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FRONT

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Olympian speed skater Anastasia Bucsis discusses LGTBQ issues in sports // 3

DISH

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Delicious is in the details at Saigon Taste // 4

ARTS

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Pick your plays — the Fringe reviews are out / 6

POP

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Local game nights and Kickstarterfunded board games have created a thriving social scene // 11

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Sausage Party is 100 percent meaty // 12

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White Lightning’s new album Face to Face released August 19 // 15

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FRONT PREVUE // LGBTQ

Sports world intolerance

Olympian speed skater Anastasia Bucsis says open discussion is key to progress

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here are 43 openly gay athletes at this year's Rio Olympics—a huge jump from the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014 that had only seven openly gay athletes, all of which were women, participate in the games. Though, we're seeing improvements in the LGBTQ sports community—Rio 2016 is being applauded for its record number of LGBTQ participants—there's still some work to be done. That's only 43 openly gay athletes out of 11 402 athletes competing in this year's games. Still, some have consciously decided to keep their sexual identity under wraps.

Olympian speed skater, Anastasica Bucsis is not one of these. The Calgary-born Olympian came out in 2013 in response to Russia's anti-gay laws ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games. She's currently training—six days of the week, she says—for the 2018 games. But, when she's not training for the Winter Olympics, she's strongly advocating for equality on and off the field of play for LGBTQ athletes as ambassador and member of the You Can Play Project, an activist group dedicated to the eradication of homophobia in sports.

Olympian speed skater Anastasia Bucsis // Courtesy of RBC

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"Sport is very heteronormative. It’s very policing with gender norms. Stereotypes abound—whether it’s the female hockey players is 100 percent a lesbian or the male figure skater is 100 percent a gay man is completely wrong. Furthering this discussion breaks down those stereotypes," she says. "I hope in the near future that its not even an issue, it’s a non-issue.

It’s an issue until it’s a non-issue and it’s still an issue."

Bucsis, along with Brian Burke— President of Hockey Operations for the Calgary Flames Hockey Club and adovcate for LGBTQ equality and acceptance in the NHL community—will be present at the upcoming Edmonton Public Library's Championing Equality: LGBTQ (ac)counts in Sports panel, as part of EPL's Forward Thinking Speaker Series.

"I just think there’s a miscommunication or misunderstanding that we don’t need to talk about this anymore," she says. "I never want to de-value the great strides made in the community and in sport, but we got a long way to go. To think that we don’t is a wrong interpretation of the environment right now for LGBT athletes."

Wed, Aug 24 (6 pm) Championing Equality: LGBTQ (ac)counts in Sports Stanley A Milner Library, $10 Having open discussions such as the one EPL is organizing is important since the sports world, despite its advances, is still deeply rooted in a conservative mindframe and continues to push forward heternormative, gender-policing views. That stigmatization can harm younger generations and can result in a lot of kids dropping out of sport, because of that lack of acceptance, she says.

"Silence furthers stigma. Sometimes people make the honest mistake thinking that not recognizing a problem [exists] will help it go away and that’s absolutely not the truth," Bucsis says. "We only need to look at LGBT suicide rates—teen suicide rates—or the disproportionate amounts of homeless that are LGBT to recognize that this is still a huge problem and it’s not going to go away unless we continue to talk about it. I’m really looking forward [to the panel] and I think anytime that a group of people come together consciously and make an effort to discuss and bring up some difficult topics makes us all better."

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Fighting for democratic rights

The government's legal battle on Power Purchase Agreements supports the public interest

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ast month the Alberta government announced that it would be taking legal action to ask the courts to declare illegal and invalid a clause inserted 16 years ago by the Klein government into the Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) by which electricity sales in the province were deregulated.

The contentious part of the clause consists of adding the words “or more unprofitable” to describe the conditions under which an energy company could simply walk away from their PPA and leave consumers holding the bag for financial losses.

Specifically, the way the clause has been interpreted thus far by the Balancing Pool (the folks deciding whether it’s valid or not for a company to step away from their PPA) is that, even if PPA is already unprofitable because of market conditions they can say that government policy will make them “more unprofitable” and dump their money-losing PPA back onto consumers.

The Alberta government says that the clause is invalid because it was inserted behind closed doors at the behest of Enron after the public consultation process had wrapped up, after the final order was issued approving the PPAs, and without any formal notice to consumers.

The government’s application is currently scheduled to be heard by a judge in chambers on November 2.

As has been the case far too often with this government, the announcement of the legal action was quickly followed by the province’s radical right and the mainstream media completely losing their minds and the government completely losing control of the framing and communications around the issue. The Conservatives stepped up quickly to defend the integrity of their brand and the PPAs suggesting the government should simply have “done their homework” and looked harder to find the buried clause.

The Wildrose has used this as an opportunity to once again attack the government’s carbon levy and Climate Leadership Plan (CLP), while oddly working to defend the rights of power companies not to lose money over the rights of consumers not to be left holding the bag for an unprofitable industry.

They have also, in a spectacular display of inaccuracy and misrepresentation, worked to frame the court action as the government wasting taxpayer dollars to sue itself. The only suggestions they have offered up for resolution thus far have been to scrap the carbon levy and CLP, or to meet with these

just kept loudly repeating that they are working to protect the interests of electricity consumers and undo a wrong perpetrated against Albertans by Klein and Enron, despite the fact that the message has been almost completely drowned out by the loud voices of the right and the mainstream media.

What has unfo r t u n a te l y been lost in all of this is the larger set of values and principles at play in this process. Beyond their impact on Alberta’s electricity market, the three words in question, “or more unprofitable”, are hugely symbolic of one of the most dangerous and insidious aspects of the extreme neo-liberalism that has been allowed to run rampant across North America, and much of the world, over the last 20 to 30 years.

That clause is the regulatory manifestation of the belief that the only role of governments is to do everything they can to help maximize corporate profits, and that any action

Imagine what a clause like “or more unprofitable” would have meant for governments trying to ban child labour, slavery, or the 40 hour work-week. corporations and strike a deal with them behind closed doors, apparently forgetting that’s how this mess was created in the first place.

Most media, on the other hand, has chosen to focus their interventions on the questions of who knew what when, and even trotted out a former Enron executive to protest loudly that they were just protecting their interests and did nothing wrong—a strategy which failed miserably for the company in the US. The government, for its part, has

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to defend or promote the public interest should be forbidden if it interferes in any way with that profit motive. Imagine what a clause like “or more unprofitable” would have meant for governments trying to ban child labour, slavery, or the 40 hour work-week.

In the end, it shouldn’t matter who knew what when, or how much the legal action will cost Albertans, or if leaving the PPAs as they are will mean $2 billion in extra costs to consumers or $1 billlion. This court action should not just be seen within the context of electricity sales in Alberta, but rather as a government working to assert its fundamental democratic right to enact policy in the public interest regardless of the impact on corporate profits. And in that context the move should be applauded and supported by every Albertan who believes that, in a democracy, their well-being should take precedence over the bottom line. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta. The views and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute.

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REVUE // VIETNAMESE

DISH

Detailed and delicious

Saigon Taste's menu boasts 140 items, including soups, rice dishes, and sizzling meats

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t’s a little-known fact that Edmonton is unusually blessed with good Vietnamese restaurants—just one of the perks of being a safe landing place for the global diaspora. But the question comes up from time to time whether any of those good Vietnamese restaurants operate outside our Chinatown, home to towering purvey-

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ors of pho and bún such as Pagolac, the Golden Bird, Xu Hu and Tau Bay, all nestled on or near 97 Street, just north of our burgeoning Ice District.

I can think of outliers that flout the rule like Pho Hoan Pasteur in Kingsway, C Đô Hu in the north end and the estimable Ph King on Alberta Ave, but I will spare from scrutiny lesser

strip-mall ph factories that fall short through small portions, inflated prices and a lack of rigour in laying on the details that befit a proper Vietnamese feed.

So I had to wonder about Saigon Taste. Situated next to a Starbucks near Oliver Square with mostly chain fast food joints for neighbours,

the relative newcomer could easily succumb to the short-cutting, mothball-free bathrooms and glossy appurtenances that characterize the mainstreaming of Vietnamese food in our fair city, if only to pay the rent.

Saigon Taste’s menu clocks in at more than 140 items including soups, rice platters and sizzling dishes made with pork, beef, chicken, seafood or vegetarian options. But the truest test of a Vietnamese restaurant’s abilities is its facility with ph , the hearty beef noodle soup enjoyed any time of the day, and bún, the meal-in-a-bowl that was my introduction to Vietnamese food lo these many years ago.

A holiday disrupted Saigon Taste’s seven-days-a-week operating schedule, but I did manage to sample the Saigon special vermicelli bowl ($12.95) and their excellent iced coffee ($4.95). I know iced coffee is a big thing at the monopoly coffee outlets, but Vietnam had it down a long time ago, allowing a stiff jolt of rich French roast to slowly drip over a thick layer of sweetened condensed milk, then serving it over ice, resulting in a beverage that lands somewhere between espresso and a melted Fudgsicle.

Saigon Taste’s special vermicelli featured grilled pork, grilled shrimp, panfried lemongrass beef and those weirdly appetizing puce porkballs, along with spring rolls, match-sticked carrots and cucumber, sprouts and lettuce over skinny, slightly chewy

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Saigon Taste 10383 112 St 780.705.1675 rice noodles with a side of fish sauce.

