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QUEERMONTON

Clearly, hugs are not enough T

Faith in love and community trumps white supremacy

here are Nazis openly marching in the streets of America and it feels like the world is falling apart. I can assure you it isn’t—white supremacists are nothing new and have been terrorizing black and brown bodies on both sides of the border for centuries. The difference now is that white people are (maybe?) finally waking up to the fact that white supremacy is real and that white supremacists don’t feel like they have to hide from their white peers anymore.

I am sure I am not alone in spending countless hours read-

ing responses to the events in Charlottesville and reflecting on what it means for me, our community, and our country.

One theme I have seen emerge is the idea of love as a response to hate.

One of my favourite insights about love comes by way of bell hooks, a black feminist and cultural critic. In her book All About Love, she notes that, “love is an action, never simply a feeling.” I’ve carried these words with me for a long time and always come back to the question of what it means to act on love, if indeed love can

be a strategy to combat hate and oppression.

It means, firstly, that love demands we do something. Good intentions are not enough. Secondly, that these actions are on-going. Thirdly, that love is not passive and finally that love is not ill-informed: action in ignorance is not an act of love.

I think it is easy to roll our eyes at the idea of love because it seems weak, or soft, or feminine.

And, I think it is equally easy to want to hug someone and call it a day. Clearly hugs are not enough, but I do think that love can be a tool of resistance.

So what might that look like?

I would suggest that it is four things, done together: 1. Stay informed. Reading the news is pretty hard these days, but don’t bury your head in the sand. Look at different sources, both local and global, and support robust journalism whenever you can. Listen carefully to reflections and responses (particularly us white folks).

2. Start with your community. Talk to your family. Yes, I know you hate your racist aunt, but you’ve got to call her on her shit. Step in when you see your brother teach his son that boys can’t cry. Interrupt toxic masculinity and racism whenever you

can. It isn’t easy to make conversations awkward. Remember it’s not you who made things awkward, it was them.

Also, talk to people who look like you. White folks talk to other white folks. Cis-dudes talk to other cis-dudes.

3. Respond with vigour. Respond with intellectual vigour instead of just outrage, in-

remember you never know who is witnessing your conversation. If there is no widely available critique to the kinds of nonsense being spewed these days, people will continue to be seduced by it.

Vigour might also be physical.

Show up at counter protests.

Learn first aid. If you decide you need to respond with vio-

I think it is easy to roll our eyes at the idea of love because it seems weak, or soft, or feminine. And, I think it is equally easy to want to hug someone and call it a day. cluding on the internet. The internet matters. We can’t surrender it because it is largest recruitment platform for white supremacy ever. Hate groups have always found a way to connect, but now they can recruit like never before. Your words (and your silences) matter. Don’t feed the trolls, but

lence, do so thoughtfully and as little as possible.

4. Take care of yourself and each other. This is hard work.

Truly loving yourself, resisting the narrative that you’re less-than-human, is a revolutionary act.

Ashley Dryburgh ashley@vueweekly.com

In the meantime, the priority is not to turn against Muslim communities in the West – because it’s wrong to blame millions of people for the actions of a few hundred gullible, attention-seeking young men,

own countries, not to “bring the West to its knees” or some such drivel.

That game is pretty much played out now: the Islamists cannot hope to sucker the West into doing any more large-scale

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A sense of proportion Real-life violence trickles down to present day

ondon in March: five dead.

Stockholm in April: another L five dead. Manchester in May:

22 dead. London again in June, this time on London Bridge: eight dead. Barcelona in August: fourteen dead. Five masscasualty terrorist attacks in Europe in six months, and all but one (Manchester) carried out using rental trucks. Is it safe to go to Europe any more?

No, of course not. It isn’t safe to live anywhere. You can get killed by a vehicle driven by a non-terrorist, or by falling down the stairs, or even by drowning in the bath. Indeed, you are far likelier to die from any of those causes than from terrorist attacks no matter where you live in the world.

