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Queeriosities at The Works Artist Leila Armstrong discusses her LGBTQ curios In a hypothetical situation, wherein I was forced to choose my favourite Edmonton summer festival or else submit to some terrible consequences (like, I don't know, voting Christian Heritage), you'd probably find me on the street corner beside that Jesus-shouting guy. I just can't choose between all of the wonderful options we have here. However, in my general top five list you would definitely find The Works Art and Design Festival, on now through July 5.

For those of you who never come downtown, The Works is 13 days of completely free visual art mayhem and entertainment. This year's festival features 55 exhibits in 29 venues through one-square kilometre downtown—with a couple of venues scattered throughout the

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rest of city. The festival's heart is at Churchill Square, which has undergone its yearly transformation into a delightful wonderland of fried-food stands and massive art installations.

One of the installations this year is The Best of the Cabinet of Queeriosities, an exhibit that celebrates "LGBTQ history, identity, culture and pride through a diverse range of subject matters and approaches."

On a sunny afternoon last week, I was able to connect with the curator of the exhibit, Leila Armstrong, to chat about the work.

"It was serendipitous," Armstrong says with a laugh as she explains how this exhibit started. In 2011, Lethbridge's Bowman Arts Centre (now Casa) had two empty oak cases, rather like curio cabinets, to be filled. Pride was also coming up and

thus the idea was born. Cabinets of curiosity (or wunderkammers, in German) stem from the sixteenth century and were encyclopedic collections that would later come to be distinctly categorized as geology, ethnography, works of art, archeology—in other words, they were precursors to modern museums.

In Armstrong's case, she put out a call for pieces of art or collections that spoke about the queer community. Armstrong displayed everything from a pack of beefcake playing-cards to a video on a very small screen. Since then, she has curated three cabinets of curiosity as The Dick Show, an art exhibit featuring images of naked men. The show has since outgrown its original oak cases, as well as its original location in Lethbridge—Armstrong

has received submissions from as far away as Austria.

"Access was key from the beginning," Armstrong explains. "I wanted something where people without an art background could engage with the work and get meaning out of it. I didn't want to exclude anyone."

That same ethos holds true of the exhibitors—you don't have to be queer to participate. Allies, parents or friends of queers: if you have something to say about the queer community, you're welcome to submit.

Likewise, you don't need to be an established artist to contribute, either. One such example is Julianna Davis, a 13-year old whose colourful queer dinosaurs (such as "Lesbo-saurus Rex" and "Gay-osaur")

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Breaking up is hard to do

Brexit passes—and maybe then Frexit, Nexit, Swexit, Plexit ...

"The EU is dying. I hope we've knocked the first brick out of the wall," exulted Nigel Farage, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party. He proposed that June 23rd, when the British narrowly voted (with 51.8 percent of the votes) to leave the European Union, should be a new national holiday called Independence Day. But author J K Rowling, who wanted Scotland to remain in the United Kingdom and the UK to remain in the EU, tweeted sadly: "Scotland will seek independence now. Cameron's legacy will be breaking up two unions.

Neither needed to happen."

Soon-to-be-former Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to hold a referendum on Britain's EU membership has assured the dismantling of the United Kingdom. 58 percent of the English voted "Leave," while 62 percent of Scots voted "Remain." It is "democratically unacceptable" for Scotland to be dragged out of the EU by the English, said First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and a second independence referendum in Scotland is "highly likely."

It remains to be seen whether Cameron's historic blunder will also trigger the disintegration of the EU itself, but there are plenty of right-wing nationalists in other EU countries who hope there will be a domino effect.

Marine Le Pen, leader of France's National Front, called the UK referendum "a key moment in European history" and said "I hope the French also have a similar exercise." And "Frexit" is just the start.

Geert Wilders, whose anti-Muslim, antiimmigration Dutch Party for Freedom is predicted to win 46 of the 150 seats in the Dutch parliament in next year's election, promised that if he were elected, the Netherlands will hold its own "Nexit" referendum. Italy's antiimmigrant Northern League and the populist Five Star Movement both called for a refer-

endum on Italian membership of the EU. Kristian Thulesen Dahl, the leader of the Danish People's Party, said that Denmark should follow Britain's lead. Nationalist leaders in Eastern Europe like Poland's Jarosław Kaczyński and Hungary's Viktor Orbán indulge in harsh anti-EU rhetoric all the time. And so on.

But most of the people who might vote for these nationalist leaders are not seeking the destruction of the EU, just big changes in the way it works—in particular, the reform or abolition of the euro and much stricter controls on immigration. Unlike the "Little Englanders" who voted for Brexit, they see the European Union as an essential bulwark against a return to the old Europe of beggar-my-neighbour trade policies and savage wars.

The EU's leaders will have to take a very tough line in the negotiations about the European Union's post-Brexit relations with the rump of the UK. A horrible example will be required to show the nationalists and populists in other members that leaving is hard and painful. And to preserve the EU they will have to abolish or drastically restructure the euro currency (but that had become necessary anyway).

The odds are, however, that the EU will survive. Its biggest problem will not be the loss of Britain, its second-biggest economy, but rather the fact that post-Brexit Germany will dominate the Union even more than it does already.

As for the English, they have made their bed and they will have to lie in it. The pound sterling has already lost much value and will probably lose much more. The last of the three major global ratings agencies, Standard and Poor's, will downgrade the UK's AAA credit rating. Foreign investment will dry up, in recognition of the fact that the

country will probably lose duty-free access to the EU's "single market."

Further down the road more pain will follow, as jobs disappear abroad, the English economy goes into recession, and the city of London starts to lose its status as a global financial centre rivalled only by New York. That will make domestic politics nasty enough, but the anti-immigrant fervour and outright racism that disfigured the "Leave" campaign are unlikely to dwindle in the ugly aftermath.

Scotland will vote to secede from the UK, but it will face major legal and political barriers in its campaign to remain a member of the EU in its own right. Spain in particular will give it a hard time, as Madrid does not want it to provide a precedent for Catalonia seceding from Spain and painlessly re-emerging as an independent EU member.

Northern Ireland will face an even harder time, as the Republic of Ireland will continue to be an EU member and so it will have to re-establish border controls. One alternative, of course, would be for Northern Ireland (which voted strongly in favour of EU membership) to unite with the Republic— but Northern Irish Protestants would still fiercely resist such a proposal, and in that context a revival of armed conflict in the province is not unthinkable.

The triumph of Brexit is a most regrettable outcome for everybody involved and possibly even for the world economy. But perhaps it isn't really all that shocking: in 1963 and again in 1967, French president Charles De Gaulle vetoed British entry to the Common Market—the EU's ancestor—on the grounds that it didn't really have a "European vocation." Turns out he was right.V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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The Best of the Cabinet of Queeriosities at The Works Churchill Square, until July 5 leilaarmstrong.blogspot.ca were so popular she's started to offer t-shirts prints.

The exhibit at The Works collects pieces from all four previous shows.

"I wanted a real cross-section of the different kinds of media and types of work that have been involved before," Armstrong says.

"Not necessarily 'the best' but pieces that would be the nicest together."

Fascinating, whimsical, and oh-soqueer, The Best of the Cabinet of Queeriosities is not to be missed.

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Parrot adoption The closure of Coombs, BC World Parrot Refuge is leaving hundreds of exotic birds without homes and raising the question of why we keep such intelligent animals captive in the first place.

At least 450 parrots are up for adoption following the death of refuge founder Wendy Huntbatch in February. According to her obituary and a Vancouver Sun article, Huntbatch spent the last 25 years of her life homing up to 800 abandoned birds at a time. She aspired to stop the importing of parrots into Canada and to educate people on why parrots should not be kept as pets. Now, the refuge is quickly running out of money and must find homes for its birds before its August 1 closure deadline.

It's daunting to imagine how the World Parrot Refuge will re-home so many animals; it's upsetting to imagine how so many animals arrived at the refuge in the first place.

The responsibility of owning parrots, like all other pets, shouldn't be taken lightly. Yet unlike other pets such as cats and dogs, parrots are extremely difficult to live with. They're noisy and destructive and are easily bored, social creatures—most birds are not happy to spend their lives secluded in a cage, and will self-mutilate and pluck out their own feathers due to stress. And with many parrots living to at least 75 years old, countless birds outlive their owners and end up in sanctuaries like the World Parrot Refuge.

It's nearly impossible for humans to provide parrots the dense social and intellectual needs they require to thrive, as we can fairly well for our other pets. But unfortunately, we cannot release captive birds into the wild, either. Our parrot problem, more or less, is here to stay.

If you or someone you know is up to the lifelong challenge of living with a bird, strongly consider adopting an abandoned bird instead of buying a bred one. It's our responsibility to take care of the animal pals we've pulled from their natural environments and into captivity—feathered or not.V UP FRONT 3

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FEATURE // BEERSPLOSION

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Alberta s craft beer explosion

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The province's industry is finally gaining critical mass

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ust three years ago, Alberta had less than a dozen breweries (including brewpubs). Most of them had been around for quite a long time, including Edmonton's Alley Kat and Yellowhead. They made good beer, had found a solid niche in the market and were quietly growing their customers. Tracking the craft beer scene has been a fairly easy task for most of the past decade—a couple of quick emails were enough to get caught up on all the news of the day.

A couple years ago, things started to shift. Over 2014 and 2015, another six breweries opened around the province, including Two Sergeants here in the capital region. It was encouraging, but the task of staying on top of the newcomers was still do-able.

In the last few months, however, things have gotten out of hand. In the first five months of 2016 alone, 10 new breweries have opened their doors. This list of newbies includes Situation Brewing off of Whyte Avenue and a small opera-

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tion in the north end called Bent Stick. (Watch Vue in coming weeks for more information on them.) Alberta now has 31 craft breweries— almost triple the number from only four years ago.

And that is merely the tip of the iceberg. The number of breweries currently under construction and being planned, combined with the rumours of other new ones, has meant it's impossible to keep a handle on everything. Every week, it seems like there's another new brewery getting ready to heat up the brew kettle. Swapping lists of soon-to-be-breweries with some industry contacts resulted in a list of 26 brewery operations in various stages of planning right now—and undoubtedly a few were missed.

In short, the job of keeping on top of brewery news in this province is becoming almost impossible. They pop up faster than you can track down their email addresses and Facebook pages.

The bigger story here is that Alberta may, finally, be hitting a point

of critical mass—the point where the craft beer movement takes a giant leap forward and craft becomes more than just a small niche. Petty problems of tracking aside, this is very good news.

Let's put this in perspective. Within the next 12 to 18 months, Alberta will double the number of breweries it has today; it will have jumped five-fold in a matter of five years.

What other business quintuples the number of entrants in just a few years?

Much of the activity is in Calgary at the moment, which has 12 breweries operating currently and another dozen slated to open. Edmonton has at least two more on the way (and likely more). What's really impressive is the geographic spread of the new breweries: three in Lethbridge, two each in Grande Prairie and Medicine Hat, and a host of other locations, including Didsbury, Three Hills, St. Paul, Pincher Creek, Lloydminster, Slave Lake and Turner Valley.

Can Alberta handle this kind of rapid growth in craft beer? Some of these new breweries will undoubtedly fail, as that is often the fate of a new small business. But failure will not be about over-saturating the market—there is ample room in Alberta's beer market for these new entrants. Rather, it will be the result of other factors like poor business practices and poor quality beer.

A couple things have happened that made this craft beer explosion possible. First, the provincial government has become much friendlier to local craft beer. In the dying days of the Tory government, they changed a series of rules that made it easier to open a new brewery, including eliminating minimum production capacity requirements that helped smaller-sized breweries get going. The new NDP government has shifted how the AGLC handles local producers. In the past, the AGLC had a laissez-faire, let-themarket-decide approach. The new government is a convert to the benefits of local beer production and is

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trying to create conditions amenable to small craft breweries in Alberta, including preferential mark-up rates and reducing administrative barriers to new brewery start-ups.

Second, it seems like Alberta is slowly catching up to what other regions figured out years ago. Locally produced craft beer both tastes good and helps build community.

Craft beer is a beneficiary of the growing local food movement. If you are going to go to the trouble of eating local, you might as well drink local as well. Plus, beer consumers' palates are evolving. Flavourful beer is gaining ground everywhere, and why should Alberta be an exception? Simply put, more people are interested in exploring craft beer.

