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Public enemy number one: double bounces? / Adobe Stock

WHY DO YOU HATE FUN?

Edmonton’s Injury Prevention Centre Wants to Ban Trampolines outside of Gymnastics Training

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t’s almost impossible to have a memory of a trampoline without having the corresponding memory of an injury. Whether it was your injury, or the injury of an acquaintance that didn’t quite understand the basic equation of gravity plus grassy surface equals ouch—the tale will inevitably have a booboo somewhere in the mix.

Yet, even with the lingering risk of injury, for decades people have continued bouncing their way to bliss—because it’s fun as hell.

Some however, do not share this airborne joy, and recently a few voices have surfaced, speaking on the injury rates and risks that come coupled with the activity. Don Voaklander is the head of the Injury Prevention Centre (IPC); a University of Alberta-run organization that monitors both recorded instances and hospital visits revolving around trampoline injuries. He notes that in the last 10 years there has been a significant spike in injuries surrounding the pastime.

“We get about 2,300 emergency

room visits regarding trampoline injuries a year. This is about five percent of recreational sports injuries: that number stands out and about 10 percent of those injuries result in an in patient hospital stay. With 37 percent of those visits being a

trampoline parks or gymnastic centers, he says.

So herein lies the question, should an injury be scoffed at unless it is catastrophic? The answer is, of course, no. But, with this in mind, one has to be able to com-

in mind Voaklander believes that still isn’t enough.

“The problem is there’s rarely adequate supervision; its usually ‘go out and play on the trampoline; I’m busy.’ People really don’t seem to understand how dangerous these

“The problem is there’s rarely adequate supervision; its usually ‘go out and play on the trampoline; I’m busy.’ People really don’t seem to understand how dangerous these things are.” fracture,” Voaklander says.

This is where a closer look needs to come into play. Even though these numbers seem weighty and cautionary—as they should be— when asked about the severity of these injuries Voaklander often responded: “We don’t really get any catastrophic injuries.”

Often, the more severe injuries are limited to older people, and these injuries are usually limited to

pare trampolines to any other activity that has a risk of collision or fracture, of which there are legion. Anyone who knows children—the predominant market for trampolines—would know that even letting them run free in a field poses the risk of injury.

When it comes to solutions for youth and their sundry injuries, the sane remedy is often parental supervision—yet even with that

things are,” Voaklander says.

So if injury remains consistent, and if parents are lazy, misanthropic figures that don’t care about their children, then what is the solution? Voaklander seems to have a rather direct approach.

“To be honest, when it comes to prevention, my go-to would be people shouldn’t have them in their homes at all, and that they wouldn’t be sold.”

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However, realistically, if there hasn’t been a complete ban on ATV’s—fun fact, the IPC advocated raising the minimum age of ATVuse to 14—youth collision sports and wiffle ball bats, the odds of seeing a complete ban on trampolines is substantially low. Yet like any argument, there is a middle ground on the horizon. If cigarettes slowly kill you and bleach is toxic, how has society found a way of ensuring people know this? With plain, direct labelling.

“Trampolines come with fairly specific instructions on supervision and multiple users, but it would also be good if there was some labeling that says there is potential injury for this device,” Voaklander says.

So there it is: if society can come together hand-in-hand and come to the conclusion that trampolines should have some sort of labelling that states risk of injury, then we can all go back to double bouncing our friends into the neighbour’s yard, knowing that the war on fun has reached its conclusion.

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PARDON ME?

FILDEBRANDT STILL BACKS POT PARDONS Contentious MP Wants Clean Slate for Those with Cannabis Charges, but New Party’s Members Have Final Say The legislature building, surrounded by greenery. / Doug Johnson

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fter forming his own proAlberta conservative party, Derek Fildebrandt’s stance on pot pardons hasn’t changed. However, members of the formerly independent MLA’s new party will have the final say on its formal stance, he says.

“The grassroots members of the party will have an opportunity to put forward and decide what policies the party will have,” Fildebrandt says. “As the interim leader, I’m committed to carrying forward whatever the members decide.”

He also says that he needs to represent the interests of his constituents, and “as a man, I have to

represent my own personal beliefs and conscience.”

Fildebrandt broached the idea of allowing people with heavier cannabis-related charges to work in the burgeoning industry last May. Under Alberta’s current framework, people who have some pot-related charges on their records—possession with intent, for instance—will effectively be barred from working in the pot industry. He says his efforts do not apply to people with strong ties to organized crime or violent offence charges.

Further, Fildebrandt asked the NDP if the party would apply pressure on their federal counterparts

to offer pardons to those with these charges.

Earlier this month, Fildebrandt formed the Freedom Conservative Party of Alberta (FCP), a selfproclaimed libertarian party with a focus on rural ridings. He is the current leader of this party, which also wants to give power to Alberta within the federation.

“We hold personal freedoms to the highest value in our party,” he says. “It is so far past due that we move beyond marijuana prohibition. Even those who oppose marijuana have got to recognize that prohibition has completely and utterly failed.”

Fildebrandt, himself, says he is surprised at how well the Trudeau and Notley governments have done in terms of legalizing pot.

However, there will likely be changes in the future, he says. Online sales of cannabis will probably shift away from the public system the NDP proposed, if only because people can already, in a sense, purchase marijuana online.

While the FCP has no formal ties to a political party—and, thus, has no federal representation to apply pressure to—Fildebrandt says that the party has “friendly relations” with many federal conservatives.

“Even if Justin Trudeau is still prime minister: on this issue, I would hope there would be some common ground and common sense,” he says.

The NDP, UCP and Alberta Party all responded to interview requests by saying that the matter of pardoning people with pot charges is a federal matter. However, the Alberta Party offered an email statement saying “it make sense that the Federal Government act on this issue in a similar manner to other cases where legislation has significantly changed. We would encourage the Federal Govern-

ment to address this issue at the earliest opportunity.”

The NDP, similarly, sent an email stating that minor cannabis-related charges, like possession, will not make a person ineligible to work in dispensaries, and that all applications will be assessed by the AGLC. Conservatism in Canada has had a somewhat strained relationship with pot—well, with most drugs, really. Former Prime Minister and all-round fun dude Stephen Harper proposed mandatory minimum jail sentences for various drugrelated charges. That said, newly elected Ontario premier Doug Ford seems to champion the idea of a privatized legal pot system in his home province, like the one found in Alberta.

Various unconfirmed rumours in other media outlets also suggest that Ford sold hash in his youth.

In Alberta, premier hopeful Jason Kenney’s platform could see the end of safe injection sites in the province, if realized.

The matter of decriminalizing drugs in Canada, somewhat popularized by federal NDP candidate Jagmeet Singh, sees little support among most conservative parties.

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DYER STRAIGHT

WHERE WILL IT ALL END?

Life on Earth May End with the Whispers of Billions of Toxic Bacteria, or a Huge Bang from Humanity Itself

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his is Armageddon summer in the northern hemisphere: out-of-control wildfires all around the Arctic Circle (not to mention California and Greece), week-long heatwaves with unprecedented high temperatures, torrential downpours, and Biblical floods. Yes, it’s climate change.

It’s quite appropriate to be frightened, because the summers will be much worse 10 years from now, and much worse again 10 years after that. Prompt and drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions now might stop the summers of the 2040s from being even worse, but they wouldn’t do much to lessen the mounting misery of the next 20 years.

Those emissions are mostly in the atmosphere already.

Besides, we’re not going to see ‘prompt and drastic cuts in greenhouse emissions’ any time soon.

It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets better—if it ever does get better. And so it is probably time to ask the obvious question: where will it all end?

The worst case isn’t the only case, or even the most likely case, but there may be some value in understanding how bad it could get if we miss all the exits on the highway to Hell. And here I’m going to quote

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from an interview I did 10 years ago with Dr. Dennis Bushnell, chief scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center. It’s all still true today.

He had been talking about the ‘feedbacks’ (melting permafrost, warming oceans, huge releases of methane and carbon dioxide).

Because they cannot yet be fully incorporated into the computer models of climate, they lead to

oxygen content—which would then promote bacteria which produce hydrogen sulphates. These would rise and take out the ozone layer, and also make it somewhat difficult to breathe. This is by 2100.”

What Dennis Bushnell was referring to was ‘Canfield oceans,’ now strongly suspected of being the cause of four out of the big

the time, but the real clue was that the deep oceans were anoxic. There was no oxygen down there, and therefore no life that used oxygen. When the oceans are very warm, the ‘overturning circulation’ (like the Gulf Stream) that carries vast amounts of oxygen-rich surface water down into the depths simply stops, and the oceans stratify into an oxygen-

“It’s also still possible that we will react fast enough to stop well short of mass death. When dealing with the future, you can only deal in probabilities, and even those are very slippery.” systematic underestimates of future warming. And then he cut to the chase.

“If you take all these feedbacks into account, the estimates are that by 2100, instead of two to six degrees Celsius rise (in average global temperature), it looks like a possibility of six to 12 degrees.

“These temperature changes would change the ocean circulation patterns and end up with much of the oceans going anoxic—very low

five mass extinctions. Everybody knows about the huge asteroid that struck the Gulf of Mexico 65 million years ago, and wiped out the dinosaurs. Fewer people know that there is no trace of an asteroid strike associated with the other four ‘great dyings,’ 444 million, 360 million, 251 million and 200 million years ago. So what happened then?