But in those other cases your death will not be “news”.

The only part of the world where Islamist terrorism really is a serious threat to people’s lives is the greater Middle East (including Pakistan). There is a kind of civil war between modernisers and cultural conservatives going on in many Muslim-majority countries, and the terrorist threat to ordinary citizens’ lives is ten or twenty times higher than it is in the West. But even there it is far smaller than it looks.

What makes the “terrorist threat” look big in the West is

the natural human tendency to be fascinated by violence. The mass media know their audience, and they cannot resist catering to this appetite: that’s why thousands of fictional characters die violently on television and in movies every week.

Violence in real life is even more interesting – especially if there is some possibility, however remote, that it might affect the viewer. So the media reflexively, instinctively inflate the threat, and to people who don’t understand statistics (i.e. almost everybody), terrorism starts to look like a very big deal.

There is no way to avoid this without imposing official controls on media coverage, and it’s not worth paying that price, so we’ll just have to live with the media’s hype. We will also have to live with the terrorism itself, even though it’s generally considered to be political suicide to say this in public.

That’s why Donald Trump thought he could discredit London’s Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, after the London Bridge attack by tweeting “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’”

Trump was deliberately distorting the mayor’s message: Sadiq Khan had actually told Londoners not to be alarmed

by “an increased police presence.” But Khan wouldn’t have been wrong if he had told them not get their knickers in a twist because of the occasional terrorist attack. Like most Londoners, he really knows that the attacks will continue for quite a while, and that they are not going to do a lot of damage.

After all, it’s obvious that we’re not going to run out of Islamist extremists any time soon, and that the security services cannot prevent wannabe terrorists from getting their hands on trucks or vans (or knives). So there will probably be lots more low-tech terrorist attacks over the next decade.

Don’t panic. The entire European Union has lost just 62 killed in terrorist attacks so far this year, which is about one person in every eight million.

The loss ratio is even lower in the United States: eleven killed in four terrorist attacks so far this year. Four times as many Americans are killed every day in ordinary murders.

So the right response to lowtech terrorism in every Western country is to keep calm and carry on, even knowing that the attacks will probably continue until the present generation of jihadis ages out. (Generational turn-over is what really ends most ideological fashions.)

Don’t panic. The entire European Union has lost just 62 killed in terrorist attacks so far this year, which is about one person in every eight million. but also because that’s exactly what the Islamic State propagandists want people in the West to do.

Ten or fifteen years ago, Islamist attacks on Western countries had a specific strategic goal: to lure the West into invading Muslim countries, thereby radicalising the local populations and driving them into the arms of the Islamist revolutionaries. The ultimate goal of those revolutionaries was to gain power in their

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invasions. So why carry on encouraging terrorist attacks in the West?

Because it’s dirt cheap, it promotes the brand, and it might, if they get lucky, cause huge internal conflicts in Western countries with large Muslim populations. So far, to the immense credit of both the majority communities and the Muslim minorities themselves, this has not come to pass.

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VENEZUELAN

New Venezuelan restaurant features saucy fair and screaming hot delicacies Ávila Arepa 10760 82 Ave. 587-785-6596

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enezuela does not look like an inviting place to visit these days with its corrupt, increasingly totalitarian government under President Nicolas Maduro, its high inflation and unemployment, food shortages and violence in the streets. I’m not saying we should be consoled by the presence of a relatively new Venezuelan restaurant in our midst, but Ávila Arepa does give a taste of what you might be missing with the inaccessibility of Caracas’s food vendors.

An arepa is a glutenless flatbread made of masa flour, not completely unlike its Salvadorian cousin the pupusa but also sort of like its Mexican cousin the torta in terms of heft. And now Avila has arrived to help us make its acquaintance—or at least one of its forms, since the arepa itself can be prepared some 75 different ways. The Avila way is to pan-fry it, split it open and stuff it like a sandwich with saucy meats (or vegan imitations of same), roasted meats, possibly avocado, tomato and arugula, could be some beans and probably lotsa cheese.

