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Protestors at Edmonton’s Pride Parade / Doug Johnson

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GBTQ2S+ people of colour along with their allies blocked this year’s Pride Parade in Edmonton, and expressed four demands.

One of them, uninviting the EPS, has caused a rift between the older generation of predominately white activists, and the younger generation of trans and people of colour activists.

The former assert they have gone through the era when police were hunting them down through bath house raids, and that they have lived through the AIDS crisis when society viewed gay men as lepers to be confined, isolated, and marginalized. They claim to have worked incredibly hard to build a relationship of trust with the police, which led to the creation of the sexual and gender minorities liaison committee (SGMLC) with the EPS. They feel the protest demanding exclusion of the police destroys all the bridge-building work they have done over decades.

The protestors assert that, while white middle class gay men have obtained their rights and revel in celebrations, many trans people and people of colour are subjected to a disproportionate amount of policing through carding, manhandling and incarceration, which makes them feel unsafe around the police. Many people of colour are not out and feel discriminated

against in mainstream LGBTQ2S+ spaces. They feel such a protest was the only option they had left to be heard.

On the one hand is a concern that the LGBTQ2S+ community must feel free to report gay bashings and hate incidents. This necessitates working with the EPS, which should include officers from the diverse

voices among trans folk and people of colour. Not all voices are in complete agreement with the protestors. This was evident through a video of the protest where a black protestor told another black person “you are colonized.”

Additionally, in contrast to other protests where the oppressed stand in the face of tyrants and dictators or large corporations,

ism on dating apps, and the like.

Some of them do not seem to have had success on affirmation in their general ethnic and religious communities.

They have however nurtured a jargon that includes slogans like “shut up and listen,” “I am not doing emotional labour,” “check your privilege,” and “sit the fuck down.”

Such strongly-worded language al-

However, there is a diversity of voices among trans folk and people of colour. Not all voices are in complete agreement with the protestors. This was evident through a video of the protest where a black protestor told another black person “you are colonized.” groups that make up our society including black, Muslim, Indigenous, and LGBTQ2S+ people of colour.

On the other hand is a protest that the EPS as an institution should be held accountable for disproportionately targeting vulnerable groups that include trans folk, people of colour, those with a disability and the economically disadvantaged. The protestors believe that disallowing the EPS entry into the parade would put pressure on the EPS to do better until the vulnerable groups feel safe.

However, there is a diversity of

this demand affects other LGBTQ2S+ people who have fought hard to be visible in their jobs with the police and the military. This is one reason why this particular demand has caused a rift in the community.

Some protestors are not actually out in their respective ethnic and religious communities. For them, marriage equality is inconsequential, for often their concerns revolve around health care, discrimination in the job market, experiences of rejection and rac-

lows them to vent frustrations just as it alienates others.

In contrast, many straight black, African, South Asian, Indigenous, Chinese, Jewish, and Muslim communities consistently work with the EPS through their respective liaison committees to address racism, Islamophobia, hate incidents, and hate crimes.

They recognize that change requires leadership, which comes through humility, patience, willingness to engage in conversation, and a genuine regard for commu-

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nity. Indeed, in a climate of Islamophobia which has manifested in Alberta—through angry outbursts at Denny’s in Lethbridge, threats to Muslim women at the University LRT station, punish a Muslim day, anti-Muslim protest at a high school in Red Deer, etc.—Muslim communities cannot afford the tactics adopted by the protestors at the Pride Parade.

Now that the Edmonton Pride Festival Society accepted the protestor’s demands, an objective metric—in contrast to subjective feelings—will have be devised to monitor if EPS initiatives have made people safe.

Rights are not usually given on a platter—they have to be worked for. If people have the strength to stall a parade with thousands of participants and observers, they have the requisite capacity to have difficult conversations, and eventually work with the EPS on instituting policy changes and other objectives.

Activism is based on strength and contribution, not perpetual victimhood. The response to racism and xenophobia is not alienation of supporters. In essence, real work requires recognizing that rabble rousing is just a one-day event, but sustained work on common ground is year round.

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HIGHWAY TO THE DETERRENCE ZONE

Trump’s new-found friendliness with North Korea is just going to lead to a nuclear near stalemate

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f the Singapore meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un had been a zero-sum game, then Trump definitely lost. But maybe it wasn’t.

Kim got a meeting with Trump on terms of strict equality right down to the number of flags on display, which is a huge boost for his regime’s claim to legitimacy. He persuaded Trump to end America’s annual joint military exercises with South Korea (and even got Trump to call them “war games,” and say they were “provocative,” which no United States spokesperson has ever done before).

And he got Trump to accept North Korea’s deliberately vague language about the “denuclearization of the Korean peninsula,” with no specific reference to North Korea’s nuclear

He would have needed a bigger apology gift for the South Korean government, which was blindsided by Trump’s spur-ofthe-moment promise to stop the joint military exercises. “We need to find out the exact meaning or intention behind his comments at this point,” Seoul said in an unmistakably sulky tone of voice. (Seoul’s mistake is to assume that Trump himself knew his “exact meaning or intention.”)

But this was not really a negotiation. It was a show, staged for the benefit of the two main participants, and they both got what they came for. They were bound to get it, since they had the power to define the meeting as either a success or a failure. Naturally, they said it was a success—but that doesn’t mean it was actually a failure.

number of weapons possessed by the two sides.

If North Korea has even a marginal ability to destroy one U.S. city with a nuclear weapon, the U.S. is effectively deterred from using nuclear weapons against it. (Except if the US could count on destroying every one of Kim’s nuclear-tipped missiles in a surprise first strike, but that’s why North Korea will move them around or dig them in deep.)

North Korea is, and will remain, totally deterred from attacking the States, because it would be utterly destroyed in a massive American counter-strike. So the deterrence is mutual and relatively stable, barring huge technological surprises or crazy or suicidal leaders.

That is the destination the

“North Korea is, and will remain, totally deterred from attacking the States, because it would be utterly destroyed in a massive American counter-strike.

So the deterrence is mutual and relatively stable, barring huge technological surprises or crazy or suicidal leaders.” weapons, let alone any talk of dismantling them. In fact, the agreement they signed talked about “re-affirming” North Korea’s denuclearization pledge, so obviously no progress there.

This is several light-years distant from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s pre-summit definition of the States’ goal as “permanent, verifiable, irreversible dismantling of North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction,” which must happen “without delay.”

There’s no cause for surprise here. Trump is not a great dealmaker; he’s a man who is accomplished at playing the role of a great deal-maker. The reality is more like the contract he signed with Tony Schwartz, who ghost-wrote The Art of the Deal, the book that made him famous: 50 percent of the advance, 50 percent of royalties, and equal billing on the cover.

Schwartz was as surprised and pleased then as Kim undoubtedly is now.

If Trump had a little more time in Singapore, he could have bought a T-shirt saying “My president went to Singapore and all I got was this lousy Tshirt,” and taken it home to give to the American people.

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All this zero-sum game nonsense is irrelevant to what is really happening here, or at least could happen in the months to come: the gradual acceptance by the United States that North Korea is irreversibly a nuclear weapons power, although a small one, and the negotiation of some basic rules for this new relationship between two nuclear powers of radically different size.

Diplomatic and military experts have been saying for years that there is no way that North Korea will ever give up its nuclear weapons. The whole country lived on short rations for a generation to get them, and Kim is well aware of what happened to dictators who didn’t have nukes, like Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.

The experts are right, but they do not see this situation as necessarily a cause for panic.

After all, more evenly-matched pairs of nuclear powers, like India and Pakistan, or the U.S. and Russia, have managed to avoid nuclear war for decades.

Nuclear deterrence, as Bernard Brodie pointed out more than 70 years ago, works even when there is a huge disparity in the

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U.S.-North Korean relationship is heading for, because it is the only one that reality permits.

Kim is almost certainly seeking it quite consciously, although it’s unlikely that Trump has ever thought of it in these terms. Indeed, there is some evidence that he is not even clear on the basic concept of deterrence.

No matter. That’s what Trump is heading for, and by the time he gets there he will undoubtedly think that it was his goal all along. There will be more meetings, probably including a Kim visit to the White House, and the two countries will move, slowly and crabwise, towards the mutual deterrence that will define their future relationship.

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Protestors at Edmonton’s Pride Parade / Andrew Lynn

Many both in and outside of the LGBTQ2S+ community voiced strong opinions on parade-halting protest

n the wake of the protest that held up Edmonton’s Pride Parade, different groups and individuals both within and outside of the LGBTQ2S+ community expressed concerns over the protestors’ demands.

In short, the protestors hoped to halt the inclusion of police and military members marching in the parade wearing uniforms, citing the ongoing trauma that people of colour, both LGBTQ2S+ and otherwise, continue to see from these organizations.

Similarly, the protestors hope that the governing body that organizes the parade will include more people of colour in its ranks in the future. In the end, the Pride Parade’s organizers agreed to the protestors’ terms.

However, during the parade, the protestors were met with some cries of irritation from the assembled crowd, presumably marking dissatisfaction from both LGBTQ2S+ and non-LGBTQ2S+ parade-goers. After the fact, numerous think-pieces on the protest appeared online, and, perhaps most notably, United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney expressed his disappointment in the protest, stating that he worried about people who served in the police or military who are LGBTQ2S+. The UCP was barred from marching in this year’s parade.

“I think one of the most interesting things when it comes to Jason Kenney is the fact that he isn’t really an ally in the first place,” says protest co-organizer

Shay Lewis. “He’s just getting involved for the political clout. If it hadn’t been a big deal, if it hadn’t ended up in the news, it wouldn’t have been noticed by Jason Kenney. Our response at this point is: If he wants to be involved in the community and become an ally of the community, then he can be a part of this conversation.”

However, Lewis says, right now the conversation is between the parade committee, the police, and the protesters.

“Jason Kenney doesn’t really fit into any of those groups,” she says.

Lewis says that the next steps in the future will deal more with implementation: how the police will need to change their operations to be more equitable. Similarly,

it can be difficult to convey nuanced opinions through protests, and the moment someone hears that the protestors don’t want police involved in the parade, they will jump to some erroneous conclusions about the protesters’ intentions, she says.

“These are all going to be conversations on multiple levels that we hope to be involved in,” she says. “I think for us, the ideal world is we don’t have the police involved until they address the trauma issues ... We’re talking possibly extremely long-term here.”

Once the police address these issues, and once they stop being “symbols of oppression,” Lewis says having them in the parade would be appropriate.

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The raw number of bakeries in Edmonton is increasing / Tamanna Khurana

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The city’s list of baked goods purveyors grows beyond Duchess and cupcake shops

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tanding on the corner of Gateway Boulevard and Whyte Avenue gives a fantastic view of three of the city’s most talked about new bakeries: La Boule, FanFan Patisserie, and Sugared & Spiced Baked Goods. All three independent shops opened within a year and create picture perfect pastries, but they stand as distinct entities in Edmonton’s culinary scene. Unlike the trend of cupcake shops that the 2000s brought, this recent bakery boom seems more genuine, rooted in tradition.