One common factor was that the planet was unusually hot at

ated surface layer and an anoxic deeper layer.

But there was still life down there: sulphate bacteria that normally hide in the silt, away from the oxygen that would destroy them. In an anoxic ocean, they come out and multiply—and eventually, if the conditions are right, they rise all the way to the surface and kill all the oxygenbased life in the sea.

Not only that, but hydrogen sul-

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phide gas, a waste product of their metabolism, rises into the atmosphere, destroys the ozone layer, and drifts over the land where it also wipes out most life. This has happened not once but at least four times in the past.

In theory, by warming the planet we would be creating the right conditions for another go-round, but in practice it’s not all that likely. There hasn’t been a ‘Canfield’ event in the past 200 million years, and when those earlier mass extinctions happened the planet was a good deal hotter to begin with.

Even if we avoid that fate, we may be heading for a mass die-back, including of human beings. Food is the key issue: as warming depresses productivity and turns whole regions into desert, mass starvation is imaginable, although actual extinction seems improbable.

It’s also still possible that we will react fast enough to stop well short of mass death. When dealing with the future, you can only deal in probabilities, and even those are very slippery.

The situation is already quite grim.

Bad news, of course—but when you find yourself in a high-stakes game you should know what the stakes are.

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Taste of Edmonton organizers want the event to get greener in the future. / James Jarvis

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Waste Audit Outlines How Much Food and Non-Food Trash Ends up in Landfills, and How Festivals Can Reduce It

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purred on by the ongoing plastic straw debate, Taste of Edmonton is starting to think of ways to move its trash situation to greener pastures. One of the city’s largest food-based summer festivals, Taste of Edmonton generates a sizeable pile of detritus over its run.

According to Anita Kelm, manager with Events Edmonton, which runs Taste of Edmonton, the festival has implemented biodegradable cups and paper plates; the only remaining plastic, on that front, is the cutlery.

“We’re definitely looking at biodegradable stuff for next year. We’re just looking at pricing because we go through a lot of it during our festival,” Kelm says.

She adds that this would represent a higher cost for the festival, but doesn’t yet know how much the increase would be.

Taste of Edmonton is just now coming off a three-year contract with the company from which it sources its plates, cups, and cutlery, Kelm says.

The festival is also considering creating separate waste disposal bins for food and non-food wastes, she says. These concerns have always been on the organizers’ minds, Kelm says, but she couldn’t speak

to how long Taste of Edmonton has been mulling over the ideas.

“We definitely want to do what’s best for the environment,” she says.

Some of these ideas come on the heels of an informal audit conducted by Courtney Powell, founder of Elevated Enviro, an Edmonton environmental consulting business. The audit looked at Taste of Edmonton and K-Days—who could not be reached for comment—and how much waste they generate, and how they handle it.

According to the audit, the two festivals generate more than 800,000 pounds of trash in a year.

Combined with other summer festivals in the city, this amount is closer to one million pounds.

The audit also outlines some strategies for reducing waste at the events, including the use of biodegradable straws, etc. That said, there’s an apparent flaw in using biodegradable straws that arises when they reach a landfill.

In short, landfills—including Edmonton’s—function by having large trucks cover waste in gravel, sand, then water. Operators then put down a plastic sheet and “crunch” all the air out. This removes all the oxygen out of the mass of dirt and detritus which, while good for sav-

ing space, prevents organic compounds, like food and plant-based utensils, from decomposing.

“There’s been a lot of messaging outside of Edmonton, around the world, about not using plastic straws, but the replacement is typically plant-based, which is what I would recommend,” Powell says.

“But unless you have an organics system at your facility or restaurant, they’re just going to the landfill. If they’re going to a landfill, they’re not really decomposing.”

Metal straws are more expensive, but they are also a viable option, Powell says.

This can be somewhat reduced by employing separate bins for food waste, which would ensure that food waste gets composted while plastic waste (which can be coated in leftover food) gets recycled, rather than sent to a landfill. This could divert 90 percent of waste from landfills, he says.

“There’s a large amount of waste being generated at these festivals, and the only thing available is a garbage bin. Food waste is co-mingling with plastic waste, and of that plastic waste that could be recycled, it’s contaminated and going to our landfills,” he says.

Doug Johnson doug@vueweekly.com

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Chefs hard at work at Drunken Ox, Sober Cat. / Doug Johnson

TONGUE TO TAIL: EATERY USES THE WHOLE COW Drunken Ox, Sober Cat Takes Aesthetics and Using the Whole Animal to a New Level

Drunken Ox, Sober Cat 10190 104 St 780 540 0606 dosc.ca

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t’s part chef-ly ambition, and part ecological interest that drove the owners of newly opened Drunken Ox, Sober Cat to cook using every part of the cow’s body.

“The whole philosophy behind our menu is the nose to tail philosophy,” says Shangeeta

Prasad, one of the owners. “It’s respecting the animal by not wasting any of it. You’ll see tongue on our menu; you’ll see oxtail on our menu, and everything in between.”

According to Prasad, this is something of a rarity in Edmonton. Drunken Ox, Sober Cat opened its doors last week.

The dominant aesthetic choice of Drunken Ox, Sober Cat is that the restaurant is split into two sides. One, the lighter side—perhaps mirroring some moral standpoint on booze vs.

“The whole philosophy behind our menu is the nose to tail philosophy. It’s respecting the animal by not wasting any of it. You’ll see tongue on our menu; you’ll see oxtail on our menu, and everything in between.” coffee—serves caffeinated beverages near the windows. The other, the ‘dark side,’ serves alcohol and food, steak mostly, the kind of place people go at

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night—respectively, they correspond with the Sober Cat and the Drunken Ox. “It’s an open concept; we don’t have any walls separating the cafe from the restaurant.

We have three concepts under one roof. Right when you walk in, you see Sober Cat; the restaurant side has the darker reclaimed wood, a lot of leather,” she says.

The restaurant also offers a palette of wines for tastings, though that could thematically sit on either side, considering it’s a socially aware way of getting day drunk. Its coffee comes from Rogue Wave, a local coffee roaster that also provides some training on their line among the restaurant’s staff.

All the restaurant’s cocktails are made from scratch and use fresh ingredients, Prasad adds.

“For us, it’s very important to support the local community,” she says.

As far as its non-psychoactive ingredients go, Drunken Ox, Sober Cat sources locally as much as it can. It partnered with several local farms for, above all else, beef.

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“We just felt that that’s exactly what Alberta needed. Alberta’s pride is beef, and there aren’t that many people that do it well in Edmonton,” Prasad says.

The 104th Street promenade building in which Drunken Ox, Sober Cat resides has seen a hefty number of tenants.

For a time, it was The Burg, 104th Street Grill, and Stage 104, among others. The corner lot of a historic building, situated near Rogers Place, the storefront cannot be a cheap one.

Drunken Ox, Sober Cat is also co-owned by Jake Lee, also owner of Seoul Fried Chicken, and Isaac Choi, owner of Japonais Bistro and Dorinku. The three met through a mutual friend.

“Jake and Isaac had a common goal in mind; they wanted to open the same kind of restaurant ... When they met me and discussed it, they thought ‘why don’t we do it together,’” Prasad says, adding that her background is more in running restaurants, rather than cooking.

“We all have our specialties. It just seemed to be a really good match.”

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NIUBOI is performing at the Queer Women and Trans Folk Fest After Party. / Liam Mackenzie

QUEER FESTIVAL

Fri., Aug. 3 - Sat., Aug. 4 Queer Women and Trans Folk Fest Pride Centre of Edmonton, and Sewing Machine Factory Facebook.com/QueerWomen-Trans-Festyeg-209923046456731

Queer Women and Trans Folk Fest Takes Community-Centred Approach

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f Pride just seemed to pass you by this year, don’t fret—the Queer Women and Trans Folk (QWTF) Fest is an annual event celebrating queer women, trans folks, non-binary folks, and invites them to share in community.

This is the fourth annual QWTF Fest, and the first time it’s being held separately from the Edmonton Pride Festival.

“In year’s past we have had fluctuating attendance,” says Courtney Cliff, community educator at the Pride Centre of Edmonton.

“And we found that in years past we’ve competed with a lot of the Pride events, and haven’t had the turnout, because everyone feels split in all different directions.”

So now things have been spread out, giving Edmonton’s queer community something else to look forward to over the summer.

The Edmonton Pride Festival Society (EPFS) has also partnered on the QWTF Fest, and put forward some sponsorship dollars.

One of the EPFS’s board members is also part of the festival’s planning committee. This is the first year QWTF Fest has had

one from start to finish. Cliff says committees usually form throughout the planning, but this year planning didn’t begin until the group was assembled.

Cliff is one of two Pride Centre staff members on the committee, and is enthusiastic about the work that it’s done. All of the other committee members are volunteers.

fied cis women, non-binary folks, trans-masculine folks, and transfeminine-folks.

“It’s a good committee; I’m so proud of them,” Cliff says, beaming.

QWTF Fest will open on Friday at 6 p.m. with a panel to kick off the event. That will be followed by a variety show.

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clothing alterations throughout the day.

The panels are based on feedback the planning committee received from a community survey.

