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RURAL TRANSIT

ACT Funding from Province of Alberta Will Help Urban Centres More than Rural Areas, Experts Say

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reen public transit funding in rural areas may not go as far as in their urban counterparts, some say. Last week, the Government of Alberta announced it will be providing $215 million to municipalities around the province to implement green public transportation strategies, like the use of electric buses.

Funds from the Alberta Community Transportation (ACT) plan will provide the funds on a merit basis.

The deadline for proposals will be in December, and the funding represents roughly five years of funding, transportation minister Brian Mason said in a press conference.

The province hopes that the funding will help foster inter-connectivity between Alberta’s municipalities, and within them. Charlene Smylie, mayor of the Village of Wabamun, stressed this importance at the conference, stating that it will ideally increase access to education and medical facilities.

According to Rural Municipalities of Alberta (RMA) President Al Kemmere, there tends to be a good deal

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of teamwork between rural municipalities near urban centres, but the ones further from Calgary and Edmonton may not benefit as much.

“Any time we can improve the greenhouse gas emissions by going with more energy efficient vehicles is good. However, it’s go-

gram to help the more remote areas. People in rural areas also tend to use personal vehicles more.

There may be some rural teamwork projects, though, he says.

“It’s pretty early for us to be able to identify where the greatest benefit would be.”

gies that can address the issues with industrial and commercial transportation,” he says, adding that a green rail system from Calgary to Edmonton would reduce greenhouse gases significantly.

Electric vehicles, like the ones that could potentially be funded

“To be honest, major companies—out of the U.S. and Europe—because they don’t have to deal with the cold we have here, they don’t invest in researching these areas at all.” ing to be a lot more [focused] on programs in urban municipalities than rural municipalities,” Kemmere says. “We have a very limited number in our rural municipalities that use [public transit].”

It’s mostly a matter of population density, he says, unless there is a strong government support pro-

According to Arman Hemmati, assistant professor at the University of Alberta’s department of mechanical engineering, this effort is a “great first step,” but the majority of it comes from larger scale trucks and other industrial vehicles.

“We need to invest more on doing research on finding technolo-

by ACT, also do not fare particularly well in Canada. Their lithium batteries tend to lose their charge quicker in colder climates, which is a problem in places like Alberta, where the winter can last the vast majority of a year.

The cold can cut these batteries’ outputs by 30 to 40 percent.

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“To be honest, major companies—out of the U.S. and Europe—because they don’t have to deal with the cold we have here, they don’t invest in researching these areas at all,” Hemmati says.

Additionally, the production of electronic vehicles shares some of the same ecological pit-falls as the production of gasoline-powered vehicles. There’s also the matter of how electricity is generated in a province—in 2016, 38 percent of the power generated in Alberta came from coal, according to a document from Alberta Energy.

These matters get compounded when dealing with vehicles larger than a personal vehicle. A large truck, for example, would need an exceptionally large power source, which would make it heavier, and potentially less aerodynamic.

“I think, in the long-term, we need to do more and be realistic about what we’re looking at,” Hemmati says.

Doug Johnson doug@vueweekly.com

POLITICAL INTERFERENCE

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Cries from the Right and Left on Canadian Oil for Canadians Ignore Some Simple Problems

ecently, as Saudi Arabia was in the midst of a diplomatic hissy fit in response to criticism from Canada’s foreign affairs minster about recent human rights violations, federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh told the CBC that Canada needed to wean itself off Saudi oil and replace it with imports from other countries.

Predictably this drew an immediate reaction from Alberta’s defenders of all things oil. Jason Kenney, leader of Alberta’s official opposition, tweeted almost immediately that Singh’s suggestion that Canada should import oil from other countries was “just embarrassing.”

Premier Rachel Notley went one step further and said that perhaps Singh should have thought before speaking, called his position “very elitist,” and suggested he was willing to throw regular working people “under the bus as collateral damage.”

The reason for the outrage is the belief by Notley and Kenney that Central and Eastern Canada should be importing no oil at all, and that all those imports should be replaced by Alberta oil. The way to accomplish that, of course, is through the building of more pipelines to take Alberta oil to the rest of Canada.

The idea of moving toward an energy strategy that promotes national energy security, sovereignty and self-sufficiency is not new. It was ultimately the objective of Pierre Trudeau’s National Energy Program (NEP) in the 1980s, and has long been promoted by left energy nationalists like former Parkland Institute Director Gordon Laxer. Since the death of the NEP, however, consecutive federal and provincial governments have labelled suggestions, like Laxer’s, that the government take steps toward energy sovereignty as anti-oil, anti-trade, and too pro-government, and have opted instead to let the market and trade agreements determine energy policy in Canada. The historic and current reliance by everyone East of Manitoba on foreign oil is a direct result of those pro-market, protrade-agreements attitudes. This makes it especially interesting to hear the likes of Kenney and other right-wing Albertans screaming for government intervention and action on this front.

In her reaction to Singh’s statements, Notley said that Singh is “learning that things are not as simple as they sometimes seem.”

Ironically, Notley appears to have that backward, as the absolute

simplest way to replace the approximately 10 percent of Canadian oil imports that currently come from Saudi Arabia is to let U.S. imports pick up the slack. The infrastructure is already in place to facilitate that, the U.S. has the capacity to do it, and there would be no significant impact on prices.

Of course, that solution would do absolutely nothing to address Canada’s current absolute lack of energy security, but it would address the short-term imperative.

If folks like Kenney and Notley are serious, however, about moving toward Canadian energy self-sufficiency over the medium- to long-term, then they need to understand exactly all that is involved in that process and the degree of leadership and regulation from government that would be required.

For starters, it is worth pointing out that the pipeline infrastructure already exists to move some 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Western Canadian crude directly to Montreal via the U.S. and Sarnia. Of course we are not moving the full capacity, as the market has deemed that the same pipeline be used to move imports from the U.S. into Montreal.

Secondly, in 2016 Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore production totalled some 210,000 bpd.

Of that 80 percent was exported.

As Laxer has pointed out numerous times, if all of Newfoundland and Labrador’s production was used in Canada, it would more than meet the 153,000 bpd demand of Atlantic Canada and leave some to help replace some 17 percent (in 2006) of the oil demand in Quebec.

These two steps alone would be enough to completely replace current imports to Quebec and Atlantic Canada with crude from Western Canada; without the negative impacts to First Nations rights and the environment of the now dead Energy East Pipeline project—a project that, as conceived, was more about exporting than about national self-sufficiency. In addition, a recent series of tweets from U of A economist Andrew Leech suggests that even if it was to be built, current market conditions and pipeline toll structures would make a new pipeline to the east financially non-viable.

Laxer is quick to point out, however, that before the Canadian government can take any of these steps it first needs to extricate itself from the current

energy provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). That agreement stipulates that Canada can take no action that would reduce the current ratio (calculated as the average of the past 36 months) of its oil and gas that it exports to the U.S. Currently that ratio is at 74 percent, meaning that any government action or policy that increases the percentage of Canadian oil that stays in Canada beyond 26 percent would be a direct violation of its NAFTA commitment. If that NAFTA provision doesn’t change, there is nothing any level of government can do to significantly replace current oil imports, especially when Canada’s emissions reductions and Alberta’s oil sands emissions cap are taken into consideration.

In the end, despite the political rhetoric, it turns out that replacing Canada’s current oil imports with product from Alberta would be anything but simple. That does not mean it is not worth doing, it just means that folks like Kenney and Notley need to start being honest with Albertans and stop using the refrain of “build a pipeline” as the solution to all of Canada’s current energy woes.

Ricardo Acuña

DYER STRAIGHT

OF CORBYN, PALESTINIANS AND BREXIT U.K. Labour Party Leader’s Opinions on Palestine Could Spell His End

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t sounds like a tempest in a teapot, but it could bring down Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party— and that could end up meaning that Britain doesn’t leave the European Union after all.

It started two Saturdays ago with a photograph in the Daily Mail (a newspaper that regards Corbyn as the Devil’s second cousin) of the Labour Party leader laying a wreath in a cemetery in Tunisia four years ago.

He had laid it, said the Mail, at a memorial to the Palestinian terrorists who planned the attack that killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.

It was a calculated attempt to paint Corbyn as anti-Semitic, and the mud stuck. The Mail also published a 2013 video in which Corbyn said that Palestinians were experiencing “conditions in the West Bank, under occupation, of the very sort that will be recognizable by many people in Europe who suffered occupation during the Second World War.” That’s perilously close to comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who never

misses a chance to portray Europe as a cauldron of anti-Semitism, immediately tweeted: “The laying of a wreath by Jeremy Corbyn on the graves of the terrorists who perpetrated the Munich massacre...deserves unequivocal condemnation from everybody—left, right, and everything in between.”

Corbyn replied at once on his own Twitter feed: “What deserves unequivocal condemnation is the killing of over 160 Palestinian protesters in Gaza

by Israeli forces since March, including dozens of children.”

