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Echoing rhetoric

Blogger's long history of hateful dialogue is met with criminal charges

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n 2014, I wrote a column reflecting on the death and legacy of Fred Phelps, the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church. (If you want to link to it in the web version, the article can be found here: vueweekly.com/raise-a-hateful-voice/).

In it, I said I was oddly grateful to the WBC for illustrating the endgame of anti-queer rhetoric. I ended the column with this: “Perhaps increased exposure to their message will reaffirm homophobic beliefs in some people. In fact, I hope it does. I hope those people are inspired to write and talk about how much queers disgust them in a public fashion. Canada doesn’t have an equivalent to Fred Phelps … What we do have are anonymous, everyday people, quietly nurturing their hate and their disgust—not brave enough to come out from behind a pseudonym.”

I was absolutely terrified writing those words. What few people knew

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at the time was that an anonymous blogger who used the handle baconfat53 was writing responses to almost every Queermonton column that were breathtaking in their vileness. The vitriol sent my way was disturbing, but it was nothing compared to what was written about others, including the other Queermonton writer at the time. My Phelps column was bravado, a message intended specifically for this blogger, telling him I wasn’t afraid.

But I was afraid. I was afraid his words would bleed into real life. I was afraid my co-writer would bear the brunt of it. For days after the piece went live, I would visit his blog wait-

ing to see what his response would be. I don’t remember that he ever did say anything about it.

I want to be clear that when I say he was anonymous, I mean the very

police knew about him. We were told the bar for a hate crimes charge was extremely high. We were told there wasn’t much they could do.

So life went on.

I would check his blog every few weeks, a bystander to a perpetual car wreck. I was reluctant to give him more page views, but I just had to see what he was saying about me and about my community. Knowing I was powerless to stop the terrible things he said about people I knew was the worst part. There was nothing I could do to stop him except bear witness as each new screed unfurled into the dark eternity of the internet. I kept writing

and eventually I stopped looking.

Imagine my surprise when a couple of weeks ago, I saw the headline, “Edmonton police charge blogger with hate crime.” I knew it was Winters before I read the story. Reading it, I felt rage and sadness and impotence all over again.

It turns out the parallel between Phelps and Winters is more accurate than I thought: Winters apparently had thousands of followers.

Who knows how many of them now see him as a martyr. Who knows if they will pick up where he left off.

I stand by what I said in the Phelps column: it is better to have the hate out in the open where it can be confronted, rather than quietly breathing in the background. But hate echoes for a long time and its scars do not easily fade. Winters’ blog has since been removed, but his archive is easily accessible via some smart googling. His words, and mine, continue to live on.

to reach a peaceful compromise with the government, the MILF leadership has been unable to stop its more hard-line members from defecting to other, more radical groups that reject the agreement. Most of those groups are associated with Islamic State or at least share its ideology, so the situation in Mindanao is worse than it was when the peace deal was signed.

The siege of Marawi will be over in another week or so: the AFP claims there are only 100 fighters left in the city (although it isn’t very efficient at sealing off the city and stopping others from arriving). The larger problem of radicalization among discontented and disadvantaged Muslims in Mindanao will continue, and may well grow. The only thing that would stop it is good governance, and that is not offered under Duterte.

It’s an accident of history that this problem even exists. Islam was being spread east across the islands of Indonesia and the Philippines by Malay

traders, and there were already several Muslim rulers in the Philippines when the Spanish arrived in 1570. But few of the common people had converted to Islam yet except in Mindanao, and under Spanish rule the rest of the Philippines was converted to Catholicism instead.

No cause for complaint there: history is full of accidents like that. But it is true that successive Filipino governments encouraged the emigration of Christians to Mindanao, and that Muslims have now fallen to 20 percent of the population even in Mindanao.

Nationwide, only five percent of the population is Muslim.

The demand for a “Muslim homeland” in the Muslim-majority parts of Mindanao has been strong for decades, and a sensible Filipino government would have made the necessary compromises long ago. That’s not going to happen under Duterte, but the worst that can happen is an ugly local problem that need not concern the rest of the world.

That is more than can be said for nextdoor Indonesia, which is 90 percent Muslim and has two-and-a-half times the population of the Philippines. As General Gatot Nurmantyo, Indonesia’s military chief, said last week, there are Islamic State-affiliated sleeper cells “in almost every (Indonesian) province.”

I want to be clear that when I say he was anonymous, I mean the very opposite.

opposite. We knew his name was Barry Winters. We knew he was employed by the Canadian Forces.

We knew this because a few weeks prior to the Phelps column, my editor at the time had a meeting with the Hate Crimes Unit of EPS to talk about this guy. We were told the

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Philippines insurgency

Rodrigo Duterte and his country are plagued by violence

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month ago, hardly anybody outside the Philippines had ever heard of Marawi. Now it’s the latest front in the war against Islamic State. More evidence, if you needed it, that the terrorism associated with Islamic State will go on long after Mosul and Raqqa have been liberated and “Caliph Ibrahim” (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi) has been killed or captured.

“We have actually preempted the establishment of a wilayat (a province of Islamic State),” said Ernesto Abella, the spokesperson of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, which is definitely overstating the case.

The response of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) was slow and clumsy, and government policy has been lax and inattentive.

It’s not even clear if the attempt by the Maute group of Islamist fighters to take over Marawi, an unimportant city of 200,000 people in the centre of Mindanao island in the southern Philippines, was actually a bid to create a “wilayat” of Islamic State. It is necessary to control some territory to declare a wilayat, so they had a motive, but this fight started almost accidentally.

The fighting broke out in the city after a failed attempt to arrest Isnilon Hapilon, a leading figure in another, bigger Islamist group called Abu Sayyaf that

has also pledged allegiance to Islamic State. Fighters from that outfit and others joined the Maute group that predominates in the Marawi area in a general uprising on May 23—and the AFP’s reaction was so hesitant that between 400 and 500 fighters were able to take over the city.

The insurgents weren’t numerous enough to hold the whole city once the army got its act together, but for the past month they have controlled between 10 and 20 percent of it.

The government claims to have killed 280 militants for the loss of 69 AFP soldiers and 29 civilians and promises it will be over soon, but it has been a profoundly unimpressive performance.

Equally unimpressive has been the performance of the government led by “Rody” Duterte. Like every government before it, it has paid little attention to monitoring the seas around the Philippines, so it is easy for foreign militants to slip into the country.

It has been far worse than any previ-

ous government in its disregard for the law: Duterte’s “dirty war” against drugs has involved thousands of extra-judicial killings. It has been a major distraction (and a huge crime, of course), and it has effectively de-professionalised the police. Death squads do not do effective police work.

Duterte’s “dirty war” against drugs has involved thousands of extrajudicial killings.

Above all, Duterte has failed to push for ratification of the 2014 peace agreement with the largest Muslim separatist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The MILF is Islamic but not extreme Islamist, and the agreement granted it considerable autonomy in the area of central Mindanao under its control. However, the legislation to implement the deal stalled in Congress in 2015, and has never been put back on the agenda.

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ndeniably, we are in the midst of a craft beer renaissance in Alberta.

The number of truly worthy microbreweries that have come online in the last few years, frankly, boggles the mind.

But the brewpub—a place that makes the beer it serves—is still a rare quantity, with a certain middling chain almost single-handedly filling that niche.

That is until Situation Brewing came along. I’ve been telling myself I really needed to check it out since it opened in Old Strathcona sometime last year.

Even when I heard people singing the praises of Situation’s Afternooner Tea Saison and IPA variants, I couldn’t get my shit together to drop in.

It took a beautiful Saturday afternoon to motivate my first trip to Situation’s

glassed-corner spot just off Whyte Avenue. Co-diner and I were lucky enough to secure a patio picnic table, the better to enjoy the glorious weather, which is itself conducive to drinking beer. In a way, Situation’s patio might be preferable to outdoor seating right on Whyte, with more pedestrians and bikes and less exhaust on 81 Avenue.

A snafu with the house IT infrastructure and a reasonable-sized mid-afternoon crowd meant that getting sorted with food and drink took a few minutes, or maybe it was my impatience to be fed and watered. I ordered the nicely balanced Extrovert Red Ale, with just the right interplay of hops and toasted malt that I liked so much I ended up leaving with a growler of it. Co-diner

saw the Earl Grey-imbued Saison as the answer to the afternoon heat, which proved sensible.

The food menu echoed some common tendencies in craft beer bar food—sandwiches and burgers, pizzas, pretzels—but it also struck some novel notes with seafood, smoked chicken, duck and even a Scotch egg.

We split the ceviche ($15) made with the house kettle sour beer for starters, which might have been our favourite of the day. The Latin American dish comprises chopped raw fish—in this case red snapper—marinated in citrus juice, which gives it a slightly cooked texture.

Situation’s version came in a long, shallow plate with a dose of chili oil and the

house Blood Orange Gose Ale, offsetting the buttery texture of the fish with a sour, salty smack. Sweet pickled onions and whole baby potatoes added to the savour.

Co-diner chased our seafood appy with a seafood main, the beer mussels ($17). The mussels themselves were not outstandingly plump, but she didn’t complain about the quantity, nor the garlicky ale-based sauce, nor the thick, but crispy fries that came on the side.

The sandwich Cubano ($16) appealed to me because, pickles. The slices of roast pork, ham, fragrant gruyere cheese, sweet mustard and, yes, dill pickles came on a pressed baguette that was not so crusty it left my mouth contused, but was otherwise

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crunchy. It was nothing fancy, but hit the exact spot when washed down with beer. The sole misstep, however, embodied my wariness of a pub-style repast. The side house salad was an afterthought—carrot, cherry tomato and grape halves on brown-edged greens and an anonymous vinaigrette.

But, probably most people don’t go to brewpubs for the salad.

While the beer is certainly a draw, Situation showed promise as a place to have food with your beer. Sufficient pints might even make me want to eat a Scotch egg. For those who take daydrinking seriously, Situation also does brunch until 2 pm on weekends.

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n case you hadn’t heard, Canada is turning 150 years old this year.

For beer fans, the good news is that there will be more than poorly made CBC history series to offer.

Lots of breweries are jumping into the Canada 150 game, releasing special one-time beers or otherwise trying to commemorate the sesquicentennial. So ditch that hackneyed Molson Canadian (owned by American Molson-Coors) or Labatt Blue (owned by the largest beer corporation in the world, Belgium’s ABInbev), and grab some beers that really do reflect Canada.

There are a lot of options, actually. Let’s first dispense with the tacky and lazy. Aforementioned Labatt has rebranded its iconic Labatt 50—available only in Eastern Canada—as Labatt 150. Get it?

Toronto’s Steam Whistle has partnered with Hudson’s Bay to release a bunch of co-branded “barware” to supposedly celebrate the anniversary, including bottle openers, special packaging of Steam Whistle beer and an odd-looking cooler. Looking at the stuff I can’t really see a Canada link, however.

More interesting is that Molson Canadian will, for a limited period of time, be packaged in the old-time stubby bottle in honour of the celebration. The stubby—a short beer bottle with a rounded neck—used to be ubiquitous in the 1960s and 1970s but died out due to the emergence of the American-influenced long neck bottle, which we continue to have today.

As someone who appreciates the stubby and has cases of them for my homebrew, its return, however brief, is a pleasant moment.

