sissy Fits

Tropic Harbour Aviary May 11, 8pm

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EVENTS

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Lady Lynne and

Overture Tour; 12-1pm; Free • Martin Kerr; 8pm; $32-$47

Z

UPCOMING

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

WINSPEAR CENTRE Winspear

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THE PROVINCIAL PUB Karaoke

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

The Grinders; Every Wed, 7:30-11pm

DJs

blackbyrd

LEAF BAR & GRILL Wang Dang

GAS PUMP Kizomba-DJ; 8pm

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

MON MAY 14

WINSPEAR CENTRE Edmonton Sym-

AVIARY Bardic Form and guests; 5pm;

DJs

CD / LP

with host Duff Robison; 8pm

Zyppy with DJ Late Fee; Every Sun

Requiem; 7pm; $15-$20 phony Orchestrapresents Brahms & Barber conducted by Alexander Prior; 8pm; $15-$82

guests JD & The Straight Shot; 8pm; $99 and up

HAVE MERCY Bring Your Own Vinyl

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Jake

LB'S PUB Tuesday Night Open Jam

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

Slaughter as Elvis; 9pm

Rural Routes; 9pm

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

9pm

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Cody Ray

Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino

BLUES ON WHYTE Jason Elmore & Hoodoo Witch; 9pm

HAVE MERCY Piano Karaoke featuring with Tiff Hall; Every Wed, 8:30pm

night; Every Sun, 6-9pm BLIND PIG PUB Blind Pig Pub Ham

RIVER CREE–The Venue En Vogue;

ARCTIC MONKEYS

2018, Raise A Little Friends: Variety Show; 7pm; $8 (adv), $10 (door), (or bring two Edmonton Food Bank donations)

GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm

Mitch For Mayor, Silent Script; 8pm (doors), 10pm (show); $12

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

AVIARY Heart Of The City Friendraiser

7:30-11:30pm

RENDEZVOUS PUB House of Pines,

RICHARD'S PUB DJ Brad House Party;

10442 whyte ave 439.1273 10442 whyte ave 439.1273

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic

FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle Jam Circle;

ALIBI PUB AND EATERY Open mic

WED MAY 16

No cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop: Metal

Mondays with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox BLUES ON WHYTE The Travellin Band;

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

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

9pm CAFE BLACKBIRD Edmonton Ukulele

Circle; 6:30pm; Free DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Karaoke night;

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

Night: House and disco and everything in between with Wright & Wong, Dane

7-11pm

EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Resident DJs playing the

Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Acoustic Music Jam & Dancing; 7-10pm

best in hip-hop, dance and classics; Every Fri-Sat, 9pm; No cover

SIDELINER’S PUB Singer/Songwriter Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted

by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:30pm

ENVY NIGHT CLUB Resolution

Saturdays: top 40, throwbacks and club anthems

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

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VENUEGUIDE 9910 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ACCENT LOUNGE 8223-104 St ALIBI PUB & EATERY 17328 Stony Plain Rd THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte.com ARCADIA BAR 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ARIA'S BISTRO 10332-81 Ave, 780.972.4842, ariasbistro.com AVIARY 9314-111 Ave B-STREET BAR 11818-111 Ave BETTY ANDREW RECITAL HALL, ALLARD HALL, MACEWAN UNIVERSITY 11110-104 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne Street St. Albert BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BLVD SUPPER X CLUB 10765 Jasper Ave BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 BRICK & WHISKEY PUBLIC HOUSE 8937-82 Ave CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CARTAGO 8204-106 Ave CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTURY CASINO–EDMONTON 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT 24 Boudreau Rd, St. Albert, 780.460.8092 CHVRCH OF JOHN 10260-103 St, 780.884.8994, thechvrchofjohn. com COMMON 9910-109 St CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta, music.ualberta.ca DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall.com DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB 11113-87 Ave NW, devaneyspub.com DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR 8230 Gateway Blvd, elcortezcantina.com

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE 9912-82 Ave NW ENVY NIGHT CLUB West Edmonton Mall, 8882 170 St FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca THE FORGE ON WHYTE 10549-82 Ave (Whyte Ave) GAS PUMP NIGHT CLUB & BAR 10166-114 St HAVE MERCY SOUTHERN TABLE + BAR 8232 Gateway Blvd, havemercy.ca HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave NW HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 11455-87 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR & GRILL 9016132 Ave MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, mcdougallunited.com MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MOONSHINERS 5202-50 St, Stony Plain