Fair comment, perhaps, but that is not what a prudent British politician would choose to say when the Israeli prime minister has just accused him of anti-Semitism. Twitter makes everybody stupid.

Jeremy Corbyn is not antiSemitic, but he certainly could be described as anti-Zionist.

It’s not an uncommon position among British politicians who joined the Labour Party in the 1960s and 1970s: admiration for Israel and close ties with the sister Labour Party that then dominated Israeli politics, mixed with a keen awareness that the

triumph of Israel had been built on a Palestinian tragedy.

Corbyn is also on the hard left of his party, which means that he has never met an anti-imperial, anticolonial, or anti-capitalist cause that he did not like. That’s how he found himself attending the ‘International Conference on Monitoring the Palestinian Political and Legal Situation in the Light of Israeli Aggression’ in Tunisia four years ago.

And once there, he naturally went along when they all laid a wreath in the cemetery.

The conference was officially linked to the devastating Israeli air strike on Tunis in 1985, which killed 80 senior officials of the Palestine Liberation Organization, members of their families, and Tunisian civilians. Corbyn doesn’t speak either French or Arabic, the two dominant languages in Tunisia, and he presumably thought that’s what the wreath-laying was about. So he took part in it.

In fact, the wreath was laid in memory of a different bunch of Palestinians, members of the Black September group, who had helped to plan the Munich outrage and were later assassinated by Israeli intelligence agents. Did Corbyn just get confused, or did the Tunisians

deliberately mislead him? Who knows? Who cares?

What Corbyn should have done when the Daily Mail broke that story was to admit all, plead ignorance, and make a grovelling apology. It would have been humiliating, but he would certainly have survived to fight again.

He didn’t do that. He is a very stubborn man, and he combined a lame semi-admission of his mistake—“I was present at that wreath-laying. I don’t think I was actually involved in it”—with further criticisms of current Israeli policy. And thereby he turned a little personal problem into a crisis for the Labour Party.

The Labour Party has been tearing itself apart recently over differences about where to draw the line between legitimate criticism of Israeli policy and antiSemitism. It is certainly not institutionally anti-Semitic—Corbyn’s predecessor as party leader, Ed Miliband, was Jewish—but it has already alienated a lot of its Jewish supporters. Corbyn’s blunder may be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Corbyn has never had the support of most Labour members

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of parliament. It is becoming plausible (though no more than that) to think that he might lose the leadership—especially as it is becoming clear that he’s the main reason Labour doesn’t enjoy a big lead in the opinion polls over the chaotic Conservative government led by Theresa May. Which brings us to Brexit. The current stalemate in British politics, which has paralyzed negotiations for a sensible postBrexit relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union, risks ending next March in a disaster in which the U.K. crashes out of the EU with no deal at all.

The stalemate is mostly due to the fact that both major parties in the U.K. are profoundly divided between pro- and anti-Brexit factions, but both parties have proBrexit leaders. Recent opinion polls show a small but growing majority of voters would vote ‘Remain’ in a second referendum, but neither party will back such a referendum under the current leadership.

If Labour had a different leader, all that could change—and Corbyn is in deep trouble.

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GelCycler Mark II in all its small and hopefully effective glory. / Supplied, University of Alberta

E. COLI AND FRIENDS

NEW TECH MAKES MEAT SAFER: RESEARCHER The U of A’s GelCycler Mark II Can Detect E. Coli and Other Pathogens Quickly, and Cheaply, and It’s Nearly on the Market

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ech capable of detecting E. Coli, and other food-borne pathogens, is growing closer and closer to commercialization, potentially providing a breath of fresh air for meat sellers in Edmonton. Dubbed GelCycler Mark II, the development out of the University of Alberta was acquired by Alberta-based company Amplicet Inc. The researchers responsible for GelCycler Mark II say that the cassette-sized piece of technology can detect harmful bacteria in seven hours, compared to one to two days; and that it is more accurate.

Last April, 11 people in Edmonton fell sick from an E. coli outbreak linked to pork from a Hutterite Colony near Edmonton. (Vue attempted to contact a few Hutterite colonies for comment in this story, but has yet to hear back from them.) One consumer also died from the the outbreak. K&K Foodliner, known for its imports of European Food, was one of the stores that sold the tainted pork.

Kevin Krause, the store’s general manager, welcomes any developments that could make the food he sells safer.

“If I could get something that

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could basically guarantee the safety of our customers 100 percent, I would be all in for that,” he says.

“We never had a recall in 62 years [prior to the events of last April]. All of a sudden, this pork comes into us and it’s tainted.”

In all, though, it’s the meat producers and distributors who will likely

some temperature testing prior to selling, mostly in the case of locallysourced foods (like meat from Hutterite colonies), which are tested provincially and usually only come with the date of kill on it. Federallytested meats, on the other hand, come vacuum-sealed, and generally have a best before date on them.

labs in the province will likely use the technology.

“Private labs do most of the testing, or companies do their own, but they’re not in the processing plant,” she says.

Pilarski adds that, in some cases, meat processing plants and slaughterhouses may need to

“It costs a lot to hold that meat for so long before it can be released for sale just to ensure it’s not contaminated.” end up with the technology in their hands, says Darcy Boisvert, owner of Real Deal Meats.

“If it means they have to adjust their prices, we’d take that into consideration, and explain to our customers why,” he says.

The meat sold from the shops are inspected by either the province or the federal government, Boisvert says. The company puts a lot of trust in their hands, though it does

Boisvert estimates that 70 percent of the local meat his shop sells comes from Hutterite colonies.

GelCycler Mark II most likely won’t appear in slaughter houses, says Linda Pilarski, one of the researchers behind the project. It relies somewhat on the propagation of pathogens in a sample to detect readings, something many owners simply don’t want. Rather, private

send their samples far away, depending on their location, to get tested, and conventional testing methods take days. In the meantime, the meat just sits in a fridge.

“It costs a lot to hold that meat for so long before it can be released for sale just to ensure it’s not contaminated,” Pilarski says.

According to Pilarski, the technology can also be used to test

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lettuce, yoghurt, and peanut butter, to name a few foods. It currently costs around $0.05 per test, though the researcher expects that cost to rise when it becomes commercialized. Many meat producers in the province would like to be able to test their products to a standard comparable to federally-regulated meat, but the cost of existing tech is prohibitive, she adds.

“I think it could be a big benefit to small processors, as well as big ones,” she says.

GelCycler Mark II is 15 years in the making. It started off using “complex systems that didn’t work very well,” and has since moved to simpler methods, Pilarski says. U of A professors Cornelia Kreplin (who brought the team together), Lynn McMullen, and Patrick Pilarski are also on the team.

“The technology is simple, lowcost, and very reproduce-able, which is what you need if you’re ever going to use something in a food safety environment,” Pilarski says.

Doug Johnson doug@vueweekly.com

MODERN FARE

WISHBONE IS A DREAM FULFILLED

Food Writer Scott Lingley Can’t Say Enough about the Restaurant That Took over Mrkt’s Legacy

Wishbone 10542 Jasper Ave. 780 757 6758 eatwishbone.ca

Everyone knows Wishbone’s sandwiches are off the hook. / J Procktor

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his is the meal I have been waiting for. After a summer of largely middling dining-out experiences, a new hero has risen to the occasion—a Saturday night after a wearying week of unbreathable air, quotidian drudgery, and questionable nutritional choices. Open a scant year, Wishbone’s pedigree can be ascertained by its affiliation with the well-regarded Three Boars and Farrow. The unique room almost feels like a wood-lined tube with attractive fixtures, and though the khaki banquettes lining the wall have gone some way to ameliorating the situation, the space that formerly housed Mrkt is still a bit noisy when it’s jumping.

Fancy cocktails got us started.

Usually I’m more tempted by beer or red wine with food, but on this night, I took a chance that Wishbone’s mixologist might have something unique to offer.

Perhaps it was the three-ounce portion that tipped the scales. I tried the Macedonian tonic ($13), featuring Saffron gin, amaro avera, blanc vermouth, cardamom bitters, rosewater and mint. There was a lot going on there, but somehow the distinct flavours both stood out and balanced out in an ideal sipping tipple. Co-diner’s Prickly Pete ($14) comprised of prickly pear spirits and rangpur gin on the booze side, with citrus, soda and orange blossom kefirs—the latter presumably accounting for the generous foamy cap above the rim of its Collins glass. Dry and fruity, it integrat-

ed its alcohol well, and co-diner made short work of it.

It’s not often you see a menu where you want to order one of everything, but Wishbone’s bill of fare was concise, varied, and intriguing enough to make it feel like there were no bad choices— only difficult ones. Right up until the words came out of my mouth, I was waffling over the okonomiyaki (Japanese seafood-and-cabbage pancake), or lamb chorizo with clams, but I swerved toward absolute comfort with the fried chicken sandwich. Co-diner was similarly conflicted over roasted squash gnocchi versus scallops but finally opted for the latter.