Those tasked with tracking the industry's growth are about to have a job that's exponentially harder. But you, dear beer drinker, are going to reap all the benefits of this craft beer explosion.

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FEATURE // BEER

What's hot and what's not Tracking the current trends in the beer world

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hings evolve quickly in the beer world—just see this issue's cover story about Alberta craft beer explosion. Here's a quick rundown on some of the recent trends, advances and innovations in the beer world.

Gluten-free tastes good (now) The growing awareness about celiac disease and gluten intolerance has sparked an industry in gluten-free beer.

The first generation of GF beer—made with alternative grains like rice, millet and buckwheat instead of barley—tasted awful, to be frank. If it was your only alternative, I could appreciate drinking it, but the beer was substandard.

The latest generation, on the other hand, is starting to figure it out. Montréal brewery Brasseurs San Gluten has a line-up of alternative-grain beers called Glutenberg, which actually appeal to any beer drinker. Their hoppier options—the pale ale and India Pale Ale—are preferable as they mask some of the other less pleasant flavours, but there is no question they are heads above the other offerings. Consumers who are not strictly celiac also have a new option: beer made with barley but with the gluten removed. Look no farther than Alley Kat's Scona Gold

Kolsch, which not only meets the partsper-million standard for gluten-free, but also won Canadian Beer of the Year in 2015.

Kettle sour is sweet Sour beers have long been a niche product. Most people don't expect a lemonade-like tartness in their beer.

They have also been hard to make, meaning very few breweries do it seriously. However, a new trend is emerging that might just make sour beer the "in" thing: kettle sour, a fast version of the historic style. Traditional sour beer requires months of aging in oak barrels to develop the tart sharpness.

Kettle sour adds only 24 to 36 hours to the brewing process. Before boiling, the brewer will inoculate the wort with lactobacillus—usually a dose of live yogurt will do—and let it sit for a day or so. When desired tartness is reached, the wort is boiled and fermentation occurs as normal. The result is a light, citrusy tart beer. Kettle sours aren't as complex as traditional sours, but that might make them more accessible in the end. Lacombe's Blindman Brewing is making a regular thing of it, releasing a new version every few weeks.

Imperial out, session in For the last few years, bigger is better was the mantra among craft breweries. Everyone was upping the hop level, the alcohol level and the overall flavour level. Imperial versions of styles were popping up everywhere (copying the name of the high-alcohol imperial stout) and palates across the continent were getting exhausted. As these things happen, a counter-trend has emerged. You can still see lots of imperialized beer, but I am seeing increasing numbers of session-ized beer—a toned-down version of a style. It began with IPA, keeping the hop character but lowering everything else, and has spread to other styles, including pale ale and stout.

Can-do on the cans Craft beer in cans—no longer an oxymoron. Most of the new breweries who have opened up in the region in the last couple years are putting their beer in cans rather than bottles. There are arguments on both sides regarding its merits but, regardless, get used to crushing a can rather than downing a bottle.

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Bring on the bibimbab

Soy & Pepper joins the growing ranks of Edmonton's Korean eateries

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s we settled in for our first crack at Soy & Pepper, a selfanointed Modern Korean Eatery newly launched amidst the tight knot of name-brand restaurants just west of 109 Street on Jasper, one co-diner noted that she could easily remember when it seemed like Bulgogi House near Bonnie Doon was the totality of Korean food experiences to be had in Edmonton.

That's certainly not the case anymore. Along with Soy & Pepper, we've seen Nongbu, Seoul Fried Chicken and the frankly bizarre It' Dog crop up of late—and that's just in Old Strathcona.

Soy & Pepper joins the recently relocated Lee House as the closest Korean options to the north bank of the river (not counting food courts), and shares with it a more expected slate of standbys than those other newcomers: bulgogi, beef shortribs and bibim of both the bap and gook soo varieties, to name a few. A few items, like the rice cake-stuffed meatloaf and the bibimbap made with tuna and salmon sashimi, made a future visit seem appealing, depending on the experience at hand.

Though a bit anonymous from the outside owing to its ersatz retail hacienda setting, Soy & Pepper boasts a sleek, newly assembled dining room, a tastefully subdued array of dark wood veneers and stylishly austere furniture—some of which looks like it's intended to accommodate big group feeds. Even the menus are encased in wood panels franked with Soy & Pepper's epigrammatic visual identity.

It's not too early to say the service was friendly and gracious, because it was from the get-go, made more impressive yet because our server appeared to have front-end du-

ties all to herself on a not-unbusy night. She felt us out on our grasp of the menu, clued us in on popular dishes, took our order promptly and checked in frequently, all without seeming hurried.

There was a bit of a lull before the food came—it was, as stated, not a slow night—which would have been mitigated by a timelier arrival of banchan, the assortment of vegetable nibbles and sides that come along with the average Korean meal.

Then again, Soy & Pepper's banchan was a tad scanty: small dishes of kim chi, a few tablespoons of seasoned grated potato and some steamed rice.

The jaeyuk boggeum ($16) arrived first. The spicy sliced pork cooked with cabbage, carrots and onions and slathered in gochujang—a distinctly Korean sweet chili sauce— made a strong first impression with its lovely blend of textures and compelling mouth-heat. It seemed to me with this dish, and some of the other food, that the price portended a larger portion than was delivered, but we did end up slaked (and then some) by the end of the meal.

Dol sot bibimbab ($19) mixes various veggies (zucchini, spinach, sprouts, carrot) topped with a soft cooked egg over rice, served in a hot stone bowl and lavished with gochujang. We had paid a bit extra to have spicy pork thrown in there as well. The creamy egg yolk and tangy condiment coat everything while the stone bowl lightly crisps some of the rice. It's wonderful.

Japchae ($16), translucent glass noodles imbued with garlic, sesame, soy and pepper, tossed with shredded veggies, al dente mushrooms and slips of pork, was damned dif-

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Soy & Pepper 11212 Jasper Ave 780.426.0557 soyandpepper.ca ficult to get off the serving plate with a spoon and a pair of metal chopsticks, but was lubricious and succulent and ended up all over my place mat.

Everyone seemed surprised by how much they liked the eggy, crispy seafood pancake ($15), its wedges loaded with shrimp and green onions, its soya sauce dip placed in a receptacle that was tricky to dip a wedge into. This might have been my first taste of seafood pajeon that wasn't burnt on one side—don't ask me why everyone else burns it—so I was suitably impressed.

The fried chicken ($15) was lightly battered, almost tempura'd, and juicy without being greasy. We had failed to stipulate a flavouring, however, and found "original" a tad tame when we really wanted sweet, spicy, angry red chicken like all the other tables had. The menu said six pieces but the kitchen sent out eight to keep a fight from breaking out among the four of us. There was only one drumstick, however.

The resulting tension didn't diminish my co-diners' enthusiasm for the food, and each seemed to have a different favourite dish. I don't know if Soy & Pepper will eclipse other Korean eateries currently plying their trade around town, but it's a welcome arrival all the same and brings something unique to Jasper Ave's resto-mosaic.

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FEATURE // URBAN LEGENDS

Beer myths debunked Our beer expert weights in on some of the most common and current debates

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veryone loves a good conspiracy theory and they abound in the beer world. People love spreading rumours about secret ingredients in beer, its apparent health benefits and risks, when beer tastes best and so on. I find most people are fairly earnest in their belief in such claims and came about them sincerely. However, more often than not, the claim is incorrect. Read below for some of the most common beer myths.

Claim: Guinness has calf's blood A variety of urban legends about Guinness containing meat/blood/iron abound. I think they originate in the fact that in the 1800s (before we knew about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome) doctors would prescribe Guinness to pregnant women, supposedly for an iron supplement. The reality is that Guinness has only trace amounts of iron, no higher than any other beer. And it definitely has no blood or meat added.

Verdict: false!

Claim: Guinness has fish bladders Another Guinness conspiracy: supposedly the dastardly brewery adds fish bladder to their beer. Well, actually yeah: they use isinglass, which is produced from collagen-rich fish bladders, and is a common clarifying agent that has been used for centuries. Yeast and other suspended matter attach to it and drop to the bottom. No isinglass makes it through to the final product, although strict vegans may want to research who uses it and choose beers only made with non-animal-based agents.

Verdict: mostly false.

Claim: Sapporo is gluten-free Many people are sensitive to gluten

and barley contains a lot of it. In their understandable search for something they can drink, some people have latched onto the idea that Japan's Sapporo is gluten-free. While Sapporo does add rice as an adjunct, its primary ingredient remains barley.

Verdict: false!

Claim: Cans make give beer a metallic taste This is a favourite of the craft beer crowd, who proclaim beer tastes better in bottles and that canned beer develops a metallic flavour. The problem is that the beer never comes into contact with metal. Cans have a plastic lining to prevent any reaction with the aluminum. Now, BPA leaching is a whole other question I won't get into.

Verdict: false!

Claim: The big brewers add chemicals to their beer There is a proliferation of websites that proclaim commercial beer to have harmful chemicals and toxins, ranging from food colourings to preservatives to body enhancements. My favourite is the claim that some beer contain an ingredient in anti-freeze, propylene glycol. The problem is that no one knows for sure because breweries are not required to list their ingredients on the label—though I will confidently state that no brewery adds anti-freeze to their beer.

Food colouring and preservatives are not unheard of, although how dangerous they are is a point for debate.

Craft beer, on the other hand, contains none of these things. Just sayin.'

Verdict: partly true.

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DISH FEATURE // FOOD VIDEOS

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Eat Alberta's evolution

Championing Alberta food still at the heart of the group's mandate

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fter five years of delivering its annual hands-on, intensive day of food workshops, Eat Alberta is evolving into a new form. The nonprofit, volunteer-run organization has rebranded itself with a new logo and visual identity (designed by DDB Canada), accompanied by an expansion in its format: Eat Alberta is still going to be helping people cook with our province's food through an annual one-day conference (returning in spring 2017), but will now also include a series of small classes and events, and online videos.

"We're hoping to do six videos over the process of the next year, focusing on local producers but also on how to educate people on how to cook with local food," Meaghan Carey, one of Eat Alberta's board members, explains. "So that hands-on component that was so important and part of that founding mandate of Eat Alberta is still there."

The work on those films is being

spearheaded by two members of the Eat Alberta board (Charmaine Davidson and Nathan Beck) who have extensive videography experience.

Filming for the first video is happening at the beginning of July; it should be released by the end of August.

Carey can't give any hints about who or what will be featured in any of them yet, suffice to say that they will hold true to Eat Alberta's educational focus.

In addition to the video series, Eat Alberta is in the process of expanding its blog content. A couple months ago, they put out a call to the local community for recipe submissions, which will be featured online. Carey notes that they'll be supplementing those with other posts, such as a write-up she's doing on the organic master gardening program at the Stony Plain Multicultural Centre.

They hope to get a variety of contributors, including local chefs and

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food writers, to help deliver a regular stream of content that will help the organization remain engaged with the community throughout the year—as opposed to previously, when most of their activity clustered around the single-day conference.

"To us, [local food] is about those local ingredients," Carey says. "It's going to mean something different to different people, and that's OK. We want to make sure that we're being really engaging, and that it's comfortable—[for] people [who] want to get some new ideas or learn something new. We're becoming a hub for that."

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REVUE // THEATRE

Freewill Shakespeare Festival's excellent offerings highlight different aspects of love

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his year's Freewill Shakespeare Festival bills itself as the Summer of Love, but by pairing together a silly romp and a doomed tragedy we get to see more than just one season of romance. Love's Labour's Lost shows us the budding greenery of love, forcing its way up through frozen soil and blooming into full summer. Romeo and Juliet shows the ripe passionate fall of love and the onset of winter.

In Love's Labour's Lost, the King of Navarre (Nathan Cuckow) bids his three lords (Jesse Gervais, Neil Kuefler and Hunter Cardinal) swear off women for three years and devote themselves to intellectual study.

Their oath is immediately compromised by the arrival of the Princess of France (Kristi Hansen) whose three court ladies (Belinda Cornish, Mary Hulbert and Cayley Thomas) tease and torture the lords about their pledge of celibacy.