“Our community came back [to] us wanting body-positive panels,” Cliff says. “So workshops and activities, or discussion groups, or resources on body positivity

“I put a call out for volunteers as the Pride Centre, and I [had] a handful of really phenomenal volunteers come forward, saying they wanted to participate in planning—and it has been the coolest experience.”

“I put a call out for volunteers as the Pride Centre, and I [had] a handful of really phenomenal volunteers come forward, saying they wanted to participate in planning—and it has been the coolest experience,” Cliff says.

She adds that there is a strong youth voice on the committee, and there is a mix of queer-identi-

mances will be happening here at the Pride Centre,” Cliff says.

Celebrations continue the next morning with a march starting from the Alberta Legislature Building at 10 a.m.. It ends back at the Pride Centre of Edmonton, where there will be panels, workshops, activities, vendors, artists, a clothing swap, and

throughout the community. So what it’s like to be a trans body and be fat; what it’s like to be a fat body and scarred; what it’s like to be a queer person with burns or limb difference.”

There will also be conversations on sexual health, and Cliff says the committee really wants to focus on what ties the community together.

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“We wanted to find what weaves us all together, and it’s through our relationships,” she says. “And it’s through our sexual [relationships], our friendships, our romantic relationships, our working relationships.

All of these things bring us together, so how do we foster healthy relationships when there’s so much diversity in our community?”

The community was also called upon to contribute to the festival by entering a poster contest.

Winner Liuba González de Armas designed a poster using colours from the trans flag.

“The poster design speaks to our community, to the type of events that are going to occur—it’s just so beautiful,” Cliff says.

Festival attendees are also encouraged to contribute by bringing items for the clothing swap, and tools or supplies for clothing alterations. (See a complete list of items on the QWTF Fest Facebook page.)

The festival wraps up with the After Party at the Sewing Machine Factory at 7 p.m.

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MULTIMEDIA DRAWING

ABSURD FUR: AN IMMIGRANT STORY

Jessica Morgun’s Installation Was Inspired by Her Mother-in-law’s Story about a Missing Fur Coat collapse of the fur industry is also on display. The pièce de résistance, however, is the erased painting of a fur coat that takes up the gallery’s whole main wall.

Memoriam To A Missing Fur Coat by Jessica A. Morgun. / Ruta Nichol

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t all started with a fur coat. Elena, an immigrant from Soviet era Ukraine, had just moved with her family to Saskatoon. Even though she wasn’t part of the Soviet party, Elena was well off financially so, in order to transfer some of that wealth to Canada, she purchased an expensive fur coat made of marmot. But this was 1990, a time when groups like PETA had campaigns like “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur,” and “Animals Used For Their Skins.”

Simply, the fur industry was seen as cruel and people who wore fur coats were seen as evil. Elena was frightened by this fact, so she never actually got to wear the fur coat.

Her daughter-in-law Jessica Morgun knew Elena’s story well and decided to use it as inspiration for an art exhibit called Memoriam To A Missing Fur Coat.

“The whole situation reminded me of many of the stories around immigration and migration,” Morgun says. “Where there are these unex-

ARTIFACTS Dying Behaviour of Cats Marc Labriola Quattro Books 124 pages This book has a fascinating premise: Theo is heartbroken, suicidal and hasn’t left his house in seven years. Then Hurricane Catalina hits, an escaped leopard ends up on his roof, and the press and

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pected or absurd losses that happen when you transition from another place or how things go missing or lose their function because of the change in space or culture.”

The exhibition in Harcourt House’s Art Incubator Gallery is made up of three pieces. Headphones hang on a ledge that house a voice recording of Elena’s experiences with moving to Canada with her fur coat. A coat hanger from Saskatoon’s now-defunct Folks Finer Furs store to symbolize the

The drawing is also erased leaving a ghostly imprint of where a giant coat once rested.

“I thought I would kind of mirror the absurdity of this fur coat being totally useless by coming here to Edmonton, spending a lot of time on a drawing and then removing it,” Morgun says.

This is also the fourth time Morgun has presented Elena’s story.

“I’ve done three iterations of this work in different spaces. My first project, there was a lot of smaller drawings and photocopied pieces of fur. I found the humour of the story was lost,” she says. “It felt morose and sad, and it’s not meant to be. It’s more absurd and like a happy sad.”

Especially since the fur coat is now actually being worn by one of Elena’s relatives in Ukraine.

“I didn’t know this about them [fur coats], but you have to have them in like cold storage or basically they start shedding and fall apart. So that’s basically what happened, but the ironic thing is that two years ago an elderly relative

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Until Sept. 8 Memoriam To A Missing Fur Coat Harcourt House (Art Incubator Gallery) Free needed a coat. It’s not in great shape. She offered it to me once but I didn’t take it.”

Memoriam To A Missing Fur Coat is an interesting exhibit that perhaps vaguely touches what is considered art. It took Morgun seven to eight hours to draw the coat and begin erasing it. The viewer is not only seeing a partly erased drawing but also Morgun’s dedication to use it as a metaphor for Elena’s absurd story.

“There was a time when fur coats were a real emblem of a woman’s status,” Morgun says. “Elena was a woman of status in Ukraine even though she wasn’t a member of the communist party and did suffer some prejudice for it. This fur coat was a symbol of her status, which is what she gave up when she came here.”

Yet unlike her fur coat, Elena is never moving back.

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emergency services are all banging on his door trying to get in.

The writing is strong, the voice welldeveloped, but the misogyny is offputting. Both Theo and his departed father had issues with women that they allowed to control their lives, and the only people Theo will let in his house are the prostitutes he hires. That being said, it has one heck of an ending.

RBG // Fri., Aug. 3 - Tue., Aug. 7 (see Metro website for times); Thu., Aug. 9 (9:15 pm) Blame it all on my Canadian roots, but I had no idea that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has fans, nor that she’s earned herself the nickname “The Notorious R.B.G.” She’s also the star of her own documentary, released earlier this year, and it features clips of the 84-year-old planking in the gym, and recounting how she has fought and continues to fight for gender equality. (Metro Cinema, Regular Admission Rates) //CN

Without giving too much away, the book’s plot comes off as a little absurd, and perhaps because it’s part of Orca’s Rapid Reads series, the writing is not as meaty as one might expect from Whittall. But with little space to work with, the author still makes Missy into a full character. While her actions may seem ridiculous, her motivations are very human.

Heritage Festival // Sat., Aug. 4 – Mon., Aug. 6 Possibly the best part of Edmonton’s Heritage Festival is its venue, Hawrelak Park, beautifully nestled in the city’s river valley. It’s the perfect natural space for festival-goers to stuff their faces with food and drink from nearly 75 cultural pavillions. There’s also entertainment at this yearly, and beloved, fixture of Edmonton’s summer, but, at the end of the day, people go there to eat until they can’t feel anymore.

Its food offering enough sedating power to eclipse a bottle of NyQuil. (Hawrelak Park, 9330 Groat Rd., Free Admission, $25 for 25 food tickets) //DJ

used as incentive for people to purchase postage. The novel’s readers are invited to peruse those letters, learning more about Ariadne, or AJ, as they do.

The letters between recognizable historical figures were fun, the ones about less famous figures ended up being educational, but overall the details of AJ’s life were few and far between, and while interesting, didn’t add up to much of a plot.

La Femme: A Showcase Inspired by Afro-Latin Women // Sun., Aug. 5 (7-11 pm) Celebrate Heritage Day weekend with “a multi-media showcase inspired by women of African, Caribbean, LatinX descent.” La Femme features local artists like Naomi VeladoTsegaye, The Reason, Rafaella Graña, and Natalie Meyer.

The event is a collaboration between PaymeTHRUart and La Connexional. To get an invite, visit @paymethruart on Instagram, and let them know you’re interested in attending.

(City Centre Mall, $15-25) //CN

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Shawn Tse (center) is host and producer of Seconds, Please! / Supplied

FOOD FILM

Seconds, Please! Film Series Explores Edmonton’s Diverse Dishes and Cultures

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ood connects people, surpassing barriers between language, customs and tradition. Seconds, Please! is a local independent film series dedicated to food and culture, and it explores the need for Edmonton’s immigrant communities to connect with their heritage and share it with new generations of Canadians.

The series captures stories and traditional food recipes from Canadian immigrant families.

Each episode showcases one family where the elder generation teaches a family recipe from their homeland to a younger generation, usually Canadianborn. Seconds, Please! focuses on the importance and variety of international foods in the city as a way to experience and celebrate diversity.

“We’re here showing the world what multiculturalism is all about,” says Shawn Tse, host and producer of Seconds, Please! “A lot of the activities are narrated through whether or not these families maintain their culture in specific ways. They help complement our ideas of how to maintain our culture, and what makes them unique. It goes far beyond food.”

For the third video in the film series, Tse wanted to take a look at what everyday people thought of diversity and how the city celebrates it.

“It is a unique opportunity we have to bring all these cultures together at one city-wide event to showcase dance, art, handicrafts and, most importantly for

Seconds, Please! is build bridges culturally and open conversations about culture and identity that’s uniquely Canadian.”

The third episode of Seconds, Please! premiered Monday, July 23 at noon on its website, secondspleasetv.ca, and along with the previous two, is free to watch online. The next films in

“[T]here was already a settled culture that was here. Canada is only 151 years old; we are almost all immigrants and have a home culture that we’ve come from,” Tse says. “Growing up in a multi-ethnic background I was [more] fascinated [with] other people’s cultures than my own.