In short, it was a honking portion of food for the money and one that I was unable to finish. On the upside, there was an ort of toothsome meat in every bite, and the lean tags of pork had been imbued with aromatic five-spice powder; the chargrilled shrimp were super-succulent and the spring rolls were crisp and ungreasy.

However, I could have used some fresh herbs (basil, mint) and a touch more garlic to get me to the bottom of the bowl.

To Saigon Taste’s credit, everything I needed for the meal was accounted for—sriracha, chili paste, satay sauce, white pepper and hoisin sauce for dipping my spring rolls. They also know that good Vietnamese food should be accompanied by elevator music renditions of Careless Whisper and Up Where We Belong.

I was well slaked—and a little embarrassed when I realized too late that they had failed to charge me for my iced coffee and I had failed to point it out—and committed to returning to try more of Saigon Taste’s cooking.

It may not match Chinatown’s finest, but there are compensatory charms, some yet to be discovered.

SCOTT LINGLEY

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PREVUE // CHOCOLATE

Starting with the bean

Sherwood Park chocolatier JACEK walks us through making chocolate from scratch

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or the past seven years, JACEK Chocolate Couture has been combining sweet treats with high fashion. Owner and chocolatier Jacqueline Jacek’s collections of “couture” chocolates and truffles are intricately decorated according to seasonal themes, and the company also offers a line of flavoured chocolate bars named after movie stars and fashion icons. Like most chocolatiers, Jacek makes her truffles from “couverture,” high-quality chocolate that’s purchased in bulk from world-renowned chocolatemakers. But that’s beginning to change. Alongside chocolate-maker Curtis Jones, Jacek has begun expanding into single-source bean-tobar chocolate made in-house from raw ingredients.

Many people don’t realize that chocolatiers and chocolate-makers aren’t synonymous.

“The best analogy is that chocolate-maker is essentially the fabricmaker and the chocolatier is the designer,” Jacek says.

There’s no shame in a chocolatier using pre-made chocolate to create their candies, and Jacek says her company will continue to use

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couverture from makers like Valrhona and Cacoa Berry. “We just wanted to own the process a little more," she says.

Dubbed the “Fabric Collection,” Jacek’s line of bean-to-bar chocolate bars are created through a labourintensive process at the company’s Sherwood Park chocolate studio.

Jones, a chef who trained at NAIT before turning to chocolate, is behind most of the process, which takes a minimum of 12 days.

Jacek’s Fabric bars are all singlesource origin, which means that each chocolate bar is made from beans from a single country. The three bars currently on offer are from Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Peru. The result is that each of the bars has a distinct flavour, resulting from different growing conditions in each country.

“It really showcases the terroir and the flavours of where the bean is grown, kind of like wine,” she says. “The flavours are completely different even though the recipe is the same.”

When the cacoa beans arrive, they are sorted by hand in order to re-

move any leaves, branches or poorquality beans. The beans are then roasted in small batches in order to develop their flavour and kill any potential germs. Because chocolate is only made from the inner “nib” of the bean, Jones has created a winnowing machine using a juicer and a shop vac, which removes the fibrous husks and leaves the edible part behind. Those chocolate nibs are then put into a special grinding machine alongside sugar and added cacoa butter and refined for 72 hours. The resulting chocolate is then allowed to rest for at least a week.

From there, the chocolate is tempered, which requires heating and then cooling the chocolate, before being moulded into bars and finally packaged for the sales floor.

Reception so far has been good. In late July, Jacek hosted an open house at its Sherwood Park location, allowing curious shoppers to come watch the chocolate being made and learn more about where chocolate comes from. The company also plans to introduce another bar from Colombia in the coming months.

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The reviews are in!

From the sublime to the embarrassing, we saw it all

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very. Single. Performance. If it featured at this year's Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, then we've got an opinion on it.

We absorbed it all—from downright embarrassing hypnotism to sublime operatic singing, and more than a few Star Trek references. We laughed until our cheeks hurt, were unexpectedly moved to tears, and eventually shook with exhaustion.

You can enjoy the full range of emotion in our pithy reviews online at edmontonfringe.ca, but here is a brief sampling of our thoughts.

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BLINDSIDE  Stephanie Morin-Robert is an absolute delight. In Blindside, MorinRobert shares her story of growing up with a glass eye, having survived retinoblastoma. It’s a tale of self-acceptance, where MorinRoberts discloses moments of grade school humiliation that will make you gasp and the clever and kooky way she came to discover her ‘superpower’ (aka. the ability to remove her eye). Sprinkled with tender humour, Morin-Robert is beyond charming. With an admirable spirit and a daring performer, Blindside is a heartwarming reminder of the power of embracing what makes us unique. KATHLEEN BELL

Shakespeare’s Sirens: A Burlesque Revue  The Fringe is getting frisky! But it’s sexy, not smutty, and there’s so much more to the show than bare bosoms.

The audience is treated to a sassy Queen Elizabeth (Morgan Smith) who accuses Shakespeare (CJ Rowein) of being a bigoted bard for not writing any independent female characters. In his defence, he points out some strong-willed women who then bump and grind to the beat of contemporary hits. The paradox between music and character is delicious, and the whooping from the audience at every undone button adds to the atmosphere. From Hamlet to Macbeth, Shakespeare’s misogyny is parodied in dance and performed by ladies who love both their bodies and their art.

Boat is a fast-paced, gripping show, full of fascinating interactions between the main cast and the zany characters they meet along the way. CHRIS GEE

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Falling Awake  1⁄2 Falling Awake is a wonderfully bizarre, lucid dream. Highlights of the show include beautiful operatic singing by Nayana Fielkov, surrealistic extreme weather tableaus by Matthew McCorkle, and Chaplinesque physical comedy by the both of them. Subtle sleight-of-hand illusions and magic tricks are incorporated flawlessly into this fantasy, just adding to the sense of this show’s strange sense of whimsy. A charming dreamscape full of romance, death, and “Poofers” (you’ll understand when you see it), this show ended in a standing ovation. BRYAN SAUNDERS

Three Men In A Boat  1⁄2 Follow three spirited, big-city Brits, and their noble dog, on their misadventures on a boat trip down the River Thames – what could go wrong?

The slick and uproarious story is told masterfully by the three dapper, welldressed actors, their English accents peppered with wit and charm. There are non-stop laughs as the trio ferociously works with physical comedy, harmonic sing-songs, with a flashy, synchronized delivery. Three Men in a

Flaps of Steel  This musical comedy act isn’t for the faint of heart—or ears, for that matter. Kayla Williams and Melody Stang (otherwise known as The Dirrty Show) perform songs jampacked with sexy subject matter. The two establish a drinking game early in the show wherein members of the audience drink whenever the words “penis” or “flaps” are mentioned. To put it simply, these women are very funny—not just talented singers

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and musicians, but intensely likeable people. Case in point, an improvised “yacht rock” song gets a ton of laughs because they’ve got you—hook, line and sinker. CLAIRE HOFFMAN The Magic Negro and Other Blackness  Meet the magic Negro. He jumps.

He jives. He sweeps floors, yessir.

Thankfully, he also pokes holes in the myriad racial stereotypes hidden in the deepest and latent corners of our cultural fabric. Some people may feel uncomfortable having a black man shout the n-word at them, but self-admittedly Atlanta comic Mark Kendall feels just as uncomfortable needing to to get his point across.

We're here to break down walls, right? Kendall perfectly nails the conflicting internal drama of defending racial equality while simultaneously trying to live as an individual in a world that just can’t seem to ignore the colour of his skin. SEAN STEELS nerdfucker  Cameryn Moore’s one-woman show is a fearless look at the dark side of nerd culture and what it means to be brave. The audience itself is cast as con-goers attending a risqué chess match, and the performance becomes unsettling as the extent to which Moore’s anxious character is damaged and looking for love from people who will never appreciate or value her becomes clear. Moore’s performance is intentionally awkward but her character remains human and likeable. Despite her obvious flaws and insecurities, I quickly found myself rooting for the play’s protagonist. An ambiguous ending didn't make her moments of strength and bravery any less satisfying. ALIX KEMP Mustache Party! The Dalí Show  1⁄2 What. The fuck. Was that? Inspired

by Salvador Dali’s words and works, Mustache Party! is bizarre, challenging, and gleeful. Some scenes are hilarious. Most are incomprehensible.

Gladiatorial combat between audience members leads with somber inevitability to a surrealist poetry omelette. They teach us a dance. They fling mustaches into the crowd. They are born inside out onstage. They dance Dali-esque daydreams. And they have so much fun! The staging, props and physical comedy are in-

spired. Anna Sell, Laura Loy and Jeff Desautels may be geniuses, puerile or mad: as with surrealism itself, each viewer comes to their own opinion.