The Ávila Arepa menu, gaily laid out on a chalkboard by the till, divides the bill of fare into classic and signature arepas, the latter being slightly more elaborate. There’s also a list of “sidekicks,” all different, but all fried.

There was a bit of a line-up halfway down the long, cozy dining room when we arrived early on a Thursday evening, but it seemed to move along steadily. Unfortunately the people ahead of me had ordered up all the charred sirloin for the La Trinidad arepa ($10.50), so they made me one with carne mechada (pulled beef). Co-diner had the eponymous arepa for the same price, and we ordered yuca frita ($5) and cochino frito bites ($8) to make sure we weren’t still hungry. A citrusy sugarcane beverage called papelón con limón ($3) would counter our thirst.

The yuca fritas came first in a miniature fry basket—golden brown sticks of deep-fried

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cassava that were crisp on the outside, fluffy within and delicious dipped in an oil-based parsley-and-garlic sauce. A similar basket bore our cochino frito bites, which were strips of pork dredged in masa flour and spices, then fried to crisped chewiness, with parsley crema for dip. Sort of like boneless ribs, but more compact, they were fine if extraneous to my enjoyment of the meal.

Next came the arepas, served with a little side of colourful slaw. As proof it had been made fresh, the golden-fried flatbread was screaming hot on the fingertips for almost the duration of the meal, wax paper notwithstanding. Co-diner’s Ávila contained slabs of roasted pork with a whack of shredded cheddar, tomato and arugula. Mine was full of tender shredded beef in a sauce of tomatoes and bell peppers redolent of garlic and cumin. Despite physically struggling with it, I found it quite tasty and more than satisfying in portion.

Our co-stars for the evening were even more concerned with getting enough to eat, because they ordered a buttload of food: three arepas (the pulled beef with handmade cheese was their favourite, I believe), some yuca frita and patacones—fried patties made from mashed green plantains that had been covered in shredded chicken, cabbage, spicy crema and parsley-garlic sauce. It was piled so high that when I tried to take a bite, the sauces went right up my nose. One co-diner opined the thick plantain patty was too big and bland for the rest of the toppings. I thought it might have gone better with beef or pork.

One of the indisputably great things about Avila Arepa is that it’s quite affordable—the price range of the entire menu is $5-$12— which makes it all the easier to explore this heretofore unknown (at least to me) comestible. I found Ávila charming, but left so stuffed that next time I’ll stick to one arepa (hopefully with charred sirloin) and skip the sides.

Scott Lingley dish@vueweekly.com

THEATRE REVUES

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Pagliacci

Souls

At the outset, a minister (yes, the venue is an Anglican Church; no, there are no weighty religious overtones) explains that two types of theatre exist: one depicting perfection, or the divine; the other, humanity at its most raw.

This play was great for all the wrong reasons. While one can sympathize with what the writer/ director had in mind and what the cast attempted to perform, this play is backwards. It’s a brutally visible case of putting the message before the story. It’s about a Jewish couple moving into a house that belonged to an oppressed and forcibly evicted Palestinian family—and God help me the husband is hilarious.

His character was written for the best Curb Your Enthusiasm season that never aired.

In Pop Goes the Opera’s 2017 production of Pagliacci, we are treated to the latter. Shedding the need for elaborate set pieces, this abridged production of Leoncavallo’s esteemed work, tells the story of love, jealousy, and the blurred lines that separate art from reality.

While the set is little more than scaffolding flanked by LEDs, it should be said that there are few signs that these are (mostly) amateurs. The singers, right down to the townsfolk, are consummate performers, with stunning voices and an obvious passion for the work.

The standout among the players is Bertrand Malo, playing the manipulative fool, Tonio. His approach is a delightful mixture of tragedy, one that can only be truly appreciated in person.