We’re hoping Seconds, Please!

“We’re hoping Seconds, Please! really gives people the pride and encouragement to explore their cultural heritage.”— Shawn Tse us, food. We’re extremely happy to be able to share the film and hope Edmonton embraces it, too,” Tse says.

“One of the biggest reasons for these films was to talk about the immigration experience, but also to share and celebrate our differences,” says Pamela Muñroz, communications director for the series. “You see a lot of hate these days. What we’re trying to do with

the series will become available in the fall, for a total of six films highlighting Indian, Russian, and Chinese families with chicken biryani, kotleti, and Tso So’s famous green onion cakes respectively, before the end of the year. The films have been made possible with the support of the Edmonton Heritage Council, the Edmonton Arts Council, and the City of Edmonton.

really gives people the pride and encouragement to explore their cultural heritage.”

The series varies episode to episode, highlighting that though we’re almost all children of immigrants, people can have platforms to express the intimate nature of what defines a “Canadian.”

“I’ve learned that the creative process, taking people’s stories and making them make sense,

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touches people on so many levels,” Muñroz says. “We’re foodies—we’d like to bridge the communications gap that exists between cultures.”

Tse finds it fascinating that some of the younger generations feel more connected with their home cultures than others and hopes that Seconds, Please! can show that culture is fluid and not defined by language proficiency.

“A lot of people think of language being tied to a culture or how culturally connected someone is,” Tse says. “There’s a stigma that I’m not Chinese enough, for example, or I’m not as Chinese as my parents, so I can’t relate. Seconds, Please! has helped me sort of get over that mental prison. It’s helped me see that what we choose to add to society is a product of our culture.”

“It’s really about initiating the conversation in a genuine way, to let the people and communities speak for themselves,” Tse adds. “There are similarities in our experiences and common elements. We’re trying to focus where mainstream media might not be as diverse—to empower people and show they have a voice in the community as well.”

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ONLINE HORROR

And you thought Skyping with Grandma was scary. / Universal Pictures

UNFRIENDED SEQUEL MIRED IN HORROR CLICHÉS Unfriended: Dark Web Has Its Interesting Moments, but Comes Off as a High School Drama

Unfriended: Dark Web Directed by Stephen Susco Now playing 

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n cinema’s big screen, Russian-doll-like screens within screens can sometimes be too tricksy and distancing.

In 2014, though, found-footage horror Unfriended (whose tagline should have been “In cyberspace, everyone can hear you scream”) made a plethora of pop-ups chillingly watchable as

an intruder targeted five friends via a Facebook account, Skype groupchat, Instagram posts, and more on one friend’s laptop.

But while its sequel Unfriended: Dark Web spins out lots of intriguing ideas, it becomes stickily ensnared in horror clichés and what can feel like moments from a cringeworthy (and nonfringe-worthy) student play.

Updating its precursor’s cat-andmouse game into the Internet as Pandora’s box, U:DW also MS Paints our online world as a poisoned chalice—and the cup runneth over.

Twentysomething Matias O’Brien (Colin Woodell) has plucked a laptop out of a neighbourhood café’s lost-and-found, but, while chatting with his deaf girlfriend and Skyping with his pals on their weekly game night (starting with Cards Against Humanity), he discovers someone’s tracking him and his friends.

The game night becomes a clever framing-device; there’s a smartly horrible use of recorded footage as a mirror, playing back (and setting up more) personal pain; there are some

sly moments, too, of screenmediated simulation, dissimulation, and forced truth. But once the horror tropes start logjamming like Tetris blocks— starting with a hooded figure and “Don’t go in there!”—our interest in Matias’ breadcrumb tracking, deeper into those dark woods, fades, and the plot becomes eye-roll emoji.

The pals are picked off as if in a bad high-school revamp of an Agatha Christie play (The Mousetrap 2.0). The shadowy conspiracy deepens.

The girlfriend has shruggingly

turned into an oblivious, passive damsel-in-distress. And as the elaborate, on-screen murders—including a Poe-like entombment—scuzz on, we’re made to feel like voyeurs to a snuff livestream.

By turning our screened-in world into a torture chamber, U:DW comes off as a morality tale for millenials. Horror can be unfriendly, sure, but this one just ends up too crotchety and cautionary. It’s as if that hovering arrow-cursor gets replaced by a violently wagging finger.

Brian Gibson

48-HOUR FILM

FILMMAKERS ACE TWO-DAY FILM CHALLENGE The Edmonton Short Film Festival Screened the Winners of Its 48-Hour Filmmaking Contest at K-Days

Sat., Oct. 13 Sixth Annual Edmonton Short Film Festival Gala Orange Hub Theatre (John L. Haar Theatre) Tickets at esff.ca/film-lovers/tickets

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ilmmaking in and of itself is no easy task, however, most filmmakers have lots of time and resources that help to bring their ideas to life. That wasn’t the case for the 48-Hour Mobile Device Filmmaking Challenge presented by the Edmonton Short Film Festival, where amateur and more experienced filmmakers alike had the difficult task of creating short films using only their mobile devices over a twoday period.

The challenge, which was free to enter, allowed for contestants to create a two-minute film that was to be uploaded to YouTube for a chance to win an opportunity to attend and have their film screened at the Edmonton Short Film Festival Gala on Oct. 13.

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But there was a catch—the films had to incorporate three specific elements, which were revealed to the contestants during the filming process. The elements were: something gold/metal, flowers of any kind, and the phrase “school’s out.”

All of the films did a superb job at incorporating these elements, especially the comedic film Some People’s Belts by Harley Myhovich and Tim Hanson, who are both relative newcomers to filmmaking. They won the honourable mention category for using the elements most creatively, and will be able to attend the ESFF Gala in October for free.

“One of the elements had to be something that looks like gold, so I was looking around and saw this wrestling belt, and the overall idea of belts came to me and I passed the puck to Harley. The next morning, I woke up and he had a script for a skit all done up,” Hanson says.

“I love comedy—if you can get a room to laugh at something that you created, that’s a crazy feeling,” Myhovich adds.

The second honourable mention, this time for excellence and marketing, was awarded to the film A Daughter’s Journey by Darrell Portz, who also received passes to the gala.

All 23 entries were screened alongside various other short films on July 29 in Hall B of the Northlands Expo Centre as part of the K-Days festival—a new venture for the ESFF who hadn’t previously worked with Northlands. The screenings were open to anyone with admission to the K-Days grounds.

Sharlene Millang, the festival’s co-founder and co-director, thinks bringing the 48-Hour Mobile Challenge to K-Days was an all-around great idea.

“It has been a really good experience. K-Days has been so supportive of the community,” she says. “And this year, with all of the other made in Alberta ideas that they’re having, it fit in so well with what we do, because we only screen Albertan films.”

Films of all genres and styles

Lutz Papenfuß’s film Deadline was one of the winners of excellence. / Supplied

were presented at the event— drama, comedy, thriller, documentary, and more. In between showings, the filmmakers were given the chance to come up to the front and discuss their films, giving the audience a glimpse into the filmmaking process.

The two top winning films for excellence, which were announced at the end of the event, were Deadline

by Lutz Papenfuß—an action/thriller film that focuses on a briefcase containing a secret USB drive—and Flowers for Sam by Paul Studiman—a comedy film about a man remembering last minute that it’s

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his anniversary with his wife. The other winning category, which was for marketing, went to the film Undying by Christina Estillore.

Each of the winning films made excellent use of camera angles and had unique storylines—an impressive feat for only being shot and edited over a 48-hour period. All three films will be part of the ESFF Gala on Oct. 13, and will be eligible for the people’s choice award that is voted on by the audience.

All 23 entry videos can be viewed at esff.ca/free-48-hour-mobile-filmchallenge.

Heather Gunn

JOURNO FILM

James Marsden pretends to be a journalist in Shock and Awe. / Supplied

SHOCK AND AWFUL

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Rob Reiner’s Tale of Journalists Delving into the War on Terror Falls Flat

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ver since the success of 2015’s Spotlight, the romanticized image of the journalist has gone under a bit of a renaissance. It’s no real surprise, since the golden age of cinema, the story of a beat reporter on the path of righteousness has been constantly recycled. What Shock and Awe misses, however, is that you can’t have your film rely solely on this principle and image.

of information, and the nature of trust in the media, during a time when everyone was taking what was spouted by the 24-hour news cycle as gospel.

Director and star Rob Reiner clearly wanted to tell an important fable based in truth, and show America a mirror of its past. The film chronicles the excuses that the American government fed to people as incen-

Shock and Awe Directed by Rob Reiner Now Playing  trust in journalism is sadly wasted.

The camera work is static and boring, almost every actor excluding Reiner might as well be standing on cell phone towers, because they’re

“What could have been an important and timely film in an era of distrust in journalism is sadly wasted.”

You still need to make an engaging film—something that the director completely forgets.

The film is based on a true story, and accounts the struggles of several journalistic figures who all work for Knight Ridder, a conglomerate publication in Washington D.C. circa the early 2000s. The war on terror is kicking off, and nationalism and fear are sweeping the U.S. What unfolds is a story

tive to get both public and political backing to invade Iraq. Sure enough, our trusty reporters in shining armour, Warren Strobel and Jonathan Lansday—played by James Marsden and Woody Harrelson respectively—get a whiff of bullshit, and immediately start bombarding the capital with questions in an attempt to find the truth.