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St REC ROOM–SOUTH EDMONTON COMMON 1725-99 St NW REC ROOM–WEST EDMONTON MALL 8882-170 St NW RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD’S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3117 RIVER CREE–THE VENUE 300 E Lapotac Blvd ROGERS PLACE 10214-104 Ave ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton. com SEWING MACHINE FACTORY 9562-82 Ave SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SOUTHMINSTER-STEINHAUR UNITED CHURCH 10740-19 Ave SQUARE 1 COFFEE 15 Fairway Drive STARLIGHT CASINO 8882-170 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TEMPLE–STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca WEST END CHRISTIAN REFORM CHURCH 10015-149 St WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.428.1414 WOODRACK CAFE 7603-109 St, 780. 757.0380, thewoodrackcafe.com Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428

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FOLK ROCK

THE WEIGHT OF WORDS AND INTIMACY Jon Bryant discusses how he stays humble while carrying himself and his music

EVENTS

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GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS ADULT DANCE CLASSES • Quantum Leap Dance, 11232-163 St • 780.974.0309 • MON: Adult Tap, 7-8pm; Stretch & Strength with Jazz, 8-9:15pm • Wed: Floor Barre 6:45-7:45, Adult Ballet 7:45-9:15pm • Drop in Rate $15.75 (inc. GST); 5, 10, 15 Class passes available

AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm AMITABHA KADAMPA BUDDHIST CENTRE • 9550-87 St • 780.235.8257 • info@meditationedmonton.org • meditationedmonton.org • Weekly meditation classes and events. All welcome • Every Sun, Tue, Thu

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

CARROT COFFEE FRIENDSHIP CLUB •

Jon Bryant / Courtesy of Nettwerk Music Group

S

ong writing often shows what is dearest to the writer; but a passion so valiantly valued is often a heavy load to carry.

Solo artists often take that load on themselves, yet Vancouver-based singer songwriter Jon Bryant carries it with conviction.

Paying homage to his folk roots in Halifax, and pairing his exploration of his own musical depth since living in Vancouver, Bryant couples his song writing with intimacy and enthusiasm.

Bryant has released three albums since 2009,

Fri., May 18 (7 pm) Jon Bryant w/ guests The Almanac $22 at doors Bryant brings an honesty to his performance that time and distance have afforded him.

“I’ve been open to my beliefs and it’s become easier for me to do that.”

And the life of a musician—the touring, the performing, and the writing—all make it into his artistry.

“Everywhere I go I’m influenced by my surroundings,” Bryant says.

But sometimes distance isn’t linear. While miles away from his hometown, there’s always a little home wherever he is.

“I have friends from home that live here in Vancouver now, ones I’ve known since I was a little scumbag, and they give me little reminders of who I am and who I was.” – Jon Bryant and his newest singles, “Courtesy Call/I Saw You” and “At Home,” have the songwriter cozying up to his inner character.

“Song writing was a form of self-discovery, finding out what I have to say and what’s important to me. I hope that I’m genuinely speaking my mind and people enjoy it,” he says.

And people do. Bryant’s time as a musician has given him many opportunities.

But whether he’s playing the Juno’s, opening for k.d. lang, or playing house shows, Bryant believes in giving an authentic experience.

“I thrive off small venues, you know, being right in front of people. It’s much more nerve-racking to step out for a few dozen people than a few thousand,” he says. And it’s that intimacy that shines in his music, particularly his newest singles.

18 at the back

“I have friends from home that live here in Vancouver now, ones I’ve known since I was a little scumbag, and they give me little reminders of who I am and who I was” he says.

The tour resembles just who he is; splitting fullband shows with solo acoustic shows, with Bryant taking care of all the merchandise and design as well.

“It’s all about bringing the crowd into my world,” he says.

A world he is willing to bear. So when he changes so does the experience.

There’s comfort in solitude, and this comfort is Bryant’s companion on his musical journey. For a man who enjoys the contemplation of touring, his music brings people together to watch time weave his life and music, making things a little lighter.