The most important thing, however, is that this is an accessible opera—you don’t need to be Frasier Crane to applaud this phenomenal little production.

You’ll never be happier to watch a clown cry.  Reviewed by Buchanan Hunter

First, he doesn’t understand why his wife is visibly and vocally incensed at the plight of the people who now live in tents visible from the house window.

Also, she doesn’t want to have sex on the evicted people’s bed.

Then he eats their jam from the jar with a spoon and doesn’t get why she’s angry with him. This is a show for those who want to see the incredibly complex geopolitical and sectarian realities that underlie Israel and the occupied territories treated with all the moral subtlety of David and Goliath. Souls set an incredibly far goal and fell at nearly every attempt to reach it.  Reviewed by Lucas Provencher

Bash’d! A Gay Rap Opera It’s been 10 years since Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow’s 2007 fringe super-hit (with a savvy soundtrack from Aaron Macri), Bash’d! A Gay Rap Opera.

Then, gay marriage was new, and the backlash was both terrifying and real. Rappers Feminemin and T Bag, narrators of the opera, rap out a love story about starcrossed lovers pitted against a homophobic society.

The alchemy of explosive political content, deft lyrics, and astute commentary propelled the original to the New York Fringe and then to off-broadway—netting awards wherever it went.

(Also the script was also canonized in book form.) Ten years later, while the references to pop music feel a tinge dated, the political message does not. Bigotry still is, and the two performers of this rendition, Jezec Sanders and Kael Wynn, charmingly and engagingly prove Bash’d!’s enduring relevance. It’s well on its way to becoming a classic of Canadian theatre. Don’t miss it.  Reviewed by Jay Smith

White Rhino Comedy Blindside In an unconventional take on improv, Toronto-based White Rhino Comedy ask for only one audience prompt before freestyling away. The four dudes—who could benefit from some female energy for balance—showed flashes of brilliance, but unfortunately had more misses than hits. The show existed in a strange limbo between improv and sketch: lacking the “yes-and” openness of improv (too often a potentially funny suggestion was brushed aside unexplored) and also missing the polished timing of a developed sketch.

The group didn’t always click— could’ve been opening night jitters—with some scenes struggling to find an ending and others interrupted too soon.

Thankfully, improv is never the same twice—and there was evidence of enough talent on stage to leave hope for funnier, tighter shows to come.  Reviewed by Josh Marcellin

Courage and comedy go hand in hand with Blindside,, a delightful story of a young woman’s oneeyed childhood.

Written and performed by Stephanie Morin-Robert, Blindside explores her diagnosis of retinoblastoma and her subsequent childhood.

She takes command of the stage with a performance both genuine and humorous. While her use of a camera, contemporary dance and a series of unexpected props prove to be charming, the show does go on a tangent or two when she engages with her audience.

That itself isn’t a bad thing (especially with the intimate nature of a one-person show) but it does interrupt the rhythm of an otherwise fantastic performance.  Reviewed by Chris Berthelot

COMEDY

HUMANIZING

THE HATE

WITH LAUGHS Rob Schneider talks about Real Rob on Netflix, Nazis, and the late Dick Gregory

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ob Schneider has never lacked the perspective to appreciate his widespread fame.

The 53-year-old American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter has come along way from being the one-liner foreign guy in most Adam Sandler movies.

Since his SNL days in the ‘90s, he has acted in over 40 movies, has his own catchphrase (you all know the one) and just finished filming the second season of his Real Rob series on Netflix.

“With the second season of my show, we wanted to do the House of Cards of comedy,” laughs Schneider over a Los Angeles phone. “It’s eight half-hour movies.”

The show follows the exaggerated everyday lives of Schneider, his wife Patricia, and their 11-month-old daughter Miranda.

Situations involving stalkers, hitting pedestrians with moving cars, vasectomies, and more encompass the show, leaving Schneider left to solve their problems the best way he can.