Each bakery is created with the pastry chef in mind, showcasing what they do best. Sugared & Spiced, by Amy Nachtigall, features a wealth of traditional North American bakery staples like muffins, pies, and over-the-top cakes, while the other two are looking

to bring more European-style pastries to the city. FanFan Patisserie is focused on macrons and housemade sorbet, and La Boule has become known for their éclairs, and the classic Paris-Brest. Edmonton seems to welcome the change.

“It’s not only bakeries,” says FanFan Patisserie chef Franck Bouilhol. “It’s restaurants as well.

There are so many new talented chefs who’ve opened their restaurants, and I think people are looking for something different.

Edmonton was known for their chain restaurants for years, but now they’ve found out there’s something different.”

After Duchess Bake Shop opened in 2009, it quickly shot up to be one of Edmonton’s top culinary attractions, and made listicles of high-end restaurants around

Canada. For awhile, though, the city seemed content with its flagship bakery.

“We went essentially 10 years with only one or two [bakeries], and then within a six month period seven more opened up,” says La Boule’s Jennifer Stang. “I don’t know why; maybe it was something in the air, maybe it’s social media and it’s bringing the world closer and you can see what people are doing all over the world.

Maybe it just inspires.”

Social media played a large role for both Bouilhol and Stang. Both bakeries chose to have quiet openings and focused on finding their footings. Once their window displays were filled with pictures, the stores steadily gained momentum.

The chefs themselves have had

a following for their own reasons. Bouilhol is from France, and trained under famed Michelin Star chef Alain Ducasse. Stang is a Red Seal chef who trained in savoury cooking to further her knowledge of how sweets pair with a meal.

She has worked around Edmonton at top bakeries and high end hotels. Despite these accolades, there doesn’t seem so be any cutthroat competition.

“There’s no pretension,” Bouilhol says. “You just want to be a good pastry chef.”

While FanFan Patisserie is in Old Strathcona and La Boule is in Ritchie, they are really only separated by the rail yard along Gateway Boulevard. Both chefs had chosen their locations carefully, wanting to be near busy areas but still tucked off of the main drag so

that parking is not an issue.

Despite the similarities, the two still have different concepts.

La Boule has cafe seating and is tucked into a quieter corner. FanFan Patisserie is more typically French with their grab and go set up. The variety of options around the area has expanded quickly from a few cupcake shops to high end artisanal bakeries that are pushing the pastry scene.

“I think every bakery that’s opened, every bakery in the city quite honestly, is very different,” Stang says. “Everybody does their own thing, has their own take, and I think it’s fantastic.

Edmonton gets all of these different choices and options and it’s not just the same thing over and over again.”

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YE OLDE MEAT PIES

MEAT STREET PIES SERVES NOSTALGIA Local food truck delivers soft, buttery, and chewy pastries to the homesick

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he initial crunch gives way to the soft, buttery, and chewy pastry. It’s not too grainy or crispy—it’s just right. Then there’s the creaminess of the cheese sauce, mixed with the tangy bite of the onions. For an instant, I was a child back home

in England, enjoying a potato, cheese, and onion pastie.

Meat Street Pies—run by husband-and-wife team, Jonathan and Thea Avis—serves handmade pies that can be purchased fresh out of the oven, or frozen for a treat when you get back home.

“Because we’re a husband-andwife team, there’s a lot of personality in the truck,” Johnathan Avis says. “We connect with customers and treat them like family. We’re not just there to take their money and hand them a pie.”

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talgia to people who come from outside of Canada, who couldn’t otherwise get the foods they would otherwise enjoy in their home countries—including Jamaica, Britain, French Canada, and South Africa. Perhaps most of all, the British love to go to Meat Street Pies. The food truck serves Cornish pasties, steak and kidney pie, eccles (puff pastry wrapped around mincemeat), and Milton Mowbray (a pork pie made with hot water paste), and the aforementioned potato, cheese, and onion pie, which launched this year.

“The ones that have grown up in my era or slightly younger remember when mom made steak and kidney pudding, or chicken pot pie, or tourtière, and the French Canadians love us because we’re probably one of the few trucks around that have tourtière,” Avis says.

One day, Avis had a Scotsman come to the truck for lunch. After eating a Cornish pasty, he came back and said, “It’s so fucking good.” According to Avis, he said it “like a true Scotsman.” Avis recalls him saying the lamb, the spice, the amount of fat in it, and the thinness of the pastry was absolutely perfect.

Baking and cooking has been in Avis’ blood since he was an eightyear-old. He won a competition

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to make the best fairy cakes (cup cakes) at his primary school in Muddyford, U.K. From 10 to 12, he helped run the bed and breakfast his family started, frying up bacon, eggs, and sausages for guests on their summer holiday. His family moved to Canada during his first year of culinary school, and two years of education later at the young age of 19, he became a head chef for a resort near Petersborough, Ont. It was “a lot of responsibility at a very young age.” But, he had talent, and a background in the industry that spanned around four years by that point.

Now in his 60s, Avis has had a storied career as a chef with more than 40 years of experience: being a sous-chef, a breakfast chef, and a head chef, and owning and operating various large frozen food companies across Canada. In 2012, he lost everything and lived in his son’s basement after his dessert manufacturing business Saxby Foods closed its doors, citing competitive U.S. produce prices, higher wages, and major retailers less willing to buy Canadian-made products due to wanting cheaper products. Now, Meat Street Pies is looking to the future as their sales are blossoming and seeks to sell to brick-and-mortar locations.

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RAW FISH, HAWAIIAN

Poke for days / J Procktor

‘ONO POKE A SASHIMI-GRADE SECOND PLACE

The brief craze of poke joints seems to be over, leaving few contenders left in the city

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bout a year ago there was a brief outbreak of trend pieces in the news about poke as the next hot foodstuff to suddenly issue from take-out joints on the ground floor of condo buildings.

The Hawaiian conflation of ingredients that make other Asian cuisines taste good, with a heavy emphasis on raw fish, was briefly poised to sweep the nation. However, it seems to have topped out at two dedicated dispensaries in Edmonton, both downtown: Splash Poke on 109 Street and Jasper Avenue, and ‘Ono Poke Co. on the ever up-and-coming 104 Street, just north of Jasper.

I have previously considered the Splash Poke experience and found it agreeable, though it clued me in that any meal featuring sashimi-grade tuna, salmon, or scallop will sport a commensurate price-tag, which lifts places like Splash and ‘Ono out of the realm of mere fast food.

‘Ono Poke promised to be a similarly pleasant experience when we visited on a Saturday afternoon in the eerie calm that follows the hubbub of the downtown farmers’ market right outside. The young employee who welcomed us was certainly pleasant, quickly identifying co-diner and I as relative neophytes, and espousing the ostensible charms of a poke bowl— checking first that we were cool with the whole raw fish thing.

The cool, day-lit, somehow faintly-aquatic interior is flanked by two big service counters—poke to the south, iced desserts to the north—and a strew of utilitarian furniture about the place. Chalkboards clue you in to all the savoury and sweet things for sale.

Our attendant suggested the two most popular dishes on the menu to orient us to ‘Ono’s particular skill set. I appended a bottle of Kona Brewing Fire Rock Pale Ale ($7) to the order, one of two varieties of Hawaiian craft beer on offer. That brought the tab over the $40 mark.

My previous encounter with poke included an almost numbing preponderance of add-ins which—if you took advantage of everything from corn to mango to fried shallots to three kinds of seaweed—rendered everything on their menu kind of similar.

‘Ono Poke’s bowls seemed less customizable but individually more distinctive, with beet and chicken-based poke bowls for the seafood-averse.

Co-diner took charge of Uncle Thom’s Surf Poke ($10.95/small order). ‘Ono’s menu capitalizes everything, so I will mention that it contains Ahi Tuna (in a “Spicy Tobiko Aioli Marinade”) with white onion, cucumber, edamame beans, green onions, pickled ginger, pea chutes, tobiko and

‘Ono Poke Co. 10142 – 104 St., 780.244.8885 onopokeco.com more aioli over rice—salad, quinoa or brown rice being other options for going underneath all that stuff. Co-diner commended its freshness and the relative abundance of buttery Ahi tuna cubes bound in aioli, with the bonus edamame adding bulk to the meal. The pickled ginger and tobiko (fish roe) added to the pleasing impression that this was essentially an exploded sushi roll.

Spiciness didn’t really seem to be part of the formula, the addition of the house “chili water” hot sauce notwithstanding.

I had the Torched Miso Salmon Poke ($15.95/regular), which promised me Atlantic salmon in miso marinade with Thai slaw (red cabbage, red onion, red pepper, carrot), green onion, finely sliced seaweed, and miso-mayo dressing over rice. The sesametinged rice was not so fresh, and a bit clumpy, but vigourous stirring distributed the ingredients and dressing well enough

to make that less noticeable.

There was indeed a fair portion of salmon bound up in miso-scented mayonnaise. I appreciated the crunchy veggies, but wished for a beansprout or two, some cilantro, or mint, or maybe a tangier mixin as the overall flavour of both dishes was rather tame. I still don’t know to what the eponymous “torched” referred. But the Fire Rock Pale Ale was a winner, with a Cascade-derived hoppiness

that somehow didn’t obscure the subtler flavours of the food.

There might be something perfectly suited to our palates on ‘Ono’s menu, but we didn’t find it by following popular opinion. But with a shortage of competitors in the space, ‘Ono is a lock for the silver medal (in my estimation) in Edmonton’s poke sweepstakes, especially if the poke craze has run its course.

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Taylor Falk and Ian McIntosh of Sea Change Brewing Co. / Jake Pesaruk

Edmonton’s little brewery explains their recent popularity and focus on more than just making beer

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he room is vast and full of old local band posters, the taps sparkle, and there is a definite sense of vigour in the air— along with the smell of beer.

“Yeah, we’re kind of bootstrapping it,” says Ian McIntosh owner and operator of Sea Change Brewing Co. in regards to the brewery.

Sea Change is the newest player in the vast field of brewing companies in Edmonton, and they’re aiming to inject a new template of flavour in the city’s beer scene, while changing people’s perspective on the beer scene itself.

Having started only within the last year, the company is already seeing success across Edmonton.

Their beer is now available in numerous watering holes and liquor stores across the city.

The brewery’s story begins with McIntosh, who had his hand in a few boozy ventures prior to this one—eventually, he noticed that they lacked the mandate of building a community rapport that he wanted in a brewery. Having had enough he took his friend and brewer Taylor Falk and set off on his own hops-filled adventure.

“Finding this place and building on it was kind of the genesis of getting control back and having free reign with the beer,” says head brewer Taylor Falk.

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McIntosh and Falk’s friendship harkens back to several years ago in the Edmonton music scene. Their business plan is to use that sense of community that they refined back in the day as their bedrock for a beer that functions as a beacon for the harmonious relationship between brews and bands.

