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Local chefs are growing their own veggies // 5
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International improv-fest Improvaganza turns 16 // 7
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Stellaris lets you explores the galaxy, inch by inch // 12
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Problems at Pride
Rape culture means there aren't any truly safe spaces, even at the Pride parade I didn't go to the Pride parade this year. I usually do, because despite my deeply conflicting feelings about the whole thing (well documented in this column by now), there is still something slightly magical about seeing public space made explicitly for queers, rather like the way one might smell a lover's shirt days after they have worn it: you can hardly smell them anymore, but the memory of their scent lingers. But last year something happened to take the magic away, and I wasn't ready to go back. I was on 84 Street, on the grass beside that weird little separate northbound part of the road. The parade was routed through the wider southbound street, and there were a bunch of people watching on the grassy meridian between the two. One group of spectators caught my eye immediately: three young men and one woman. I'm going to go ahead and assume that they were straight and cis. They
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were riotously, ridiculously drunk on the cheap rum they were chugging from pop bottles. Cool, no problem. The woman was topless, with electric tape over her nipples. Awesome! Nudity for everyone. As the parade went on, though, my spidey-sense started tingling. Many of you know exactly what I mean: that sense that starts in your gut and works its way through your body, that feels primal and raw and says danger. Maybe it had to do with how drunk they were. Maybe it had to do with the fact that each of three men would take turns jiggling the woman's breasts at most
parade participants (including, oddly enough, Justin Trudeau) while screaming, "Titties! Look at the titties!" The woman didn't say anything, she would just laugh. Maybe
ing something like "I got one!" I was stunned, rooted to the spot, and by the time I could make my muscles move again, the guy was back with his friends, the parade had carried the woman away, and my wife was off like a shot to grab security. I still remember that woman's face: she looked so scared. I wonder if she was newly out. I wonder if she's OK. (And if you're wondering, security came over and lingered around this group of people and then just left.) And then the day just went on. The parade ended, I went home, felt a little sick and then tried to forget it happened. I felt shame:
I felt shame: shame that I didn't react faster, that I didn't do violence to that man, that something like that could just happen
it was just the fact that they felt so entitled to act this way at a bloody Pride parade. Regardless, I was still not prepared when one of them dashed into the parade and started groping a trans* woman while scream-
shame that I didn't react faster, that I didn't do violence to that man, that something like that could just happen. And I was angry: fuck that asshole for thinking he had every right to assault someone in broad daylight, in a space that is supposed to be about us. So I needed a break from the parade this year. I didn't need another reminder that, despite my fraught feelings about Pride, I still naively thought it was a different space, that our rape-culture, patriarchal, cis-het world could stop at the door for just one day. But as queers become more mainstream, the more the mainstream spills over into our space. And that's not the fault of the organizers; it's just our shitty world. And let's not pretend that queers are immune from perpetuating rape culture, either: we're not. I still wanted just that one day, though. Be safe out there, queers. V
GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@VUEWEEKLY.COM
The end of the United States? Mass shootings will remain part of American culture "If we do not get tough and smart real fast, we are not going to have a country anymore," said Donald Trump after the massacre in Pulse nightclub in Orlando early Sunday morning—and The Donald never exaggerates. The United States is a very fragile entity, only two-anda-bit centuries old. One more attack like Orlando—50 dead and 53 wounded—and it's finished. No? That's not what Trump meant? Then how many Orlandos would it take to destroy the United States? One a month? That wouldn't really do it either, because on average around 200 Americans are killed and wounded in mass shootings every month. It's been going on for many years, and the United States is still there. Last year 374 mass shootings— defined as a shooting that kills or wounds four or more people—killed 475 Americans and wounded 1870. The media go into a feeding frenzy whenever the number killed in a single incident reaches a dozen or so, but it doesn't last long. The politicians offer their "thoughts and prayers for the victims and their loved ones," and everybody carries on as before. After all, 200 killed and wounded a month in mass shootings isn't all that big a number in a population of 325 million,
and trying to bring in gun control is not worth the political effort. It has been tried repeatedly, and it just doesn't work. Indeed, the National Rifle Association may be right in insisting that the problem is not guns but Americans. (Its slogan is actually "Guns don't kill people; people kill people", but we all know which people it's talking about.) Firearms are also widely available in Canada, but the Canadian gun-murder rate is eight times lower. Even in countries where assault weapons are widely available (like Switzerland and Israel, where military reservists keep their weapons at home), the firearms-related death rate is less than a third of the US rate, and mass shooting are very rare. "Violence is as American as cherry pie," as H Rap Brown once put it, and on the whole Americans have just decided to live with it. That's not an entirely unreasonable decision,
because changing a whole culture is hard, slow, uncertain work, and 13 286 gun deaths per year (including massacres, one-on-one killings, suicides and accidents) is only one in every 25 000 Americans. But what about terrorism? That's a real threat, isn't it? Trump even tweeted that President Obama should resign immediately in dis-
very interested in Islam. Maybe he changed after she left (he used to beat her up a lot), but his father says that the trigger for his killing spree was seeing two gay men kissing in public in Miami. But there are reports that he called 911 (the emergency services) to declare his allegiance to Islamic State just before he started shooting, and some witnesses say he shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is great!) as he was killing people. Even if true, this doesn't mean that Mateen was acting on Islamic State's orders. IS websites do not encourage potential supporters to phone head office for instructions before going out to commit terrorist acts. Just go and do it, that's all. But it may also be that Mateen was acting out of a so-called "gay panic"—an extreme reaction to displays of gay affection, generally because the person is desperately suppressing such desires in himself. In
Last year 374 mass shootings—defined as a shooting that kills or wounds four or more people—killed 475 Americans and wounded 1870
grace if he didn't say the words "radical Islamic terrorism" out loud. But it's not even clear yet if that's what the Orlando horror was really about. It's true that the Orlando shooter, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, was born in New York to Afghan immigrant parents who raised him as a Muslim, but his ex-wife says that he wasn't
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that case, the whole "Islamic" thing would have been just a cover for his real motive, which he wanted to conceal. We'll know more later, but we may never know his motives for certain. It doesn't much matter: people commit massacres for all sorts of bizarre reasons, and it makes no difference to the victims which particular one is driving them. It shouldn't make much difference to the public or the politicians either, because Mateen is just one more mass murderer among hundreds, very few of whom are Muslims. Trump (and some other people) will be pushing the "terrorism" button as hard as they can, in the hope that they can fool people into backing extreme solutions to what is really a very small problem, but that is just cynical self-interest. So what should happen? Nothing much, really. The US will go on living with the occasional mass murder because the culture is too hard to change. And terrorism—whether this particular event was terrorism or not—will continue to be one of the (relatively minor) costs of doing business in the 21st century. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. UP FRONT 3
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Journalism and democracy An interview with Gwynne Dyer on the current state of news media a fairly banned activity at that time. But we certainly have had 100 years. And it is really coming to an end. The kinds of "journals of record" that we used to have several of, that would check upon each others' veracity, are down to a very paltry few. I'm not declaring global disaster, because it was never really that wonderful to begin with. ... You only have two verifiable, reliable sources of news in print in New York, then there is broadcast media of varying reliability. You can also look at the Washington Post and look at the [New York] Times and The Guardian [online]—those websites have millions of hits a day. So maybe, partly what's happening is that the area has expanded, but the number of verifiable sources has not. You now have access to at least as many [sources] as you had at the height of the newspaper era, but they are not all [local]. For local news, you are actually up a tree.
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Bestiality laws
The Supreme Court has thrown various contentious tasks at Parliament over the last few years— fixing the laws around prostitution and assisted dying, for instance—and last week, we got one more. The Supreme Court justices found that as the law is written, bestiality is legal so long as there is no penetration. Needless to say, this should be fixed swiftly. More than likely, at the time it was written the lawmakers thought it would be good enough, as surely we don't actually want to live in a society where non-penetrative sex with animals is legal—and if you do, the simple argument is that an animal is not capable of consent analogously to how a child is not capable of consent. We're talking about open season on a particular kind of animal abuse, and we'd best deal with it. So yes, this will require our legislators to discuss what counts
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as sex with an animal. As it happens, a private member's bill, Bill C-246 was introduced by Liberal MP Nathaniel ErskineSmith in February, proposing a slew of animal-rights updates to our laws, with a section on bestiality mentioned specifically to close the very loophole around penetration. Previous attempts by the Liberals to update such laws failed, and private members' bills often don't become law. Perhaps you wouldn't agree with all the changes in Bill C-246, but surely now that the Supreme Court has found that it's perfectly legal to sexually engage with animals in a wide variety of ways, we might at least agree that there's a strong possibility that our animal-rights laws are generally decades out of date. Throwing a little more light on an attempt to update them would be a good thing. V
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wynne Dyer: historian, writer, journalist and man with a sardonic voice that seems to beckon brandy and a pipe while lulling you with years of compelling, observational wisdom. Vue had the opportunity to sit with Dyer for a candid and surprisingly humorous conversation on the state of journalism around the world—sans the brandy and pipe. VUE WEEKLY: Let's start with a
quote from editor-in-chief of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger: "I think we have to face up to the prospect that for the first time since the Enlightenment, you are going to have major cities in the UK and western democracies without any kind of a verifiable source of news. That hasn't happened for 200 to 300 years, and I think it is going to have very profound implications." I find this statement terrifying. But it seems with Postmedia owning all Southam and Sun chains, everything but The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star, this certainly has happened in Canada. So how do you have a democracy without opposing news voices? GWYNNE DYER: I wouldn't say 200 to 300 years ago; journalism was
VW: The foundations of the traditional business model are crumbling due to changes in the scale and character of news consumption: free sheets, the Internet news consumption and the global recession has created a perfect storm. GD: The timing was amazing, but actually the perfect storm for newspapers hit earlier. They were already staggering; less so in Canada, interestingly enough. And what happened in the US had nothing to do with digital/the web. They think it did, but actually it had to do with the frenzy of so-called vertical integration that happened in the '90s. VW: Vertical integration? GD: This was an investment idea,
that we could buy up a lot of broadcast media and print media and, instead of having to gather news for each one of them, we could gather the news up once and spread it around, and then we'll get rich. Or at least, people will think they'll get rich and so we'll buy all that, put it together and flip it to some idiot who'll think this is really going to work. And this was repeated several times. Of course, what you did before you flipped it was you mortgaged everything to the hilt and left it very deep in debt. ... Your average American newspaper, 40 years ago, was debt-free. Now they are so deep in debt that it's either pay the reporters or pay the bank. The story is [that] this is all the web's fault. No, it's not. Here in Canada, the newspapers are in slightly better shape because that didn't happen so much here— although you had people like Conrad Black trying to do it, but he
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went to jail instead. ... You know, he had me expelled from every newspaper he owned. VW: That's impressive—and a badge of honour, in a way. GD: Well it is, although I lost quite a lot of my income that way. His wife, Barbara Amiel, walked into the offices of the Jerusalem Post one day, just after he bought it, and saw my column and I was gone like that. He didn't even own the Canadian newspapers at that point, but I knew what was coming when I heard that he bought them—but that's just personal onus. He was trying to actually build a good newspaper, and although I have no admiration for him, in most respects, he did, in the end, produce a decent newspaper. The National Post is not a bad newspaper. VW: It's a little too right-leaning for my taste. GD: Well, I know it is, but at least it's to the right of The Globe and Mail. So you can now think of that as Canada's right-wing newspaper and The Globe and Mail as Canada's only slightly right newspaper. VW: And what, The Georgia Straight is our only left-leaning paper? GD: (laughs) Yeah, and they had to drop my column because they were running out of money too. The alternative weeklies are all dying, because what they lived on was listings and nobody buys them for listings anymore. VW: And when they are gone .. GD: Yes. When Conrad Black threw
me out ... my solution was to transit to all the alternative weeklies. ... I went to NOW in Toronto, Georgia Straight in Vancouver, Vue here in Edmonton and Fast Forward in Calgary. So I got them all and replaced that income. The only one left is Vue; [the rest] all had to drop me because they just ran out of money. They're all going down, and I doubt if any will exist in 10 years' time, including The Georgia Straight. Journalism of some sort will continue, and at some point ... people need reliable news. The people with money or jobs or something big at stake need accurate news. So that kind of news will continue to be produced in some way or another. Maybe a new business model will emerge: subscriptions, pay by view, whatever. It's not working yet, you bet, but [people] are going to need accurate reporting because they are going to need to make decisions. They can't gather all the information themselves. dale ladouceur
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all it the 100-foot diet: that spinach or radish on your plate might be just about as local as you can possibly get, if you happen to be dining at one of the restaurants around Edmonton that has its own garden. This movement has been happening for a while now, quietly—chefs putting down their knives and picking up a trowel. Some keep it small-scale: a few containers or garden boxes on a patio or rooftop; others have gone a bit bigger with a larger set of garden beds, and at least one restaurant in town has actually set up a farm outside the city devoted to large-scale growing. It's a natural extension of both the urban agriculture and local food movements—after all, you can't get much more local than something grown by a restaurant's chef, especially if it's within eyesight of your table. But chefs and restaurant staff are busy people, and gardening—even on a small scale—takes time and attention. Why are they dividing up their time even more, especially when Edmonton has a number of great local producers just a short drive out of the city? "It shouldn't be about style or about what's popular; it should be about what's the right thing to do that will help you," Shane Chartrand says. "For me, it's also just about knowledge, pure knowledge: growing it and seeing what happens, see the reaction and get better at it." When he first became chef at Sage Restaurant in the River Cree Casino, Chartrand wanted to turn the unused oyster bar in the front of the space into a miniature greenhouse. He was hesitant about pursuing the idea until just a few weeks ago, when he decided to go for it. So he filled it in with potting soil, set up some grow lights, planted some seeds and added water. His microgreens (about a dozen different types) sprouted immediately. Sage will be using them at the bar, rather than in the kitchen, for muddling and garnishing. It's a showcase piece for the restaurant, Chartrand acknowledges, but he's going to take it further if the microgreens turn out well. "Because the space is fairly deep, the next step will be herbs like sage, thyme,
Local chefs are growing their own veggies rosemary—the obvious ones," he explains. "If that ends up to be quite lush, then we're going to open it up to ramps and baby onions and stuff like that."
that has some or all of the elements from the garden, we're doing great. And then if we can pickle and preserve some stuff along the way, even better."