Since we were in a self-described oyster house, though, we had to try some fresh oysters for starters ($18 for six), along with some roasted mushrooms ($13).

The former were simple but glorious PEI oysters, briny but not dank, velvety on the palate, with a subtle gin and shallot mignonette for drizzling. The roasted mushrooms were a more substantial affair, their earthiness complemented by a bed of baba ghanoush and rye crumbs, fresh and succulent mustard greens, and a generous blizzard of Beemster cheese—the Dutch parmesan, if you will, salty and nutty. Again, the flavours were astutely curated and expertly combined.

Fried chicken sandwich ($16) sounds so mundane, but really it was the fulfillment of a wish I didn’t know I had made. Every-

thing about it was just right: the fluffy brioche bun commensurate to the gorgeously fried, brined-totender-perfection chicken breast; the interplay of vinegary hot sauce and mildly pungent blue cheese gribiche (a creamy eggless mayo); the confetti of iceberg lettuce in one of its few legit uses.

The ample, crunchy napa cabbage salad on the side was a highlight unto itself, tossed with shredded carrots, sprouts, peanuts and tangy vinaigrette.

Co-diner was similarly enchanted by her scallops ($24), which were served with a generous slab of premium bacon, and charred pearl onions in soubise (sauce of pureed onions). The tender bivalves were exalted by the accompaniments, but she did long for a side on par with my cabbage salad to round out her plate.

We finished up with a dense digit of chocolate ganache ($13) served with peanut butter caramel, shards of raspberry meringue, and pralines.

I love desserts where a tiny forkful paints your palate with rich, intense flavour that you then melt away with a sip of really good coffee.

In the end we did let our appetites run wild and went a little over budget, but we assured ourselves we were worth it given how deeply pleasurable the experience was.

Wishbone’s penchant for regular menu rotation makes it all the more tempting to schedule repeat visits.

Scott Lingley

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Kitchen Tips

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Milla Pub. / Doug Johnson

Get to Grinding: Vintage Fork Staff Give Tricks on Getting the Most Out of Your Herbs

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hat’s one of the easiest ways to impress with your cooking? Fresh spices!

Spices, like many other foods, will lose their freshness, flavour, texture, and scent when a greater amount of their surface area is exposed to air. Consider an apple: it will stay fresh, juicy, and crisp for many days when left intact. Once the apple is sliced, the exposed outsides of the apple slice will begin to brown, while the inside the apple slice will remain fresh. Take that one step further and turn that apple into a puree, and the entirety of the apple will turn brown almost instantly.

This happens because of the amount of surface area of the apple exposed to air.

Spices respond the same way, just over a much slower time period. All the same, when a spice is left ground into a power, the entirety of its surface area is exposed to air, and it will continue to lose its delightful aroma and flavour.

If you want to kick up your cooking skills and the flavour of your dishes, Chef Salar Melli has a few words of wisdom on how to best store and use your fresh spices.

1. Purchase and store your spices whole and intact, grind them on demand for your recipes. You will immensely improve the flavour of any dish you are cooking.

2. When grinding your spices, use a mortar and pestle.

With a bit of elbow grease, you can grind your spices down into a fine powder by turning your arm in a circular motion. You will need a bit of strength and speed to get the desired powder.

3. Try to feel through the pestle the spices breaking down, and enjoy the intense aroma you will experience.

4. You may want to use a small brush to get all of your powdered spices out of your mortar and into your ingredients.

Taking the time to implement these four steps will greatly improve the quality of any dish you are making, whether it’s the cinnamon in your morning waffles, or the thyme and oregano in your pasta sauce.

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‘ALCOHOLISM DOESN’T JUST DISAPPEAR’ The Ongoing Closure of Seedy Drinking Holes Can Have Adverse Effects on the Community: Boyle Street Coordinator

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illa Pub saw its end a few years ago to little attention.

Maybe it closed when its liquor licence ended—The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission says it had one from July 16, 2011 until Dec. 15, 2015. Or, maybe it closed in June of 2016, the period of time when the business license was voluntarily cancelled, according to the City of Edmonton.

It wasn’t the prettiest pub in the world. A post from 2008 on a blog called Dive Bars of Edmonton shares the experience of the writer as he enters the bar and talks to some of its residents. His experience seemed to be an amiable one, though just the fact that the only formal rating system on the site is a score out of 10 ‘knives,’ paints a bit of a picture.

Milla Pub’s closure, whenever it may have been, may not be a product of downtown’s continued gentrification—the bar’s number online isn’t in use, so there’s no real way of asking—but it certainly comes on the heels of the region’s development. For example: Richelieu Pub—which didn’t have the best reputation for downtown drinking holes—is now Denizen Hall.

According to Jared Tkachuk, manager of outreach and support services with Boyle Street Community Services, Milla Pub used to be a “haunt” for some of the agency’s community members.

“I think, for sure, [the closure] was noticed by them,” he says.

There aren’t many bars downtown where people experiencing homelessness can go to get a drink, he adds. The last one Tkachuk knows is The Hub Tavern on Jasper Avenue and 97th Street.

“I think it’s a problem for the community members who really struggle with alcoholism ... Dependence doesn’t disappear just because some of these locales disappear.”

a warrant and can end up in remand,” Tkachuk says.

This also means there are fewer places homeless people can drink indoors when the winter hits.

Some may also turn to types of alcohol that aren’t beverages.

Finally, there’s a sense of social isolation that comes along with being turned away at the door.

“I don’t think we can romanticize some of these places too much. I know police had to be called fairly frequently to them,”

There are currently a few ‘wet housing’ operations in Edmonton.

Mat Rose, Boyle McCauley Health Centre spokesperson, says there is an “element” of harm reduction to dive bars, but he wonders how big it might be.

Typically, homeless people have fairly limited funds, and drinking in a bar comes with a premium.

The warmth in the winter, and the sense of social connection, can be beneficial to people experiencing homelessness, or people

“I think the idea of a place where people can have a supported place where they can drink is really needed in the city ... I think there was some kind of harm reduction in these inexpensive pubs.

People now don’t have much of an option.”

Fewer bars that accept homeless people can lead to an increased rate of public or outdoor drinking, he says. Drinking outdoors is also prohibited.

“If you’re caught, you can be ticketed for sure, and our community members do end up getting drinking in public tickets. If you have no income, a ticket probably isn’t going to get paid, which results in a court date, and then if you forget the court date—or can’t make it— it ends up as a failure to appear. If you get enough of those, you get

he says. “I think the idea of a place where people can have a supported place where they can drink is really needed in the city ... I think there was some kind of harm reduction in these inexpensive pubs. People now don’t have much of an option.”

This also highlights the need for more ‘wet,’ or managed alcohol— housing that provides alcohol to its residents—and other government agencies that can provide alcohol in a safe area with access to other support systems.

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nearer to the poverty line, he adds. Similarly, there are some social harms mitigated by allowing people to drink around other people—they may behave with a little more restraint.

However, Rose is not sure that dive bars represent a direct form of harm reduction.

“How alcohol and other substances fit into this whole thing is another level of complication,” he says.

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Fernand-Bienvenue Ackey, Carole Saint-Cyr, Estelle Durot-Ménard, and Claude Vallières will be the proffessional on-air hosts for Radio Cité. / Chelsea Novak

FRANCOPHONE RADIO

After 10 years, Radio Cité will Launch in Edmonton this fall

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dmonton’s Francophone community will soon have their own radio station. La Société radio communautaire du Grand Edmonton Society will begin testing for Radio Cité 97.9 FM on Sept.

3, with plans to launch on Oct. 6. The radio station’s three studios—found in La Cité Francophone—are under construction, but nearing completion, and it’s an exciting time for those who have been working to make the station a reality over the last 10 years.

Carole Saint-Cyr, general manager of Radio Cité, has been involved since 2008. She started as one of the society’s board members, but took the manager position last year when the board couldn’t find a candidate with the necessary experience.

“It’s been a really long process, and a lot of work,” she says.

The society got the OK on a broadcast licence from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in January, 2017, and has since been working to make the proposed station a reality.

“Two years after they give you

Begins broadcast Sat., Oct. 6 Radio Cité 97.9 FM

the licence, you should be on air.

So 18 months, it might be a little bit fast,” Saint-Cyr says.

She is one of Radio Cité’s five full-time employees, and also one of the four professional onair hosts who will provide content Monday to Friday, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Claude Vallières and journalist Estelle Durot-Ménard will host

Fernand-Bievenue Ackey, director of programming, will host the drive home—Monday to Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.—with more music, and arts and culture news.

Ackey arrived in Edmonton four months ago from Ottawa, and originally came to Canada from Togo in West Africa. Vallières came from the province

training sessions and pitched their own shows, will provide some of the evening and weekend programming as well.