“I think we come from a place in the Edmonton music scene where everyone was always so inclusive and welcoming. There wasn’t a whole lot of snobbery, and that’s what I want to bring into the way we approach beer.

We want the same vibe that existed when we played shows,” McIntosh says.

This approach isn’t just reserved for their target market—it also comes through in regards to how they brew the beer itself. With a firm emphasis on accessibility as well as originality they have managed to produce a blonde ale that drinks easy, but isn’t boring. On top of this, numerous other beers are currently being worked on, and this experimentation and freedom is something that both McIntosh and Falk value immensely.

“In a lot of other places other brew masters will be asked to make specific beers that are based on ideas and principles that aren’t their own,” Falk says.

“It’s like being in a cover band,” McIntosh adds.

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Sea Change Brewing Co. Brewery Opening in Spring 780.200.5858 seachangebeer.com Accompanying their attempt to be as innovative and involved as possible in the local scene, Sea Change is also putting its effort into having an educational base of operations. Their brewery that is nearing completion comes with an immaculate tasting room. Complete with antique, framed windows peering into the brewery proper as well as tables made from the wood used from the now destroyed Cloverdale footbridge.

When it comes to an emphasis on local loyalty these guys aren’t screwing around.

“We want to foster a culture of, if you don’t know something, ask us. The issue of beer education coming off as patronizing is something that we want to fix,” Falk says.

With their gaze fixed on community engagement, Sea Change is a welcome change to how beer is approached in Edmonton. With the winds and currents in their favour it’ll be no surprise if this humble and dynamic crew become a flagship in our city.

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Albertan distilleries seek international markets for their hooch, a kind of two-six half empty situation

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t wasn’t long ago that Red Cup Distillery packed up its shop and moved it all near the Edmonton International Airport. At first, the move was an enthusiastic one—the business’ new neighbours include Aurora Cannabis, and some upstart restaurants, all in all a more active home than its former location near Vegreville. However, harsh realities soon tempered this energy.

According to Rob de Groot, cofounder of Red Cup Distillery, making money as a purveyor of hooch is near impossible, both in Alberta and as an Albertan distillery in Canada.

So Red Cup, and others across the province, are looking to cut their loses and sell their wares in more open markets, like the United States.

If de Groot ships his liquor to Texas, for example, or even China, the amount of tax that he pays per bottle is substantially lower than Alberta. These other areas have relatively small sin taxes on alcohol.

“We’re keeping the distillery here out of respect to the pioneers, but the Americans don’t charge me taxes,” he says. “I would not get one dollar if I stayed in Alberta only ...

We’re actually looking at the U.S., Texas and Louisiana, because it’s easier than it is in B.C.” Part of this comes from protectionist policies in other provinces, de Groot says. Two of the largest markets for liquor in Canada, Ontario and British Columbia, protect their markets, and they choose liquors from their own provinces over others. To get in is near impossible.

These other provinces also have strong granting systems for their alcohols: Ontario funds Steam Whistle a fair bit, for instance.

The B.C. and Ontario systems

are also hard to get into, partially because they have tasting panels.

Alberta, on the other hand, has a very open system, and one devoid of tasting panels, though individual companies like Liquor Depot may have their own. De Groot says Alberta is one of the hardest markets in Canada to break into for new, local companies because there are so many brands: 21,000 for four million people, compared to 16,000 for 13 million in Ontario.

De Groot believes the province should have its own tasting board to limit the number of labels on Alberta’s shelves. “Canada’s not open for business, especially not for craft, because there’s protectionism for everything,” he says.

Geoff Stewart, co-founder of Rig Hand Distillery, doesn’t agree with the tasting board system; rather, he prefers the free-market approach.

However, he agrees it’s not a level playing field in Canada, from province to province. Rig Hand’s bottles were rejected in B.C., and Manitoba, but accepted in Saskatchewan, though additional taxes make their bottles cost nearly $100.

“It’s very unfair,” he says. “Maybe distilleries in Alberta should take legal action ... I hope not because those suits were very expensive.”

In an emailed response, the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission (AGLC) argues that the province’s model allows for more consumer choice, and that tasting boards would hinder this. The province also has more than 2,200 liquor retailers, and offers 24,000 liquor products.

Similarly, the province currently does not offer a formal grant to small, upstart distilleries. However, it did recently reduce the markup

for liquor bottles sold out of distilleries, farmers and artisan markets from $13.76 to $2.46 per litre.

“While understandably frustrating, this is up to the other provinces and should be communicated with the other jurisdictional liquor boards,” the email said in regard to the difficulties provincial distilleries face.

That said, the province has been trying to help these businesses sell their hooch beyond provincial, and even national, boarders. However, the industry is still new.

Earlier this month, a delegation of locally-based Chinese trading companies toured around Rig Hand.

Something similar happened last week with Red Cup. Both tours were organized by the East Asia and Oceania team, just one on the roster of Alberta Agriculture and Forestry’s International Relations and Marketing department.

Alberta Agriculture’s international relations and marketing section works to develop connections between the province’s food and drink producers and other markets across the world, says Albert Eringfeld, the team’s manager. It also helps prepare them for exporting their goods, which can be a challenge for newer businesses. The organization looks for these businesses, but also accepts requests for aid in this regard.

“It’s such an emerging industry in the province, so it’s an area we haven’t worked so much on in the past,” Eringfeld says. “It’s at a point where we need to understand what their capacities are, how competitive they are, who else is supplying similar products to these markets ...

There’s a learning curve.”

Doug Johnson doug@vueweekly.com

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GRAPHIC NOVEL

Calgary artist Ben Rankel’s first graphic novel Frank leaps into history

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n Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, Scott McCloud draws the reader literally leaping between the panels. If the artist is successful, the reader will easily make the leap. If not, the reader can tumble into the gutter, temporarily—or maybe even permanently—removed from the story.

This was a concern for 33-year-

old Calgary artist Ben Rankel while he was working on his first graphic novel, Frank.

“There’s so much happening in each panel, and I used to give people a hard time when they’d be like, ‘Oh, I don’t know how to read comics,’ and then I realized, ‘No, I get it,’” Rankel says. “It’s a different language.”

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Frank came about from Rankel and Alexander Finbow, publisher of Renegade Arts Entertainment, discussing historical events that they both found interesting, along with their interest in telling Alberta stories.

Thanks to childhood road trips through the Crowsnest Pass with his family, Rankel had a long-held interest with Frank, Alta., where in 1903 a landslide destroyed multiple structures and killed over 90 people (the population was only 600 at the time).

Rankel decided to write a murder mystery set against the background of the Frank slide.

“I wanted to do something that was interesting and didn’t bore me to work on,” Rankel says. “I’m not saying historical stuff is necessarily boring or anything—I just felt like I wanted this to be a story that was accessible, to get people interested in Alberta history.”

Without giving too much away, Frank opens with two murders and the protagonist, Eve, quickly finds herself caught up in trying to solve the crimes. But as the tension builds between her and her main suspect, calamity approaches.

Both Eve and the antagonist of the story, Lusie, are women. Including women as principal characters was important to Rankel.

“There were women in the mining towns of Alberta, in 1903

even—I don’t feel like history has done a super great job acknowledging that so far,” Rankel says.

He felt that Eve’s personal journey, which focuses on her struggle to get over her ex, is universal. He describes the character as having an obsessessive personality—something enforced over and over again throughout the book— and it makes for a satisfying moment when Eve is forced to choose between her obsession and the lives of the miners buried in the landslide.

Rankel also included two characters of colour in the story—Gil, a member of the police force, and Bobby, a residential school survivor.

Rankel says it was important for him to acknowledge residential schools and Canada’s “history of policy genocide.”

“The very least I could do as a white male is just acknowledge that that kind of stuff happened,” Rankel says.

The book includes a brief exchange between Gil and Bobby where they briefly address their experiences of racism without talking about it very directly and Rankel says the moment was also intended to acknowledge the relationship between Black people and law enforcement.

“I wanted to be cognizant of the relationship between law enforcement and Black people, specifi-

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cally because I was making [Gil] a northwest mounted police officer and it seemed like to not at least acknowledge that it was a problematic relationship in some way, even in a fictitious story, seemed sort of wrong to me,” Rankel says.

Visually, Rankel created a drawing style for the book that he hopes readers would find accessible. He paired the drawings with bright, neon colours that he says came from his own childhood.

“Being a person that grew up in the ‘90s when everything was saturated in neon, I’ve never really gotten over the love of those bright, sharp, acidic colours,” Rankel says.

He’d actually intended for the colour palette to be even more acidic, but decided against it after a few pages.

“It hurt to look at,” he says.

Still, throughout the book he uses neon pink to draw the reader’s attention to sounds and motions that are important to understanding the story.

“It’s weird doing your first ever big project and honestly, I’m just aiming for coherent story, if I’m being truthful,” Rankel says.

The comic book artist is still deciding what his next project will be and has been sharing Frank with readers at book signings in both Calgary and Edmonton.

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BARD IN THE PARK Tue., June 19 - Sun., July 15 Freewill Shakespeare Festival Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park Tickets at freewillshakespeare.com

How the Freewill Shakespeare Festival performs organically

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pontaneity is the crux of theatre and integral to acting.

Theatre captures the inherent bewilderment of the human existence, setting it on a stage to watch, critique, and understand.

And once again the Heritage Amphitheatre in Hawrelak Park will host the Freewill Shakespeare Festival to indulge in this being.

The Freewill Shakespeare Festival has been an unmovable force since its inception with four Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) students from the University of Alberta in 1989. Troy O’Donnell has been a part of each year, and for him the love is undying.

“For myself, it’s a labour of love.

With the looming prospect of unemployment after finishing a BFA, we were inspired by Calgary’s Shakespeare in the park, basically on the premise of ‘Why doesn’t Edmonton have this?’”

With support from the city to hold the Freewill Shakespeare

Festival at the Heritage Amphitheatre in Hawrelak Park, Edmonton’s own Shakespeare festival has been here for a long haul: 29 years. O’Donnell is reminded of how much Mother Nature dances with the performances.

“There are so many people over the years that stop me in the street and talk about the moment when lightning flashed at the perfect point, or the wind and thunder, and those are the memories people have. People come for the gloomy nights during the tragedy, or the sunny days for the comedy,” he says.

This is what catapults theatre to such a grandiose form of acting: no two scenes will be the exact same each time they’re viewed, especially at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival. This is why Shakespeare’s plays, being so emotive and cathartic, are a perfect marriage between form and spontaneity.

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This year’s plays will be A Comedy of Errors and Hamlet: a comedy and a tragedy that offers something for everyone.

With some of Edmonton’s top acting and production, the festival is a celebration of theatre, and for past performer and regular attendee Griffin Cork, the festival is much more. He says, “I really enjoy how a lot of people treat it as a summer festival and a summer activity, rather than a theatre show. In that sense, while it is a highclass show with phenomenal performances, it brings in a whole other demographic of audience that may not normally attend theatre in Edmonton.”