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Call me Kirk – The Ultimate Trek Song! Dance! Tribbles! In this oneman show, “everything happens,” from wars to romance to a Tribble invasion. Michael Schaldemose plays William Shatner as Captain Kirk, and his impression is spot-on. He also plays some other familiar characters who join him on the Enterprise — including Spock, Scotty, Bones, and many more. Classic lines are woven into the performance, which always gets a good reaction. However, those uninitiated in the world of Trek might get lost. Fan boys and girls should check it out. SHEREEN ZINK Not a Nefarious Plan: An Ordinary Play About Superheroes  The audience will chuckle not only at the character tropes, but also at the amusing cue cards depicting superhero traditions like the origin story or an obligatory training montage. Not a Nefarious Plan: An Ordinary Play About Superheroes knows exactly what it is and it shows when the actors slightly break character by laughing at their own jokes. But don’t be alarmed. This only enhances the light-hearted universe they wish to create for the audience. Shawn Das-Collins truly steals the show with his flamboyant character of Dr. Apocalypse. It’s fun for the whole family and contains a couple of jokes that may go over young children’s heads. STEPHAN BOISSONNEAULT

Play Piano Play  While some Fringe shows feel like they were honed to precision over hundreds of performances, Jan Janovsky’s Play Piano Play feels as though it was shaped over literally dozens of hours mugging into a bathroom mirror. Janovsky’s primary claim to the stage is a certain facility with a piano, but this is undermined by a propensity for stale gags about his crotchety Czech dad and how accordion players are losers. Aside from a stab at a musical comedy in the form of a half-assed theme song, the "play" is random, faltering amateur stand-up interspersed with flashy performances of songs from the public domain, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Glory, Glory Hallelujah" among them. It is family friendly though - the only offensive thing about it is that you paid to see something this lazily conceived and executed. SCOTT LINGLEY

Comedy Hypnotist Joe Francis 0 stars Stage hypnosis is largely dependent on participants’ desire to be silly without consequences, and on the peer pressure exerted by a cheering audience. Peer pressure, though, can easily be a noxious force, and hypnotist Joe Francis’s show proves it.

While hypnotism can be in good fun, this show involves participants being cajoled by both Francis and the more eager sections of the audience to take part in a variety of degrading performances against a backdrop of poor taste jokes about homosexuality and rape. By the end of the show, one participant was curled up in fetal position and refusing to fake an orgasm, while parts of the audience were beginning to rebel against Francis’s increasingly crude suggestions. While some people in attendance clearly felt humiliated, Francis is the one who should feel most embarrassed. ALIX KEMP

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Basic Witch  The premise is enticing. A sketch comedy trip back to 1692 to poke fun at what little has changed for women since the Salem witch trials.

For the first half hour the Toronto quintet hits some good notes, taking on mansplaining, religion verses science, and a number of other problems we haven’t quite figured out in the last 300 years. Unfortunately, by the 30-minute mark the jokes increasingly fall flat and the bits start to meander as the central witchy premise slips out from their sketches. With a tighter second half this one would more likely live up to its clever concept. RYAN STEPHENS

Flaps of Steel // Shawn Bernard

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FAB GALLERY • Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • ualberta.ca/artshows • Graduate Design Group Show: A selection of work by students graduating with a Master of Design degree • Sep 20-Oct 22

Bubbles Thee Ice Queens' birthday show • Aug 27, 8pm (doors), 9:30pm (show) • $10 (door)

• 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) • Mystic Places: artwork by Joani Tremblay; Aug 4-Sep 10

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • August Group Selling Exhibition; until Aug 27

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

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullen-gallery • 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

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

HIGHER EDUCATION • Mama's Gin Joint, Jasper Ave and 117 St • Hot for teacher and the teachings of Cheech and Chong • Sep 24, 8pm (doors), 9:30pm (show) • $10 (door)

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony

SACRED CIRCLE DANCE • Riverdale Hall, 9231-100 Ave • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music.

No partner required • Every Wed, 7-9pm • $10

Plain • multicentre.org • Nature Drawings: artwork by Jill Stanton; Jul 31-Aug 26

SOUL MOTION • Spirit Paths Studio, 10715-124 St

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • Satisfaction Guaranteed; Jun 28-Sep 11 • Weiller and Williams Co Ltd: Building a Livestock Empire: In 2015, the Musée Héritage Museum received a large donation of business and family items that had belonged to Leland Stanford (Lee) Williams, partner in one of Canada’s largest cattle-commission firms; Sep 20-Nov 13

NW, Lower Level • Conscious dance practice to drop tension, foster body awareness, and encourage authentic ways of relating to others. Taught by Soul Motion Teacher in Training. • Aug 31, 7:30pm; Sep 6, 6:30pm; Oct 4, 6:30pm; Nov 1, 6:30pm • Donation based 1 hour class

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome.

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

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 •

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: 45 Years (Aug 24), Anomalisa (Aug 31)

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • METRO BIZARRO: Belladonna of Sadness (Aug 24) • MUSIC DOC: Searching for Sugar Man (Aug 30) • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Howl's Moving Castle (Aug 27, Aug 29) • STAFF PICS: Fight Club (Aug 22) • THEY CAME FROM PROJECTOR X: Forbidden Planet (Aug 25, 27, 31) • TURKEY SHOOT: Batman & Robin (Aug 25)

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

REYNOLDS-ALBERTA MUSEUM • 6426-40 Ave, Wetaskiwin • 780.312.2065 • reynoldsalbertamuseum@gov.ab.ca • history.alberta. ca/reynolds • Stan Reynolds: The Original Canadian Picker - Exhibition: An exhibit that provides insight into Stan Reynolds and his love of history and preserving the past for future generations; Runs until Oct 11

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Crafting Conscience; Jul 9-Oct 1 • Small Works: Paper Meets Cloth: artwork by Margie Davidson; Jul 30-Sep 3 • Get Lost: artwork by Ruth-Anne French; Jul 30-Sep 3

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-

ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34 St

Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Connections: SNAP/Printmatters Portfolio; Aug 4-20 • Return To Sender: 2016 SNAP Members Print Exchange; Aug 4-20 • The Garden of Earthly Delights: artwork

by Juan Ortiz-Apuy; Aug 25-Oct 8 • New Works by Jill Ho-You; Aug 25-Oct 8 • A Modern Cult of Monuments: artwork by Colin Lyons; Oct 13-Nov 26 • To Do: artwork by Graeme Dearden; Oct 13-Nov 26 • Snap Members Show & Sale: Dec 8-24

• 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends during the summer until Sep 2 • $5 (adult)/$3.50 (senior/student)/$2 (child 3-12)/child under 3 free; $4 (train rides)

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • A Parallel Excavation: artwork by Duane Linklater & Tanya Lukin Linklater; Apr 30-Sep 18 • The Unvarnished Truth: Exploring the Material History of Painting; Apr 30-Sep 18 • Allora & Calzadilla: Echo to 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 • Every Story Has Two Sides: artwork by Damian Moppett and Ron Moppett; Sep 17-Dec 31 • 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 • Art for Lunch: 3rd Thu of the month, 12:10-12:50pm • VIBE: The gallery is transformed into a laid-back lounge with Vibe, a pop-up live music showcase; Aug 19; 5-9pm

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• 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 • Sep 1 (exhibits run all month)

BEAR CLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St • 780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • Summer Exhibition; until Aug BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 9132-118 Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Artwork by Brandon Atkinson; Sep 10-Oct 15 • Open Walls Two; Oct 29-Nov 26 • Carly Greene; Dec 3-Jan 21 BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Fifty Four Hours: artwork by Alex Peck-Whyte; Aug 12-26

SPARK EVENT CENTRE • 2257 Premier Way, FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery. com • Summer Salon III: group art show; Through Aug • Artwork by Matt Petley Jones: A solo show featuring work

by Matt Petley Jones, an established landscape artist who uses bright gestural paint-strokes to capture unique Canadian landscapes; Sep 15-Oct 7; Opening reception: Sep 8, 7-9pm

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • A Question of Faith: artwork by Bernhardt; Jul 8-Aug 28 GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl. ca/gallery-at-milner • On the Walls: Anti-Portrait: Mixed

Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Drawing on Life: artwork by Catherine Compston, Carroll Charest, Deltra Powney, Judy Martin, Sharon MooreFoster, Daphne Cote, Nancy Corrigan; Jul 26-Aug 19 • New Pointillism and Retrospective Journey: artwork by Pat Trudeau; Aug 23-Sep 16

VISUALEYEZ • visualeyez.org • Latitude 53 invites artists to Edmonton to explore issues around the curatorial theme of kindness—works that explore the fragility of the human ego and expand upon the positive nature of simple gestures. Over a six-day period, artists will work together in a residency-like format before three intensive days of performance • Sep 19-24

WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • 125 Years Of Ukrainian Culture: artwork by Peter Shostak; Sep 10-22 YARD GALLERY • 10986-128 St • amanda@ chronicnostalgic.com • A Garage Sale for Art; Aug 27-28

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Winnie Canuel "Homes" signing and meet & greet; Aug 19, 12-1pm • Rebekah Raymond/J.J Reichenbach/Sarah L Johnson Multiple Book Launch; Aug 20, 2-3:30pm

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

Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ca • Pick up some great deals on gently-used books, CDs and DVDs. Proceeds go towards purchasing new materials for the Library’s collections • Aug 19 (9:30am-8:30pm), Aug 20 (9:30am-4:30pm), Aug 21, 1:00-4:30pm • Free

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GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St

PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 •

PICTURE THIS GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • picturethisgallery.com • Canada Scapes & Spaces Art Show: artwork by Murray Phillips, Jonn Einerssen, Terry Isaac and more; Jul 27-Aug 31

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Schedule: Inherent Vice (Aug 19), Drive (Aug 26)

visualartsalberta.com • Cattle Call; Jun-Aug • Art + Activism: artwork by Mary Joyce, Paula Kirman and Juan Lopezdabdoub; Aug 31-Nov 26

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

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Summer Heat Group Show; Jul 21-Aug 21 • Robert Christie; Sep 15-Oct 4 • And a Dark Wind Blows: Artwork by Steve Driscoll; Oct 14-Nov 1 • Holiday Group Show: artwork featuring Linda Lindemann; Dec 8-31, 11am-5pm

12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@ gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum.ca/movies • All Singing! All Dancing!: summer film series featuring That Night In Rio (Aug 22), The Pajama Game (Aug 29) • $30 (membership for series), $3-$6 (one film, at the door)

VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@thenina.ca • RBC Emerging Artists Exhibition; Aug 4-Sep 1 • Art Bike Tour; Aug 20, 2-5pm • Kaleido Family Arts Festival; Sep 9-12 • Yvonne DuBourdieu: Recent Work; Sep 13-15; Opening reception: Sep 15 6-8pm • Corrections Show; Oct 15-31 paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: The Big, Big Portrait Show: featuring almost 200 portraits; Jul 7-Aug 23 • Artisan Nook: Aerosol Soldiers: street artists’ repainted spray cans.