You can't miss the garden boxes outside Workshop Eatery: they're right there on the patio, and the tables inside look out onto them. Installing those wasn't chef Paul Shufelt's idea, but rather his landlord's: Workshop is in the Mosaic Centre, which is applying for Living Building Challenge petal status. In order to achieve that, a certain percentage of the building's landscape has to be edible. Shufelt was immediately interested when the landlord presented the idea to him, as he grew up with a large garden and still maintains one at home. "Three of our apprentices in the kitchen have an opportunity to get their hands dirty and really understand where their food comes from, and how much work and effort it takes to plant and weed and water and harvest," Shufelt says. "So they have a greater appreciation for it when it comes in the kitchen, and they take better care of it." Like Chartrand's experiment at Sage, Workshop's garden boxes are going to involve a lot of trial and error while the staff figures out how best to use the space. Having immediately available food is certainly a bonus, Shufelt notes—just recently one of his cooks ran out of spinach when an order came up, and Shufelt simply popped into the garden and grabbed a handful. But the garden also provides an important connection between the kitchen and the food the restaurant are using. "We've already had a few features that were using our spinach and using our radishes and chives and stuff like that; any chance we get to let people know we're doing that, we do," he says. "But we're certainly not advertising that everything comes from the Workshop garden, because that's just not going to be realistic. The intention for us, the goal with this, is to produce all of our own tomatoes throughout the summertime, and hopefully get all of our own herbs. And then from there, if we can do a feature or two a day
Spencer Thompson has taken the grow-it-yourself challenge a big step further: he's started up an actual farm to keep him flush with vegetables at both the Alberta Hotel (where he's a chef) and Toast Fine Catering, his catering business at the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market. "I'm sure we'd save a few bucks if we could do everything from the farm and that kind of thing, but it's more about having control and being able to grow exactly what you need, and just building that story too," Thompson says. That story started last year, when Thompson and his Toast business partner Tyler Schell bought a small eight-acre farm just outside Lacombe. Thompson grew up in Ardrossan and spent a lot of time at his friends' farms, but admits that he had no actual experience himself—so this project, just
like all the others, is really a huge experiment in trial and error. "We planted all sorts of things that didn't work because we couldn't get out there enough—it is an hour-and-ahalf drive," Thompson says, reflecting on last year's growing season. "Now we've actually got a house on the property and a cold cellar to store all the vegetables." Potatoes were the big success last year: they ended up with literal tons of potatoes that they were serving, through both the Alberta Hotel and Toast, well into January this year. And that was when they were farming everything by hand: this year, they've invested in a tractor which has made the work a lot easier. They also got their first beehive a couple of weeks ago. It's a very ambitious goal, Thompson admits: supplying both the Alberta Hotel and Toast with veggies even throughout the summer will be quite a feat, and even more so if they do it throughout the entire year. They've been testing an aquaponics system to
use in the winter months, but he notes that they are still years away from doing that on anything close to a larger scale. He hastens to add that he's making no promises about his vegetable supply, either, just like the other chefs who are growing veggies—even though Thompson's venture is much larger than the rest, he's realistic that he's new to this and anything can happen. "We didn't stake everything on this at all: if the crops don't turn out—like a lot of them didn't last year—we'll be fine," he says. "That's why I'm so hesitant to go out there and be like, 'I'm this big chef with this amazing farm, and everything's going to come from it.' Because I know that I'm going to get disappointed on a couple vegetables that just aren't going to turn out. But there's also all these little surprises, like last year we realized the bush that we were actually camping in, because we didn't have a place to stay, it was actually 100-percent saskatoons ... more saskatoons than we could pick."
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Step aside, smoothies—green cocktails are in the spotlight now Green cocktails are hot right now. Bars around the world are bringing more local, foraged and green flavours to their menus. I frequently make hundreds of craft cocktails in a week and have learned the preferences of the general populace; cucumber, mint and, surprisingly, floral elements are popular with the vast majority of people, regardless of age or gender. If you are going to do a maceration of cucumber, even though it seems quite watery, a little goes a long way and the peels can be intensely bitter. For mint, note that there are dozens of types and some work better than others in specific drinks. Try asking the next person who makes you a mojito if they are using Mentha x villosa (Cuban or mojito mint) and see if they get excited, or puzzled.
Green chartreuse—which Quentin Tarantino described as "the drink so good, they named a colour after it"—is frequently used as a shooter by dumb people looking to get dumber due to its high alcohol content (55 percent). But chartreuse also has an intensely herbaceous flavour from the 133 botanicals used to craft it, along with a rich honey sweetness. If used correctly in a fresh green drink, it can blow minds—in a good way. The trend right now is towards more tartness in drinks, which is a good thing after the dark age of sugary, poorly concocted drinks (1970s – 2000s). That said, to find the balance with intensely herbaceous (or smoky) drinks, some sweetness is often needed. My go-to ratio for a minty cocktail, like a Southside, is: two ounces of gin, one ounce of fresh
lemon juice and three-quarters of an ounce of simple syrup with a handful of mojito mint, shaken and finely strained. There's a whole range of edible flowers, such as borage and violet, that can be incorporated into summery drinks. I would always suggest ensuring that the plants you put in a garnish are edible. If you are making a home infusion, heed the words of Amy Stewart, author of the bestselling book The Drunken Botanist: "plants do not exist to serve us." Be aware that alcohol acts as a perfect solution for extracting good things like flavour, as well as bad things like plantbased toxins. Beets aren't green, but this vegetable can be successfully used in a veggie cocktail. Beets are high in sugar, have an interesting acidity, produce stunning
natural colour and an unmistakable flavour. Rogers, one of the largest sugar production facilities in Canada, uses sugar beets. Resourceful bartenders can harness this property of beets for substitution in their recipes: grenadine is easy to make and, frankly, the larger commercial brands taste like trashy cough syrup, so it's a good thing to learn to make yourself. The following recipe for beet grenadine can be used in a wide range of classic drinks, both as a straight substitute for regular grenadine as well as an alternative to simple syrup or other forms of sweetness in drinks. Beet Grenadine Peel two large organic beets and slice them thinly. In a pot, start simmering pomegranate juice with beet sugar, two parts sugar (1000 ml) to one part liquid (500 ml). Place in your raw beet slices and the pithless peels of one lemon (keep the lemon pulp/juice for the cocktail). Simmer on low heat, stirring often, for
25 minutes. Strain and allow to cool. You should yield about 1000 ml of tart and rich syrup. Take strained beet slices and place them on a greased baking sheet. Bake for five minutes per side, on high heat. Beet Old Fashioned 2 oz Alberta Premium rye 1/2 oz beet grenadine 1/4 oz fresh lemon juice 1 dash Angostura aromatic bitters Combine ingredients in stirring vessel, modify syrup and lemon to taste. Add ice and stir. Strain over cube ice in a rocks glass and garnish with beet chips. V Tarquin Melnyk is an Edmonton native who has been tending bar in numerous cities for the past six years. Named bartender of the year at the 2013 Alberta Cup, he is a published cocktail writer and photographer, and a partner in justcocktails.org.
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Moments of discovery International improv-fest Improvaganza turns 16
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apid Fire Theatre's Improvaganza began as a show at the Edmonton Fringe, bringing together a few improv groups from across Canada for a competitive Theatresports tournament. Now in its 16th year, Improvaganza has become a major festival in its own right, attracting hundreds of international improvisers from places as far afield as Austin, Atlanta and Amsterdam. "These are the best of the best acts on the planet," Rapid Fire's artistic director Matt Schuurman says. "Improvaganza has grown to become one of the largest improv festivals in the world, and certainly one of the longest-running too. It's a destination festival as far as the improv circuit is concerned. ... It's kind of the crown jewel in our season too. As our 2015 – 2016 season comes to a close, it's kind of our last big hurrah before we take a little break for the summer." Each Improvaganza show combines a Theatresports match between two teams followed by a feature showcase by one of the groups. These showcases range from the all-female improv show All Jane out of Portland to the improvised hip-hop musical North Coast out of New York to the impromptu Shakespeare play Rhapsodes out of London. Unlike the regular RFT season, the Theatresports victors will not be decided by the roll of a giant fluffy die, but by judges who will crown a champion team at the end of the festival. "The giant fluffy die is actually a Rapid Fire Theatre mod on the Theatresports form," Schuurman says. "In the original form, and the way it is mostly performed around the world, there are judges. There are three judges for each match, and
Until Sat, Jun 25 Improvaganza
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they have score cards one through five and they award the points to the scenes. Rapid Fire Theatre typically doesn't do that in our regular season. ... But when we do Improvaganza we take it back to its roots." In addition to bringing in international improv troupes, Improvaganza is creating a pan-global group of its own. Eight hand-picked improvisers, hailing from cities as distant as Tel Aviv and Melbourne, have been melded into one team for the duration of the festival. "They're being put together for the very first time in Edmonton," Schuurman says. "They're going to train together, learn some new forms together, and perform together as an ensemble four times throughout the festival. That's very exciting, because those shows will only ever exist one time." With late-night jam shows on Fridays and Saturdays, a dozen international shows and a Theatresports competition to end them all, Improvaganza has come a long way from its humble Fringe roots. No matter what show you see, you're practically guaranteed to see something new, hilarious and entirely unique. "This festival always is full of these magical moments of discovery and of improvisation that go down in memory, and they get talked about for years," Schuurman says. "I have no idea of being able to predict when or where those moments will happen, but there's going to be truly magical once-in-a-lifetime moments happening all throughout the festival." BRUCE CINNAMON
BRUCE@VUEWEEKLY.COM
REVUE // THEATRE
RENT T
// Martin Galba
ranslating large-scale productions onto smaller, more intimate stages is the bread and butter of Two ONE-WAY Tickets to Broadway Theatre. The company's most recent production shows both the pinnacles and the pitfalls of this method. RENT emphasizes the tricky balance of staging a big play in a small space, because it's more of a rock opera than a traditional musical. Most songs are loud, brash, aggressive and political. At times ("Rent," "La Vie Bohème"), the overlapping harmonies completely drown each other out and it's impossible to understand what anyone is saying. We're left sitting in the small theatre, assailed by a wall of meaningless sound. At other times ("Seasons of Love," "Life Support"), the two-dozen cast members sing a simple melody
together and their united voices are tremendously powerful. Outside of these full-cast moments, the show spotlights a number of young actors. Amanda Neufeld stands out as the self-involved diva Maureen, and the room is entirely hers when she belts out the over-the-top, surrealist protest anthem "Over the Moon." Mark Sinongco steals every scene as drag queen Angel Dumott Schunard, no matter if he's showing off his dance moves or skittering around like a yappy dog. While the main actors perform their roles excellently—from Maureen to Angel to gravelly voiced Tom Collins (Matt Graham) and neurotic Mark (Josh Travnik)—it is disappointing to see so many white faces in the main cast and more racially diverse actors stuck in
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Until Sun, Jun 26 (7:30 pm; 2 pm Sunday matinees on Jun 19 and Jun 26) Directed by Linette Smith La Cite Francophone, $15 – $26
the chorus. Set in New York in the late 1980s, RENT is as much a commentary on racial politics as it is on class struggle, sexual identity and disease. Characters that are traditionally played by black actors are now white, and the show loses some of its all-inclusive spirit because of this choice. At the end of the day, RENT still provides a powerful commentary on queer identity and social power, in the US and around the world. Despite its flaws, Two ONE-WAY Tickets' production is a touching tribute to activists of the past and a testament to how far we still have to go. BRUCE CINNAMON
BRUCE@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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ARTS PREVUE // BURLESQUE & IMPROV
Commedia Burlesco
Burlesque performer Violette Coquette // Aaron Pedersen / aaronpedersen.co
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PAUL BLINOV
// PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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his is actually why I think improv and burlesque are such great performance partners, if you will," starts burlesque dancer Violette Coquette, as she explains the idea behind her latest project,
Commedia Burlesco. "The word burlesque comes from the Italian word 'burlesco,' which means to mock or parody or make fun of. Back in the day, if there was a new opera or new ballet, which were considered 'serious art,' there would be a burlesque made of it, that would be a mockery of that opera or that ballet, specifically for people to laugh at that high art." Along with boylesque performer G Venchy and improviser Julian Faid, Coquette is introducing to Edmonton's Chvrch of John a new burlesque show that reaches all the way back to the art form's comedy roots by partnering with local improvisers. While the two performance arts mix and mingle around town in various ways, Commedia Burlesco is different in that it will present an improv set, flanked by burlesque sets, in the hopes of interweaving the two audiences. "It's basically a unique combination of performances and something for a crowd to enjoy—just mix it up a little bit," Coquette says. "The way they are going to be combined in another interesting way is that the two improvisers who are doing the middle set will be hosting the burlesque sets and also kittening." For those unfamiliar with burlesque parlance, the "kitten" is the person charged with gathering up all the discarded clothing