Continuing the long tradition of refracting Shakespeare through the lens of a modern historical era, director Jim Guedo commits to the

Summer of Love theme by framing his lords as a Beatles-esque 1960s boy band. Under the twang of sitar strings, the fab foursome risks splitting up their merry band to chase after some tempting Yokos.

"What fool is not so wise to lose an oath to win a paradise?" croons Kuefler in the show's most fabulous sequence, where each lord confesses his love in song (including an amazing "Yellow Submarine" tribute by Cardinal, the foursome's Ringo) whilst the others scurry around the stage trying not to be seen.

Megan Koshka's costume design supports and emboldens their heartsick crooning. Not only does she deck out the lovers with funky flowerchild fashion (think loud, colourful patterns and luridly yellow leis), she also colour-codes the four couples, making it easy for the audience to visually pair the lords and ladies and remember who's who in this sprawling seduction. Koshka also uses small details to convey information about the characters. In Romeo and Juliet, she

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puts Juliet (Thomas) in little white running shoes which call to mind the manic teenage energy of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and make her look years younger.

As a "civil war of wits," Love's Labour's Lost is at times more verbally dense than the average Shakespeare play. In addition to the flirtatious banter of the lords and ladies, a bunch of bawdy villagers also exchange elaborate repartee—"they have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps," says Moth (Billy Brown).

At the end of one scene, Holofernes (Robert Benz) chides the silent Dull (Troy O'Donell): "Thou hast spoken no word all this while." says Holofernes. "Nor understood none neither, sir." says Dull, drawing a big laugh in no small part because the audience is right there with him.

Fortunately, the Freewill Shakespeare Festival is rich with great physical actors like Jesse Gervais, who steals both shows as Berowne in LLL and Mercutio in R&J. Whether he's

leaping across the stage disguised as a Russian sailor or howling for Romeo through lungfuls of helium or barking indignantly at his boy band brothers or slinking around the set hitting on literally everyone else like a cat in heat, Gervais ignites every scene he's in with his loopy bravado.

Gervais' only possible rival for the show-stealing crown is Louise Lambert, who plays Juliet's Nurse like that kooky aunt you just can't get rid of, who has no self-awareness and a big husky giggle. She laughs at her own jokes and interrupts everyone and when she finally collides with Gervais' Mercutio we get the best scene in either of the shows, where Lambert's younger-than-average Nurse gets to be scandalized and interested at the same time, and Gervais milks every moment as he makes his way off stage.

As the star-crossed lovers of R&J, Thomas and Cardinal are an equally perfect coupling, injecting heaps of humour and giddiness into well-worn scenes that are usually played with

Until Sun, Jul 17 (8 pm; 2 pm weekend matinees) Love's Labour's Lost on odd dates and all weekend matinees, Romeo and Juliet on even dates Hawrelak Park, $20 – $30 ponderous seriousness. Their giggly innocent love is infectious, and for once Romeo and Juliet don't seem to have that painfully dull metaawareness that they're the Romeo and Juliet.

In the end, pairing these two plays highlights how different seasons of love come to us in different stages of our lives. Thomas and Cardinal are young, burning, impatient lovers, marrying the day after they first meet. Hansen and Cuckow and their courts are older, more mature, and agree to wait a year before marrying.

No matter if you're young and gay or old and grey, either one of these shows will make for an excellent date night in the park.

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REVUE // VISUAL ARTS

7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc

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haring visual stories is a theme that runs through all of the art exhibited in the Art Gallery of Alberta's exhibition 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc. The artwork dates from 1969 to 1980 and was specifically chosen for this exhibition to represent an important period of Indigenous art in Canada.

Even though the artwork was organized by Saskatchewan's MacKenzie Art Gallery to communicate specific messages about Indigenous art, the individual art pieces stand

on their own, communicating stories that viewers can learn from.

It's critical to consider the time period that affected the production of these works of art to understand the weight of their stories. In 1969, the Liberal Party of Canada wrote what became known as the White Paper, which proposed to assimilate Indigenous people into Canadian society.

Each of the artworks in the exhibition is a product of these political

tensions. Placing the time period in context with the artwork shows us how the works record the same indigenous culture and history that was under threat. In order to communicate the complex time period, the exhibition features quotes directly from the artists that describe the work you're looking at. In cultural institutions, we are typically given the title, date, and medium of artworks along with the artist's name. Providing the viewer with the artist's own words makes

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us feel like we have a deeper relationship to what we're looking at since the artist is able to share some of their thoughts with us.

For one of Norval Morrisseau's paintings, this quote is displayed on the wall: "My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, of language and of other forces that may be divisive." Looking at Morrisseau's work, we may not have the cultural background to understand the narrative constructed in

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his images. However, Morrisseau's words, along with all of the artworks in the gallery, show us that indigenous culture continues to be recognized, displayed, communicated and taught.

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DANCE CINEMA CAVA • Centre des arts visuels de l'Alberta, 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • cavalberta@gmail.com • galeriecava.com • Enjoy a repertoire of french movies. Schedule: Pina (Jul 6), La haine (Jul 13), Nous autres, les autres (Aug 3), Persepolis (Aug 10) • First two Wed each month

DANCING IN THE PARK • Lower part of the Legislative Grounds, near the South Bandshell, 10800-97 Ave • toygunstheatre.com • An interactive dance spectacular with live music, incredible dance performances, a swing dance lesson and dance party • Jul 16, 7pm • Admission by donation

FEATS FESTIVAL OF DANCE • Various venues

(lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

FILM CAPITOL THEATRE CINEMA SERIES • Fort Edmonton Park • Enjoy classic films on the big screen • Every Thu, 7:30pm • $10.50 (+taxes & fees) CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free • Schedule: Where to Invade Next (Jul 6), 99 Homes (Jul 13), Youth (Jul 20), Being Canadian (Jul 27)

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Museum, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum.ca/movies • All Singing! All Dancing!: summer film series featuring Funny Face (Jul 4), Three Smart Girls Grow Up (Jul 11), Springtime In The Rockies (Jul 18), The Merry Widow (Jul 25), You Were Never Lovelier (Aug 8), Can’t Help Singing (Aug 15), That Night In Rio (Aug 22), The Pajama Game (Aug 29) • $30 (membership for series), $3-$6 (one film, at the door)

Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Flow of Traffic Theory: artwork by Gary Dotto; Jun 2-Jul 2 • Parallel Topographies: artwork by Etty Yaniv; July 7-30; Opening reception: Jul 7, 6-9pm • Art Ventures: Batik Painting (Jul 16), 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: Recreate, Renew, Reuse (Jul 21), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Cold Wax Batik on Cloth (Jun 16); for 3-5 yrs; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7

ARTWALK • Perron District, downtown St Albert.

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta

throughout Edmonton • abdancealliance.ab.ca • A multi-disclipinary dance festival with a special focus on the Alberta dance community • Jun 27-Jul 10

Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Schedule: Jaws (Jul 8), Empire of the Sun (Jul 15), Jurassic Park (Jul 22), Bridge of Spies (Jul 29)

FLAMENCO DANCE CLASSES (BEGINNER OR ADVANCED) • Dance Code Studio, 10575-115 St

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109

NW #204 • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail. com • Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm

St • 780.425.9212 • The Metro will be closed for summer maintenance, Jun 27-Jul 7

NOVA BLUES- BLUES NIGHT • Shanti Yoga

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Studio, 10026-102 Ave • novablues.com • Move to the blues and connect with great music and an enthusiastic dance community • Jul 1, 9:15pm (intro lesson), 10pm (dance) • Guests must bring socks (shoes not permitted); No partner necessary

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RED AND WHITE BALLROOM DANCE PARTY

106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: #ABCRAFT: artists using digital technologies; Apr 2-Jul 2 • Feature Gallery: Crafting Conscience; Jul

• Central Lions Recreation Center, 11113-113 St • Jul 2, 7:45pm (door), 8pm-midnight (dance) • $15

SACRED CIRCLE DANCE • Riverdale Hall, 9231100 Ave • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music. No partner required • Every Wed, 7-9pm • $10 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2

30-Sep 18 • The Unvarnished Truth: Exploring the Material History of Painting; Apr 30-Sep 18 • Allora & Calzadilla: Echo to Artifact: artwork by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla; Jun 3-Aug 28 • Beauty’s Awakening: Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection; Jul 23-Nov 13 • JASON DE HAAN: Grey to Pink: Jul 23-Nov 13 • BMO Children’s Gallery: Touch Lab: Leave your Mark: Opens Jul 24 • Canada Day: Bring the whole family for art activities and a chance to view exciting exhibitions; Jul 1; Free • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm

Includes WARES (Hosting SAPVAC), Musée Héritage Museum, St Albert Library, Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA), Bookstore on Perron, VASA, Musée Héritage Museum, A Boutique Gallery Bar By Gracie Jane • artwalkstalbert.com • The art hits the streets again for its 15th year! Discover this art destination, a place to enjoy, view and buy art to suit all tastes and budgets.

See returning artists and new ones • Jun 2, Jul 7, Aug 4, Sep 1 (exhibits run all month)

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St

Broadmoor Blvd • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Alberta Wood Carvers Association; Jul 4-10

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-

9-Oct 1; Artist Reception: Jul 16, 2-4pm

• bugeramathesongallery.com • Atmosphere: artwork

by Allan Bailey; Jun 23-Jul 8

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava. com • Artwork by Father Douglas, Sabine LecorreMoore, Joanne Sauvageau and Sharon Lynn Williams; Jun 24-Jul 13

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St •

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • The Flood: artwork by Sean Caulfield; Feb 6-Aug 14 • 7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc; Mar 5-Jul 3 • Little Cree Women (Sisters, Secrets & Stories): artwork by Brittney Bear Hat & Richelle Bear Hat; Mar 5-Jul 3 • A Parallel Excavation: artwork

by Duane Linklater & Tanya Lukin Linklater; Apr

780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Other Spaces; Jun 27-Jul 2 • Gallery closed for renovations; Jul-Aug

FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.com • Summer Salon II: artwork by David Lachapelle, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Alfredo Jaar, Tacita Dean, Jackson Lowen and Fish Griwkowsky; Jun 23-Jul 14 GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/gallery-at-milner • 2nd Floor, by the Aboriginal Collection: Redress Photography Project; May 15-Jun 30 • Gallery: Edmonton Public Schools’ Junior High First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Teen Art Show; Jun 1-31 • Cases & Cubes: Monoprints and Monotype Prints by Raymond Theriault; Jun 1-31 • 2nd Floor: REdress Photography Project; until Jul 5 • Walls & Cases: The Works Art and Design Festival; Jun 23-Jul 5 HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Connect the Dots: 28th Annual Members’ Show; Jun 14-Jul 9 • Oh the Audacity! Naked Show; Jun 23-Jul 5 JAKE'S GALLERY • 10441-123 St • karen@ jakesframing.com • Brushstrokes: artwork by John Yardley-Jones and Spyder Yardley-Jones; Jun 6-30

JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

LATITUDE 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St NW • latitude53.org/patio • Patio Party: Members and guests are invited to relax, drinks in hand, on Latitude 53’s outdoor patio, while learning a bit more about contemporary visual culture; Every Thu until Aug 25, 5-9pm; $5 (suggested donation at the door)

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Lando Gallery June Group Selling Exhibition; until Jun 30

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Open: Fri-Sun • ACACA Alberta Wide Show: Jul 15-Aug 14; Reception: Jul 23, 7-9pm (artist in attendance)

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullengallery • Works from the Field: artwork by Dan Bagan; May 7-Jul 3 • Jes McCoy; Featuring interactive work, the exhibition examines the effect that the presence of communication and the way we communicate has on wellbeing; Jul 9-Sep 4 MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Western Horsemen: The West We Build; until Jul 29

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca •

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Satisfaction Guaranteed; Jun 28-Sep 11; Opening Reception (Mad Men theme): Jul 14, 6:30-8:30pm • Swingin' 60s Soiree: showcases vintage advertising; Jul 14, 6:30-8:30pm; Free ($2-$3 donations accepted)

MUTTART CONSERVATORY • 9626-96A St • info@sculptorsassociation.ca • sculptorsassociation. ca/exhibits/group-exhibits • Form 30: 3 Decades of the Sculptors' Association of Alberta; Jun 22-Aug 24 • $6.50-$12.50