On the just-plain-crazy end of the scale, Calgary’s Village Brewing has released a 150 CAN DAY Pack, a case that contains 150—yes, 150— cans of their various year-round beer. The case weighs about 75 kgs, I am told.

More interesting are the celebration one-off beers being made by various breweries. Large independent brewery Moosehead has released a one-time Anniversary Ale to celebrate the occasion. They describe it as a “Canadian Pale Ale” made with ingredients from across Canada, including malt from the prairies and hops from B.C., Ontario and New Brunswick.

Yukon Brewing is going one better (well, 12 better) by creating their Canada 150 Series. Every month during 2017 the brewery is releasing a new one-off beer to celebrate.

So far the releases have included a

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maple wee heavy, a honey ESB and a mimosa kolsch, among others.

The most intriguing Canada 150 project may come from B.C.’s Central City Brewers, which just released a special mixed 12-pack called Across the Nation Collaboration. The brewery partnered with breweries in every single province and territory (except Nunavut which doesn’t yet have one) to create collaboratively designed and brewed beers at their Surrey brewery. One bottle of each of the 12 unique beers are included in the pack. Participating breweries included Yukon, Black Bridge, Half Pints, Beau’s All Natural, and others.

The Alberta entry is created by Calgary’s Last Best Brewing. The styles range from traditional offerings such as hefeweizen, extra special bitter

and IPA to more creative interpretations such as a black currant dark ale, rice and honey saison and grisette (a historic Belgian style). The Last Best collaboration is a sour Berliner Weisse with raspberries.

You can find the mixed pack in good beer stores around town. Or better yet, on Canada Day longtime beer institution The Sugar Bowl will be putting every one of the 12 beer on tap as part of its own Canada Day celebrations. Good luck getting through them all in one sitting, however.

Clearly, there is no shortage of ways to celebrate Canada’s sesquicentennial with a Canadian craft beer. Honour our history by drinking some of our present.

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New England IPA, not just for patriots

Move over IPA and make way for the New England IPA

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ndia Pale Ales (IPA) have been the sexy beer style for a few years now.

Consumers have been warming to its sharp, hoppy bitterness and light body.

Still, it remained a style for the more committed craft beer aficionado, the bitterness turning off many amateur beer fans.

But a new IPA craze is sweeping the land, one that has the potential to turn those IPA frowns upside down. It is called New England IPA, and it's like no IPA before.

New England IPA, sometimes called Vermont IPA, was born in Vermont about a decade ago. A couple of breweries tried to turn the idea of an IPA on its head. The most famous (and soughtafter) is Heady Topper from Alchemist Brewing. In the last couple years, the style has expanded rapidly across the continent, breaching Alberta’s borders in the last few months.

New England IPA is all about creating an intense fruity, citrusy beer without the sticky bitterness that turns some people off. It is designed to be lightbodied, aromatic and intensely fruity pushing the bitter hit to the background, although there are clearly International Bitterness Units in there to instead accent hop flavours and aromas of citrus, fruit and fresh grass. It is also as hazy as your best hefeweizens.

If I were to try to describe the experience in a short phrase I would say this: Five Alive. I am regularly reminded of that fruity citrus juice when sampling a New England IPA. When I offer the beer to non-hopheads, they usually are quite big fans of it—especially if I don’t

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reveal it's a so-called IPA. They like the fresh citrus notes, the light refreshing body and the subdued bitterness.

As I say, a year ago, no New England IPAs were available in Alberta. Versions made elsewhere usually have local distribution (including Heady Topper), and no Alberta brewery had ventured into that unexplored territory. However, when it changed, it changed fast.

Officially, the first New England IPA (actually a double IPA) brewed in Alberta was a three-way collaboration beer by Bench Creek, Blindman and Troubled Monk to celebrate their mutual first anniversary. The beer, called Troubled Waters (get it?), was an instant hit that sold out in days.

Since then, we have seen four different takes from Alberta breweries. The most readily available is from Bench Creek, who tweaked the Troubled Waters recipe to create Apex Predator, which, if anything, is even fruitier than the original. Grande Prairie’s Grain Bin Brewing has put out a version and recently Blindman put out a New England-style Pale Ale, which is a slightly toned down version. Upstart Calgary brewery Outcast Brewing has produced a couple New England-inspired IPAs as well.

Clearly New England IPA is a thing.

And while I can’t say whether this is something that will last or is just a craze for the next couple years, I can say you should make sure to try some while you can. Just because.

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Blind with excitement

Greg Zeschuk launches Blind Enthusiasm Brewing and new brewery

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he most anticipated new attraction in the Edmonton beer scene is about to open. Any day now.

Yes, it is a brewery—a brewpub to be exact—but it is much, much more.

Blind Enthusiasm Brewing is the project of Greg Zeschuk, one of the original founders of software company Bioware. Zeschuk has both a passion and deep knowledge of beer and felt the time was right to make the jump to open a brewery. He didn’t just jump, he leaped.

Blind Enthusiasm is actually two breweries. The first is the anchor tenant of the new Ritchie Market at the Four Corners in Ritchie (76 Avenue and 96 Street). The new building houses Acme Meats, Transcend Coffee Roasters and Velocity Cycle, but the feature is the Blind Enthuiasm brewpub, called Biera.

Zeschuk’s vision is a classy yet accessible space that offers a select menu of food and a range of quality beer.

“We want to make interesting, ambitious beer with creativity and artistry and good brewing techniques,” says Zeschuk. He sees the operation as being about moving the public as much as selling to them. “It is about education, showing people what beer can be”.

The brewpub will offer “traditional” craft beer offerings, from pilsners to bitters, IPAs to stouts. Zeschuk is tight-lipped on the details but hints a possible flagship beer might be a Belgian Single, the style brewed by Trappist Monks for their daily consumption. Zeschuk explains they will serve 12 to 13 beer at a time, along with a couple of guest taps.

“We will have a limited regular lineup,” he says, opting instead for mostly one-offs and seasonals. “We might go for a model of a summer lineup and a winter lineup,” rotating beer as seasonally appropriate.

Sounds good, right? But wait, there’s more.

Zeschuk is also opening a second brewery, currently under construction on 99 Street and 78 Avenue.

That brewery will focus exclusively on making “mixed fermentation” beer, namely sours and lambic-style beer. The process is rather than inoculate the unfermented beer (called wort) with a healthy dose of yeast, the brewer allows the resident wild yeasts to naturally take hold in the beer. This is a historic approach made famous by Lambic breweries such as Cantillon and 3 Fonteinen in Belgium.

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It produces a sour, earthy, funky beer that at first seems odd but quickly grows on you.

It is also beer that is considered a high premium product, in part because it takes three years or more to make. Zeschuk is serious about producing rare, “sought-after beer” from the second brewery, even going as far as purchasing a custom-made coolship (a large, shallow vessel for initial inoculation). He has hired a dedicated brewer for the sour brewery.

It might seem crazy or excessive to open two breweries, but it makes more sense than it seems. First, sepa-

rating the two processes prevents issues of cross-contamination which could destroy the brewpub beer. Second, Blind Enthusiasm clearly has a two-part business plan.

“Ninety percent of the beer brewed at the brewpub will be sold on-site,” says Zeschuk. “It is intended to be a true brewpub.”

Everything will be packaged in kegs (growler fills will be available), although they do anticipate handbottling some of the barrel-aged beer for limited release. The sour brewery will produce bottled, hard to find and highly coveted beer intended, in large

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Beer is not expected from the second brewery for at least three years due to the nature of the process, which includes barrel-aging. The brewpub was slated to open earlier in June but experienced some last minute delays and is expected to officially open its doors in early July. Meaning any day.

Beer fans can hardly wait.

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here is whole list of incredibly intimate and passionate things that you cannot, for your own safety and reputation, do in public. Thankfully, art is now off that list.

Shelter is a collaborative project between photographer Zach Ayotte and electronic musicians Jason Troock and Ben Good—collectively known as Nulle Part. The trio will be creating in a artistic 'work room' at the Art Gallery of Alberta. They will spend the next six weeks at the AGA constructing and composing an original installation in full view of gallery visitors.

“We’ve had a lot of coffees and a lot

of drinks, emails, hangouts and that kind of thing, and that’s really good, but we haven’t worked together,” says Good. “None of us have also worked in that room. You’ve got the influence of the architecture in the room and how that changes things, and the wildcard is that we’re going to be working on it during gallery hours. Anyone coming in on a Saturday afternoon can kind of hang out, watch, and chat with you.

There’s a kind of grey area, because do we not take as many risks with thousands of people coming through?”

There’s an understandable amount of trepidation between them. Few

artists are willing to show audiences how the sausage gets made. Since this is the first of the RBC Work Room initiatives, a new collaborative artistic development series, the trio is sailing into uncharted waters.

Despite the pressure, compounded by a six-week time constraint, there is a definite basis to bind the three artists together.

“We were brought together by Kristy Trinier who used to be the curator at the AGA,” says Ayotte. “And to some degree, I credit her with this pairing because I think she recognized a similarity between their work and my work

that is sort of rooted in something issues like masculinity, violence, and that is somewhat feeling or sensory identity, most recently contributing based. I just think to the Do It Yourthere is a distinction self: Collectivity and Tue., July 1 – Sun., Oct. 8 in my work, a balance Collaboration at the Shelter between desire or Enterprise Square Art Gallery of Alberta this feeling to move Gallery. Even with closer to something a solid artistic pediand a degree of discomfort or almost gree, the artists understandably have fear and a feeling to move away from a little trouble describing the project. something. There’s a kind of balance This early in the process, the installathat creates a feeling of mystery.” tion is still taking shape and that’s likely to continue for at least a little while.

In the past, Nulle Part has com- Good says in the early stages, the muposed for sound exhibitions and sic could very well just be a sampled ballets, while Ayotte has explored kick drum left on for a few days.

“It’s a long room, divided in part by a partition,” says Ayotte. “So it’s like two rooms with a walkway on either side of the wall. On one side of the room, we’re building basically a cube out of coloured gels that go over lights that will have one sort of entryway and will have lights that will shine into the center of the room. So you can either be inside of it or look in on it. Depending on where you’re standing or looking, there will be different ways of seeing. Things will look different colours, will be more opaque than others.”

The soundtrack, says Nulle Part, will Art programs including photography, colbe similar, something that will change lage, painting, puppets, papier maché. its clarity and consistency depending on where you stand in the space. A week away from the starting line, AyoFrom July 3 to August 11 tte, Good, and Troock are nearly ready to intrigue and disorient visitors.

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Blurring the barrier of contemporary art for the time being: 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art features 24 Alberta artists

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hen you think of a quintessentially Albertan artwork, it’s a shame if you can only conjure up a watercolour of a wheat field. The province has a lot more to offer, and thankfully two curators have searched out the best of it.

A multi-gallery exhibit presented by the Art Gallery of Alberta and Banff Centre's Walter Phillips Gallery, for the time being: 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, features work across the two spaces from 24 Albertan artists.

“It’s always organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta, and this is kind of a unique partnership,” says Kristi Trinier, Director of Visual, Digital and Media Arts at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. “The Art Gallery of Alberta has created a partnership with another gallery to present the biennial and that’s a really nice way to include other institutions in the province and also give other communities access to all these new, contemporary artworks.”