Tue, Jun 21 & Tue, Jul 5 (7 pm) Chvrch of John, $15
post-striptease. It's a task sure to be handled with aplomb by the selected improvisers, but it's really the unpredictable nature of both genres that truly helps to fuse the show together. "It's live," she says. "Someone could get caught in their zipper, someone could fall over. You never really know what's going to happen. And, usually, a burlesque performance is very audience interactive, just like improv, so the audience there really also shapes the experience of the performance." However, it's that subversive nature—that parody or comedy aspect—that's underpinned burlesque since its development that excites Coquette the most. "I love dancing and I love performing, but in burlesque, you get to do whatever the fuck you want on stage," Coquette explains. "Whatever social issue is weighing down my heart or whatever thing I'm currently raging about or just something I think is really funny— burlesque is a place where you can take anything, literally anything, and make it into this story to share with people." KATHLEEN BELL
KATHLEEN@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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Romeo and Juliet / Sat, Jun 18 (3 pm matinee, 7 pm gala) The Sadhana Music and Dance Society is taking Shakespeare's most enduring tale of young love—Romeo and Juliet, duh— and presenting it in Kathak, one of India's eight classical danceforms. The production features 25 professional dancers from India (in addition to locals) and an
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original score by Pandit Birju Maharaj and Louiz Banks. Plus, this Romeo and Juliet will be paired with a traditional Kathak recital, as performed by Maharaj—one of India's leading masters in the form—and accompanied by a live orchestra. It's happening twice on a single day, and then that's it! (Timms Centre for the Arts, $25 for matinee, $50 for gala) V
hough its focus on myths and mythic tales has been steadfast across its five years of existence, the way that Thousand Faces Festival has presented its chosen focus has shifted to better blend its audiences. In its early days, artistic director Mark Henderson notes, he would let each night claim a particular focus—which he then noticed meant the audiences weren't as diversified as he'd hoped. "We'd do a Shakespeare, and then the Shakespeare crowd would come to that," Henderson says. "And we'd do an indigenous circuspiece hero's journey thing, and a lot of indigenous people would come out to that, and a few other people would come out to that." For a festival dedicated to highlighting the links between different cultures' legends and stories, that lack of audience crossover was an issue. But after a festival fundraiser proved immensely successful—wherein various kinds of myth converged in the same night, bumping up against each other for
delighted audiences—Henderson realized that offering up a more mixed palette would better serve the festival's MO. "So that the same group of people—and a diverse group of people—on the same night, would hear the mythic resonances between East-Indian dance and Shakespeare," he says. "They'd see similarities between a raven story from one culture, a raven story from another." Which is what, in its fifth year, the Thousand Faces Festival is offering. Over three nights, two mythic programs—one aimed at families, the other at adults—will play out. There's a version of The Iliad, "seen through the experience of the Women of Troy as the war unfolds." Christine Frederick will preview a part of a forthcoming, indigenous version of MacBeth, to be fully presented by Alberta Aboriginal Arts and Theatre Prospero in 2017. An excerpt of a Zulu epic, Mazisi Kunene's Anthem of
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Fri, Jun 17 – Sun, Jun 19 Alberta Avenue Community Centre, by donation Schedule at thousandfaces.ca the Decades, will be performed by Tololwa Mollel and Jennifer Spencer—and many more acts from a wide reach of cultures. The festival is, as always, by donation: there's a full, free feast too, its food drawn from the rich spread of restaurants along Alberta Avenue. "It's interesting, all of these mythic things, which sometimes people think of [as] being rarefied—in the moment of experiencing them, they're not," Henderson notes. "They're about passion, they're about nature, they're about imagery that connects us to a level that, if the artist is any good at all—which all of them are—is so much more alive than it will be on the page." PAUL BLINOV
PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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DANCE DREA LEE DANCE COMPANY SHOWCASE 2016 • Arden Theatre, St. Albert • 1drealee@ gmail.com • A variety of dance styles performed by DLDC members and other performance groups • Jun 26, 7-9pm • $35 (assigned seating)
THE EPIPHANY SHOW • Woody's, 11723 Jasper Ave NW (Upstairs) • The members and guest performers of D'bomme Squad are bringing to the stage their epiphanies to bear their souls and bring the audience on the journey to themselves • Jun 18, 8pm (door), 9:30pm (show) • $5
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
FUSION NIGHT, SOCIAL DANCE • Shanti Yoga Studio,10026-102 St • Move to the Blues and other musical styles. Attendees must bring socks. No shoes permitted • Jun 17, 9:15pm (beginner lesson), 10pm (dance) • $8 - $12 (sliding scale)
ROMEO AND JULIET IN KATHAK STYLE • Timms Centre for the Arts, 112 St and 87 Ave • 780.438.4122 • ushagupta@shaw. ca • An immortal Shakespearean love saga in Kathak style • Jun 18, 3-4:30pm & 7:309:30pm • Tickets through Tix on the Square and Ticketmaster
SACRED CIRCLE DANCE • Riverdale Hall, 9231-100 Ave • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music. No partner required • Every Wed, 7-9pm • $10
SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 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
FILM CAPITOL THEATRE CINEMA SERIES • Fort Edmonton Park • Enjoy classic films on the big screen • Every Thu, 7:30pm • $10.50 (+taxes & fees)
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: Grandma (Jun 22), Beeba Boys (Jun 29) 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: The Perfect Storm (Jun 17), Captain Phillips (Jun 24)
METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre,
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 • National Aboriginal Day: honouring the unique heritage, diverse cultures and outstanding achievements of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in Canada; Jun 21, 11am-9pm; Free • Canada Day: Bring the whole family for art activities and a chance to view exciting exhibitions; Jul 1; Free • Open Studio Adult DropIn: Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 124pm; 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 laid-back 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 • Flow of Traffic Theory: artwork by Gary Dotto; Jun 2-Jul 2 • Art Ventures: Recreate, Renew, Reuse (Jun 18), 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: Weaving (Jun 16), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Recreat, Renew, Reuse (Jun 18); for 3-5 yrs; preregister; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)
ARTWALK • Perron District, downtown St Albert. Includes WARES (Hosting SAPVAC), Musée Héritage Museum, St Albert Library, Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA), Bookstore on Perron, VASA, Musée Héritage Museum, A Boutique Gallery Bar By Gracie Jane • artwalkstalbert.com • The art hits the streets again for its 15th year! Discover this art destination, a place to enjoy, view and buy art to suit all tastes and budgets. See returning artists and new ones • Jun 2, Jul 7, Aug 4, Sep 1 (exhibits run all month)
BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Tokyo Lights: artwork by Johnny Taylor; Jun 3-Jun 17 • Atmosphere: artwork by Allan Bailey; Jun 23-Jul 8; Artist Reception: Jun 23, 6-9pm & Jun 24, 1-4pm
CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.com • Exposition des membres; until Jun 22 • Artwork by Father Douglas, Sabine Lecorre-Moore, Joanne Sauvageau and Sharon Lynn Williams; Jun 24-Jul 13
JAKE'S GALLERY • 10441-123 St • karen@
Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • The Centre of Awe: artwork by Audrey Shield; May 27-Jun 29
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; May 19-Jul 2 • My Heritage 2016 Exhibit: 78 competitive original fibre art entries; May until Aug • Walk & Talk - Exhibition Tour with John E. Vollmer; Jun 30, 12-1pm; Admission by donation
JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE •
VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •
jakesframing.com • Brushstrokes: artwork by John Yardley-Jones and Spyder Yardley-Jones; Jun 6-30
JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) •
15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages
LATITUDE 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St NW • latitude53.org/patio • Patio Party: Members and guests are invited to relax, drinks in hand, on Latitude 53’s outdoor patio, while learning a bit more about contemporary visual culture; Every Thu until Aug 25, 5-9pm; $5 (suggested donation at the door)
LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Lando Gallery June Group Selling Exhibition; until Jun 30 • Impressions of Japan; until Jun 16
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 • 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 • Satisfaction Guaranteed; Jun 28-Sep 11; Opening Reception (Mad Men theme): Jul 14, 6:30-8:30pm
NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@ thenina.ca • Meshananhk Ka Nipa Wit School Youth HONOUR; Until Jun 16
PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: The Unfinished Symphony: paintings by Dave Thomas • Artisan Nook: The random artist: various creations by Shelly Banks • Both exhibitions run May 24-Jul 5
DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Other Spaces; Jun 27-Jul 2 • Gallery closed for renovations; Jul-Aug
PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304
FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.com • Summer Salon II; Jun 23, 7-9pm
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 • 2nd Floor, by the Aboriginal Collection: Redress Photography Project; May 15-Jun 30 • Gallery: Edmonton Public Schools’ Junior High First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Teen Art Show; Jun 1-31 • Cases & Cubes: Monoprints and Monotype Prints by Raymond Theriault; Jun 1-31 • 2nd Floor: REdress Photography Project; until Jul 5 • Walls & Cases: The Works Art and Design Festival; Jun 23-Jul 5 HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-
Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery. com • The Steamfitter's Guide: artwork by Robin Smith-Peck; Jun 23-Jul 12; Opening reception: Jun 23, 7-9pm • Hole-And-Corner: artwork by Kirsty Templeton Davidge; Jun 23-Jul 12; Opening reception: Jun 23, 7-9pm (artist in attendance) • Between Sleep and Wake: artwork by Nomi Stricker; Jun 23-Jul 12; Opening reception: Jun 23, 7-9pm (artist in attendance)
PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/ eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Marlena Wyman: Illuminating the Diary of Alda Dale Randall; Feb 2-Aug 20
SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • Open Works: artwork by Richard Tosczak; Jun 11-30
SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • ExChanged: artwork by Carolyn Mount; Jun 23-Aug 6
8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • The Metro will be closed for summer maintenance, Jun 27-Jul 7 • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Jun 18-19), The Secret World of Arrietty (Jun 25) • TURKEY SHOOT: Gods of Egypt (Jun 16)
112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Connect the Dots: 28th Annual Members’ Show; Jun 14-Jul 9 • Oh the Audacity! Naked Show; Jun 23-Jul 5
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS
HIDDEN TREASURES OPEN ART STUDIO TOUR • A.J. Ottewell Center, Clay Hut, Studio
142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • The International Exhibition Of Sherlock Holmes; Mar 25-Sep 5
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: Carrying On: An exhibition of bags, pouches and other cultural containers by Alberta aboriginal artists; Jun 18-23; Artist reception: Jun 25, 2-4pm • Feature Gallery: Crafting Conscience; Jul 9-Oct 1; Artist Reception: Jul 16, 2-4pm
One and other businesses • artstrathcona.com • A self guided tour of Strathcona County artists' studios • Jun 25-26, 10am-5pm • Free
U OF A MUSEUMS GALLERIES AT ENTERPRISE SQUARE • Main floor, 10230 Jasper Ave
TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-
• Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • China
visualartsalberta.com • Cattle Call; Jun-Aug
VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Voyage to Future Places: artwork by Twilla Coates and Ricardo Copado; May 31-Jun 24 • 30 Shades of Round A Journey of Mixed Media Mosaics: artwork by Helen Rogers; Jun 28-Jul 22; Opening reception: Jul 7, 6-9pm
LITERARY 2016 THOUSAND FACES FESTIVAL OF MYTHIC THEATRE • Alberta Avenue Community Centre, 9210-118 Ave • thousandfaces.festival@gmail.com • thousandfaces.ca • A three day festival hosting to two different programs–A Mythic String of Pearls, an evening with stories from different cultures in different languages along and Mythic Family Jewels, an afternoon of family fun and special cultural experiences with festival artists • Jun 17-19 • Donation at the door
AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Lori Weidenhammer "Victory Garden for Bees: A DIY Guide to Saving the Bees" Launch; Jun 16, 7pm • Carrie Stanton "Emmie and the Fierce Dragon" Signing & Meet and Greet; Jun 18, 12-3pm • Cynthia Jonasson "On my Mother's Behalf" book launch; Jun 25, 2pm • Doug Morrison "Course Correction" Book Launch; Jun 26, 2pm • Karen Elizabeth Lee "The Full Catastrophe" Book Launch; Jun 27, 7-8:30pm • Dana Liesegang "Falling Up" & Scarlett Lewis "Nurturing Healing Love" Reading & Signing; Jul 5, 7-8:30pm
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
NAKED GIRLS READING • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St NW • 780.691.1691 • There will be different themes each month • Every 2nd Tue of month, 8:30-10:30pm • $20 (door); 18+ only ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@ gmail.com SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 1022597 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com
THEATRE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • The Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave (North Side of the ATB Financial Arts Barns) • grindstonetheatre.ca • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment that unveils scenes, songs and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Every Fri, starting Sep 25-Jun 25, 11pm • $15 (online, at the door) CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A
narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun
THE COMIC STRIPPERS • Myer Horowitz Theatre, 8900-114 St • ticketfly.com • A male stripper parody and improv comedy show. A show for all genders • Jun 17, 8-10pm • $34-$39 • 18+ only FOR THE LOVE OF CYNTHIA • 10329-83 Ave NW • teatroq.com • An Alberta census taker in the 1950s discovers a tiny independent kingdom located just west of Drayton Valley • Jun 2-18 FREEWILL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL • Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park, 9330 Groat Road • 780.425.8086 • freewillshakespeare.com • Two Shakespeare plays in the park • Jun 21-Jul 17
HENRY & ALICE INTO THE WILD • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • When times get tough, the tough go ... camping? One of your favourite married couples is back in this much anticipated, hilarious follow up to the smash hit Sexy Laundry. When Henry unexpectedly loses his job, he and Alice are thrown into a midlife crisis and are forced to reconsider their dreams for a comfortable retirement. In an attempt to make the sparks fly again (and keep costs down), they forego their usual summer cottage for a humble campsite and a copy of Camping for Dummies • Jun 17-Jul 31
HOW I MET YOUR MOUNTIE • Fort Edmonton Park, Capitol Theatre, Fox Dr NW • fortedmontonpark.ca • Our heroes of the Klondike return for another season of hysterically accurate adventures of the strapping men and women of the Northwest Mounted Police. Featuring members of the Die Nasty comedy troupe • Jun 17-18, 7:30-10:30pm • $22.05 (Fri or Sat only), $39.90 (Two nights); available at Fort Edmonton Park's website
IMPROV OPEN JAM • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • grindstonetheatreyeg@ gmail.com • grindstonetheatre.ca/openjam.html • A space to share, swap games and ideas. For all levels • Last Tue every month until Jun 28, 7-9:30pm • Free IMPROVAGANZA • Rapid Fire Theatre, Citadel Theatre • 780.443.6044 • rapidfiretheatre.com • The world's best improvisors gather for the annual Alternative Comedy Festival, one of the most popular with improvisors around the world, and your best comedy outing in Edmonton • Jun 16-26 • $12 (adv), $15 (door); cash only RENT • La Cite Theatre, 8627-91 St • twoonewaytickets.com • It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS • Jun 10-26 ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • edmonton.jubilations.ca • The 1950s brought many things, but perhaps one of the best was rock ‘n’ roll music. Take a look at a fun pastime from those days: the dance marathon. Join couples as they dance away the night to great music from stars like Fats Domino, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bill Hailey, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and many more • Until Aug 21 • Adult: $67.95 (Wed, Thu, Sun), $77.95 (Fri, Sat); Senior/student: $47.25 (Wed, Thu, Sun) THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square THE WEDDING SINGER • The Maclab Centre for the Performing Arts, 4308-50 St, Leduc • leducdramasociety.ca • Presented by the Leduc Drama Society. It’s 1985 and rock-star wannabe Robbie Hart is New Jersey’s favourite wedding singer. He’s the life of the party, until his own fiancee leaves him at the altar • Jun 17-19; Jun 23-25
Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate
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
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A strained father-daughter relationship fuels a road trip in Borealis
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think beginnings and endings are the hardest, for me, as a storyteller," Jonas Chernick says. "Really, endings, they keep me up at night." But in that regard, Chernick got a lucky break with Borealis, the film he's written and stars in: he had its final moments locked in from the get-go. His frequent collaborator Sean Garrity had released a short film called Blind, which featured what Chernick felt was a perfect ending. Garrity didn't have any plans to expand the short, but he gave Chernick permission to take a crack at it. So, ending in place, he started working backwards. "I knew where I wanted these characters to end their journey, but I didn't know what the journey was going to be, or who they were, or how they would change," Chernick says. "And so I got to do something I've never done before as a writer, which was reverse-
engineer an entire story and characters based on an ending I loved." Which led him to Jonah and Aurora, the duo at the heart of Borealis. Jonah (Chernick) is a self-destructive gambling addict whose debts have risen to the point of hopelessness. Aurora (Joey King) is his pot-addled teenage daughter, whose vision is rapidly fading to blindness. Under the guise of wanting her to see the northern lights—but more immediately, for him to skip town to avoid debt—they end up on the road together, headed to Churchill, MB. (For both of Metro Cinema's Borealis screenings, either Chernick or Garrity will do a live Skype Q&A afterwards.) "It was actually the fastest I've ever written a script," Chernick admits. And since its release, it's hardly slowed down: after touring the Canadian film fest rounds—including as part of Ed-
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monton International Film Festival's 2015 edition—Borealis has gone on to play as the opening-night film at the Brooklyn Film Fest. Chernick notes that, as this interview's happening, Garrity's on a plane to China for the film's screening at the Shanghai International Film Festival. If only finding those perfect endings to start with came so easily every time. "I've read every book ever written about screenwriting, and seen all the great movies: that perfect ending is so hard to find," Chernick says. "It's so elusive. It's this idea [that] you want an ending that satisfies the audience's expectations, but in a way that surprises them. It's almost a paradox, but I understand that when it's achieved, it leaves you with something greater than the average movie-going experience." PAUL BLINOV
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aving pulled off the stunt, three years ago, of a modern-day movie about conjurors running away with $350 million, Now You See Me returns, hoping for more of its magic box-office charm. But, for all the pleasant diversions that this occasional romp pulls from its showy black hat, there's a bit of smarm alongside the charm, while the showbizzy spectacles and bigreveal-ends, justifying all the tricksy means, get tiresome. Band of merry illusionists the Horsemen—brooding Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg), oldie-but-still-goodie Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), cardsharp Jack Wilder (Dave Franco), darkly enthusiastic newcomer Lula (Lizzy Caplan)—is reunited under the aegis of shadowy-sorcery-organization The Eye and magician-posing-as-FBI agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo). But their NYC mission/show goes awry and they end up in Macao, forced to steal a super-chip for vengeful tech-titan
Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe) even as someone seems to be controlling their fates ... After a clever little title-credits sequence, there are decently snappy lines aplenty (plus—look closely or you'll miss it!—a visual pun on lobster Newburg). The plot quick-changes, sleight-of-hands, secret exits, card throws and hypno-rides along peppily enough. But the five prestidigitators' political pretense—a show of Snowden-era privacy protection— seems flimsier as the plotting gets more personal. There's not enough here to allay suspicions that Lula's been brought in as a love interest for Jack and the quixotic quintet's in Macau because Hollywood's pandering to China's movie-market. And the globe-trotting assumption that, wherever they perform, they're loved and cheered and phone-pic'd, starts to smarmily assume our adoration (director Jon M Chu's history of dance flicks and Bieber-docs blitzes and glitzes through here).
Now You See Me 2's wrapped up nice and neatly, but by then all the hocuspocus and explain-the-trickery has become show for show's sake; one heist scene, in particular, with the Horsemen lifting, hiding and passing the superchip via playing card, manages to be both show-off fun and hermetically sealed tediousness. In the end, this is fast and furious franchise-formula— it's no spellbinding surprise a 3quel's already been announced.
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Lonely planet(s) Stellaris lets you explores the galaxy, inch by inch
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n hour into Stellaris, it's difficult not to feel alone. The vastness of the solar system seems unreachable to the fringes of a slowly growing empire. Another eight hours, and the landscape of the galaxy has morphed and grown. Unknown systems have been meticulously charted by diligent explorers, and borders begin to overlap. Wars have been fought, some won, some lost, most resulting in gradual shifts of territories and lingering feelings of resentment among empires. After 40 hours, you've dived so deep into all the game has to offer,
and yet it feels like there's so much more to uncover. The painstaking product of strategygame developer Paradox Interactive, Stellaris is a game about exploring space. More accurately, Stellaris is a game about existing in space, carving out some semblance of a dynasty, leaving a mark on a galaxy as if to say, "Lo, here I am!"—and blinking out of existence just as quickly, yet another ephemeral speck making up the dust of the universe. Despite its worlds stretching across light-years, Stellaris is a game of inches, and of countless
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hours invested in finding meaning in the folly of conquest. Players familiar to Paradox's library of grand strategy titles will be immediately familiar with Stellaris' format. It's a game best described as a fusion of Europa Universalis' empire-building and Crusader Kings' bureaucratic complexity, with an undeniable homage to Master of Orion—grandfather of the 4X genre (that is, "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate"). The player assumes the role of one of countless fledgling races who have discovered the wonders of fasterthan-light space-travel and are eager to expand across the stars. As the player grows their empire, star system by star system, they'll inevitably encounter other races, some friendly, some hostile, all just as eager to make their mark on the universe. For a game in a genre that, by design, should have little story, Stellaris' narrative is surprisingly rich. As the player's science ships explore systems, they'll inevitably encounter anomalies, curiosities and remnants of long-dead races that suggest the universe is much, much older than anyone could believe. Researching these anomalies unlocks quest chains and storylines that follow a series of choose-your-own-adventure text windows that can result in immediate rewards or far-reaching consequences. While the randomly generated encounters of many grand strategy games tend to grow stale after a few playthroughs, Stellaris is utterly packed with content, ensuring that, after dozens upon dozens of hours of playtime, there's still something new to discover.
The value of these stories can't be understated, as they're where the true character of Stellaris shines. Perhaps it has something to do with the effects of staring at the same screen for hours, idly clicking on ships and stations and issuing commands, but I found myself weaving internal narratives through these random events to craft the legends of my empires. My race of pacifist, xenophilic otter-people made it their mission to collect the most exotic alien species from across the galaxy for display in their capital planet's interstellar zoo, serving as a bastion of their adeptness in animal husbandry. When my warmongering lizard-men encountered signs of a subterranean race in the caverns beneath a newly colonized planet, they took no risks and issued a pre-emptive subsurface nuclear strike. The resultant tremors and nerve-gas leaks that wreaked havoc throughout the cities were written off by our propaganda ministers as lingering threats from stray survivors trying to terrorize us—or at least, this is the story I told myself. However, Stellaris' true strength can be found in its multiplayer matches. I've spent the majority of hours logged playing alongside old friends who have since left our humble city, charting out new systems of their own. Just as we've been scattered across the country, so too are our empires scattered across the galaxy, far out of reach of one another, but connected by our shared drive to explore, expand, exploit and (occasionally) exterminate. Hours can go by in a single match before even making first con-
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Now available Paradox Interactive, Available on Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux tact with another player, but the time leading up to that moment is an experience in its own right. One player may uncover a strange relic of a long-forgotten race floating through the cosmos, while another may stumble upon an ancient temple with iconography bearing a striking resemblance to that same relic. Despite existing on opposite ends of the galaxy, these narrative moments shared over voice chat lend a sense of cohesion to an otherwise sprawling and frightening galaxy. In turn, Stellaris transcends the role of a game and serves as a vehicle for collective oral storytelling. Since its release last month, Stellaris continues to expand like the universe itself. Paradox has already released one major patch, overhauling some gameplay hiccups and adding new features that have already radically transformed how the game plays. As is the company model, it will continue to do so in the coming months and years, ensuring that Stellaris constantly grows and evolves, offering endless galaxies of content for players to explore. If, by some stretch of the imagination, one ever does run out of content to experience, there's still an infinite number of stories to be told and shared among fellow players—Stellaris has as many stories to be told as there are stars in the sky. MIKE KENDRICK
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The Burning Hell returns to Edmonton with Public Library
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s the Burning Hell toured People, its 2013 album, the praise that record earned from the European press was almost universal. Almost. "There was one negative review that stuck with me," Mathias Kom offers. "The gist of the review was that [the record] was too wordy. And I took that kind of personally— like, 'But that's my whole thing!' I don't know how to do songs in any other way. And in a fit of reactionary immaturity, I decided that the next record was going to be even wordier." Leap ahead a couple of years and the band's next record, Public Library, is fittingly "the most extreme version of my kind of songwriting," Kom
admits. And, well, yep: The Burning Hell's songs have always been verbose, funny and affecting, but Kom and the band clearly doubled down on their definitive traits across the album's eight songs. One recounts MJ and Elvis living secretly in a Northern Ontario cabin ("Two Kings"): another finds the band comparing a touring low to a Cormac McCarthy novel ("The Road"). "Fuck The Government, I Love You" details a romance birthed from a New Year's Eve house party. Some songs approach the breathlessness of syllable-packed hip hop in their delivery, others more spaciously weave their narratives. Both ways, the effect is of crisp, clever storytelling with instrumental dexterity to match.