The Freewill Shakespeare Fes-

tival welcomes any who come.

O’Donnell affirms that “it’s not stuffy or stiff. We’re outdoors.

No one has to dress up, and we have pay-what-you-want Tuesdays or days for students; we try to make it affordable so anyone can come.”

The event is family friendly by

including puppet shows by Thou Art Here Theatre, who will also be putting on a show called Hark A Voice. The Freewill Shakespeare festival is, as O’Donnell says, “unexpected and spontaneous,” a festival bound to capture the hearts and minds of any who go.

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VISCERAL ARTS

Montreal artist Rachel Thomas’ Skin Machine layers bacteria-born cellulose, mimicking emotional defense mechanisms Until Jul. 21 Rachel Thomas’ Skin Machine Latitude 53 Free admission

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y most standards, Montrealbased artist Rachel Thomas’ exhibit, The Skin Machine appears grotesque. The name, for one, yields something of a prickly feeling, and the kinetic sculpture’s robotic arm slowly weaves a bacteria-formed cellulose over a plaster scaffold.

Maybe it’s fitting, then, that through the small piece—it’s only a foot-and-a-half by a foot-and-ahalf—Thomas hopes to explore taboo subjects: mental health, suffering in silence, and the kind of emotional scar tissue people create to survive in polite society.

The robotic arm, literally and metaphorically, constructs the second skin over the plaster core, over and over again, covering up “vulnerabilities,” and creating “a facade that’s presented to the social world,” Thomas says.

The moveable arm transfers the skin cells form a dish onto a plaster scaffold, and it basically builds thin layers on top of it. Eventually, there will be a layer of skin—ostensibly a kind of protection—but

the process also erodes the plaster, warping what it was originally meant to protect.

“The work changes over time ...

The project in its totality is looking at normal and functional social identities, and how that pertains to mental illness in terms of protecting the self from social dismissal,” she says. “It’s quite literally the creation of a second skin.”

Thomas hopes viewers will take the uncomfortable lesson to heart. Art, in her mind, can draw incredibly powerful emotions from the people who look at it.

Sometimes, they can be positive, but other times, they can be hard to deal with.

“We don’t really know who is suffering, because it’s socially unacceptable to show emotion. I would hope the work would spark ideas about this, and make people look at their own lives, and the lives of people around them,” she says.

Thomas wore many hats in the creation of The Skin Machine.

While she has no real background in science, she figured out how to grow the skin during her masters degree, and just does it out of her apartment. An earlier work of hers saw the artist make hospital curtains out of the grosslywrought, fake flesh.

Besides that, she did some light programming using an opensource platform called Arduino, which gave motion to the robotic arm (which she also roughed up a bit to appear a little more sinister).

In a more abstract sense, Thomas is a multi-disciplinary academic, and a PhD student, dealing with three areas: fine art, medical sociology, and medical history.

During the artist’s masters degree, Thomas’ work dealt with mental health issues. Now, as she is working on her doctorate, her work still deals with mental health, but more on a “symptom basis.”

“My main focus at this moment is with an endocrine disorder called polycystic ovary syndrome, and depression is one of the symptoms,” she says, though this is perhaps less directly related to The Skin Machine than her upcoming works.

“In terms of my research and how I go about it, I’m considered to be an auto-ethnographer. I use my own experiences to discuss facets of cultural experience.

Certainly with the mental health stuff, it was important for me to draw from my own experiences to try to better understand what I was researching.”

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

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COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Hannibal Thompson; Jun 22-23 • Kevin Singh; Jun 29-30

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Jak Knight; Jun 21-24 • Adam Hunter; Jun 27-Jul 1

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

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

FREEDOM SKETCH '90 • The Grindstone, 10019-81 Ave • Every month Ms. Perfect Boy attempts its magnum opus Freedom Sketch ‘90: a takedown of the current social zeitgeist that at the same time celebrates the shared human experience, all the way from the birth of man to the heat death of the universe • Jun 9, 9pm • $10

IMPROVAGANZA INTERNATIONAL IMPROV FESTIVAL • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.443.6044 • rapidfiretheatre.com • Ten days of improvised comedy, music, and much more • Jun 13-23 • From $15

LAUGH STEADY • Nook Cafe, 10153-97 St • Live stand-up comedy hosted by Kevin Cianciolo • Last Fri of the month, 7:30-9:30pm • $5 (door)

metrocinema.org for daily listings • • Reel Family Cinema: Willow (Jun 23) • Sunday ClaSSiCS: Lawrence of Arabia (Jun 24)

OH SNAP! '90S MOVIE MARATHON • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • 780.451.3344 • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca • Settle-in to watch some of the best '90s films to hit the giant screen • Jul 12-15, 7:30pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

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St • 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends May 19-Sep 3 • $7 (adult), $6 (senior/student), $3.50 (child 3-12)/child under 3 free; $5 (train rides), $3 (motor car rides)

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

by William Townsend; until Jul 1 • WEEKLY DROP-IN ACTIVITIES: Tours for Tots, Every Wed, 10-11am • Youth Workshops, ages 13-17, Every Thu, 4-6pm • Kids’ Open Studio, Every Sat, 1-3pm • Exhibition Tours; Every Sat-Sun, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm • Art for Lunch; 3rd Thu of the month, 12-1pm • VIBE; 3rd Fri of the month, 5-9pm ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Birds, Bees, and Ambergris: artwork by Gerri Harden; Jun 7-Jul 28

FILM DOMINION (2018) SCREENING • Central Lions

ARTWALK • Person District, St. Albert •

Recreation Centre, 11113 113 St • 780.994.0999 • amaraczi@gmail.com • A film about sustainability and animal agriculture • Jun 29, 7-10pm • Admission by donation (via Eventbrite)

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Discover a place to enjoy, view and buy art to suit all tastes and budgets. Featuring returning artists and new ones • May-Sep, 1st Thu of every month, 6-8:30pm (exhibits run all month)

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-

BEAR CLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St •

109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • Visit

780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • Summer Exhibition: rotating exhibit by gallery artists; Throughout the summer

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BRUCE PEEL SPECIAL COLLECTIONS • Lower level, Rutherford South, University of Alberta • bpsc.library.ualberta.ca • Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination; Apr 27-Aug 24 • Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination; May 4-Aug 24 BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Summer Salon–3 at One; Jul 7-21 CAPITAL PLAZA WEST OF THE FEDERAL BUILDING PLAZA • 9820-107 St • marketing@ theworks.ab.ca • Walk With The Works Roving Reception: A complete evening of art, refreshments, and thoughtful conversation; Jun 27, 6-8pm • $25

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TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments • Terry Fox–Running to the Heart of Canada; Feb 16-Sep 16 • Dinosaurs Unearthed: Down to the Bone; Opens Jun 1

UDELL XHIBITIONS • 10332-124 St NW • 780.488.4445 • udellxhibitions.com • UX MB; Jun 22-23 • MINBID; Jun 22-23 VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave,

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood

HOUSE OF HUSH PRESENTS: LET'S MISBEHAVE • Crash Hotel Lobby, 10266-

10266-103 St • hellothere@violettecoquette. com • houseofhushjune22.eventbrite.com • houseofhushburlesque.com • Get ready for House of Hush's highest-energy, swingin' acts, 1940s glamour, and film noir • Jun 22, 7pm (door), 8-9:30pm (show) • $30 (include a complimentary feature cocktail) • 18+ only

FAB GALLERY • Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • ualberta.ca/artshows • Czecho-Slovak Fine Art Exhibition; Jun 12-Jul 6

10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca •Home: artwork by various artists; May 5-Aug 18; Artist talk and reception: Jun 23, 2-4pm • The Surface of Things: Chasing Light: artwork by Brenda Malkinson; Jun 2-Jul 14

• Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Open Seniors Show; May 28-Jun 22

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FRONT GALLERY • 10402-124 St •

• Alberta Dance Alliance, 11759 Groat Rd • abdancealliance.ab.ca • Enjoy a wide variety of dance style during this festival • Jun 27-Jul 7

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DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St •

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY •

ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34

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Demers, Anouk Desloges, Emilie Proulx; Jun 29-Aug 3

thefrontgallery.com • WOMEN ARTISTS; Aug 8, 7-9pm Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Strathcona Salon Series: artwork by various artists; May 15-Jun 23

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Human Essence: Humankind at the Beginning of the 21st Century: 30th Annual Harcourt House Members’ Exhibition and Art Sale; Jun 2-Jul 14 LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • June Group Selling Exhibition; Until Jun 29

LATITUDE 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St NW • latitude53.org • Typical Space: artwork

by Sora Park; Jun 8-Jul 21 • The Skin Machine: artwork by Rachel Thomas; Jun 8-Jul 21

LOFT GALLERY & GIFT SHOP • A.J. Ottewell Arts Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Sat-Sun, 12-4pm (excluding long weekends) • Artwork by Desserrie Plewis, Lynda McAmmond, Lynn Sinfield, Joyce Boyer, Kay McCormick, and Terrie Shaw; Mar 3-Jul 8 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah. org/mcmullen-gallery • Aura of the Land: Blake Chorley and Ben Globerman; May 5-Jun 24 • The Well Tended Garden: artwork by Gillian Willans; Jun 30-Aug 19

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage. ca • Birds, Bees and Ambergris: artwork by Gerri Harden; Jun 7-Jul 28 • Take Your Best Shot: youth digital photo exhibition; Jun 12-Aug 12

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Arrangement: artwork by Monica Tap; Jun 14-30

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

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default. aspx • Open Tue-Sat, 9am • 150 Firsts: How Alberta Changed Canada…Forever; Until Aug 1 PYGMALION SCHOOL OF FINE ART • 8645

St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Panel Discussion: artwork by Goop of 7; Jun 5-30

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Angie Abdou & Jamie Dopp Writing the Body in Motion Book Launch; Jul 4, 7-8:30pm

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

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

THEATRE THE ARCTIC FLUTE • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way Sherwood Park • operanuova.ca • Part of Opera NUOVA's Mainstage series. Re-imagined in the far north, the darkness of an arctic winter gives way to glorious spring in this sparkling, fun-filled adaptation of Mozart’s beloved fantasy • Jun 23, Jun 26, Jun 28, Jun 30 • $20-$40

BUT HARK, A VOICE! • Heritage Amphitheatre, William Hawrelak Park • thouartheretheatre. com • A roving rehearsal of repertory rejects!

Shakespeare's Mechanicals from A Midsummer Night's Dream are rehearsing their new play premiering at this year's Shakespeare festival.