“We will have a show that will focus on dance. We will have one show that will be by the Women’s Coalition of Alberta [Coalition des Femmes de l’Alberta] …

They’ll be talking about current affairs related to women’s con-

“[We will be] covering everything that is going on in Edmonton—not only in the French community, but really the whole city…”—Claude Vallières, future morning show host for Radio Cité. the morning show from Monday to Friday, 6 a.m to 10 a.m. “[We will be] covering everything that is going on in Edmonton—not only in the French community, but really the whole city—and playing the best music in French and in English, from the ’60s to today,” Vallières says.

of Québec (but was born in Manitoba), and Ménard also came from Québec.

Saint-Cyr explained that most of the applications la Société radio communautaire du Grand Edmonton Society received came from people outside of Edmonton.

Local volunteers, who attended

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ditions, and stuff like that,” Vallières explains.

There will also be children’s shows, special request shows, and shows with African music— among others.

Radio Cité intends to be very community driven, and Valliéres explains that it won’t just be the

volunteer hosts who help shape the station’s content.

“We have a lot of people coming in to do some chronicles about some stuff that is going on in the community, or representing the different Francophone organizations, or just talking about new technology, history, sports or whatever,” he says.

Further programming will be provided by Réseau francophone d’Amérique and Radio France International, which Saint-Syr explains will help Radio Cité provide listeners hailing from Europe and Africa with news from back home.

“There’s a lot of … Francophone coming from Africa … and from Europe, so it’s a way for us to give them that kind of service,” she says.

The station will also include news reports every 30 minutes.

Vallières says that so far, Radio Cité has received positive support from the community.

“At each event that we’re holding, it’s always full of people. So the support is really good.”

Chelsea Novak chelsea@vueweekly.com

VUEPICKS Experiment: Printing the Canadian Imagination // Until Fri., Aug. 24 David McNight spent 30 years assembling a collection of Canadian little magazines and small and micro press imprints. The result is the David McKnight Canadian Little Magazine and Small Press Collection, which McNight and Lillian Eyre donated to the Bruce Peel Special Collections in memory of Professor Wynne Francis.

It’s being shared with the public for the first time, and there’s also an exhibition catalogue from the University of Alberta Press that can be purchased at the library for $40. It should offer an interesting look at modern Canadian poetry, avant-garde literature and small magazine publishing. (Bruce Peel Special Collections, Rutherford South, Free) // CN

Master Truck Throwdown // Fri., Aug. 24 - Sun., Aug. 26 Monster truck driving is an art right? It’s certainly a part of pop culture, but I’ve never experiences the real thing. Don’t make my mistake. See two-time Freestyle Champion Jim Koehler, as well as AVENGER, Bounty Hunter, Scarlet Bandit, and more. Arrive early to meet the drivers and check out the trucks up close. (Castrol Race-

The Edmonton Art Council’s Public Art Picnics feature public art, musicians, and entertainment. / Supplied

Public Art Picnic // Sun., Aug. 26 (12-4 pm) Join the Edmonton Arts Council for an afternoon of art in the park. Trincan Steel Orchestra, and Celeigh Cardinal will provide music in front of “The Musicians” sculpture—fittingly enough—and Firefly Theatre will perform renditions of “Crosswalk Theatre”—a take on comedian James Corden’s “Crosswalk the Musical.” (And if you don’t know what that is, it’s worth a google.) There will also be plenty of food trucks for picnickers to pick up some delish dishes, or of course you can bring your own picnic lunch. (Stony Plain Road and 152 Street, Free) // CN

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FRINGE REVIEWS

THE BEST AND WORST OF FRINGE A Selection of Our Five-Star and One-Star Rated Plays from This Year’s Edmonton International Fringe Festival audience members, who are desperately clinging to the hope that it can remain untainted.

—Anthony Fortin

Ingrid Hansen and Rod Peter Jr. star in Kitt & Jane. / Jam Hamidi

KITT & JANE: AN INTERACTIVE SURVIVAL GUIDE TO THE NEARPOST APOCALYPTIC FUTURE Kitt & Jane follows the story of two young adolescents who hijack their school assembly to inform us of the impending apocalypse and the trials that they will soon be facing such as global warming and the like.

The writing is poignant and elo-

quent, while still managing to put forward characters that are vibrant and innocent. There’s a large variety of performances, all executed in great fashion.

The show reminded me of the brand of media that focuses on serious topics, but through the keen eyes of spirited youth, like Adventure Time. An endearing innocence that is cherished by

NONNA’S STORY This one-person production by Antonio Bavaro has everything every LGBTQ2S+ Edmonton 18-year-old who fucked off to Montreal could want: beautiful projection art, sentimental dissections of family and collective identity, romantic Neapolitan songs from the 1890s, and a bit of light drag. If you like at least one of those things, you will like this performance. If you like more than one of them, you’ll probably love it. This first performance was a touch shaky at times, but no doubt as the Fringe rolls on, the performance of this lovely, nostalgic little piece will be tighter.

—Lynsey Grosfield THE BIG STUPID IMPROV SHOW If you’re a fan of improv, The Big Stupid Improv Show is an absolute must to see. With an incredible range of people, talents, and wonderful music, it’s a hilarious experience. All of the music and

he is called by Nietzsche. It is a monotheistic religion and its deity is Ahura Mazda, whose name is sometimes given as Ohrmazd.

—Will Belton

Love, Loss and What I Wore tells the stories of an array of women through the lens of their wardrobes. / Supplied

AHUNWAR: THE DEVIL’S LONG NAP With an aesthetic that’s equal parts Vampire Chronicles and obscure dark fantasy anime, Ahunwar: The Devil’s Long Nap is quite possibly the weirdest take on the Zoroastrian myth since the inception of Zoroastrianism itself. The critical differences being that Zoroastrianism is actually interesting and the antiquity of its mythic narrative means that some of its more unsavoury elements can be suffered with only a modicum of discomfort—not so with this strange play. In Ahunwar, 10 arts

the demoness Jeh rouses the demon Ahriman from a 3,000-year slumber in order to restore him to power and defeat their enemy, the god Ohrmazd. Were it not for a handful of huge problems, this play might’ve been interesting. As it is, overacting, an unclear plot with far too many loose ends, and an arguably non-consensual situation about two-thirds of the way through, converge to make this play a distasteful and melodramatic pile of nonsense. Zoroastrianism is a religion founded in ancient Persia, the prophet of which is Zoroaster—or Zarathustra, as

DENTURES Dentures begins with its two 20-something heroes—Chad and Derek—facing eviction. To keep themselves off the streets they sneak into a care home, where shenanigans ensue. Director and playwright Dustyn Tennessen gives some tepid commentary on elder neglect, but that small service to the elderly is diminished by the stereotyping that fuels the show’s attempts at comedy.

While there is some amusing humour, the awkward dialogue and clumsy acting make Dentures more cringe-worthy than comedic. Matt Ness, who plays Chad, is especially guilty of over acting, and while Michael Vetsch’s Derek has a certain doofus charm, his comedic timing is often off. A small shout-out goes out to Shanni Pinkerton for the most watchable performance. But the worst part has to be the cheesy, heavy-handed laugh track, which more often than not only served to point out that a joke hadn’t landed.

—Chelsea Novak GOOD IMPROV Good Improv—it’s not good.

Fringe offers on average a bevy

lighting is improvised on the spot as well, making the whole act nearly seamless. They provide an incredible experience with a lot of audience suggestion and participation. If you are given the chance, check it out. It’s worth the time and money without a doubt.

—Angela Nevins

WOODY Still seemingly caught between puppet and flesh, this grownup Pinocchio sequel interrogates the difference between a ‘real boy’ and a human. From the start, Neil James’ one-man performance doesn’t conform to what you might expect from a Disney sequel. Pinocchio lights a cigarette and cusses as he trips before the lights even come up. James blatantly shifts between the ‘real’ Pinocchio—the cigarette smoking, embattled man searching for purpose and humanity—and an alternate teen persona who begrudgingly follows the directions of a disembodied narrator as he discovers puberty, porn, and the fact that his ‘dick’ now grows whenever he tells a lie. The goofy disconnect of an innocent boy— still wooden at heart—stumbling his way through sex and tragedy charms several awkward scenarios

of improvised shows that are showcased throughout the festival. With that in mind, not all are going to be sidesplitting. Even so, Good Improv starts off promising, with the performers basing their show on an audience member’s quirks, and goes from there.

What follows is three performers engaging in high school drama class-level shenanigans, with a hip-hop edge. It would appear the minds behind Good Improv bit off a little more than they could chew, as both the improvised comedy and improvised music often fall flat—hindered more by the performers’ tendency to scramble to find any consistency in their comedic displays. Improv is a difficult thing to judge, as everyone’s taste is different. But if you’re going to come to the Edmonton Fringe, you got to bring more to the table than just lunch period class clown buffoonery.

—Jake Pesaruk

LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE Despite being arranged in a rainbow, this play couldn’t be more straight, unless it got really upset about the Edmonton Oilers. Punctuated by desired and loathed articles of clothing, Love, Loss, and What I Wore seems incredibly dated. Written by Norah Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle, et al.), it barely skits the periphery

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Until Sun., Aug. 26 Edmonton International Fringe Festival For more reviews, visit Edmontonfringe.ca into fun gags. However, Woody’s early jokes belie surprisingly painful beats filled with more philosophical grit than you can shake a wooden appendage at.

