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Vue's new aboriginal column begins with teaching about Indian Residential School // 4

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This family friendly gem has the prettiest plates in Strathearn // 6

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The Edmonton Story Slam offers a place to test ideas, present work // 9

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The Philippines election The country's new president draws Trump comparisons Rodrigo Duterte, who has just been elected president of the Philippines, comes across as Donald Trump on stilts. He talks dirtier (last week he called the outgoing president a "son of a whore"), and he can barely open his mouth without threatening to kill somebody (he recently promised to fill Manila Bay with the bodies of 100 000 criminals if he won). But the resemblance is only superficial. For one thing, Duterte is not a fake tough guy. In Davao City, where he has been mayor for the past 22 years, a local priest estimates that death squads linked to him have killed over 1400 people, mostly petty criminals and street kids. Sometimes "Duterte Harry" denies the death squads exist, sometimes he condones them, occasionally he hints that he does some of the killing himself. Maybe so, maybe not, but what matters to the people who voted for him is that Davao City, once the most violent city in the Philippines and possibly in all of Asia, is now

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so safe that naked virgins carrying bags of gold regularly pass through its streets at midnight unmolested. The man is a miracle-worker, or so it seems, and now he is going to work miracles for the whole country. The miracle he is now expected to produce, however, is not just law and order. It is a more equal sharing of the prosperity that some in the Philippines are now beginning to enjoy, and that is a considerably taller order. For many years the Philippines lagged behind the other countries of South-East Asia—Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia—as they turned into "tiger" economies and local incomes soared. The wealth was not very evenly shared in any of them, but at least as their economies grew even their poorest citizens enjoyed some "trickle-down" effect. Whereas this process had scarcely begun in the Philippines. For the past decade the economy of the Philippines has finally been growing fast: an average of six per-

cent annually. Foreign investment has quadrupled, the budget deficit is down, more money is being spent on infrastructure—but in 10 years there has been no trickle-down beyond the middle class. The poor are just as numerous and just as poor as always. So they voted for Duterte. The establishment tried its best to stop this sinister populist. Outgoing president Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino (who is constitutionally forbidden to seek a second term), tried to get the other presidential candidates to unite behind one candidate against Duterte. He warned that Duterte would turn into a dictator. At a closing rally on Saturday, he told voters: "I need your help to stop the return of terror in our land. I cannot do it alone." They didn't listen. Duterte not only won; he got almost twice as many votes as the candidate who came second, and he is going to be the president of the Philippines for the next six years. So what will he actually do with his mandate? Nobody

knows, because he hasn't been very forthcoming about his intentions. When the presidential hopefuls were asked what they would do about their country's bitter dispute with China over islands in the South China Sea that are claimed by both of them, for example, the other candidates offered detailed strategies for asserting the Filipino claim. Duterte said he would go out on a jet-ski and plant the Filipino flag on one of them. So, then: impulsive, headline-grabbing, not best known for his joined-up thinking. ... Starting to sound like Trump again, isn't he? But there are things about Duterte that suggest a more complex person behind the facade. He has been a prominent supporter of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) groups in Davao, which is definitely not a vote-winning position in the deeply Catholic Philippines. He has been trying to restart the stalled peace process with the Muslim minority in his home island of Mindanao, and insists that it must

address the injustices that have been committed against Muslims. Not really your run-of-the-mill populist after all, then, but it still feels like the Filipinos have made a serious mistake in voting for Duterte. There's just too much macho bluster, like this gem from his final campaign rally in Manila on Saturday: "Forget the laws on human rights. If I make it to the presidential palace, I will do just what I did as mayor. You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you better go out. Because I'll kill you." He's also prone to say that if the country's democratic institutions get in the way of his anti-crime crusade than he'll abolish the Congress and rule as a "revolutionary government." His entertainment value is undeniable, but Filipinos may come to regret giving him the keys to the presidential palace. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Learning from crisis

The Fort McMurray fire is an important opportunity for learning and discussion When disasters like the Fort McMurray fire strike, our minds and hearts tend to become consumed by a singular focus on the human toll and what we might do to alleviate some of that loss and suffering. At the same time, we push back against the people in our community who seek to explore the larger context of the disaster and find lessons and takeaways that we can draw on to improve how we coexist and structure our society. Refusing to engage in those conversations in the moment or shortly thereafter—because we think they are political or disrespectful—puts us at risk of missing an opportunity to learn from and fix what we are not doing so well. That's not to say we should indulge the haters and trolls engaged in victim-blaming, or who use the crisis to take cheap shots at their favourite political punching bag. But we are all capable of doing at least two things at once: we can feel for the victims and help them at the same time as having a conversation about the bigger-picture implications. This kind of crisis reinforces the value of government, public services and public servants. Newscasts and social media feeds have been full of stories of the amazing work being done by people in the public service: the doctors, nurses and other health specialists who remained at the hospital to ensure patients' safety while

their own houses burned and their families were evacuated; the police, first responders and fire fighters who were running towards the centre of the disaster zone while everyone else was going the other way; the school principal who remained with her students and ensured every one of them got to safety despite the needs

cession it has become fashionable to question the costs of our government, public services and public infrastructure, and to criticize the pay levels and work ethic of our public servants, but a crisis like this serves to highlight why these costs are worth it and necessary, and what the impacts might be of not proper-

Our politics in this province is often grounded in a mythology that Albertans are fundamentally rugged individualists who prefer to take care of their own needs and don't need or want the larger collective. This crisis has shown the opposite: Albertans are community-minded, generous and believe strongly in the power

Albertans are community-minded, generous and believe strongly in the power of the collective to promote the public good. We need to change the story we—and others—tell about ourselves, and make sure that's the story informing how we view taxation, government, and public and community services of her own family; the public broadcasters who remained live and on the ground until the last possible minute, and even then continued to provide non-stop coverage of the disaster and instruction to evacuees; the government cabinet, ministerial staff and office workers who worked over 24 hours straight to ensure that firefighting, rescue, health, infrastructure and evacuation efforts were all coordinated and properly staffed, while at the same time keeping Albertans informed of what was happening, where they could seek and offer help. In the midst of this economic re-

ly funding those services in the first place. Situations like this remind us why we pay taxes in the first place, and it is important that we carry this understanding forward beyond the crisis. Of course, people other than public servants have been stepping up in response to this emergency. There are endless stories of individuals, small businesses and entire communities coming together to do whatever they can—providing gas and meals, offering free shelter, donating money and supplies.

of the collective to promote the public good. We need to change the story we—and others—tell about ourselves, and make sure that's the story informing how we view taxation, government, and public and community services. We can't continue to ignore the elephant in the room. It is impossible and naive to draw a direct line from any one weather event or natural disaster to climate change, but scientists have been telling us for years that a changing climate means Alberta will face more frequent and severe extreme weather events like

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tornadoes and floods, greater and longer droughts, and more frequent and intense wildfires. We have seen all of these things come to pass in the last few years. We must be prepared for these disasters. That means investing in the necessary infrastructure and public services to facilitate rapid response on numerous fronts, and building community capacity to meet the needs that arise when these disasters strike. It also means taking seriously the imperative to take concrete actions limiting climate change at home and worldwide— or these situations will get much, much worse. The Fort McMurray fire is a horrible tragedy. The response of Albertans as a whole has been beyond stellar. The best way to honour that loss and sacrifice is by making sure that we don't write this disaster off as a onetime event, but rather keep the larger context in our minds and our conversations, and ensure that we are able to take those learnings forward with us to keep making Alberta a better place. Our long-term sustainability and well-being depend on it. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta. The views and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute. up front 3

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At the point of reconciliation

Vue's new aboriginal column begins with teaching about Indian Residential School It is an honour to be asked to write about aboriginal Canadians. It is also hard to know where to start. There remain in our country many uninformed, misinformed and not-wanting-to-be informed people. Responses such as, "just get over it" or "immigrants come here and make a living" are typical. In time, I run out of energy to try to reason with those who simply don't want to know. It's easier to assume that the people who make these kinds of responses possess unmalleable minds: people who have bought into the mainstream concept that all aboriginal Canadians are drunks, hookers, street people— the no-goods and the dregs of society. Dr Craig Proulx, of Alberta Métis descent and professor at St Thomas University in New Brunswick, recorded the following interview response from an aboriginal person from Toronto: "The drunken Indian is 10 feet tall, but the sober one is invisible." Why is it we never notice the professional aboriginal Canadian? Why is it that we never acknowledge the aboriginal doctor, lawyer, nurse or teacher? Why is it that we live in a country that can stay rutted in racist rhetoric and thought and consider that to be OK? It's always about education and the lack of it expressed by the mainstream population. It's about our own sense of awareness and how we choose to inform ourselves. It's about being responsible towards one another and ridding our minds of discriminatory processes. It's mostly, and in the end, about being open to hearing aboriginal Canadian truth. Aboriginal truth is the one historic component that is lacking in our present-day Canadian lives. Justice (and now Senator) Murray Sinclair made it very clear when he said less than a year ago that, "Reconciliation is not an aboriginal problem. It is a Canadian problem. It involves all of

us." In other words, no one gets off the hook. We each carry a responsibility in the partnership of knowing about and understanding one another. We each carry the responsibility of taking into consideration the truth of one another. I believe that we are finally at a place where we have this enormous opportunity to look at one another and get to know each other in a way that is good. I believe that as Canadians, we owe this to one another. So that is where this column will begin: at the point of reconciliation and what that means. We all have to understand how it is that we arrived here, today in 2016, some with hope, some with anger and many with trepidation. This column will examine the persistent colonial present and past, and how it is we can begin to think about tomorrow—together. Teaching Indian Residential School One of the best things about being a doctoral student is the privilege of teaching undergraduates. This past semester I was asked by the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta to deliver the first-time offering of a 300-level course titled Indian Residential School (IRS). For myself, it was a course that required a great deal of preparation and prayer—moreso prayer, to the ancestors to come into the room with us and for this course to honour them. That may sound nuts to some, or even most, but before each class I prayed to the ancestors and the Creator. I prayed especially for my students, most of whom are aboriginal and, like me, had residential school as a member of their family. On our first day together I asked the students to tell me their names and what their relationship is to residential school. I didn't know I was going to ask the second part—it just popped out of

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my mouth. It's not an easy question to answer on the first day, because the first day centres on reading the course syllabus together, reminding students that a syllabus is a contractual obligation to one another, reviewing the Code of Student Conduct, and especially speaking about plagiarism and how that works. At the end of all the self-introductions made by students and all the information review, an entire class is usually finished—but not on the first day of the inaugural class of Indian Residential School. This class contained the highest amount of aboriginal undergraduates with which I have ever been in a room. Because of that demographic, their relationship to residential school was very different than most non-aboriginal Canadians. The province of Alberta contained the highest number of residential schools in Canada, totalling 25. Each student spoke about parents and grandparents, aunties and uncles who were attendees of residential schools in and around Edmonton. This group of students represented the intergenerational survivors: the next generation who had not attended residential school themselves, but had the remnants of residential school as present-day kinfolks. It's like having the rotten cousin who shows up on your doorstep and keeps promising to leave but never does.

Truth and Reconciliation Commission. This quest to understand the residential school system better was a brave act made by all the students in that room. For the next 13 weeks we explored and talked about how the residential school system started, stayed and didn't stop until 1996. There were some hard days in that room: days with tears, days with anger—the dog days of residential school that show up in the next generation, and into what is expected to be the next seven generations before all that trauma is eliminated from aboriginal bodies, souls and spirits. Indian Residential School is a course that needs to be taught in a much broader context, with a much broader

audience, not solely within a university classroom. It is information that should be taught to and revisited by every educator in Alberta. I believe the students in our room did, at the end of the day, honour the ancestors: all the ancestors both aboriginal and non-aboriginal, because each and every Canadian has a relationship with Indian Residential School. V Norma Dunning is an urban Inuk writer and scholar and a third-year doctoral student with Indigenous Peoples Education. Her collection of prose Annie Muktuk and Other Stories is scheduled to release via University of Alberta Press in the fall of 2017.

For the non-aboriginal students, who I believe are brave for walking into a room in which their ancestors are historically the bad guy, they spoke of wanting to fulfil a curiosity; a few expressed how they already knew about residential school but wanted to learn more. I realize that the topic of residential school is only recently being integrated into the Alberta school curriculum, an initiative put forward as one of the 94 Calls to Action produced by the

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Climate-change fire Now that the initial shock has faded, sober realizations are starting to sink in: the Horse Creek fire, better known as the Fort McMurray fire or simply "The Beast," has radically and permanently altered the northern community and its some-80 000 residents. The full extent of the fire's impact is still largely unrealized, suffice to say you can't overestimate the significance and enormity this event will have—and has had already. In the early days of the evacuation, Green Party leader Elizabeth May made a comment that sparked a debate (and flame war, at times): "of course" the fire was linked to climate change, she said. Other, less tactful people commented that it was "karma" and that the fire was payback for the oilsands' causal role in climate change. The

issue has ping-ponged across social media and the news since then. Some cried foul, claiming that ground zero of a tragedy is no time for "politics"; others argued that this is actually the perfect time to have a much-needed conversation about these difficult issues. There's no doubt that it feels tasteless, if not downright cruel, to talk about this while almost 100 000 people are homeless, many permanently so. But the biggest issue lies not within the question of whether the fire is climatechange-related or not, but why we keep asking that question every time an event like this occurs—an event that is precisely what climatechange scientists have been warning us to prepare for—and which we've already experienced in recent

years, albeit not to the same level of severity—for years now. Climate change is "political" only because our politicians refuse to let it exist as fact. Except Elizabeth May, politicians have carefully avoided voicing any comments about the relationship of the fire to climate change. This needs to stop. Climate change is not political. Climate change is life. The impacts of climate change are happening right now, and will keep happening, no matter what we call them. Arguably, it's time to just drop that second word entirely: climate change is just our climate, now. So yes, let's stop the political debate—and let's all start taking wholesale action to prepare ourselves for our climate, sooner rather than later. V