"It was a challenge to myself to take the story-song further than I had before," he recalls. "To not worry about lyrical density." It's also been five years since the Burning Hell last made its way to Edmonton. Kom's chatting, pre-tour, over the phone from St John's, where two members of the band, Darren Browne and Jake Nicoll, make their permanent home. (Kom and clarinetist Ariel Sharratt are out in Prince Edward Island; bassist Nick Ferrio lives in Peterborough.) Europe and the UK have been the band's touring grounds of choice the last few years. This time around, in honour of Public Library's MO and title, the band managed to book a few EU dates in actual libraries.
"I tried to make it happen in Canada too, but I couldn't find any libraries that were at all into the idea of having us play there," Kom notes. In fact, even though none of those library dates actually took place in Germany, that country really got on board with the idea. "The German Library Association decided to take it on as something they wanted to promote," Kom says with an audible grin. "We're not playing in any libraries in Germany, but the German Library Association is kind of co-promoting the tour, which is awesome and strange." But back to letting go of restraints: in embracing his own penchant for verbosity, Kom found the making of Public Library a
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liberating experience. "I had such a great time writing these songs," he says. "It sounds like I put restraints on myself, but I just let myself go completely: If this turns out to be a six-minute song about a killer priest, great. It doesn't matter. It was really freeing, and a lot of fun, to just stop caring about that. I just went with it."
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Royal Tusk
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t felt like we were at square one again," reflects Daniel Carriere, frontman of Edmonton-based rock 'n' roll ensemble Royal Tusk. The band has been on the road across Canada in support of its sophomore release, DealBreaker, an 11-track LP that evokes the golden era of guitar-driven rock songs. With two tracks clocking in over the six-minute mark, and several others coming close, you can almost smell the beer-soaked denim and stale cigarette smoke on this record. "2015 was a tough year for us," Carriere admits. "We parted ways with [our] label and management." These changes, plus a lineup adjustment on guitar, are about as trying a position as any band could be in. But Carriere, former guitarist of Ten Second Epic, is not one to be rattled. "It's a tough industry," he says. "What would normally be a mundane busi-
ness decision, when you're doing music, [it] feels more personal—you're writing stuff from the heart." Given all this, the album's name and title track seem of obvious intent, but as Carriere explains, when guitar chords began to crack over amplifiers, attitudes toward the term changed. "Originally, we thought of 'deal breaker' in a negative connotation," he says. "[But] the song on the record is a love song—it's about that person that's the deal breaker for you ... the game changer." Recorded in Toronto under the guidance of producer Eric Ratz (Big Wreck, Arkells, Billy Talent), the album is loud, displaying energy reminiscent of the early 1970s. "We're totally inspired by the '70s," Carriere says. "And I think it was important to make a record that's cool
Fri, Jun 17 (9:30 pm) Part of Beaumont Blues and Roots Festival Fri, Jun 17 – Sun, Jun 19 Four Seasons Park, Beaumont, $45 – $150 bbrf.ca to listen to all the way through, even if there are six- or seven-minute songs." Through this lens, the album's theme smashes into focus and the screeching guitar solos on "Cold on Me" and "So Long the Buildup" layer into a singleminded pursuit—produce a sound that does justice to Royal Tusk first and outside interests second. "You want to get on the radio, and there are some gross realities about that," Carriere says. "Usually a song has to be three minutes with four choruses and vocals in 15 seconds." It's a formula, Carriere concedes, and one that tends to treat music like a business rather than an art form. But DealBreaker strays from this convention. The results are earnest and raw, and Carriere himself puts it best: "You can feel it when it's honest." SHAWN BERNARD
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Soap Box Duo W
ith a clean-cut vibe, the Soap Box Duo stands out from the rough-and-tumble esthetic of most local music scenes. Young newlyweds Jenesa and Alexander MacMullin are hoping to inspire, not alienate, listeners through sharing their own experiences of struggle. The MacMullins met while studying music at Grant MacEwan and connected over a shared interest in social justice. Their self-titled EP, to be released on June 23, features an upbeat, folk-pop collection that reflects the band's mission statement: "to inspire others to use their gifts to promote justice"—an ode to their band name. The song "Kissed the Girls," for example, speaks to the healing process after surviving sexual abuse. "Poison" illustrates Alexander's struggles with addiction—namely, drugs and porn. But the pair says the songs don't come across as preachy because
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they are telling the stories through a personal narrative. "We aren't making the statement that no one should ever do these things," Jenesa reflects. "It's more like, 'When I did these things, I realized it was destroying my life.'" But carving out a squeaky-clean image can be isolating. Not only is the duo based in Spruce Grove, but their lifestyles diverge from both the liberal arts community and the larger music community in Edmonton. "There's times when you feel outside of the circle. It's like being on the playground as a kid. We live a little bit different than other people, and sometimes we sit on the sidelines. But we've found people who are very encouraging and positive and [can] be worldchangers and love on people through their music," Jenesa says, referencing Chris Wiebe and Luke Deutekom, who play drums and bass on the EP.
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She also mentions Sherwood Park trio the Royal Foundry as a positive influence on their band: "Music is central to who they are, and they use it in their best way to bring joy to other people." Royal Foundry frontman Jared Salte produced the Soap Box Duo's EP at his studio, and drummercellist Robbie Szabo rounded out their sound with his strings. "In some ways, we're separated from the community," Alexander says. "But in another way, we've found a community of really great musicians."
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Gold and Shadow
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f you haven't lived in one yourself, you probably know a place like it: an infamously overpopulated house with a revolving door of denizens that, despite its often derelict appearance, bears nostalgic charms. The Birdhaus in Nanaimo, BC is such a dwelling—and the namesake of the new EP from Gold and
Shadow. As the EP's writing process drew to a close, the Nanaimobased art-rock group was searching for a common thread within its lyrics. What struck the band members instead was the realization that all of the songs had been written, developed and jammed out in the Birdhaus—as it had been
dubbed by its residents. "It's just kind of the classic a bunch of guys living in a house. It's disgusting," vocalist Dane Letourneau says, somewhat affectionately. "But we thought that was kind of hilarious and quirky, so we sort of rolled with it." The homage to the Birdhaus extends to the album's visuals, courtesy of newly added touring synth player Matt Lineker. He created an illustrated booklet commemorating different events throughout the house's sordid history, from the usual messy kitchen scenes to a fire on the deck. "We jammed in various locations in the house. At one point, it was in the middle of summer, and the jam space had moved up from the basement to the attic. It was this big, old attic and its namesake was these birds that were living right in
the middle of that attic that would make this very loud sound when they all went from place to place," Letourneau recalls, when asked about any stand-out memories. "So we would all rehearse up there and it was just so hot ... because there were no windows you could really open. But then we would go outside and have beers on the roof, because you could get onto the roof of this house. ... It had its upsides, but it was one of those places you feel conflicted about: I would love a nice jam space, but it's free." Birdhaus, the follow-up to Gold and Shadow's acclaimed debut, Torch, was intended to be a condensed listening experience that would follow a cohesive structure while exploring some new sounds— namely synths, in this case, creating atmospheric, dynamic soundscapes.
Thu, Jun 23 (8 pm) With Twilight Choir Bohemia Letourneau notes that many of the band's previous songs were quite lengthy, and he wanted to experiment with writing tracks under four minutes long. The idea was met with some resistance at first, but everyone got on board eventually. "Try to say what we want to say in under four minutes, and that wasn't very popular at first. But I think people eventually wanted that anyway, because we were kind of tired of doing the seven-minute, progrock sort of thing," he explains. "Even as a listener I started to lean away from that sort of thing. It was like, 'OK, if you can't say what you want to say in under four minutes, is it worth the extra time?'"
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oin the band, come on tour / Get in the van / What are you waiting for?" sings Jim "Shotgun Jimmie" Kilpatrick on "Join the Band," the lead track from his new record, Field of Trampolines. A prolific songwriter, Kilpatrick isn't one to shy away from the open road, often reminiscing on his shared experiences through his lyrics. So, is the music game just a flimsy excuse to get out and see the world? "It's a great excuse!" Kilpatrick laughs. "It's an excellent way to see the world—you're not just a tourist if you're working, too. If you're on tour you get your hooks into the culture a little bit more, in that you are inter-
acting with people from the scene that you're playing in. It's like a working vacation. You're in a little car with this crazy dude in Berlin, and he's an architecture student showing you all of his favourite buildings in the city." Field of Trampolines was recorded at the end of a cross-Canada tour in Dartmouth, NS with longtime friend Joel Plaskett. After having sworn off the notion of ever working with a producer, Kilpatrick had something of an epiphany one night while watching Plaskett perform. "I had done a split single with Joel several years ago, and we'd stayed in touch since then. If we were ever playing in towns close to each other,
we'd hang out," he recalls. "He'd offered to help out before and work on something together, but I didn't like the idea of working with someone else for such a long time. That writing and recording and playing of music was my documentation about my interest in music, and I didn't see how anyone would fit into that, or how it would make sense. It didn't seem right for my projects. But I had an a-ha! moment at one of his shows. I realized he's a genius, and I'd be an absolute idiot if I didn't." Considering the album was recorded mostly live over three days, and mixed in one, how involved was Plas-
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NEWCASTLE PUB & GRILL
APEX CASINO Amie Weyme & the Atta Boys; 9pm
Persons of Interest; 9pm; No cover
ARCADIA BAR Becophus
Thursdays; DJ and party; 9pm
Horsemen; 9pm
King with Ryan Hook & Jonny Cole; 9pm
ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow
O'BYRNE'S IRISH PUB
ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Nova
Edmonton's best solo musicians
Scotiables; 8pm
ON THE ROCKS Grave New
of the Dog: Krista Hartman (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover
SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE
House Function Thursdays; 9pm
FRI JUN 17 APEX CASINO Amie Weyme & the Atta Boys; 9pm
NEW WEST HOTEL Hurtin
World; 9pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Rock
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair
This House 7EVEN (pop/ rock/indie); 9pm Jun 17-18
BLUE CHAIR CAFE Front
SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Quentin Reddy
BLUES ON WHYTE Joel DaSilva & the Midnight Howl; 9pm
Porch Roots Revue; 8:3010:30pm; $15
DENIZEN HALL Taking Back Thursdays: weekly punk, alternative and hardcore music; Every Thu, 8pm
Saturday Electric Blues Jam with Rotten Dan and Sean Stephens (blues); Every Sat, 2-6pm; No minors • Later: Rock This House 7EVEN (pop/rock/indie); 9pm
Sparks K-DJ Show; 9pm-1am
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STARLITE ROOM The
Pack Ad, Gender Poutine, Daydreaming; 8pm (door), 8:30pm (show); $20; 18+ only
(country); 9pm
TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE Mikey Wong and his lineup of guest DJs
stage with host Naomi Carmack; 8pm every Thu
ARCADIA BAR 100 Miles to Gunn with Cam Frampton & Taylor Brostrom; 9pm; $5
L.B.'S PUB Open Jam hosted by Cody Forsberg; 7-11pm
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Olivia Wik (alternative/
ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Nova
pop); 9pm
Scotiables; 8pm
BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB
Classical
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
Live music; Every Sat; Free
Cody Mack (alternative/ rock); 9pm
WINSPEAR CENRTRE
BAILEY THEATRE–CAMROSE
BOURBON ROOM Live music
NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Early: Happy Hour featuring Infinity Trio; 5:30pm • Later:
The Legendary Downchild Blues Band; 8pm; $49.95 (+GST) BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ The Joni
Project; 8:30-10:30pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE Joel
BOHEMIA Simon Bar Sinister
Classical
with the X Quartet and Jeschke x Smith BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB
NEW WEST HOTEL Canadian
BOURBON ROOM Live music
Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; 7pm O’BYRNE’S IRISH PUB Live
music SANDS INN & SUITES
Karaoke Thursdays with JR; Every Thu, 9pm-1am SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Pete
Turland's Rockabilly Thursdays & West Coast Swing Dance Lesson; 8-11pm
each week with a different band each week; 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE
Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every TueFri, 5-8pm BRIXX BAR Tops with guests
DEVONIAN BOTANIC GARDEN
Opera al Fresco; 6-10pm; Sold out WINSPEAR CENRTRE
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live
Potatohed; 9pm
Control Fridays with DJ Echo & Freshlan DRUID IRISH PUB Live DJs;
Every Fri, 9pm
EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE Flashback
King Parrot & Child Bite; 7pm (door); $26; 18+ only
the Side; 9pm
TAVERN ON WHYTE Open
Joanne Janzen (adult contemporary/country/ pop); 9pm
MERCER TAVERN Movement
FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy
Warp Late Night Throwback Dance Party with DJs Joses
stage with Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY
Fuqn’ Fridays
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Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON Wow
(pop); 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD 5 on
the Side; 9pm Thin Mints; 4-6pm; No cover
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY
First Fri of every month, 9pm
CASINO YELLOWHEAD 5 on
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat
THE BOWER Strictly Goods:
CASINO EDMONTON Wow
(pop); 9pm
Potatohed; 9pm
Hop with DJ Babr; every Fri
EL CORTEZ TEQUILA BAR AND KITCHEN Kys the Sky;
STARLITE ROOM Voivod with
CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK
Bruce as Nearly Neil Diamond; 5pm (dinner doors), 5:30pm (dinner), 6:45pm (show doors), 7pm (show); $59.95 (dinner/ show), $29.95 (show only)
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Kevin Martin; Wooftop: DJ Remo & Guests; Underdog: Rap, House, Hip-
music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)
Blues every Thu: rotating guests; 7-11pm
CAFE BLACKBIRD Poor Nameless Boy; 8-11pm; $15 (door)
CENTURY CASINO Bobby
THE COMMON Quality
featuring local musicians; Every Thu, 11:30-1pm
each week with a different band each week; 9pm
DJs
CAFE BLACKBIRD Ladies of CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK
Miscellany # 6: Summer of Self Love
CASK AND BARREL Wafer
Faith Healer; 8pm (door), 8:30pm (show); $12; 18+ only Jazz; 8-11pm; $15 (door)
BOHEMIA Imagination
Orchestral Fantasies; 7:30pm; $24-$79
Old school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL SQUARE Live at Lunch
SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live
WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK Live Music
DaSilva & the Midnight Howl; 9pm
Live music; Every Fri; Free
NORTH GLENORA HALL
TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music every Fri with local musicians
Fridays; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation
Tennyson with Infilm and Noiwav; 8pm; No cover Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro (country); Every Thu, 7pm; No minors
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& Cornerstone; 9:30pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE
SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder
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open stage; 7pm
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ON THE ROCKS Grave New
World; 9pm
HUMMINGBIRD BISTRO CAFE Bistro Jazz; Every
Wood Shack (alternative/ blues) with The Give Em Hell Boys and guests; 7pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door)
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT CENTURY CASINO AND TICKETMASTER
Saturday Country Jam (country); Every Sat, 3pm • Later: Hurtin Horsemen; 9pm
Cody Mack (alternative/ rock); 9pm
MERCURY ROOM Devil in a
COMING SOON: KENNY SHIELDS AND STREETHEART AND MORE!