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@thenina. ca • Celebration of Abilities; until Jul 5 PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: The Unfinished Symphony: paintings by Dave Thomas • Artisan Nook: The random artist: various creations by Shelly Banks • Both exhibitions run May 24-Jul 5

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • The Steamfitter's Guide: artwork by Robin Smith-Peck; Jun 23-Jul 12 • Hole-And-Corner: artwork by Kirsty Templeton Davidge; Jun 23-Jul 12 • Between Sleep and Wake: artwork by Nomi Stricker; Jun 23-Jul 12 PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Marlena Wyman: Illuminating the Diary of Alda Dale Randall; Feb 2-Aug 20 SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery. com • Open Works: artwork by Richard Tosczak; Jun 11-30

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print -Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • ExChanged: artwork by Carolyn Mount; Jun 23-Aug 6 • Ashes Over Water: artwork by Holly de moissac; Jun 23-Jul 30

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • The International Exhibition Of Sherlock Holmes; Mar 25-Sep 5 U OF A MUSEUMS GALLERIES AT ENTERPRISE SQUARE • Main floor, 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • China through the Lens of John Thomson (1868-1872): photos by John Thomson; Mar 18-Jul 31 • The Mactaggart Art Collection: Beyond the Lens: artwork by John Thomson; Mar 18-Jul 31 • Show Me Something I Don't Know: images, photographs and travelogues created by John Thomson; May 19-Jul 2 • My Heritage 2016 Exhibit: 78 competitive original fibre art entries; May until Aug • Walk & Talk - Exhibition Tour with John E. Vollmer; Jun 30, 12-1pm; Admission by donation

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@ hotmail.com

THEATRE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • The Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave (North Side of the ATB Financial Arts Barns) • grindstonetheatre.ca • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment that unveils scenes, songs and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Every Fri, starting Sep 25-Jun 25, 11pm • $15 (online, at the door) CHESS • Walterdale Theatre, 10322 - 83 Ave • 780.439.3058 • walterdaletheatre.com • At the height of the Cold War, two great chess masters – an American and a Russian – meet to battle for the world championship. Caught in the middle is one woman.

More than a game, more than a love story – it's the story where sacrificing pawns to win the game might just lose you the match • Jul 6-16 CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun

FREEWILL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL • Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park, 9330 Groat Road • 780.425.8086 • freewillshakespeare.com • Two Shakespeare plays in the park • Jun 21-Jul 17

HENRY & ALICE INTO THE WILD • Mayfield

VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • When times get tough, the tough go ... camping? One of your favourite married couples is back in this much anticipated, hilarious follow up to the smash hit Sexy Laundry. When Henry unexpectedly loses his job, he and Alice are thrown into a midlife crisis and are forced to reconsider their dreams for a comfortable retirement. In an attempt to make the sparks fly again (and keep costs down), they forego their usual summer cottage for a humble campsite and a copy of Camping for Dummies • Jun 17-Jul 31

visualartsalberta.com • Cattle Call; Jun-Aug

IMPROV OPEN JAM • Holy Trinity Anglican

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St

Church, 10037-84 Ave • grindstonetheatreyeg@ gmail.com • grindstonetheatre.ca/openjam.html • A space to share, swap games and ideas. For all levels • Last Tue every month until Jun 28, 7-9:30pm • Free

Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • 30 Shades of Round A Journey of Mixed Media Mosaics: artwork by Helen Rogers; Jun 28-Jul 22; Opening reception: Jul 7, 6-9pm

WALTERDALE THEATRE GALLERY • 10322-83 Ave • albertasocietyofartists.com • #BestYEG_Artists: artwork by Aniko Vida, Betty Dean, Holly Dyrland and many more; Jul 5-16 ; Opening reception: Jul 5, 7pm

WHYTE AVE ART WALK • Between 100 St and 108 St, Old Strathcona • art-walk.ca • An outdoor studio and gallery featuring hundreds of working artists • Jul 8-10 • 10am-5pm LITERARY 16TH ANNUAL STRATHCONA COUNTY GARDEN TOUR • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ca • Pack a hat and hop in the car for a day of fresh air and sunshine, on this self-guided tour that will take you to eleven of the most beautiful gardens in Sherwood Park and rural Strathcona County • Jul 10, 10am-5pm • $12

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Dana Liesegang "Falling Up" & Scarlett Lewis "Nurturing Healing Love" Reading & Signing; Jul 5, 7-8:30pm

THE CARROT’S POETRY NIGHT • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • share your work and enjoy a night out with an encouraging crowd • Jun 30, 7:30-9pm • Free EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Mercury Room,10575-114 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • facebook.com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner NAKED GIRLS READING • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St NW • 780.691.1691 • There will be different themes each month. For the month of July, the theme will be Travel Adventures • Every 2nd Tue of month, 8:30-10:30pm • $20 (door); $15 is the summer special at the door; 18+ only

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MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a high-stakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door)

PARADE • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • operanuova.ca • Sung in English.

In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of 13 year old Mary Phagan. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitors’s false testimony seal Leo’s fate • Jul 2-3, 7:30pm

ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • edmonton.jubilations.ca • The 1950s brought many things, but perhaps one of the best was rock ‘n’ roll music. Tonight, take a look at a fun pastime from those days: the dance marathon. Join couples as they dance away the night to great music from stars like Fats Domino, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bill Hailey, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and many more • Until Aug 21 • Adult: $67.95 (Wed, Thu, Sun), $77.95 (Fri, Sat); Senior/student: $47.25 (Wed, Thu, Sun) THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • teatroq.com • Longtime Varscona leading lady Stephanie Wolfe stars in this one-woman tour de force, originally created for Lily Tomlin.

Directed by Dave Horak • Jun 23-Jul 2

SOCIAL SCENE • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • grindstonetheatreyeg@gmail.com • grindstonetheatre.ca/scenestudy.html • Fellow theatre lovers share excerpts of plays that they have been reading • First Mon of every month, 6-8pm; until Jun 6 • Free THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

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POP

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The rise of the Baroness

Baroness Von Sketch Show offers up sharp, observational, all-female sketch comedy Tuesdays (9:30 pm) Baroness Von Sketch Show CBC

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woman swipes her gym membership card.

Unexpected, celebratory sounds ring out of the machine—it's her birthday. "It didn't do that last year," she manages, but the receptionist gives her a knowing nod—"last year you weren't 40"— and leads her to a section of the change room that's flush with nudity and similarly-aged women with a decided lack of concern about decorum. "Welcome to your 40s, Kelsey," she's told. "Welcome to not giving a shit at the gym."

The sketch—"Locker Room Birthday"—was the first one that Baroness Von Sketch Show offered up into the world ahead of the CBC comedy's shows premiere earlier this month. It offered both a calling card of its sensibility—wry, contemporary, sharp—but also, for its creators, an early sense of reaction.

"When we were putting it out on our Facebook, sharing it with all our friends, we had to take a deep breath," Aurora Browne, one of the show's four creators, says. "'The last couple years online have not been

the greatest for women: there's tons of trolls, there's gamergate— what are people going to say about our bodies, and how old we are? Is it trivial, what we're talking about?— that kinda stuff.

"But I don't even know if there was anything," she continues. "I think one person thought we were being inappropriate online, but everybody else was just so into the humour of the sketch that they didn't talk about us, or how we looked, or any of the things we expected. We've been really troll-free so far."

As it should be: Baroness Von Sketch Show looks to be some of the sharpest televised sketch comedy the country has offered up in years. Another sketch documents the anything-goes rules of being "at the cottage" (if you have family in Ontario, this rings particularly true); another extols the virtues of dry shampoo to an absurd extreme. Observational in tone, It's created, performed and produced by four top comic talents, all women: Browne, Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen. They all had various histories together before Baroness—Browne had performed at Second City with Taylor, who wrote with McNeill on This Hour Has 22 Minutes. It was while working together there that that pair

conceived the idea of an all-female sketch show, and brought the others onboard.

"Meredith had just come from the UK, where there actually is all-female sketch on television," Browne recalls. "Certainly there are all-female sketch troupes here in Canada, but it hadn't been on television in the same way."

After deciding on some key ideas— sketches shot on location rather than in studio, no laugh track—they found Frantic Films, a company that understood that vision, produced a demo reel of ideas and fired it off to the CBC. "I think they called us back within a day," Browne notes. "They didn't follow any of the dating rules, where you're supposed to look really standoff-ish. They were right in with us."

truth of a situation? Is there something funny to be taken out of that?

"So we're always trying to be very rigorous, be very honest with ourselves, about what makes a person awful, or what makes a situation bi-

From there, the process seemed to streamline: the official green-light came at the beginning of last year, and now the show premiered in early June.

"The first thing we always start with each sketch, is what's the truth of it?" Browne explains, of the show's voice. "We wanted to make a relatable comedy that people could look at and really recognize themselves. So that always starts with us looking at our own lives: what is the

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zarre," she continues. "Part of that is also speaking from our own experience, and not being off-hand, or cavalier. If we're going to write about it, we've at least really thought about it."

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fter twice leaving his GPS (Gross-Prediction System) behind and making left-turns into a blind alley or dead end—Shakespeare-Truther flick Anonymous (box-office gross: $15-million), Stonewall ($187 674)— Roland Emmerich returns to his profit-taking, careermaking expressway, littered with annihilation-smut and disaster-porn with Independence Day: Resurgence.

It seeks to join Emmerich's Independence Day ($817-million), Godzilla ($379-million), The Day After Tomorrow ($544-million), 2012 ($769-million) and White House Down ($205-million). It's tough to lose money, it seems, betting on people's appetite for big-screen destruction.

And now, two decades on from the original Independence Day, those exterminating ETs return to power-

slam and pile-drive the planet into submission. Traditionally, china is the twentieth-anniversary gift, but here Emmerich and company just clumsily pander to China’s movie-market with two characters as cursorily, coincidentally introduced as everyone else.

Fighter pilot Rain Lao (Angelababy) happens to be the niece of Commander Jiang (Chin Han), overseeing Earth Space Defense's lunar base. As scientists David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) and Catherine Marceaux (Charlotte Gainsbourg) try to decipher alien symbols, a wormhole opens up and a strange object appears; soon after, the mother of all motherships is bearing down on Earth, ready to smash the Happy 20th party. Alongside Rain, Dylan Hiller (Jessie Usher) and Jake Morrison (Liam Hemsworth)—whose girlfriend, ex-pilot Patricia (Maika

Monroe), happens to be the daughter of ex-President Thomas Whitmore (Bill Pullman)—lead the ESD squadron into battle while trading secondrate Top Gun banter and bravado. But the final showdown comes on a salt flat near Nevada’s Area 51.

A B-movie wholly operating on an A-1 budget and utterly wasting its precious few A-list actors, Independence Day: Resurgence offers scant humorous self-awareness, scarcely any enjoyable schlock, and scads of dumbness it wants us to take seriously. Included in this list is a spaceship 3000-miles-wide obliterating much of the planet but curiously unwilling to destroy all Homo sapiens, as well as lines like "The mantle's core is safe!" There's also invaders resembling third-rate ripoffs of the Alien series' creatures, and money-

shot after money-shot of noblemilitary-sacrifice porn ("We'll keep fighting 'til our last breath—that's going to lead us to victory"). "I'm so sorry" becomes the knee-jerk refrain after yet another uncle or mother or President has been killed off—before we ever really knew them—and then it's back to ignoring the millions dead, swearing in a new POTUS, and kicking "alien ass."

But the biggest, baddest problem with ID:R is its flatness. Remember that salt flat? The drama here's more arid; the story's more desiccated.

Whooshing and skimming along its script's surface (by Emmerich and four other writers), from the White House to somewhere-in-Africa to the moon and across the planet as it's half-razed and out to an ocean rig and

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then to the Cheyenne Mountain Complex and on to Nevada ... breathlessly, senselessly, on and on this movie skitters and jitters, offering no build-ups, no high-points, even scene-switching perfunctorily just to connect plotdots. Amid all the pans of mass destruction, brief zoom-ins on personal tragedies, and corny moments (a schoolbus full of kids gets to see the alien-queen up-close!), Emmerich and company can't actually devise a single moment of original, dramatic sci-fi action for us to enjoy.