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Juniper Cafe & Bistro

This family friendly spot has the prettiest plates in Strathearn

uniper Cafe & Bistro comes on strong as Strathearn's very own strip-mall gem the moment you cross its transom from a geometrically unlikely parking lot and headon collision of mismatched retro facades. An airy vista of baked goods, hand-written chalkboard menus, wooden furniture and a random-ish, yet esthetically pleasing, curation of cultural ephemera awaits, lit by a wall of east-facing windows that add to the feeling of spaciousness. Everything about Jupiter is just so: the projection of smart, charming notions about what a neighbourhood cafe and bistro should be. The food is largely local and organic, there's plenty of gluten-free selection (including baking), an eclectic yet coherent bill of fare made of handcrafted appetizers, sharesies, a few fancy entrées and a cafe's requisite soup/sandwich/salad options, with Phillip's Blue Buck on tap to wash it down. Supertramp or a song

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from the Grease soundtrack may whimsically intrude on your reverie, but then again "Knock Three Times on the Ceiling" may invoke a station wagon-AM radio nostalgic fugue. A gated playpen occupies a corner of the restaurant (and kid-centric menu items) speaks to aspirations of being a comfortable gathering spot for families and those seem to be working out—on a weekday latebreakfast visit, two ranks of moms with wee ones and strollers occupied a good chunk of bench seating along the back. It's the kind of place older moms like, too. I took my parents there, and they quite enjoyed the coffee and the waffles with berry compote ($9). I had the house's handheld benny ($12), a poached egg on a hearty Portuguese bun with bacon, homemade hollandaise, chipotle aioli and arugula. A good egg sandwich is one of my favourite things in life and this was a creamy, smoky, savoury

eggy delight, but if you think a benny should be a gooey mess of yolk and hollandaise, you'll find this one disappointingly tidy. The coffee was indeed excellent, and you can get it by the French press for $5. An egg sandwich, no matter how good, was not going to be enough to go on. The dinner menu cried out for testing, especially with its array of sharing plates. Alas, co-diner got caught up at work and I had to venture back to Juniper solo. My strategy was seriously compromised. I mulled the menu over a bottle of Parallel 49 Gypsy Tears Ruby Ale ($6), reluctant to hazard a monolithic entrée (bison shortrib, salmon) when there was so much tempting variety in the starters and shared plates. The absence from the menu of the hoisin duck with steamed buns depicted online made it a shade easier to choose. I opted for a beet and goat cheese salad ($9) and seared ahi tuna ($19),

which barely edged out niçoise salad and spicy meatballs on polenta. The warm mushroom salads that floated by also looked delicious. Speaking of looks, you know that thing where pictures of food you order doesn't look like what you get? That doesn't happen at Jupiter. Go look at the gorgeous food photography on the restaurant's website: that's exactly what the food looks like. The salad was a long, white enamel tray of very fresh mesclun strewn with jewel-like chunks of roasted golden and red beets, pepitas and crumbled goat cheese in a supremely light vinaigrette. Again the flavours were smartly balanced and played to the toothsome marquee ingredients, though I wouldn't have objected to a few more beets. An equally long rectangular plate held the pyramid of puce-hued ahi tuna slices crusted with white and black sesame seeds, separated

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Juniper Cafe & Bistro 9514 - 87 St 780.490.6799 juniperbistro.com from a tidy heap of purple yam chips by a cord of barely green wasabi aioli. Subtle, skillful emphasis of the basic flavours appears to be a theme across the board at Juniper, the way the hint of wasabi left plenty of room for the butteriness of the perfectly seared tuna. If you're not into subtle, delicate flavours, or you prize quantity over quality, or you couldn't care less about someone's idea of the perfect neighbourhood noshery, Juniper is probably not for you. But the distinctiveness and care evident in the food, as well as in the space where it's served, leave little doubt that Juniper knows exactly what it wants to be.

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The ABCs of IBUs

International Bittering Units don't tell the beer's whole story I have been heartened and impressed by the rapid growth in consumers' beer knowledge over the past couple of years. People really are starting to understand what craft beer is about—so much so, in fact, that I've noticed certain concepts and terms— which were the solitary purview of beer geeks only a few years ago—entering the general vernacular. Case in point: IBUs. IBUs is the acronym for International Bittering Units. It is the standard for measuring the amount of bitterness in a beer and was created by scientists in the 1960s to find a way to consistently measure beer bitterness. It was treated as a strictly technical measure, to help in recipe formulation and quality control. More recently, ardent hopheads have embraced it to help them seek out increasingly hoppier beers. And that is where things took a turn for the worse. Today, I find those three letters everywhere: on bottle labels, in ads, on beer-bar menus and, increasingly, on the lips of beer-curious consumers. I have mixed feelings about this turn of events. On one hand, I am thrilled consumers are learning about the technical details of beer and integrating it into their appreciation of it. On the other hand, I also find the term being misused and misunderstood. Allow me to explain. IBUs is a calculated number that represents the amount of alpha acids (the bitter-

ing agent found in hops) that have absorbed into the beer. A standard North American pale lager might run 10 to 15 IBUs. American pale ale will hit around 40 to 50, while a hoppy India Pale Ale will reach 70 or so. The biggest, hoppiest beers will close in on 100 IBUs. It sounds simple, except it's not— and that is why the term is being misunderstood. People are under the misguided impression that knowing the IBU number actually tells you something meaningful about the beer—but it doesn't. First, there is no context to the number. Say the labels reads 40 IBUs. What exactly does that mean? Is that a lot? Is it low? What will it mean for what I taste? The number on its own is not useful. Second, the number being provided is almost always what's called "calculated" IBUs, which is the number estimated before brewing. Actual IBUs can only be measured in a laboratory after the fact. There can be a big difference between calculated and actual IBUs because the science behind bitterness extraction is very complex. There are many factors that will affect how bitter the beer actually becomes, including the alcohol strength of the beer, the types of acids found in the hop and even the size and shape of the brew kettle. What you taste might actually be quite different than what the label says.

Third, and most importantly, bitterness is only one flavour component of beer. Our perception of bitter is also affected by the other ingredients in the beer. Sweetness from malt counters our perception of bitterness, so increasing the malt character of a beer will make it seem less bitter, even if the total number of IBUs remains unchanged. Let me clarify with an example. American Pale Ales are noted for being bitter and hop-forward and have between 40 and 50 IBUs. Now, guess how many IBUs are found in an inky black Irish stout, which is all about the malt? Forty to 50 IBUs. All that extra malt body and sweetness in the stout needs more hops to keep the beer in balance. So the number of IBUs tells us very little about what the beer actually tastes like. Rattling off the IBU number in isolation tells you almost nothing about the beer, unless it is accompanied by other statistics, such as style, colour, alcohol, final gravity and so on. It only tells part of the story—and a fairly small part, at that. Go ahead, beer drinkers: embrace new terms like IBUs. Just make sure you have a full understanding of exactly what they mean to what you're tasting. V

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he name is different, but the mission is the same: the West End Food Hub Alliance just rebranded itself with the much catchier moniker Food4Good, as part of its ongoing efforts to address food insecurity within Edmonton's westend neighbourhoods. Henry Motta, associate executive

director for the Jasper Place Wellness Centre, explains that the new name is part of a series of changes the organization is implementing as part of a three-year grant (of which it's about halfway through) from the Edmonton Community Foundation. Food4Good covers the residents of the west end of Edmonton, from 149

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Street to 170 Street and 107 Avenue to Whitemud Drive. The neighbourhoods contained in that area are diverse, ranging from low-income to quite affluent, but Food4Good aims to leverage these differences. "People suffering from food insecurity and other challenges, they don't have the time to do a garden, sometimes because they are working two or three jobs to make ends meet," Motta explains. "But folks that are more affluent, sometimes they have time and they use gardening as a tool for relaxation, and they see that there is something good about it. So we are connecting these two groups of people to work in different gardens in the community." There are about 10 gardens throughout the Food4Good district: in backyards, in front of churches and at Jasper Place High School; Motta notes the organization has also reached out to the city about using parkland for some gardening. The produce grown in those gardens will be shared among the community through cooking classes and community meals, which will teach people how to use various vegetables and fruits, followed by a communal celebratory meal. Food4Good is also working on an initiative to address the access and distribution of food throughout the community, specifically through a local grocery store that would oper-

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Food4Good 780.906.4971 food4good.ca ate on a unique model. "Our vision is that we will have a card that will tell us if you're in need or not," Motta explains. "So you will come into the store; you will shop normally; once you come to the till, we are going to swipe your card and that card's going to tell us if you have [a] five-percent discount ... which means that's probably [someone who wants] to support the movement, or it's going to have a 40-percent or 50-percent discount for somebody that is in need." Food4Good will be doing public consultations from May to August to determine if the community would like it to proceed with the grocery-store initiative. In addition to that, Motta notes that Food4Good is looking into other ideas, including a vertical garden which would provide both jobs and training to the community and local veggies to restaurants. "We have a lot of dreams," Motta says. "But right now we are kind of in the middle of our grant, and we have seen a lot of growth just in this year and a half." MEL PRIESTLEY

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Stories on a stage The Edmonton Story Slam offers a place to test ideas, present work

dmonton is wealthy with writers, actors and artists, all telling stories to eager audiences. But if you're an amateur storyteller, looking to sharpen your oratorical skill in a low-stakes and high-energy performance, the Edmonton Story Slam is the place for you. Founded in 2006 as the third story slam in the world (after New York and Vancouver), the event takes place at the Mercury Room on the third Wednesday of every month. Ten storytellers have up to seven minutes to impress five judges with a story, and the winner takes home the audience-funded grand prize— sometimes up to $300. "We get quite a mix of stories," says organizer Alison Hagan. "It can be anything. It can be about work. It can be about family. It can be family lore. ... A lot of them are true stories. But we also get some sciencefiction stories. People can be as creative as they want—sometimes camping stories, sometimes yourmom-is-driving-you-crazy stories. There was one story a girl told, it was very touching, about losing her mom and how hard that was." Story Slam's judges are volun-

teers from the audience, and there are ways to get involved even if you think you're too shy to get up on stage. "We try to get as many people out as possible," Hagan says. "We need audience members and we need storytellers. We're always looking for fresh blood. ... We want this to be for everybody, and I know there's some people, [like] the girl who hosted [the last] Wednesday night actually, she said that she watched for a year before she was brave enough to go up and do a story." The winners from each month's Story Slam come together in March for Slam Off, where one all-star storyteller wins the trophy for the year. Many storytellers have used Story Slam as a place to test out ideas that have afterwards grown into scenes or plays. "[We're] really happy and proud that people have been able to take these five-minute stories and have gone on to do something with them and create something else with them. ... Story slam can be a jumping-off point for people and ideas and creativity." The Edmonton Story Slam strives

Third Wednesday of every month (7 pm sign-up; 7:30 pm stories) Story Slam Mercury Room, free (suggested donation of $5)

to create a welcoming community of speakers and listeners who celebrate each other's stories and offer feedback in good fun. Absolutely no censorship is allowed for any kind of stories, but there is one golden rule: don't go over your time. If you do, you'll be unceremoniously booted off stage to the crash of a time's-up gong. But even if you do ramble on for a bit too long, the story slam audience makes an effort to be positive and encouraging. "It can be very daunting to get up on that stage," Hagan says. "And I know lots of good storytellers that would be too afraid to go up there and tell their story. But it really is pretty fulfilling to get up there and strut your stuff." BRUCE CINNAMON

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Or The Whale Whale, the capstone in Bullough's two-year stint in the University of Alberta's acclaimed MFA program. The self-made adaptation—co-written by Michael Peng (also among the cast here), who, along with Bullough, runs indie upstart Wishbone Theatre—began when Bullough connected the legendary tale of obsession to the then-sitting Conservative government's unflinching pursuit of economic growth in the wake of untold environmental damages. But that sort of broad allegory didn't last long, once he started trying to put it on its feet. "I went into [the first] workshop with that in mind, but Moby-Dick in itself, what Herman Melville wanted to do—there's no place for a cute little allegory like that in his work."

hris Bullough hasn't cracked his copy of Moby-Dick in months. Which is far better than most of us, whose copy of the legendary book, if we own one at all, sits uncracked upon a shelf. Bullough's read it many times before—especially as he prepares his own adaptation

of the legendary Herman Melville novel for the stage. But in reconfiguring a novel for theatre, there is, to point at the obvious metaphor, a danger in letting the original become a white whale, the unflinching pursuit of which can prove to offer more harm than help.

"I had to let the novel go," Bullough says. "I think I opened it up for a reference in lines when we were in the workshop in January. But that's about it. I'm trying to see what we have now, and make that in the spirit of Moby-Dick." His attempt to do just that is Or The

The book is, after all, famously wide and deep: wrestling with spirituality, philosophy, obsession and the proper techniques of whaling as it works through Ishmael's account of his time on a whaling ship, his encounters with Queequeg and Captain Ahab, and the latter's unbending pursuit of a certain aquatic mammal. A cast of seven are staging this version—previous workshops saw smaller groups, but, Bullough notes, "I realized you need some gatherings

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to happen on the ship, and you can’t really do that with three." Part of the adaptation process has simply been paring down the novel, finding out what parts of the story to tell in what ways—and what's important to include, given most editions of the book top 700 pages. To that effect, Bullough notes his approach to be collage-like at points, letting moments blend or play out in tandem, to chase the feeling and the intent of the writing, rather than the specifics. "Because we're trying to evoke the novel, and you can't just say all these words, you have to try and filter them through the medium," Bullough says. "Trying to achieve the feeling of that particular moment. "You need to honour the thing that you came from, as much as you can, but you also have to honour what this medium wants to be."