After receiving hundreds of submissions and visiting dozens of studios, Trinier and fellow curator Peta Rake invited the final artists to Banff last summer to discuss the project. Lorenzo Fusi, curator of the Illingworth Kerr Gallery, and Kendal Henry, Director of the

Percent for Art Program, joined them to lead a series of intensive workshops before they settled on a clear subject.

“After meeting with everyone, we did determine some themes about the exhibition,” says Trinier. “One of the themes was interstitially and also thinking about the virtual. These things are like how time and space can be shifted and relate to your own perception of reality.”

Some examples of the pieces displayed between the two galleries include a series of papier-mâché parrots

by Jay Mosher, a nude couple standing before a suburban house by Kristopher Karklin, and a collection of teacups by Taryn Kneteman. Kneteman, an Edmonton-based artist, took some artistic liberties when unveiling her project to the curators.

“She said, 'follow me,' and she took us down into the river valley,” says Trinier. “Through this pathway through the Edmonton River Valley, to this clearing through the trees and then we saw that there was a man sitting there and a blanket laid out. At first we felt a bit apprehensive, but then we realized that it was a whole

tea ceremony that she had created with cups and ceramic and things like that which she had handmade.”

“With my project in particular, I visited different sites in the province and gathered clay,” says Kneteman. “Then I used the clay to make tea vessels and then I’m returning to all the places that the clay is from to share tea and conversation with people who live in the places or are familiar, like in the case of Banff, who have gathered together for the exhibition.”

The 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art is an opportunity for provincial artists to showcase their hard work and perspectives, but Trinier says it’s an opportunity for the public as well.

“I think that you would see some amazing, fresh artwork that would perhaps challenge what you might understand contemporary art to be,” says Trinier. “Yet you would also see some things that are familiar to you and that remind you of our province and our collective home. These artists are working in our own communities and so they’re helping us to see our world a little bit differently.”

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Until Sun., Sept. 10 for the time being: 2017 Alberta Biennial of Cotemporary Art Art Gallery of Alberta Peta Rake // Supplied photo

REVUE // MUSICAL

Contemporary overhaul

Classic musical doesn't stand up to today's social standards

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heatre critics, actors, and directors from around the globe continue to praise Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s Carousel as a timeless musical. Though the music is classic, the tale and its treatment of troubling themes has little place in modern society.

Still, Carousel is being produced backto-back by two different companies in Edmonton, first by Foote In The Door Productions, and now by Opera NUOVA (Newly United Operatic Vocalists Association) directed by Donna Fletcher.

Don’t get me wrong, the music is marvellous and the cast of NUOVA knows how to sing. It’s the lyrics and the plot that are problematic.

Granted, the 1945 work was adapted from a play by Ferenc Molnar set in 1873. But compared to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s other classics of similar time periods (queue The King and I and The Sound of Music), the content of Carousel is particularly shocking.

The scene is set at a carnival where a romance buds between barker Billy Bigelow (Justin Kautz) and millworker Julie Jordan (Krista Paton). The pair get hitched in no time, at the cost of losing both of their jobs. With a baby on the way, Billy makes some rash decisions to stay afloat, and resorts to hitting his wife. In a last ditch attempt at redemption, he also hits his daughter, Louise (Emily Steers), and the violence comes full circle.

Most critics bestow the title of most

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Sat., June 24 - Fri., June 30 Opera NUOVA’s Carousel Festival Place, $20 - $45 appalling line to Julie’s words of comfort to her daughter after the incident: “It is possible, dear, for someone to hit you, hit you hard and have it not hurt at all.”

While this, along with Louise describing the hit to feel like a kiss, are difficult to hear, they aren’t the only moments of questionable morals.

The play is peppered from start to finish with misogyny, inequality, and domestic violence. If Billy isn’t putting his female boss in a headlock or threatening to slap the jaws of random women, he’s singing (albeit beautifully) about his desire to raise a robust boy over a weak girl.

Even Julie, whose effortless rendition of “What’s the Use of Wond’rin’?” makes excuses for her husband and tells her friends who might potentially suffer the same abuse that they should stay with their partners regardless of cruel behaviour.

Both song performances are shiver-

inducing, as much for the splendour of the singing as the cringe-worthy lyrics.

Equally upsetting was the audience’s reaction to the performance. By indulging the play with laughter during a scene of unwanted sexual touching that was played off as comedic, the viewer almost becomes complicit in dismissing the abuse against women.

Amidst the turmoil, there are some funny moments among the colourful chorus. Their closing number, “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” also brought audience members to tears. The moving music is a main reason why people still call Carousel a classic.

But, when a Golden Age musical deals with sensitive issues in such an archaic way 100 years later, perhaps it should stay in the age it was created.

The play might redeem Billy despite his behaviour, but not even the most iconic songs can redeem Carousel.

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ARTS building’s future. It was then that he and Lavoie decided to join the family business, realizing they couldn't give up the space. After meeting grand-opening artist Cory Nespor around the same time, Udell and Lavoie knew they had all the elements for a successful relaunch.

PREVUE // ART GALLERY

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Passing the aesthetic torch

A new Udell makes his debut into Edmonton's art scene with Udell Xhibitions

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abst Blue Ribbon is not the typical fare one might find at the grand opening of an art gallery, but owners of the 124 Street Udell reincarnation, Andrew Udell and wife Melissa Lavoie, are looking to break away from the 'old boys club' perception of art.

With fresh paint, Udell Xhibitions opened its doors on June 22, ready to crack some cold ones.

“Normally you’d have wine and hor d'oeuvres,” Udell says, “but here we’ve got our PBR up front, classing the joint up.”

And the tequila? “Oh, that’s downstairs,” he laughs.

The gallery space is known by its uncanny trio of bears (by Canadian Dean Drever) chaperoning the entrance, though others know it by the previous owner. Udell’s father, Douglas Udell, ran the gallery for nearly 50 years, and is known around the city for his art savvy.

Now a successfully-retired art dealer by appointment, his contribution to Edmonton’s art scene continues in other avenues.

“We are very fortunate to follow in

Doug’s footsteps,” Lavoie says. “They are big shoes to fill, but honestly, he’s an amazing mentor.”

With no formal education in art, just like his father, Udell learned everything he knows from growing up around the various galleries his father owned. He worked almost exclusively behind the scenes, learning all the intricacies that go into putting a show together, including installations, shipping, deliveries, and framing.

He remembers his first job was at age 11 at his father's gallery downtown.

“I got to swing a sledgehammer tak-

ing walls down, and I had the greatest time of my life,” he says.

Udell has worked at the gallery on and off since then. He took a few years away to consider his future plans, working various odds and ends jobs as a landscaper and a bouncer.

I ask when he decided to take over the gallery.

“Oh, only about two months ago, actually,” Udell laughs.

He had been back working in the gallery for about 12 years and when his father closed shop last summer. A decision soon had to be made over the

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Udell and Lavoie hope to bring in art collectors that may not have otherwise considered walking through the door of an art gallery.

“One thing about art is that you can put your investor money into the stocks, but are you gonna guarantee that you’re not gonna lose that money?” Lavoie says.

She says that same money could be invested into art, something that can be appreciated every day. And it often appreciates in value over time as well.

Lavoie tells a story about her parents, both blue collar workers who struggled at times to make ends meet.

“They ended up investing a couple thousand dollars into the stock market and lost it,” she says They would never have thought of themselves as art investors she says, but they bought one of Nespor’s pieces a while back for $200, “and already it’s appreciated in value.”

It seems that as far as a place to bridge the gap between generations, this is the place to do it. And the artists they plan to showcase will embody this progressive change.

“Sometimes you see a lot of repetition,” Lavoie says of the art industry.

“But Cory’s work was very fresh and it was something that was way beyond the curve.”

The pair say its something they're trying to focus on for the reopened and rebranded gallery, and Edmonton has the creative potential in spades.

“We are a winter city and we spend a lot of time inside,” she says. “And what do we do when we’re bored?

We create. So there’s tons of talent here to be discovered.”

“We want to create that bridge,” Lavoie adds, “between the old and the new.”

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Infinitely layered

Follies tackles the unanswerable question of ‘What if?’

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ased on the 1971 book by James Goldman and music from Stephen Sondheim, Follies tells the story of a reunion of two women and their husbands, set in the early 1970s in a dilapidated New York theatre about to be torn down. The two middle age couples (Sally and Buddy and Phyllis and Ben) dive into the shadows of their younger selves, the theatre’s eventual demise serving as a catalyst for self-reflection.

Follies explores the question that begs to be asked at some point in our lives, usually in later years when the choices we’ve made have solidified us on a path with seemingly no alternate routes; the question of “What if?” Through both music and dialogue, Follies attempts to understand the way complexity of choice and how we view our lives ultimately changes over time.

Central to this theme is Phyllis Follie’s character. Played by Monica Roberts, Phyllis is a woman who’s become cold over the years, a far cry from the emotionally available spirit she was in her youth.

“Phyllis’ character has an interesting journey,” says Roberts. “Over the course of 30 years and looking back, she finds she’s become a marble, stone-like woman, different from the woman she’s told she once was. The theatre serves to break down that hard exterior."

Infinitely layered, Follies goes beyond just the question of ‘what if,’ tackling the very idea that as life unfolds, our picture of what the future will look like inexplicably changes, and with it, so do we.

“These women were born in the '30s; they lived through the Second World War, and then came to adulthood in the '50s and '60s,” says Roberts. “They had a fixed idea of what an ideal wife and woman should look like … What life should look like.”

As the story unfolds, the two couples watch as their memories collide with the reality of their lives. In the end, the couples are brought to a point where, in order to move on, they must first reconcile Wed., July 5 - Sat., July 15 the past and face Follies the choices they’ve Walterdale Theatre, $53.50 made along the way.

Follies, directed and choreographed by Barbara Mah, is considered by many to be a cult classic. With the inherent nature of its subject matter being so relatable, it’s not hard to see why theatre credits, either as director or it has enjoyed so much success. In choreographer (or both).

“This show is a case of life imitatits original Broadway production, Follies was nominated for 11 Tony ing art for me,” Mah says. “Thirty Awards and won seven, including years ago, I was a young dancer best original score. Mah herself has who just discovered musical thewon more than two dozen musical atre and was actually involved in

(From left) Allan Cabral de Sá, Teagan Kamstra, Veronica Masik and Aidan Spila // Supplied photo

a workshop production of Follies.

Like the young performers depicted in this show, everything was open.

There were no limits. Thirty years later, I look back at the path I have forged through life and reflect on my choices and consequences.”

It is this first-hand experience with the question of choice that lends Mah so naturally to the roll.

“It’s allowed me to showcase the characters in all their complexity, their beauty, and their follies,” she says.

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PREVUE // DANCE

Alliance between tap and jazz

Toronto-based tap company Rhythm and Sound knows the importance of music and tap

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ike all forms of art, dance is a breeding ground for creative exploration. Alberta Dance Alliance’s annual Feats Festival of Dance (Feats) aims to harvest that exploration with an array of multicultural dance performances.

Among many styles of dance, there has always been one that has stood the test of time since its birth—tap.

“It’s a style that has been around since the 1800s,” says professional Toronto-based tap dancer Cori Giannotta. “Knowing the history of tap and knowing the masters of the dance is really important to your success.”

Along with her colleague, Johnathan Morin, Giannotta created Rhythm and Sound in 2015. The Toronto-based tap company adopts the new and traditional forms of tap while understanding its relationship with other art forms.