As a viewer, you can’t really tell what is derived from fact and what is fictional.

“Unfortunately most of it is true,” Schneider says. “I really did hit a pedestrian and the police were more concerned about how I was rather than the pedestrian.

He was fine even though he flew over the car, but yeah, that’s complete fact.”

The pilot episode reveals Schneider’s stalker, played by Max Amini, who funnily enough turns out to be a better assistant to Rob than his real one.

“There was a stalker who knew more about my schedule then I did. There was also this woman who lived outside of Adam Sandler’s house and he would 6 arts

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bring her coffee in the morning.

We tried to tell him she’s a crazy person. I mean, she thought she was married to him.”

Much like Schneider’s stand up, the show tries to not rely on ‘bit comedy’ or jokes, but rather the absurd situations surrounding his life. You could compare the type of comedy to the British sitcom Fawlty Towers that played in the late ‘70s.

“John Cleese is my hero. I met up with him before doing the show and he gave me some advice,” Schneider says. “He said something like ‘The thing about American comedy is that it’s all about the quip. In British comedy, it’s all about the situation and it doesn’t rely on the quip.”

When it comes to his stand-up, Schneider also likes to talk about situations not surrounding himself, but his audience, which is usually American citizens.

“I want to talk about what’s happening today,” Schneider says. “Like, I talked about the Nazis and the anti-Nazi rally a couple days ago. I basically said ‘How is anyone surprised by what nazis say? First of all, they admit they’re Nazis. So, how can you be like ‘Whoa they don’t like Jews, Catholics, or blacks?’

For Schneider, the biggest problem with the recent white supremacy news is freedom of speech.

“I tell my audience the reflexive response towards hate and people you don’t agree with should be debate and persuasion,” Schneider says. “It shouldn’t be to silence, demean, or demonize and that is what’s happening in America right now.”

Basically, Schneider thinks the

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best way to combat the hate is to hear it out first and let it reveal its own lunacy.

“Let’s hear what they have to say and they can go back to their parent’s basement or meth lab,” he says. “I would ask the white supremacists like ‘Hey what’s that great song you guys have? “Let’s Get it On?” Oh wait, that’s not yours. What about that incredible play you write that makes everybody laugh called Book of Mormon. Oh wait, that’s not yours either, oh gosh. Well, where’s that beautiful architecture you guys built? The Sydney Opera House.

Oh wait ... , that’s not your either.

Hmm. So, where’s your culture or gift to humanity?’”

Schneider learned this kind of humour from his recently late friend Dick Gregory, an African American comedy giant who performed to black audiences during segregation in America until 1961, where he was known as the first black comedian to cross over into a white audience.

“He made hate look silly. He would joke about segregation,” Schneider says. “He had this one bit he told me that goes ‘I used to go into places and they would say we don’t serve coloured people.

I would say, that’s alright I don’t eat coloured people.’”

Schneider wants his audience to questions aspects of their own lives when they watch his comedy on and off screen.

“The great comics like Louis C.K. are getting the audience to question their own morals and humanity through his own lack of both,” Schneider says. “It puts the audience in a place they don’t want to go through—self-immolation.”

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ARTIFACTS

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THE DEVIL YOU KNOW.

Fragile // Until Sat. Oct. 14 In 1987, Mark Charbonneau presented an exhibit that put together 28 art pieces by 16 francophone artists who lived in Ontario. Today in 2017, curator Salomè Viguier takes up that same concept and exhibits the Francophone identity in Ontario based on two categories: language in a minority context and age (each artist is younger than 35). Fragile explores that and the relationship between a socio-demographic view and how a viewer may perceive the piece. (CAVA Gallery) / Supplied photo