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ARTS PREVUE // BURLESQUE

Elope Musical Theatre Presents

City of

MAY 5-14, 2016

AUDITORIUM at CAMPUS ST. JEAN

Angels

8406 91 STREET NW, EDMONTON, ALBERTA

7:30PM

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

TWO FOR ONE WEDNESDAY - MAY 11 STUDENT/SENIOR $22 ADULT $27.50 (PLUS SERVICE CHARGES)

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CITY OF ANGELS

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

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

www.elopemusicaltheatre.ca

Director/Choreographer Barbara Mah Music Director Michael Clark

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apital City Burlesque is no stranger to rock 'n' roll. The troupe's previously used the AC/DC songbook as a launchpad for its tassel-clad turns, in its revue For Those About To Rock, and paid homage to the king of rock 'n' roll with its Fringe hit, Space Ladies from Planet Elvis. But with Moustache Pride, Capital City's broadening beyond a single artist's scope, paying tribute to a time when a full, bristly 'stache was as much a mark of rock 'n' roll as denim jackets and guitar solos. Heart, Alice Cooper, Scorpions and Led Zeppelin are among era-bands whose music is being used in the show, which also debuts a fresh batch of dances for Capital City. "This show, we're doing a lot of new choreography," troupe member Audra Dacity explains, in a phone call. "We have four new group numbers, and our largest group number is going to be 17 ladies onstage. That's one of the biggest group numbers that we've

done." Capital City has always filtered its burlesque through ambitious, expansive channels of pop-culture— every sort of figure, from Darth Vader to Oompa Loompas, have graced their numbers—which, Dacity notes, gives the troupe an uncommon spin on the art form. "It wouldn't be what you traditionally expect, if you're going to a burlesque show," she says. "But I think it gives you a little bit more opportunity to have that humour and parody and unexpected [elements] that we always strive for, because it gets a really great reaction from the audience as well." For Moustache Pride, CCB will have a trio of openers—Violette Coquette, Mario Acosta-Cevallos and Les Trois Femme—as well as the backing of a live band: the Amy van Keeken Viking Fiasco, set to add the extra oomph of a live rock band's energy to the dances.

Sat, May 14 (8 pm) With Violette Coquette, Mario Acosta-Cevallos, Les Trois Femme Citadel Theatre, $30, 18+ (and all of the troupe’s merch sales at the show will be donated to the Red Cross for Fort McMurray relief efforts.) "We also have to do the band's interpretation [of the songs]," Dacity notes. "How are they doing timing? Are they truly doing all of the crescendos or beats or hits in the music that a lot of times we put our choreography to? "When you pull the music that you wouldn't maybe traditionally expect for burlesque, it just allows you that ability to expand beyond what you might just be—I don't want to say stuck [on], but what people sometimes just go-to for their go-to music." PAUL BLINOV

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The Runcible Riddle 'T

he Owl and the Pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat. They took some honey, and plenty of money, wrapped up in a five pound note." Inspired by Edward Lear's classic poem "The Owl and the Pussycat," The Runcible Riddle leads audience members on a fanciful journey through the rabbit's warren of backstage passages beneath the Citadel Theatre. "We wanted to create a whimsical, unknown world that kind of flips reality on its head," director Beth Dart says. "Once you step into the bowels of the Citadel it's so easy to get turned around. It's amazing. I've been through those back hallways so many times, and every time I open a door I think I know where I'm going to land but I actually don't know where I am." The Dart sisters—Beth and the show's playwright, Megan—have harvested characters from the nonsense

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verses of Lear, assembling a cast of not-quite-fairytale personalities with a grittier, more grown-up twist. The Owl is a worn-out suburban businessman who hates his life, and the Pussycat is an alcoholic lounge singer. The Quangle Wangle Quee, based off another poem by Lear, is the consummate host with his own substanceabuse problems. The Paperback Writer, an allusion to the Beatles song with a Lear reference, is a failed writer searching for a publisher. The audience will be split into groups and led through the backstage spaces, with plenty of opportunities to interact with the vast, Seussian cast. "Since you're not sitting in a seat and there isn't a divide between audience and performer, it's up to you as to how close you want to get to the action—if you want to stand back and really observe the fuller picture or if

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you want to interact with a character," Dart says. The Dart sisters have been doing this kind of site-specific theatre since 2007, developing stories inspired by locations around Edmonton. "Every location that you look at has a story," Dart says. "We're inspired by different spaces all the time. ... When you take a more everyday space and just change the way that people think about that space, I think it really allows people to connect to their community in a different way." BRUCE CINNAMON

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PREVUE // DANCE

Love Lies Bleeding A

A frame from Rites of Passage // Video still courtesy of the artists

Gilding T

he Futurist Cookbook, created by Italian art critic Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in the 1930s, attempts to rethink how, and what, we eat. It eschews established culinary patterns in favour of dishes eaten purely for their esthetics, offering up dishes like Polyrhythmic Salad: a dressingfree mix of lettuce, dates and grapes served in a box with a crank—you eat the salad with one hand (no cutlery) while the other turns the crank, which plays music so the waiters can dance until you finish. Another recipe is for Diabolical Roses—flowers dipped in batter then fried up in hot oil—which was the recipe that caught Tegan Bowers' eye when she stumbled across the Futurist Cookbook at university. "Something about it just really resonated with me," she says. "I couldn't stop thinking about the concept of deep-frying a rose. ... Specifically, the symbol of a rose is just so symbolic of femininity: it's just this graceful thing that's been perpetuated ..." "And a stereotype," adds Emily MacDonald, sitting beside her in Latitude 53. "And a stereotype!" Bowers concurs. When they found the Cookbook, Bowers and MacDonald were also experiencing academic feminism for the first time, which added further layers to unpack—Marinetti, for all his legacy in the art world, was also an unapologetic misogynist. So the pair are using his Diabolical Roses as a way of making comment: a live preparation and consumption of the roses is the anchoring act of "Rites of Passage," their performative-art contribution to Gilding, opening this weekend at Latitude 53. "We wanted to find new ways of talking about female-identified, women-identified people making art," MacDonald says. "We wanted a way to talk about those ideas that was accessible, because we were so used to learning about feminism through such an inaccessible, jargon-ridden environment which is university."

Fri, May 13 – Sat, Jun 18 Opening reception/performance: Fri, May 13 (7 pm) Latitude 53

After the opening-night performance of "Rites of Passage," a video of its performance will play in the gallery surrounded by its artifacts— roses, batter—left to age and wilt. "Rites of Passage" is only part of Gilding—the other half finds Leila Plouffe and Jacob Dutton collecting a mixedmedium set of images and objects that explore the action of clothing something/someone. Continuing the collaborative sensibility, also at Latitude is Georgia Georgia, which documents an interactive project between photographers (Kyler Zeleny and Yanina Shevchenko, in Toronto and Russia, respectively) looking to discover "poetic connections" between their respective places in a post-globalization world. MacDonald and Bower have made Diabolical Roses before, though not for public performance ("Our audience was our other roommate," MacDonald notes). Intensive cooking process aside—the oil spatters as it makes contact with the batter and moisture in the roses—they've found it an astute visual metaphor. "[The rose is] very symbolic of woman, and female, and the flower object," Bowers says. "And then, to deep-fry it, it's just so surreal. To take something that's such a beautiful, delicate thing, and put it in searing-hot oil. And then it's just encased in this gluttonous material." "Which is kind of what we do to women in western society," MacDonald adds. "'Western society' is such a blanket term, but it is a little bit about how women are forced into strange representations, and the processes we go through to meet this ideal."

lberta Ballet claims its muchadored principal Yukichi Hattori is retiring, but the dancer himself begs to differ. At age 35, retirement for the mercurial performer and choreographer is out of the question. Though he is leaving the ballet's corps after his final showing with it this week, he's got a solid plan for what's next. "It's not so much a retirement as a new beginning as an artist creator," he says while on break from rehearsal for Love Lies Bleeding, a show that's been mounted by Alberta Ballet so many times that it's a wonder rehearsal still happens— Hattori may well be able to dance as Elton Fan in his sleep since the role was created for him back in 2009. Hattori explains that he's moving on to start a new studio in Calgary that will focus on instruction in performing and movement arts, and that his colleagues Tara Williamson and Galien Johnston will join him in the new venture. So out he goes with the celebrated Elton John-themed ballet, which artistic director Jean Grand-Maître has always described a more of a "rock concert" than a typical night at the Jube. The show has been heralded across the country since

it premièred eight years ago, with Hattori as its star garnering most of the praise. "Throughout my career I've had the privilege of working with great dancers all over the world, and some of the finest opera houses, and many of them have blessed me with memories I will always keep—but Yukichi by far is one of the finest I've ever worked with," Grand-Maître says. It's not official, but there have been hints that once Hattori is retired, Love Lies Bleeding—one of the most commercially successful productions in the company's history—might also be put to bed for good. "I guess it's a good role to go out with, for sure," Hattori says. As for his favourite parts over his 10 years with Alberta Ballet, he won't name any one in particular. "I always say my favourite is the one wherever I'm working at—they're all different. I don't think it's fair to say which." Hattori's many memorable hats, including the be-dazzled baseball cap of the Elton Fan, are emblazoned into the memory of audience members. You'd often be drawn to Hattori's presence onstage, even when he's playing back-up; he could

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he hamming it up in the corner as a drunken Musketeer, joshing around with woodland lovers as Puck, or stunning the soft-seats with his nimble and explosive physicality— wherever the small-of-stature Japanese dancer happens to land during the show, the eye always seems to wander to him. "He's been quite an extraordinary asset for this company, and what he's brought to the province and the country and to dance is immense. And we will miss him dearly," GrandMaître says. "I'm really thankful for the support. But I think the real excitement starts now, more so than ever," Hattori says. "I'm not sad, because this isn't the end for me; I'm not really feeling too emotional about it, but who knows? When the day comes I could be a mess." FAWNDA MITHRUSH

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WHAT’S ON AT UALBERTA? Studio Theatre:

Or The Whale By Chris Bullough with Michael Peng and wishbone theatre World Premiere

an adaptation of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick

May 12 to 21 @ 7:30 pm

$5 preview Wed, May 11 @ 7:30 pm Opening night Thurs, May 12 @ 7:30 pm No performance Sun, May 15 2 for 1 Mon, May 16 @ 7:30 pm Matinee Thurs, May 19 @ 12:30 pm Timms Centre for the Arts

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

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

Flamenco Dance Classes (Beginner or Advanced) • Dance Code Studio, 10575-115 St NW #204 • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail.com • Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm

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

Nova Blues - Fusion Night • Shanti Yoga Studio, 10026-102 St • novablues. com • Move to the Blues and other musical styles. A social dance. Guests are asked to bring socks, as no shoes are permitted • May 20, 9:15pm (beginner), 10am-1am (dance) • $8-$12 (sliding scale) Sacred Circle Dance • Riverdale Hall, 9231-100 Ave • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music. No partner required • Every Wed, 7-9pm • $10

SKALLET synchronized dance wheel ballet fashion show • 9532-99A st • May 15, 8pm • Free

metro • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • Wildfire Evacuees: Metro Cinema invites Albertans displaced by wildfire to take a break from their worries and enjoy free admission for regular Metro screenings; throughout May • Asian Canadian Film Series: The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (May 18) • DEDfest: Trailer Orgy (May 20) • Quote-A-Long Series 2016: Ferris Bueller's Day Off (May 21) • Reel Family Cinema: Kung Fu Panda 3 (May 21) • Science in the Cinema: Living Proof (May 17) • Spotlight (Audrey Hepburn): Roman Holiday (May 15-16, May 21), Breakfast at Tiffany's (May 22-24), Wait Until Dark (May 28-29, May 31) • Staff Pics: Mississippi Mermaid (May 16) • Turkey Shoot: The Last Witch Hunter (May 19)

northwestfest • Various venues • northwestfest.ca • Canada's longestrunning documentary film festival, kicking off Edmonton's summer festival season with eight days and nights of the world's greatest docs, live music, panels, workshops and much mores • May 6-13

galLeries + Museums ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Feature Gallery: #ABCRAFT: artists using digital technologies; Apr 2-Jul 2 • Discovery Gallery: Echoes: artwork by Mia Riley; May 7-Jun 11; Artist reception: May 14, 2-4pm • Discovery Gallery: The Inhabited Landscape: artwork by Bettina Matzkuhn; May 7-Jun 11; Artist reception: May 14, 2-4pm Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • The Flood: artwork by Sean Caulfield; Feb 6-Aug 14 • 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc; Mar 5-Jul 3 • Little Cree Women (Sisters, Secrets & Stories): artwork by Brittney Bear Hat & Richelle Bear Hat; Mar 5-Jul 3 • A Parallel Excavation: artwork by Duane Linklater & Tanya Lukin Linklater; Apr 30-Sep 18 • The Unvarnished Truth: Exploring the Material History of Painting; Apr 30-Sep 18 • Allora & Calzadilla: Echo to Artifact: artwork by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla; Jun 3-Aug 28 • Beauty's Awakening: Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection; Jul 23-Nov 13 • JASON DE HAAN: Grey to Pink: Jul 23-Nov 13 • BMO Children's Gallery: Touch Lab: Leave your Mark: Opens Jul 24 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In : Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm • Art for Lunch: 3rd Thu of the month, 12:10-12:50pm • VIBE: The gallery is transformed into a laidback lounge with Vibe, a pop-up live music showcase; Jun 17, Jul 15, Aug 19; 5-9pm Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • High Energy 21:

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

The Future Museum: artwork by St. Albert high schools; May 5-31 • Art Ventures: Self portraits (May 21), 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: Handmade notebooks – small and simple (May 19), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Watercolour self portraits (May 21); for 3-5 yrs; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

Vital Few • Timms Centre for the Arts,

ArtWalk • Perron District, downtown St

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81

87 Ave-112 St • 780.420.1757 • bwdc.ca • Featuring the dance group 605 Collective. Part of the Canadian tour of this celebrated Vancouver company • May 26-27, 8pm • $35 (general admission), $20 (student/senior)

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

Albert. Includes WARES (Hosting SAPVAC), Musée Héritage Museum, St Albert Library, Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA), Bookstore on Perron, VASA, Musée Héritage Museum, A Boutique Gallery Bar By Gracie Jane • artwalkstalbert.com • The art hits the streets again for its 15th year! Discover this art destination, a place to enjoy, view and buy art to suit all tastes and budgets. See returning artists and new ones • Jun 2, Jul 7, Aug 4, Sep 1 (exhibits run all month)

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern

Creative Practices Institute • 10149-122 St, 780.863.4040

St. Joseph High School • 10830-109

• creativepracticesinstitute.com • Solo Exhibition of Kasie Campbell; Apr 27-May 21

dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Firedamp: Artwork by Sean Caulfield; May 6-Jun 11

Douglas Udell Gallery (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Next to Nothing: artwork by Dean Drever; Apr 23-May 14

front gallery • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.com • Group show; May 26

Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona. ca/artgallery • Strathcona Salon Series: various artists; May 14-Jun 26 Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/gallery-at-milner • Gallery Walls: The Transient Nature of a Young Woman: Paintings by Jacquline Ohm; Through May • Cases and plexi-glass cubes: A selection of works by the Canadian Book Binders and Book Artists' Guild; Through May

Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Disbound: artwork by Kim Bruce; Apr 21-May 27 • Meanders: artwork by François-Matthieu Bouchard; Apr 21-May 27

Jake's Gallery and Framing • 10441-123 St • 780.426.4649 • jake@ jakesframing.ca • vice-president@imagesalberta.ca • imagesalberta.ca/iacc-exhibitmay-2016.html • Images Alberta Camera Exhibit 2016: exhibition of photographic works by 40 members of Images Alberta Camera Club; May 2-31

Jeff Allen Art Gallery (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Earth and Sky, Watercolours and Drawings: artwork by Michael Mott; Apr 29-May 25

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

Lando Gallery • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Lando Gallery May Group Selling Exhibition; until May 30

MacEwan University City Centre Campus • Room 7-266 • amatejko@ telusplanet.net • Pre-Suburbia, Utopian Desires: Photography by Jason Symington; Mar 30-Jun 24

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

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Photography by Al Dixon; until May 27 • Settlers & Trains – Stories of Stony Plain & Area; until Jun 21

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

Alberta Print- Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • The Opening Act: artwork by Natasha Pestich; Apr 28-Jun 11 Street NW • Heroes of 107th: community exhibit to share some of the comic book pages, photography and also a short video along with having community roundtable discussions • Exhibit will travel through May-Jun

Telus World of Science • 11211142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • The International Exhibition Of Sherlock Holmes; Mar 25-Sep 5

The Tea Girl • 12411 Stony Plain Road • 780.932.0095 • karenbishopartist@gmail. com • karenbishop.ca/a-nice-cup-of-tea.html • Paintings by Karen Bishop and tiny teapots by P J Groeneveldt; May 1-31

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

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

VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill

Literary Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Melanie Kerr "Mary Green" Book launch; May 13, 7pm • Lisa Lawrence "Rodent" Book Launch; May 14, 2pm

Edmonton Story Slam • Mercury Room,10575-114 St • edmontonstoryslam. com • facebook.com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

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

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

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

10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery. com • Seeking Horizons: artwork by Pascale Ouellet; Apr 29-May 13 • Regeneration: artwork by Catherine McAvity; May 13-28; Artist reception: May 13 (6-9pm), May 14 (1-4pm)

CENTRE D'ARTS VISUELS DE L'ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave

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

Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • A Prairie Light: artwork by Jim Stokes; May 7-28

Gordon • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.ca • A scheming delinquent breaks into the home of his father. Gordon has dreams of a building a criminal empire, but Gord is determined to set his son on the right path at last • Apr 26-May 15

hair • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Set in an East Village park in the age of Aquarius, when sex and drugs were used as vehicles to evade reality, Hair is the musical story of a group of hippies who celebrate peace and love—and their long-hair—in the shadow of the Vietnam War • Apr 12-Jun 12 Harvey • Knox-Metropolitan United Church, 8307-109 St NW • 780.454.8606 • The celebrated story of a perfect gentleman, Elwood P. Dowd, and his best friend, Harvey–a six-foot tall, invisible rabbit • May 13-15 • $15 (adults), $10 (students/seniors); available at the door 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! Featuring Baking Bad - Cakes Gone Wrong, and much more • May 20; 8pm • $25

Hey, Pretty Woman! • Phase II West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St • jubilations. ca • A spoof on the hugely popular movie released in 1990 • Apr 15-Jun 12 Murder at the Howard Johnson's

Or the Whale • Timms Centre for the

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

Chimprov • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-

From Books to Film • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Schedule: Exodus (May 13), Noah (May 20), The Prince of Egypt (May 27)

Theatre, 10322-83 Ave • 780.439.3058 • walterdaletheatre.com• May 16-21 • Sponsored by Vue Weekly

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780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Heart and Soul: artwork by Joanne Gauthier; May 7-19

West End Gallery • 10337-124 St •

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

Bear Claw Gallery • 10403-124 St • 780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • Artwork by Alex Janvier; May 7-19

die-nasty.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs every Mon, 7:30-9:30pm • Until May 30 • $14 or $9 with a $30 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com

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

Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art. com • Members Spring Exhibition; until May 27

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

Cinema at the Centre • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free • Schedule: Carol (May 18), Son of Saul (May 25)

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• 780.461.3427 • savacava.com • Art Exhibition: artwork by Danielle LaBrie, Danièle Petit, Caroline Bisson, Rachele Comtois, Zoong Nguyen; May 13-Jun 1; Opening reception: May 13, 7pm

Arts, 87 Ave & 112 St • uab.ca/shows • Or The Whale is a physical and poetic exploration of the classic source material conceived, developed, designed and staged by Alberta-based artists; an epic adventure of camaraderie, madness, betrayal and revenge, performed by five actors • May 12-16, 7:30pm • $25 (adults), $22 (seniors), $12 (students)

The Pirates Of Penzance • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • twoonewaytickets.com • The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. He meets Mabel, the daughter of MajorGeneral Stanley, and the two young people fall instantly in love. Frederic soon learns, however, that he was born on February 29, and so, technically, he only has a birthday each leap year. His indenture specifies that he remain apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday and that he must serve for another 63 years. Bound by his own sense of duty, Frederic's only solace is that Mabel agrees to wait for him faithfully • May 15-16 Ten Times Two: The Eternal Courtship • Backstage Theatre 10330-84 Ave • Cursed with immortality and spurred on by a mysterious host, evil doer Ephraim vows to capture the heart of the serving wench Constance after meeting her in the Middle Ages. First driven by lust and then by love he woos her repeatedly over the millennia, as she is reincarnated in an astonishing parade of unpredictable women. It's an epic pursuit that turns into a wild and witty exploration of the heart of humanity • May 4-22

TheatreSports • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • SepJun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square West Side Story • Citadel Theatre,

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

9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story is one of the greatest musicals of the 20th century—a love story set on opposite sides of a turf war between rival street gangs • Apr 23-May 22

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The increasingly dense Marvel Cinematic Universe continues with Captain America: Civil War

fter eight years of fusing its blockbuster franchises into an increasingly dense and complex mass, the Marvel Cinematic Universe now carries so much weight that the Hulk himself couldn't lift it. The main series (Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and The Avengers) have become heavy, gloom-soaked, and serious—far from their agile, lightweight first instalments—and Captain America: Civil War is like a freight train tugging along the combined weight of all these franchises. It takes a while for it to get out of

the station and build up steam, the first act chugging through some flashy but boring action sequences and clunky but necessary exposition. But once the movie gets on track and builds momentum, it barrels along at full speed, racing through a riveting plot with exhilarating haste. One of the movie's best choices is that it wastes no time reintroducing characters. Directors Joe and Anthony Russo assume that if you haven't hopped on the Marvel express by now, then you've missed the train.

This is especially true for the more minor superheroes like Paul Rudd's Ant-Man, who steals the show as a much-needed source of comic relief. Civil War's biggest contribution to the MCU mythos is that it finally acknowledges the huge number of innocent casualties that the Avengers have racked up since 2008's Iron Man. The heroes are forced to confront the thousands of civilian bodies lying in their wake, and what splits them down the middle is the debate about whether their

unchecked power causes more harm than good. This quarrel, which pits #TeamCap against #TeamIronMan, comes to a head in a spectacular airport showdown where all your favourite heroes duke it out. But Civil War's true climactic fight is something more surprising: a small-scale brawl driven by personal motives, not the same old save-the-world boilerplate. Ultimately, Civil War is a more satisfying follow-up to 2012's The Avengers than last year's Age of Ultron. It starts off slow, but its focus

Now playing Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo  on the frayed relationships between its heroes—rather than on the apocalyptic threats they routinely forestall—makes it emotionally satisfying in a way that most other MCU movies can only dream of being. BRUCE CINNAMON

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Sun, May 15 – Sat, May 21 Directed by William Wyler Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally released: 1953

to cross paths in the Eternal City with a newsman who recognizes this serendipitous chance at a topsecret scoop. But Roman Holiday, a leisurely trip down the Tiber offered

by a Hollywood long gone, is also an airy treat—a triple-layer trifle. A sly, winking script that's a front— Ian McLellan Hunter was credited in place of the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo—begins with an elaborate front: a throne room for Princess Ann (Audrey Hepburn), acting ohso-cheerful throughout the tiring tedium of greeting sundry dignitaries. But the film, often stagey but never stodgy, also flirts with the real—"photographed and recorded in its entirety in Rome," it populates scenes with Italian doormen or ragazzi or cleaning ladies. And so, via this princess-and-the-people tale's culture-clash of American rom-com and Italian neo-realism, there's the comedy. Down-on-his-(gambling) luck reporter Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck) calls Ann "screwball" after taking this edict-mumbling, seem-

ingly drunk woman off the streets, but some of the best comedy's wordless. Ann's aides signal each other, wide-eyed, upon seeing the heir-apparent's slipped-off shoe sitting just beyond the safe confines of the royal skirt hems; Joe misleads the sleep-medicated Ann around, not up, the curving stairs to his apartment; a raiding party of government agents on a riverboat leads to a slapstick-filled getaway. Adding to all this trifle-ness is the slightness of Hepburn, seemingly confected for her first major role here. Roman Holiday kicks off Metro's series spotlighting the actress, and her waif-ness (and waferness—that 20-inch waist's often accentuated), ingénue-ness, and gamine-ness layer her as a girlish princess chafing at tower-high-class

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constraints, seeming vulnerable and wretched one moment but, the next, blazing a fierce desire to escape as she looks around her palatial bedroom. ... Even her plummy voice nearly rises to parody, as if not quite daring to mock this queento-be's elocution lessons. Woozy Ann's initial, unwitting reliance on chivalrous older men seems silly, even discomfiting (the exclusive-seeking Joe later stalks her, contriving a reunion, before his pal secretly photographs her). But when Ann wakes in Joe's apartment and comes to her senses, soon Hepburn, this young star-in-the-making, begins to confidently, defiantly come into her own.

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Louis CK released the first episode of Horace and Pete on his website at the end of January. It cost $5 and, initially, you only even knew about it if you were on the CK mailing list. The series ran 10 episodes, concluding in April, and you can now buy the whole shebang for $31. (All in USD, FYI.) Well aware of how difficult it is for a famous person to release anything these days without a deluge of anticipatory fanfare, CK produced Horace and Pete on his own dime and just put it out there. Boom. You start watching it and what do you get? You get a measured opening scene in a sepia-hued old tavern, a song on the jukebox, a guy sweeping, and you don't really know what the hell this is. Thank God. Thank Louis. Whatever. It's a privilege to come to something like this blind. The remainder of this column will perforate that privilege somewhat. Horace (CK) and Pete (Steve Buscemi) are the latest in a lineage of brothers named Horace and Pete who've been proprietors of a Brooklyn bar currently celebrating its 100th year. Celebrating? Horace and Pete's isn't exactly a place people party. It's a place people settle into stools and stew livers and addled minds for a spell. No mixed drinks here, just hard liquor and Bud. No music: that jukebox is largely for show. There's an elderly bartender, the elder Pete (Alan Alda), who's vigilant about forbidding all clientele who might threaten the bar's air of working-class austerity,

and he enforces his ordinance primarily through the constant spewing of brutally vulgar, reactionary, hipsterskewering diatribes and withering anecdotes. Sometimes you want to go where everybody curses your name. Writer-director-producer-star CK, the comedian most famous for his FX series Louis, cannot bring himself to make something devoid of laughs, but as Horace and Pete makes its way, it slowly sinks in that this story is moving toward quotidian tragedy of the sort cherished by the American stage—and Horace and Pete plays very deliberately like a stage play that's undergone minimal adaptation en route to the screen. Entropy encircles nearly every episode. Can this Spartan bar stay open? Will Horace and Pete's cancer-stricken sister (Edie Falco) let it stay open, given the huge profit to be made from its sale? Will Young Pete manage to keep functioning even though he's dependent on an experimental medication to control his debilitating mental illness? The show, to be frank, is depressing as hell, but gloriously so. It resonates, and part of the reason it does so is because it builds slowly—it metastasizes. Exposition's nearly absent, nothing's hurried, everything feels real. It does occasionally stumble. The first episode features a group conversation about liberals and conservatives that's do didactic it could've been written by a junior high drama student trying

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to show off how preternaturally egalitarian he is. The climax feels excessively mythic and gestural in comparison with the rest of the series' naturalism. Of the camerawork, all one can say is that it's workmanlike. But over and over again the writing is startling and rich. CK has a profound feeling for the cinematic potential of talk, the allure of, to quote the critic David Thomson, watching a human face as it changes its mind. (This bears out especially beautifully in "Episode 3," which begins with an unknown character telling a story about other unknown characters, the camera not breaking from her until at least 10 minutes in.) Characters truly challenge each other—and us. And the performances are uniformly extraordinary. A nearly defeated man refusing to surrender to bitterness, Buscemi breaks your heart. Alda's character is like sandpaper, but we know guys like him, and Alda does nothing to ingratiate. He has a monologue (reportedly inspired by Joe Pesci) about what he considers to be proper loving sex that is almost devastating in its sudden, lacerating earnestness. Jessica Lange, Kurt Metzger and the brilliant Steven Wright each have a seat at the bar and contribute to the heavy sense of fleeting consolation taken there. I found myself binge-watching Horace and Pete, becoming far more involved in the lives of these characters than I'd anticipated. And I can't recommend it enough. V

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ROAD TRIPS // FARMS

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// Alberta Culture & Tourism at Prairie Gardens & Adventure Farm

Road tripping to Alberta farms Discover where your food comes from on an agritourism trip

t's strange that agritourism isn't a bigger industry in Alberta, given the huge number and variety of farms here. For those unfamiliar, "agritourism" refers to agricultural tourism, and it's exactly what it sounds like: promoting farms and other agricultural operations as a place for people to visit, from ranches to grain farms to fruit wineries. Even though they often don't advertise it, many Alberta farms welcome visitors—but it's always a good idea to call ahead and confirm your visit. For inspiration on which places to try, stop by one of the city's farmers' markets: that will give you an idea of the different producers out there, and you can ask them firsthand about visiting. Several Alberta farms host annual events, usually over the summer months. The following is a collection of some of the most popular. Alberta Open Farm Days Alberta Open Farm Days is the big-

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gest agritourism event in the province. The two-day event (held this year on August 20 and 21), marks the fourth-annual Open Farm Days in Alberta—the concept started in the Maritimes over 10 years ago and has moved west since then. The event has locations throughout the province, with host farms from north to south. In addition to tours and events at all types of farms, Open Farm Days also features culinary experiences like farm-to-table dinners. The list of this year's host farms and culinary events hasn't been announced yet, as the deadline to apply is May 31. Check the website at albertafarmdays.com in a few weeks to find out what's happening this year. Rootstock Combining local food and drink with music, the second Rootstock will be held on August 13 at Fallentimber Meadery in Water Valley. Hosted by the Food Water Wellness Founda-

tion and Fallentimber, Rootstock will feature a four-course dinner (held in a tent) showcasing some of Alberta's finest ingredients, prepared by chef David Cousineau. Signature cocktails from Eau Claire Distillery (Alberta's first craft distillery), mead from Fallentimber and local craft beer will make up the liquid refreshments of the evening. After dinner, enjoy music performances by Reuben and the Dark, Gabrielle Papillon and Folk Road Show. Visit foodwaterwellness. org/rootstock for more information and to purchase tickets. Prairie Gardens RGE RD Farm-toFork Dinners No list of Alberta's agritourism spots would be complete with Prairie Gardens Adventure Farm. Located near Bon Accord, Prairie Gardens has embraced the concept wholeheartedly: it is one of the province's largest agritourism operations, and it's hosted over one million visitors.