Unfortunately, they have no idea what they're doing • Jun 19-Jul 15 EMMA, THE MUSICAL • Horowitz Theatre, University of Alberta, 8900-114 St • Focused on the character of an elementary school teacher, Emma, who must make difficult choices between the peaceful life she struggles to live and the war that rages around her • Jul 7

FOREVER PLAID • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • This nostalgic revue centres on four eager male singers who are killed in a car crash on the way to their first big concert. They are miraculously revived from the afterlife for a chance to fulfill their dreams and perform the show that never was • Jun 15-Jul 29, showtimes vary (TueSun) • $80 and up

FREEWILL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL • Heritage Ampitheatre, Hawerlak Park, 9330 Groat Rd • freewillshakespeare.com • The festival returns for its 30th season with the two classic plays: Comedy of Errors and Hamlet • Jun 19-Jul 15 (no shows on Mon)

86 McKenney Ave, St. Albert • 780.460.1677 • pygmalionartschool.com • It’s More Than Refrigerator Art: artwork by Pygmalion School of Fine Art’s and Student Art Exhibition • Jun 22, 5:30-8:30pm

INTO THE WOODS • Festival Place, 100 Festival

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta

PUPPET SHOWS: HAMLET & THE COMEDY OF ERRORS • Heritage Amphitheatre, William

Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Home and Garden: artwork by Micheline Durocher; Jun 15-Jul 21 • Copy Tropic: artwork by Megan Gnanasihamany; Jun 15-Jul 21

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Wedding Dresses through Time; until Aug 31

Way Sherwood Park • operanuova.ca • Part of Opera NUOVA's Mainstage series. Mind the wolf, heed the witch, and honor the giant in the sky • Jun 24, Jun 27, Jun 29-30 • $20-$45

Hawrelak Park • thouartheretheatre.com • Heading down to the Freewill Shakespeare Festival this summer? Looking for something fun to do before the show begins? Grab some refreshments and let Thou Art Here Theatre introduce you to the play through a fun and interactive puppet adaptation • Jun 19-Jul 15

ROCK & ROLL HEAVEN • Jubilations Dinner / Supplied

Theatre, WEM Phase 1, 8882-170 St • Imagines Heaven’s greatest concert with Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Michael Jackson, Prince and many more • Jun 15-Aug 19

WEDDING BELLS AND BOMBSHELLS • ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • Pandemonium erupts as the groom meets the bride’s side of the family, a wacky group of eccentric characters, for the first time • Jun 21-23, Jun 28-30, 7:30pm • Tickets at TIX on

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Still from Metamorphosis / Jean Paul Bourdier

DOCUMENTARY

HOPE IN A FUTURELESS WORLD New NFB documentary Metamorphosis transforms the loss of one world into the radical potential of another

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caterpillar crawls to place and starts its metamorphosis. With a breath, it envelops itself in a cocoon. The vivid green chrysalis seals shut, changing to a slightly deeper, pearly hue, hinting at the changes happening inside the structure. This evolution is an incredible thing. Each year, monarch butterflies west of the Rocky Mountains migrate all the way to southern California. Their second, third, and fourth-generation offspring will then return north, completing a cycle that has allowed the species to thrive for centuries.

Humans have that same capacity to adapt, and through history have found creative solutions to several situations that have required us to change.

Canadian filmmakers Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper embrace this history and carve a bold vision for the future with their new cinematic documentary Metamorphosis.

Vivid colours and geometric patterns seen from above make up most of the documentary when we’re not meeting artists, scientists, engineers, and thinkers explaining their stories of action, adaptation, and transformation.

The backdrop of these stunning cinematic shots are the voices— brilliantly weaved together like a poem—of those who have em-

braced the human ability to adapt.

The feature-length documentary takes the conversation around climate change to an entirely different level from what we’ve previously seen in the genre. Rather than the classic talking heads on a screen format sitting in a poorlylit office, Metamorphosis carries on its reframing of climate change through staggeringly beautiful imagery, which is meant to inspire and as the film says “let people fall back in love with the Earth.”

The film also does this by connecting viewers to its inspiring subjects mostly through their words, allowing us to partake in a sort of meditation on a refreshing and radical re-thinking of our society and its priorities.

It first began for Ami when Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest ever recorded, hit the Philippines in 2013. More than 6,000 people died, which struck home for Ami being Filipina and having spent a lot of time there. This event led Ami and her husband, Ripper, to begin discussing how the experience could change a person, something they soon began to see as the most inclusive issue of our time.

But the film shows some incredible initiatives are shown in the film, including Garden Pool, which

repurposes pools—once a symbol of status, but also of extreme alienation from the surrounding natural environment—into selfsufficient food systems. Another innovative approach is that of Michael Reynolds, architect and inventor of the beautiful and environmentally-sound homes he calls “earthships,” which redefine the concepts of both waste and home. They also feature California company GRID Alternatives, which offers solar panels for low-income houses and trains people of colour and immigrants to do the actual installations, generating more jobs in green collar industries.

Art also plays a large role in carrying on the narrative of the doc.

The coral reef re-establishing sculptures of Jason DeCaires Taylor also feature alongside poet and environmentalist Homero Aridjis, architect Gianandrea Barreca, and photographer and artist Jean-Paul Bourdier.

“We have a human capacity for change, for shapeshifting that I think is underestimated,” says psychiatrist, psychohistorian, and author Robert Jay Lifton in the film. Lifton also mentions his theory of “psychic numbing” in the film, which he says has a great deal to do with many current views on climate change.

“He uses the phrase ‘psychic numbing’ to talk about the sense of overwhelm that we sometimes

have when confronted with something so vast as climate change, and even the possible futurelessness of our species,” Ripper says. “That’s where the catharsis comes in—the need to actually recognize those feelings and not go into denial.”

Ami and her husband’s intent for the film is to create a new narrative around climate change not about blame or denial, but about evolution, transformation, and solutions.

“We’re caterpillars right now.

We’re eating everything in sight,” one of the film’s voices says. “I think we could morph into beautiful creatures.”

In addition to their talkback after Friday’s screening, the filmmakers will host a workshop on Saturday, June 23 at 10 a.m., which follows the same arc as the film: chrysalis, crisis, catharsis, and symbiosis.

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“What we do is we help people to personalize the crisis,” Ami says, “and then go through and navigate whatever feelings come up for them and channel that in a way that helps them move forward and perhaps come up with action plans to share in their own lives or in their community.”

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TAG’S A DRAG

Rare moments of comedic gold can’t save middling stinker

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his had the chance to be the next Hangover. It could have been a laugh-out-loud movie featuring adults acting childish with on-point lines and great slapstick comedy. If everything had come together, Tag would have been another summer smash. Unfortunately, this movie starring Ed Helms fails at most of its jokes. When the concept of the movie is highlighted however—the game of tag—the scenes are hilarious from start to finish.

Every May, a group of friends play a game of tag as per a tradition they’ve held since age nine. Now, middle-aged, most of the friends have not been able to achieve one goal: tag Jerry (Jeremy Renner) for the first time in 30 years. Jerry is about to get married, and Hogan (Ed Helms) finds this as an excellent opportunity to tag him. The group comes back together again in a desperate attempt to tag the cunning and frankly psychopathic Jerry.

The concept sounds amusing, but the forced writing that hides behind profanity fails at almost every level. A few good

jokes slip here and there, but the theater was silent for the majority of the 100-minute run-time.

The cast of characters are generic archetypes we’ve seen in comedies countless times before: the drop out who has lost everything and is smoking cannabis, the wife who is overly aggressive, the businessman who is trying to play it straight but loses himself in the moment, and a dumbass that doesn’t follow social norms. This movie drags on as these eye-rolling one liners keep coming. The worst is Helms, who looks out of place with his silly performance that should be from a children’s show. He’s distracting, even in a comedy like this.

But the writing almost makes up for its forced comedy. It has a soul. While it could have been crafted in a more dramatic way, this is a story about a group of friends who are dealing with losing that sense of childhood, and the friendship they share that is scattered across the United States. While it doesn’t ultimately land as well as it could, there is a twist that is

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The best parts of the movie, and they are too few and far between, are the tag scenes. In an almost Sherlockian manner, Reiner makes witty analyses about his friends as they try to catch him, and the environment around him. It’s like watching a spy film. The slow motion of the scenes adds a comedic element, and the action is extremely fun to watch and well shot.

Tag is a disappointment to those looking for the next big summer comedy. The writing overly relies on profanity for cheap jokes, and the movie drags on until a brief but hilarious tag scene comes on screen. The script might surprise you towards the end with a message that’s endearing, but overall, it is driven down by its immaturity.

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Founding member of jazz-fusion wizards Snarky Puppy talks roots before headlining Edmonton Jazz Fest

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narky Puppy is one of those bands that you hear more and more about every year. With quiet beginnings as a jazz-fusion group made up of more than 30 members from various music universities, Snarky Puppy released a couple albums in the mid-2000s but usually heard crickets from the more mainstream audiences. They were somewhat secluded to a microcosm of jazz lovers, until they began touring live and backing up acts like Justin Timberlake, David Crosby, and Mr. Drizzle himself, Snoop Dogg.

Behind the monolithic orchestra of musicians is bassist and founding member Michael League. Snarky Puppy is still clearly League’s passion project. It’s a venue for him to put his virtuosic talents to the test. But managing an orchestra of musicians can take its toll. After all, League is only human.

“There was a time—the first eight years of the band actually—when I was the manager, booking agent, promoter, graphic designer, publicist, bus driver, you name it, I did it,” League says. “And it was too much—way too much. There’s no way that things could function at this point now, without an incredible team of people behind the scenes. And I truly feel that we have one of the best teams in the music business. They aren’t just great at what they do. They’re real music lovers. They’re passionate about art and will do anything and everything they can to see it bloom.”

And Snarky Puppy’s art has bloomed. They have a total of 12 studio and live albums. The band’s latest Culcha Vulcha also snagged a Grammy last year for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album.

“We never expect recognition for our work because of being unknown for so long. It’s special every time, but this one was particularly special because it’s the first time we’ve been recognized for doing our thing, which is performing original instrumental music without special guests,” League says. “It felt great when we were in the studio tracking Culcha Vulcha, and when Nic [producer] and I finished mixing it, I could sit back, listen, and actually enjoy it. But at no point did I think, ‘This will win a Grammy.”’

Culcha Vulcha, like many of Snarky Puppy’s works, is all across the board musically. There’s dramatic piano ballads, beach-vibe guitars, frenetic brass interludes, tasty bass lines—everything that makes up a superb jazz fusion record. That’s the genre Snarky Puppy has been lumped into, but really, they’re more of a jam band made up of an array of multi-talented individuals.

“I think that many people just assume that we write together, but we actually don’t,” League says. “Whoever has a song writes it completely by themselves, and when they bring it into the

band, it will change in terms of arrangement or production, but the composition is really only written by that one person.”

That’s how the band can throw in a Pink Floyd/ King Crimson-esque guitar lead in a song like “The Simple Life,” which starts off as a Brazilian-inspired afro-jazz beat jam.

“It’s the arranging process that makes all the songs sound like Snarky Puppy because everyone puts in their own individual flavour and personality,” League adds.

Though they will probably never live down the jazz fusion placeholder, League is ecstatic to be apart of the jazz storm slowly gobbling up part of the mainstream music scene.