Ryan Hook

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

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

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

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)

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

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

DANCE CLASSES WITH GOOD WOMEN DANCE COLLECTIVE • Muriel Taylor Studio at

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

Ruth Carse Centre for Dance, 11205-107 Ave • info@goodwomen.ca • goodwomen.ca/classes • Every Tue, Thu, Fri; 10-11:30am • $15 (drop-in), $65 (5 class pack), $100 (10 class pack)

OPEN DOOR COMIC CREATOR MEETINGS • Happy Harbor Comics,

DEEPSOUL.CA • 780.217.2464; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Most Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins and Les Paul Standard; Pink Floyd-ish originals plus great covers of classics: some free; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages DOWNTOWN EDMONTON BOOK CLUB • Downtown Edmonton Community League, 10042-103 St • facebook.com/declorg • Open to anyone who lives, works, or plays downtown and wants to meet new people, have great conversations, and read cool stuff • Every 2nd Wed, 7-8:30pm

DROP-IN D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc. For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue & Wed, 7pm • $5 (with drink purchase) DROP-IN LARP • Jackie Parker Park • westernwinds.summerfrost.ca • Battle games and fighter practice using provided safe weapon boffer. An exciting way to get exercise while meeting new people with similar passions • Every Sat, 1:15pm • Free EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@ edmontonoutdoorclub.com

EDMONTON PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORIAL SOCIETY • Highlands Library • 780.436.3878 • edm_photographic_hist_ society_2@yahoo.ca • All interested in sharing the joys of film photography, such as experiences or favourite equipment • 3rd Wed of the month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul & Aug)

FLAMENCO DANCE CLASSES (BEGINNER OR ADVANCED) • Dance Code Studio, 10575-115 St NW • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail.com • flamencoenvivo.com • Every Sun until Jun 10, 11:30am-12:30pm

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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

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

PAINTING FOR PLEASURE • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • karenbishopartist@gmail.com • mcdougallunited.com • A weekly group for those who like to paint, draw or otherwise be creative on paper • Every Thu, 10am-noon SACRED CIRCLE DANCE • Riverdale Community Hall, 9231-100 Ave • edmontonsacredcircledance@gmail.com • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music.

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

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • 780.452.4661 • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta offers a variety of services and support programs for those who are living with the illness, family members, caregivers, and friends • 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm • Free

SUGAR FOOT STOMP! • Sugar Swing Ballroom, 10019-80 Ave NW • 587.786.6554 • dance@sugarswing.com • sugarswing.com • Swing dance social • Every Fri-Sat, 8pm (beginner lesson begins) • $12, $2 (lesson with entry) • All ages TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.479-8667 (Bob) • bobmurra@telus. net • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm

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

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SPECIAL EVENTS

EDMONTON SENIORS CENTRE GLBTQ

DUTCH SPRING MARKET • Dutch

• Edmonton General Hospital - Edmonton Seniors Centre, 11111 Jasper Ave • office@ edmontonseniorscentre.ca • edmontonseniorscentre.ca/lgbtq-support.html • A safe environment to share: education, stories, and activities • 1st and 3rd Mon of the month, 10:30am-12pm (in the boardroom) • Free

Canadian Centre, 13312-142 St • Featuring a European market atmosphere, vendors will be displaying their wares, food will be served at the Dutch kitchen and more • May 12, 10am-6pm

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.4235510 (Sage) • tuff69@telus.net • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Tue, 1-4pm

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride

• Betty Andrews Recital Hall, Allard Hall, MacEwan University • Celebrate International Museum Day with a talk by Dr. Dean Oliver from the Canadian Museum of History on how museums tell the stories of their objects such as who chooses, viewpoints and how to reach all audiences • May 17, 6pm (doors) • $15 (Eventbrite or call FRAMS 825.468.6022)

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LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS AIR SPRAY: 50 YEARS OF SAVING FORESTS AND COMMUNITIES • Alberta Aviation Museum, 11410 Kingsway • events@albertaaviationmuseum.com • albertaaviationmuseum.com • Learn about Air Spray’s history and the history of wildfire suppression in Alberta • May 10, 7-9pm • $8 (members), $10 (non-members)

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TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • 780.451.3344 • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca/dark-matters • An 18+ event, where the science is served on the rocks and the adults come out to play. How do you stack-up compared to elite athletes and performance artists? Learn what it takes to reach full potential, as you compete with friends in feats of strength, agility, memory, artistry and grace • May 17, 7-10pm