If you name it, Prairie Gardens probably has it: at the centre of its 35-acre farm is U-Pick produce, including various greens, potatoes, strawberries, tomatoes, squash and heirloom pumpkins. Prairie Gardens also offers garden tours and a garden centre, and dozens of other family friendly activities, from a petting farm to corn mazes. This summer, Prairie Gardens is hosting five farm-to-fork dinners in partnership with RGE RD, which will feature a variety of seasonal local foods, BC wines and cocktails. The dates are June 26, July 13, July 24, August 28 and September 11. Other upcoming events at Prairie Gardens include the Fairy Berry Festival on July 30, 31 and August 1; Sweet Corn Fest on September 3, 4 and 5; and its annual Haunted Pumpkin Festival every weekend in October. The farm also hosts numerous other events throughout the year, as well as day camps, school field trips,

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seniors outings, youth groups, corporate events and weddings—so it's a good idea to check in prior to planning your trip to find out what will be happening during your visit. Visit prairiegardens.org for more information. Chinook Honey Company Viking Village: Horde at the Hive Mead, or honey wine, is an ancient drink called "Nectar of the Gods" in Norse culture. With its bountiful honey farms, it's only natural that Alberta would be home to several meaderies as well. Chinook Honey Company near Okotoks has grown from a two-hive acreage to a full apiary and meadery. On June 25 and June 26, Chinook is hosting its annual Viking Village, a celebration of mead and honey, featuring apiary and meadery tours, sampling of meads and honey products, as well as liveaction Viking battle re-enactments. MEL PRIESTLEY

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ROAD TRIPS ROAD TRIPS // ARCHITECTURE

Philip J Currie Dinosaur Museum // Candice Popik

The road less travelled Discover Alberta's best architecture and design

lberta is known for many things: flat prairies, oil, frigid winters. But the province is by no means touted as an architectural hub—that hasn't stopped some architectural firms from getting creative, though. What the province might lack in quantity, it makes up with quality,

with a handful of buildings receiving national and global acclaim. Some of these structures have been around for decades, while others have only been standing for a couple of years. The following is a collection of some of the top architectural structures around Alberta—all of which can be

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tackled during a summer road trip. Edmonton We can't have an architectural tour without mentioning the capital city. Your road trip will kick-off in Edmonton and proceed onwards. Drive down to West Edmonton

Mall (stay with us here) and visit the La Maisons Simons department store (located in Europa Boulevard). The store—a $40-million renovation designed by award-winning firm Figure3 and realized by Montréal's Lemay Michaud Architecture Design—involved the construction of

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a new glass-box extension in order to house a massive crystalline installation piece "Aurora" by Toronto-based architect Philip Beesley. The sculpture, which takes inspiration from the aurora borealis, is composed of laser-cut acrylic, mylar glassware and custom computercontrolled circuitry that responds to human movement, creating a gentle rippling-ocean effect for viewers gathering below. A short 12-minute drive northeast will take you to the Peter Hemingway Fitness and Leisure Centre (formerly known as Coronation Pool)— located on 13808 - 111 Avenue, beside Ross Sheppard High School—which to this day remains an internationally known facility in the architectural world. Built between 1968 and 1970, architect Peter Hemingway was tasked to design a new Olympicsized pool for Edmonton as a centennial project. Taking inspiration from the National Gymnasium and Pool in Tokyo, Japan, Hemingway created a structure that mimicked the crest of a wave and rolling landscape of Alberta's mountains and prairies through wood, concrete, steel, cables and glass. Driving east towards Borden Park will take you to the Vaulted Willow, comissioned by the Edmonton Arts Council and created by Brooklynbased architect Marc Fornes and his experimental design studio

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eh CANADA CANADA! ! TheVeryMany—whose work can be found throughout the United States and France. While the structure is more architectural folly than the aforementioned buildings, it makes the list for being a lightweight, self-supported installation composed of 721 aluminum shingles. The 20-foot-tall pavilion is said to illustrate the "reciprocal relationship encompassing experiments in non-linear architectural typology (multiple entries, distributed feet with branching and spiralling legs), structural differentiation (bifurcation of structural download forces, tighter radii of leg profiles for rigidity) and programmatic possibilities for a winding playground (hide and seek)," according to Fornes on the project's website. The bright colours of greens, blues, purples and pinks are an extention of the park's environment, creating a two-way Cheshire scheme. Wembley The fertile basin of Pipestone Creek, near Wembley, AB, has been dubbed a "palentologist's dream" as the area is the fifth-largest dinosaur bone bed in the world. But it is also getting acclaim from architects for the Philip J Currie Dinosaur Museum— located 19 km west of Grande Prairie—which was fashioned by Toronto's Teeple Architects. Completed in 2014, the building uses an A-frame

design to mirror the paleontogical process of reconstructing dinosaurs and the act of excavation within its unusual geometric shape. The 40 020-square-foot museum incorporates the bone bed and building through topographical changes that allow visitors access and views from both the inside and outside of the facility. Using locally sourced beetle-kill timber for the structural support provides an overall skeleton-like appearance at this paleontology museum. Calgary No list is complete without a mention of a skyscraper, and luckily you don't have to go far to see The Bow, the tallest building in Canada outside of Toronto. Located in downtown Calgary, The Bow stands a staggering 58 storeys tall. The building—designed by Foster + Partners with Zeidler Architects Partnership and Sturgess Architecture—is a sustainable feat as its convex facade is faced towards the wind, which minimizes the amount of steel required for the diagrid system. The building's inward curvatures creates a series of atria that act as a climatic buffer zone by insultating the building and reducing energy consumption by as much as 30 percent. JASMINE SALAZAR

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ROAD TRIPS ROAD TRIPS // GHOSTS

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Drive to some of Alberta's creepiest destinations this area and one woman—Florence Lassandro, aka the "Mob Princess," who was executed in May 1923 (she was the last woman to be hanged in Alberta) for the murder of Constable Lawson, a crime she may or may not have committed. The Fort Saskatchewan Museum & Historic Site now sits on the land where the convicts were hanged, and visitors have reported seeing lights turning on and off, along with hearing whispers and footsteps. More mysteriously, people have reported seeing the ghost of Lassandro wandering the historical grounds, as well as other ghostly figures.

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alloween is five months away, but that doesn't mean you have to wait until then to go on a haunted ghost tour. Most ghost tours are relegated to the city limits and/or season. A DIY ghost-tour road trip allows you the freedom to visit as many buildings as you please, with the possibility of venturing out in the daylight (most Halloween tours take place at night). Plus, this method will save you the $10 to $15 cost of an organized ghost tour, which you can put towards gas

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money or candy (after all, we're trying to recreate a Halloween vibe). We've rounded up a few places to get your tour started—visit at your own discretion. North West Mounted Police Post, Fort Saskatchewan From 1875 to 1885, the North West Mounted Police ran its operations from a fort located on the edge of a terrace along the North Saskatchewan River. Many convicts were hanged in

Rose & Crown Pub, Calgary This historic pub ostensibly allows you to drink a pint alongside the dead. The popular Calgary watering hole, located just off of the 17 Avenue strip, is rated one of the top-four haunted places in the city due to its past use as a funeral home. What's more, the living quarters of the former caretaker's family are still intact in the bar's attic, as well as the original wallpaper from its time as a funeral home. It's said that a boy died in the house, and he allegedly makes appearances in some of the photos taken at the bar, along with two adults who are believed to

be his parents. There have also been reports of glassware flying off shelves and electronic equipment turning on and off for no apparent reason. Canmore Opera House, Canmore The Canmore Opera House functioned as a concert hall in the late 1800s/early 1900s, but it was turned into a morgue after a fatal mining accident killed 700 people. Eventually the building was donated to the Heritage Park Historical Village in 1966, where it stands now. The ghost of Sam Livingstone is said to haunt these premises—his homestead was built in the area where Heritage Park is now—where he has been seen sitting in on rehearsals in the third seat of the third row. But others believe it's the ghost of the one of the dead miners. The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, Banff The historic Banff Springs Hotel is the site of many rumoured hauntings. There's Room 873, which has now been sealed off by walls that were built over the doorway. Legend has it a family was brutally murdered in there. Before the room was covered up, hotel guests would hear screams

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and find handprints on the mirrors inside the room. To this day, people have reported seeing the ghosts of the family members. One of the hotel's most famous stories involves a ghost bride. She's said to roam the hotel and can be seen dancing alone in the Cascade Ballroom or ascending the staircase on which her death occured. As the story goes, the bride's dress caught on fire from one of the candles that lined the staircase, causing her to trip over her dress and break her neck. Guests have also reported seeing the ghost of Scottish bellman Sam McCauley, who died in the halls of the hotel during the late '70s. Before his death, he swore to posthumously return to his workplace. Frank Slide, Crowsnest Pass On April 23, 1903, the town of Frank, AB was completely covered by rock in a massive landslide from the adjacent Turtle Mountain. Seventy-six people were reported dead in the incident, while many bodies remained under the mountain rubble. To date, it's reported that an eerie mist will cover the area, and apparitions have appeared.

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ROAD TRIPS ROAD TRIP // DINOSAURS

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yELLOWHEAD COUNTY Some of the most majestic landscapes Canada has to offer.

Start day one at the Pembina Provincial Park and continue on to the variety of campgrounds throughout the county or choose from an abundant array of guest ranches and lodges in this historic area. Ride along one of the many scenic trails on a guided horseback adventure and discover that the Northern Rockies landscape is truly unforgettable.

Days 4&5

HINTON & AREA Beaver Boardwalk, Switzer, & the historic Coal Branch.

Begin your morning with a bike ride at the Hinton Bike Park and pedal through the thick stands of trees that embrace the Happy Creek trail system. After that, pack a picnic lunch and head to Kelley’s Bathtub or Jarvis Lake for a refreshing swim – or stop at any of the other viewpoints or parks in William A. Switzer Provincial Park.

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GRANDE CACHE ‘Scenic Route to Alaska’ on the Bighorn Hwy. 40

Escape into a land of sparkling lakes, rushing rivers, green valleys, and windswept peaks. Nestled on a mountain plateau, Grande Cache is located just north of Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains along the Bighorn Highway 40, the shortest, most scenic route to Alaska from the United States.

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ook, just because the last two Jurassic Park movies were both totally bunk shouldn't mean your feelings about dinosaurs have fallen to match. Especially given that Alberta is such a fossil-rich place—considered right up there with the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in terms of the sheer volume of things that can be unearthed. Hell, a brand-new species of dinosaur—Regaliceratops peterhewsi, nicknamed "Hellboy" due to a similarity with the comic-and-movie character—was discovered and displayed as recently as 2015. You just paid taxes for that year! With all of that in mind, when planning out your summer adventure schedule, why not honour your inner eight-year-old and scope out some of the dino-related places scattered across the province? Royal Tyrrell Museum Well, duh: Drumheller's famous museum is an anchor in a list about dinosaur-stuff in Alberta. Its collection of fossils tallies up to more than 120 000, but there's a bevvy of things to do in the area—open seven days a week from May until the end of August, the museum offers tours of the Badlands (nearby Midland Provincial Park), a chance to dig for fossils, a few different interactive presentations and considerable amounts of other programming. There's also suggested itineraries for both families and adults sans kids, which can be browsed at tyrrellmuseum.com.