“After years of jazz musicians playing for jazz musicians and as a result, the music becoming headier and headier, people like Roy Hargrove’s RH Factor, Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, and others started incorporating more modern, danceable musical influences into their music.”

Simply, the classic jazz tunes got a bit more direct.

“They got more emotional and less mathematical. It attracted more listeners,” League says.

“Now, there are so many different paths upon which you can travel while still being considered a part of the jazz community and I think that’s a beautiful thing.”

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BLUEGRASS ROOTS FUNK

TAMING ‘WILD HORSES’ FOR NEW SOUNDS John Butler Trio gains a plus along with a massive sound for their world tour this summer

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f you’ve seen him play the astounding 12-minute track “Ocean” on his 11-string guitar, you understand what we’re getting into—if not, do yourself the favour. The studio version on YouTube harbours over 37 million views. That performance alone, is worth the price of admission live.

John Butler calls the song part of his DNA and the sum of all things “he can’t put into words.”

As he evolves, so too does the track, which he has played at every live show for the past 20odd years. Butler’s life force fills that song, as it does the rest of his music alongside Byron Luiters on bass and Grant Gerathy on drums—the members of the John Butler Trio.

For this most recent tour, however, Butler has added a plus, which makes up additional percussion, keys, and vocals, which all feature on the upcoming 2018 album full of more synth than ever before. Butler actually recorded the album in a completely new way because of the nature of the personal and sensitive content he was putting on paper. He and his producer Jan Skubiszewski ended up laying down and recording the base of many of the new tracks in a studio in eastern Australia.

“It was an absolute pain in the ass making this album,” Butler laughs. “Songs are like wild horses. You go out in the bush and you see them and you’re like ‘Holy shit, that’s beautiful. I wanna show the people in the city that stuff, like that is the most majestic god-like thing I’ve ever seen for somebody who’s not Orthodox Christian.’ And so I

wanna bring these songs back in, but you walk up to the song and sometimes you scare them off.

Sometimes you put the saddle on and you’re like ‘wicked, we’re gonna go to town’ and then it bucks you off halfway down the road and runs off with your saddle and all your gear.”

Even now, Butler counts himself lucky to have the ability to have taken the time off the road to work through all of the content and emotion for the new album. After, Butler brought in his band plus, and built up the tracks “the right way.”

For the live show the now five-piece will reinvent classics like “Better Man,” “Zebra,” and “What You Want” as well as some new tracks from the forthcoming album.

“As I was doing some of the pre-production for [the new album], these bigger, kind of epic drums were coming into the album,” Butler says. “When I play ‘Ocean’ I can sound like three people; as the trio we can sound like six people and I wanted to make sure that as a five-piece we didn’t sound like four people.”

The tour—which has consisted of three legs: Australia and New Zealand, North America, and the U.K. and Europe—kicks off his long-awaited next studio album since 2014’s Flesh and Blood, coming out this Autumn—for all those north of the equator, that is.

The Australian roots-rockers resonate hints of blues, jazz, and groove into world-mixed music that hits the core of you. Revered for

his brilliant live performances and raw, hearty musicianship, Butler’s music feels as though he could be improvising off the cuff. But the reality is the quintet’s set for the tour is painstakingly rehearsed and thought through to accommodate the astounding range that is a John Butler Trio show.

“I don’t change things on the spot very much,” he says, “because of all the tunings I play; it needs to be quite organized.”

His well-seasoned string and slap percussion style, in fact, holds a healthy dose of perfection to it. The magic lies in the fact that you feel as though you’re a part of the process when he plays his music live.

The uplifting and powerful music teaches one thing: it’s very important to feel.

“I just try to make it a good ride where, you know, you start off and you see some beautiful sights and then there’s a water hole and whoo you go for a swim, and then a bit of a hike and see some nice rocks and then, oh, you have a little time by yourself. And by the end of it, maybe you end by everyone skinny dipping in a really nice hole,” he laughs.

For the show, Butler and his crew will be joined by very special guest Danielle Caruana his wife who goes by stage name Mama Kin Spender.

I strongly suggest you familiarize yourself with her tunes and honey-caramel voice, while you’re looking up Butler; also check out the beautiful harmony ballad between the two “Losing You” if you can’t wait for the show.

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ONLY THE GOOD STUFF Live Hip/Hop,

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Mondays! featuring Billy Moon; 7pm; No cover

Every Mon, 9pm; Free

every Sat

Simon, Dan and Pascal; Every Sat, 4-7pm; Free

AVIARY Inner City Rec Program Fundy

ENVY NIGHT CLUB Resolution

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong

BLIND PIG PUB Blind Pig Pub Ham

SIDELINER’S PUB Singer/Songwriter

Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:30pm STARLITE ROOM Ghost - Note with Carter & The Capitals; 7pm; $15-$25; No minors

(part of Jazz Fest); 7:30pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Substance with Eddie Lunchpail

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Jazz Brunch

with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

with Charlie Austin; 9am-2pm; By donation

TUE JUN 26

BLUES ON WHYTE Murray Kinsley and

AVIARY Mo Kenney with St. Arnaud,

Wicked Grin; 9pm THE BUCKINGHAM Man Meat with

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Mark Ammar’s Saturday Sessions Jam; Every Sat, 4-8pm • Chillfactor & Train Wreck; 9pm; No minors

Borrachera, Quasar, Hex Beat, and Ghost Cell; 7pm; Admission by donation

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN Al

CAFE BLACKBIRD Jazz on the Patio (part of Jazz Fest); 12pm; Free

Barrett; 9pm

HAVE MERCY Bring Your Own Vinyl

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Mike

Dominey; 9pm

ONLY THE GOOD STUFF OGS Industry Nights; Every Sun, ; Free; 18+ only

STARLIGHT CASINO Robb Angus; 8pm

ON THE ROCKS The Prairie States CD

STARLITE ROOM The Faceless with

release party; 9pm

Angelmaker, Protosequence, and Sol

Chris Bruce spins britpop/punk/ garage/indie; Every Tue EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Taco Tuesday with

resident DJs

CAFE BLACKBIRD Wingin' It; 7pm; $15

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

RICHARD'S PUB KWC Karaoke

9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Band; 9pm

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

ROSE & CROWN PUB Chance Devlin;

DJs

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild

Burlesque Cabaret; 8pm Competition; Every Sat, 2-6pm • Jam with host Ralph Pretz; Every Sat, 6-10pm (all styles of music welcome)

Jazz Fest); 7:30pm

and up at Ticketmaster

YARDBIRD SUITE Allison Au Quartet

REC ROOM–SOUTH EDMONTON COMMON Tribute To Tarantino -

YARDBIRD SUITE Gogo Penguin (part of

BLUES ON WHYTE The Sobo Blues

ALIBI PUB AND EATERY Open mic night; Every Sun, 6-9pm

Buckaroos; 2pm; $15 at the Bailey Box Office or online

of Jazz Fest); 7:30pm; $39-$49

WED JUN 27

International Jazz Festival; runs until Jul 1

BAILEY THEATRE–CAMROSE The Bailey

WINSPEAR CENTRE Snarky Puppy (part

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Kaleo; 8pm; $45

VARIOUS LOCATIONS TD Edmonton

ON THE ROCKS Mourning Wood; 9pm

International Jazz Festival; runs until Jul 1

7-11pm

SUN JUN 24

Live Local Bands every Sat

SOUTH EDMONTON COMMON JUN 22

CASK AND BARREL David Mars;

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Green River

EVENTS

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Rusty Reed Band; Every Tue, 7:30-11pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ

MON JUN 25

Revival; 8pm

UPCOMING

Zyppy with DJ Late Fee; Every Sun

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

CASINO EDMONTON Jukebox Leigh;

8pm; $35 and up at Ticketmaster LB'S PUB Tuesday Night Open Jam

Sun, 7-11pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

9pm

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Collective Soul;

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic hip-hop

WEST EDMONTON MALL JUN 22

THE NERVOUS FLIRTS

JUN 23

YOGA & MIMOSAS w/ YEG.DATE

JUN 28

THROWBACK THURSDAY w/ THE SISSY FITS

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

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm HAVE MERCY Piano Karaoke featuring with Tiff Hall; Every Wed, 8:30pm LEAF BAR & GRILL Wang Dang

Wednesdays; Every Wed, 7-11pm; Free ON THE ROCKS Karaoke Wednesdays hosted by ED; Every Wed, 9pm PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

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

Wednesday ROGERS PLACE Vance Joy; 7pm; $39

and up

and Dylan Ella; 7-11pm; $16 (adv), $20 (door) BLUES ON WHYTE Bill Durst; 9pm

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Lady Lynne and

The Grinders; Every Wed, 7:30-11pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke; 9pm

guest Nacho Chavez; 7pm; $15

TEMPLE–STARLITE ROOM Uada with Wolvhammer, The Black Moriah and guests; 8pm; $15; No minors

FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle Jam Circle;

VARIOUS LOCATIONS TD Edmonton

7:30-11:30pm

International Jazz Festival; runs until Jul 1

CAFE BLACKBIRD Rob Lamonica with

GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm HAVE MERCY Outlaw Country Vinyl Night with Sheriff Taylor; Every 3rd Tue of the month • To-Do Tuesday: open mic night hosted by Justin Perkins

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ

Late Fee; Every Wed

VENUEGUIDE 9910 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ALIBI PUB & EATERY 17328 Stony Plain Rd THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte.com ARIA'S BISTRO 10332-81 Ave, 780.972.4842, ariasbistro.com AVIARY 9314-111 Ave B-STREET BAR 11818-111 Ave BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne Street St. Albert BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BLVD SUPPER X CLUB 10765 Jasper Ave BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 BRICK & WHISKEY PUBLIC HOUSE 8937-82 Ave THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca

CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTURY CASINO–EDMONTON 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT 24 Boudreau Rd, St. Albert, 780.460.8092 CHVRCH OF JOHN 10260-103 St, 780.884.8994, thechvrchofjohn.com COMMON 9910-109 St DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall. com DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB 11113-87 Ave NW, devaneyspub.com DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 EDMONTON HOME FAIR 2804 Calgary Trail

EL CORTEZ 8230 Gateway Blvd, elcortezcantina.com EMPRESS ALE HOUSE 9912-82 Ave NW ENVY NIGHT CLUB West Edmonton Mall, 8882 170 St FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca THE FORGE ON WHYTE 1054982 Ave (Whyte Ave) GAS PUMP NIGHT CLUB & BAR 10166-114 St HAVE MERCY SOUTHERN TABLE + BAR 8232 Gateway Blvd, havemercy.ca HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave NW HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com KINSMEN PARK 9100 Walterdale Hill KNOX EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH 8403-104 St LA CITÉ FRANCOPHONE 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury LATITUDE 53 10242-106 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR & GRILL 9016132 Ave MEMPHIS BLUES BBQ HOUSE 16907-127 St

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave ONLY THE GOOD STUFF 15135 Stony Plain Road ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St REC ROOM–SOUTH EDMONTON COMMON 1725-99 St NW REC ROOM–WEST EDMONTON MALL 8882-170 St NW RICHARD’S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3117 ROGERS PLACE 10214-104 Ave ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton. com SEWING MACHINE FACTORY 9562-82 Ave

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018127 St SQUARE 1 COFFEE 15 Fairway Drive STARLIGHT CASINO 8882170 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TEMPLE–STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.428.1414 WOODRACK CAFE 7603-109 St, 780. 757.0380 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours. com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428

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ALTERNATIVE Tues., Jun. 26 (7 pm) Mo Kenney w/ St.Arnaud, and Dylan Ella The Aviary $20 at doors

EVENTS

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

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

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

‘DARK POCKETS’ OF HUMOUR Mo Kenney’s latest album was inspired by her battle with depression

T

alking about emotions is something difficult for many people. Now imagine taking your darkest moments and putting them on display for the world to see. It’s not exactly something any of us would jump to do, but that’s exactly what Mo Kenney did with her last album.