—Kevin Pennyfeather

XANADU: THE MUSICAL Xanadu: The Musical showcases a cast of talented singers doubling down on the best part of the original film: the soundtrack. Each song was a masterful performance that, despite a few flat notes on the first number, keeps you wanting more of those low electric chords and catchy tunes. Brian Christensen as Sonny Malone never lets his character falter, even while singing in a wide range of pitches. Throughout the entire play, there is so much energy from the cast, especially the muses, who, while not having a huge stage, use every inch of it. There were some nice effects like fog and the lighting was controlled well; the costumes were bright and colourful and the props were genuinely hilarious, eliciting howls of laughter from the audience when Pegasus made an appearance. Xanadu is fun, sassy, and one Tartarus of a good time.

—Trevor Robson

of woke-ness. The six actors, each in a different colour of dress, do their best to bring life to a limp script whose only saving graces are the precious few moments of comedy. If you’re really, like, really into clothing, something here may speak to you.

—Doug Johnson

MISCAST The idea behind Miscast is that sometimes an actor wants to play a role that doesn’t match up to their physical appearance.

Maybe they’re too tall or short, the wrong ethnicity, or even the wrong gender. In Miscast, anyone can play any role. It’s an interesting concept with plenty of potential for comedy and entertainment. Unfortunately, this version felt like the cast just decided to do their favourite songs from musicals and call it a show. Each of the seven thespians had the chance to perform a song, in addition to three group numbers.

Four of the songs were solos with the singer just standing centre stage, hardly moving as they performed. There was plenty of off-key singing, and the band consistently played far too loudly for the audience to make out the lyrics. Watching Miscast is like going to a bad talent show put on by an overambitious high school theatre class.

—Scott Meeberg

FICTION

WHEN YOU START AT THE TOP, IT’S A LONG WAY DOWN Edmonton Author Ian Canon’s Novel Explores Surrendering to Drug Abuse

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lot of contemporary fiction about substance use has focused on the working and lower class. Local poet and author Ian Canon’s new novel It’s a Long Way Down explores celebrity fame, accomplishment, and a life of extraordinary luxury turned to vice.

“Philip Seymour Hoffman is my favourite actor,” Canon says. “I always found there was a big mystery around him. Why, at such a high point in his career, would someone sober for 23 years ... all of a sudden [start] picking up drugs again? When he has a family, two kids, and a career.”

Hoffman was a giant in Hollywood, one of the most accomplished and loved actors of all time. After a long stretch of sobriety, he turned back to hard substance use late in his life. His death was officially ruled an accident caused by an “acute mixed drug intoxication, including heroin, cocaine, benzodiazepines and amphetamine,” according to the coroner’s report.

David Emmeret Smith, the main

character in It’s a Long Way Down, shares many similarities with Hoffman. He is someone who, at the very pinnacle of his career, finds himself returning to problematic substance use and hedonistic overindulgence.

“You can have luxury, talent, family, luck, fortune, but still sometimes go that route. Substance use can have just as big a grip on the fortunate as on the less fortunate lives,” Canon says.

It’s surprisingly common for famous people and celebrities to overdose. Canon hopes his novel will help move people with another story of an individual’s struggle. It shows that problems of substance abuse, like a virus, permeate all aspects of society.

“I haven’t done heroin, but I’ve done a lot of research on the substance’s use. There’s authors like Burroughs—his novel Junky was a huge influence. It didn’t really talk about the actually getting high—for the most part it’s always the search for drugs and the horrors of the comedown.”

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Canon’s novel doesn’t always glorify drug use, and there is immense sadness in his main character as David tries desperately to find release, through any means available. It’s a Long Way Down showcases how easily one can be overcome by substance abuse.

“I have family with addiction issues, and I have quite a few friends with addiction issues too. I was always interested in that feeling of giving up on life, or release. The hedonism of just going straight for whatever it is and not really caring about anything else for a bit,” he says.

The cover, designed by Katya Worbets, depicts a dream sequence where the actor is falling down a well, a syringe and spoon crossed underneath.

“He really wasn’t free,” Canon says about his character David, and Hoffman’s passing. “It was like he couldn’t control his action, and succumbed.”

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Johanna Schneller and Amanda Parris host season two of The Filmmakers. // Supplied, CBC

TV ABOUT FILM

Season Two of The Filmmakers Focuses on Women

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s far as I know, you don’t need a dick to operate a camera, or to direct, or write—yet in Canada we have far more men directing cinematography for films, and directing and writing films than we do women. Only 17 percent of Ca-

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CBC’s The Filmmakers responded to this disparity by making its second season all about Canadian female directors.

Johanna Schneller and Amanda Parris host The Filmmakers, introducing their audience to Canadian films in 21-minute segments before showing the movie. The segments in season two feature interviews with the directors, and panels with people who were either involved in the film, or who can offer some insight to the film.

For instance, the panel for Window Horses, a film about Iranian poetry, included Nasim Asgari, an Iranian-Canadian poet.

Parris explains that ultimately decisions about which movies to show are made above her head, but she and Schneller have input, and the second season focuses on female directors because of bigger conversations happening in the film industry right now.

“It’s been such a huge topic in the zeitgeist, talking about diversity in film, but also gender disparity in film—whether it’s in terms of the stories that are being told, or the people telling the stories,” she says.

Parris cites stats from the CMPA study, as well as as study put out by the Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film in the U.S., which stated that “[w]omen

accounted for 11% [sic] of directors working on the top 250 films in 2017.”

“It’s been a topic of conversation on TV shows, on social media; and I think we thought about it and said, ‘Instead of making it a topic of conversation—we have this incredible platform here— why don’t we just walk the talk and make this season completely dedicated to women working in films?’” she says.

The films showcased in season two are as diverse as their directors.

Parris explains that there are more experienced directors like Mina Shum (Meditation Park) and Patricia Rozema (Into the Forest), but also directors who have recently made their debut, like Stella Meghie (Jean of the Joneses) and Rebecca Addelman (Paper Year).

“Both of whose films are their first feature films that we’re screening,” Parris says. “Rebecca Addelman just finished her film last year, so it’s super, super fresh.”

The films also explore distinct themes, which Parris explains was done on purpose, to show that women shouldn’t be pigeonholed as directors of romantic comedies.

“We wanted to show that female filmmakers are making all sorts of films—whether they be post-

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Saturdays until Sept. 15 (8:30 pm) The Filmmakers Season Two CBC apocalyptic films that showcase what happens at the end of the world [Into the Forest], or films that are coming of age that don’t feature a teenager [Meditation Park],” Parris says.

There’s also an animated film— Window Horses, directed by Ann Marie Fleming—and a documentary—Angry Inuk, directed by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril.

Parris hopes that talking about the films before they’re screened—with the director and with the panelists—will help convince Canadians to watch the films.

“It’s kind of like 21 minutes of why you should stay tuned for this feature,” she says. “We have this rare opportunity to have great long conversations with female filmmakers, which just is a rarity in and of itself, and it’s such a great opportunity to talk about craft, to talk about some of the challenges and barriers that they faced in the creation of their work.”

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‘BIO PIC’

SPIKE LEE’S NEWEST FLICK OFF BALANCE BlacKkKlansman Gives Too Much Time to Hateful Bullshit

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ometimes it’s the little things … or at least the miniscule letters. Take the title of Spike Lee’s latest. BlackKklansman would be slyer, but instead it’s BlacKkKlansman, those two big Ks just there to knock us onto our keisters so we get the point(ed hoods).

Subtlety hasn’t been Lee’s strong suit—recently, for instance, his Chi-Raq (2016) confused brash with blatant and the political with the polemical. This time, while there’s some righteous passion and potency, there’s too much of a platform given to the other side’s racist drivel.

The pre-credits pulpit, unnecessarily, is put before Kennebrew Beauregard (Alec Baldwin), a white-supremacist spluttering off in front of movie clips. (Later, there’s a cutting indictment of American cinema’s starring role in race-baiting—Klansmen cheer at a screening of The Birth of a Nation, two generations after DW Griffiths’ flick helped revive their organization.) Soon, the undercover-cop plot kicks in: in 1970s Colorado Springs, new officer Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) poses over the phone as an eager KKK wannabe, with Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) posing

as Ron in person to infiltrate the group. When Ron, who’s black, or Flip, a Jew (an addition for dramatic effect), has to play the bigot, we flinch at his necessary evil or feel for him in his internal conflict. But, too often, we hear Klansmen or Grand Wizard David Duke (Topher Grace) spouting hateful bullshit—and this gets tedious fast.

There are suspenseful moments and sharp juxtapositions. Some solid punches (at times too onthe-nose) land on Nixon-era (and Trump-era) USA. But BlacKkKlansman is overlong at two-plus hours, its action-climax is over-scored, and it feels a bit overdone in places.