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f most Hollywood movies nowadays offer digital effects as the big BOOM! for your buck, the golden age of the silver screen offered song-and-dance. With the rise of sound-films, Tinseltown could go big-Broadway in movie theatres— soon, there was so much crooning, warbling and hip-shaking that the musical had its own subgenres: the

musical Western (1939 – '69), "America's Mermaid" Esther Williams' aquamusicals (1944 – '55), even beachparty movies (1963 – '68).

"All Singing! All Dancing!," the Edmonton Film Society's summer series, kicks off with Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn's Funny Face (1957; July 4), a rom-com musical amid a fashion magazine's photo-shoot,

featuring songs from the Gershwin brothers. Then sisterhood meets song in Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939; July 11), starring Deanna Durbin, Nan Grey and Helen Parrish as Penny, Joan and Kay Craig.

Illusion and misdirection—nonCGI, of course—were crucial to these musicals, too. Betty Grable and Carmen Miranda's Springtime

in the Rockies (1942; July 18), shot in Technicolor and largely set at Lake Louise, was in fact filmed on Stage 16 at 20th Century Fox Studios (Alberta only appears for some necessary background shots).

Seduction story The Merry Widow (1952; July 25), adapting Franz Lehár's operetta, stars Lana Turner as the title character, but her singing voice was dubbed by Trudy Erwin. Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth's You Were Never Lovelier (1942; Aug 8), where an American dancer falls for an Argentine heiress (Hayworth's singing voice was dubbed by Nan Wynn), wasn't actually shot in Buenos Aires, though it reportedly had a 15-year-old Fidel Castro as an extra.

The musical Western Can't Help Singing (1944; Aug 15) stars Durbin, as a senator's daughter following her beau out to California during

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the Gold Rush, in her only Technicolor production. Don Ameche, Alice Faye, and Miranda's musicalcomedy That Night in Rio (1941; Aug 22) sees an entertainer hired to impersonate a businessman-aristocrat, but heartstrings are soon criss-crossed. And the series says good night with The Pajama Game (1957; Aug 29), adapting the Broadway musical—based on Richard Bissell's book 7½ Cents—and starring Doris Day alongside much of the original NYC cast.

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Minervini's latest film, now available from Cinema Guild on iTunes, begins with men wearing camouflage and carrying rifles, creeping or crouching in a wood. They'll ambush the narrative a bit later—or perhaps the narrative will ambush them. The central protagonist of The Other Side (2015) inhabits the same Louisiana community as these mysterious figures spied in the film's eerie opening moments, but hasn't the time, means or disposition to join in their training games. Mark (Mark Kelley) first appears waking naked in the scrub alongside a country road. Mark will come to interact with his sister and her nephew, to whom he's a kind of criminal mentor, as well as his girlfriend Lisa (Lisa Allen), and his mother, who is terminally ill, and we come to understand that Mark is an ex-con and a drug dealer, though he occasionally picks up day-labour. We see him in peeler bars and gloomy rooms where he smokes crack, makes love or speaks of his struggle to keep it together.

Mark is roughly charismatic and ar-

restingly sympathetic, never more so than when he's with Lisa, who in their first scene together declares that she wishes she could take all his pain away. Mark is also anxious and full of rage, some of it racially charged. It's Mark's sense of alienation from the governing powers, his stark disenfranchisement, which forms his only direct link to backwoods militia who will dominate the tail end of The Other Side.

Minervini was born in Italy, educated at New York's New School and lived in the Philippines before settling in Texas, where he directed three features before moving one state over to make The Other Side.

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The Other Side was made before Trump entered the picture, and it is fascinating to hear some of its subjects—all of them older white men—profess their faith in Hillary Clinton as the ideal next president.

But as Minervini takes us deeper into Louisiana's heavily armed militia culture, an almost palpable air of isolationism and paranoia comes to the fore, and you know these guys, like the NRA, will become fervent Trump supporters, because their bottom line is protecting their right to bear arms, ostensibly in order to protect themselves and their brethren. They do not see themselves as aligned with the broader spectrum of American life. And, in their defense, they don't necessarily have reason to. If you want to get a sense of that broader spectrum—and of some of the most exciting, unnerving filmmaking being done in the United States—see The Other Side. And come to understand just how apt its title is. V

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All in stride

Counterfeit Jeans face down high expectations with good humour

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here's often an inherent sense of pressure pinned to a band's sophomore release, depending on how successful its predecessor was.

But local rock act Counterfeit Jeans is feeling a similar sort of pressure with its debut self-titled LP this weekend.

The story goes that when Counterfeit Jeans released its first batch of rough-around-the-edges demos on Bandcamp in 2015, they weren't intended to be any sort of official debut. But it wasn't long before the songs gained traction, and the four demos were eventually released on tape to serve as an EP of sorts for the trio. Gigs and festival appearances—including a spot at the beloved Sled Island—followed, and the band, which formed in 2014, now finds itself in a position where a captive audience awaits its debut full-length.

"It wasn't anything we were expect-

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ing, or even necessarily aiming for," Tyler Bedford says over pints at The Buckingham, his bandmates Jed Gauthier and Spencer Heykants nodding in agreement. "We just kind of wanted to get together, make some music, have some fun and put it out there. For one reason or another people seemed to like it, and here we are two years later."

The band took a similarly casual approach when it came time to record its forthcoming LP, which is also Counterfeit Jeans' first release on local indie label Sometimes Music. In keeping with the trio's original DIY ethos, the songs were again recorded by Gauthier in its jam space—but he admits that came with its challenges.

"I would say, honestly, the recording of this album was a lot more painful," he says with a laugh. "I think recording the first four demos, it

definitely sounds a lot more lo-fi.

You can tell not as much attention was put into the mixing … whereas this one I felt like, because we were spending all this money and doing it on vinyl, we put a lot more work into it. I was losing a lot of sleep trying to make it sound good. My computer kept fucking up. I think one of the songs I had to record the guitar tracks 30 times, because everything kept screwing up."

The guys pulled through, despite the technological difficulties, and are able to joke about the whole ordeal now that it's behind them. It was a learning experience, if nothing else, and the end result is one all three band members are satisfied with.

"I think we just kind of doubled down on what we were doing before, you know?" Gauthier says of the band's songwriting process. "I think the band chemistry has grown a lot

stronger. Every song we write, we write in the jam space with the three of us together. … We just come up with a riff and then over the course of three or four hours, we'll hash it all out.

"And record it instantly," Heykants adds. "At the end of the night we always record it so we don't forget it."

And while there may be some expectations riding on this record, the guys are taking it all in stride. Not ones to take themselves too seriously—jokes fire readily throughout the conversation with the guys, and the band's name is a Simpsons reference—Counterfeit Jeans aimed to ride the wave of support that's come from the Western Canada music community and continue honing its characteristic style of catchy, inyour-face indie rock.

"We've become better musicians," Bedford says. "We've learned to play

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with each other a lot better—not that we ever had a problem—but our chemistry, and honestly our friendship, is really tight. I think that's really showed now. When we play, we have fun. We don't take it too seriously. I don't think we ever will."

"We do in our jams, though," Heykants points out.

"We've done this together, and we've just improved as a unit," Bedford continues. "To me, the band is really like a second job, a second family. We all deal with each other's issues and things that may be in the way, and we're all understanding.

That's what I mean by not too seriously. … Not to be too cheesy, but we're there for each other outside of the band. We've developed that sort of relationship, and I think that has made our music even better."

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fter almost a decade-long disappearance, Westfalia is back—and no, we're not talking about those expanding camper vans. Rather, Westfalia is the electronic outfit of Edmonton's Matthew Belton. He's started his own record label, and has an upcoming debut album release, Why Aren't the People Futuristic.

"I definitely missed it," Belton reflects, sitting in the Vue Weekly office. "It was a big part of my life that I realized now that caused a lot of unhappiness [then], but I'm very glad to be back."

Experiencing some personal setbacks during his initial four-year run — Belton entered the musical landscape with Westfalia in 2004 and ended in 2008 — Belton decided to take some time away. He admits he didn't think Westfalia would have made a comeback.

"There were plenty of times where I thought I was done for good, which

really bummed me out," he recalls.

"I had tried other things to fill my time, but I didn't stick with them — little hobbies, that I don't really want to mention.

"I was working on a project and tried to send out demos to record labels and blogs and was getting told rejection and that was really disheartening, I found. That made it difficult to keep going. I was at a rough spot at the time, so any sort of negative feelings were blown out of proportion."

Despite that hurdle, Belton continued to make music privately, which eventually went on to shape the eight instrumental pop-techno tracks on Why Aren't the People Futuristic.

The debut, which is being released as a cassette tape, will come out July 1 under Mangled Tapes, Belton's new record label.

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laugh. "It was actually my wife's suggestion when I was dealing with a particularly rough rejection [from a record label]. A few months later, the idea fermented in my mind and I started [Mangled Tapes]."

Initially, Belton was going to use his record label solely for his own music, but soon expanded to include local artists such as Robert Mallett, Air Force One, Joel Rich and Tempo Topaz, who had all stopped making music as well.

"I didn't want this to be the Matthew show, I wanted other people involved.

So, I reached out to these artists who I respect immensely to be part of the label," he says. "I reached out to them and I was able to pull them out of retirement, which I'm really proud of!"

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DRUID IRISH PUB Live

DJs; Every Fri, 9pm EL CORTEZ TEQUILA BAR AND KITCHEN Kys the

Sky; First Fri of every month, 9pm EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

Jake Buckley (blues/ country/folk); 9pm

Flashback Friday; Every Fri

FESTIVAL PLACE 2016 Qualico Patio Series presents Time Warp & Opera Nuova; 7:309:30pm; $8

MERCER TAVERN

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy

Fuqn’ Fridays LB'S PUB The Prairie Cats

Band (blues); 9pm; No minors NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Canada Day! Featuring Mitchmatic with Physical Copies and Royal Tusk and more; 2pm; No cover NEW WEST HOTEL Ghost

Rider; 9pm O'BYRNE'S IRISH PUB

Edmonton's best solo musicians OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE

Kate Blechinger Both Sides Now Quintet; 6:307:30pm • Amanda Tosoff “Words” Project; 8pm & 9:30pm • Mike Rud; 11pm • All events are part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

Movement Fridays; 8pm NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Time Warp Late Night Throwback Dance Party with DJs Joses Martin & Thomas Culture VJ Owen; Every Fri, 11:30pm; $5 (door) THE PROVINCIAL PUB

Friday Nights: Video Music DJ; 9pm-2am SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

Artzy Flowz: featuring DJs and artists teaming up; 9pm VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB

Electric Fridays; Every Fri, 9pm; No minors Y AFTERHOURS Freedom

Fridays

SAT JUL 2 APEX CASINO Two Bad Apples (pop/rock); 9pm; No cover

RENDEZVOUS PUB

And The Ohno Band (blues/folk/jazz) with Lauren Joseph; 8pm; $10 (door) or pay what you can

(rock); 9pm

(rock/pop/indie); 9pm; No minors LEAF BAR AND GRILL Live

music; 9:30pm MERCURY ROOM Among

the Shattered (metal) with These Colors Don't Run and Stranger Danger along with Between Now And Then; 8pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door) MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local

Bands every Sat; this week: Late Night Scene NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

A Tribute to Joe Cocker, The Mad Dogs Experience with Celeigh Cardinal and Jay Gilday Band; 9pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Early:

Saturday Country Jam (country); Every Sat, 3pm • Later : Ghost Rider; 9pm OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE Hey! Listen!;

ON THE ROCKS Live music;

THE AVIARY Brad Bucknell

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Dwayne Allen

3-7pm LB'S PUB The Red Hotz

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL

9pm

Kirby Sewell Band (blues); 9pm; $15

GAS PUMP Saturday Jam;

ARCADIA BAR Constant Promise, Carly Reirson, La Canadienne; 8pm; $7

Duff Robison; 9pm

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE The

Machi with guests Dual Nature; 4pm; No cover

6:30-7:30pm • Djabe; 8pm & 9:30pm • Sandro Dominelli Trio; 11pm • All events are part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

ON THE ROCKS Live music;