“We met at a tap jam where tap dancers get together and just throw down, dance in a circle, and improvise off each other,” Morin says.

“We were teaching a lot and we just wanted to get our professional careers going and there wasn’t really too much around here so we decided to start producing our own work. We had a lot of people in our corner to get

That marriage between the imthings going,” Giannotta adds.

With Giannotta and Morin handling all provisational quality of jazz and of the choreography for performances percussive element of tap gives the as well as performing, Rhythm and dancers room to improvise making Sound is contract based. Dancers are every show a little bit different hired for specific shows like the upcom- than the last.

“The band is just as much a part ing Unapologetically Brilliant perforof the show. Sometimes we write mance for Edmonton's Feats Festival.

“We wanted to have an outlet for professional tap dancers,” Giannotta says.

“During the show in Edmonton we are encouraging dancers to come down and work with us here in Toronto, but the show is most important,” Morin adds.

Music for the Edmonton performance will feature musicians Ross Nichol, Dean Kheroufi, Peter Hendrickson, and Spencer Murray making up the jazz band. Like all Rhythm and Sound performances, the music is just as crucial to the success of the show as the dancing.

“It’s important Fri., June 30 (7 pm) that the relationPart of Feats Festival of Dance ship between the Unapologetically Brilliant (Tap Dance) dance and the Sugar Swing, $30 in advance musicians stays really strong in the aspects of the dance,” Morin says.

“That’s how it’s always been. Tap dance has always been married to jazz.”

jokes in the show that they are a part of. It incorporates the whole cast. The band will take solos and we will take turns switching off,” Morin says.

Giannotta and Morin hope the Rhythm and Sound performance will inspire others to take up tap and maybe

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one day collaborate with their company.

“Toronto is saturated with tap dancers,” Morin says. “The opportunities to work with tap dancers don’t come up crazy often until people like us come from out of town.”

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CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm; Until Jun • $15 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square)

strathconacountymuseum.ca • Showcasing Tales from the Oral History Collection; until Oct

CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • operanuova. ca • Part of Opera NUOVA. Sung in Czech. This magical Czech story of the forest tells the tale of a young Vixen fox cub who, after escaping capture, find adventure and love in the forest • Jun 27, 29; 7:30pm • $20 (students), $35 (seniors), $40 (adult)

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thefrontgallery.com • All Bones and Broken Treasaures: artwork by Paddy Lamb; Until Jul 6 • In Memory of Doug Jamha; Jul 22, 6-9pm

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

CITY HALL & CHURCHILL SQUARE • 1 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.426.2122 • theworks.ab.ca • The Works Art & Design Festival: featuring artwork from various artists; Jun 22-Jul 4

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

PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: Movement and Stillness: The Figure in Oils by Catharine Compston; May 23-Jul 4 • Naess Gallery: Panel Discussion by the GOOPof7 (Miles Constable, Peter Gegolick, John Labots, Connie Osgood, Rick Rogers, Lisa Liusz Senio, Randy Talbot); Jul 6 • Artisan Nook: Luminous Life: oil paintings by Oksana Zhelisko, Jun 1-Jul 4; Mandala Love: artwork by Sonia Kandera, Jul 6-Aug 16 • In the Studio: PS staff art show: in conjunction with Art Walk, Jul 6-15; Reception: Jul 6, 7-9pm, artists in attendance

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LITERARY BOOK GROUP • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • mcdougallunited.com • Discussing the current reading selection. The group chooses mostly current fiction or longtime favourites • 3rd Wed each month, 7pm

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FREEWILL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL • Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park • freewillshakespeare.com • 780.425.8086 • Savour a theatrical experience reminiscent of the intimate setting of Shakespeare’s original Globe Theatre.

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GOING, GOING, GONE! • Varscona Theatre • teatroq.com • A 1930s screwball comedy, about a man with one fiancée more than is perhaps ideal. This is CBC Radio's The Irrelevant Show, Jana O'Connor's premiere production • Jun 22-Jul 1 GREASED 2 • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, West Edmonton Mall, #2061 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • infoedmonton@jubilations. ca • edmonton.jubilations.ca • The T-birdies prepare for the big drag race with the Hot Rods, their rival boy gang • Jun 9-Aug 13 (Wed-Sun) • $33.25-$77.95

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • A hilarious musical comedy about that terribly wonderful, simply complex thing called love • Jun 16-Jul 30

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n large scales and small, there are countless efforts underway around the world to combat our collective environmental crisis.

Here in Edmonton, a locally-produced online series called Sustainable Me is winning praise and accolades for what its first season has delivered to that end.

“The philosophy behind the series is to try and break through the sense of hopelessness that some people have about the challenges facing them, with the tipping point, with the environmental verge that we are on,” says Terri Wynnyk, the mastermind behind Sustainable Me and founder of Company of Women on the Screen (COWS)—the production company behind the series which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

“We are inspiring people to engage and start being creative,” she says.

“Once you take that first step, it becomes a little easier to take that second step and the third step and so on.”

Following an Emerald Award nomination this spring, handed out by the provincial foundation recognizing environmental efforts across all sectors, Wynnyk found time to chat while return-

Sustainable Me host Paula Humby (right) lends a hand tipping compost with Joclyn Crocker // Wes Doyle

ing home from the Yorkton Film Festival where Sustainable Me was nominated in its documentary series category.

“It’s a huge honour to be nominated when you see the calibre of the productions that you are in the same category with. It’s pretty humbling,” Wynnyk says, noting her series was competing with VICE and Vancouver General Hospital.

Hosted by local actor Paula Humby, season one is all about local efforts, exploring subjects from alternative transportation solutions and options for energizing homes to rethinking our supply chain of products and sustainable food options.

Breaking from COWS comfort zone in the arts, Sustainable Me “was, initially, a very mercenary kind of decision,” says Wynnyk, along with her writer, were exploring a grant option from Telus Optik Local Funding whose priority that year was youth and the environment.

“The idea began evolving and it took shape,” she says. “There was a lot of work done in the research and the writing stage so by the time we got to filming, we knew exactly what we were shooting.”

The next seasons are already mapped out and Wynnyk is hoping to have season two, which is all about water, launching for World Water Day on March 22, 2018.

“It’s extremely challenging because water is one of the hardest things for people to wrap their heads around,” she says, explaining how far removed city people are from water’s source when they simply open a tap to make it flow. “Also, water is tricky because it is a global problem, but it’s a very localized resource. One part of a country is flooding and another part is dealing with drought. Part of the country has got overflowing rivers and the other one has glaciers drying up, too much snow and not enough snow. So, local solutions do become very important.”

Partly because the series is aimed at inspiring the younger generation, and partly due to today’s media context, there are companion podcasts and even micro videos on the website that compliment the subjects and dig a little further into the material. Other than directly through its website, the first season of Sustainable Me can be watched

on Telus Optik Local on Demand, as well as through YouTube and the series’ Facebook page.

Wynnyk says she’s gained much more than her initial goal ever laid out.

“The biggest gift that working on this series that I could have possibly gotten was just meeting and

Sustainable Me sustainablemeyeg.ca/episodes/ Free  working with young talent in the community. Not just the crew that I had, who blew me away with not only their abilities, but their creativity and their imaginations,” she says.

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rey Edward Shults’ disturbing and impressive debut, Krisha (2014)—a 60-something woman relapses at a Thanksgiving reunion—starred the writer director and some of his relatives.

The most sobering aspects of Shults’ foray into atmospheric horror, It Comes at Night, are also the family-drama elements, though characters remain too murky for this to be a classic chiller.

The plague-and-dystopia film starts in one family’s country home. Paul (Joel Edgerton), Sarah (Carmen Ejogo), and their 17-year-old son Travis (Kelvin Harrison Jr) have isolated themselves there from an outbreak ravaging the globe.

Soon after killing and burying Sarah’s infected father, they catch an intruder, Will (Christopher Abbott), who swears he was just trying to find water for his family. Paul, swayed by Sarah, reunites Will with his wife Kim (Riley Keough)

and young son Andrew under their roof.

Travis is having more disturbing dreams; then, one night, he finds the red door, the one entrance to the house, unbolted.

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The film is arthousefully done, from its peering-in at a reproduction of Bruegel’s apocalyptic oil-panel The Triumph of Death to the black-velvet chiaroscuro of tracking shots out in the woods or along the house’s narrow wooden hallways. Travis’ dreams-within-dreams (or visions?) have an eerie feeling of stupefaction; there are rising fevers of distrust and panic (the worst infections of all). Though Paul says only kin can be trusted, it seems as if the two parent and child trios can live in makeshift harmony under one roof ... until all falls apart, leaving us with one final, awful shot of the family table and those who remain sitting at it. (And while the table

shifts from a place of comfort to one of desolation, the door, too, turns—from a locked barrier to the bile-dark unknown to an open portal to some sort of solace, even release.)

The members of this family psychodrama are mostly archetypes: stern, commanding patriarch; worried wife and mother; etc. Only Travis, in his fantastic dreams and dream-fantasies, seems concerned about anything more than mere survival. The characters are too often left as playthings on Shults’ canvas—though it’s still a prettily awful picture that draws you in, in, in.

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“It’s been a big year for us,” Adam Turla (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards) says. He isn’t exaggerating. Turla and

MUSIC Murder By Death // Supplied photo

Sarah Balliet (cello, keyboards), have been busy renovating a pre-civil war building in Louisville, Kentucky, where they are preparing to open an Italian restaurant called Lupo.

Murder By Death’s current tour-inprogress with LA psychobilly band Tiger Army (described in a post on the band’s website as “a break from our

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break”) came about after Tiger Army gave MBD free reign to choose the cities they wanted to play. Not having played Western Canada in four years, MBD knew they wanted to come back.

“We’ve always had great shows in Edmonton and Calgary,” Turla says.

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prised by MBD’s take on Americana, but Turla is unapologetic.

“Having a weird name like that keeps you out of the pop world,” he says, “keeps you underground, which can be good for music.”

Though it’s now common to hear Turla compared to Johnny Cash, the frontman’s signature baritone was developed during the band’s third album In Bocca Al Lupo (2006), on which Balliet first took on keyboards in addition to her cello parts. In 2009, MBD shook things up by composing and recording an instrumental soundtrack to Jeff Vandermeer’s detective novel, Finch.

In 2012, the band raised more than $187,000 through presales on Kickstarter for its already-recorded sixth album, Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon.

While the band’s campaigns have been touted as prime examples of crowdfunding’s potential for artists, MBD, who have always interacted directly with fans, and even taken on recording projects based on fan suggestions, don’t think of the Kickstarter experience as “crowdfunding,” exactly.

“I just saw it as a really good webstore,” Turla says. "On the other hand, as a fan of both Kickstarter and Bandcamp as platforms for artists to promote and be paid directly for their work, it’s great when you are a person who creates your thing on your own, and you say 'I believe in myself, I believe in this idea.'”

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Wed., July 5 (8 pm) Tiger Army w/ Murder By Death, Tim Barry The Ranch, $35 Belief in the idiosyncratic idea of MBD is certainly strong, both within the band and from the ranks of its fan base.

“I’ve never had any interest in mainstream music,” Turla says.

Even after acknowledging that the core tenets of MBD’s music is a “sort of spooky element, a sad beauty,” he believes it’s important to take elements of a genre and and give them a new twist.