Meet-up and trade: Aug 25, 5-8pm

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum,

U OF A MUSEUMS GALLERIES AT ENTERPRISE SQUARE • Main floor, 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-

Sherwood Park • info@accsc.ca • accsc.ca • Express your creativity in a relaxing evening with fellow aspiring artists • Sep 1, 7-9pm • $10 (ACCSC members), $20 (non-members); Register online at accsc.ca

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Tanya Klimp; Jul 26-Aug 20 • Charis Ng; Aug 23-Sep 10 TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments all summer • The International Exhibition Of Sherlock Holmes; Mar 25-Sep 5 • Make + Take Workshop; Aug 20, Aug 27 • Wild Africa; opens in late Oct • Angry Birds

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STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY ANNUAL BOOK SALE • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival

THEATRE BIG BOOM THEORY 3 : THE EARLY YEARS • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • edmonton.jubilations.ca • Watch as Leonard and Sheldon meet for the very first time and witness the start of the Penny/Leonard (or Pennard) romantic saga • Aug 26-Oct 23 • Adult: $67.95 (Wed, Thu, Sun), $77.95 (Fri, Sat); Senior/student: $47.25 (Wed, Thu, Sun)

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

EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL • Venues throughout the Old Strathcona area • fringetheatre.ca • It's back for its 35th year. This year's theme will be: That was Then, This is Fringe. Buskers, outdoor performers, artisans and vendors with over 1,600 live performances • Aug 11-21

THE OPEN JAM • Holy Trinity Church, 10037-84 Ave • 780.907.2975 • grindstonetheatre.ca • Facilitated by Grindstone Theatre. Swap games and ideas and get an opportunity to play. For those of all levels • Last Tue of each month 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) SEVEN LOST MINUTES • Varscona Hotel - Rutherford Room, 8208-106 St NW • tickets.fringetheatre.ca • Follows the story of Diana, a middle aged wife who’s medical symptoms point towards an “unknown disease”.

After over a hundred medical tests, and discovering Lupus has taken over her body, Diana fights for her health, as her family fights for her well-being. Her two younger siblings take over all decisions for her in hopes to give her a normal life • Aug 11-21

EDUCATION EDUCATION

ROUNDUP

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Borrow Wi-Fi from the library Having Wi-Fi isn’t hard when you got a library card, thanks to a new two-year pilot program launched by the Edmonton Public Library. EPL’s Hotspot program is designed for customers who don’t have Internet access at home, which allows them the opportunity to borrow a hotspot device—similar to how you’d check out a book—for a period of three weeks.

Make sure you return the hotspot by the due date—otherwise you’ll be charged a hefty $210 fee for it, plus an overdue fee of $1 for each day the hotspot is late. Visit epl.ca for more information.

U of A planning program gets funding The University of Alberta’s urban and regional planning program, which launched in 2012, has received a donation of $250 000 from Brookfield Residential. The donation will be spread over the next five years and will go towards scholarships for both undergrads and grad students. The remaining money will help fund bringing in guest lecturers to the course.

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Staples Canada donates money for new business scholarship Staples Canada has graciously endowed the University of Alberta $250 000, which will go towards a three-year scholarship fund in Business Retailing. The scholarship will

be available to students with superior academic achievement entering their third year of a Bachelor of Commerce with a major or minor in Marketing or Retailing and Services.

Construction at the U of A If you’ve been to the University of Alberta area recently, then you’ve probably noticed the construction that’s been going on. Four buildings are in the works including three new residencies—East Campus Village 9 Residence, which will house approximately 300 upper-year undergraduate students (year 2 and on); Lister 5 Residence, a housing unit for 520 first-year students; and, Peter Lougheed Hall, a student residence associated with the U of A’s Peter Lougheed Leadership College—and a Research and Collection Resource Facility that will be the first purpose-

Edmonton Musical Theatre is dedicated to educating our students to the highest degree of professionalism in the area of musical theatre technique.

We nurture our students, from Edmonton and surrounding area,

built long-term storage facility for the university’s valuable book, map and archive collection. This building will replace the existing Book and Records Depository (BARD) located in a leased space on 50th Street.

NAIT welcomes Tracey Scarlett as business dean Tracey Scarlett, former CEO of Alberta Women Entrepreneaurs, has become the new dean of NAIT’s JR Shaw School of Business, one of western Canada’s largest business schools. Scarlett was a former NAIT student having graduated from the Medical Laboratory Program in 1987 and then received a Master of Business Administration with a specialization in technology commercialization at the University of Alberta.

In addition, she was named one of NAIT’s Top 50 Alumni in 2012.

Discover your inner Diva!

Edmonton Musical Theatre has programs for all ages!

EMT IS PROUDLY CELEBRATING 40 YEARS TRAINING EDMONTON AND AREA TALENT! Rising Stars - 5-7 years Juniors 8-11 years Tweens 12-13 years Teens 14 - 16 years Adults - 17 to as young as you feel!

EMT Youth Show Group - Advanced NEW! Home Schooling Program

Visit our website www.edmontonmusicaltheatre.ca for 2016/17 season programs and registration information.

Located in Woodcroft Hall 13915 - 115 Avenue

To register call 780-452-8046 E-mail: edmmusth@telus.net

Digital School prepares you for a career as a Computer Aided Drafter in less than a year.

Major construction projects are planned around Alberta for years to come.

You can be a part of that process. Become a Computer Aided Drafter in less than a year with Digital School Technical Design College.

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EDUCATION 9

PREVUE // GRAPHIC NOVEL

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HOW TO MAKE A BLUE REVUE ENTRY Option #76: The Puppet Show 1.

Find/build/buy some puppets

2.

Dream up some sexy/funny /creative things for those puppets to do // Images from Blutch's graphic novel Peplum

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Film those puppets doing some things

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The action surges off the pages of Peplum

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ierce cross-hatching; etch-like swirls and sword-slashes of ink which seem to score the page, engraving their dark mark; chapteropening solitary images akin to relief decorations on fine Roman pottery.

So strikes Blutch’s Peplum, beginning with the Ides-of-March conspirators rounding on Caesar, backstabbing him Brutus-ly—just after a few men, in a cave in the coldest reaches of the Empire, find a woman entombed in ice. One of them is Publius Cimber, banished from Rome (Caesar’s decree motivated brother Metellus to join the gang of assassins), but he’s soon slain and his identity stolen by a young man bent on making the icegoddess his alone . . .

The French cartoonist’s signal 1996 work, only now published in English, offers an Ancient Rome daubed in blood and darkness—it’s dingy, brutal, primal. This cradle of Western civilization is re-envisioned as a shadow-realm of frenzied madness,

torment, and desire. Characters are shadowed by Blutch’s lines as if all men are marked by sin and degradation. According to translator Edward Gauvin in his introduction, Blutch (Christian Hincker)—inspired here by the notion of a quasi-sequel to Petronius’ Satyricon—has felt increasingly disinterested in too-expository images and connect-the-plot work. You can sense his eagerness in these pages to let the purposely purple-prose dialogue-balloons drift away and leap into comix-imagery alone, rendered down to movement and form: flashes of merchants and animals below-deck; the vast, wavebrimming sea; a tumult of boarding pirates. There are moments of iconic stillness: tableaus of men; some of Blutch’s stricken figures seem to metamorphose into statuary.

Words can be stilted, as though mortals are mere mouthpieces for sententious statements, with the plot dancing along a bit disjointedly

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Peplum

By Blutch Translated by Edward Gauvin New York Review of Books, 160pp, $32.95 before sputtering out strangely in the end. Crude and brutal passions course on—the imposter-vagabond takes up with a beautiful lad but must surrender him to a besotted general in return for the ice-woman still captivating him. (The obvious refusal in this bawdy story to show male nudity confounds.) But Peplum’s faults as story seem pettily beside the point— this book isn’t so much a book as a procession of images to be beheld, a sensual spectacle to be felt. It’s the fervour and rush, seething and surging off Blutch’s pages, which leaves the most savage impression.

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PREVUE // BOARD GAMES

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No, I’m the thimble!

Delve into the thriving local board game social scene

W

hat was once considered a sure fire way to get your grandmother to swear at your dad, playing tabletop games also used to have an air of antiquity to them. Well, no longer.

From Magic: The Gathering and Settlers of Catan to Pandemic and Android: Netrunner, tabletop games are drawing a lot of attention in the current gaming scene. While staples like Monopoly and Balderdash are still played, a modern world calls for modern games. And they are on their way.