Based out of the Halifax, Kenney plays a mix of alternative/ indie music, though her sound ranges from singer-songwriter to fuzzed-out, lo-fi rock. Her third and latest album, The Details, was released last September.

“I didn’t really go into the record having any idea what it was going to end up being,” Kenney says. “I was just writing and hoping that something stuck.”

What came out of the process was an extremely personal and reflective album that looks at a low point in Kenney’s life, a point when she was struggling with depression. The album follows her through booze-fuelled breakdowns and disintegrating relationships, but ends on an optimistic note.

“I’ve always struggled with de-

pression, and in the middle of working on this record I decided to go see a therapist and that really helped,” Kenney says. “I was mostly working through it and coming out of it, not really going downhill anymore. It was really nice and cathartic to be able to write about it,” she says. “I’m really proud of this record.”

Compared to her last two albums, The Details is a much more personal and dark journey, and has a much heavier sound.

This came out of Kenney playing with a band at the tail end of her last album, as well as her home recordings where she would layer multiple electric guitar tracks to make up for a lack of drum set.

“I love playing electric guitar, and I stopped doing that when I first started touring, so it was nice to come back to that,” she says.

Despite the serious nature of the album, Kenney still manages to throw in little pockets of dark humour. For example, the first song on the album, “Cat’s Not a Cake,” is about a breakup and

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how to divide up ownership of a cat. “Punchy,” another song on the album, is about getting punched in the face at a bar by some “meathead.”

“It’s just what I’m like, I guess,” Kenney says. “Even if I’m going through a hard time I can still joke about it.”

Canadian songwriter Joel Plaskett has produced all three of Kenney’s albums so far, but The Details also saw Kenney herself co-producing. This was the first time she took on a producer role with her work.

Kenney met Plaskett when she was a teenager in Halifax.

Kenney was working on some demos with other young bands from the area when Plaskett came in to listen and offer some advice to the young musicians.

The two of them have kept in touch ever since.

“We’ve been working together long enough that he really knows me, and he’s always down to go in any direction that I want to go in,” she says. “He brings a lot to the table.”

Alexander Sorochan

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

DEEPSOUL.CA • 780.217.2464; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Most Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins and Les Paul Standard; Pink Floyd-ish originals plus great covers of classics: some free; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages DROP-IN D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10750-82 Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc. For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue & Wed, 7pm • $5 (with drink purchase) DROP-IN LARP • Jackie Parker Park • westernwinds.summerfrost.ca • Battle games and fighter practice using provided safe weapon boffer. An exciting way to get exercise while meeting new people with similar passions • Every Sat, 1:15pm • Free EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@ edmontonoutdoorclub.com

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Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group offering conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

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

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MONDAY MEET-UP • Hexagon Board Game Cafe, 10750-82 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) NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

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

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

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

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

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 10728-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and

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bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • A&W, 10101-88 Ave,

• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 9888 Jasper Ave. 10th floor; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm

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• Foresters Toastmaster Club: SEESA, 9350-82 St; 587.596.5277; Every Tue, 7-8:30pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: norators.com; meet every Thu, 7pm • Norwood Toastmasters: Norwood Legion, 11150-82 St NW; norwoodtoastmasters.ca; Every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); yclubtoastmasters@ gmail.com; Meet every Tue, 7-9pm

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

WOMEN'S CRICKET • Coronation Park Cricket pitch (north part of park) • incogswomens@gmail.com • Learn the game of cricket.

The group plays for fun and no experience is necessary. Kids and men welcome • Every Sat, 6pm • $5 (drop-in fee, adult), free (kids) QUEER AFFIRM GROUP • garysdeskcom@hotmail.

and under) 3rd Mon of every month, 7-9pm • fierCe fuN: (24 and under) Biweekly Tue, 7-9pm, games and activities for youth • JamOuT: (12-24) Biweekly Tue, 7-8:30pm, music mentorship and instruction for youth • TwO spiriT gaTheriNg: 4th Wed of every month, 6-8pm, gathering for First Nations Two Spirit people • meN’s sOCial CirCle: (18+) 1st and 3rd Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone masculine-identified • wOmeN’s sOCial CirCle: (18+) 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone feminine-identified • mOvies & games NighT: Biweekly Fri, 6-8:30pm • arTs & ideNTiTY: Biweekly Fri, 6-8:30pm • CreaTiNg safer spaCes TraiNiNg: Interactive professional development workshops, with full or half-day options • Queer YOuTh meNTOriNg: (Youth: 12–24) (Adults 26+)

TEAM EDMONTON • Locations vary • teamedmonton.ca • LGBTQ2+ inclusive. Various sports and recreation activities. Events include: "Gayming", archery, swimming, floor hockey, volleyball, yoga, and more • Events are seasonal and can change, visit website for more details YOGA WITH JENNIFER • 780.439.6950 • ThreeBattles.com • A traditional approach with lots of individual attention. Free introductory classes • Tue evenings & Sat mornings SPECIAL EVENTS

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House,

EDMONTON FILIPINO FIESTA • Borden Park, 7507 Borden Park Rd • edmontonfilipinofiesta.com • Enjoy joyful events at the heart of Filipino culture. Held in almost every town and province across the country, fiestas celebrate patron saints, ethnic traditions and important milestones for the local people • Jun 23-24

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

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.4235510 (Sage) • tuff69@telus.net • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Tue, 1-4pm PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 2nd Floor, 10618-105 Ave • Wheelchair-accessible elevator at 10610 105 Avenue • (780) 488-3234 • pridecentreofedmonton.org/calendar.html • OffiCe & drOp iN hOurs: Mon-Fri 12-7pm; Closed Sat-Sun and holidays • YOga: (all ages), 2nd and 4th Mon of every month • TTiQ: (18+ Trans Group) 2nd Mon of every month, 7-9pm • TraNs YOuTh grOup & pareNTs/Caregivers suppOrT: (24

Edmonton • edmontonjazz.com • A variety of jazz music with the divine jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy headlining. Lineup also features LSD Trio, Doug Organ Trio, BassDrumBone, and many more • Jun 22-Jul 1 • Freemason’s Hall of Edmonton, 10318-100 Ave • A market that celebrates the metaphysical population aspect of the city. From unique and specialized vendors providing art, clothing, crystals, hand created crafts, jewelry, books and more • Jun 23-24 • Free

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Volunteers Wanted

Can You Read This?

Help Someone Who Can’t!

Volunteer 2 hours a week and help someone improve their Reading, Writing, Math or English Speaking Skills.

Call Valerie at P.A.L.S. 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca

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ART CLASSES FOR ADULTS, YOUTH, AND CHILDREN Check The Paint Spot’s website, paintspot.ca/events/workshops for up-to-date information on art classes for all ages, beginner and intermediate.

Register in person, by phone or online.

Contact: 780.432.0240 email: accounts@paintspot.ca ENJOY ART ALWAYZ www.bdcdrawz.com Check the site every two weeks for new work!

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to Capilano Park • 780.922.4324 • info@ haskincanoe.ca • View the orange and red glow of the sun setting as you paddle on the still waters of the North Saskatchewan • Jun 22, Jul 4, Jul 13, Jul 18, Jul 21, Jul 27, Aug 1, Aug 10, Aug 15, Aug 24, Sep 14, Sep 19, Sep 28 • $50 (per person plus GST), $25 (youth 17 and under)

NATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY • Victoria Park, 12030 River Valley Rd • A day for all Canadians to recognize and celebrate the unique heritage, diverse cultures, and outstanding achievements and contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples • Jun 21

Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • 780.471.7331 • Join Northlands Youth Beekeeping Club on a walkable Edmonton exploration of honeybee and other pollinator sites in downtown Edmonton • Jun 21, 6-8pm • Free

SAND ON WHYTE • Whyte Ave and Gateway Blvd • Professional sand carving artists will be unveiling their creations for viewers to enjoy • Jun 29-Jul 8 UKRAINIAN VINTAGE FAIR • Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts, 9534-87 St • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts.ca • acuarts. ca • Featuring unique items for sale including artifacts, pottery, ceramics, dolls, art work, wood carvings, pysanky and more • Jun 23, 4-9pm • Free

Cultural Heritage Village, 25 minutes east of Edmonton on Hwy #16 • 780.662.3640 • ukrainianvillage.ca • Step on the gas, drive back in time and enjoy a spectacular display of vintage cars, tractors and motorcycles • Jun 24, 10am-5pm

THE WORKS ART & DESIGN FESTIVAL • Federal Building Plaza, 9820-107 St • theworks.ab.ca • This festival features some of the best in contemporary and traditional visual art and design • Jun 21-Jul 3

To Book Your Classifieds, Call 780.426.1996 or email classifieds@vueweekly.com Artist to Artist

Call for Artists - The Paint Spot is seeking artists to create portraits of their pets for the Big, Big Pet Portrait Show!

Your art work will be displayed in the art store during the Whyte Avenue Art Walk.

Exhibition runs until August 16, 2018. It is simple to participate.

Paint on a 12x12” gallery profile canvas (on sale sponsored by The Paint Spot).

Then bring it to our shop at 10032 81 Avenue before June 30. Contact info@paintspot.ca or call 780 432 0240.

Call for Volunteers The Whyte Avenue Art Walk July 6-8, 2018 is looking for art-lovers who want to get out there and meet artists. Shifts are 4 hours long between 7AM and 5PM. Duties include orientation of the public, watching artists wares during breaks and oh yeah walk, talk to everyone, and see a lot of art. Our Art Walk volunteer aprons and tote bags are coveted souvenirs.

The orientation is Monday June 25, 6:30PM - 8:30PM. Contact yeg.artwalk@gmail.com or visit www.art-walk.ca.