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MOTHER'S DAY VICTORIAN TEA • Old Timers Cabin, 9430-99 St • 780.465.2139 • northernalbertapioneers.com/tea-party • In support of the Rainbow Society of Alberta • May 13, 1:30-3:30pm • 18+ only NEXTFEST • Various locations throughout Edmonton • theatrenetwork.ca • The hub for the cultivation and presentation of Edmonton’s emerging professional artists in theatre, dance, music, film, spoken word, visual art, and multidisciplinary collaborations • May 31-Jun 10

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

NUOVA OPERA & MUSIC THEATRE FESTIVAL • Various locations • operanuova.ca/festival • Six weeks of classic music • May 19-Jun 30

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SAVAGELOVE BENT STICK

First let me say that I think you give excellent advice, even if it is a bit pedestrian at times. I have a small problem: Last fall, my penis bent up and to the left at an almost 90 degree angle. I know from Google that this is not an unusual problem. And at 59, I am thankful that things are working as well as they are. But I fly gliders, and the relief system is a “Texas catheter” with a drain line to outside the glider.

I believe that the bending on my penis may be the result of trauma caused by removing the catheter. In your many years of dealing with penis problems— I know you are not a urologist, but still—have you run across problems of a similar nature?

Is there a way to remove adhesive from the penis that will not cause trauma? Gliding season will be starting soon, and I dread using the same system if it will cause more damage.

My partner is an amazing woman—70, by the way, and by far the best partner I have ever had (oh, my brethren, do not look only to youth!)—but I dread further damaging my member.

HANGING UNDER NICE GLIDER First let me say thank you for the qualified compliment— you sure know how to flatter a girl—and I’ll try to keep my trademark excellent-if-pedestrian advice coming, HUNG. Also, you’re right, I’m not a urologist. But Dr. Keith Newman is. He’s also a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and my go-to guy for dick-related medical questions.

“It is not likely that HUNG’s drainage system caused the problem,” said Dr. Newman.

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related to microtrauma, though some penile fractures may result in similar deformity.”

Men with Peyronie’s disease come down with, well, bent dicks. Sometimes the bend is slight and doesn’t interfere with reasonable penile functions.

Sometimes the bend is severe enough to make erections painful and intercourse impossible.

“Most sufferers will return to within 10 to 20 percent of their baseline curvature within two years without intervention,” said Dr. Newman. “Thus, it is considered best to defer therapy until such time has elapsed.

90 degrees is quite a big bend, however, and less likely to resolve spontaneously, but its still worth waiting.”

If your big bend doesn’t resolve spontaneously, HUNG, there are treatment options.

“The only real therapies are Xiaflex injections and surgical repair,” said Dr. Newman. “The former is not approved for patients less than two years from diagnosis or with less than 35 degrees of curvature. The latter is fraught with increased complication rates due to scarring so near the tip. Both can straighten the penis, but at a cost of length in many cases. As for drainage alternatives while gliding, I suggest the following product: freedom.mensliberty.com.”

FOREPLAY LONGTIME

I’m a 37-year-old male. I’ve been with my wife for 15 years.

I know that passion transitions in a long-term relationship, but I’m having a hard time finishing lately. Yes, I’m on SSRIs—antidepressants—but that has only exacerbated the issue. We all know that a lot of people who own a vagina enjoy foreplay to help the orgasms along. Will foreplay help people who own

a penis get to the moment faster? I’m pretty sure I know the answer, and I figured you’re the one to ask what the best foreplay options are because your sexual knowledge is vast and you regularly deal with two penises at a time. As someone who pleasures a penis and who has a penis that is pleasured, what is the best preparation to get guys off before the insertion happens?

SEEKING WEAPONS OF MALE PENILE SATISFACTION Foreplay isn’t just for vaginahavers, SWOMPS! Penis-havers have nerve endings all over their bodies—inside ’em, too— and while many younger men don’t require much in the way of foreplay, older men and/or men taking SSRIs often benefit from additional forms of stimulation both prior to intercourse and during intercourse. Like tit play. I know some men can’t go there because that tit-play shit—like feelings, musicals, sit-ups, and voting for women—could turn you gay. But if you’re up for it, SWOMPS, have the wife play with or even clamp your tits, and then shove a plug in your ass that stimulates your prostate while also remembering to engage what’s often called ‘the largest sex organ’: your brainz. Talk dirty to each other! If you’re already proficient at JV dirty talk—telling ’em what you’re about to do (“I’m going to fuck the shit out of you”), telling ’em what you’re doing (“I’m fucking the shit out of you”), telling ’em what you did (“I fucked the shit out of you”)—move on to varsity dirty talk: Talk about your fantasies, awesome experiences you’ve had in the past, things you’d like to try or try again with your partner. To get your dick

there—to push past those SSRIs—fire on all cylinders (tits, hole, brain, mouth, and cock) before and during insertion.