NewSchooled, Poison Corn, Unban Jace; 8pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S I Am

BIG MILLER PARK Jazz

in the Park; 9am-4pm; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

9pm RENDEZVOUS PUB

King Ring Nancy, The Maension, Artifcial Lift, Temporalysis; 8pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Saturday Electric Blues Jam with Rotten Dan and Sean Stephens (blues); Every Sat, 2-6pm; No minors

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Dwayne Allen

(rock); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Adam Holm (folk/

pop); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Mike "The Party Hog" (blues/rock); 9pm SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder

Sparks K-DJ Show; 9pm-1am

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

Psyturdays: various DJs; 9pm SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

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

Mikey Wong and his lineup of guest DJs

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

YARDBIRD SUITE Oliver

Y AFTERHOURS Release

TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE

Jones Trio; 3-4pm, 8pm & 9:30pm; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

Classical ST JOSEPH'S BASILICA

Petite Messe Solennelle; 7:30pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace

Sessions with Miss Mannered featuring Alt. Rock/Electro/Trash; Wooftop: Sound It Up! with DJ Sonny Grimezz spinning classic Hip-Hop and Reggae; Underdog: Hip Hop open Mic followed by DJ Marack THE BOWER For Those

Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down

It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with Wright & Wong, Dane DRUID IRISH PUB Live DJs

every Sat; 9pm EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN & TEQUILA BAR

Tonight We Dance with DJ Thomas Culture playing Classics, Hip-Hop, Dance and Indie Rock; Every Sat, 9pm; No cover EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE Rotating

DJs Velix and Suco; every Sat MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

Wong every Sat THE PROVINCIAL PUB

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

Saturdays

SUN JUL 3 BLUE CHAIR CAFÈ Jazz

Brunch; 9am-2:30pm; By donation BLUES ON WHYTE Block

Party; 10am • Later: Hector Anchondo; 9pm CHURCHILL SQUARE John

Sweenie 4Tet; 12-2pm; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival DANCE CODE STUDIO

Flamenco Guitar Classes; Every Sun, 11:30am12:30pm

All ages YARDBIRD SUITE

Edmonton Jazz Collective Plays Charlie Austin; 2pm; Part of the Edmonton International Jazz Festival

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays

with DJ Zyppy ~ A fantastic voyage through 60’s and 70’s funk, soul & R&B; Every Sun

MON JUL 4 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop: Metal Mondays

with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox BLUES ON WHYTE The

Steadies; 9pm FIDDLER'S ROOST Open

Stage; 7-11pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S Classic

Rock Monday NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Happy Hour featuring Magnet and the Magnettes; 5:30pm NEW WEST HOTEL

Rodeowind; 9pm

DIVERSION LOUNGE

ON THE ROCKS Killer

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

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild

Karaoke Monday

Three nights of music, workshops, performances, live art, conferences, food, markets and so much more; Runs Jun 30-Jul 3

Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Association: Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

RED PIANO BAR Swingin'

DRIFTPILE Astral Harvest;

Sacrilege Sundays: All metal all day NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Second Line Sundays Rooster Davis Group; 9pm; $5 (door) O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Live music;

9pm RICHARD'S PUB Mark

Ammar's Sunday Sessions Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm SANDS INN & SUITES Open

Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Sunday BBQ Jam Every Sunday hosted by the Marshall Lawrence Band (variety); Every Sun, 5pm;

BLUES ON WHYTE Jenie

Thai; 9pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

DRUID IRISH PUB Karaoke

Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every TueFri, 5-8pm

Wednesdays

Jam Circle; 7:3011:30pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Mother

FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle

Bingo! Tuesdays

Cluckin’ Wednesdays

GAS PUMP Karaoke;

GAS PUMP Karaoke;

9:30pm KELLY'S PUB Open Stage:

featuring host Naomi Carmack and guest; 9pm; No cover

Rodeowind; 9pm

Rodeowind; 9pm O’BYRNE’S Guinness Celtic jam every Tue; 9:30pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

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

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Eddie

Lunchpail spins alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic & euro; Every Tue ON THE ROCKS Turn't Up

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Monday Jam with $4 Bill; Every Mon, 8-11pm

WED JUL 6

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s

Messy Nest with DJ Blue Jay - mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic

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

TUE JUL 5

Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHVRCH OF JOHN 10260-103 St, 780.884.8994, thechvrchofjohn. com COMMON 9910-109 St CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta, music.ualberta.ca DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall. com DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EL CORTEZ 10322-83 Ave NW, elcortezcantina.com EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE 10220-103 St NW, 780.

424.0077, yourgaybar.com FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82

Ave, 780.916.1557 HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW, 780.433.5530, holytrinity.ab.ca HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage.com HUMMINGBIRD BISTRO CAFE 8336-160 Ave, 780.401.3313, hummingbirdbistro.ca IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St NW, 780.451.8825, kellyspubedmonton.com L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LIZARD LOUNGE 11827 St. Albert Tr, 780.451.9180, facebook.com/ The-Lizard-Lounge MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, mcdougallunited.com MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524 Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca

JUL/21 JUL/22

NEW WEST HOTEL

BLUES ON WHYTE JK & the

Static; 9pm BOURBON ROOM Acoustic

singer songwriter jam; Every Wed, 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

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

NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PALACE CASINO 8882-170 St NW, 780.444.2112, palacecasino. com PINT–DOWNTOWN 10125-109 St NW PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St, 780.431.0091, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124

JUL/29-30

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

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

AUG/5

BOB MOSES

BLUEPRINT ALBERTA + PEEP THIS + STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

MULEFEST 2016 CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

MISERY SIGNALS W/ DRIVE BY PUNCH, PROCESS, NECK OF THE WOODS, SPARROWS

THE PROVINCIAL PUB

AUG/16

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

FOUR YEAR STRONG W/ SAFE TO SAY, LIKE PACIFIC, NORELL

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Wailin' Wednesday Jam with Hosts Wang Dang Doodle (variety); Every Wed, 7:30-11:30pm; All ages

SEP/4

MRG CONCERTS, FOURCE ENTERTAINMENT & MODIFIED GHOST PRESENT

DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT

W/ FALLUJAH & GUESTS

Karaoke; 9pm

SEP/10

TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY Live music

Wednesday's; Every Wed

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION W/ PUGNACIOUS, ETOWN BEATDOWN, SLUMLORD, CORVUS THE CROW, TYRANT

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

SEP/17

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

TIMBRE CONCERTS AND STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

JUNIOR BOYS W/ EGYPTRIXX, BORYS

Main Floor: DJ Kevin

Martin; Every Wed

SEP/23

PINT DOWNTOWN Wild

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

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BLUEPRINT ALBERTA + PEEP THIS + STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

W/ NORMA JEAN, FALL CITY FALL, DUSTY TUCKER & MORE

Karaoke Wednesday

St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch. com STUDIO 96 10909-96 St NW SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY 17118-90 Ave TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW, 780.433.1604, trinity-lutheran. ab.ca TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE 10324-82 Whyte Ave UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB 10746 Jasper Ave, 780.951.2705 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr

NE OBLIVISCARIS W/ HARRISON BROME

TAVERN ON WHYTE

THE ALMANAC Three Corners with Strange Society & SHAG; 7pm (doors); $11 (adv), $15 (door)

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

W/ BLACK CROWN INITIATE, STARKILL

Happy Hour featuring The Whiskey Jerks; 5:30pm

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

W/ TAIKI NULIGHT & THE UPBEATS

Karaoke Kraziness with host Ryan Kasteel; 8pm-2am

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

NEW WEST HOTEL

WARM UP YEG

9:30pm

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Happy Hour featuring Smokey; 5:30pm • Big Dreamer Jam featuring Olivia Street; 8pm

JUL/15 SHAMBHALA

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge

Tuesday

by Adam Holm; Every Mon

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm FESTIVAL PLACE 2016 Qualico Patio Series presents Rugged Little Thing & Jez Hellard & The Djukella Orchestra; 7:309:30pm; $8

Mondays; 8-11pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Open Mic Night hosted

creations • Every TueFri, 5-8pm

THE STARLITE ROOM PRESENTS

MILLENCOLIN W/ SUCH GOLD

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JUN 30 – JUL 6, 2016

JUL/7

CROWN OF VISERYS PRESENTS

NOIRE

W/ KÖRPERLOSE STIMME, WITH MALICE

JUL/15

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

ISOTOPES W/ THE REAL SICKIES

JUL/16

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

SEAWAY

W/ COLDFRONT, RARITY, CALLING ALL CAPTAINS, MOST OF AUGUST

JUL/21 CARAVAN OF CREEPS SIDESHOW AND BURLESQUE

MUSIC 17

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

COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • 10425-82 Ave • Underdog Comedy Show • Every Thu Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Bob Angeli; Jul 1-2 • Sean Baptiste; Jul 8-9

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Monroe Martin; Jun 29-Jul 3 • Paul Morrissey; Jul 6-10

Connie's Comedy hosts The Dating Game • On The Rocks • With Marko Slaney and The Nervous Flirts • Jul 10, 8 pm

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

recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

LECTURES/Presentations

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

Lightsaber Training • Sir Winston Churchill Square • Celebrating all things Star Wars. Featuring lightsaber training for the young and young at heart. Guests must bring their own lightsabers (makeshift lightsabers are welcome) • Every Wed during the summer; 7-7:45pm for young padawans, 7-8:30pm for mature padawans • Free

Lotus Qigong • SAGE downtown 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.695.4588 • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every Fri, 2-3:30pm • Free Monday Mingle • Hexagon Board Game Cafe, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Meet new gamers. Go to the event solo or with a group • Every Mon, 5-11pm • $5 (one drink per person)

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

Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy

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

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

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

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

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey

Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free

Back Rooms and Open Doors • Rutherford House provincial Historic Site, 11153 Saskatchewan Drive • 780.427.3995 • rutherford.House@gov.ab.ca • historicedmonton.ca/events/back-rooms-and-open-doors/ • Discover the stories of some of the exceptional women whose everyday experiences were part of the conversation around the suffragette movement and beyond • Jul 4-10, 1:30-4pm • Regular admission

Pride Centre of Edmonton •

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

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

Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Drop in hours: Mon, Wed 4-7pm; Fri 6-9pm; Closed Sat-Sun and Holidays • JamOUT: Music mentorship and instruction for youth aged 12-24; Every other Tue, 7-9pm • Equal Fierce Fit & Fabulous: recreational fitness program, ages 12-24; every other Tue, 6-8pm, every other Tue • Queer Lens: weekly education and discussion group open to everyone; every Wed, 7-8:30pm • Mindfulness Meditation: open to everyone; every Thu, 6-6:50pm • Men's Social Circle: A social support group for all male-identified persons over 18 years of age in the LGBT*Q community; 1st and 3rd Thu each month; 7-9pm • TTIQ (18+ Trans* Group): 2nd Mon of the month, 7-9pm • Art & Identity: exploring identity through the arts, a wellness initiative; Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Edmonton Illusions: cross-dressing and transgender group 18+; 2nd Fri of each month, 7-9pm • Movies & Games Night: Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Thought OUT: Altview’s all-ages discussion group; every Sat, 7-9pm • Seahorse Support Circle: facilitated meet up for families with trans and gender creative kids aged 5-14; 2nd Sun of the month, 3-5pm • Men Talking with Pride: Social discussion group for gay and bisexual men; Every Sun, 7-9pm

Toastmasters

Drop-In D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café,

• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus

St Paul's United Church • 11526-76

Groove every Wed; 9pm

Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm

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

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

DeepSoul.ca • 780.217.2464; call or text

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

Edmonton Needlecraft Guild • Avonmore United Church Bsmt, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue ea month, 7:30pm

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@ edmontonoutdoorclub.com

FARRM Group Volunteer • FARRM • moniquevvoa@outlook.com (for directions and carpooling info) • vofa.ca • A volunteer outing to FARRM, an animal rescue and rehoming sanctuary, located just outside of Wetaskawin.