Philip J Curie Dinosaur Museum Alberta's other dinosaur museum is a relatively new addition to the landscape—it opened its doors in September 2015 (and if you want to read about the architecture of

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the place, skip back to Page 18). Located just west of Grande Prairie and named for one of Canada's most renowned palaeontologists, it offers its own trove of programming: museum exhibits, a speaker series and more, which you can peruse at dinomuseum.ca. Dinosaur Provincial Park This UNESCO World Heritage Site sits two-and-a-half hours southeast of Calgary (near Brooks). Encompassing just under 74 kilometres of the Red Deer River valley, it's known as a hotbed of fossil finds, with some 40 specifies having been discovered within its borders. In terms of how you can use the space: there's a field station/visitor centre of the Royal Tyrrell Museum, both hiking trails and guided tours (on foot and by bus), plus year-round on-site camping. Also: In the same area sits John Ware's Cabin—a restored space once used by the legendary AfricanAmerican cowboy—which has a visitors centre. Go to albertaparks.ca/ dinosaur.aspx for more info. Jurassic Forest This one's relatively close to home: a 40-acre prehistoric preserve, just north of Edmonton (Gibbons). It's an old-growth forest that's been dotted with dinosaurs. You can ride a triceratops, and while we're not talking a real, living, Jurassic Parklike triceratops, I still don't know what could be a more compelling reason to go. There's also mini golf, a scatter of kid-friendly activities, and flora-and-fauna based tours, if the plant-life is more your thing. Full details at jurassicforest.com. PAUL BLINOV

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REVUE // GRAPHIC NOVEL

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Reframed worldview

Painting appreciation and voyeurism blur in melancholic Hubert "About suffering they were never wrong, / The old Masters: how well they understood / Its human position" — W H Auden, "Musée des Beaux-Arts"

en Gijsemans' first graphic novel, Hubert, begins in Brussels' Musée des Beaux-Arts—with a few details, framed for us, and then more, in a four-by-four layout, until a full-page spread reveals a woman, bending slightly forward, holding out a dish. We step back to take in the man taking in this painting— a bespectacled, middle-aged fellow, lost in the artwork (Constant Montald's The Fountain of Inspiration). Soon after, he steps out into the world and, in a two-page spread jumbling black-and-white, overlapping and unfurling sketches of a busy, crowded, traffic-teeming city, we see now why Hubert likes to frequent the quiet museum. Merging a Chris Ware-like melancholy with a Chaplinesque sense of gestures and minute movements,

Gijsemans' pencilwork, pallid colours, use of white space and small, sparse dialogue-balloons wrap us in the introspective, artish (rather than bookish) little world of his title character. But he also employs the rhythms and frames of comic art to self-reflective, contemplative effect. Classical art's re-viewed for us by both Gijsemans and Hubert, an aspiring artist himself. Details may seem to shift ever-so-slightly as they're reframed for us (and Hubert takes off his glasses sometimes to look at this or that painting anew). The solitary Hubert turns away from his attempted reproduction of a classical nude to gaze at a woman framed in her apartment window below—a spot, for Hubert, as iconic as Juliet's balcony for Romeo (Gijsemans introduces it to us all alone, white space all around). And, every so often, there's a tilting-aside from this man's world view, to glimpse at other gallery-goers or at his landlady, flirting with him.

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But are we complicit as Hubert watches his neighbour, framing her for our art-objectification, too? Hubert's own punctiliousness seems reflected, dismayingly, in Gijsemans' exacting eye. Still-life moments vie with snapshots of muted emotion; esthetic appreciation and voyeurism blur; loneliness and lust meld. Astoundingly assured in its use of comix panel-space and frame-time to compel and contain, to draw in yet distance us, to section-off and break down the existential ennui of one man's private passions, Hubert is a must-see. BRIAN GIBSON

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POPCULTURE HAPPENINGS

Fort McMurray Relief Day / Sat, May 14 (9 am – 8 pm) Over the past week, people have come together to help those displaced by the Fort McMurray wildfires. The Adventurers Guild will be helping out by hosting card game tournaments featuring Magic: the Gathering, Cardfight Vanguard and Weiss Schwarz—all to raise money for the Red Cross’s fire-relief efforts. (The Adventurers Guild [15211 Stony Plain Road], $4)

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Dark Matters: Clue / Thu, May 19 (6:30 pm – 10 pm) Who killed Mr Boddy? Was it Professor Plum with the dagger in the study, or Mrs White with the lead pipe in the ballroom? While Clue may not be played at the Telus World of Science, guests at Dark Matters will be able to learn how real life crime scene investigators find clues and catch the perpetrator. Then guests will be transported back to the Victorian era and be able to solve crimes with the master sleuth himself, Sherlock Holmes. (Telus World of Science, $17 – $28)

Agricola Release Weekend Game Day / Sat, May 21 (Noon – 4 pm) A new edition of the hit board game Agricola will be released this month, and it’s said to revamp the whole series. The new set will be featuring a streamlined design, new components, an expanded card deck and much more. Happy Harbor will be hosting a game day to celebrate its release, and snacks will be available for purchase. Donations will also be collected for Edmonton’s Food Bank. (Happy Harbor) V

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PREVUE // STONER ROCK

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// Magdalena Wosinska

Moving (Black) Mountains 'T

here was a bit of [discussion on] whether we wanted to continue or not, after his departure," Stephen McBean offers—pretty nonchalantly, given the gravity of the statement. McBean, frontman of Vancouver's stoner-epic stalwarts Black Mountain, is recalling what followed bassist's Matt Camirand egress from the band after its 2010 album, Wilderness Heart. "Then [we] figured the four of our worlds would be better continuing without him," McBean concludes. "There was probably enough people that maybe wanted another record, you know?" McBean's a genial chat during a phone call from tour ("We're in the hometown of Slipknot," he cheerfully adds from Des Moines, Iowa.) Genial, if a bit tricky—he lets out little lies as he goes,

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Vancouver band expands its stoner-epic approach on IV

baiting you to call him out on them. A statement about the band's new touring bassist starts out honestly enough, and slips into better-double-check-thatfact-territory as he goes. "Colin Cowan is playing bass. From Dada Plan and, uh, he was in Sun Ra's group 50 years ago. He's 76 years old." Really? "No," McBean chuckles. "I mean, yes. Print that." Sure. You get the sense, 10 years into Black Mountain's career, interviews feel pretty low-stakes for the guy. McBean lives in Los Angeles now, (the rest of the band is in Vancouver), and everybody has multiple projects on the go—vocalist Amber Webber and drummer Joshua Wells have their other band, Lightning Dust; keyboardist Jeremy Schmidt recently scored the soundtrack to sci-fi cult

hit Beyond the Black Rainbow; McBean himself also fronts Pink Mountaintops, plays guitar in Obliterations, and does the occasional collaboration that comes his way. (A recent one: he partnered with feminist punks White Lung to pen "Chinese Watermelon.") So when it comes time to circle back to Black Mountain, McBean and company seem to welcome any ideas, however intended for or inspired by the band's myriad other gigs, as starting points for this one. "You just go through your dirty laundry, and see what shirts you want to throw in the Black Mountain washing machine," McBean says. "To see if they tidy up nice and look good on everyone's bodies." With IV—arriving six years after Wilderness Heart, thus ending the

longest gap between albums in the band's time together—Black Mountain finds itself broaching synthier, more expansive territories, drawing on a more colourful palette of sounds, but still well-suited to the band's epic-scale backcatalogue. (IV is bookended by songs that are eight-and-a-half and nine-minutes long, respectively.) That six-year gap between albums wasn't intentional, but it proved useful, McBean notes. After the rigorous touring schedule behind its previous albums—which would regularly have Black Mountain on the road for eight months of the year—plus Camirand's exodus, plus all the other projects, some recalibration time was necessary. "Not to sound like whiners, but we needed a little break," he says. "You've

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Wed, May 18 (9 pm) Black Mountain With Ashley Shadow Starlite Room, $22.50 got to always question things. For your life, and the band's life. I think we're all pretty happy with this record. All our friends and fans and families seem to be quite into it—it's nice. It's a good feeling, 10 years down the road, to have anyone showing up at the shows, let alone thousands and thousands every night." He laughs there, before correcting himself: "Hundreds. But print thousands. [That] we're doing the stadium tour in Iowa."

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ohn McDermott is certainly a man who possesses unquestionable luck and dedication. Despite having next-to-no musical training, the 61-year-old Scottish-Canadian tenor has carved out a successful musical career of 20-plus years. He's best known for his alluring renditions of the traditional tunes "Danny Boy" and "Loch Lomund," and has close to 35 albums to his name, with two more on the way, as well as five Juno Award nominations. "I'm at the age where most people are getting out of this kind of life, but I don't see any reason to slow down," McDermott says. "This kind of life works for me." Born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, McDermott was surrounded by traditional songs at an early age. While he was growing up, his father, Peter—whom McDermott still recalls as the best tenor he ever heard—and his mother, Hope, encouraged family sing-a-longs of Scottish tunes. Along with his 12 brothers and sisters, McDermott participated and absorbed every piece of music. McDermott and his family decided to immigrate to Canada in 1965, due to economic stress in Scotland. While the move was a real change for the McDermott clan, the family sing-a-longs never died. In fact, they grew exponentially.

"They became even more intense," McDermott recalls. "On Saturday nights, my dad would invite the neighbours over, and they would watch or join in. We became this sort of singing hub for the community."

Force, told me at one of my shows, 'You might be good at this, son, so make sure to give back to Canada and the veterans who gave us Canada, so that's what I've been doing.'" STEPHAN BOISSONNEAULT STEPHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

McDermott's latest album, Raised on Songs and Stories, still contains the traditional Scottish folk tunes he's best-known for, but the record stands out among the rest—it's one single track, with no pauses or breaks. "I wanted a continuous flow of music from start to finish," McDermott explains. "I've wanted to do that one for about 15 years, and I think it's one of my best to date." McDermott has also made it his intention to incorporate his musical success and talent into humanitarian acts that relate to veteran affairs. He is an honourary member of the War Amps of Canada and is the creator of a project dedicated to raising $3.6 million to "enhance and expand the Palliative Care unit–KWing Veterans Centre in Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital," to aid staff in giving the best possible care to veterans, members of the military, first responders and others. So far, his foundation, the McDermott House of Canada has raised $2.5 million and hopes to raise the rest by the end of the year. "My dad, who served in the Royal Air VUEWEEKLY.com | MAY 12 – MAY 18, 2016

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MUSIC PREVUE // ROCK

The Stacks

ordan Lineker will be the first to admit he never really pictured himself jamming out in a southern-rock band. Yet here he is, two years into singing and playing guitar in the Stacks.

"Previously I was more into, as far as being in a band goes, being in an indie-rock band or indie-pop [band]," he says over the phone from the band's home base of Na-

naimo, BC. "I really like the Killers and the Unicorns, bands like that, and I never really thought about playing heavy guitar riffs and having distortion and all that."

The Stacks began to take shape in 2014 after Lineker and drummer Ben Wengel connected at a mutual friend's birthday party. They had joked about starting a band together, but the joke quickly became reality. The duo morphed into a trio with the recruitment of Lineker's brother Matt on bass, and before they knew it they'd booked their first gig. Lineker notes that he and his brother were both involved in concert band in high school, but up until the formation of the Stacks, their musical endeavours had been largely independent of one another. "We listened to a lot of music together, and listened to a lot of the same music, but I don't think it ever really crossed our minds to jam together," he says with a laugh. "The first bands Matt and I really got into together [when] we were in high school were Sum 41, Green Day—we just went crazy for those guys. As we got a little bit older our tastes hopefully improved. ... I got into the Black Keys and the White Stripes, Portugal. The Man."

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hile the chances of on-again, off-again relationships ever really succeeding are low, Calgary's pop-punk heroes Belvedere might be an exception to that theory. After almost a decade-long hiatus from Belvedere, vocalist/guitarist Steve Rawles is putting the focus back on his former band and into its first album in 12 years, Revenge of the Fifth.

The influence of the latter three is evident on the Stacks' debut EP, Open Till Midnite, replete with raucous riffs and vocals steeped in southern soul. The five tracks are a collection from the course of the Stacks' two-year existence, offering a cohesive taste of what the band's about. But Lineker has plans to broaden the group's style on subsequent releases. "The opening track, 'Open Till Midnite,' it kind of starts with a little drum loop, like an electronic drum loop, and then the rest of the album moves into more organic rock 'n' roll, traditional sounds," he notes. "So we wanted to show [that] we do want to be a rock 'n' roll band, but we don't want to shy away from some electronic components in the future—like maybe adding in some programming or electronic drums or different electronic sounds. That was the goal there."

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This is the band's fifth album, and although the members of Belvedere have grown up with punk-rock, each song maintains the crass energy of their previous releases. It's a poppunk cacophony, but with slightly more maturity—think the Bouncing Souls. "Perspective has definitely changed," Rawles says over the

phone. "Jay had written a good chunk of the song 'Hairline,' and that was one of the songs written in 2004 or 2005. It was kind of meant for our next album. We just never dug it out until we started back up again. Overall, this new album is an extension of where we were going—back then, anyways." One of the most undramatic and

level-headed bands in Canadian punk, Belvedere never really stepped away from music or each other during the group's hiatus. Rawles and drummer Graham Churchill kept busy in bands like This is a Standoff and touring all over the world. When it came time for Belvedere to go overseas during part of its reunion tours in 2011, it became apparent the band had something special to continue pursuing in the recording studio. "I pinch myself that we are able to play places like Tokyo or Italy and people know the words," Rawles says. "You start playing a couple of tunes in your basement and look what happens. It's a lot of hard work. We've played over 1500 shows, and I can tell you those first few weren't for many people. It's all been a

great ride." With Revenge of the Fifth turning a lot of heads, the band will play its first Pouzza Fest in Montréal, a punkrock festival infused with yoga, great food and best friends. With less emphasis on booze and partying, the band seems to have a clear head on its collective shoulders going into round two of its career. "When you're 20 and you're cruising around playing shows for cheap, it's easy to get your fair share of party time," Rawles recalls. "And these days we still like to have a good time, just not with as much booze on the rider." BRITTANY RUDYCK

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PREVUE // SINGER-SONGWRITER

Amanda Rheaume Fri, May 13 (8:30 pm) With David Gogo Blue Chair Cafe, $17

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here are often patterns that emerge in our lives—how we approach relationships, our careers and even in the sentiments we tell ourselves on a daily basis. We may not be cognizant of them, but Amanda Rheaume recognized such repetition within her own life and channelled it into her new album, aptly titled Holding Patterns. "In looking back at my family past and taking stock of my life up until now, I recognized certain patterns in my relationships and my friendships

and in my own behaviour," the folk singer-songwriter notes over the phone from her hometown of Ottawa. "I'm someone who's a real advocate for therapy and self-awareness and healing and all that stuff, so I think everything just came to a point, and I started taking note of some of these patterns and just really wanting to let go of the ones that weren't helping me anymore—not necessarily kick people out of my life, but even in my own self, you know?" Rheaume decided to work towards

creating a shift in favour of happiness—"And then with that allow myself to be happy," she adds with a laugh. She points out that recognizing patterns in your life is often the easy step, but breaking them and allowing yourself to be happy in the process can often be another thing entirely. This sense of reclamation is prevalent throughout the album, but unlike Rheaume's previous records, she hadn't set out to write about any one concept. "My last album, Keep A Fire, which

had a very strong theme from the get-go, [but] I didn't have one this time, which made me nervous," she says, noting Keep a Fire was rooted in stories about her family and that the common thread within Holding Patterns emerged after she'd finished writing the songs. "Keep A Fire was so story-based—about other people's stories, not mine, but my family, so essentially where I came from. And then this one is very much about me. It's very personal and vulnerable."