“The sheer number of games that are coming out is baffling,” says Brianna Johnson, assistant manager at Table Top Cafe. “There has been a bit of a board game renaissance over the past couple years.”

Over at Variant Edition, owner Brendon Capel agrees.

“Thanks to Kickstarter, there are a ton of board games that circumvented the usual models,” says Capel. “Now you have these awesomely designed games that go directly to the people who want them.”

Both Table Top and Variant are part of the same social scene. While Variant sells comics and holds various game based events (mainly Magic tournaments), Table Top Cafe is strictly for gaming and hanging out with friends. They have food, drinks and staff there to teach you the finer points of some of their games. Along with Avalon Knights, Hexagon and a few others, these businesses are part of a burgeoning industry all embracing geek culture.

Recently Table Top, Variant and the X Reals escape room co-facilitated a ‘geek crawl,’ which is akin to a pub crawl. Except, in this incarnation, you get some informative geek culture tidbits from Variant, then visit the X Realm escape room and end up at Table Top Cafe. It is a threeway marriage made in geek heaven.

“The biggest thing that has changed over the last few years is that it has become, not just more mainstream, but more acceptable,” Capel explained. “A lot of the stigmas of doing nerdy stuff has dropped away. People see people having fun at it and that makes people curious. With

that it becomes more economically viable.”

From Johnson’s perspective, it is not just people accepting the Table Top scene, but the scene accepting people.

“We have femme nights, we have LGBTQ nights, we are all about inclusivity,” says Johnson. “The community is super inclusive.

I rarely meet people who are gatekeepers about board games. Generally people are very willing to invite you into a game or talk passionately about a game that they like that you may not have played.”

There seems to be a hint of idealism in those words, and there should be when a business is succeeding. But Johnson and co. aren’t ignorant to what negative things may come. They understand that there are bad apples everywhere and recently Table Top created the “Rules of Enjoyment”. This wasn’t because of any specific occurrence Johnson says, but more for a kindly reminder to those “who don’t understand what being a good person is,” as she eloquently put it.

“Mostly, it is to have something to point to if someone is getting a bit rude,” she says, laughing. “But it is something to say we firmly stand behind too. Especially now when we are doing events like femme nights and LGBTQ nights.

We are trying to make sure that it is a really safe space for everybody.”

This is all well and good, but what if a group is playing a ribald game of Cards Against Humanity?

The rules read, “We get it; some games, like Cards Against Humanity, make this kind of thing unavoidable. Just try to remember that what might seem like a funny joke to you could be incredibly hurtful to someone sitting nearby, and use your discretion when you’re reading your cards aloud.”

Put the responsibility on the players, not the game.

When it all comes down to it, modern tabletop games are just like the old ones. Except now we use words like inclusivity, socialization and techfriendly. All in the name of fun.

the force is strong with this expo.

Meet Carrie Fisher (Star Wars), September 23-25, 2016 Edmonton EXPO Centre at Northlands 2016 Edmonton Expo guests include:

Alex Kingston

Jill Marie Jones

John de Lancie

Ted Raimi

Jae Lee

Mike Sass

Sana Takeda

EdmontonExpo.com For all the latest updates, like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. /edmontonexpo @edmontonexpo @edmontonexpoofficial

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POP 11

FILM

REVUE // ANIMATION

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100 percent meaty

A post-modern snack-mix of high and lowbrow humour

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rom Archer to BoJack Horseman, ’tooned-in TV’s become wittier, moodier, and even existentialist, it seems. But decades before scatological humour and sophisticated satire mixed it up on South Park—Cartman and co. discovering “interorectogestion” while a savage bite’s taken out of the Catholic Church—Monty Python was following an exploding fat man (setting off a chain-reaction of fellow diners vomiting) with animation of suicidal autumn leaves in The Meaning of Life. So there’s plenty of pedigree for Seth Rogen’s GroceriesGone-Wild animation-feature, even if it can’t live up to those headymeets-bawdy heights of cel-comedy classics past.

Less a talking-wieners cartoon than a post-modern snack-mix of highconcept and lowbrow humour, socio-political parables and animationspoofery—plus food-sex, injected bath salts, and Meatloaf’s rock ’n’ roll—Sausage Party is, in the end, a fairly bangin’ bangers mash-up.

The mockery of Disney and Pixar begins with the opening musical number, as the rising sun brings another morning to Shopwell’s and the ears of corn lead all the products in cheery song “The Great Beyond” (“The gods control our fates so we all know we’re in good hands”). But

after wienie Frank (voiced by Seth Rogen) and his girlfriend, bun Brenda (Kristen Wiig), find themselves, thanks to a shopping-cart accident, package-less and roaming the supermarket after hours, Frank learns the horrifying truth about just how bad it’ll be out there for frankfurterfriend Barry (Michael Cera) and all the other store-bought goods. And he has to contend with an actual Douche (Nick Kroll) evilly looking to cleanse the aisles.

Seen through their naïve eyes, the supermarket items’ existential crisis (it turns out the “great beyond” myth’s been promoted by a few non-perishables to prevent despair and panic) is taken to fabulous extremes. The cart accident’s a First World War-like massacre wheeling along in slo-mo; a potato innocently enjoys its bath under the tap just before it’s peeled and the kitchenbutchery begins; a cookbook’s pages look like stills from a snuff-movie.

And the film’s best climax isn’t action-packed but sexual—a porn-dog food orgy that seems determined to outdo Team America: World Police for Most Notorious Fuckfest in a Mainstream Cartoon. The ending even warp-speeds the creation-myth plot into meta-overdrive, much like The Lego Movie.

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Now Playing Directed by Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon  Ethnic-food stereotypes abound, though Rogen and co. somewhat get away with them because, say, the taco speaking in a Mexican accent is a repressed lesbian and voiced by Salma Hayek (that tater? Irish brogue, of course). Most involved, especially by the irreverent end, is the Israeland-Palestine relationship between a bagel (Edward Norton, doing a spoton Woody Allen impression) and a lavash. Most cracked-yet-it-works is a wad of Stephen Hawking-like gum.

The Native American bottle of liquor, Firewater, a wise spirit-guide, seems a pretty cheap shot, though.

Still, Sausage Party mainly manages to have its space cake and eat it too. It doesn’t offer all that stiff and deep criticism of our gluttonous consumer-culture (where the supermarket’s our weekly temple) but a movie that’s also about a frankfurter eager to slip himself into his girlfriend’s bun isn’t false-advertising itself as 100 percent meaty.

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f you are heading to the Souljah Fyah show this weekend, you might consider bringing a small towel.

“You can expect to sweat at a Souljah Fyah show,” says bassist and vocalist Waymatea “Sista J” Ellis, laughing.

The hardworking roots reggae band and Western Canadian Music Award winners put a lot of energy into its live shows. And the band is really serious about getting everybody up and dancing.

“I used to make cookies at our old shows or give CDs away to make people dance,” she says. "We’re not above bribery to make sure people dance and have a good time.”

Since its debut in 2002, the group has fostered Jamaican 1960s genre in Edmonton.

Souljah Fyah was born when bassist and vocalist Waymatea “Sista J” Ellis put an ad out in SEE Magazine that said: “looking for players to start a Caribbean band.”

Ellis met percussionist Bongbiemi “The Original Tribesman” Nfor and con-

tinued adding members. Eventually, Ellis and Nfor picked up bassist and keyboardist Dr Paul Joosse and two other Edmonton reggae veterans, drummer/ vocalist Dorant “Saint” Ricketts and keyboardist Stormin’ Norm Frizzell, who were original members of the seasoned Edmonton reggae band Reality.

Souljah Fyah’s lyrics promote positivity and political awareness, but the message of the song is never preconceived. The groove and feeling of the song helps form the lyrical content.

And sometimes those politically alert lyrics originate from the natural chaos of the world. This is most obvious in Souljah Fyah’s 2009 song “Rwanda,” which is easily just as powerful now as it was during its release.

“That sort of juxtaposition with jovial sounding reggae music with extremely raw lyrics can sometimes be the interruption that gets people's attention,” Ellis says.

Since forming almost 15 years ago, Souljah Fyah has released Tears of

a Fool, an EP, and three full-length albums—Souljah Fyah, Truth Will Reveal, and I Wish. The band’s fourth long-waited album The Long Walk will be available on August 19.

In putting together The Long Walk, the band travelled to Jamaica to record a large chunk of the tracks.

“I think that going there evolved the album, too," adds Rickett. "We went there with sort of a box mind-set and it expanded when we started to incorporate some of the locals on the album."

One such find was session horn player Frank Aird, who has toured with the likes of James Brown and Michael Jackson.

“It was so surreal. Here we were in Negril and we just happened upon this long-haired Rastafarian guy on the beach carrying his horn and it turned out to be Frank Aird. We were like ‘wanna come to the studio?’ and he just blew our minds,” Ellis says.

The Long Walk also captures a unique time for the band, when they felt the most cohesive.

Souljah Fyah bassist and vocalist Waymatea “Sista J” Ellis// Photo by JProcktor

“While we love all of the other albums it finally feels like we captured what we actually sound like,” Ellis says.

The mood of “All Is Still,” (the lead track featured on the upcoming album) is immediately felt with the sombre sounding accompaniment of keyboards and Ellis’ lyrics. The song then explodes into a catchy and energetic ballad with a powerful message much similar to Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds”—no matter what problems you and the world face, there will be moments where everything is still and everything will be all right.