What could have been an important and timely film in an era of dis-

phoning it in that hard, and the film bombards its audience with surgically rapid scenes that feed as much information as possible with no emotional pay off.

Shock and Awe watches more like a T.V. movie from the mid-1990s, with copy-paste dialogue and a plot that would’ve been engaging and full of subtlety if it were in the hands of anyone else.

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The view from up here looks like a Bob Ross painting.

Check out all those happy clouds. // Chelsea Novak

ZERO GRAVITY

Edmonton Soaring Club Sat. and Sun., early May to mid-Oct. Chipman Airport 780 363 3860 $125/single ride

Edmonton Soaring Club Lets You Float Above It All

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bout 30 years after he saw his first glider at an airshow, James Newman received the gift of a familiarization flight as a Christmas present from his grandchildren.

“It was doing acrobatics, and loops, and stuff like that. And I thought, ‘That looks so cool. I want to fly one of those one day,’” he says of that first glider experience.

So on a sunny summer day— with a few clouds in the sky that promised the chance of finding thermals to ride—Newman was out at the Edmonton Soaring Club’s airfield.

After going for a flight in the front seat of one of the club’s two-seater gliders, Newman wasn’t sure he’d try to get his glider license, but he says he enjoyed the flight.

The Edmonton Soaring Club— located outside Chipman, 45 minutes east of Edmonton—offers both rides with its experienced pilots and flying lessons. Jason Acker, the club’s chief flight instructor, says many of the people who come out are checking off an item on their bucket list.

“We will take them up and [let] them experience powerless flight—how safe and enjoyable it really is—and quiet,” he says.

The club is a volunteer-run not-forprofit, and operates on weekends between spring thaw and winter

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freeze. It also holds flying weeks a few times a year where members can fly throughout the week.

To fly solo, members need to have a glider license, which they can work towards with the club’s instructors—who are all Transport Canada-rated, and volunteer their time free of charge. The club also offers additional instruction for cross-country flight,

us to circle, to climber higher in the sky, and then when get to certain altitudes we can head off, and go to the next cloud that we think is formed by the rising air.”

On any given flight a glider pilot has to figure out what the conditions have to offer to keep the aircraft aloft.

“Soaring has been called ‘playing chess with the sky,’” Acker says.

leases the tow cable using a yellow handle in the cockpit.

The cable falls away, dangling below the tow plane, which banks left, and the glider banks right. As the tow plane flies away, the sound of its engine fades and I am thousands of feet above the Earth—the green and yellow patchwork of Alberta’s farming fields well below.

Everything is quiet.

“We will take them up and [let] them experience powerless flight—how safe and enjoyable it really is—and quiet.”—Jason Acker and aerobatic flight, and members participate in competitions, including the Alberta Provincial Soaring Championships, which takes place in May. Though glider rides provided by the club last a maximum of 30 minutes, Acker explains that when conditions are right, pilots can spend hours aloft.

“There’s lots of skill in doing that—being able to use the energy from the sun hitting the Earth [that] causes the warm air to rise,” he says. “We stay in those warm columns of air that allow

While he says that some gliders now have with their own engines to get them airborne, the gliders at the Edmonton Soaring Club are lifted aloft by a tow plane.

The glider is attached to the tow plane via a cable. As the tow plane makes its way down the runway, the light-weight glider actually becomes airborne first— trailing behind like a kite. Once the tow plane has lifted off, it will carry the glider to an altitude of approximately 3,000 feet, at which point the glider pilot re-

The pilot behind me—Acker— already explained the controls to me while we were on the ground.

The console in front of me matches the one in front of him, though he has control and whenever he moves his control stick or foot petals, mine move to match.

Now that we’re up in the air, he demonstrates pushing the stick forward to lower the nose, back to raise it, and left and right to tilt the glider in the corresponding direction. He shows me how to use the petals to work the rudder and turn the place left or right.

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And then he asks me if I would like to fly, and—for what was it, seconds, minutes?—I am in control of an aircraft, and I am not crashing and dying, and it is fantastic.

Returning the glider to his control, Acker demonstrates what happens when the aircraft stalls, and how to lower the nose until it resumes gliding.

Then he explains that so far we have had a very smooth flight, and asks if I want to simply continue floating down, back towards the runway, or if I’d prefer to see some aerobatics.

I choose the latter and experience zero gravity, and what Acker calls “vertical turns,” or what member Allendria Brunjes calls “roller coastering.”

Getting closer to ground, Acker starts his landing checks. As we come over the road bordering the runway, a hawk flies over the left wing of the glider, and I can see its wings from underneath, see the adjustments it makes with its feathers that mirror adjustments made by the glider.

The small aircraft has no landing gear: it simply touches down and slides across the field a ways before coming to a stop. Then it’s picked up by a tow tractor, and pulled back to the line for the tow plane to wait for its next flight.

Chelsea Novak chelsea@vueweekly.com

HOLISTIC OR BUSINESS?

Stop being salty and float. / Supplied

YOU’LL FLOAT TOO

Sustainability in the Float Industry Is Only Achievable If It Leaves the Holistic Nest and Branches Out to the Public

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he advent of sitting in a tub of water is nothing new, yet its popularity has never slowed down. Whether it is in a traditional bath, a jacuzzi, or out in a natural body of water—floating in serenity is something that most find inherently relaxing.

With this mentality, the float tank industry has skyrocketed in the last five years.

What once started as a niche form of alternative therapy has now become a booming industry with float locations spanning the city. However, even though floating in water may be a human activity as old as the planet—can an entire market surrounding it be sustained?

The launch point of any business model is do people want it, and is it profitable? It’s simple enough of an equation, but dif-

ficult to market when essentially selling something that comes out of any kitchen sink. With this in mind, numerous float services have begun popping up all over the city each with their own varying ethos to how to treat the ever-growing float industry.

A primary factor in the industry’s recent popularity is how it still seems new and unknown.

“People have a curiosity about what it is, and with more exposure people can understand and get a sense of what exactly they’re doing when they are floating. However the biggest thing is why they should be doing it. The ‘why’ will always be more important than the ‘what,’” says Dominic McKenzie, operator of Float House, a float service location just off of Whyte Avenue.

When it comes to this ‘why,’ numerous float locations have both staff and written summaries on the benefits of floating.

Whether it is for therapeutic purposes, physical and mental health, recreational reasons, or just needing some silence in a busy world, floating seems to practically sell itself. It’s all made even more enticing when options such as water temperature and lighting can be altered to fit the needs of the customer.

“The purpose of this environment is to control external stimulation; you can drop into those states of mindfulness and meditation more comfortably,” he says.

McKenzie takes this idea of comfort with him in the work place, focusing on the daily needs of the customer and the therapeu-

tic benefits of floating both recreationally and holistically. Yet, there is an elephant in the room that needs addressing—behind the smell of essential oils, pleasant staff and the float service itself, it is still a business. And with businesses of any variety comes change and competition.

“There’s a conversation a lot of people don’t want to have; you’re still running a business and you need to balance both the beneficial aspects with the business ones. Some people come in with passion full force, which is fine.

But, there has to be an adequate amount of time spent on the business aspect,” says Matthew Smith, co-founder and owner of Modern Gravity Float Studio.

The main aspect of the business’ focus comes in the marketing towards those not just doused

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in patchouli and astrological tattoos. If these industries want to survive they have to be accessible to every walk of life that Alberta holds—a sentiment that both Smith and McKenzie share, as both of their studios see just about every type of clientele that you can think of—something that Smith believes should be a mentality that anyone who is thinking about opening a float location should keep in mind.

“As much as I want everyone to be a bunch of hippies that’s just not the case. If we want to make an impact in the community we have to base it around the general population,” Smith says. “I feel like businesses who put their whole model on holistic can miss an opportunity for the general public to try it.”

Jake Pesaruk

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ART ROCK

The Five-Piece Art Rock Group Just Signed to DevilDuck Records and Has a New Addictive Song

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piece of music can completely inform the raw emotions of a TV or movie scene.

Think of the climax to the Black Mirror episode “Shut Up and Dance,” a story about a teenager who falls into a sinister online trap.

Radiohead’s sombre “Exit Music (For A Film)” wistfully plays on during the closing scenes as we learn the truth about the teenager’s true online habits. It’s a scene that plays with our emotions, taking us from feelings of guilt, remorse, and finally, furious anger.

Yes We Mystic, a five-piece art rock group from Winnipeg, also writes emotive cinematic songs except, with somewhat of a twist.

“I’ve never written a score, but that’s a place that they [scores] start from—having to match the emotion of a scene. So I guess we’re trying to match the emotion of a scene that doesn’t exist yet,” says Adam Fuhr, vocalist, and the group’s main songwriter.

The band’s latest track, “Felsenmeer,” is a piano-led ballad that lyrically touches on themes of loss, anxiety, and regret—and was written with a music video in mind.