NEW WEST HOTEL Early:
FILTHY MCNASTY’S Wet Your
Every Thu, 7-11pm
FRIDAY JUNE 24
Persons of Interest; 9pm; No cover
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
LIZARD LOUNGE Jam Night;
DOUG AND THE SLUGS
NEWCASTLE PUB & GRILL
pop); 9pm
KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open
SATURDAY JUNE 18
NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN The Besnard Lakes with Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche and Jom Comyn; 8pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door)
FIDDLER'S ROOST Acoustic
An Evening With Meat Loaf; 8pm; $45-$125 (at Ticketmaster)
BOBBY BRUCE as NEARLY NEIL
Bands every Sat; this week: JellyBean
Karaoke; Every Thu, 7pm
JUBILEE AUDITORIUM
JUN 17 & 18
MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local
(country); 9pm
Thu, 7:30pm; Free
JASEN FREDRICKSON
(alternative/rock) and guests; 4pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door)
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Olivia Wik (alternative/
Circle Jam; 7:30-11:30pm
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music; 9:30pm MERCURY ROOM SWMRS
SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Quentin Reddy
EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE
COMEDY AT THE CENTURY CASINO
LB'S PUB The Tomatoes
THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday
& Roots Festival: featuring Sloan, Jr Gone Wild and many more; Runs Jun 17-19
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
Anzu, Lucas Chaisson and more
Friday; Every Fri Fridays; 8pm NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Time
Joanne Janzen (adult contemporary/country/ pop); 9pm FESTIVAL PLACE Picnic in the Park with NUOVA (Part of the Opera Nuova Festival); 4:30pm; Admission by donation FILTHY MCNASTY'S Reid
Maul EP Release with guest Braden Gates; 4pm; No cover FOUR SEASONS PARK– BEAUMONT Beaumont Blues
Orchestral Fantasies; 8pm; $24-$79
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions with Miss Mannered featuring Alt.Rock/Electro/ Trash; Wooftop: Sound It Up! with DJ Sonny Grimezz spinning classic Hip-Hop and Reggae; Underdog: Hip Hop open Mic followed by DJ Marack
THE BOWER For Those Who
Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down
It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with Wright & Wong, Dane DRUID IRISH PUB Live DJs
every Sat; 9pm EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN & TEQUILA BAR
Tonight We Dance with DJ Thomas Culture playing Classics, Hip-Hop, Dance and Indie Rock; Every Sat, 9pm; No cover EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE
Rotating DJs Velix and Suco; every Sat MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey
Wong every Sat THE PROVINCIAL PUB
& Roots Festival: featuring Sloan, Jr Gone Wild and many more; Runs Jun 17-19
Saturday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice; 9pm-2am
GAS PUMP Saturday Jam;
SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE
3-7pm HENRY MARTELL PARK
Highlandia Music Festival; Featuring Braden Gates,
Psyturdays: various DJs; 9pm SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM
Swing Dance Party: Sugar
Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com
Marshall Lawrence Band (variety); Every Sun, 5pm; All ages
TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,
ALL SAINTS’ ANGELICAN CATHEDRAL, CONVOCATION HALL Summer Solstice
Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am Y AFTERHOURS Release
Saturdays
SUN JUN 19 ARCADIA BAR Make Music Edmonton; Donation at the door for Ft. McMurray Relief Fund; 12-5pm BLUE CHAIR CAFE Brunch:
Will Cramer & Friends; 9am3pm; Donations BLUES ON WHYTE Joel
DaSilva & the Midnight Howl; 9pm DANCE CODE STUDIO
Flamenco Guitar Classes; Every Sun, 11:30am12:30pm DIVERSION LOUNGE Sunday
Night Live on the South Side: live bands; Free; All ages; 7-10:30pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S
Sacrilege Sundays: All metal all day FOUR SEASONS PARK– BEAUMONT Beaumont Blues
& Roots Festival: featuring Sloan, Jr Gone Wild and many more; Runs Jun 17-19 NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Early:
We Took the Floor featuring ETown Vocal Music Society; 1pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door) • Later: of Montreal and guests; 7pm; $30 (adv), $40 (door) • Even later: Call The Shots Umpteen Collective; 10pm; $5 (door) O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Six String
Classical
Music Festival; $135 (adult, festival pass), $120 (senior 65+, festival pass), $60 (student, festival pass); $35 (adult, single pass), $30 (senior, single pass), $15 (student, single pass), plus applicable fees ATRIUM AT THE KING’S UNIVERSITY Masterclasses:
Benjamin Butterfield & Michael McMahon (Part of the NUOVA Festival); 7pm; $15 (adult), $10 (student) COSMOPOLITAN MUSIC SOCIETY Musica di
Mezzogiorno – Italian Art Songs (Part of the Nuova Festival); 3pm; $16 (adult), $14 (senior), $12 (student), $10 (children 14 and under)
SHAKERS ROADHOUSE
Sunday BBQ Jam Every Sunday hosted by the
Karaoke Monday PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild Rose Old Tyme
Fiddlers Association: Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm
L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN
Happy Hour featuring Fat Dave Johnston; 5:30pm NEW WEST HOTEL Joe
RED PIANO BAR Swingin'
MacDonald; 9pm
Mondays; 8-11pm
O’BYRNE’S Guinness Celtic
SHAKERS ROADHOUSE
jam every Tue; 9:30pm
Monday Jam with $4 Bill; Every Mon, 8-11pm
SHAKERS ROADHOUSE
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A
Crazy Dave's Rock & Roll Renegade Jam; 7:30pm
Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon
Classical
SIDELINERS PUB Singer/
Songwriter Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:30-11:30pm; Free YARDBIRD SUITE Oh Canada!
Series Edmonton Send Off Concert; 7:30pm
ALL SAINTS’ ANGELICAN CATHEDRAL, CONVOCATION HALL Summer Solstice
Music Festival; $135 (adult, festival pass), $120 (senior 65+, festival pass), $60 (student, festival pass); $35 (adult, single pass), $30 (senior, single pass), $15 (student, single pass), plus applicable fees
DJs
Away!; 3pm
Quartet & Friends: Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn; 7:30pm
DJs
DJs
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main
spins alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic & euro; Every Tue
Floor: Soul Sundays with DJ
Zyppy ~ A fantastic voyage through 60’s and 70’s funk, soul & R&B; Every Sun
MON JUN 20 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
ALL SAINTS’ ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL Fine Arts
Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest
with DJ Blue Jay - mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic
Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am
TUE JUN 21
YELLOWHEAD BREWERY
Matt Haimovitz; 8pm
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Eddie Lunchpail
ON THE ROCKS Turn't Up
Tuesday
WED JUN 22 BLUES ON WHYTE Blues
Mules; 9pm
Wooftop: Metal Mondays with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox
Junk; 9pm
BOURBON ROOM Acoustic singer songwriter jam; Every Wed, 8pm
BLUES ON WHYTE Flying
BRITTANY'S LOUNGE
BRITTANY'S LOUNGE
Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every TueFri, 5-8pm
Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every TueFri, 5-8pm
Junk; 9pm
FIDDLER'S ROOST Open
SANDS INN & SUITES Open Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm
ON THE ROCKS Killer
HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Hi Ho Windrose,
RIVER CREE–The Venue
Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash Tribute: A Night To Remember; 7pm (door), 9pm (show); Tickets start at $29.50
featuring host Naomi Carmack and guest; 9pm; No cover
Classical
Ammar's Sunday Sessions Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm
RICHARD'S PUB Mark
KELLY'S PUB Open Stage:
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Yet I Will Rejoice In The Lord; 11am
THE BUCKINGHAM The Burning Hell (adult pop/ alternative/folk/rock) with Kathryn Calder; 8pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door)
Loaded; 9pm
NEW WEST HOTEL Joe
MacDonald; 9pm
Stage; 7-11pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S Classic
Rock Monday NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Early: Happy Hour featuring
Nick Samoil; 5:30pm • Later: Shotgun Jimmie with Human Music and Little League; 8pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door)
BLUES ON WHYTE Flying
Ryan Kasteel; 8pm-2am NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Early:
Happy Hour featuring Tyler Butler; 5:30pm • Later: The North Country Fair Afterbender featuring Swear By The Moon with Picture The Ocean and Winona Wilde; 8pm; $8 (adv), $10 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Joe
MacDonald; 9pm
jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Guests and newcomers always welcome; every Wed, 7pm; $2 (donation, per person), free coffee available
SHAKERS ROADHOUSE
Wednesday's; Every Wed
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9:30pm
KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE
UBK PRESENTS
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NE OBLIVISCARIS W/ BLACK CROWN INITIATE, STARKILL
BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover
Wednesdays at the Pint with DJ Thomas Culture; Every Wed, 10pm
LEFTÖVER CRACK
WARM UP YEG
Music Festival; $135 (adult, festival pass), $120 (senior 65+, festival pass), $60 (student, festival pass); $35 (adult, single pass), $30 (senior, single pass), $15 (student, single pass), plus applicable fees
PINT DOWNTOWN Wild Wing
STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS
JUL/15 SHAMBHALA
ALL SAINTS’ ANGELICAN CATHEDRAL, CONVOCATION HALL Summer Solstice
GAS PUMP Karaoke;
THE DEAD COLD
W/ PIGEON HOLE, NEON STEVE
Classical
Cluckin’ Wednesdays
GAS PUMP Karaoke;
JUN/30
TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY Live music
FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy
THE FORGE PROUDLY BRINGS TO YOU
W/ DAYS N DAYS, THE DEVIL’S SONS
9pm
Jam Circle; 7:30-11:30pm
9:30pm
JUN/28 SOLD OUT
TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke;
Main Floor: DJ Kevin Martin;
TIGER ARMY
CD RELEASE PARTY W/ CAVEAT, KYOKTYS, SKEPSIS
with guests The Bellfuries, The Pine Hill Haints; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $30; 18+ only
Every Wed
Bingo! Tuesdays
JUN/25
STARLITE ROOM Tiger Army
FILTHY MCNASTY'S Mother
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JUN/24 ASTRAL HARVEST PRE PARTY W/ STICKYBUDS & FLAVOURS
Wailin' Wednesday Jam with Hosts Wang Dang Doodle (variety); Every Wed, 7:3011:30pm; All ages
FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle
VOIVOD
W/ THE BELLFURIES, THE PINE HILL HAINTS
RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed
JUN/22
THE PROVINCIAL PUB
open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm
DRUID IRISH PUB Karaoke
CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS
W/ KING PARROT, CHILD BITE
Karaoke Wednesday
THE BUCKINGHAM Duchess Says (alternative/punk/rock) with Partner and guests; 7:30pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door)
Wednesdays
JUN/16
PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass
BLUEPRINT ALBERTA + PEEP THIS + STARLITE ROOM PRESENT
BOB MOSES W/ HARRISON BROME
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780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW, 780.433.5530, holytrinity.ab.ca HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage.com HUMMINGBIRD BISTRO CAFE 8336-160 Ave, 780.401.3313, hummingbirdbistro.ca IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St NW, 780.451.8825, kellyspubedmonton.com L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LIZARD LOUNGE 11827 St. Albert Tr, 780.451.9180, facebook.com/ The-Lizard-Lounge MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, mcdougallunited.com MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108
St, 780.425.9730 NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524 Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PALACE CASINO 8882-170 St NW, 780.444.2112, palacecasino. com PINT–DOWNTOWN 10125-109 St NW PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St, 780.431.0091, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch. com STUDIO 96 10909-96 St NW SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY 17118-90 Ave TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW, 780.433.1604, trinity-lutheran. ab.ca TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE 10324-82 Whyte Ave UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB 10746 Jasper Ave, 780.951.2705 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com
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COMEDY BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE • 10425-82 Ave • Underdog Comedy Show • Every Thu
NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free
SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • 780.452.4661 • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta offers a variety of services and support programs for those who are living with the illness, family members, caregivers, and friends • 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm • Free
TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.479-8667
The Tea Girl, 12411 Stony Plain Rd; Jun 19 & Jun 22, 7-8pm; Free; contact highstreetspeakers@hotmail.com • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS AFFIRMATIVE PRAYER WORKSHOP • Unity of Edmonton, 11715-108 Ave • unityofedmonton.ca • Enriching guests' personal prayer life and enlivening their spiritual journey through Affirmative Prayer • Jun 16, 7-9pm • Admission by freewill offering of choice
CLAIMING THE VIEW: PHOTOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL IN JOHN THOMSON’S TIME • University
CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm
COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Paul Sveen; Jun 17-18
COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Godfrey; Jun 15-19 • Seaton Smith; Jun 23-26
CONNIE'S COMEDY PRESENTS COMEDY NIGHT • Azucar Supper Club • With Lars Callieou and
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
PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Drop in hours: Mon, Wed 4-7pm; Fri 6-9pm; Closed Sat-Sun and Holidays • JamOUT: Music mentorship and instruction for youth aged 12-24; Every other Tue, 7-9pm • Equal Fierce Fit & Fabulous: recreational fitness program, ages 12-24; every other Tue, 6-8pm, every other Tue • Queer Lens: weekly education and discussion group open to everyone; every Wed, 7-8:30pm • Mindfulness Meditation: open to everyone; every Thu, 6-6:50pm • Men's Social Circle: A social support group for all maleidentified persons over 18 years of age in the LGBT*Q community; 1st and 3rd Thu each month; 7-9pm • Art & Identity: exploring identity through the arts, a wellness initiative; Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Movies & Games Night: Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Thought OUT: Altview’s all-ages discussion group; every Sat, 7-9pm • Men Talking with Pride: Social discussion group for gay and bisexual men; Every Sun, 7-9pm