Director Boots Riley recently attacked Lee’s film for not only softening the hard facts of the case, but downplaying Stallworth’s threeyear-long COINTELPRO infiltration of a black activist group. The balance of social-satire, undercoverthriller, and political-drama is never quite right. Instead, what could have been a searing look back at an only-in-America true story, marking out how much further the nation’s race-relations still have to advance, becomes a middling-to-memorable message-movie.

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Adam Driver and John David Washington go undercover in BlacKkKlansman. / 4 Acres & A Mule Filmworks

SHARK MOVIE

Jason Statham takes on over 60 tons of CGI shark in The Meg. / Warner Bros.

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here was once an era, an era in which people would cram into theatres and watch overproduced, cluttered unmitigated schlock— fully knowing what they were in for, and would enjoy it anyway.

The Meg harkens back to the old days. If you go into this movie anticipating a subtle, nuanced monster film, then you haven’t been paying attention—this movie is bad, and that’s the point.

Staring our favourite action man from the mid-2000s Jason Statham, The Meg takes full advantage of its nonsensical situations and doubles down. The plot follows Statham’s character, deep-sea rescuer extraordinaire Jonas Taylor. After a bleak rescue that sinks his reputation, Taylor retires to a life of heavy drinking, convinced he “saw something down there.” Some years

later: cut to a team of intrepid ocean researchers as they begin their expedition to the Marianas Trench—convinced that the bottom of the trench is actually just a layer of hydrogen sulfide hiding life underneath.

Turns out they’re right. The megalodon attacks, Taylor emerges out of retirement, and insert ex-wife sub-plot here. Yet, even though this film has as much subtlety as a cricket-bat lobotomy, and falls into the category of lovable schlock, it still has some issues—first and foremost, it’s a shark movie that is PG-13.

Look, if you’re going to release a bombastic shark movie in the summer, why make it PG-13?

Half of the fun of any of these movies is the brutal and sometimes hilarious set pieces behind

deaths of characters. I mean all of the easy pickings are here in this film—asshole billionaire who doesn’t take matters seriously, eccentric tech guy, and the kind mentor character. Think of any monster movie, and you know these archetypes often meet bleak, yet creative, ends, but not in The Meg. Instead we are treated to a bythe-book story of initial conflict (oh no a shark), mid-point (we can beat shark), and then eventually secondary-conflict and ending (we can’t beat shark, let’s do new thing)—all done with very little creativity and a lot of CGI. The Meg could’ve earned a spot in the ranks of ‘so bad it’s good,’ but with no risks and a watered down rating, it sadly falls into the category of just OK. Jake Pesaruk

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THE BLUES

The Edmonton Blues Festival Is Still One of Canada’s Most Important Blues Celebrations

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am Hayden has been an integral part of Edmonton’s music and arts scene for well over 40 years. Working full-time with CKUA until late 2001, while hosting the Friday Night Blues Party, a staple of late night local radio programing. Cam’s been on the airwaves for over 28 years. There isn’t anything in the musical lexicon he hasn’t supported or had direct involvement with. He’s also a founding member of Blues International, the production company that started the Edmonton Blues Festival in 1999; twenty years later, The Edmonton Blues Festival has gained world-wide recognition and universal acclaim; winning The Blues Foundation’s prestigious “Keeping the Blues Alive award,” cementing it as one of the premium world-wide blues music experiences.

“The nice thing about the music business is that you don’t really have to retire if you manage to remain plugged in to what’s going on,” Hayden says. “The nice thing about being in the blues world is that’s a kind of accepted thing; there’s many performers and people in the business who are well into their golden years.”

Twenty years running is no easy task for a festival, especially one of this magnitude. It takes steadfast dedication and effort on all ends. No one goes into something like this thinking they’re going to make money. They do it because it’s something one loves to do. Because of that dedication, Nashville, a sister city in the blues community, is holding a proclamation, congratulating all the work and dedication the Edmonton Blues Festival has accomplished over the last 20 years—a recognition Hayden is excited and humbled to hear.

The Heritage Amphitheatre itself, which has been the Edmonton Blues Festival’s home since its inception, according to Hayden is “sonically superior” to any other venue in Edmonton. It’s the perfect size to bring in some of the bigger names while allowing for the intimacy of a smaller club sized venue. But with over 300 acts a year wanting to perform, and space for only around 15, the hard part of-

ten becomes picking and choosing which artists to bring.

“This year, in some respect, there was some special considerations.

We wanted some people who were with us in the first few years, and we’ve managed to do that with artists like Rick Estrin, Marcia Ball, Tim Williams, and Big Dave McLean, but there’s huge artists like Samantha Fish and Nikki Hill that are going to be carrying the torch very soon,” Hayden says.

One of the great things about this year’s Edmonton’s Blues Festival is celebrating the next generation of players.

“It’s great we can give them a place to play, grow and mature as artists, as well as be recognized as the great artists they are, and will be,” Hayden says. “This festival really showcases the up-and- comers, but also pays tribute to those who laid the groundwork that people can follow.”

Being able to introduce and encourage new artists is still one of the biggest perks of Hayden’s job.

Many artists like North Carolina’s Nikki Hill, have never graced an Edmonton stage.

“Its great being a part of the younger generation, getting in front of new crowds. I thank the promoters for giving us a chance,” Hill says. “But I think we do deliver as well.”

Growing into the blues on her own, Hill has developed her own approach to blues song writing citing her love of classic rock and blues artists like Otis Redding, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Richard, to and punk bands like Bad Brains, and The Cramps.

“Going to a lot of live shows in Carolina got me into another side of the pre-war blues, discovering old female singers like Memphis Minnie and the older soul music of my parents opened up all kinds of doors for me,” Hill says.

Clearly influenced by a lot of the old sounds, (that’s where she finds a lot of her melodies and rhythms) Hill draws a distinction between creating art in their time and her own.

“The time we’re living, writing, and creating in are so different

then the times they lived. You take the parts that are so inspiring from that but you still have to be true to yourself, write what you’re feeling and write from your own present time experiences.”

There are strong parallels a lot of blues and southern music follow. It’s music about resilience and perseverance, something Hill hopes never disappears.

“It’s how a lot of people at that time were able to hear each other.

Pre-social media, music was the way to really get a message out and spread it,” Hill says. “Now there is such an influx of information. I hope we never lose that spark—of telling your story and your truth.”

On blues and roots music, Hill is optimistic about its ability to escape the music industries general commercialization and industry shenanigans.

“There are real advantages of not being subjected to pop stardom.” Hill says. “I feel there’s a real advantage in being able to do, say, and create without as many barriers. I hope people are able to really take advantage of that and make great art.”

Blues music has a history reaching back more than 100 years. Its legacy and traditions are rooted firmly in the generations of the past. The legacy’s passing artists have left have been vital to the development of new and rising sounds—the very same inspiration and creative spirit that lives within them is a spark and catalyst for new artists and musicians.

“With every artist that passes, you know, it’s very sad, but it can be very inspiring, there’s hope that I can give back as these artists have inspired me,” Hill says.

Hayden doesn’t see himself retiring any time soon, and hopes the Edmonton Blues Festival remains a great experience for everyone: the artists, volunteers, patrons, and musicians. And Hill remains steadfast and dedicated to her art and artistic contribution.

“I hope people can appreciate the performance we bring, and whatever it is we might be known for,” Hill says. “I hope we can bring a little bit of excitement and maybe make some new friends.”

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The music, stories, and showmanship are causal, raw, and genuine. No need for fancy bells and whistles as this is simply a guy with his guitar, casually singing about life, cracking jokes, and at times, baring his soul. Even if you don’t drink beer, Beers About Songs has an underlying theme that most people can relate to.

Leanne Curtis Eddie Poe The Coldharts Starring Katie Hartman and Nick Ryan  Inspired by the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, Eddie Poe is the second of a three-part series created and performed by The

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Coldharts, a group comprised of Nick Ryan and Katie Hartman.

This installment finds a teenage Edgar Allan leaving his first love and secret fiancée, Elmira, to pursue his education at the University of Virginia. But he’s not alone. This minimalist musical makes a big impact. Creative lighting and moody music (including the ridiculously catchy “Diddling” song) help to show the Jekyll-Hyde relationship between the Edgars. Nick Ryan plays the adorably naïve intellectual Edgar like a 19th century Sheldon Cooper, but it’s Katie Hartman’s portrayal of, well, everyone else that makes this show so captivating. From the creepy Other Edgar (or is it Eddie Poe?), to the sweet Elmira, to the cartoonish Glendinning, Hartman leaps from character to character flawlessly. Who knew Edgar Allan Poe could be so much fun?

Erin Wallace Piaf and Brel: The Impossible Concert Melanie Gall Presents Starring Melanie Gall  As the title suggests, French chanteuse Edith Piaf and Belgian crooner Jacques Brel never sang together during their lifetimes.