“The story behind that song getting released was a long journey,” Fuhr says. “Last year, there was a music video that came out for our song “Working For the Future in Interlake” [found on the Forgiver record] that really just fell into our laps. We got contacted by a mutual acquaintance of the director who was looking to make a video of a song. We had no idea what to expect. It’s not every day that a free, beautiful music video falls into your lap.”

Yes We Mystic views itself as more of an arts collective than a band / Callie Lugosi

The music video featured dancer Niamh Wilson choreographically dancing in front of a shady green backdrop and went viral—landing on the front page of Reddit,—boosting the band’s reach in a matter of days.

“It was watched over 700,000 times or something,” Fuhr says. “This year, we got contacted by the same director and he said he wanted to make a sequel video. We sent him our next record and nothing we were really working on fit that vibe he was going for. So we decided to write something new.”

Yes We Mystic wrote “Felsenmeer”—a rare

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Wed., Aug. 8 (9 pm) Yes We Mystic w/ guests The Aviary $12 in adv. on yeglive.ca, $15 at doors song that builds from a chamber pop opus and explodes with a distorted, chaotic crescendo. Seriously, that moment the gnarled slide guitar kicks in—which is at two minutes and 12 seconds—can be played over and over again and it never loses its power. The song is the perfect marriage to Yes We Mystic’s core sounds—hushed orchestral pieces, and energy-driven indie rock narratives.

“We’re always trying to subvert convention while bowing down to it at times as well,” Fuhr says. “We wanted it [“Felsenmeer”] to kind of lull you in a calm place with a bit of tension and then release that tension in the biggest way we could.”

“Felsenmeer” is a step forward for Yes We Mystic, as well as a taste of the style that will inform the band’s sound on the unannounced upcoming record, which is being co-produced by Marcus Paquin (who has worked with Arcade Fire and The National.) Having also just signed Yes We Mystic to DevilDuck Records, Fuhr is beyond excited to finish the new record.

“The new upcoming record is more of a concept album because we had the concept in mind before we started working on it,” he says. “This record, the lyrics, and the compositions were made with the themes in mind and also the art projects we will do surrounding its release. We realized what we could do after Forgiver and so we went in with a much more coordinated idea this time.”

As for what the concept behind the upcoming record is, Fuhr remains knowingly vague.

“I have to keep that one close to my chest for the next little while,” he says. “This record is much more organic. I’ve been teaching myself to record for two years and there are parts of this new record that were captured the moments they were played. It’s not completed, but it will be in a few months.”

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A ROTATING CAST OF CHAOTIC BRASS

My Son the Hurricane May Be a Big Band, but Their Sound Is Something Totally Different

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or anyone who took high school band, “brass section” likely conjures a supercut of uncool—featuring spit valves and some poor schmuck lugging around a small tuba. But bursting forth from the suburbs of Ontario with their own special mix of funk, hip hop, and jazz, the bandmates of My Son the Hurricane prove that the brass section knows how to party.

The band performs with 10 to 14 members, depending on the show, and has a rotating brass section with trumpets, trombones, and

make sense—and then 10 years later we’re all across our country,” O’Shea says.

The band has also been hitting some U.S. cities, like Cleveland, Ohio, and Thomas, West Virginia.

While O’Shea always wanted My Son the Hurricane to be a big touring band, its sound—a rich mash up of genres—was something that developed over time.

“I think a lot of people talk about meshing different genres, but we have such a wide variety of writers and performers that, naturally, their tastes come out,” O’Shea

With so many people in the band, My Son the Hurricane approaches song writing differently than most.

“There’s isn’t any jamming,” O’Shea says. “Two or three of us write the initial part, and then create it in MIDI form, and then we hand out sheet music.”

O’Shea says sometimes the band doesn’t even rehearse a song before playing it live, each member is just responsible for learning their part.

That being said, My Son the Hurricane is all about the live show, and bringing energy to the stage.

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“We actually have a large pool of horn players we can pull from,” says Danno O’Shea, a Juno-nominated musician, and the band’s drummer and ringleader. “Sometimes you’ll notice that you have a little bit of a different section, but that kind of allows me to be a very unemotional band leader. If someone is unable to do a show, I can just go down the line to the next person.”

But managing that many people can be a challenge.

“What is normal for me, I think would be chaos for a lot of people,” O’Shea says. “It’s still chaos for me.”

While the band’s size may be a bit unruly, it seems to be working.

My Son the Hurricane has released two albums—You Can’t Do This in 2011, and Is This What You Want? in 2016— has been featured on CBC and Much More Music, and has a packed touring schedule, including summer festivals.

“We were always told that this wouldn’t work and that it didn’t

explains. “So I think what was originally supposed to sound like a New Orleans brass band, turned much more into a heavy funk and brass band, accidentally.”

Jacob Bergsma is the band’s emcee, and O’Shea says the most important thing the band was looking for in a vocalist or emcee was someone who wouldn’t get lost in front of the rest of the group.

“And finding someone who could match the intensity of the horns,” he adds.

For its second album, My Son the Hurricane added a vocalist— singer Sylvie Annette Kindree.

Kindree adds melodic choruses to songs like “Smile” and “Birthday Cake,” while Bergsma continues to supply energetic verse that stands out against the brass.

“From the minute she [Kindree] came on, it’s like all of a sudden the gears were greased, and everything started moving in the way that it felt like it had always been,” O’Shea says.

“We’re really aiming to wow—actually wow—people,” O’Shea says.

Lately, My Son the Hurricane has been wowing a different sort of crowd. Over the fall and spring, the band included some school stops on its tour.

“If we have a little bit of time in a city, we like to go play for their high school or their grade school, and show some kids some positive male and female role models, teach them about brass and winds,” says O’Shea, who has also been doing school shows with CBC children’s entertainer Will Stroet for a while now.

The school stops give kids who are in band—typically playing classical music—a chance to see what else their instruments can do, and to meet musicians they can model themselves after.

“We even win over the cool kids, who are like too cool for the first two songs,” O’Shea says.

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The beaches of Australia were a second home for Tennyson King. / Jen Squires

RIDING THE WAVE OF OPPORTUNITY How Tennyson King’s Experience in the Land Down Under Translates Up

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ennyson King is riding the waves of opportunity, and each swell, he rides with confidence and grace.

King rode these waves to the East Coast of Australia, where he travelled, played shows, and split his time between sleeping in hotels or in his van. There the waves played him a lullaby, giving him inspiration for his newest outing Coast.

“I bought this 1991 Toyota Hiace —a classic old school van—and any time I wasn’t in hotels I’d just park my van near the ocean and sleep there, partially living out of that,” Kings says. “It was something out of the movies, every morning I’d go for a swim in the ocean and, at night, fall asleep to the sound of the waves.”

This experience laced his newest single “Coast,” with those sounds

which he says, “captures that adventure of travelling the gold and sunshine coast, playing shows, sleeping by the water, and really appreciating the topography we don’t have in Canada—hot weather and warm water.”

His time in Australia and its influence is insurmountable in the way he reflects on it. Becoming in tune with the nature surrounding

the country gave way for King’s inspiration.

He says, “I need to be in nature in order to ground myself.

Growing up in Toronto, there’s a lot of concrete jungle, so I would need that escape. The time in nature is something I need in order to appreciate the little things. In turn, it sparks inspiration for my whole day and my music; the two (nature and music) go hand in hand for me.”

Never one to shy away from his influences, King remarks on what it was that took him from begrudgingly attending piano lessons to a touring singer/songwriter.

“I grew up doing piano lessons that most kids are forced into, and I really wasn’t that into it,” he says. “But as a teenager in Ontario, I’d go to the cottage up north with friends and family and sit around the bonfires trading songs; it’s there I realized the connection music really has.”

Thu., Aug. 2 (6:30 pm) and Sat., Aug. 4 (4 pm) Tennyson King Cafe Blackbird (Aug. 2) Black Dog (Aug. 4) Tickets at yegmusicoffical.com Now, with one EP down and another on the way, Tennyson King hopes to have people ride his wave of storytelling and songwriting.

“At my shows, I’m always storytelling, I love connecting with the audience, and for me live shows are the best way to give myself to the people,” he says.

“Someone can watch me for 15 minutes and they’ll start to know me. I love being able to connect and tell my stories to the crowd.”

It’s in this concrete jungle that we can become so caught up in our own waves, but Tennyson King is offering his own, so that perhaps we’re given a new wave to ride.

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eeding is one of Edmonton’s filthiest hardcore-influenced death metal bands. Composed of members of Low Level and Cold Lungs, its latest EP In Hell, from it’s razor sharp buzzsaw guitars, pulverizing patchwork of drum fills and d-beat ferocity, to each agonizing and tortured shriek and growl—Feeding is pure death metal madness. All death, and all dark.

“All our songs are about death in one way or another,” says vo-

to go play Calgary, and maybe Winnipeg too. Feeding would just like to encourage everyone in Edmonton to get out there and vote.

Let your voice be heard,” guitarist Brett Enns, wrote in their official Facebook press briefing.

Politics aside, the members of Feeding are fierce advocates of moon-rocks—arguably the strongest form of cannabis on the market. One-gram nuggets of marijuana bud dipped in hash oil and kief, the final product, which

tion Star Wars diorama on their self-titled EP’s track “Dregs” to Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection on the yet to be released track “Cosmic disembowelment.” “‘Cosmic disembowelment’ is about flying into space with the sole objective of killing yourself,” Pyshniak says. “The force of space ripping your skin off your bones, and your intestines being blown out of your ass … that process of dying would be fast and intense.”