Maintaining a cohesive sound for more than 15 years comes with its own particular challenges. When MBD started out, strings in rock music were almost unheard of. Then, band like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Arcade Fire gained prominence. These days MBD is approached by young musicians whom they have inspired to incorporate strings into their own ensembles.

“The longer you’re around, the more trends you see come and go,” Turla explains. “If you think of yourself as a counterpoint to mainstream culture, it’s tricky. Music works in cycles, eventually your sound comes around.”

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Punk rock lifeline with dark personality Suicide Helpline creates songs to connect with the listener's lurid thoughts

Fri., June 30 (8 pm) The Matadors w/ Suicide Helpline, Balderdash, and Ripper The Forge, $15 at door

(From left) Logan Turner, Kevin Maimann, Stu Chell and Adam Orange // Supplied photo

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hen he’s not busy writing dystopian synthpop tunes for his band Cygnets, local multiinstrumentalist Logan Turner can be found flailing on stage while fronting his glam punk group, Suicide Helpline.

While at first glance the band name could have negative connotations, Turner knows that the aspects of suicide are not to be taken lightly.

“We’re going into this and being aware that its 2017," Turner says.

"We’re not doing this ‘cause it’s cool or anything. It’s a serious subject and we want to make something that people feel connected to."

Many of Suicide Helpline’s songs also deal with themes of depression and suicide.

“They come from a very personal place and when I was growing up, songs like that really helped me through a tough time,” Turner says.

“The band name promotes a helpline for people that feel depressed or have thoughts about suicide.”

Suicide Helpline started as Turn-

er's one-man project, and he released the album Ready to Die in December 2013. It wasn’t until last year that the project turned into a live band.

“I thought it was very punk rock to take the worst and darkest hardest things about my personality and write songs about them,” Turner says.

He was working with Cygnets when he released the first collection of songs under Suicide Helpline. In fact, the Ready to Die album was a Christmas bonus to the Cygnets yearly holiday bundle.

This past April, Suicide Helpline released Pink Jazz, an album that truly portrays the glam punk aesthetic the band was looking for.

“Over a period of less than a year we developed easily an album's worth of songs that we started playing live, so we kind of followed that punk rock ethos of just doing it on your own,” Turner says.

Although the album was released in 2017, it sounds like authentic,

old-school punk. The song “I’m Being Murdered” echoes The Ramones early releases and sounds like New York’s CBGB’s back in the ‘70s. Maybe it’s Turner’s vocals, which emulate Joey Ramone’s punchy, melodic style.

“The whole old-school punk style is very intentional and I can’t speak for the other guys, but for me, the whole idea of the project is that I personally know nothing about punk music,” Turner laughs. “My history of punk is The Ramones, The Clash, The Buzzcocks, your typical '70s punk rock. I don’t know anything about ‘80s punk, ‘90s punk or even modern punk.”

Turner’s lyrics, which focus on depression and socially conscious subject matters, also keep up with the D.I.Y. nature of the genre.

“Punk for me has always been anything goes," he says. "No censorship, just letting it out there and letting the world take it for what it is by being offended or climb on board with it."

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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL SQUARE Mallory Chipman (part

Stage–Thursday Nights; Every Thu

$4.00 Yellowhead $6.50 Select Wine

Soul with DJ Modest Mike; Every Thu; Wooftop Lounge: Dear Hip Hop with Freshlan; Underdog: Underdog Comedy Show

OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE

Tierney Sutton Band: Sting Variations (part of Jazz Fest); 7pm & 8:45pm; $35 (+ service charges)

(part of Jazz Fest); 8pm; $15

happy hour specials 4-7PM

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Generation; 9pm; $10; No minors

Quartet; (part of Jazz Fest) 12pm; Free

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

LIVE MUSIC (NO COVER)

with entertainment, Every Fri SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Beat

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL SQUARE Kate Blechinger

BLVD SUPPER X CLUB B**ch A

FE - FREE SHOW:

SANDS INN & SUITES Karaoke

SIDELINER’S PUB Friday Night Bands: live music; Every Fri

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ The Writers Guild (part of Jazz Fest); 8:3010:30pm; $15

2017 EDMONTON MUSIC AWARDS AFTERPARTY:

ROSE & CROWN PUB Joanne

Janzen; 9pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Mike

Jones; 9pm

MonDAY TO friDAY 5:30-6:30PM

ON THE ROCKS Ramifications;

9pm

"The Party Hog"; 9pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Dennis

Happy Hour Shows!

Igor Butman & the Moscow Jazz Orchestra (part of Jazz Fest); 7pm & 8:45pm; $35 (+ service fees) • Jane Bunnett & Maqueque (part of Jazz Fest); 10:30pm; $23 (+ service fees)

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Adam Holm; 9pm

Duo (part of Jazz Fest); 5:30pm; Free • Sandro Dominelli Trio (part of Jazz Fest); 10pm; $5 (or free with ticket from same-day/ night show. Tickets at the door.

Cash only)

THURS • JUNE 29

OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE

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CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT

The Ivory Keys; 9pm; Free DENIZEN HALL Champ City

Soundtrack; Every Fri-Sat DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Mike

Letto; 9pm DV8 Forbidden Dimension,

Confusionaires, Paul James Coutts and Cowls; 9pm; No minors FIONN MACCOOL'S– DOWNTOWN Doug Mitchell;

5pm THE FORGE ON WHYTE

Lucifarian Outreach 2017 featuring The Matadors; 8pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door); No minors HAVE MERCY Resident DJs

playing outlaw country, rock and retro classics; Every Fri-Sat, 10pm; No cover IRONGATE PUB Bryant Sailor;

Every Fri-Sat, 7pm; No cover LB'S PUB Carling Undercover;

9pm; No minors LION'S HEAD PUB Cody Mack;

8pm NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Happy Hour featuring The Goats; 5:30pm • Royal Tusk with Norell, Calling All Captains and Optics (Norell Record Release); 8pm; $20 (adv)

YARDBIRD SUITE Claudia Quintet (part of Jazz Fest); 7pm & 8:45pm; $23 (+ service charges)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee; Every Fri; Wooftop: Selection Fridays with

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

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

Flashback Friday; Every Fri GAS PUMP Live DJ; 10pm THE PROVINCIAL PUB Video

Music DJ; 9pm-2am Y AFTERHOURS Live DJs; Every

Fri-Sat

SAT JUL 1 99TEN Sweat 3 Year

Anniversary Party featuring Pat Lok with Joses Martin and Swim; 9pm; $10 (adv) ALIBI PUB & EATERY Rising Star Showcase of Cooper Studios; Every Sat, 12-3pm

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL

Somewhere in Between; 8:30pm; $5 AUSSIE RULES KITCHEN & PIANO BAR Piano Show; Every

Sat, 9pm BELLAMY’S LOUNGE AT CHATEAU LACOMBE Doug

Organ Duo (part of Jazz Fest); 5:30pm; Free • Jim Head Quartet (part of Jazz Fest); 10pm; $5 (or free with ticket from same-day/night show.

Tickets at the door. Cash only) BLUES ON WHYTE Dennis

Jones; 9pm

Brothers; 8pm; No cover OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE

Barbra Lica (part of Jazz Fest); 7pm & 8:45pm; $23 (+ service fees) • Gypsophilia (part of Jazz Fest); 10:30pm; $23 (+ service fees) ON THE ROCKS Ramifications;

9pm REC ROOM Wild North -

Canada's 150th; 1pm; Free ROGERS PLACE Canada 150 in

150 Celebration; 7pm; $50 ROSE & CROWN PUB Joanne

THE ALMANAC Sunday Song Stage Hosted by Rhea March; Every Sun, 6:30-10pm; Free AUSSIE RULES KITCHEN & PIANO BAR Piano Show; Every

Band; 9pm

BLIND PIG PUB Blind Pig Pub Jam with Forever 51; Every Sun, 3-6:30pm

CHA ISLAND Karaoke Monday

night; Every Mon, 9pm; Free

BLUES ON WHYTE Blues on

FIDDLER'S ROOST Open Stage;

Whyte Block Party; 10am10pm; Free

7-11pm

THE BUCKINGHAM Sianspheric with Living Hour; 8pm; $10 (adv)

Monday Night Blues Jam hosted by the Dylan Farrell Ban; Every Mon, 8:30pm (sign up); No cover

Karaoke/DJ; Every Thu-Sat, 9pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Adam Holm; 9pm

Patio with Mboya Nicholson (Part of Jazz Fest); 12-2pm; Free

CAFE BLACKBIRD Jazz on the Patio with Karen Porkka (part of Jazz Fest); 12-2pm; Free

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

BassDrumBone (part of Jazz Fest); 7pm & 8:45pm; $23 (+ service fees)

Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASK AND BARREL The Uncas;

4-6pm; Free CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT

The Ivory Keys; 9pm; Free DENIZEN HALL Champ City Soundtrack; Every Fri-Sat DRAKE HOTEL Open Jam–

Saturdays; Every Sat, 2-5pm • House band; 5-8pm • Guest band; 8pm • No minors DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Mike

Letto; 9pm EMPRESS ALE HOUSE Bands

at the Empress; Every Sat, 4-6pm; Free; 18+ only FESTIVAL PLACE The Emeralds

(part of the Festival Place Patio series); 7:30pm THE FORGE ON WHYTE Canada

Day with EH Canada; 8pm; No minors HAVE MERCY Resident DJs playing outlaw country, rock and retro classics; Every FriSat, 10pm; No cover IRONGATE PUB Bryant Sailor;

Every Fri-Sat, 7pm; No cover

YARDBIRD SUITE

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Chris Bruce spins

britpop/punk/garage/indie; Every Sat; Wooftop: Sound It Up! with DJ Sonny Grimezz spinning classic hip-hop and reggae; Underdog: hip-hop open Mic followed by DJ Marack THE COMMON Get Down

ENVY NIGHT CLUB Resolution

Saturdays: top 40, throwbacks and club anthems

Martin Kerr: Intimate Album Release Party; 5:30pm (doors), 7pm (first set), 8:30pm (second set); $75 HAVE MERCY YEG Music presents “Compete With The Beat”; Every Sun, 6pm; $10 MAMA'S GIN JOINT Sunday

Jam out in your Jammies; Every Sun, 3-10pm; Free

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

Acoustic Jam; Every Sun, 12pm

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,

Fiddlers Association: Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm SIDELINER’S PUB Singer/

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

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Substance with Eddie

Lunchpail TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic hip-hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

Circle; 7:30-11:30pm

UNION HALL Jah Prayzah;

Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild Rose Old Tyme

NEWCASTLE PUB Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage; Every Sun, 3pm

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Pop Music Time Capsule; 2pm; Donations accepted • Happy Hour featuring Sarah Beatty; 5:30pm

TUE JUL 4

SANDS INN & SUITES Open

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

HAVE MERCY Mississippi

Sunday Brunch with Justin Perkins; 11am; No cover • Shiba San with Mikey Wong and Seelo Mondo; 10pm; $20-$25