“All Is Still” is a very personal song for the band. The lyrics were written by their friend Kelly Callin, a founding member of The Soulicitors who sadly drowned in Cabo San Lucas three years ago when a wave pulled him out to sea.

“Just listen to the lyrics. If you truly know how Kelly died, it’s really quite eerie and powerful.” Ellis says.

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Fri, Aug 19 The Long Walk CD release party The Needle, $15 in advance but it would love to see others dabble in the genre.

“We need a bigger community and more mindedness for reggae. People just like to hold on because there is such a shortage of bands. Let’s change that. If any musician or band wants advice or to collaborate with us we’re open to it,” says Ellis.

“The reggae scene has grown since we started out, but I think that when people come to Edmonton they don’t think of reggae. We need to baptize them. Don’t take that literally, but I know the people are hungry for it,” Nfor adds.

It seems that Edmonton will soon be in the middle of a Reggae revolution, and we have Souljah Fyah to thank for that.

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teve Bosch is used to getting yelled at.

Usually the frontman for rock squad White Lightning is having positive things shouted at him in celebration of his music. But, during a volunteering stint at the most recent Edmonton Folk Festival, things took a turn for the comical.

“I was standing at my stage when a woman just started chewing me out because she thought I was doing sound,” Bosch says, laughing. “Albert Lee was playing and I guess she mistook me for a sound guy and she didn’t like the way the stage sounded.

She kept bellowing at me in front of everyone that was there.”

While some unseasoned shouting targets may have reacted poorly, Bosch’s previous experiences calmed him. This test of social heroism did not go unnoticed.

“Albert Lee’s manager came up

to me afterward and said, ‘You, my friend, are a man of unlimited patience.’ I figure that is a pretty good compliment,” added Bosch. “I guess I should have asked him if he wanted to hang out some time.”

On September 18, White Lighting will be hosting a CD release party for their newest album at the Beverly Heights Community Hall.

“It will be a big ol’ shebang of a party,” Bosch says. “We are doing it in a venue where we can go nuts.”

And nuts they will go. From zip lining onto the stage, to bags of balloons, to lasers, the sky's the limit.

While the zip line may not happen, Bosch’s excitement is obvious as he entertains all possibilities. “These are our favourite types of shows.”

When not playing music, fantasizing about zip lines and being yelled at by strangers, Bosch is a robotics engineer. One would think that engi-

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He has an obvious love for robotics, but he’d rather the roles switched between that and his band.

“If I could make a living doing the kind of music I wanted to do, I think ultimately that is where my heart is drawn,” he says. “I don’t think I’d ever give up engineering either. I’d probably do a shift where I’d do music full time and robotics part-time.”

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

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

Classic Rock Monday

MERCURY ROOM Nathan

9:30pm

DIVERSION LOUNGE

Sacrilege Sundays: All metal all day HAWRELAK AMPHITHEATRE

Stage; 7-11pm

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Happy Hour featuring Nathan McNevin & The Silence Factory; 5:30pm NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny

& the Hurricanes; 9pm ON THE ROCKS Killer

Karaoke Monday

every Sat; 9pm

Edmonton’s Blues Festival Featuring performances by Jack de Keyzer, Shemekia Copeland, Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett, Paul Oscher, Jarekus Singleton and more; Aug 19-21

EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN & TEQUILA BAR Tonight We Dance

JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE– West Edmonton Mall Rock Around the

RED PIANO BAR Swingin'

with DJ Thomas Culture playing Classics, HipHop, Dance and Indie Rock; Every Sat, 9pm; No cover

Clock; runs until Aug 21

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

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE Rotating

O’BYRNE’S Open mic

THE COMMON Get Down

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

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 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,

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

Saturdays

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Soul Sunday The Almighty Turtlenecks; 9pm; $5 (door) every Sun; 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Ivory Keys

(dueling pianos); 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 The

Sunday Happening Jam featuring The Todd James Band; 4pm

Classical UKRAINIAN HERITAGE VILLAGE 2016 Friends

Ukrainian Music Fest; 10am-5pm; General admission

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee;

Every Sun

FESTIVAL PLACE Patio series: The Tsunami Brothers & The Suitable Men; 7:30pm; $8 FILTHY MCNASTY'S

FIDDLER'S ROOST Open

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

featuring host Naomi Carmack and guest; 9pm; No cover L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge

Flamenco Guitar Classes; Every Sun, 11:30am12:30pm Sunday Night Live on the South Side: live bands; Free; All ages; 7-10:30pm

KELLY'S PUB Open Stage:

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild

Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Association: Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm Mondays; 8-11pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Open Mic Night

hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE RetroActive Radio: With LL

Cool Joe TAVERN ON WHYTE

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

McNevin and The Silence Factory #GoWest to Edmonton; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $6 (cover) NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Happy Hour featuring Joe Nolan; 5:30pm • Big Dreamer Jam featuring Leigh Friesen; 8pm NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny

& the Hurricanes; 9pm O’BYRNE’S Guinness

Mother Cluckin’ Wednesdays GAS PUMP Karaoke; KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE

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

Happy Hour featuring Peter Stone; 5:30pm • Spencer Murray and Pipeslinger with Jess Dollimont & the Ospreys and Vissia; 9pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door)

Celtic jam every Tue; 9:30pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny

RANCH ROADHOUSE

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Zakk Wylde - Book Of Shadows II Tour; 7pm; $43.50 SEWING MACHINE FACTORY Psychic

Pollution, Zebra Pulse, Boothman; 8-11:30pm; $5 SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

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

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Chris Bruce

spins Britpop/Punk/ Garage/Indie; Every Tue ON THE ROCKS Turn't Up

Tuesday

& the Hurricanes; 9pm

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

Karaoke Wednesday RED PIANO BAR Wed

TUE AUG 23

WED AUG 24

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

BOURBON ROOM Acoustic

TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY Live music

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

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Karaoke; 9pm

DJs

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

DRUID IRISH PUB Karaoke

Every Wed

FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle

Bingo! Tuesdays

Wednesdays

GAS PUMP Karaoke;

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY

9:30pm

Wed open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm

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 JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE West Edmonton Mall, 8882170 St JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St NW, 780.451.8825, kellyspubedmonton.com LATITUDE 53 10242-106 St NW 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 MOONSHINERS Stony Plain MUTTART CONSERVATORY 962696a St NW MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524

Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PALACE CASINO 8882-170 St NW, 780.444.2112, palacecasino. com PINT–DOWNTOWN 10125-109 St NW PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RANCH ROADHOUSE 6107-104 St NW 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 SEWING MACHINE FACTORY 9562-82 Ave SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St, 780.431.0091, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com

MON AUG 22

UBK PRESENTS

SEP/4

MRG CONCERTS, FOURCE ENTERTAINMENT & MODIFIED GHOST PRESENT

BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

HUGLIFE DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT

W/ FALLUJAH & GUESTS

SEP/10

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

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

SEP/16

ONES TO WATCH PRESENTS

SEP/17

TIMBRE CONCERTS AND STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

NOTHING BUT THIEVES JUNIOR BOYS W/ EGYPTRIXX, BORYS

SEP/19

Wednesday's; Every Wed

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

SNFU

AUG/27

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

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

STARLITE IS PROUD TO PRESENT

W/ LAMS, TARANTUJA, ELDER ABUSE

Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players

TAVERN ON WHYTE

singer songwriter jam; Every Wed, 8pm

AUG/26

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

CASTLE W/ TEKARRA, & DEMISE

SEP/20

LIVE NATION.COM PRESENTS

THE DANDY WARHOLS W/ GUESTS

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee;

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

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

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 BLVD SUPPER X CLUB 10765 Jasper Ave 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, 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 CLINT'S HAUS 9922-79 Ave NW 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 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DV8/MAMA'S PIZZA 7317-101 Ave NW 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 GAS PUMP NIGHT CLUB & BAR 10166-114 St HAWRELAK PARK 9930 Groat Road

SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch. com STUDIO 96 10909-96 St NW SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY 17118-90 Ave TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW, 780.433.1604, trinity-lutheran. ab.ca TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE 10324-82 Whyte Ave UKRAINIAN HERITAGE VILLAGE Hwy 16 E, Tofield 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

AUG/20

THE MOOD MACHINE PRESENTS

EYES EVERYWHERE [USA] W/ BETTER LIVING DJS, DAN PEZIM, MIDNIGHT MOVIES

AUG/26

SOPHIA DANAI W/ CARMEN LUCIA, JASMINE SINGH

AUG/27

THE FORGE AND NEW GROUND AGENCY PROUDLY BRING TO YOU

NECK OF THE WOODS W/ BRING US YOUR DEAD, SILENCE THE MACHINE, BURY ME JACK

AUG/28

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

SUPERSUCKERS W/ THE DEVIL’S SONS & MORE

AUG/31

STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

THE LAZYS W/ WHALE & THE WOLF

SEP/9

VUEWEEKLY.com | AUG 18 – AUG 24, 2016

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

CHIXDIGGIT

W/ THE OLD WIVES, THE REAL SICKIES, A GENTLEMANS PACT

MUSIC 17

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

COMEDY

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)

Habitat for Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext. 232 • HFH.org • Tool Training Instructors will be helping attendees gain the confidence they need to come out to HH's build sites through careful instruction and hands-on practice • Aug 19-20, 8:30am-4:15pm