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Our recent EP In Hell was about dying and going to hell, the metaphysical process of dying, cops dying, everything dying, and death.” – Zach Pyshniak calist Zach Pyshniak. “Our recent EP In Hell was about dying and going to hell, the metaphysical process of dying, cops dying, everything dying, and death.”

When Feeding isn’t busy spewing forth gut-wrenching occult dirt rock, the members have been busy trying to make Edmonton a haven for metal and weed heads alike. For example, guitarist Tyler Marshall—whose nickname is Todd—unsuccessfully bid for mayoral candidacy in Edmonton’s last civic election.

“We’d use civic funding to fix our van, and any other vans that are owned by bands who would like

carries approximately a 50 percent THC rating—and brewing their own beer.

“Oh it’s great, it’s kind of like making a big, shitty, smelling soup,” Enns says. “The only thing that sucks is waiting the like two weeks as it ferments before you can drink it.”

Like all great gore influenced grind acts, Feeding has a fond appreciation for old 1980s action movies, science fiction and thrillers. While Enns only watches Seinfeld, other band members have shown their appreciation in songs with influences ranging from Ralph Wiggum’s limited edi-

King Edwards Park community hall is a great place for youngsters to get in on the action as Edmonton is struggling again with all-age licensed events and licensing restrictions.

“It’s good to see the younger generation getting involved. The all age scene is so appreciative, and they don’t always get the luxury of seeing all these cool bands,” Enns says. “Shout out to False Body, Edmonton’s best new heavy band, and Calgary’s Sawlung. They put on most of our Calgary shows, so we figured it’s time we put on something for them.”

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Deafheaven’s music shifts focus from album to album but the results are always something unequivocally the band’s own. Blending elements of black metal, shoe gaze, screamo, and pop—while exploring familiar genre tropes such as spoken word monologues and post-rock sensibility—its fourth full-length Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, finds the band sounding both intimate and identifiable after the bleak and enrapturing experience of New Bermuda just three years ago.

Working again with long time collaborator, and producer Jack Shirley, this seven-song album is more complex than any of its three predecessors.

Taking its title from a line in Graham Greene’s intimate, provocative novel The End of the Affair, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love is an album about personal and spiritual growth, human frailty, desire, brokenness, and a search for a wholeness that’s rarely as defined in life.

Nadia Kury’s spoken vocal delivery on the opening track “You without End” blooms over slide guitars and mournful muted piano keys that simultaneously feel nostalgic and solemn. Other notable

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Most tracks clock in over the 10 minute mark, and require a fair bit of patience to sift through Deafheaven’s post-metallic intricacies.

The Leonard Cohen verse “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” holds true when describing this album. It’s drenched in loathing and sorrow, but glimmers with hope through a reassurance of possibilities to come.

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Paramount to Irvine Welsh’s adaption of his seminal novel were “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop, shirtless in all his rock ‘n roll bravado, and “Born Slippy .NUXX,” by the Underworld duo of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, who created the sonic experimentation that became one of the greatest dance tracks of the decade.

Iggy Pop, at 71, has hung up the hard drug use of his youth and maintains sobriety these days through “a combination of craft and willpower,” but hasn’t lost any of his ferocity or lust for life. He however refined his craft through the tenacity of survival and the experience of age.

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Iggy ruminates on friendship, one of the central themes in Trainspotting, throughout Teatime Dub Encounters. On the track “I’ll See Big,” which serves as a sort of throwback to Pop’s early life drawing similarities lyrically to “I’m bored,” off of The Stooges seminal 1979 album New Values where as he once crooned, “I’m free to bore my robot friends,” he now speaks of how he “started being demanding, and lost [his] friends,” and as he’s getting older reminiscing on “the friends who think of me, when I

move along … one or two of them are gonna have a grin and a good memory of me.”

Teatime Dub Encounters is as much a celebration of youth as it is transcendence. Through the nicotine and cocaine filled flights of the 1970s in “Bells & Circles,” to it’s closing track “Get Your Shirt,” Teatime Dub Encounters serves as a retrospective look into both Iggy’s wild excesses and that of an elder poet and statesmen standing firm amidst the changing times.

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I’m gay and have been dating a guy for 10 months. He’s great overall, and I would say for the most part we both want it to work out. But I am having a problem with his friends and other lifestyle choices.

All of his friends are straight, and almost all of them are women. All of my friends have always been gay men, like me, so I find this strange. I don’t have any problem with women, but I don’t hang out with any women, and neither do most of my friends. He makes dinner plans for us with his straight friends almost every week, and I grin and bear it. They’re always old coworkers, so the whole conversation is them talking about old times or straighty talk about their children.

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There is one woman in particular he makes dinner for every Friday night. It’s a standing date that he’s only occasionally been flexible about changing to accommodate plans for the two of us. Now he’s planning a week-long vacation with her. When he first mentioned this trip, he asked if I would want to spend a week camping. I said no, because I don’t like camping. He immediately went forward with planning it with her. I’m pretty sure the two of them had already hatched this plan, and I don’t think he ever really wanted me to go. I think it’s WEIRD to want to go camping for an entire week with some old lady.

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able problem between us. He says I’m not being “supportive.” I need some advice on how to get past my intense feelings of aversion to the weirdness. How can I not let our differences completely destroy the relationship?

HOPELESSLY ODD MAN OUT Differences don’t have to destroy a relationship. Differences can actually enhance and help sustain a relationship. But for differences to have that effect, HOMO, both partners have to appreciate each other for their differences. You don’t sound appreciative—you sound contemptuous. And that’s a problem. According to Dr. John Gottman of the Gottman Institute (a research institution dedicated to studying and strengthening marriages and other interpersonal relationships)—who says he can accurately predict divorce in 90 percent of cases—contempt is the leading predictor of divorce.

“When contempt begins to overwhelm your relationship, you tend to forget entirely your partner’s positive qualities,” he writes in Why Marriages Succeed or Fail.

Contempt, Gottman argues, destroys whatever bonds hold a couple together. You’ve been together only 10 months, HOMO, and you’re not married, but it sounds like contempt has already overwhelmed your relationship. It’s not just that you dislike his friends, you’re contemptuous of them; it’s not just that you don’t share his spiritual beliefs, you’re contemptuous of them; it’s not just that his gayness is expressed in a different-thanyours-but-still-perfectly-valid way, you’re contemptuous of him as a gay man. Because he doesn’t watch Drag Race or hang out in gay bars.

Because he’s got a lot of female friends. Because he’s happy to sit and talk with his friends about their kids. (There’s nothing “straighty” about kid conversations. Gay parents take part in those conversations, too. And while we’re in this parenthesis: I can’t understand why

anyone would waste their time actively disliking drag queens. But gay men are only required to like dick, not drag.) This relationship might work if you were capable of appreciating the areas where you two overlap—your shared interests (including your shared interest in each other)—and content to let him go off and enjoy his friends, his new-age church, and his standing Friday-night dinner date. A growing body of research shows that divergent interests + some time away from each other + mutual respect = long-term relationship success. You’re missing the “mutual respect” part—and where this formula is concerned, HOMO, two out of three ain’t enough.

Here’s how it might look if you could appreciate your differences: You’d do the things you enjoy doing together—like, say, each other—but on Friday nights, he makes dinner for his bestie and you hit the gay bars with your gay friends and catch a drag show. You would go on vacations together, but once in a while he’d go on vacation with one of his “straighty” friends, and once in a while you’d go on vacation with your gay friends. On Sundays, he’d go to woo-woo church and you’d sleep in or binge-watch Pose. You’d be happy to let him be him, and he’d be happy to let you be you—and together the two of you would add up to an interesting, harmonious, compelling “we.”

But I honestly don’t think you have it in you.

P.S. I have lots of straight friends, and I’m a parent, and sometimes I talk with other parents about our children, and I rarely go to gay bars, and I haven’t gotten around to watching Pose yet, or the most recent season of Drag Race, for that matter. It’s devastating to learn, after all these years and all those dicks, that I’m terrible at being gay.

P.P.S. If a straight person told you,

“I don’t have any problem with gay men, but I don’t hang out with any gay men, and neither do most of my friends,” you’d think they had a problem with gay men, right?

want to be with her. By finally seeking help—by actually taking the plunge—she can make it clear that she wants to be with you.

“HELP! I NEED SOMEBODY”

I have a very sexy German boyfriend, and he is not circumcised.

His otherwise beautiful dick is a problem. It smells—sometimes a little, sometimes it really stinks.

After he showers, the smell is still there. He says he uses only water.

Is there a better way to wash an uncircumcised penis? Can he use some kind of soap?

GIRL ASKS GAY4 GROOMING INTERVENTION NEAR GENITALS

I’ve been in an on-again, offagain relationship for the past four years. My girlfriend has an assortment of mental-health issues—anxiety, depersonalization episodes, depression, paranoia, among others—that make it very stressful and tiring to be with her.

Despite my best attempts at getting her to seek help, she refuses to take the plunge. Whether it’s a result of her illness or not, she refuses to believe that I actually want to be with her. I do care deeply about her, and the good days are wonderful. But nearly every time we go on a date or have sex, it ends in tears, and I have to endlessly reassure her that I do really want to be with her. I’m exhausted by having to defend my feelings for her multiple times per week and I don’t know what to do.