Rotating DJs Velix and Suco; every Sat

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday

on Whyte Block Party; 10am10pm; Free

FAIRMONT HOTEL MACDONALD

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Soul

Saturday Sessions Jam; Every Sat, 4-8pm

MCINTYRE PARK (104ST FROM 82 AVE-84 AVE) Blues

Jamming; Every Sun, 2pm; No minors

EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Resident DJs

Wong every Sat

Homemade Jam–hosted by Mike Chenoweth and The Usual Suspects; Every Sat, 3-7pm

DRAKE HOTEL Sunday

MOONSHINERS Sunday Noon

LB'S PUB Mark Ammar's

THE LEAF The Barsnbands

CROWN & ANCHOR Jam session– co-hosted with Ty Jones from Tall, Dark & Dirty; Every Sun until Sep 3, 7pm

It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with Wright & Wong, Dane

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

Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm 9pm; $39-$49 YARDBIRD SUITE Joel Gray

& The Dixieland All-Stars featuring Rollanda Lee & Doug Innes (part of Jazz Fest); 2pm; $25 (+ service charges)

Classical

BLUES ON WHYTE Ferny

Turnbull; 9pm FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle Jam GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm JT'S BAR AND GRILL Karaoke;

Every Tue-Wed LB'S PUB Tuesday Night Open

Jam Hosted by Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge MAMA'S GIN JOINT Tuesday

Open Mic; Every Tue, 9pm; Starts Jan 3; Free MERCURY ROOM Wingin' It;

7pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door) ROGERS PLACE Queen +

Floor: DJ Zyppy; Every Sun

DJs

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Fri-Sat

GAS PUMP Kizomba-DJ; 8pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Chris Bruce spins britpop/

ALIBI PUB AND EATERY Open

MON JUL 3

mic night; Every Sun, 6-9pm

JUL/8

Non-Phixion; 8pm; $25-$35; No minors

punk/garage/indie; Every Tue

HAVE MERCY Whiskey Wednesdays Live Piano Karaoke featuring the Fab Tiff Hall; Every Wed, 8:30pm

CONCERTWORKS & INTERPOLATIONS PRESENTS

Karaoke Jockey Simonette; Every Wed, 7-11pm

AUG/6

JT'S BAR AND GRILL Karaoke;

Every Tue-Wed LEAF BAR & GRILL Wang Dang Wednesdays; Every Wed, 7-11pm

LIVENATION.COM PRESENTS

BLIND PILOT W/ GUESTS

AUG/11 VNV NATION W/ IVARDENSPHERE CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

MAMA'S GIN JOINT Wednesday

Karaoke; Every Wed, 9pm; Free NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Happy Hour featuring Phil Woodward; 5:30pm

SEP/15&16 BREAKOUT WEST

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

MUSIC FESTIVAL

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam

SEP/17 THE CAVE SINGERS W/ CHRIS CHEVEYO LIVENATION.COM PRESENTS

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

SEP/26 DARK TRANQUILITY W/ WARBRINGER, STRIKER CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Karaoke

Wednesday RANCH ROADHOUSE Murder By

Death; 8pm; $35 SHAKERS ROADHOUSE 4 Dollar

Bill Country Jam; 7pm

OCT/6

UP+DT PRESENTS

OCT/7

PRESENTED BY 2017 UP AND DOWNTOWN MUSIC FESTIVAL (UP+DT)

SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE

RUSS - The Wake Up Tour; 8pm; $45 and up TAVERN ON WHYTE Karaoke;

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee; Every Wed

DIIV W/ PROVINCIAL ARCHIVE AND GUESTS DAN DEACON W/ GUESTS

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

Wednesdays at the Pint with DJ Thomas Culture; Every Wed, 10pm

LOWER HALL (BRIXX)

ALL SHOWS 18+ ONLY

JUL/14 STARKILL W/ IMMUNIZE CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

VENUEGUIDE 99TEN 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ARCADIA BAR 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com AUSSIE RULES KITCHEN & PIANO BAR #1638, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722, aussierulesedmonton.com BELLAMY'S LOUNGE AT CHATEAU LACOMBE 10111 Bellamy Hill Rd NW BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne St, 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 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890,

UNLEASH THE ARCHERS W/ W.M.D., SKEPSIS

JUL/27 3TEETH W/ PAROXYSM, HOPE HOUSE & DJ DR LAVA

HOWARD JOHNSON HOTEL

RANCH ROADHOUSE DJ Shocker and Seelo Mondo; Every Wed

CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

CONCERTWORKS & CROWN OF VISERYS PRESENTS

PINT DOWNTOWN Wild Wing

EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR Taco Tuesday

ALL SHOWS 18+ UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED

JUL/20 WEDNESDAY 13 W/ ONCE HUMAN, GABRIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE

GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm

Jamerama, with Tall Dark & Dirty; 7pm

Y AFTERHOURS Live DJs; Every

MAIN ROOM

THE FORGE ON WHYTE Ill Bill &

DJs

every Sat

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Boys & Ariane Mahryke Lemire (part of the Festival Place Patio series); 7:30pm; $6.50

9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

TICKETS FOR STARLITE ROOM SHOWS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT

FESTIVAL PLACE Give 'Em Hell

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DJs

SUN JUL 2

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm

Canada 150 Celebration with the Kokopelli Choir; 10:30am

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

10030 - 102 STREET

Jazz: Susan Whalen Janzen, Maria Manna + Kennedy Jenson (part of Jazz Fest); 7:30pm; $15

Adam Lambert; 8pm; $45 and up

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands

Soul Saturday Brunch with Benjamin Williams; 11am; No cover • Canada Day! The Wet Secrets with Carter & the Capitals, The Melisizwe

BLUES ON WHYTE Jesse Roads CAFE BLACKBIRD Ladies Of

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Karaoke

StarliteRoom Starliteroom starlitetoomyeg

WED JUL 5

Turnbull; 9pm

CAFE BLACKBIRD Jazz on the

Mike "The Party Hog"; 9pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Ferny

with resident DJs

Sun, 9pm

Janzen; 9pm

BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop: Metal Mondays with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox

cafeblackbird.ca 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 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall. com DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB 1111387 Ave NW, devaneyspub.com DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DV8/MAMA'S PIZZA 7317-101 Ave NW EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR 8230 Gateway Blvd, elcortezcantina.com EMPRESS ALE HOUSE 9912-82 Ave NW ENVY NIGHT CLUB West Edmonton Mall, 8882 170 St EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE 10220-103 St NW, 780.

424.0077, yourgaybar.com

FAIRMONT HOTEL MACDONALD 10065-100 St NW FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN 10200-102 Ave NW 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 HOWARD JOHNSON HOTEL 15540 Stony Plain Road JT'S BAR AND GRILL 1107 Knottwood Road East L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 THE LEAF 9016-132 Ave LION'S HEAD PUB 4440 Gateway Blvd MAMA'S GIN JOINT 11723 Jasper Ave, 780.705.0998, mamasginjoint.com MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, mcdougallunited.com MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108

St, 780.425.9730 NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524 Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE 8426 Gateway Boulevard O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PANCITERIA DE MANILA 15326 Stony Plain Road PINT–DOWNTOWN 10125-109 St NW PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RANCH ROADHOUSE 6107-104 St NW RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE 9797 Jasper Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784,

sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave SQUARE 1 COFFEE 15 Fairway Drive STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TEDDY'S 11361 Jasper Ave TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW, 780.433.1604, trinity-lutheran. ab.ca UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 11150-82 St, 780.436.1554 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WOODRACK CAFE 7603-109 St, 780. 757.0380, thewoodrackcafe. com Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428

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JUL/21 KHIVA W/ SKOBE, M4XW311 X SKBR, SASQUAR A GREEZY NIGHT WITH

JUL/26 LUCY DACUS W/ GUESTS TIMBRE CONCERTS PRESENTS

JUL/28 ETERNAL PROPHECY W/ WTHCNVTCN, SINS OF SORROW, IF I FALL L.T.D TALENT SERVICES PRESENTS

JUL/29 RAVAGE RED W/ BURY ME JACK, FILTHY SINNER LTD PROUDLY PRESENTS

AUG/13 PALLBEARER W/ GOST

CONCERTWORKS & CROWN OF VISERYS PRESENTS

AUG/28 THE AGONIST W/ JULIET RUIN, FORSAKEN RITE CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

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Lotus Qigong • SAGE downtown 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.695.4588 • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every Fri, 2-3:30pm • Free Monday Mingle • Hexagon Board Game Cafe, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Meet new gamers.

Go to the event solo or with a group • Every Mon, 5-11pm • $5 (one drink per person)

Coffee with Cops • Carrot Coffeehouse, 9351-118 Ave • Edmonton Police Service invites the community to an open discussion • 1st Tue of every month, 10-11am 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 Don't be shy–paint a naked guy • O'byrnes Irish Pub, 10616-82 Ave NW • 587.986.3618 • angela@letsartyparty.com • Guests will start with three poses to warm up, then move to a longer pose on 16" x 20" canvas. All will go home with a painting • Every 2nd Tue starting Nov 22, 7-8:30pm • $35 (adv at Eventbrite), $45 (door)

Drop-In D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc. For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue & Wed, 7pm • $5 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 FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 10728-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

10740-101 St • info@vofa.ca • bit.ly/2hO97nq • First Sat of every month, 9am-12pm • Free (confirm via Facebook or email)

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

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

Roda de Capoeira • Capoeira Academy,

Ave NW • happyharborcomics.com • Events may include guest speakers, movie nights, board game nights, video game nights and much more • First Thu of the month, 7-9pm • Free

Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group • Schizophrenia

Feed Kaleido With Your Food Truck & Trailer With over 60,000 festival goers and a variety of scheduling options, Kaleido Family Arts Festival is a great place to celebrate the excellent food you serve! www.kaleidofest.ca Sell Your Wares at Kaleido Festival!

Join us for Kaleido Festival Weekend as both Artisans, & Craft and Prepared Food Vendors to sell your wares to more than 60,000 festival goers! September 15-17th on 118ave (Between 90-94 Streets). www.kaleidofest.ca/artisans/ The Carrot’s Ultimate Garage Sale Reminder Have you started thinking about a good spring clean?

The Carrot’s Ultimate Garage sale is coming up soon! For more info on our annual spring fundraiser. contact: artsadmin@artsontheave.org

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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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St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion, 11150-82 St; 780.902.4605; norwoodtoastmasters.org; Every Thu, Oct 13Jun 29, 7:30-9:30pm; Guests are free • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club:

2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook. com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact vpm@ norators.com, 780.807.4696, norators.com • Norwood Toastmasters: Legion, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); 780.463.5331 (Antonio); yclubtoastmasters@gmail.com; Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month

Women's Cricket • Coronation Park

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

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 Fri, 6:15pm • $5 (drop-in fee, adult), free (kids)

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

Yoga, Art & Wine • 4 Points Health and Wellness, 12406-112 Ave • Gentle fusion flow yoga and painting • First Sat of each month, 7-10pm • $45 (available at Eventbrite)

Seeing is Above All • Acacia Hall, 10433-83

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Ave NW • 780.554.6133 • Instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light. Learn a simple technique that will lift you above life's stresses • Every Sun, 5pm • Free Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

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LGNYEG • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104

780.479-8667 (Bob) • bobmurra@telus.net • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus

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CELEBRATE CANADA 150–The Place to BEE • Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, 10065-100 St • 780.429.6424 • mac.dining@ fairmont.com • Meet in the Gardens for a fun and educational night about how to try and #savethebees in the city of Edmonton • Jun 29, 5:30-7:30pm • Free (to join); $25 (participate in tasting)

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Artwalk 2017 Join the Art Walk as a volunteer and meet 400+ visual artists and thousands of visitors, and enjoy Old Strathcona at the height of summer. We need dedicated, energetic volunteers to contribute to the success of this wonderful festival, now in its 22nd season.