Attendees must bring gloves, a long sleeved jacket, comfortable closed shoes, a lunch, water and either a chair or blanket to sit on for lunch break • Jul 9, 11am and depart at 3pm 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

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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

Seventies Forever Music Society • 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

Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club:

Team Edmonton • Various sports and

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 • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

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

VVoA Social Club: DaVinci Gelato Meetup • Davinci Gelato, 12C Rayborn Crescent, St Albert • vofa.ca • Jul 2, 3pm-6pm

VVoA Social Club: Meditation and Brunch • Padmanadi,10740-101 St • vofa. ca • Participate in an hour long meditation with the Vegans and Vegetarians of Alberta in the studio next to Padmanadi Vegetarian Restaurant, followed by a brunch in the restaurant • Jul 2, 9am-12pm

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

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Massive Mondays features talented comedians • Tue: Domestic bottle beer special only $3.75 all night long • Wed: Jugs of Canadian and Kokanee for $13; Karaoke with Shirley from 7pm-12:30am • Thu: Highballs on special only $3.75 all night long; Karaoke with Bubbles 7pm-12:30am •

Fri: Comming soon: DJ Arrow Chaser's new TGIF Party • Sat: Pool Tournement, 4pm; Jager shots on special only $4; Coming soon, DJ Jazzy

tours, workshops and activities at museums, historic sites and community events. The festival showcases the stories of our history and cultural heritage in urban and rural settings • Jul 3-10

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Alley Kat Brewery Tours • Alley Kat, 9929-60 Ave • 780.436.8922 • alleykatbeer. com • Interested in how grain becomes beer?

Want to see the brewing process in action? Alley Kat is always game to chat beer with folks • Every Thu-Fri, 12-5pm

Blues on Whyte Block Party • Whyte between 103-104 St • A music festival including 10 bands that play across three stages with vendors and free pancake breakfast • Jul 3

Canada Day • Elk Island National Park, 1-54401 Range Road 203, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.922.5790 • elk.island@pc.gc.ca • Enjoy free entry to all of Canada's National Parks, National Historic Sites and National Marine Conservation Areas • Jul 1, 12-4pm • Free

Canada Day at City Hall • City Hall, 100 St-102A Ave • edmonton.ca • Live music, displays, cake and more • Jul 1, 1-4 pm

Canada Day at the Legislature • Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 10800-97 Ave • 780.427.7362 • visitorinfo@assembly. ab.ca • assembly.ab.ca • Visitors will enjoy free, family-friendly entertainment for all ages, including ceremonial events, hands-on activities, live performances and more • Jul 1, 10am-7pm • Free

Canada Day at the Muttart Conservatory • Muttart Conservatory, 9626-96A St • 311 • edmonton.ca • Celebrate our nation’s 149th birthday with a visit to the Muttart Conservatory. Enjoy live music, Canada Day crafts and face painting. Treats and fun activities will be happening throughout the day—a fun event for the whole family • Jul 1, 10-2pm • Free-$37

Canada Day Fireworks Cruise • Edmonton Queen Riverboat, 9734-98 Ave • 780.424.2628 • edmontonqueen.com • Enjoy a cold beverage from the middle of the North Saskatchewan while dazzling fireworks go off • Jul 1, Boarding at 9pm • $30 Canada Day Celebrations in the Garden • Devonian Botanic Garden, Parkland County, 5 kms north of Devon on Hwy 60 • devonian.ualberta.ca • Outdoor art displays and demos, musical entertainment, crafts and games for the kids, Canada Day goodies and more • Jul 1, 11am-3pm • $13.50 (adults), $7 (student), $9.75 (seniors), free (Friends of the Garden Members and Season Pass Holders)

Canada Day with Arts and Heritage St. Albert • St. Albert Grain Elevatore Park, 4 Meadowview Lane, St. Albert • 780.907.1630 • tamarac@artsandheritage. ca • Featuring flag design, snacks, crafts and more • Jul 1, 12-5pm • Free

DARK MATTERS Science of Sex • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • 780.451.3344 • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca/exhibits-events/events-calendar/darkmatters • An 18+ event, where the science is served on the rocks & the adults come out to play. The TWOS team bring back some of their most popular guest experts to explore the science of all things naughty & nice • Jul 21, 7-10pm • $17 (adv), $23 (door)

Craft Beer & Croquet Date Night • Devonian Botanic Garden, 5 kms north of Devon on Hwy 60 • devonian.ualberta.ca • The croquet mallets are lined up, the grass is green, the flowers are blooming and the craft beer is chilled • Jun 30, 6pm to dusk • $13.50 (adults), $7 (student with valid ID), $9.75 (seniors, friends of the garden, garden season pass holders)

DBG Annual Plant Sale • Devonian Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • 780.987.3054 ext. 2243 • dbg. events@ualberta.ca • devonian.ualberta.ca • An interesting selection of hardy perennials, edibles, shrubs, indoor plants, and more are offered at very reasonable prices. See what the DBG Horticulturists have been experimenting with in the greenhouses over the winter • May 14-Jun 30

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KnightsoftheNorthernRealm • 14th Century Living History • Jul 2

Late Night Madness • Library Theatre at the Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • edmontonstreetfest.com/ late-night-madness • An adult-only showcase filled with laughter and a different FUNomenal StreetFest cast each night • Jul 15, 11pm • $21

Latitude 53 Patio Party • Latutude 53, 10242-106 St NW • latitude53.org/patio • Members and guests are invited to relax, drinks in hand, on Latitude 53’s outdoor patio, while learning a bit more about contemporary visual culture • Every Thu until Aug 25, 5-9pm • $5 (suggested donation at the door) Martagon Lily Show • Devonian Botanic Garden, Parkland County, 5 kms north of Devon on Hwy 60 • 780.987.3054 • devonian. ualberta.ca • View the subtle shadings and stunning collage of colours from cut stems of locally grown Martagon Lilies in this judged flower show • Jul 2-3, 10am-5pm • $13.50 (adults), $7 (student with valid ID), $9.75 (seniors, friends of the garden, garden season pass holders) Night Market Edmonton • Beaverhill House Park, Jasper Ave & 105 St • nightmarketedmonton@gmail.com • 780.934.1568 • nightmarketedmonton.com • Watch an old movie, eat some food, or shop at the vendor’s stalls • Every Fri, 7-11pm, May 20-Aug • Free

Park After Dark • Northlands Park, 7410 Borden Park • 780.471.7210 • northlandspark.ca • Featuring thoroughbred horse racing meets one of Edmonton's largest patio parities • Every Fri, 6:30pm Sand on Whyte • Whyte Ave, CP Rail land in the northeast corner of Whyte Ave and Gateway Blvd • 780.758.5878 • sandonwhyte. ca • Sand carving is a performance art, much like ice carving. Professional sand-carving artists will be creating another amazing exhibit in Old Strathcona • Jul 1-10 • 10am-10pm • Admission by donation

Savour Strathcona • Strathcona County Community Centre Agora, 401 Festival Lane • 780.464.8095 • strathcona.ca/savour • Discover the things which make Strathcona County so unique - treat yourself to delicious food and stunning art, all presented with local flair • Jul 10, 4-8pm • Free Spruce Grove Canada Day Celebration • Jubilee Park, 510 Grove Drive, Spruce Grove • 780.962.7634 ext.

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Stan Reynolds: The Original Canadian Picker - Exhibition • Reynolds-Alberta Museum, 642640 Ave, Wetaskiwin • 780.312.2065 • reynoldsalbertamuseum@gov.ab.ca • history. alberta.ca/reynolds • An exhibit that provides insight into Stan Reynolds and his love of history and preserving the past for future generations. Check out his greatest finds and take a White Glove Tour in the gallery • Runs until Oct 11

Whyte Ave Art Walk • Between 100 St and 108 St, Old Strathcona • art-walk.ca • An outdoor studio and gallery featuring hundreds of working artists • Jul 8-10 • 10am-5pm

The Works Art & Design Festival • Sir Winston Churchill Square • theworks. ab.ca • A one square kilometer with visual art, design, and entertainment. The festival will also feature receptions, and demonstrations.

Exhibit tours will also be available • Jun 23Jul 5, 10am-9pm • Free

YEG Market • 152 St and Stony Plain Road • yegmarket.com • Featuring a different theme each week. Included is fresh fruit, veggies, crafts and more • Ever Fri, 4-8pm, May 27-Sep 16 • Free

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): During winter, some bears spend months hibernating. Their body temperatures and heart rates drop. They breathe drowsily.

Their movements are minimal.

Many hummingbirds engage in a similar slow-down—but they do it every single night. By day they are among the most manic creatures on earth, flapping their wings and gathering sustenance with heroic zeal. When the sun slips below the horizon, they rest with equal intensity. In my estimation, Aries, you don't need a full-on immersion in idleness like the bears. But you'd benefit from a shorter stint, akin to the hummingbird's period of dormancy.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): "Dear Dr Brezsny: a psychic predicted that sometime this year I will fall in love with a convenience store clerk who's secretly a down-on-his-luck prince of a small African country. She said that he and I have a unique destiny. Together we will break the world's record for dancing without getting bitten in a pit of cobras while drunk on absinthe on our honeymoon. But there's a problem. I didn't have time to ask the psychic how I'll meet my soulmate, and I can't afford to pay $250 for another reading.

Can you help?—Mopey Taurus."

Dear Mopey: the psychic lied.

Neither she nor anyone else can see what the future will bring you. Why? Because what happens will be largely determined by your own actions. I suggest you celebrate this fact. It's the perfect time to do so: July is Feed Your Willpower Month.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): Of all the concert pianos in the world, 80 percent of them are made by Steinway. A former president of the company once remarked that in each piano, "243 taut strings exert a pull of 40 000 pounds on an iron frame." He said it was "proof that out of great tension may come great harmony." That will be a potential talent of yours in the coming weeks, Gemini. Like a Steinway piano, you will have the power to turn tension into beauty. But will you actually accomplish this noble goal, or will your efforts be less melodious? It all depends on how much poised self-discipline you summon.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): Once upon a time, weren't you the master builder who never finished building your castle? Weren't you the exile who wandered aimlessly while fantasizing about the perfect sanctuary of the past or the sweet safety zone of the future? Didn't you perversely nurture the ache that arose from your sense of not feeling at home in the world? I hope that by now you have renounced all of those kinky inclinations. If you haven't, now would be an excellent time to do so. How might you reinvest

the mojo that will be liberated by the demise of those bad habits?

LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): In accordance with the astrological omens, I have selected three aphorisms by poet James Richardson to guide you. Aphorism #1: "The worst helplessness is forgetting there is help." My commentary: you have the power to avoid that fate. Start by identifying the sources of healing and assistance that are available to you. Aphorism #2: "You do not have to be a fire to keep one burning." My commentary: generate all the heat and light you can, yes, but don't torch yourself. Aphorism #3: "Patience is not very different from courage. It just takes longer." My commentary: but it may not take a whole lot longer.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): You may not know this, but I am the founder and CEO of Proud To Be Humble, an acclaimed organization devoted to minimizing vanity. It is my sworn duty to protest any ego that exceeds the acceptable limits as defined by the Geneva Convention on Narcissism. However, I now find myself conflicted. Because of the lyrical beauty and bighearted charisma that are currently emanating from your ego, I am unable, in good conscience, to ask you to tone yourself down.

In fact, I hereby grant you a license to expand your self-love to unprecedented proportions. You may also feel free to unleash a series of lovely brags.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): The next 28 days will not be a favourable period to sit around passively wishing to be noticed. Nor will it be a good time to wait to be rescued or to trust in others to instigate desirable actions. On the other hand, it will be an excellent phase to be an initiator: to decide what needs to be done, to state your intentions concisely, and to carry out your master plan with alacrity and efficiency.

To help ensure your success during the next 28 days, make this declaration each morning before breakfast: "I don't want to OBSERVE the show. I want to BE the show."

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): "In life, as in bicycling, pedal when you have to, coast when you can."

So says author James Lough, and now I'm passing on his advice to you—just in time for your transition from the heavy-pedaling season to the coasting-is-fun phase.

I suspect that at this juncture in your life story you may be a bit addicted to the heavy pedaling.