Charles Haycock • Jun 22, 7:30pm • $5
ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave •
CONNIE'S COMEDY PRESENTS COMEDY SHOWCASE • Bourbon Room, St, Albert • with Howie
780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)
Miller, Rudy Gunn • Jun 16, 8:30pm
TEAM EDMONTON • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • Swimming: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • Water Polo: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • Yoga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • Taekwondo: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • Abs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:15-8:15pm • Dodgeball: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • Running: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • Spin: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• Volleyball: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • Meditation: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:30-6:15pm • Board Games: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per month, 3-7pm • All Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8468-81 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm
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
BABES IN ARMS • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • A casual parent group • Every Fri, 10am-12pm
CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Alberta Works Health Centre, #600 12323 Stony Plain Road • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Injured workers in pursuit of justice denied by WCB • Jun 23, 3:30pm
WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • 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 7pm12:30am • 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
DROP-IN D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Every Tue, 7pm • $5 EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe),
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10728-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm
ALLEY KAT BREWERY TOURS • Alley Kat, 9929-60 Ave • 780.436.8922 • alleykatbeer.com • Interested in how grain becomes beer? Want to see the brewing process in action? Alley Kat is always game to chat beer with folks • Every Thu-Fri, 12-5pm
FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan
CANADA’S NATIONAL GARDEN DAYS • Devonian Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • 780.987.3054 ext. 2223 • dbg.events@ualberta.ca • devonian.ualberta.ca • A Canada-wide, coast-tocoast-to-coast celebration of all things "garden". An opportunity for Canadians to enjoy their own garden, visit or take part in their favourite garden experience, get inspired at their local garden centre or travel to a nearby destination to enjoy their favourite garden • Jun 17-19
• 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION NIGHT • Habitat for Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext. 236 • vbatten@hfh.org • hfh.org/volunteer/vin • Learn about taking the next steps and what opportunities are available at Habitat for Humanity • Every 3rd Thu of the month, excluding Dec; 6-7pm • Free
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 • SAGE downtown 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.695.4588 • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every Fri, 2-3:30pm • Free 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)
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of Alberta Museums Galleries at Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave • museums@ualberta.ca • museums.ualberta.ca • Exploring how such images shaped perceptions of an expanding and changing world • Jun 23, 12-1pm • Admission by donation (RSVP)
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TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon;
780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs. org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 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 • Toastmasters Demo Meeting: Highstreet Speakers:
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• 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
north of Devon on Hwy 60 • devonian.ualberta.ca • You and your date can learn to dance in a fun and supportive atmosphere, led by the experts from the U of A Dance Club. No experience required (different each week) • Jun 16, 6pm-dusk • $13.50 (adults), $7 (student with valid ID), $9.75 (seniors, friends of the garden, garden season pass holders)
DBG ANNUAL PLANT SALE • Devonian
Grain Elevator Park to serve up delicious food. Visit the idyllic park setting, bring a blanket or lawn chairs, and enjoy the region’s best food trucks • Jun 19, 1-5pm
FOUND FESTIVAL • Venues throughout area • Dance, theatre, visual art, music, film and creative writing in unexpected places • Jun 23-26 MAKE MUSIC EDMONTON • Along 124 St; from 102 Ave and 108 Ave • makemusicedmonton.com • Over 100 performers, 20 venues and two stages. This year’s festival will be raising money for the Red Cross in support of Fort McMurray • Jun 19, 12-5pm • Free
MERCER SUMMER SUPER PARTY 2016 • Mercer Warehouse, 10359-104 St • mercersuperparty.com • The Mercer Warehouse will be opening its doors and closing the street for live music, special programming, social spaces, art installations, a dance party and more • Jun 17, 5-10pm • Free (register at Eventbrite)
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
PARK AFTER DARK • Northlands Park, 7410 Borden Park • 780.471.7210 • northlandspark.ca • Featuring thoroughbred horse racing meets one of Edmonton's largest patio parities • Every Fri, 6:30pm
PHOTOGRAPHER’S DROP-IN MORNING • Devonian Botanic Garden, 5 kms north of Devon on Hwy 60 • devonian.ualberta.ca • A chance to capture the early-morning light and stillness of the Garden. Photographers at all levels of experience, from beginner to expert, are welcome • Jun 18, 7:30am-10am PICNIC IN THE PARK WITH NUOVA • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • operanuova. ca • Part of the Nuova Festival. Join The NUOVA Opera and Music Theatre Festival for National Picnic Day and enjoy classic musical theatre repertoire • Jun 18, 4:30pm • Admission by donation
PORKAPALOOZA BBQ FESTIVAL • Clarke Field, 11000 Stadium Rd • porkapalooza.ca • Experience the art and culture of barbecuing as 40 teams from Western Canada compete for over $15 000 in prizes. Festivities include food demonstrations, Bare Bones RibFest, ethnic takes on BBQ, beer gardens, plus performances by the Sheepdogs, Hey Romeo, Prism and more • Jun 17-19 • Free STAN REYNOLDS: THE ORIGINAL CANADIAN PICKER - EXHIBITION • Reynolds-Alberta Museum, 6426-40 Ave, Wetaskiwin • 780.312.2065 • reynoldsalbertamuseum@gov.ab.ca • history.alberta. ca/reynolds • An exhibit that provides insight into Stan Reynolds and his love of history and preserving the past for future generations. Check out his greatest finds and take a White Glove Tour in the gallery • Runs until Oct 11, 2016
SUNRISE YOGA • Devonian Botanic Garden, 5 kms north of Devon on Hwy 60 • devonian.ualberta.ca • Greet the rising sun in the serenity of the early morning Garden • Jun 18, 7am-8:30 am • $13.50 (adults), $7 (student with valid ID), $9.75 (seniors, friends of the garden, garden season pass holders)
SUNSET AND FULL MOON TOURS AT ELK ISLAND • Elk Island National Park • 780.922.4324 • info@haskincanoe.ca • haskincanoe.ca/full-moontours.html • An opportunity to view the orange and red glow of the sun setting and maybe have the full moon over head. Guests will paddle slowly through the islands and will be immersed in the ambience of the closing of the day, listening for the distant cry of the loon or splash of the beaver. Guests aere asked to bring their binoculars and camera to view the birds and wildlife that Astotin Lake may offer • Jun 18, Jul 16, Aug 20, Sep 17 • $45 (per person with a choice of canoe, tandem kayak, single kayak), $36 (per person for Voyageur Canoe Tour)
WHAT THE TRUCK? • Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport • whatthetruck.ca • Get a taste of Edmonton’s food trucks in the new Blatchford development. • Jun 18, 4-8 pm • $15 (adv), $20 (door) WOMAN2WARRIOR • Canadian Forces Base, Edmonton Garrison • 780.429.0137 ext. 308 • woman2warrior.ca • A woman’s-only charity obstacle adventure race that benefits Easter Seals Alberta • Jun 18
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
THE WORKS ART & DESIGN FESTIVAL •
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yegmarket.com • Featuring a different theme each week. Included is fresh fruit, veggies, crafts and more • Ever Fri, 4-8pm, May 27-Sep 16 • Free
Héritage Museum, St Albert Place, 5 St Anne St • museeheritage.ca • The food trucks return to the St Albert
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Sir Winston Churchill Square • theworks.ab.ca • A one square kilometer with visual art, design, and entertainment. The festival will also feature receptions, and demonstrations. Exhibit tours will also be available • Jun 23-Jul 5, 10am-9pm • Free
YEG MARKET • 152 St and Stony Plain Road •
FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): The coming months will be a favourable time to boost your skills as a cagey warrior. I don't mean you should push people around and get into lots of fights. Rather, the goal is for you to harness your aggressiveness constructively and to wield your willpower with maximum grace. In the face of fear, you will not just be brave, but brave and crafty. You'll refrain from forcing storylines to unfold before they're ready, and you'll rely on strategy and good timing instead of brute strength and the decree "Because I said so." Now study this counsel from the ancient Chinese statesman Zhuge Liang, also known as Crouching Dragon: "The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win." TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): Everything you do in the coming days should be imbued with the intention of enhancing the Flow. It's high time to identify where the energy is stuck, and then get it unstuck. You have a sacred mandate to relieve the congestion ... to relax the tweaks ... to unravel the snarls if you can, or simply cut through them if necessary. You don't need to tell anyone about your secret agenda. Just go about your business with zealous diligence and unflagging purpose. If it takes more effort than you wished, so be it. If your progress seems maddeningly gradual, keep the faith. GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): My long-term predictions for the next 15 months are a blend of hopeful optimism and a reasonable interpretation of the astrological omens. Here we go: 1) You will have an excellent chance to smooth and soothe the rough spots in your romantic karma; 2) You will outgrow any addiction you might have to frustrating connections; 3) Unrequited love will either be requited, or else you'll become bored with the futile chase and move on; 4) You'll be challenged to either refresh and reinvent an existing intimacy, or else get shrewd enough not to repeat past mistakes in a new intimacy; 5) You will have an abundance of good ideas about how to install the theme of smart fun at the heart of your strongest alliances. CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): Author Courttia Newland quotes the pre-Socratic philosopher Meno: "How will you go about finding the thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" In response to this riddle, Newland riffs on what it means to him: "Even more important than the journey itself, is the venture into the unknowable. The ability to find comfort moving forwards without quite knowing where you are going." I nominate these to be your words to live by in the coming days, Cancerian. Have open-
hearted fun as you go in search of mysterious and impossible secrets! I'm confident you will track them down—especially if you're willing to be lost. LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): Your homework is to write a story about the life you're going to live between now and next April. The length of this predictive tale should be at least three pages, although it's fine if you produce more. Here are some meditations to lubricate the flow of your imagination: 1) What three questions would you love to have answered during the next 42 weeks? 2) Of the numerous adventures that might be fun to explore, which are the two that would be most consistently energizing? 3) What is the one thing you'd most like to change about your attitude or revamp about your life? 4) What new privilege will you have earned by April 2017? VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): According to an old Chinese proverb, if you want to get rich, you must have a nickname. My meditations on your future suggest that this curious formula may have some validity. The next 15 months will be a favourable time to attend to the groundwork that will ultimately increase your wealth. And your luck in doing this work is likely to be oddly good if you add a frisky tweak to your identity— such as a zesty new nickname, for example. I suggest you stay away from clichés like Ace or Vixen or Sharpie, as well as off-putting ironic monikers like Poker Face and Stonewall. Instead, gravitate toward lively choices like Dazzler, FluxLuster, Hoochie-Coochie or FreeBorn. LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): During the next 15 months, you will have an unprecedented chance to materialize a fantasy you've harboured for years. Essential to your efforts will be a capacity to summon more ambition than you ever have before. I'm not talking about the grubby self-promotion that typically passes for ambition, however. Arrogant self-importance and selfish posturing will not be part of your winning formula. Rather, the kind of ambition I'm referring to is a soaring aspiration that seeks the best and highest not just for yourself but for everyone whose life you touch. I mean the holy hunger that drives you to express impeccable integrity as you seek to master the tasks you came to Earth to accomplish. Get started! SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): During the next 15 months, composting should be a primary practice, as well as a main metaphor. If you have been lazy about saving leftover scraps from your kitchen and turning them into fertilizer, now is an excellent time to intensify your efforts. The same is true if you have been lax about
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"Shell Games"—from an outside perspective.