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I am a 24-year-old straight guy who recently broke up with my girlfriend of more than four years. One of the reasons we broke up was a general lack of sexual compatibility. She had a particular aversion to oral sex— both giving and receiving. I didn’t get a blowjob the whole time we were together. Which brings me to why I am writing: One of my closest friends, “Sam,” is a gay guy. Shortly after breaking up with my girlfriend, I was discussing my lack of oral sex with Sam, and he said he’d be willing to “help me out.” I agreed, and Sam gave me an earth-shattering blowjob. I was glad to get some and had no hang-ups about a guy sucking me. Since then, Sam has blown me three more times. My problem is I am starting to feel guilty and worry I am using Sam. He’s a very good buddy, and I’m concerned this lopsided sexual arrangement might be bad for our friendship. Sam knows I am not into guys and I’m never going to reciprocate, and I feel like this is probably not really fair to him.

But these are literally the only blowjobs I’ve received since I was a teenager. What should I do?

TOTALLY HAVE RESERVATIONS OVER ADVANTAGE TAKING Only one person knows how Sam feels about this “lopsided sexual arrangement,” THROAT, and it isn’t me—it’s Sam. Zooming out for a second: People constantly ask me how the person they’re fucking or fisting or flogging feels about all the fucking or fisting or flogging they’re doing. Guys ask me why a woman ghosted them, and women ask me if their boyfriends are secretly gay. And while I’m perfectly happy to speculate, I’m not a mind reader. Which means I have no way of knowing for sure why that woman ghosted you or if

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your boyfriend is gay—or in your case, THROAT, how Sam feels about the four no-recip blowjobs he’s given you. Only Sam knows.

And that’s why I wrote you back, THROAT, and asked you for Sam’s contact information. Since you were clearly too afraid to ask Sam yourself (most likely for fear the blowjobs would stop), I offered to ask Sam on your behalf. I wasn’t serious—it was my way of saying, “You should really ask Sam.” But you sent me Sam’s contact info, and a few minutes later I was chatting with Sam. “Yes, I have been sucking my straight friend’s cock,” Sam said to me. “And I am flattered he told you I was good at it. That’s an ego booster!”

Sam, like THROAT, is 24 years old. He grew up on the East Coast and met THROAT early in his first year at college. Sam came out at the end of his freshman year, to THROAT and his other friends, and he now lives in a big city where he works in marketing when he isn’t sucking off THROAT. My first question for Sam: Is he one of those gay guys who get off on “servicing” straight guys?

“I’ve never done anything with a straight guy before this,” Sam said. “So, no, I’m not someone who is ‘into servicing straight guys.’ I have only ever dated and hooked up with gay guys before!”

So why offer to blow THROAT? “I didn’t know until after he broke up with his girlfriend that he hadn’t gotten a blowjob the whole time they were together—four years!” Sam said.

“When I told him I’d be happy to help him out, I was joking. I swear I wasn’t making a pass at my straight friend! But there was this long pause, and then he got serious and said he’d be into it. I wondered for a minute if it would be weird for me to blow my friend, and there was

definitely a bit of convincing each other that we were serious. When he started taking his clothes off, I thought, ‘So this is going to happen.’ It was not awkward after. We even started joking about it right away. I have sucked him off four more times since then.”

For those of you keeping score at home: Either THROAT lost count of the number of times Sam has blown him—THROAT said Sam has blown him three more times after that first blowjob— or THROAT got a fifth blowjob in the short amount of time that elapsed between sending me his letter and putting me in touch with Sam. So does this lopsided sexual arrangement—blowing a straight boy who’s never going to blow him—bother Sam? “I suppose it is a ‘lopsided sexual arrangement,’” Sam said. “But I don’t mind. I really like sucking dick, and I’m really enjoying sucking his dick. He has a really nice dick! And from my perspective, we’re both having fun. And, yes, I’ve jacked off thinking about it after each time I sucked him. I know—now—that he thinks it is a bit unfair to me. But I don’t feel that way at all.”

So there is something in it for Sam. You get the blowjobs, THROAT, and Sam gets the spank-bankable memories. And Sam assumes that at some point, memories are all he’ll have.

“He will eventually get into a relationship with a woman again, and our arrangement will end,” Sam said. “I only hope nothing is weird between us in the future because of what has happened in the past few weeks.”

I had one last question: Sam is really good at sucking cock—he gives “earth-shattering” blowjobs—but is THROAT any good at getting his cock sucked? As all experienced cocksuckers know, a

person can suck at getting their cock sucked: They can just lay/ stand/sit there, giving you no feedback, or be too pushy or not pushy enough, etc.

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I’m a straight guy in a LTR with a bi woman. We recently had a threesome with a bi male acquaintance. We made it clear that I’m not into guys and that she was going to be the centre of attention. He said he was fine with this. A little bit into us hooking up, he said he wanted to suck my dick. I wasn’t sure about it at first, but my girlfriend encouraged it because she thought it was hot. I ended up saying yes, but I stated that I didn’t want to reciprocate. A bit later, while my girlfriend was sucking his dick, he said he wanted me to join her. I said no. He kept badgering me to do it. I kept saying no, and then he physically tried to shove my head down toward his crotch.

My girlfriend and I both got pissed and said he had to leave.

Now he’s bitching to our mutual friends about how I had an insecure straight-boy freak-out, he

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didn’t get to come after we both got ours, we’re shitty selfish fetishists, and so on. I’m concerned about what our friends think of me, but even more so, I’m concerned that I did a shitty thing.

I get that maybe he was hoping I’d change my mind, especially after I changed my mind about him sucking my dick. But I don’t think it’s fair for him to be angry that I didn’t. Is oral reciprocation so necessary that it doesn’t matter that we agreed in advance that I would not be blowing him?

NOT ONE TO BE INCONSIDERATE You did nothing wrong. And if after hearing your side of the story, NOTBI, your mutual friends side with a person who pressured you to do something you were clear about not wanting to do and then, after you restated your opposition to performing said act, pressured you to perform the act—by physically forcing your head down to his cock—you can solve the “mutual friends” problem by cutting these so-called friends out of your life.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re slipping into the wild heart of the season of discovery. Your curiosity is mounting. Your listening skills are growing more robust. Your willingness to be taught, influenced, and transformed is at a peak. And what smarter way to take advantage of this fertile moment than to decide what you most want to learn about during the next three years? For inspiration, identify a subject you’d love to study, a skill you’d eagerly stretch yourself to master, and an invigourating truth that would boost your brilliance if you thoroughly embodied it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Four of his works were essential in earning that award: the play Waiting for Godot, and the novels Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable.

Beckett wrote all of them in a twoyear span during the late 1940s.

During that time, he was virtually indigent. He and his companion Suzanne survived on the paltry wage she made as a dressmaker. We might draw the conclusion from his life story that it is at least possible for a person to accomplish great things despite having little money. I propose that we make Beckett your role model for the coming weeks, Gemini. May he inspire you to believe in your power to become the person you want to be no matter what your financial situation may be.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suggest you ignore the temptation to shop around for new heroes and champions. It would only distract you from your main assignment in the coming weeks, which is to be more of a hero and champion yourself. Here are some tips to guide you as you slip beyond your overly modest self-image and explore the liberations that may be possible when you give yourself more credit. Tip #1: Finish outgrowing the old heroes and champions who’ve served you well. Tip #2: Forgive and forget the disappointing heroes and hypocritical champions who betrayed their own ideals. Tip #3: Exorcise your unwarranted admiration for mere

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “A waterfall would be more impressive if it flowed the other way,” said Irish writer Oscar Wilde. Normally, I would dismiss an idea like this, even though it’s funny, and I like funny ideas. Normally, I would regard such a negative assessment of the waterfall’s true nature, even in jest, to be unproductive and enfeebling. But none of my usual perspectives are in effect as I evaluate the possibility that Wilde’s declaration might be a provocative metaphor for your use in the coming weeks. For a limited time only, it might be wise to meditate on a waterfall that flows the other way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Stage magicians may seem to make a wine glass hover in mid-air, or transform salt into diamonds, or make doves materialize and fly out of their hands. It’s all fake, of course—tricks performed by skilled illusionists. But here’s a twist on the old story: I suspect that for a few weeks, you will have the power to generate effects that may, to the uninitiated, have a resemblance to magic tricks—except that your magic will be real, not fake. And you will have worked very hard to accomplish what looks easy and natural.

And the marvels you generate will, unlike the illusionists’, be authentic and useful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The coming weeks will be a favourable time to accentuate and brandish the qualities that best exemplify your Libran nature. In other words, be extreme in your moderation. Be pushy in your attempts to harmonize. Be bold and brazen as you make supple use of your famous balancing act. I’ll offer you a further piece of advice, as well. My first astrology teacher believed that when Librans operate at peak strength, their symbol of power is the iron fist in the velvet glove: power expressed gracefully, firmness rendered gently. I urge you to explore the nuances of that metaphor.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If I were your mom, I’d nudge you out the door and say, “Go play outside for a while!” If I were your commanding officer, I’d award you a shiny medal for your valorous undercover work and then order you to take a frisky sabbatical. If I were your psychotherapist, I would urge you to act as if your past has no further power to weigh you down or hold you back, and then I would send you out on a vision quest to discover your best possible future. In other words, my dear Scorpio, I hope you will flee your usual haunts.

Get out of the loop and into the open spaces that will refresh your eyes and heart.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sex education classes at some high schools employ a dramatic exercise to illustrate the possible consequences of engaging in heterosexual lovemaking without using birth control. Everywhere they go for two weeks, students must carry around a 10-pound bag of flour. It’s a way for them to get a visceral approximation of caring for an infant. I recommend that you find or create an equivalent test or trial for yourself in the coming days. As you consider entering into a deeper collaboration or making a stronger commitment, you’ll be wise to undertake a dress rehearsal.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Members of the Dull Men’s Club celebrate the ordinary. “Glitz and glam aren’t worth the bother,” they declare. “Slow motion gets you there faster,” they pontificate. Showing no irony, they brag that they are “born to be mild.”

I wouldn’t normally recommend becoming part of a movement like theirs, but the next two weeks will be one of those rare times when aligning yourself with their principles might be healthy and smart. If you’re willing to explore the virtues of simple, plain living, make the Swedish term “lagom” your word of power. According to the Dull Men’s Club, it means “enough, sufficient, adequate, balanced, suitable, appropriate.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the Georgian language, “shemomechama” is a word that literally means “I ate the whole thing.” It refers to what happens when you’re already full, but find the food in front of you so delicious that you can’t stop eating.

I’m concerned you might soon be tempted to embark on metaphorical versions of “shemomechama.” That’s why I’m giving you a warning to monitor any tendencies you might have to get too much of a good thing. Pleasurable and productive activities will serve you better if you stop yourself before you go too far.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Please do not send me a lock of your hair or a special piece of your jewelry or a hundred dollar bill. I will gladly cast a love spell on your behalf without draining you of your hard-earned cash.

The only condition I place on my free gift is that you agree to have me cast the love spell on you and you alone. After all, your love for yourself is what needs most work. And your love for yourself is the primary magic that fuels your success in connecting with other people. (Besides, it’s bad karma to use a love spell to interfere with another person’s will.)

So if you accept my conditions, Pisces, demonstrate that you’re ready to receive my telepathic love spell by sending me your telepathic authorization.

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