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both of their lives, from Brel’s leapof-faith move to Paris to Piaf’s very public heartbreak after her lover died in a plane crash. Gall, a classically trained opera singer, has a lovely and powerful voice. Her enthusiasm for the material is clear— she is consistently brimming with energy. If you’re a fan of classic French tunes, you’ll certainly enjoy this wonderful little concert.

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At times hilarious, intriguing, and educational, Josephine is a marvelous look at the life of a fascinating woman.

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are bones folk or rock ’n’ roll is harder to find these days.

While EDM is propelling pop and rock music to adopt musically transcending arrangements and sounds, there are still musicians dedicated to live off-the-floor, doit-yourself takes and shows—a philosophy Sam Weber holds dear.

In an age where the cult of personality can often rule in music (Thanks, MTV), Sam Weber believes in the power of spontaneity.

“The power of a really great take is magical. When you start to dis-

had the agency to stick to his own guns too.

“Berklee lit a fire in me to start doing it myself. Being self-sufficient is the kind of artist I want to be, like how Aretha Franklin played most of the piano on her records or how Bowie had a creative hand in all of his projects. I knew that I could learn a lot from Berklee and since then I’ve been at home trying to foster their philosophy with my own.”

It’s this off the floor and live approach that guides his mostly self-

of Heart’ was created just a few days prior to recording it. All of the songs represent different times or moments of my life.”

Expressing the human condition is pivotal to our being and, for Weber, it’s a way to “turn a corner on an issue.”

“Song writing is a therapeutic tool. If I’m emotionally conflicted about something I write a song about it. I kind of explain it to myself, and it allows me to move forward on something.”

Not only does Weber want to

“The power of a really great take is magical. When you start to dissect a song in the studio, it loses something, but when it’s off the floor it feels so special; it’s the best way to get closest to a song.” sect a song in the studio, it loses something, but when it’s off the floor it feels so special; it’s the best way to get closest to a song,” Weber says from his home on Vancouver Island.

While Weber calls Vancouver Island his home, he often splits his time between Canada and the U.S. During a summer spent at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he met acclaimed artist Maggie Rogers, Weber embraced the structure of music school, but

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produced EP, New Agile Freedom; Jackson Browne collaborator Tyler Chester in L..A. produced the other songs. For this album, Weber split his time between L.A. and home, and the songs themselves are actually a collection from his past and present. Some songs like “Burnout” date back to when he wrote them as a teenager. “Each song is a moment of truth of some kind,” Weber says. “‘Burnout’ was one of the first songs I ever wrote, when I was 15 years old, and ‘Pure

find the spontaneous nature in his playing, but also his song writing, or “the ability to be blunt,” he says.

“Some of the most powerful singers are gospel-inspired because they believe in what they’re singing about—that’s what I’m after.”

Wherever that truth happens to manifest, know that it is yours, free from dissection or judgement, because that’s how Sam Weber sees it, and that’s how he’ll express it.

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Musician Colin Lynch watched in awe from 317 million miles away as the impossible became a reality. The event was overshadowed in the media by typically unimportant non-news, which sprung Lynch into action to score a tribute for the landing. The album is comprised of two parts. Part one is steeped in classic romanticism and much of the songs are inspired by love. Although most of the album’s initial praise has been for this half, it’s part two that really showcases Lynch’s ability to score the Philae & Rosetta mission by adding electronic ambient sounds into the mix. The best example is “Gravity Assist,” which transports you onboard the Rosetta spacecraft during its trip.

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I’m in a pickle. All I want is to experience touch, intimacy, and sexual pleasure—but without freaking out. I grew up with a lot of negative messages from men due to developing early, as well as having some other physical/ sexual trauma (no rape or abuse), but the combination has me seriously fucked up. Whenever I get close to physical intimacy with someone, I run away. I actually faked an emergency once and physically ran away because I knew sex was a possibility that night. I’m not a virgin—but in those instances, I’ve been really drunk (and experienced no emotional/physical pleasure). This is not what I want for my life.

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SHE CAN’T ADEQUATELY RELEASE EXTREME DREAD Sexual surrogates are legit, SCARED, but please don’t call them sexual surrogates.

“We’d like to see the language shift back to ‘surrogate partner,’ which was the original term,” said Vena Blanchard, president of the International Professional Surrogates Association (IPSA).

“Masters and Johnson originated the concept, and their treatment program was based on the theory that many people had problems that required the help of a cooperative partner, and some

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people didn’t have partners. So they trained people to work as ‘partner surrogates.’ The media took the term ‘partner surrogate’ and changed it to ‘sexual surrogate’ because it sounded sexier.

But ‘sexual surrogate’ implies that the work is all about sex.”

So if surrogate partner therapy is not about sex—or not all about sex—then what is it primarily about?

“Surrogate partner therapy is a therapeutic treatment that combines psychotherapy with experiential learning,” said Blanchard.

“It’s a program designed for people like SCARED, for people who struggle with anxiety, panic, and past trauma—things that can distort a person’s experience in the moment.”

Surrogate partner therapy happens in stages, with each progressive stage representing another “teeny, tiny baby step,” as Blanchard put it.

“The client first works with a legitimate therapist until the therapist thinks the client is ready to work with a surrogate partner,” said Blanchard. “You may start by sitting in opposite chairs and just talking. At some point, they might sit and hold hands, practice relaxation techniques, and focus on simple sensations. In the next session, they might touch each other’s faces with their hands.”

Sex can and does sometimes occur in the later stages of surrogate partner therapy, SCARED, but it doesn’t always and it’s not the goal—healing is.

“By having these repeated safe experiences, in a context where there’s no pressure, and consent is emphasized, and the patient is in control,” said Blanchard, “someone liked SCARED can learn to manage her anxiety, and her prior negative experiences are replaced with positive new experiences.”

While I had her on the phone, I asked Blanchard the first question many people have about surrogate partners: Are surrogate partners sex workers?

“A sex worker offers a sexual experience—that is the primary intention of what is a business transaction,” said Blanchard.

“What a surrogate partner offers are healing and education.

And while healing and education might also take place in a sexwork environment, and while some form of sexual contact might take place in surrogate partner therapy, the primary intention is different. A patient working with a surrogate partner is there to heal old injuries or break out of bad patterns so they can have a relationship in the future. People go to sex workers for an immediate experience—the agenda is sexual and about right now, not therapeutic and about the future.”

Then I asked Blanchard the second question many people have about surrogate partner therapy: Is it legal?

“There’s no place that it’s illegal,” said Blanchard. “There’s never been a court case challenging it. In California, where surrogate partner therapy is most common, no one has ever in 50 years challenged it.”

If you’re interested in working with a surrogate partner, SCARED, you can contact the referrals coordinator at IPSA’s website: surrogatetherapy.org.

Finally, SCARED, the number of trained and qualified surrogate partners is relatively small— IPSA has just 70 members—so you might need to go where most of those trained and qualified surrogates partners are in order to work with one. (The part of California that isn’t on fire is lovely this time of year.)

“Since there aren’t many qualified

surrogate partners available,” said Blanchard, “people sometimes need to travel to another location and work intensively. People will come for two weeks and work every single day with a therapist and a surrogate partner.”

RED MENACE

My partner and I have been together for 11 years and have always had a great sex life. I love his cock, we have similar appetites, and until recently everything was great. But he has always had an aversion to blood.

He is a pacifist, a vegetarian, and a recovering Muslim, so as much as I don’t understand his fear, I would never push him to have sex during my period. The problem is now I bleed whenever we have sex—just a tiny bit, but that’s enough to kill it for him, and the sex is immediately over. We already have enough constraints with differing schedules, kids, lack of privacy, periods. This is a big deal for me, and I don’t know how to deal with it. Any ideas?

AFRAID TO BLEED Turn off the lights, draw the curtains, have sex in the dark, get him a blindfold—and insist he see a therapist who specializes in helping people overcome their irrational phobias.

FAITH IS UNDER THE NIPPLE

I’m a 35-year-old gay man and I’ve been single for 10 years. I’d kind of given up, but suddenly I’ve got a real sweet guy in my life. He’s 24, so we’ll see how the age thing works out. I used to be pretty adventurous with sex, but I feel extremely nervous now. I feel like a virgin all over again— except I’m not turned on. On our first date, we ended up in a public bathroom, where I gave him a handjob (his idea). Last night, we messed around at my place.

ADULTCLASSIFIEDS

We kissed and got naked, but I couldn’t get hard. We watched porn. That always works, but not this time. Finally, he played with my nipples and—presto chango—there was a happy ending at last! (Plus, it was a learning experience. I found out I like having my nipples licked, a lot!)

I’m worried this will continue to happen. It’s like I’m thinking too much. I deal with anxiety and depression every day, and this is part of why I’ve been single for so long. I’m not feeling the urge to end the relationship yet, but I’ve been a wreck since we started dating. I’m attracted to this guy, but I can’t get turned on. Is this like not having the urge to eat when you’re nervous? Do I just need to wait it out until I’m comfortable with this guy, and hope he sticks around long enough to stick it in me?