Holding Patterns is a soulfully personal record at its core, whether Rheaume is singing a rootsy ballad or belting out a gritty kiss-off, but there are songs that veer into broader topics—particularly "Red Dress," a moving track featuring Chantal Kreviazuk that was inspired by Rheaume's vehement objection to the Cindy Gladue trial verdict as well as her participation in Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls rallies. The song is now being used to raise money for the Native Women's Association of Canada's Safety and Violence Prevention Program. "Obviously there's been numerous cases that have been horrific, like the Tina Fontaine story—that's in the song, too. But when the Cindy Gladue verdict came out I just couldn't believe it, and it made me think about the angle of how these women are discriminated [against] after their murder or while they're missing," says Rheaume, who is Métis, though she's uncertain what it will take to have victims treated more fairly within the law. "First of all, it's an awareness and naming it and having empathy and understanding. If the general population hasn't experienced trauma, I could sort of see why it might be hard to understand some of this stuff. ... It can't all be solved in a day or one thing or one way. It's just about people talking and raising awareness and more conversations. That's the first step, to me, in healing." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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but his sound has finally found stable ground with that nomination and win. It's a classification Blair is still coming to terms with—he was told by country artists to drop the roots label, because they believe he won't make it as a country artist having "roots" pinned to his music—but he's acquired a laissez-faire attitude towards it by enjoying the success of playing both country and folk festival gigs. "I just play real country music, and I consider myself a folk singer," he explains. "I go out there and try to see what's happening around me, and I write songs about that. It's not supposed to have an answer, it's just supposed to have people talk about it." Fresh off his win is a new EP, Cash Crop, which features four tracks that capture Blair's musical style of heartland roots, soul and countryfolk narrative bolstered by a prairiebased band including Grant Siemens (guitarist, Corb Lund's band), Ryan Voth (drummer, the Bros Landreth), William "Bill" J Western (steel guitarist, Del Barber) and Kevin Torgalson (bass, Buffy Sainte-Marie). Connecting the EP's tracks is a strong agricultural theme, which Blair credits to living in rural Mani-

toba, maintaining a small hobby farm and having friends in the agriculture industry. "Cash Crop talks about mineral extraction and huge tracks of farm land in Saskatchewan being sold off to the highest bidder, oil money and how that's changed society in Western Canada," he says. "It's not designed to state what I think is the correct answer. It's just these are all issues that surround agriculture." The track "Following Him Around"— which was co-written with Del Barber and Blake Berglund—narrates the tale of generational farming through a young man who's been passed down the responsibility of the family farm and is struggling making ends meet. The track's gaining popularity, and Blair admits he's surprised by its success. "I thought '300,000 KM' was going to be the big song. But, 'Following Him Around' is certainly getting all the airplay right now. It's fresh, it's uptempo, and the chorus is really hooky," he says. "I don't set out to write a hit song. I'm just focused on the content of the song rather than what's going to get people to crank it up in their truck." JASMINE SALAZAR

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

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Sacrilege Sundays: All metal all day

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

Happy Hour featuring Jordan Strand; 5:30pm

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Heart's Song; 3pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

FT. DIVINITY AND MORE!

GERMAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE

9:30pm

Mondays; 8-11pm

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

THE FORGE, MINSTREL CYCLE AND THE STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY BRINGS TO YOU

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

GAS PUMP Karaoke;

Echostar (metal) with Auras, Native Construct and guest; 7pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door)

Rider; 9pm

DANCE CODE STUDIO

LIVENATION.COM PRESENTS:

Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm

MERCURY ROOM Mandroid

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy

RED PIANO BAR Swingin'

Fourever - Beatles Tribute; 5:30pm (dinner), 7pm (show); $59.95 (dinner & show), $29.95 (show only); No minors

TIMBRE CONCERTS PRESENTS

SANDS INN & SUITES Open

Bingo! Tuesdays

Presented by Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus; 3pm

CENTURY CASINO The Fab

W/ WHITNEY

Ammar's Sunday Sessions Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm

EBS: Strathcona County Conspiracy; 7pm; $15 (guest), $10 (EBS members)

BLUES ON WHYTE Ginger

Heat Waves (alternative/ electronic/pop) with Rhythm of Cruelty and Electricity for Everybody; 8pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door)

TIMBRE CONCERTS PRESENTS

Dove, The Heights; 9pm RICHARD'S PUB Mark

Rock Monday GERMAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Indigenous Voices:

THE BUCKINGHAM Freak

W/ GUESTS

ON THE ROCKS Lonesome

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Classic

The Cramer Brothers; 9am3pm; Donations

After Party with Form10 and guest Black and Blue; 6pm (door), 8pm (show)

YOUNG EMPIRES UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA SAVAGES BARONESS

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm

Stage; 7-11pm

Classical

BOHEMIA #yegsemicolon

LIVENATION.COM PRESENTS

with Short Film Screenings and Menu Tasting; 1pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

FIDDLER'S ROOST Open

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Brunch:

St.James; 9pm

W / GUESTS

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN F&M

their creations • Every TueFri, 5-8pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Ghost

RENDEZVOUS PUB The

FacePlants, On the FrontLine, Hewson Grey, King Parrot; 8pm

THE PROVINCIAL PUB RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Wailin' Wednesday Jam with Hosts Wang Dang Doodle (variety); Every Wed, 7:3011:30pm; All ages

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

STARLITE ROOM Black Mountain with guests; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $22.50

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke;

Session: Don Berner Trio; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY Live music

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

DJs

9pm

Wednesday's; Every Wed

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Classical

Main Floor: Eddie Lunchpail

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM The

spins alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic & euro; Every Tue

Piano Guys; 8pm; $45-$100 WINSPEAR CENTRE Podium

Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest with DJ Blue Jay - mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock

Tuesday

Choral Festival Opening Concert, featuring the Choirs of Voices West; 8-10pm

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic

WED MAY 18

DJs

BLUES ON WHYTE The Skyla

BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

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

TUE MAY 17

ON THE ROCKS Turn't Up

Burrell Band; 9pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Edwards; 7:30pm; $42.45 (Ticketmaster)

Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share

FORT EDMONTON PARK 7000-143 St GERMAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE 8310 Roper Rd HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW, 780.433.5530, holytrinity.ab.ca HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage.com HUMMINGBIRD BISTRO CAFE 8336-160 Ave, 780.401.3313, hummingbirdbistro.ca IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St NW, 780.451.8825, kellyspubedmonton.com LA CITÈ FRANCOPHONE 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LIZARD LOUNGE 11827 St. Albert Tr, 780.451.9180, facebook.com/ The-Lizard-Lounge MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, mcdougallunited.com MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725 NAIT GYM 11762-106 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524 Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PALACE CASINO 8882-170 St NW, 780.444.2112, palacecasino. com PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St REXALL PLACE 7424-118 Ave RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St, 780.431.0091, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328

ARDEN THEATRE Donny

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Kevin Martin;

Every Wed

VENUEGUIDE

MAY/13

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

DUSTY TUCKER CD RELEASE W/FORESTER, SLEEP DEMON

MAY/14

STARLITE ROOM PRESENTS

BELVEDERE

CD RELEASE W/GRIZZLY TRAIL, POINT PLACE AND MORE

MAY/20 BOMB CLOTHING CO. PRESENTED BY YOUNG AND BRAVE

SPRING/SUMMER RELEASE

MAY/21 HUMANS,BETTER LIVING DJ’S, UP+DT & THE MOOD MACHINE PRESENT

SWIM, DAN PEZIM

MAY/22

STARLITE ROOM PRESENTS

MAY/27

STARLITE ROOM & THE FORGE PRESENT

TANIKA CHARLES ACT OF DEFIANCE

W/ GUESTS

FEAT. EX MEGADETH & SCAR THE MARTYR

32 MUSIC

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

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHVRCH OF JOHN 10260-103 St, 780.884.8994, thechvrchofjohn. com CLINT'S HAUS 9922-79 Ave COMMON 9910-109 St CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta, music.ualberta.ca DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall. com DRAFT COUNTRY NIGHT CLUB 12912-50 St NW, 780.371.7272, draftbargrill.com DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EL CORTEZ 10322-83 Ave NW, elcortezcantina.com EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE 10220-103 St NW, 780. 424.0077, yourgaybar.com FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557

VUEWEEKLY.com | MAY 12 – MAY 18, 2016

SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch. com ST. TIMOTHY'S ANGLICAN CHURCH 8420-145 St STENCEL HALL 11525-23 Ave STUDIO 96 10909-96 St NW SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STANLEY A. MILNER LIBRARY 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TEMPLE 4209-111 Ave TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY 17118-90 Ave TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW, 780.433.1604, trinity-lutheran. ab.ca TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE 10324-82 Whyte Ave UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB 10746 Jasper Ave, 780.951.2705 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428

EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

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

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

Colin Mochrie & Wayne Jones • Shoctor Theatre at The Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • johnwaynejones11@gmail.com • whiterhinocomedy.com • May 22, 7:30-9pm • $37.50 (+ taxes & fees general), $32.50 (+ taxes & fees student/senior)

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Chris Sadleir; May 13-14 • Danny Acappella; May 20-21 • Bob Angeli; May 27-28

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Daren Carter; May 11-15 • Steve Simeone; May 18-22 • Mo Amer; May 25-29

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

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou. DJ to follow • Every Sun, 9pm

Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm

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

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

Brain Tumour Peer Support Group

• Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-9pm (no meetings in Jul or Aug) • Free (pre-registration not required)

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

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

EC (Infant Pottying) and Potty Training Support Meeting • Lendrum Community League Hall, 11335-57 Ave • danielle@godiaperfree.com • facebook.com/ groups/gdfedmonton • For anyone doing EC (elimination communication or infant pottying) or hoping to, or those looking for potty training support • 3rd Wed of every month, 10-11am

• Free

Edmonton Chapter of FairVote.ca presents: DEBATE • Strathcona Library, 8331-104 St • Two proportional systems of voting used all around the world. Learn what each of the systems is all about • May 18, 7pm • Free (open to all, light refreshments available)

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC)

Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group •

Meet and Greet with Lindsay Wolf, Mercy For Animals • Clever

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

Rabbit Café, 10722-124 St NW • Lindsay Wolf is a former undercover investigator • May 12, 10am-4pm

• edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@ edmontonoutdoorclub.com

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

Edmonton Photographic Historial Society • Highlands Library • 780.436.3878

Seventies Forever Music Society

• All interested in sharing the joys of film photography, such as experiences or favourite equipment • 3rd Wed each month, 7:30pm

Edmonton Ukulele Circle • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • edmontonuke.wordpress.com • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5 FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 17028-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

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

Game Night–Board games • Stanley A. Milney Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • epl.ca • In the Makerspace. Guests will be able to pull up a chair and play a variety of card, tabletop, and role-playing games. Staff will also be on hand to show guests how 3D printing can be used to make their games better • Last Fri of the month, 6-9pm

Habitat for Humanity Volunteer Information Night • Habitat for Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext. 236 • vbatten@hfh.org • hfh.org/volunteer/vin • Learn about taking the next steps and what opportunities are available at Habitat for Humanity • Every 3rd Thu of the month, excluding Dec; 6-7pm • Free

Lightsaber Training • Sir Winston Churchill Square • Celebrating all things Star Wars. Featuring lightsaber training for the young and young at heart. Guests must bring their own lightsabers (makeshift lightsabers are welcome) • Every Wed during the summer; 7-7:45pm for young padawans, 7-8:30pm for mature padawans • Free Lotus Qigong • 780.695.4588 • Downtown • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every Thu Monday Mingle • Hexagon Board Game Cafe, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Meet new gamers. Go to the event solo or with a group • Every Mon, 5-11pm • $5 (one drink per person)

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

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

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

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

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

Wiccan Assembly • Ritchie Hall, 772798 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@ gmail.com

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • womeninblackedmonton.org • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

LECTURES/Presentations Every Woman Empowered's Creating Healthy Boundaries • Sports and

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

Wellness Centre, Grant MacEwan University, 10700-104 Ave • Learn steps in how to establish boundaries and how they will benefit you, cause less stress in your life and help you to live happily with yourself. A womens only group • May 18, 7-9pm • Free (register at Eventbrite)

Open Door Comic Creator Meetings • Happy Harbor Comics,

Grant Writing Workshop for the Arts • County Hall, Conference Room 1,

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

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

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

2001 Sherwood Drive, Sherwood Park • info@ accsc.ca • accsc.ca • A one-day grant writing workshop. Guests will learn about provincial and federal funding for the arts, including how and where to apply for project-based and individual funding (i.e. travel grants, professional development, artists residencies, etc.) • May 14, 9am-4pm • Free (ACCSC members), $25 (non-members)

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

Presentation by Lindsay Wolf • Stanley A. Milner Library, Edmonton Room, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Lindsay Wolf is a former undercover investigator • May 13, 7-8pm

QUEER Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Mon: Drag Race in the White Room; 7pm • Wed: Monthly games night/trivia • Thu: Happy hour, 6-8pm; Karaoke, 7-12:30am • Fri: Flashback Friday with your favourite hits of the 80s/90s/2000s; rotating drag and burlesque events • Sat: Rotating DJs Velix and Suco • Sun: Weekly drag show, 10:30pm

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

near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • Abs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:158:15pm • Dodgeball: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • Running: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • Spin: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• Volleyball: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • Meditation: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:30-6:15pm • Board Games: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per month, 3-7pm • All Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8468-81 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm Taekwondo:

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Sun: Last Sun each month, Woodys Jam Session with the talented regular customers; Jugs of Canadian or Kokanee only $13 • Mon: Massive Mondays features talented comedians • Tue: Domestic bottle beer special only $3.75 all night long • Wed: Jugs of Canadian and Kokanee for $13; Karaoke with Shirley from 7pm-12:30am • Thu: Highballs on special only $3.75 all night long; Karaoke with Bubbles 7pm-12:30am • Fri: Comming soon: DJ Arrow Chaser's new TGIF Party • Sat: Pool Tournement, 4pm; Jager shots on special only $4; Coming soon, DJ Jazzy

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

SPECIAL EVENTS

Not Enough Fest Edmonton • Ritchie Community League, 7727-98 St • notenoughfestyeg.wordpress.com • Bringing women, queer and trans artists together to collaborate, make noise and take up space • May 21-22