DIAGNOSIS

I’m a 32-year-old English guy, and this morning I was diagnosed as HIV-positive. I’m in a bit of a state. I haven’t told anyone, and I needed to get it out. I’m in a long-term, mostly monogamous relationship, but my boyfriend is overseas for work at the moment, so I can’t really talk to him about it. So I’m talking to you.

DIAGNOSED AND DAZED AND CONFUSED I’m so sorry, DADAC. I hope you have a friend you can confide in, because you need a shoulder to cry on and I can’t provide that for you here.

What I can provide is some perspective. I’m just a little older than you—okay, I’m a whole lot older than you. I came out in the summer of 1981—and two years later, healthy, young gay men started to sicken and die.

During the 1980s and most of the 1990s, learning you were HIV-positive meant you had a year or two to live. Today, a person with HIV is expected to live a normal life span—so long as they have access to treatment and they’re taking their meds.

And once you’re on meds, DADAC, your viral load will fall to undetectable levels and you won’t be able to pass HIV on to anyone else (undetectable = uninfectious). Arguably, your boyfriend and your other sex partners are safer now that you know than they were before you were diagnosed. Because it’s not HIV-positive men on meds who are infecting people, it’s men who aren’t on meds because they don’t know they’re

HIV-positive.

I don’t mean to minimize your distress, DADAC. The news you just received is distressing and life changing. But it’s not as distressing as it was three decades ago, and it doesn’t mean your life is over. I remember holding a boyfriend on the day he was diagnosed as HIV-positive more than 25 years ago, both of us weeping uncontrollably.

His diagnosis meant he was going to die soon. Yours doesn’t.

You have a lot of time left, and if you get into treatment and take your meds, DADAC, you will live a long and healthy life, a life filled with love, connection, and intimacy. Spend some time feeling sorry for yourself, feel the fuck out of those feelings, and then go live your life—live it for all the guys who didn’t get to celebrate their 33rd birthdays.

P.S. Don’t wait until your boyfriend returns to tell him. He needs to get tested right away.

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Torah is a primary sacred text of the Jewish religion. It consists of exactly 304,805 letters. When specially trained scribes make handwritten copies for ritual purposes, they must not make a single error in their transcription.

The work may take as long as 18 months. Your attention to detail in the coming weeks doesn’t have to be quite so painstaking, Aries, but I hope you’ll make a strenuous effort to be as diligent as you can possibly be.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Born under the sign of Taurus, Edmund Wilson was a renowned 20th century author and critic who wrote more than 30 books.

He also served as editor for Vanity Fair and The New Republic, and influenced the work of at least seven major American novelists.

When he was growing up, he spent most of his free time reading books: 16 hours a day during summer vacations. His parents, worried about his obsessive passion, bought him a baseball uniform, hoping to encourage him to diversify his interests. His response was to wear the uniform while reading books 16 hours a day. I trust you will be equally dedicated to your own holy cause or noble pursuit in the coming weeks, Taurus. You have cosmic clearance to be single-minded about doing what you love.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s possible you could pass for normal in the next three weeks; you might be able to fool a lot of people into thinking you’re an average, ordinary contributor to the dull routine. But it will be far healthier for your relationship with yourself if you don’t do such a thing. It will also be a gift to your less-daring associates, who in my opinion would benefit from having to engage with your creative agitation and fertile chaos.

So my advice is to reveal yourself as an imperfect work-in-progress who’s experimenting with novel approaches to the game of life.

Recognize your rough and raw features as potential building blocks for future achievements.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Paradise is scattered over the whole earth,” wrote the scientific poet Novalis, “and that is why it has become so unrecognizable.”

Luckily for you, Cancerian, quite a few fragments of paradise are gathering in your vicinity. It’ll be like a big happy reunion of tiny miracles all coalescing to create a substantial dose of sublimity.