You could be so accustomed to the intensity that you're inclined to be suspicious of an opportunity to enjoy ease and grace. Don't be like that. Accept the gift with innocent gratitude.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): "When a jet flies low over-

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head, every glass in the cupboard sings," writes aphorist James Richardson. "Feelings are like that: choral, not single; mixed, never pure." That's always true, but it will be intensely true for you in the coming weeks. I hope you can find a way to tolerate, even thrive on, the flood of ambiguous complexity. I hope you won't chicken out and try to pretend that your feelings are one-dimensional and easily understandable. In my opinion, you are ripe to receive rich lessons in the beauty and power of mysterious emotions.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): Pop artist Andy Warhol said that in the future, everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. His idea had a resonance with the phrase "nine days' wonder," which as far back as Elizabethan times referred to a person or event that captured the public's fascination for a while. You Capricorns are entering a phase when you're far more likely than usual to bask in the spotlight. Between now and September 2017, I bet you'll garner at least a short burst of glory, acclaim, or stardom—perhaps much more. Are you ready for your close-up? Have you prepped for the influx of attention that may be coming your way?

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): One of my readers, Jay O'Dell, told me this story: "After my cancer surgery, a nurse said to me, 'You may as well try magical thinking. Regular thinking hasn't helped.' I said to the nurse, 'Well, why the hell not?' That was seven years ago." In bringing O'Dell's testimony to your attention, I don't mean to suggest you will have any health problems that warrant a strong dose of magical thinking. Not at all. But you may get wrapped up in a psychological twist or a spiritual riddle that would benefit from magical thinking. And what exactly is magical thinking? Here's one definition: The stories that unfold in your imagination have important effects on what actually happens to you.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): Let's talk about X-factors and wild cards and strange attractors.

By their very nature, they are unpredictable and ephemeral, even when they offer benevolent breakthroughs. So you may not even notice their arrival if you're entranced by your expectations and stuck in your habitual ways.

But here's the good news, Pisces: Right now you are not unduly entranced by your expectations or stuck in your habits. Odds are high that you will spy the sweet twists of fate—the X-factors and wild cards and strange attractors—as they float into view.

You will pounce on them and put them to work while they're still fresh. And then they will help you hike your ratings or get the funding you need or animate the kind of love that heals.V VUEWEEKLY.com |

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“You’re Getting Sleepy...”-- relax with a nice puzzle.

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20 Legal term that means “directed against a thing” 21 Saigon soup 22 ‘90s General Motors brand 23 Former “Tonight Show” announcer Hall 25 Gift decoration 27 Film composer Danny 29 Official who sings in Hebrew 32 It’s hardly a snack for a steed 34 Candied tubers 35 Worst score ever from Salt Lake City’s team?

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41 Investigated thoroughly 42 Physical beginning?

44 Simpletons 45 ___ : France :: “Swing kid” : Germany 46 “___ is an emotion in motion”: Mae West 47 Manatee or dugong 48 Zimbabwe’s capital 49 $2 to get $20, perhaps 53 “Hail!,” to Caesar 55 “Here we go again ...”

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SEX-OLOGY

tami-lee duncan tami-lee@vueweekly.com

Casual sexual aggression It doesn't violate consent to report suspicious behaviour

Q

: If I have reason to suspect that someone at work is being sexually harassed, but she swears she's not and wants me to do nothing, I should still send it up the chain, right? Is this the one time when it's okay to override someone's consent?

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: It's not for you to determine what is acceptable for her and it is definitely not OK for you to assign her victimhood, which you are implying by advocating on her behalf. With that said, it's also your prerogative to act in accordance to your own conscience. If you are seeing something that makes you uncomfortable or that feels inappropriate, then you are well within your rights to report it. The difference is that you're not saying, "she's being sexually harassed and is a victim" but rather, "I'm not comfortable with the dynamic that I'm witnessing." Reporting your

perspective is not necessarily a violation of her consent.

We are responsible for shaping the culture that surrounds us. I've been reading a lot about the insidious ways that we, as a society, perpetuate beliefs and values that make women vulnerable to various abuses. One particular piece articulated the subversive threats that women feel daily and listed nearly 50 accounts of women being raped, beaten or murdered by men who felt slighted. I've personally never felt fear in rebuffing someone's attention on a night out or when arguing with my partner, but I have definitely experienced abuses in other ways.

For instance, last Friday a teenage boy harassed me in Staples.

He ran up behind me, called me "baby" and commented on my ass.

I ignored him. He continued to follow me, becoming more aggressive at my lack of response. I had a mil-

lion thoughts: I felt self-conscious.

I questioned my decision to wear yoga pants. I was confused why a teenager would be hitting on a woman nearly twice his age. I thought of how there was a time in my life when I might have found this flattering. I thought about how ridiculous it is that this stupid kid thought it was his right to follow a grown woman (or anyone for that matter) and comment on her body.

I was about to lose my shit on him when a man in his late 20's strolled by and told the kid off for being an asshole. Make no mistake, I didn't need saving—I went on to thoroughly put the kid in his place—but I massively appreciated the man's intervention nonetheless, as it demonstrated shared social responsibility. I had passed about 25 bystanders while this kid harassed me and no one raised an eye. And I get it—they don't know the context of what's happening or

aren't sure how to intervene—but their inaction made them complicit in maintaining a culture that tells a teenage boy that that's an acceptable way to act.

There was a time when I saw these things differently, perhaps like your colleague: when I was flattered that my friend's brother grabbed my ass or when my slightly older boss made sexually suggestive comments. Or when I didn't report the chiropractor that tried to kiss me, because I didn't want to get him in trouble. There was a time when I didn't recognize the ways that I had been socialized: to place priority value on a man's opinion of me, to see praise for my body as a legitimate form of validation, to be endlessly polite.

There was a time when my own inaction inadvertently reinforced predatory behaviour, teaching that violations are acceptable and with-

out consequence. And there was a time when my ignorance made me complicit in a culture that encourages casual sexual aggression.

You can't speak for your colleague and you can't tell her that she's a victim of sexual harassment. But you absolutely can report YOUR discomfort to the higher ups. It's not a violation of consent to advocate for your perception of wrongdoing. We all have a responsibility to shape a healthier and safer society, and we can't do that if we say nothing. V Tami-lee Duncan is a Registered Psychologist in Edmonton, specializing in sexual health. Please note that the information and advice given above is not a substitute for therapeutic treatment with a licensed professional. For information or to submit a question, please contact tami-lee@vueweekly.com.

Follow on Twitter @SexOlogyYEG. Dan savage savagelove@vueweekly.com

DOUCHE MOVES

Is it a super douchey move to pretend to be a lesbian to avoid unwanted male attention? I'm a straight single woman in my midthirties and a very plausible lesbian in terms of sartorial stereotypes.

Occasionally a guy will hit on me in an awkward or creepy way and I'll trot out a line about "not being into men." Most recently I used this pose when a courier broke down in my driveway and I invited him in for a glass of water while he waited for the tow truck. It was really uncomfortable and a little threatening when—after establishing that I lived alone—he asked me out. I guess I use this as an excuse so as not to hurt their feelings, but also to shut the conversation down as quickly as possible if I'm feeling vulnerable.

Is this a harmless white lie, or a major cop-out that would offend actual lesbians? Can you suggest some better strategies for when you're feeling cornered by a dude you're not interested in?

Lady's Entirely Zany Identity Enquiry "I'm not offended by this," said someone I thought was an actual lesbian.

I shared your question with this person—a woman I thought was an actual lesbian—because I wasn't offended by it either, but wanted to check with an actual lesbian just to be safe. Turns out my friend doesn't identify as a lesbian, but as a woman-who-loves-womenbut-does-not-identify-as-a-lesbianbecause-she-sometimes-finds-theodd-dude-hot. So for the record: my friend is speaking for the WWL-

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WBDNIAALBSSFTODH community here—which often intersects/sexts with the lesbian community—and not the lesbian community.

"But even though I'm not offended by it, I have to say I've found the 'I'm into women' line to be totally ineffective," said my not-a-lesbian friend. "The creeps I've used it on get even more riled up after hearing that line. Sometimes I check out and start ignoring these creeps as if they're wallpaper, but that can rile them up too. Same with a polite 'I'm not interested.' The only success I've had with warding off creeps is by actually yelling at them, asking them if they'd like to be treated the way they're treating me, and if their mothers, sisters, etcetera, would appreciate that treatment."

My not-a-lesbian friend—who, as it turns out, identifies more strongly with the term "bisexual" than she does WWLWBDNIAALBSSFTODH—has also had some luck with the lose-your-shit strategy (eg: screaming, yelling and waving your arms around like a crazy person).

"You kind of have to treat these people like bears at a campsite," said my not-a-lesbian friend. "You have to make yourself big and loud and scary so they don't get closer.

Because they will get closer."

WHITE KNIGHT WARNING

I have a difficult question. A dear young friend has recently started being a stripper for work. I won't lie: it tears me up. All I feel is sadness and worry—such a nice soul for what I feel is a not-so-nice environment. I really hope I'm wrong.

Is there any way in which this can be okay?

My thoughts are that no matter

how strong a woman is, no one can forget what they see or have to deal with. I worry for the sake of a nice person getting her ass handed to her too often and potentially breaking beyond repair. My gut emotion is that it doesn't matter how well you handle these situations—what matters is the fact that you see too much ugliness, too often, and get to a point where you forget that there are actually nice humans out there.

I guess my question is: How well can anyone handle this?

My Endangered Lady I suspect she's handling it better than you are, MEL. And I would recommend minding your own business, backing the fuck off and Googling "white knight syndrome."

But if your conscience requires you to say something, say something that opens up a conversation, rather than something so larded with shame, fear and judgment that it shuts the conversation down. Instead of saying something like "Oh my God! What were you thinking?! You'll be shredded emotionally and sexually! You could break beyond repair!" try something like, "Stripping isn't something I would feel comfortable doing myself. But I'm your friend, and if you need to talk with someone about your new job—if you need to decompress or vent—I'm here for you."

DON'T ASK DON'T TELL

I've been lying to myself. I told myself that stability and friendship were more important to me than sex. I've been with my husband for 12 years, and we've been married for five of those. We were best friends,

and I was already in love before we started dating and before we ever had sex. I should have known in the beginning that we weren't sexually compatible, but I chose to ignore it (or I chose stability and friendship).

I chose my best friend, and have been suffering ever since.

Luckily, I listen to your advice on a regular basis, and I've started having more open conversations about my feelings and my wants and needs. About a year ago, my husband and I decided to open our relationship. This was all my idea, and I'm not sure he's fully into it.

We agreed to a "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and a month ago we finally acted on it. I met someone in an open relationship and had sex with them. It was amazing—everything about it. In the end, I didn't feel guilty, but I did want to tell my husband. I still feel the need to get his approval, but I also know that he doesn't want to hear it. If he gave me the go-ahead, even though everything was my idea, should I feel guilty, or just happy for finally getting what I needed from someone?

Are there baby steps I can take to tell my husband these things, or do I just keep them to myself? I feel like this is saving our marriage, but society probably just looks at me like a cheating whore.

Feelings Are Insanely, Terribly Hard For Unsure Lovers You have your husband's approval to do what you did, but his approval was contingent upon you not telling him what you did. Honour the commitment you made to your husband, FAITHFUL, by keeping your mouth shut. You'll doubtless have conversations in the future

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about your relationship, and about monogamy, and you can ask him if he wants to stick with "don't ask, don't tell." If he says yes, continue to keep your mouth shut.

STRAIGHTENING KINKS

I'm a (mostly) straight guy in his mid-twenties. For as long as I can remember, I've loved wearing women's lingerie. It turns me on, but it also makes me feel comfortable.

I've never worn women's clothing in public, but I've recently been wearing it more and more around my house. It just feels right! Side note: I've also recently been obsessed with being pegged by my female partner, and I love the reversal of roles. Would I be considered genderqueer, genderfluid, or what?

And would I be considered part of the LGBT community?

Frequently Excited Miss Genderqueer and genderfluid aren't kinks, FEM, they're identities.

And I don't know what you mean by that parenthetical "mostly" you dropped in there before "straight."

If it means you're attracted to dudes—regardless of whether you've ever acted on that attraction—you would indeed be considered part of the LGBT community, under the "B" designation. But if all you meant was, "My cock gets hard when I wear panties and think about getting my ass pegged by my girlfriend," then you're just another kinky straight guy. @fakedansavage on Twitter On the Lovecast, dating historian Moira Weigel. savagelovecast.com V

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