HE’S EXHAUSTED AND LOST There’s only one thing you can do, HEAL: Put this relationship on hold—take it back to offagain status—and make getting back together contingent upon her seeking help for her mentalhealth issues. You’ve made it clear, again and again, that you

STINKENDER SCHWANZ

Yes, GAGGING, there is a better way: He needs to wash that thing with motherfucking SOAP. If the soap he’s got is irritating the head of his penis or the inside of his foreskin, he needs to try other soaps until he finds one that cleans his dick without causing irritation. And you should make allowing that otherwise beautiful German dick anywhere near you contingent upon him learning how to clean it properly. There’s no excuse for stank-ass dick.

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Across

1 “There ___ there there” (Gertrude Stein comment on Oakland) 5 Go to the mat, slangily 11 Dog breeders’ org.

14 Unknown, as a citation (abbr.)

15 Stella ___ (Belgian beer) 16 ___ Locks (Sault Ste. Marie waterway) 17 Amorphous amounts 18 “Oh, crud!”

19 It looks like 2 in binary 20 Tootsie Roll Pop biter, in a classic ad 21 Chops into cubes 22 Word after blessed or catered 24 “Hush!”

26 Ornate 27 Bengal beast 28 Upper limit 30 Milan-based fashion label 31 Got a hold of, maybe 32 1960s campus protest gp. restarted in 2006 33 Sounding like a complete ass?

35 Tax pro 38 Bluegrass artist Krauss 39 Message on a tablet, maybe?

41 “And Still I Rise” poet 43 Shelve indefinitely 44 Larry, e.g.

45 Vacation vehicles 48 Uniform preceder?

49 Metallic mix 50 Close 52 Singer-songwriter Rita with the middle name SahatÁiu 53 Grocery sign phrase that’s grammatically questionable 55 Steve of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” 56 Elan 57 ___ bag 58 Go around 59 New Orleans-to-Miami dir.

60 Equilibrium situations 61 1990s point-and-click puzzle game

Down

1 Foe of Othello 2 Part-time Arizona resident, perhaps 3 Xenon, e.g.

4 Put-___ (shams)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I predict that August will be a Golden Age for you. That’s mostly very good. Golden opportunities will arise, and you’ll come into possession of lead that can be transmuted into gold. But it’s also important to be prudent about your dealings with gold. Consider the fable of the golden goose. The bird’s owner grew impatient because it laid only one gold egg per day; he foolishly slaughtered his prize animal to get all the gold immediately. That didn’t work out well. Or consider the fact that to the ancient Aztecs, the word “teocuitlatl” referred to gold, even though its literally translation was “excrement of the gods.” Moral of the story: If handled with care and integrity, gold can be a blessing.

5 Ulnae’s neighbors 6 “It’s ___ to the finish” 7 Take advantage of room, or demonstrate what four themed Down answers do?

8 Beau and Jeff, to Lloyd Bridges 9 Number in a Roman pickup?

10 She played one of the “Golden Girls” 11 Shipboard direction 12 Chekov portrayer on “Star Trek” 13 “See next page” abbr.

21 Purchases designed to last a long time 23 Null’s companion 25 Math proof ending 26 Sawyer’s friend 27 “Decorates” a house on Halloween, perhaps 29 Irish-born children’s book author Colfer 31 El ___, Texas 34 Provoke 35 Jim Carrey title role, with “The” 36 Some light beers 37 “Cakes and ___” (W. Somerset Maugham book) 38 Intensely eager 40 Ewe in the movie “Babe” 41 Pioneering video game systems 42 Generic 44 Back burner location 46 “Westworld” character ___ Hughes 47 Mr. Potato Head pieces 49 Seaweed plant 51 Body shop challenge 54 Spoil 55 Withdrawal site ©2018 Jonesin’ Crosswords

FREEWILLASTROLOGY

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus socialite Stephen Tennant (1906-1987) was such an interesting luminary that three major novelists created fictional characters modeled after him. As a boy, when he was asked what he’d like to be when he grew up, he replied, “I want to be a great beauty.” I’d love to hear those words spill out of your mouth, Taurus. What? You say you’re already all grown up? I doubt it.

In my opinion, you’ve still got a lot of stretching and expansion and transformation to accomplish during the coming decades.

So yes: I hope you can find it in your wild heart to proclaim, “When I grow up, I want to be a great beauty.” (P.S. Your ability to become increasingly beautiful will be at a peak during the next fourteen months.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Manage with bread and butter until God sends the honey,” advises a Moroccan proverb. Let’s analyze how this advice might apply to you. First thing I want to know is, have you been managing well with bread and butter?

Have you refrained from whining about your simple provisions, resting content and grateful?

If you haven’t, I doubt that any honey will arrive, ether from God or any other source. But if you have been celebrating your modest gifts, feeling free of greed and displeasure, then I expect at least some honey will show up soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Don’t worry your beautiful head about praying to the gods of luck and fate. I’ll take care of that for you.

Your job is to propitiate the gods of fluid discipline and hard but smart work. To win the favour of these divine helpers, act on the assumption that you now have the power and the right to ask for more of their assistance than you have before. Proceed with the understanding that they are willing to provide you with the stamina, persistence, and attention to detail you will need to accomplish your next breakthrough.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.” A character named Julia says that in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited. I bring it to your attention as an inspiring irritant, as a prod to get you motivated. I hope it will mobilize you to rise up and refuse to allow your past and your future to press so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present. It’s a favourable time for you to fully claim the glory of being right here, right now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m not an ascetic who believes all our valuable lessons emerge from suffering. Nor am I a popnihilist who sneers at pretty flowers, smiling children, and sunny days. On the contrary: I’m devoted to the hypothesis that life is usually at least 51 percent wonderful. But I dance the rain dance when there’s an emotional drought in my personal life, and I dance the pain dance when it’s time to deal with difficulties I’ve ignored. How about you, Virgo? I suspect that now is one of those times when you need to have compassionate heart-to-heart conversations with your fears, struggles, and aches.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Do you absolutely need orchids, sweet elixirs, dark chocolate, alluring new music, dances on soft grass, sensual massages, nine hours of sleep per night, and a steady stream of soulful conversations? No. Not really. In the coming days, life will be a good ride for you even if you fail to procure those indulgences.

But here are further questions and answers: Do you “deserve” the orchids, elixirs, and the rest?

My answer is yes, definitely. And would the arrival of these delights spur you to come up with imaginative solutions to your top two riddles? I’m pretty sure it would. So I conclude this horoscope by recommending that you do indeed arrange to revel in your equivalent of the delights I named.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Don’t try to steer the river,” writes Deepak Chopra. Most of the time, I agree with that idea. It’s arrogant to think that we have the power to control the forces of nature or the flow of destiny or the song of creation. Our goal should be to get an intuitive read on the crazy-making miracle of life, and adapt ourselves ingeniously to its ever-shifting patterns and rhythms. But wait! Set aside everything I just said. An exception to the usual rule has arrived.

Sometimes, when your personal power is extra flexible and robust—like now, for you—you may indeed be able to steer the river a bit.

Rob Brezsny

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Dear Astrologer: Recently I’ve been weirdly obsessed with wondering how to increase my levels of generosity and compassion.

Not just because I know it’s the right thing to do, but also because I know it will make me healthy and honest and unflappable. Do you have any sage advice?—Ambitious Sagittarius.” Dear Ambitious: I’ve noticed that many Sagittarians are feeling an unprecedented curiosity about how to enhance their lives by boosting the benevolence they express. Here’s a tip from astrologer Chani Nicholas: “Source your sense of self from your integrity in every interaction.” Here’s another tip from Anais Nin: “The worse the state of the world grows, the more intensely I try for inner perfection and power. I fight for a small world of humanity and tenderness.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Time does not necessarily heal all wounds. If you wait around passively, hoping that the mere passage of months will magically fix your twists and smooth out your tweaks, you’re shirking your responsibility. The truth is, you need to be fully engaged in the process. You’ve got to feel deeply and think hard about how to diminish your pain, and then take practical action when your wisdom shows you what will actually work. Now is an excellent time to upgrade your commitment to this sacred quest.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The questions you’ve been asking aren’t bad or wrong. But they’re not exactly relevant or helpful, either. That’s why the answers you’ve been receiving aren’t of maximum use. Try these questions instead. 1. What experience or information would you need to heal your divided sense of loyalty? 2. How can you attract an influence that would motivate you to make changes you can’t quite accomplish under your own power? 3. Can you ignore or even dismiss the 95 percent of your fear that’s imaginary so you’ll be able to focus on the five percent that’s truly worth meditating on? 4. If I assured you that you have the intelligence to beautify an ugly part of your world, how would you begin?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A scuffle you’ve been waging turns out to be the wrong scuffle. It has distracted you from giving your full attention to a more winnable and worthwhile tussle. My advice? Don’t waste energy feeling remorse about the energy you’ve wasted. In fact, be grateful for the training you’ve received. The skills you’ve been honing while wrestling with the misleading complication will serve you well when you switch your focus to the more important issue. So are you ready to shift gears? Start mobilizing your crusade to engage with the more winnable and worthwhile tussle.

CURTIS HAUSER

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