Will you be ready to deal with this much radiance? Will you be receptive to so much relaxing freedom? I hope and pray you won’t make a cowardly retreat into the trendy cynicism that so many people mistake for intelligence. (Because in that case, paradise might remain invisible.)

Here’s my judicious advice: Be in-

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sistent on pleasure. Be voracious for joy. Be focused on the quest for beautiful truths.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): These days, your friends and allies and loved ones want even more from you than they usually do.

They crave more of your attention, more of your approval, more of your feedback. And that’s not all. Your friends and allies and loved ones also hope you will give more love to yourself. They will be excited and they will feel blessed if you express an even bigger, brighter version of your big, bright soul.

They will draw inspiration from your efforts to push harder and stronger to fulfill your purpose here on Planet Earth.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of the advantages you get from reading my horoscopes is that I offer confidential information about the gods’ caprices and leanings. For example, I can tell you that Saturn—also known as Father Time—is now willing to allot you a more luxurious relationship with time than usual, on one condition: that you don’t squander the gift on trivial pursuits. So I encourage you to be discerning and disciplined about nourishing your soul’s craving for interesting freedom. If you demonstrate to Saturn how constructively you can use his blessing, he’ll be inclined to provide more dispensations in the future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” hangs on a wall in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He created it in 1889 while living in a French asylum. Around that same time, 129 years ago, a sheepherder in Wyoming created a sourdough starter that is still fresh today. A cook named Lucille Clarke Dumbrill regularly pulls this frothy mass of yeast out of her refrigerator and uses it to make pancakes. In the coming weeks, Libra, I’d love to see you be equally resourceful in drawing on an old resource. The past will have offerings that could benefit your future.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Love everyone twice as much and twice as purely as you ever have before. Your mental health requires it. Your future dreams demand it. And please especially intensify your love for people you allegedly already love but sometimes don’t treat as well as you could because you take them for granted. Keep this Bible verse in mind, as well: “Don’t neglect to show kindness to strangers; for, in this way, some, without knowing it, have had angels as their guests.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): After meditating on your astrological aspects for an hour, I dozed off. As I napped, I had a dream in which an androgy-

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nous angel came to me and said, “Please inform your Sagittarius readers that they should be callipygian in the next two weeks.”

Taken back, my dreaming self said to the angel, “You mean ‘callipygian’ as in ‘having beautiful buttocks’?” “Yes, sir,” the angel replied. “Bootylicious. Bumtastic. Rumpalicious.” I was puzzled.

“You mean like in a metaphorical way?” I asked. “You mean Sagittarians should somehow cultivate the symbolic equivalent of having beautiful buttocks?” “Yes,” the angel said. “Sagittarians should be elegantly well-grounded. Flaunt their exquisite foundation. Get to the bottom of things with flair. Be sexy badasses as they focus on the basics.” “OK!” I said.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now is a favourable time to discuss in elegant detail the semi-secret things that are rarely or never talked about. It’s also a perfect moment to bring deep feelings and brave tenderness into situations that have been suffering from half-truths and pretense. Be aggressively sensitive, my dear Capricorn. Take a bold stand in behalf of compassionate candor.

And as you go about these holy tasks, be entertaining as well as profound. The cosmos has authorized you to be a winsome agent of change.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his 1931 painting “The Persistence of Memory,” Salvador Dali shows three clocks that seem to be partially liquefied, as if in the process of melting. His biographer Meredith Etherington-Smith speculated that he was inspired to create this surrealistic scene when he saw a slab of warm Camembert cheese melting on a dinner table. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life, Aquarius. Be alert for creative inspiration that strikes you in the midst of seemingly mundane circumstances.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “My whole life is messed up with people falling in love with me,” said Piscean poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. She spoke the truth.

She inspired a lot of adoration, and it stirred up more chaos than she was capable of managing. Luckily, you will have fewer problems with the attention coming your way, Pisces. I bet you’ll be skilled at gathering the benefits and you’ll be unflummoxed by the pitfalls. But you’ll still have to work hard at these tasks. Here’s some help. Tip #1: Stay in close touch with how you really feel about the people who express their interest in you. Tip #2: Don’t accept gifts with strings attached. Tip #3: Just because you’re honoured or flattered that someone finds you attractive doesn’t mean you should unquestioningly blend your energies with them.

CURTIS HAUSER

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