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION NIGHT • Habitat for Humanity

OPEN DOOR COMIC CREATOR MEETINGS

Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext. 236 • vbatten@hfh.org • hfh.org/volunteer/ vin • Learn about taking the next steps and what opportunities are available at Habitat for Humanity • Every 3rd Thu of the month, excluding Dec; 6-7pm • Free

BEST PICTURE • La Cite Francophone – Suzanne Thibaudeau Auditorium, 8627-91St • jon@ribbitrepublic.com • sites.google.com/site/ ribbittheatre/best-picture • Every Best Picture Oscar winner is lampooned in 60 minutes • Aug 12-21 • $14

St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave • 780.452.8211 • happyharborcomics.com • Open to any skill level. Meet other artists and writers, glean tricks of the trade and gain tips to help your own work, or share what you've already done • 2nd and 4th Thu of every month, 7pm

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE • 10425-82 Ave • Underdog Comedy Show • Every Thu

• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact vpm@norators.com, 780.807.4696, norators.com

League, 9240-93 St • 780.469.1179 • margaret. russell@telus.net • National Film Board’s The Earle Birney Package: a retrospective on this Canadian poet’s life and work • Aug 25, 10:30am • Free; Everyone is welcome; Wheelchair accessible

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Paul Sveen; Aug 19-20

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Andy Woodhull; Aug 17-21 • Jamie Lissow; Aug 24-28 • Mike Dambra; Sep 1, Sep 4 • T.J. Miller; Sep 2-3

QUEER EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103

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

CONNIE'S COMEDY • Moonshiners, 5202-50 St, Stony Plain • Dinner and Show with Andy Canete, Rudy Gunn, etc • Aug 19 • Get tickets on yeg.live

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • Voted "Vue Weekly Best Comedy Night in Edmonton". Stand up comedy open mic hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm (8:30pm sign-up)

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg,

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Em-

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-onone meetings are also available in the craft room • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net

press Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS

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

AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm

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 • Art & Identity: exploring identity through the arts, a wellness initiative; Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Movies & Games Night: Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Thought OUT: Altview’s all-ages discussion group; every Sat, 7-9pm • Men Talking with Pride: Social discussion group for gay and bisexual men; Every Sun, 7-9pm

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 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

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

DROP-IN D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 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 OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply 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 Win-

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

ston Churchill Sq • 780.695.4588 • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every Fri, 2-3:30pm • Free

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BASIC TOOL TRAINING WORKSHOP & INFO SESSION •

MONDAY MINGLE • Hexagon Board Game

18 AT THE BACK

TOASTMASTERS

BONNIE DOON COMMUNITY LEAGUE’S SENIORS’ PROGRAM • Bonnie Doon Community

780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

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

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •

Done Cafe), 10728-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

Cafe, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@

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

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

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common

TEAM EDMONTON • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • Swimming: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • Water Polo: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • Yoga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • Taekwondo: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • Abs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:15-8:15pm • Dodgeball: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • Running: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • Spin: Blitz Conditioning, 10575115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• Volleyball: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • 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 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 7pm12:30am • Fri: Comming soon: DJ Arrow Chaser's

VUEWEEKLY.com | AUG 18 – AUG 24, 2016

new TGIF Party • Sat: Pool Tournement, 4pm; Jager shots on special only $4; Coming soon, DJ Jazzy

SPECIAL EVENTS ALBERTA OPEN FARM DAYS • Select farms and ranches across the province • albertafarmdays. com • The fourth-annual edition of Alberta Open Farm Days will offer Albertans a fun way to experience rural life. Farm-to-table culinary events on the Saturday (Aug 20) and free admission to farm tours across the province on the Sunday (Aug 21) will showcase Alberta agriculture and rural hospitality at its finest • Aug 20-21 CHEEKY MONKEYS! • Edmonton Valley Zoo, 13315 Buena Vista Rd • 311 • edmonton.ca • Celebrate the Chinese Zodiac’s Year of the Monkey by learning all about our primate zoo residents. See the monkeys get a special treat, create a monkey craft, get a monkey airbrush tattoo, and try out some traditional Chinese games. Let your inner monkey loose • Aug 20, 12-4pm • General admission

CLIMATE JUSTICE CAMP • A bus will leave from the downtown Greenpeace office • greenpeaceedmontonlocalgroup@gmail.com • A two day camp held to teach skills, learn about Climate Justice in Alberta and to build the movement to take action. No previous activist experience required - all are welcome • Aug 20-21; leave from the downtown Greenpeace office at 8am on Sat and return at 1:30pm on Sun - register via email or bit. ly/2acO3m7

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Can you imagine feeling at home in the world no matter where you are? If you eventually master this art, outer circumstances won't distort your relationship with yourself. No matter how crazy or chaotic the people around you might be, you will remain rooted in your unshakable sense of purpose; you will respond to any given situation in ways that make you both calm and alert, amused and curious, compassionate for the suffering of others and determined to do what's best for you. If you think these are goals worth seeking, you can make dramatic progress toward them in the coming weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As I tried to meditate on your horoscope, my next-door neighbor was wielding a weed-whacker to trim her lawn, and the voices in my head were shouting extra loud. So I decided to drive down to the marsh to get some high-quality silence. When I arrived at the trail head, I found an older man in ragged clothes leaning against the fence. Nearby was a grocery cart full of what I assumed were all his earthly belongings. "Doing nothing is a very difficult art," he croaked as I slipped by him, "because you're never really sure when you are done." I immediately recognized that his wisdom might be useful to you. You are, after all, in the last few days of your recharging process. It's still a good idea for you to lie low and be extra calm and vegetate luxuriously.

But when should you rise up and leap into action again? Here's my guess: Get one more dose of intense stillness and silence.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): My readers have a range of approaches for working with the counsel I offer. Some study the horoscopes for both their sun signs and rising signs, then create do-it-yourself blends of the two. Others prefer to wait until the week is over before consulting what I've written. They don't want my oracles to influence their future behavior, but enjoy evaluating their recent past in light of my analysis. Then there are the folks who read all 12 of my horoscopes. They refuse to be hemmed in by just one forecast, and want to be free to explore multiple options. I encourage you to try experiments like these in the coming days. The moment is ripe to cultivate more of your own unique strategies for using and interpreting the information you absorb -- both from me and from everyone else you listen to.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Have you been drinking a lot of liquids? Are you spending extra time soaking in hot baths and swimming in bodies of water that

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rejuvenate you? Have you been opening your soul to raw truths that dissolve your fixations and to beauty that makes you cry and to love that moves you to sing?

I hope you're reverently attending to these fluidic needs. I hope you're giving your deepest yearnings free play and your freshest emotions lots of room to unfold.

Smart, well-lubricated intimacy is a luxurious necessity, my dear.

Stay very, very wet.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In my opinion, you need to bask in the glorious fury of at least one brainstorm -- preferably multiple brainstorms over the course of the next two weeks. What can you do to ensure that happens?

How might you generate a flood of new ideas about how to live your life and understand the nature of reality? Here are some suggestions: Read books about creativity. Hang around with original thinkers and sly provocateurs.

Insert yourself into situations that will strip you of your boring certainties. And take this vow: "I hereby unleash the primal power of my liberated imagination."

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When you were a child, did you play with imaginary friends? During your adolescence, did you nurture a fantasy relationship with a pretend boyfriend or girlfriend? Since you reached adulthood, have you ever enjoyed consorting with muses or guardian angels or ancestral spirits? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are in a good position to take full advantage of the subtle opportunities and cryptic invitations that are coming your way. Unexpected sources are poised to provide unlikely inspirations in unprecedented ways.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When you were born, you already carried the seeds of gifts you would someday be able to provide— teachings or blessings that only you, of all the people who have ever lived, could offer the world.

How are you doing in your quest to fulfill this potential? Here’s what I suspect: Your seeds have been ripening slowly and surely.

But in the coming months, they could ripen at a more rapid pace.

Whether they actually do or not may depend on your willingness to take on more responsibilities—interesting responsibilities, to be sure—but bigger than you're used to.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I suspect that you will soon be culminating a labor of love you've been nurturing and refining for many moons. How should you celebrate? Maybe with some champagne and caviar? If you'd like to include bubbly in your revels, a good choice might be 2004 Belle Epoque Rose. Its floral aroma and crispy mouth-

feel rouse a sense of jubilation as they synergize the flavors of blood orange, pomegranate, and strawberry. As for caviar: Consider the smooth, aromatic, and elegant roe of the albino beluga sturgeon from the unpolluted areas of the Caspian Sea near Iran.

But before I finish this oracle, let me also add that a better way to honor your accomplishment might be to take the money you'd spend on champagne and caviar, and instead use it as seed money for your next big project.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Some species of weeds become even more robust and entrenched as they develop resistances to the pesticides that are designed to eradicate them. This is one example of how fighting a problem can make the problem worse -- especially if you attack too furiously or use the wrong weapons. I invite you to consider the possibility that this might be a useful metaphor for you to contemplate in the coming weeks. Your desire to solve a knotty dilemma or shed a bad influence is admirable. Just make sure you choose a strategy that actually works.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to compose an essay on at least one of the following themes: 1. "How I Fed and Fed My Demons Until They Gorged Themselves to Death." 2.