LACKING IN MY PANTS You’re attracted to this guy, LIMP, and you’re turned on by him, and you’re capable of getting hard. When he played with your tits—when he licked your nipples—it took the focus off your cock, and your cock instantly got hard. Do that more, LIMP: more dates with this guy, more rolling around with him, more exploring other erogenous zones.

And it’ll help if you can tell him the truth: You’re a little nervous because it’s been a while since you dated anyone. Once you’re more comfortable with him— once you’re more comfortable seeing someone—your boners will come.

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1 Chunks of history 5 Decaf brand 10 Lumberyard tools 14 Turn into a puddle 15 “Fuzzy Wuzzy was ___ ...”

16 Preserve, as meat 17 Cupcake decorator 18 Show with skits 19 “Remote Control” host Ken (or German for “upper”) 20 IRS collection, formally?

22 Poke ingredient, often 23 “Saved by the Bell” character Jessie 24 Acid-base indicator 26 Formal attire 29 Actor Rob, or either candidate named Ron who competed in a 2018 Kansas congressional primary 32 “___ of Laura Mars” 35 Coif 39 George Gershwin’s brother 40 Amorphous amount (and an “Arrested Development” character) 41 Light bulb measure, formally?

42 Zero, on some fields 43 “It’s hard to be humble when you’re as great as I am” boxer 44 Beer named for a Dutch river 45 Religious offshoot 46 It’s six of one ... and six of the other 48 Bunches 50 36-Down’s “Family” 54 Piece of Necco candy 58 Desert of Mongolia 60 Zany, formally?

63 Practical applications 64 Love on the Loire 65 Mine vein 66 Quartet member 67 George Eliot’s “___ Marner” 68 City near Tulsa 69 “The Facts of Life” actress Mindy 70 Ibsen heroine Gabler 71 Brown and Rather, for two

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1 Gives off 2 Newscast summary 3 Echo responder?

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The two pieces of advice I have for you may initially seem contradictory, but they are in fact complementary. Together they’ll help guide you through the next three weeks. The first comes from herbalist and wise woman Susun Weed. She suggests that when you face a dilemma, you should ask yourself how you can make it your ally and how you can learn the lesson it has for you. Your second burst of wisdom is from writer Yasmin Mogahed: “Study the hurtful patterns of your life.

Then don’t repeat them.”

7 “On the Beach” author Shute 8 Hawaii’s “Garden Isle” 9 Fail to exist 10 RBG’s group, for short 11 Mass transit vehicle, formally?

12 Small songbird 13 It comes twice after “Que” in a song 21 Herd comment 25 “I want catnip” 27 “Careless Whisper” group (yeah, that’s the sax solo playing in your mind right now) 28 D.C. diamond denizens 30 Cartman, to his mom 31 Truffle fries topper 32 Victorian expletive 33 Hashtag acronym popularized by a Drake song 34 Casual “industry,” formally?

36 50-Across “Cousin” 37 Comedian/actress Butcher of “Take My Wife” 38 Inspiron computer maker 41 Harry Potter accessory 45 Stopped suddenly, as an engine 47 He held over 1,000 patents 49 Be shy 51 Overrun (with) 52 First Lady of the ‘50s 53 Castigate 55 “Criminal” singer Apple 56 “There’s no ___ sight!”

57 Orchestra needs 58 Nacho topper, slangily 59 1952 Olympics host 61 College courtyard 62 “Major” constellation ©2018 Jonesin’ Crosswords

FREEWILLASTROLOGY

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Speak the following declaration aloud and see how it feels: “I want strong soft kisses and tender unruly kisses and secret truth kisses and surprise elixir kisses. I deserve them, too.” If that puts you in a brave mood, Taurus, add a further affirmation: “I want ingenious affectionate amazements and deep dark appreciation and brisk mirthful lessons and crazy sweet cuddle wrestles. I deserve them, too.” What do you think?

Do these formulas work for you?

Do they put you in the proper frame of mind to co-create transformative intimacy? I hope so.

You’re entering a phase when you have maximum power to enchant and to be enchanted.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): As you map out your master plan for the next 14 months, I invite you to include the following considerations: an intention to purge pretend feelings and artificial motivations; a promise to change your relationship with old secrets so that they no longer impinge on your room to maneuver; a pledge to explore evocative mysteries that will enhance your courage; a vow to be kinder toward aspects of yourself that you haven’t loved well enough; and a search for an additional source of stability that will inspire you to seek more freedom.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you have been communing with my horoscopes for a while, you’ve gotten a decent education—for free! Nonetheless, you shouldn’t depend on me for all of your learning needs. Due to my tendency to emphasize the best in you and focus on healing your wounds, I may neglect some aspects of your training. With that as caveat, I’ll offer a few meditations about future possibilities. 1. What new subjects or skills do you want to master in the next three years? 2.

What’s the single most important thing you can do to augment your intelligence? 3. Are there dogmas you believe in so fixedly and rely on so heavily that they obstruct the arrival of fresh ideas? If so, are you willing to at least temporarily set them aside?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “All the world’s a stage,” wrote

Shakespeare, “And all the men and women merely players.” In other words, we’re all performers. Whenever we emerge from solitude and encounter other people, we choose to express certain aspects of our inner experience even as we hide others.

Our personalities are facades that display a colourful mix of authenticity and fantasy. Many wise people over the centuries have deprecated this central aspect of human behaviour as superficial and dishonest. But author Neil Gaiman thinks otherwise: “We are all wearing masks,” he says. “That is what makes us interesting.”

Invoking his view—and in accordance with current astrological omens—I urge you to celebrate your masks and disguises in the coming weeks. Enjoy the show you present. Dare to entertain your audiences.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I think you’ve done enough rehearsals. At this point, the apparent quest for a little extra readiness is beginning to lapse into procrastination. So I’ll suggest that you set a date for opening night. I’ll nudge you to have a cordial talk with yourself about the value of emphasizing soulfulness over perfectionism. What?

You say you’re waiting until your heart stops fluttering and your bones stop chattering? I’ve got good news: The greater your stage fright, the more moving your performance will be.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In all the time we’ve worked on diminishing your suffering, we may have not focused enough on the fine art of resolving unfinished business. So let’s do that now, just in time for the arrival of your season of completion. Are you ready to start drawing the old cycle to a close so you’ll be fresh when the new cycle begins?

Are you in the mood to conclude this chapter of your life story and earn the relaxing hiatus you will need before launching the next chapter? Even if you don’t feel ready, even if you’re not in the mood, I suggest you do the work anyway. Any business you leave unfinished now will only return to haunt you later. So don’t leave any business unfinished!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you ready to mix more business with pleasure and more pleasure with business than you have ever mixed? I predict that in the coming weeks, your social opportunities will serve your professional ambitions and your professional ambitions will serve your social opportunities. You will have more than your usual amount of power to forge new alliances and expand your web of connections. Here’s my advice: Be extra charming, but not grossly opportunistic. Sell yourself, but with grace and integrity, not with obsequiousness.

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force of nature, and encourage others to express themselves like gorgeous forces of nature.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “When I picture a perfect reader,” wrote philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, “I picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born adventurer and discoverer.”

I suspect he was using the term “monster” with a roguish affection. I am certainly doing that as I direct these same words toward you, dear Sagittarian reader. Of course, I am always appreciative of your courage, curiosity, cunning, suppleness, and adventurousness.

But I’m especially excited about those qualities now, because the coming weeks will be a time when they will be both most necessary and most available to you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You do not yet have access to maps of the places where you need to go next. That fact may tempt you to turn around and head back to familiar territory. But I hope you’ll press forward even without the maps. Out there in the frontier, adventures await you that will prepare you well for the rest of your long life. And being without maps, at least in the early going, may actually enhance your learning opportunities. Here’s another thing you should know: your intuitive navigational sense will keep improving the farther you get from recognizable landmarks.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Healing isn’t impossible. You may not be stuck with your pain forever. The crookedness in your soul and the twist in your heart may not always define who you are. There may come a time when you’ll no longer be plagued by obsessive thoughts that keep returning you to the tormenting memories. But if you hope to find the kind of liberation I’m describing here, I advise you to start with these two guidelines: 1. The healing may not happen the way you think it should or imagine it will.

2. The best way to sprout the seeds that will ultimately bloom with the cures is to tell the complete truth.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): N i n e te e n t h - c e n t u r y B r i t i s h painter J. M. W. Turner was one of the greats. Renowned for his luminous landscapes, he specialized in depicting the power of nature and the atmospheric drama of light and colour. Modern poet Mary Ruefle tells us that although he “painted his own sea monsters,” he engaged assistants “to do small animals.” She writes that “he could do a great sky, but not rabbits.” I’m hoping that unlike Turner, you Piscean folks will go both ways in the coming weeks. Give as much of your creative potency and loving intelligence to the modest details as to the sweeping vistas.

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