transforming your pain into useful lessons that invigorate your lust for life. Be ever-alert for opportunities to capitalize on junk, muck, and slop. Find secret joy in creating unexpected treasure out of old failures and wrong turns. SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): Have you ever made a fool of yourself while trying to fulfill your deepest yearnings? I hope so. If you haven't, your yearnings probably aren't deep enough. Most of us, on multiple occasions, have pursued our longings for connection with such unruly intensity that we have made foggy decisions and engaged in questionable behavior. That's the weird news. The good news is that now and then, the impulse to leave our safety zone in a quest to quench our deepest yearnings can actually make us smarter and more effective. I believe this is one of those times for you. CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): During the next 13 months, what can you do to enhance your ability to be the boss of yourself? What practices can you engage in on a daily basis that will build your potency and authority and clout? How can you gain access to more of the helpers and resources you need to carry out your life's master plan? These are excellent questions to ask yourself every day between now and July 2017. It's time to find or create your ultimate power spot. AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): The prison population in the US is over two million, more than twice what it was in 1990. In contrast, Canada keeps about 41 000 people in jail, Italy 52 000, and France 66 000. That's the bad news. The good news, at least for you and your tribe, is that a relatively small percentage of you will be incarcerated during the next 15 months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Aquarians all over the world will specialize in liberation. Not only will you be extra ethical; not only will you be skillful at evading traps; you will also be adept at emancipating yourself from your own delusions and limitations. Congratulations in advance! It's time to start singing some new freedom songs. PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20):The English word "catharsis" is derived from the ancient Greek katharsis, which was a technical medical term that meant "purgation" or "purification," as in flushing out the bowels. Aristotle converted katharsis into a metaphor that described how a drama performed in the theatre could "clean out" the emotions of spectators. These days, catharsis may refer to any event that precipitates a psycho-spiritual renewal by building up and then releasing tension. I foresee at least one of these strenuous blessings in your immediate future.V
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TAMI-LEE DUNCAN TAMI-LEE@VUEWEEKLY.COM
The desensitization debate Masturbation changes expectations far more than sensations
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I was talking to a girl online who said that she doesn't masturbate with a vibrator because she doesn't want to lose her ability to orgasm during sex. This led to a lengthy discussion about whether or not masturbation, with or without sex toys, can cause desensitization. I've always thought that female masturbation led to better sex with more orgasms. And I, a male, masturbate a lot and have never had a problem with my penis. Can you settle the debate?
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If you've Googled this question, you've probably noticed two things: 1) there are a lot people with the same concern; and 2) there is a lot of conflicting information on the subject. There is propaganda advocating for both sides, with fear of desensitized genitals being an oftused tactic of the anti-porn move-
ment, while sex-positive sites downplay the risks of excessive touching and extol the virtues of self-pleasure. As per usual, both are true and untrue, but for the sake of keeping this simple, I'm going to leave porn out of my answer and speak purely to the physical impact of excessive masturbation. If you have a penis and you masturbate a lot, you may experience physiological desensitization. This is particularly true if you are masturbating aggressively and sans lube, as friction and dryness can cause tiny abrasions that can trigger a type of scar tissue to form while healing. I'm not talking about a callous (that can happen), but rather a thickening of sub-dermal cells that surround the nerve fibres. This better insulates the nerves and protects them from damage, but also limits their access to stimulation,
thereby reducing sensitivity. This can also happen by wearing tight jeans, having excessive sex and being circumcised, as foreskin protects the tip of the penis from friction. While less prone to abrasive injury, the clitoris has around 8000 nerve endings, which makes it extremely sensitive. It's very unlikely that digital (finger) masturbation or using a vibrator would cause permanent nerve damage to the clitoris, though self-stimulation involving grinding on less smooth surfaces may run the risk of causing abrasions and tissue damage. Either way, too much of any touching can cause temporary desensitization. This happens because the nerve endings get fatigued through over-use. For example, have you ever had a massage that initially felt great, but after a while felt irritating or numb? It's the same mechanism.
Desensitization of the clitoris can also be caused by certain medications, hormones, age and hormonal birth control. (Oh, the irony.) When it comes to masturbation, physical desensitization isn't usually where the problem lies. Rather, the issues tend to stem from shifted expectations. Sex toys intensify sensation and expedite orgasm. Try as you might, no finger, tongue or penis can do what a vibrator can do to the clitoris. It's a different thing all together. And while a vibrator won't physically ruin one's ability to orgasm, it can make us less patient. It's not that other types of stimulation won't lead to orgasm, it's that we habituate to a faster, more intense orgasm, which can make sex feel less satisfying. Let's face it, sex requires effort and focus: having to deal with your partner's pleasure, insecurities and other issues can be distracting. For some, it's easier to stay in a sexy state of mind when playing solo, leading to a preference to masturbation over sex.
Now for the flip side: masturbation can enhance sex. Not only is masturbation a good training ground for understanding your pleasure points and proclivities, but it also gets the literal and figurative juices flowing. In other words, frequent orgasms stimulate your sex drive. Generally speaking, masturbation is a good thing. Unless you're masturbating a life-impairing amount, you are unlikely to experience any significant or permanent physiological desensitization. So long as you're managing your expectations, vibrators shouldn't ruin enjoyment of real, live sex. V Tami-lee Duncan is a Registered Psychologist in Edmonton, specializing in sexual health. Please note that the information and advice given above is not a substitute for therapeutic treatment with a licensed professional. For information or to submit a question, please contact tami-lee@vueweekly.com. Follow on Twitter @SexOlogyYEG. DAN SAVAGE SAVAGELOVE@VUEWEEKLY.COM
DIAPER DEALINGS
I've been dating a nice guy for a month or so. Sex is good, and we're faulty compatible in other ways, too. He told me he likes to wear diapers. He said he doesn't want me to do it with him, but that every once in a while he likes to wear them because it makes him feel "safe." He said that this odd behaviour isn't sexual for him, but I have trouble believing him. I'm not sure how I feel about this. He also said that it embarrasses him and he wishes it wasn't something he needed. If you have any insight into what to ask him or how to make sure I can keep him satisfied sexually as we move forward (if we do), it would be appreciated. DO I ASK POOPER EVERYTHING RESPECTFULLY, SIR? You shouldn't assume (contra your sign-off) that Potential New Boyfriend (PNB) is pooping his diapers. Most guys who are ABDL (adult baby/diaper lover) are interested only in wetting themselves, if that. (Some only wear, never fill.) It sounds like PNB is struggling with kink- and/ or sex-shame, DIAPERS, and the assumption you've made about the extent of his diaper play might put him on the defensive. Even if your assumption is accurate, it could still put him on the defensive.
Moving on ... You have a hard time believing PNB when he says there's nothing sexual about his interest in diapers, and that makes two of us. Seeing as he's already succumbed to shame where his kink is concerned—or it might be more accurate to say he hasn't dug himself out from under the shame almost all kinksters struggle with initially—he is very likely weighed down by the sex-negativity that comes bundled with kink-shame. So he may have told you there's nothing sexual about his thing for diapers because he thinks it makes his diapers seem less sordid. That said, DIAPERS, "this makes me feel safe" and "this makes my dick hard" aren't mutually exclusive phenomena. Both can be true. (And if diapers really do make adults feel safe— and I wanna see data on that—we could rebrand them as "portable individual safe spaces" and make them available at our better universities.) Another clue there's something sexual about this thing for diapers: not wanting you around while he wears them. Maybe diapers are something he enjoys wearing during alone time, or maybe the sight of him in diapers makes the sexual aspect hard to deny. ("Is that an enormous rattle in your diaper or are you just happy to see me?")
I would advise you to say some vaguely affirming things ("Your diaper thing doesn't bother me, and wouldn't even if it were sexual") without pressuring him to include you at diaper time. Don't rush things—relationshipwise or diaper-wise—and focus on establishing a mutually satisfying sexual rapport/repertoire. PS: I think you meant "fairly compatible" not "faulty compatible." Normally I would correct a mistake like this before printing a letter—but I rather liked your accidental phrase. A loving and functional-but-imperfect relationship—really the best we can hope for—could be described as faulty compatible.
WIDE SPECTRUM
I'm an incredibly confused man in my early 20s. I'm attracted to men and women. I could see spending my life with either. But I think sexual activity with either sex would be confusing and strange. In sex ed, I always thought the whole idea of sexual intercourse was strange. I don't think I'm asexual, but I'm not sure if I am bisexual. I am more attracted to vibrant personalities. I don't think that I am just straight or just gay, because I have equal feelings for both sexes. Does this mean I could find equal companionship with both? Should I wait until I find the right person and decide from there? CONFUSED ABOUT SEXUALITY, HELP According to the Tumblr Blog Decoder Ring that came in my last box of Kellogg's Feelios, CASH, you're biclassic (attracted to men and women), bi-romantic (could be with a man or a woman), a sort of demisexual/sapiosexual hybrid (demis are attracted to people they've bonded with emotionally, sapios are attracted to people who are intelligent, and vibrancy may
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fall at some point between the two), and maybe falling somewhere on the asexuality spectrum. The best way to discover who/what works for you is to get out there. If you find yourself feeling confused, just remind yourself that confusion—like so much else— is a spectrum. And wherever you fall on it, CASH, know you've got plenty of company.
PARK PERVIN'
A local park in Seattle often hosts gay men engaging in sexual activities. As a straight female, I love watching man-on-man sex and really wanted to check out this park. I stopped by at night and noticed "cruising" going on but no sexual activity. I decided to try on a busy Saturday night, and sure enough, I saw a man giving a BJ to another man. I scared the men— they stopped their activities and left the park when they saw me watching—and I felt bad. I feel like I should have said something like "Don't let me stop you!" and then perhaps been able to watch. What are my options here? PECULIAR AND RARE KINK Two options: dress up like a dude and pass yourself off as one of the guys/ park-pervs—guys into man-on-man public sex usually aren't adverse to being observed by other male parkpervs—or stay home and watch gay porn on the Internet until you've homicided love. (Porn kills love—so says the Mormon Church, so you know it's true.) As for the two guys who knocked it off when they spotted you: they either thought you were a cop (it's illegal to be in Seattle parks after closing, and it's extra illegal to have sex in a public park after hours) or thought you might be shocked or annoyed. Most park-pervs go out of their way to be discreet, for their own safety (avoiding gay bashers or arrest) and
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out of consideration for late-night dog walkers, restless insomniacs, stargazers, et al. One last reason they may have pulled up their pants: they weren't interested in performing for you. Gay and bi men who have sex in parks— many of them straight-identified men—aren't there to perform for pervy straight ladies. But I'm not going to scold you (even at the risk of being scolded myself), PARK, because parkpervs risk being observed by other members of the public—and women are members of the public, too, and just as entitled to get their perv on in a public park as they are. But if you don't want the guys to pull up their pants and flee at the sight of you, PARK, pull together an outfit that gives you a dude-ish silhouette. SPEAKING OF ABDL: Residents of Mount Prospect, Illinois, are upset about a new shop that caters to diaper lovers in their community. Tykables sells grown-up-size diapers, rocking chairs and cribs. The Chicago Tribune reports that some residents are uncomfortable because the shop—which has no signage and soon-to-be-frosted windows—is near schools, parks and other places where "children gather." Mount Prospect is a suburb, so there are schools or parks near just about everything. And there's a gun shop a couple blocks away from a large public park and an elementary school—and no one ever walked into a school and started diapering students to death. Maybe worry about the real threat to your kids, Mount Prospect? V On the Lovecast, Tracy Clark-Flory on the plight of the virtuous pedophile: savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter
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