Heritage Centre, 10440-108 Ave NW • fabulousat50.com • Featuring a travel theme. Featuring vendors, food, entertainment and more • May 14, 10am-5pm • $10 (adv), $15 (door)

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Bead Market • Ramada Edmonton South • Featuring a selection of pewter findings, gemstones, chains, crystals, pendants, stringing supplies and more • May 14, 11am-5pm • Free

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

Team Edmonton • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • Swimming: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • Water Polo: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • Yoga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm •

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Dark Matters: Clue • Telus World of Science, 11211-142 St • 780.451-3344 • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca • Learn how real life crime scene investigators find their clues and catch the perpetrator. In addition to exploring modern day forensics science, we’ll go back in time to the Victorian era and solve crimes with Sherlock Holmes • May 19, 7-10pm • $17 (adv), $23 (door, +GST), $27.95 (Dark Matters + Sherlock Holmes exhibit; +GST) DBG Annual Plant Sale • Devonian Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • 780.987.3054 ext. 2243 • dbg. events@ualberta.ca • devonian.ualberta.ca • An interesting selection of hardy perennials, edibles, shrubs, indoor plants, and more are offered at very reasonable prices. See what the DBG Horticulturists have been experimenting with in the greenhouses over the winter • May 14-Jun 30

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

Family Life & Leisure Expo • Central Park, Spruce Grove • sprucegrovechamber. com • Featuring an educational journey with reptiles, a petting zoo, outdoor laser tag, ineractive campground and much more • May 14, 10am-6pm • $25 (adv, family of 4), $30 (door, family of 4), $10 (adult), $5 (kids ages 4-17), free (kids under 3) Fashion Show • Southminster-Steinhauer United Church, 10740-19 Ave • 780.437.1896 • edmgrandmothers.org • A fundraiser to support African Grandmothers who are raising the millions of children orphaned by AIDS. All proceeds go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation • May 14, 2-4pm • $30 (adv only)

Night Market Edmonton • Beaverhill House Park, Jasper Ave & 105 St • nightmarketedmonton@gmail.com • 780.934.1568 • nightmarketedmonton.com • Watch an old movie, eat some food, or shop at the vendor’s stalls • Every Fri, 7-11pm, May 20-Aug • Free

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): Russian writer Anton Chekhov was renowned for the crisp, succinct style of his short stories and plays. As he evolved, his pithiness grew. "I now have a mania for shortness," he wrote. "Whatever I read—my own work, or other people's—it all seems to me not short enough." I propose that we make Chekhov your patron saint for a while. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are in a phase when your personal power feeds on terse efficiency. You thrive on being vigorously concise and deftly focused and cheerfully devoted to the crux of every matter. TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): "Creativity is intelligence having fun." Approximately 30 000 sites on the Internet attribute that quote to iconic genius Albert Einstein. But my research strongly suggests that he did not actually say that. Who did? It doesn't matter. For the purposes of this horoscope, there are just two essential points to concentrate on. First, for the foreseeable future, your supreme law of life should be "creativity is intelligence having fun." Second, it's not enough to cavort and play and improvise, and it's not enough to be discerning and shrewd and observant. Be all those things. GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): In Western culture, the peacock is a symbol of vanity. When we see the bird display its stunning array of iridescent feathers, we might think it's lovely, but may also mutter, "What a show-off." But other traditions have treated the peacock as a more purely positive emblem: an embodiment of hard-won and triumphant radiance. In Tibetan Buddhist myths, for example, its glorious plumage is said to be derived from its transmutation of the poisons it absorbs when it devours dangerous serpents. This version of the peacock is your power animal for now, Gemini. Take full advantage of your ability to convert noxious situations and fractious emotions into beautiful assets. CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): "Clear moments are so short," opines poet Adam Zagajewski. "There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form." Here's what I have to say about that: Even if it does indeed describe the course of ordinary life for most people, it does not currently apply to you. On the contrary. You're in a phase that will bring an unusually high percentage of lucidity. The light shining from your eyes and the thoughts coalescing in your brain will be extra pure and bright. In the world around you, there may be occasional patches of chaos and confusion, but your luminosity will guide you through them. LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): "Dear

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an unusually good chance of cultivating vibrant intimacy in the coming weeks. Take advantage of this grace period, please! SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): "Some days I feel like playing it smooth," says a character in Raymond Chandler's short story "Trouble Is My Business," "and some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron." I suspect that you Sagittarians will be in the latter phase until at least May 24. It won't be prime time for silky strategies and glossy gambits and velvety victories. You'll be better able to take advantage of fate's fabulous farces if you're geared up for edgy lessons and checkered challenges and intricate motifs. CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): Author Rebecca Solnit says that when she pictures herself as she was at age 15, "I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one." Let that serve as an inspiration, Capricorn. Now is an excellent time for you to celebrate the heroic, messy, improbable victories of your past. You are ready and ripe to honour the crazy intelligence and dumb luck that guided you as you fought to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. You have a right and a duty to congratulate yourself for the suffering you have escaped and inner demons you have vanquished. AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): "To regain patience, learn to love the sour, the bitter, the salty, the clear." The poet James Richardson wrote that wry advice, and now I'm passing it on to you. Why now? Because if you enhance your appreciation for the sour, the bitter, the salty and the clear, you will not only regain patience, but also generate unexpected opportunities. You will tonify your mood, beautify your attitude, and deepen your gravitas. So I hope you will invite and welcome the lumpy and the dappled, my dear. I hope you'll seek out the tangy, the smouldering, the soggy, the spunky, the chirpy, the gritty, and an array of other experiences you may have previously kept at a distance. PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): "A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home." That's from a Coleman Barks' translation of a poem by the 13th-century Islamic scholar and mystic known as Rumi. I regard this epigram as a key theme for you during the next 12 months. You will be invited to shed a host of wishy-washy wishes so as to become strong and smart enough to go in quest of a very few burning, churning yearnings. Are you ready to sacrifice the mediocre in service to the sublime? V

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Celebrate National Masturbation Month with these flicks It's National Masturbation Month! I thought a great way to celebrate would be to watch some movies and TV shows with awesome masturbation scenes. It turns out that this is more difficult than you might think. While sex scenes are plentiful in our media, masturbation scenes are rare. Where they do exist, they almost always feature someone being thoroughly humiliated when caught jerking off, or someone who is so lonely and pathetic they have to have sex with themselves. Although they are hard to find, there are a few examples where solo sex is shown as natural and healthy, even hot. Here are a few: Pleasantville (1998) Inspired by her sexually liberated

daughter, 1950s housewife Betty Parker (Joan Allen) decides it's time for her to expand her boring, blackand-white sex life. She starts by exploring herself in the bathtub. As she takes control of her own pleasure and brings herself to orgasm, her world turns to colour. American Beauty (1999) While you could argue either way about whether the masturbation scenes in this movie are positive or not, I do see a healthy aspect to them. Lester (Kevin Spacey) has decided that he doesn't care what other people think or expect of him anymore; he is going to do what he wants. This includes jerking off in bed with his wife present. If she isn't interested in having sex with him, he

will just take care of himself. Sex and the City (1998 – 2004) There are a lot of great masturbation scenes in this show, but my favourite is when Samantha (Kim Cattrall) settles in for a session with her favourite vibrator, only to find it broken. When she returns it to The Sharper Image, she facilitates an impromptu sex toy education class with the women who are all there to buy "massagers." Throughout the show, Samantha never displays the slightest bit of shame about her love of getting herself off. It's completely normal to her, and she's not afraid to talk about it. Secretary (2002) Lee (Maggie Gyllenhaal) gets her-

self off in bed while thinking about her boss, Mr Grey (James Spader). Later, after an intense spanking encounter, she locks herself in a bathroom stall to finish things herself. In both of these scenes, Lee is not depicted as pathetic because she has to get herself off, but rather as experiencing something very new and exciting and taking matters into her own hands in order to deal with it. The To Do List (2013) Brandy (Aubrey Plaza) decides it's time for her to catch up on all the sex and relationship stuff she's missed while being so focused on her academic career. She writes a list of the things she wants to try. First on the list is masturbating for the first time. This movie is a

refreshing change from the myriad sex comedies that feature male protagonists. In The To Do List, we see a young women looking to get some action and not apologizing for it. While it's nice to be able to list some examples of shows where solo sex is healthy and normal, it's sad that it's so hard to find them. Masturbation is the most common and frequent sex act, and yet when you look at the movies, you would think we hardly ever do it.V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sexpositive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk. Dan savage savagelove@vueweekly.com

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Straight male, 48, married 14 years, three kids under age 10. Needless to say, life is busy at our house. My wife and I have stopped having sex. It was my decision. I get the obligation vibe combined with a vanilla sex life, and it just turns me off. We've had many conversations about it and we want to find a balance. But it always defaults back to infrequent and dull, making me frustrated and cranky. For the past two months, I've tried to just push sex out of my mind. We live mostly as parenting roommates. We used to be pretty kinky—dirty talk, foursomes, toys, porn, etc—but all those things wear her out now, and her interest has disappeared. My guess is that she was just playing along with my kinks to keep me happy and is now over it. Is this just life as a 48-year-old married father of three? Am I being selfish for wanting more in my sex life than my wife is willing to offer? Hard Up Husband Is sex wearing your wife out, HUH, or is raising three kids wearing your wife out? I suspect it's the latter. But in answer to your question: Infrequent and underwhelming sex, sometimes with an obligatory vibe, is not only the sex life a 48-year-old married father of three can expect, it's the sex life he signed up for. There's nothing selfish about wanting more sex or wanting it to be more like it was. Kids, however, are a logistical impediment—but a temporary one, provided you don't go nuclear. A couple's sex life can come roaring back so long as they don't succumb to bitterness, recrimination and sexlessness. To avoid all three, HUH, it might help to ask yourself which is the likelier scenario: for years your wife faked an interest in dirty talk, foursomes, toys, porn, etc, in order to trap you, or your wife is currently

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too exhausted to take an interest in dirty talk, foursomes, toys, porn, etc. Again, I suspect it's the latter. My advice: masturbate more, masturbate together more, lower your expectations so you'll be pleasantly surprised when a joint masturbation session blows up into something bigger and better, carve out enough time for quality sex (weekends away, if possible, with pot and wine and Viagra), discuss other accommodations/contingencies as needed, and take turns reminding each other that small kids aren't small forever.

afraid to even interact with women. Is this therapy worthy? Upset Pittsburgher In Troubling Times

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and Therapists (aasect.org), and you're likelier to find a good/sexpositive one. As for why your "weird and awkward" first impression seemed to be less of an impediment when you were sleeping with men: men aren't subjected to male sexual violence at the same rates that women are. Women have a lot more to fear than men do, UPITT, and a weird-and-awkward first impression is far likelier to turn off a woman into dudes than it is to turn off a man into dudes. The man you flirt with at a party might think, "Dude's weird and awkward but he's hot," and jump into bed with you. But the woman you flirt with at a party is likely to think, "Dude's weird and awkward and he's hot, but he's just too weird to risk it." Something else that couldn't hurt: getting on a site like OkCupid and approaching bisexual women there. You may have better luck with women if your initial interactions

Therapy couldn't hurt ... unless you get a terrible therapist ... in which case it could. Start your therapist hunt at the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors

are over email. And finally, UPITT, there are gay and bi men out there who desire stability, too—and stability and "promiscuity" aren't mutually exclusive.

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About your answer to WHAT, the lady whose boyfriend "accidentally" ass-fucked her. I am a queer lady with a number of men in my sexual history, and I have many straight w o m e n friends who get around. "I didn't mean to stick my dick in your ass" is a lie that men tell—men who are embarrassed to ask for anal, men who want it so bad they're prepared to hurt their partner, or men who think their partner will say no if asked and just don't care. In all cases, these are men who do not even begin to understand how anal sex works. As you say, it's not an accident. But what you don't say is that these men are telling lies in order to get out of taking responsibility for their desires and the fact that they've hurt their partners. Men who want to have anal sex need to talk that through with their partners and then either figure out how to do it safely and pleasurably, accept that it's not happening, or break up if it's a deal breaker. I have had way too many conversations with women friends about the pain and anger and sometimes shame that they've felt when male partners have just stuck it in abruptly, unlubricated, and without permission. It makes me really an-

There's nothing selfish about wanting more sex or wanting it to be more like it was. Kids, however, are a logistical impediment—but a temporary one, provided you don't go nuclear

I'm one of those bi guys. I had trouble dating girls in high school and at 18 found guys so much darn easier. And as sexual promiscuity in the gay world goes, I got around there easily. Fast-forward a few years. I'm in college now and desiring women and stability more. But women find me weird and awkward—I admit I am—something I was never judged for in the gay world. This has been going on for a few years now, and it just gets worse when I'm supposed to be parading around presenting as a horny straight guy. I'd love to find a bisexual woman to start a family with who is up for mutually agreed upon swing-and-fun sessions with others. But from what I've experienced with girls so far— always on the watch for a "player," zero understanding of male bisexuality—that seems far from possible. Lately I've just been sitting on my hands in social situations,

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gry that this is something that men can describe as an "accident" without any pushback, and honestly it was kind of gross and disappointing when your answer was just jokes about butt plugs. Whatever Acronym Strongly Stresses Underlying Point I'm with you, WASSUP. I don't think anal happens by accident. Anal has always, in my vast experience, required lube, focus, precision and deep breathing. But on the two occasions when I've urged straight female callers on the Savage Lovecast to dump boyfriends who "accidentally" penetrated them anally—the pushback from male and female listeners was overwhelming. Scores of people called in to insist that anal can and does happen by accident. WHAT's boyfriend has accidentally penetrated her anally four times in a year. That raises a red flag. But WHAT was convinced it was an accident (all four times) and seemed to think her boyfriend felt genuinely terrible about it (all four times), and I deferred to a reader's POV (just one time). And here's a detail that was cut from WHAT's letter for space: "People have suggested going slow, but I like it a little rough." Perhaps I should've come down harder on WHAT's boyfriend—OK, I should've come down harder—but it seemed possible, at least in WHAT's case, that anal might've been an accident (all four times?!?). I still believe "accidental anal" is much more likely to be "intentional, nonconsensual anal," aka not an accident at all. On the Lovecast, Dan chats with writer Anna Pulley about all things lesbian: savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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