Visit www.art-walk.ca or The Paint Spot, or contact kim@paintspot.ca for information and volunteer forms. Great fun and swag!

Call us if you have questions: 780.432.0240.

ENJOY ART ALWAYZ www.bdcdrawz.com Check the site every two weeks for new work!

EXHIBITION SUBMISSION REQUEST Artists interested in making a submission request to exhibit in 2018 in the Artisan Nook or the Naess Gallery at The Paint Spot are urged to visit paintspot.ca/galleries or phone 780.432.0240 for more information. Naess submissions deadline: 9PM, August 31; Artisan Nook: ongoing.

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Kaleido Family Art Festival Visual Gallery Submissions Are Open Celebrate arts and culture in Edmonton, AB, September 15-17 on 118 Avenue (Between 90-94 Streets)!

Submit your original visual artwork to be displayed and sold in our festival galleries. www.kaleidofest.ca/visual-artsgallery/

Last Call for Kaleido Performance Arts!

Kaleido welcomes arts & cultural experiences with multiarts collaborative performances such as music, dance, theatre, film, literary and visual arts with performances on rooftops, sides of buildings, back alleys, parks and found spaces. www.kaleidofest.ca/performers

Make a Street Lamppost Yours on 118 Ave Fall In Love With Kaleido, and let your inner artist be inspired to create a 3D Lamppost installation in Deck Out A Lamppost!

Sept. 15-17 on 118ave (Between 90-94 Streets) www.kaleidofest.ca/lampost/

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Pick Your Piece of Pavement and Create at Kaleido!

Think outside the box as a designer, sculptor, or creative, and create a 12x12x12 foot installation that will be displayed along 118ave (Between 90-94 Streets). www.kaleidofest.ca/12foot12/ 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.

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QUEER Affirm Group • garysdeskcom@hotmail. com • mcdougallunited.com • Part of the United Church network supporting LGBTQ men and women • Meet monthly at Second Cup, Edmonton City Centre for coffee and conversation at 12:30pm; Special speaker events are held throughout the year over lunch at McDougall Church Beers for Queers • The Empress Ale House, 9912-82 Ave • With DJ Jos • Last Thu of every month • Free • 18+ only

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

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, Or in confidence one-on-one in the Craft Room • 780.474.8240 • tuff69@telus. net • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance. One-on-one meetings are also available in the craft room • Every Thu, 1-4pm

Illusions Social Club • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • pridecentreofedmonton.org • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7-9pm Pride Centre of Edmonton • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • pridecentreofedmonton.org/calendar.html • Drop in hours: Mon-Fri 12-7pm; Closed Sat-Sun and holidays • Yoga: (all ages), 4th Mon of every month, for any stage • TTIQ: (18+ Trans* Group) 2nd Mon of every month, 7-9pm • Trans Youth Talking: (24 and under) 3rd Mon of every month, for trans youth and supportive people in their lives • Fierce Fun: (24 and under) Alternating Tue, 7-9pm, games and activities for youth • JamOUT: (12-24) Alternating Tue, 7-8:30pm, music mentorship and instruction for youth • Two Spirit Gathering: 4th Wedof every month, 6-8pm, gathering for First Nations Two Spirit people • Meditation: (all ages) 3rd Thu of each month, 5:30-6:45pm • 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: Alternating Fri, 6-8:30pm • Arts & Identity: Alternating Fri, 6-8:30pm • Men Talking with Pride: (18+) Sun, 7-9pm, group for gay or bisexual men • Creating Safer Spaces Training: Interactive professional development workshops, with full or half-day options • Queer Mentorship Program: (Youth: 12-24) (Adults-26+) Queer to Queer Mentoring

Team Edmonton • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • Swimming: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • Water Polo: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • Yoga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • Taekwondo: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • Abs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:15-8:15pm • Dodgeball: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • Running: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • Spin: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• Volleyball: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • Meditation: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:30-6:15pm • Board Games: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per month, 3-7pm • All Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 846881 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm 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 6th Annual Canada Day Car show • Main St, Stony Plain • Featuring antique, classics, custom and other cars • Jul 1, 11-4pm

Blues on Whyte Block Party • Blues on Whyte/Old Strathcona • bluesonwhyte.com/takinit-to-the-streets • Featuring bands galore, food trucks, vendors, beer gardens and more • Jul 1-2 Canada Day at TELUS World of Science • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St

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• 780.451.3344 • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca • It's the first day of "The Science Behind Pixar" exhibition, and the 33rd anniversary of the museum. Featuring a rocket launch, Maple Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream and much more • Jul 1, 9am-8pm • Regular admission

Canada Day Celebrations • University of Alberta Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • botanicgarden.ualberta.ca • Live music, children’s activities and Canada Day Cake in a peaceful, relaxing setting • Jul 1, 11am-3pm • Free with regular admission

Canada Day Family Fun • Elk Island National Park, 1-54401 Range Road 203, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.922.5790 • pc.gc.ca/ en/pn-np/ab/elkisland/activ/spec • Celebrate Canada in style at one of our national parks.

Featuring pemmican making, voyager canoe and more • Jul 1, 12-4pm • Free Date Night - Craft Beer and Garden Games • University of Alberta Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • botanicgarden.ualberta.ca • Because beer and lawn games rule summer • Jun 29, 6-10pm • Free with regular admission

Date Night - Taiko Drumming • University of Alberta Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • botanicgarden.ualberta.ca • Take a mini Taiko drumming workshop in the gorgeous setting of the Kurimoto Japanese Garden, led by Booming Tree Taiko • Jul 6, 6-10pm • Adv registration is recommended Edmonton International Jazz Festival • Various locations throughout Edmonton • edmontonjazz.com • Featuring the best in jazz music such as: the Claudia Quartet, LSD Trio and many more. See the music listings for day-today listings • Jun 23-Jul 2 • Prices will vary

Edmonton International Street Performers Festival • Sir Winston Churchill Square, 9930-102 Ave NW • edmontonstreetfest. com • With over 40 acts from Canada and around the globe, there’s something for everyone • Jul 7-16, 11:30am-11pm • Admission by donation

Foodie Bike Tour • Various locations throughout Edmonton • 780.920.3655 • info@foodbiketour.com • foodbiketour.com • Indulge in the fine local foods and beverages of Edmonton while touring on a bike around the city. Get a taste of Edmonton without the guilt as the calories are burned off • Jul 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22 • Aug 10, 12 • $99 (register via Eventbrite, limited space available)

Full Moon Canoe Tour at Elk Island • Elk Island National Park, Highway 16 East, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.922.4324 • Paddle slowly through the islands and enjoy in the ambience of the closing of the day, listening for the distant cry of the loon or splash of the beaver • Jul 8, 7:30-11pm

Historic Festival & Doors Open Edmonton • Various locations around Edmonton • 780.439.2797 • events@historicedmonton. ca • historicedmonton.ca • Focusing on Canada's 150th birthday. Celebrating community milestones; exploring museums, archives and historic sites; and participating in bus or walking tours of gardens, natural areas, cemeteries and neighbourhoods • Jul 1-8

Mac Market • Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, 10065-100 St • fairmont.com/macdonaldedmonton • Open to the public, the folks at the Hotel Mac are focused on unique, local artisan vendors and connecting with what the community has to offer • Jul 3, 11am-5pm • Free Sand on Whyte • CP Rail land in the northeast corner of Whyte Ave and Gateway Blvd • sandonwhyte.ca • Be amazed by the work of Canadian sand carving artists as they create sand carving magic that tells our Canada 150th story • Jun 30Jul 9, 10am-10pm • Admission by donation

Sunday Brunch • Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, 10065-100 St • 780.424.5181 • hotelmacdonald@ fairmont.com • Sunday Brunch with a little added flare • Jul 2, 10am-2pm • $69 (adult), $59 (seniors), $34.5 (children 6-12), free (children under 5) URB PRK • On Whyte Ave • urbprk.com • Creating innovative and sustainable parks within an urbanscape • Jul 2-Aug 31

Whyte Avenue Art Walk • Throughout Whyte Ave • art-walk.ca • A 4km walk with over 450 visual artists who bring their art supplies and artworks out into the streets • Jul 7-9 The Works Art & Design Festival • City Hall & Churchill Square, 1 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.426.2122 • theworks.ab.ca • Featuring artwork from various artists • Jun 22-Jul 4

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): This is a perfect moment to create a new tradition, Aries. You intuitively know how to turn one of your recent breakthroughs into a good habit that will provide continuity and stability for a long time to come. You can make a permanent upgrade in your life by capitalizing on an accidental discovery you made during a spontaneous episode. It's time, in other words, to convert the temporary assistance you received into a long-term asset; to use a stroke of luck to foster a lasting pleasure.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Physicist Freeman Dyson told Wired magazine how crucial it is to learn from failures. As an example, he described the invention of the bicycle.

"There were thousands of weird models built and tried before they found the one that really worked," he said. "You could never design a bicycle theoretically. Even now, it's difficult to understand why a bicycle works. But just by trial and error, we found out how to do it, and the error was essential."

I hope you will keep that in mind, Taurus. It's the success-through-failure phase of your astrological cycle.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should lease a chauffeured stretch limousine with nine TVs and a hot tub inside. You'd also be smart to accessorize your smooth ride with a $5,000-bottle of Château Le Pin Pomerol Red Bordeaux wine and servings of the Golden Opulence Sundae, which features a topping of 24-karat edible gold and sprinkles of Amedei Porcelana, the most expensive chocolate in the world. If none of that is possible, do the next best thing, which is to mastermind a long-term plan to bring more money into your life.

From an astrological perspective, wealth-building activities will be favoured in the coming weeks.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When Leos rise above their habit selves and seize the authority to be rigorously authentic, I refer to them as Sun Queens or Sun Kings. When you Cancerians do the same—triumph over your conditioning and become masters of your own destiny—I call you Moon Queens or Moon Kings. In the coming weeks, I suspect that many of you will make big strides towards earning this title. Why? Because you're on the verge of claiming more of the "soft power," the potent sensitivity, that enables you to feel at home no matter what you're doing or where you are on this planet.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may not realize it, but you now have a remarkable power to perform magic tricks. I'm not talking about Houdini-style hocus pocus. I'm referring to practical wizardry that will enable you to make relatively efficient transformations in your daily life. Here are some of the possibilities: wiggling out of a tight

spot without offending anyone; conjuring up a new opportunity for yourself out of thin air; doing well on a test even though you don't feel prepared for it; converting a seemingly tough twist of fate into a fertile date with destiny. How else would you like to use your magic?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Feminist pioneer and author Gloria Steinem said, "Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."

Is there such an activity for you, Virgo? If not, now is a favorable time to identify what it is. And if there is indeed such a passionate pursuit, you should do it as much as possible in the coming weeks. You're primed for a breakthrough in your relationship with this life-giving joy.

To evolve to the next phase of its power to inspire you, it needs as much of your love and intelligence as you can spare.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): One of the 21st century's most entertaining archaeological events was the discovery of King Richard III's bones.