"How I Exploited My Nightmares in Ways That Made Me Smarter and Cuter." 3. "How I Quietly and Heroically Transformed a Sticky Problem into a Sleek Opportunity." 4. "How I Helped Myself by Helping Other People." For extra credit, Capricorn -- and to earn the right to trade an unholy duty for a holy one -- write about all four subjects.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I suspect that in the coming months you will be drawn to wandering through the frontiers and exploring the unknown. Experimentation will come naturally. Places and situations you have previously considered to be off-limits may be downright comfortable. In fact, it's possible that you will have to escape your safety zones in order to fully PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you're playing the card game known as bridge, you're lucky if you are dealt a hand that has no cards of a particular suit. This enables you, right from the beginning, to capture tricks using the trump suit. In other words, the lack of a certain resource gives you a distinct advantage. Let's apply this metaphor to your immediate future, Pisces. I'm guessing that you will benefit from what may seem to be an inadequacy or deficit. An absence will be a useful asset. V

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T

he mainstream images of sexuality that we see every day make it seem that to be sexy, you have to be thin, but a growing group of body positivity activists know that sexy and beautiful come in all sizes. Edmonton artist Allison Tunis hopes to bring more attention to the work of those activists with her book Body Love: A Fat Activism Colouring Book.

I’ve been fortunate to get to know Tunis through her edgy, sexy crossstitch art, so I met with her to ask her about this new venture.

“I’d already been working on my own body positive journey,” she says. “Working on health at every size and the idea of not waiting to live your life until you’re a smaller size or more socially acceptable.

So I’ve been learning more about the [body positivity] the movement

through all of these bloggers and models.”

As an artist with a degree in art therapy, Tunis was already aware of adult coloring books as a therapy tool. When it suddenly exploded in popularity, the idea struck her that this would be a great way to feature and promote the people who had inspired her.

“Body issues are such a huge portion of our society,” she says. “Colouring these pages; not only is it the meditation and the therapeutic benefit of that but you’re looking at these things and thinking about your body and other people’s bodies and working through those issues cognitively. It’s a combination of therapy, art therapy, and activism, and just fun.”

The book includes 22 individuals of

diverse genders, ages and cultures.

They all have one thing in common: they all exemplify beauty and joy in life in bigger sized bodies. One of them is Jes Baker, blogger and author of Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls.

“It’s this amazing book about all the things people will tell you you can’t do if you’re fat; but it’s not true. You can be a fat person and you can date traditionally attractive men. You can wear short shorts. You can wear horizontal stripes. You can do boudoir photography." Tunis says. “She introduced me to the idea of body positivity. I was really happy that she agreed to be part of the book.”

My many years of work as a sexual health educator have shown me that a lot of people are physically attracted to people with larger bodies.

When we leave the media out of it, we find that we are all attracted to all kinds of different bodies because, in fact, we have all kinds of different bodies. It is entirely possible, and actually very common, to be fat and to be very hot and very desirable.

Yet the examples of sexy we see in movies and magazines can make us feel like we’re only supposed to be attracted to thin people and that there’s something wrong with us if we’re not. Tunis notes the amount of BBW (big beautiful women) porn that sounds like it celebrates women with larger bodies but instead actually fetishizes and shames them.

“That’s why I like April Flores,” Tunis said, of the adult film star, who is featured in the colouring book, “[She’s] very nonchalant about her body size. It’s not about her being a

fat person, it’s just she’s a plus size pornography star.”

Tunis hopes she can do what the individuals in the book have done for her, help people to see that they are beautiful and sexy at any size.

“A lot of people on Instagram are saying ‘I’m going to get this colouring book and I’m going to color it with my daughter.’ That’s pretty cool.”

Tunis has started talking with local shops about carrying the book, but for now, you can find Body Love: A Fat Activism Colouring Book on Amazon.com and soon on Amazon.ca. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sexpositive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

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DEAR READERS: I’m on vacation for three weeks—but you won’t be reading old columns in my absence, and you won’t be reading columns by anyone who isn’t Dan Savage.

You’ll be reading new columns, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me.

Our second guest Dan Savage is 32 years old, single, and living in London. Dan Savage got his professional start working in promotions at the legendary London nightclub G-A-Y. He’s now 10 years into a career in theater arts marketing and currently works for some of the West End’s biggest hit musicals.

Dan has never written a sex-advice column before, but he occasionally gets angry tweets that were meant for me.

A quick word about qualifications: Advice is defined as “an opinion about what could or should be done.” We’re all entitled to our opinions—but only Dan Savage, theatrical marketing exec, is entitled to share his opinions in my column this week. Take it away, Dan!

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I’m an early-30s bi woman. As I have more relationships, I have started to see a pattern in that I find sex much hotter when there is some degree of confusion or forbidden-ness. So relationship sex can get boring quickly. I know there’s not necessarily a good answer for why, but any suggestions on what to do about this? I want to have great sex with a partner for life! Maybe my expectations about good sex in a long-term relationship are unrealistic? I know it’s not always going to be crazy passion, but how can I sustain amazing sex in a relationship?

Passion Fades From This A problem you and I share! The fun is in the chase, the excitement

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of someone new, and that first time. You may return for a second or maybe a third time—but then what or who is next? Often regardless of whatever feelings may have started to develop.

For those who don’t understand, just imagine we’re talking about food. You like food. You like lots of different types of food. Right now, your favourite food is hot dogs. But you don’t want to eat that every day. Occasionally, you might want an all-you-can-eat sushi buffet.

I believe the secret to a good relationship—besides love and passion—is keeping it downright dirty! It’s about keeping that spark alive. If the fun starts to fade, spice it up with toys, games, risky locations, additional people, rubber dog masks— you can’t know what will excite you both until you give it a try! But that’s the key, that you both like it.

There are millions of people all over the world in long-term relationships that on the face of it maintain a fun and healthy sex life—can it really be that hard?

Or maybe long-term relationships aren’t for you, PFFT!

had any gay experiences. He is so passionate. Very oral. Long kissing sessions, and he puts his tongue EVERYWHERE. Very submissive and insatiable. Of course I use condoms. I asked him what he gets out of this. He said he gets an intensity he can’t explain over pleasing an older man that he doesn’t get from sex with a female. Being a sub makes him rock hard, and with a woman, he has to be the performer. He considers himself straight, since he is attracted only to older men and is only a bottom. In any case, he will be back at grad school soon, and I will no doubt have another partner. I have never had an STD. I don’t want to

people much younger than you would kill for!

As long as you are safe and wear a condom, you shouldn’t put too much stress on yourself regarding STIs. Maybe just don’t go around picking up boys off street corners who look like they need a good wash.

My personal opinion is this guy may not be being as honest with you as you’d have hoped. A 23-year-old straight guy, in his first homosexual encounter, being “very oral” and “only a bottom” and putting “his tongue everywhere”— that sounds to me like someone who knows what they’re doing. My experience of first times is generally a quick fumble and an even quicker ejaculation.

Regardless, he is soon to leave, TOP, and you will find a new sexual partner. Advice from a YoungTOP to an OldTOP: Go with the flow and be safe, but most of all enjoy it! (And to older gay gentlemen who think you can’t get any: TOP is! You can!)

Although it’s rarely spoken about, a lot of straight men like the odd finger or tongue in the bum. It’s not a sign of homosexuality!

AT MY AGE, PLAY IT SAFE I am a 65-year-old male new to gay relationships. I placed a listing on SilverDaddies and have had a LOT of responses from great young guys. I have met only one guy so far. He is 23 and says he has had only a few girlfriends and has not

get one now. I talked to a clinic over the phone about getting the HPV vaccine, and they thought it was funny and would not do it. I will be seeing young guys who are sexually active, so I think I should be able to get this vaccine. I do not want cold sores or warts or whatever at my age.

This OLD POP I think it’s great—if you don’t mind me saying—that in your advanced years you are able to embark on this new sexual adventure and experimentation, TOP! And you have a hot 23-year-old visiting you for regular sex—something a lot of

HUBBY WITH GAY PORN

I am 39 years old and my husband is 51; we have been together nine years and married four. This morning, he was jacking off on my arse during foreplay and watching porn on his phone, which is not unusual.

The problem is when I looked to see what he was watching (we often watch porn together), he got a little mad. I let it go, but when he got in the shower, I looked at his phone and saw that he was watching gay porn. MEN. I don’t

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think I have a problem with that, but it kind of threw me. Should I be worried that he is secretly on the down low? Or does he just like to look at gay porn occasionally? When I’m giving him a blowjob, he also enjoys me licking his arse. I don’t know how to confront him with what I have seen on his phone?

Perspiring Over Relationship Now PERSPIRING OVER RELATIONSHIP NOW People look at all sorts of things online and are turned on by others. Man-on-man porn clearly does it for your man, or maybe this was the first time that he’d looked.

Either way, the fact that he was doing this secretly while humped over your naked body and jacking off onto your arse is wrong. And he knows that: He hid the phone!

Rather than confronting him and creating a massive issue, why not suggest that you watch gay porn together. See what happens? If he is hiding the fact he’s gay or bi, I’d be surprised that he’d blatantly flaunt it like this… perhaps he wanted you to catch him? He wants you to know what else he’s into but doesn’t know how to tell you?

Although it’s rarely spoken about, a lot of straight men like the odd finger or tongue in the bum. It’s not a sign of homosexuality! Maybe this could be taken further? You could go all out and strap one on and dominate him like a bitch!

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