The English monarch died in 1485, but his burial site had long been a mystery. It wasn't an archaeologist who tracked down his remains, but a screenwriter named Philippa Langley. She did extensive historical research, narrowing down the possibilities to a car park in Leicester. As she wandered around there, she got a psychic impression at one point that she was walking directly over Richard's grave. Her feeling later turned out to be right. I suspect your near future will have resemblances to her adventure.

You'll have success in a mode that's not your official area of expertise.

Sharp analytical thinking will lead you to the brink, and a less rational twist of intelligence will take you the rest of the way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The tides of destiny are no longer just whispering their message for you.

They are shouting. And what they are shouting is that your brave quest must begin soon. There can be no further excuses for postponement. What's that you say?

You don't have the luxury of embarking on a brave quest? You're too bogged down in the thousand and one details of managing the day-to-day hubbub? Well, in case you need reminding, the tides of destiny are not in the habit of making things convenient. And if you don't cooperate willingly, they will ultimately compel you to do so. But now here's the really good news, Scorpio: The tides of destiny will make available at least one burst of assistance that you can't imagine right now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In my dream, I used the non-itchy wool of the queen's special Merino sheep to weave an enchanted blanket for you. I wanted this blanket to be a good luck charm you could use in your crusade to achieve deeper levels of romantic intimacy. In its tapestry I spun scenes depicting

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the most love-filled events from your past. It was beautiful and perfect. But after I finished it, I had second thoughts about giving it to you.

Wasn't it a mistake to make it so flawless? Shouldn't it also embody the messier aspects of togetherness? To turn it into a better symbol and therefore a more dynamic talisman, I spilled wine on one corner of it and unraveled some threads in another corner. Now here's my interpretation of my dream: You're ready to regard messiness as an essential ingredient in your quest for deeper intimacy.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your word of power is "supplication"—the act of asking earnestly and humbly for what you want.

When practiced correctly, "supplication" is indeed a sign of potency, not of weakness. It means you are totally united with your desire, feel no guilt or shyness about it, and intend to express it with liberated abandon. Supplication makes you supple, poised to be flexible as you do what's necessary to get the blessing you yearn for. Being a supplicant also makes you smarter, because it helps you realize that you can't get what you want on the strength of your willful ego alone.

You need grace, luck, and help from sources beyond your control.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the coming weeks, your relationships with painkillers will be extra sweet and intense. Please note that I'm not talking about ibuprofen or acetaminophen or aspirin. My reference to painkillers is metaphorical. What I'm predicting is that you will have a knack for finding experiences that reduce your suffering. You'll have a sixth sense about where to go to get the most meaningful kinds of healing and relief. Your intuition will guide you to initiate acts of atonement and forgiveness, which will in turn ameliorate your wounds.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don't wait around passively as you fantasize about becoming the "Chosen One" of some person or group or institution. Be your own Chosen One. And don't wander around aimlessly, biding your time in the hope of eventually being awarded some prize or boon by a prestigious source. Give yourself a prize or boon. Here's one further piece of advice, Pisces: Don't postpone your practical and proactive intentions until the mythical "perfect moment" arrives. Create your own perfect moment. V

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32 Tomato on some pizzas 36 Mo. with both National Beer Day and National Pretzel Day 37 His first public jump in 1965 was over rattlesnakes and two mountain lions 39 Sewing kit staple 41 Nintendo’s ___ Sports 42 “Fidelio,” for one 43 Star of “The Birds” and grandmother of Dakota Johnson 46 Cup lip 47 Effortlessness 48 “Awake and Sing!” playwright Clifford 49 Bi- times four 50 Mitch’s husband on “Modern Family” 52 Tickle Me Elmo toymaker 54 Org. in “Concussion” 57 “Wheel of Fortune” host since 1981 61 Actress Woodard of “St. Elsewhere” 64 “Enough already!”

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7 For ___ (not pro bono) 8 Put in the mail 9 Accepts, as responsibility 10 “Pretty sneaky, ___” (Connect Four ad line) 11 1/2 of a fl. oz.

12 He has a recurring role as The Donald 13 “___ Are Burning” (Midnight Oil hit) 16 Apple voice assistant 18 Deli sandwich option 23 Dallas pro baller, for short 25 Get ready, slangily 26 Kindergarten glop 27 Via ___ (famous Italian road) 29 Got hitched again 30 Say “comfortable” or “Worcestershire,” maybe 31 Avoid, as an issue 33 How some daytime daters meet 34 Reason for a scout’s badge 35 Fictional beer on “King of the Hill” 37 Wallace of “Stargate Universe” or Wallach of “The Magnificent Seven” 38 Charged particle 40 Gp. that includes Nigeria and Iraq 44 Respectful tributes 45 Suffix denoting the ultimate 49 Time-based contraction 51 “I don’t want to break up ___” 53 Ex-NBA star Ming 54 No, to Putin 55 Pate de ___ gras 56 Carries with effort 58 “Community” star McHale 59 Tolstoy’s “___ Karenina” 60 Etta of bygone comics pages 62 Kentucky senator ___ Paul 63 Geological time spans 65 Bygone TV taping abbr.

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I had a great time at the live taping of the Savage Lovecast at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre. Audience members submitted questions on cards, and I tackled as many questions as I could over two hours—with the welcome and hilarious assistance of comedian Kristen Toomey. Here are some of the questions we didn’t get to before they gave us the hook …

Question: If your partner’s social media makes you uncomfortable— whether it’s the overly friendly comments they get on their photos or vice versa (their overly friendly comments on other people’s photos)—do you have the right to say something?

Dan Savage: You have the right to say something—the First Amendment applies to relationships, too— but you have two additional rights and one responsibility: the right to refrain from reading the comments, the right to unfollow your partner’s social-media accounts, and the responsibility to get over your jealousy.

Q: A couple invited me to go on a trip as their third and to have threesomes. I am friends with the guy, and there is chemistry. But I have not met the girl. I’m worried that there may not be chemistry with her. Is there anything I can do to build chemistry or at least get us all comfortable enough to jump into it?

DS: Get this woman’s phone number, exchange a few photos and flirty texts, and relax. Remember: You’re the very special guest star here—it’s their job to seduce you, not the other way around.

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Q: Incest porn—what is the reason behind why it’s so hot?

DS: I reject the premise of your question. There’s nothing hot about incest porn.

Q: My partner really wants an open relationship; I really don’t. He isn’t the jealous type; I am. We compromised, and I agreed to a threesome.

I want to meet him in the middle, but I really hate the idea of even a threesome and can’t stop stressing about it. What should I do?

DS: You should end this relationship yourself or you can let an ill-advised, sure-to-be-disastrous threesome end it for you.

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Q: Any dating advice for people who are gay and disabled?

DS: Move on all fronts: Go places and do things—as much as your disability and budget allow—join gay dating sites, be open about your disability, be open to dating other disabled people. And take the advice of an amputee I interviewed for a column a long, long time ago: “So long as they don’t see me as a fetish object, I’m willing to date people who may be attracted to me initially because of my disability, not despite it.”

Q: Why do I say yes to dates if I love being alone?

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DS: Because we’re constantly told— by our families, our entertainments, our faith traditions—that there’s something wrong with being alone.

The healthiest loners shrug it off and don’t search for mates, the complicit loners play along and go through the motions of searching for mates, and the oblivious loners make themselves and others miserable by searching for and landing mates they never wanted.

Q: My boyfriend keeps talking about how much he would like for me to peg him. (I’m female.) Should I wait for him to buy a contraption or surprise him myself? We’ve been dating only three months.

DS: Traditionally, straight couples exchange strap-on dildos to mark their six-month anniversary.

Q: Gay guy, late 20s. What’s the best timing—relative to meals and bowel movements—to have anal sex?

DS: Butts shouldn’t be fucked too soon after a meal or too soon before a bowel movement. For more info, read the late, great Dr. Jack Morin’s Anal Pleasure and Health: A Guide for Men, Women, and Couples—which can be read before, during, and after meals and/or bowel movements.

Q: My sister’s husband describes himself as sexually “vanilla.” She says she hasn’t had an orgasm without a vibrator in seven years. They are currently separated, and he wants her back. If he makes some lifestyle changes (stops smoking so much weed, goes to the gym), is there hope for her sex life?

DS: Does your sister want him back?

If so, taking him back is the only way to find out if he’s willing to make these lifestyle changes and make them permanently.

Q: I went to a big kink event. Why are the people so fucking creepy? How can you find kinky folks who aren’t super pervy?

DS: They’re hanging out with the kinky folks who aren’t super judgy.

Q: Why do all of my gay friends make passes at my boyfriends at some point? It’s not just harmless flirtation, either.

DS: Your boyfriends are irresistible, and your gay friends are irredeemable.

Q: My girlfriend and I are having a debate. Which is more intimate: vanilla sex or sharing a whirlpool bath with someone? Can you settle this?

DS: No. Q: Three great dates followed by a micropenis. What do I do? Him: sixfoot-four, giant belly. Me: five-footfive, normal proportions. Great guy, but the sex sucked.

DS: If you require an average-to-large penis to enjoy sex, don’t keep seeing this guy. He needs to find someone who thinks—or someone who

knows—tongues, fingers, brains, kinks, etc., can add up to great sex.

Q: As a trauma/rape survivor, I found myself attracted to girls afterward. Is this because I’m scared of men or am I genuinely attracted to girls? Is this a thing that happens after trauma?

DS: People react to trauma in all sorts of ways—some of them unpredictable. And trauma has the power to unlock truths or obscure them. I’m sorry you were raped, and I would encourage you to explore these issues with a counsellor. Rape Victim Advocates (rapevictimadvocates.org) can help you find a qualified counsellor.

Q: Do you think a relationship in this day and age can last forever?

DS: Some relationships last forever and should, some last forever and shouldn’t. “Forever,” here defined as “until one or both partners are dead,” isn’t the sole measure of relationship quality or success.

Q: My boyfriend refuses to finish inside me. When he’s about to come, he pulls out and comes on my chest.

Every time. I told him I have an IUD and there’s no risk of pregnancy.

How do I remain a feminist when my boyfriend comes on my chest every night? I know he loves me, but I feel very objectified.

DS: A woman who enjoys having someone come on her chest doesn’t have to surrender her feminist card for letting someone come on her chest. But you don’t enjoy it—it makes you feel objectified in the wrong way. (Most of us, feminists included, enjoy being appreciated for our parts and our smarts.) Use your words: “I don’t like it when you come on my chest.

So that’s over.” He’ll have to respect that limit or he’ll have to go.

If he doesn’t feel comfortable coming inside you, IUD or no IUD, you’ll have to respect his choice. He can pull out and come somewhere else—in his own hand, on his own belly, or in a condom.

Q: My boyfriend wants me to talk more in bed. I am not a shy person, but making sentences during sex doesn’t come naturally to me— though I am very uninhibited with my vocals! What’s a good way to get more comfortable talking during sex?

DS: Tell him what you’re gonna do (“I’m gonna suck that dick”), tell him what you’re doing (“I’m sucking that dmmffhm”), tell him what you just did (“I sucked that dick”).

Q: Hey, Dan! I’m 27 and I just lost my virginity. Thanks for all the help!

DS: You’re welcome!

On the Lovecast, Dan chats with the author of Everybody Lies: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter ITMFA.org

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