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Le Français en Téte (An Evening in French) // Thu. Aug. 24 (6 PM – 9:30 PM) Edmonton is a very multicultural city. We have multicultural galleries, street names, restaurants and more. To celebrate the French language, Telus World of Science staff scientists will be performing live science demos in French followed

by French-language screenings of the films: Rocky Mountain Express and Born to Be Wild. Incroyable! (Telus World of Science; $9.50-$13.95)

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Landmarks // Sat. Sept. 2 - Sun. Dec .24 When we think of the prairies, what might come to mind is the canola that grows, the thunderstorms that roll through or the cattle that graze in a farmer’s fields as you drive to a nearby town. In this new exhibit, three glass artists take their own experiences from the prairies and the Australian outback and turn them into beautiful glass pieces. (Alberta Craft Council) Downton Abbey Road: Songs of The Beatles // Runs until Sun. Oct. 15 Neighbours can be a nightmare. Everyone has secrets and everyone wants to know those secrets. Sometimes you stumble onto a secret, wishing you hadn’t.

In this musical theatre production, a mysterious stranger claims to know a dark secret about someone in the Crawley house, and everyone in the area is speculating. Until other secrets start spilling out that is. The best part? It’s all set to the music of The Beatles. (Jubilations Dinner Theatre)

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Rocks, Ridges, and Rivers: Geological Wonders of Banff, Yoho and Jasper National Parks Dale Leckie * 8. The Beauty of Discomfort: How What We Avoid is What We Need Amanda Lang 9. Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy - Adam Grant and Sheryl Sandberg 10. You Might Be from Canada If… Michael de Adder 7.

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COMEDY

DANCE CLASSES WITH GOOD WOMEN DANCE COLLECTIVE • Muriel Taylor Studio at Ruth Carse

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ROB SCHNEIDER • River Cree Resort and Casino, 300 East Lapotac Blvd, Enoch • 780. 484.2121 • rivercreeresort.com • Aug 25, 7pm (doors), 9pm (show) • Tickets start at $39.99 • 18+ only

DANCE

Centre for Dance, 11205-107 Ave • info@goodwomen. ca • goodwomen.ca/classes • Every Tue, Thu, Fri; 10-11:30am • $15 (drop-in), $65 (5 class pack), $100 (10 class pack)

DANCE LESSONS • Central Lions Recreation Centre, 11113-113 St • 587.521.3386 (Mon-Thu, 10am-noon) • Offering various dance mediums for everyone to try, including choreographed ballroom, line dancing, clogging and square dancing • Sep 2-3 (12:30pm & 5:30pm; 12pm & 5:30pm) • Free

MILE ZERO DANCE DROP-IN DANCE & MOVEMENT CLASSES • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • 780.424.1573 • mzdsociety@gmail.com • milezerodance.com/classes • Mile Zero Dance holds a number of drop-in dance & movement classes for people of all experience levels & ages; Mon: Professional Technique (10-11:30am), Contact Improv (7-9pm); Tue: Kids 6-10 (4:30-5:15pm), Toonie Yoga (5:30-6:45pm), Butoh (7-9pm); Wed: Noguchi Taiso (10-11:30am); Thu: Preschool 3-5 (10-10:45am), Beginner Contemporary (5-6:15pm); Sat: House (7-9pm) • $15 (regular), $12 (members), 10-class cards available for $100

MILE ZERO DANCE PRESENTS: SUBARCTIC IMPROV & EXPERIMENTAL ARTS #19 • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • Established artists must perform together across different mediums, sometimes having never met before, to collaborate cross-disciplinarily into new territory • Sep 8, 8pm • $15 (or best offer)

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 FILM LE FRANÇAIS EN TÊTE (AN EVENING IN FRENCH) • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca/le-fran-ais-en-t-te •

Featuring a TWOS staff scientist performing dazzling, live science demonstrations in French, followed by Frenchlanguage screenings of a couple of beloved IMAX films • Aug 24, 6-9:30pm • $9.50-$22

Cinema SerieS • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, 7000-143 St • fortedmontonpark.ca • Each film in the series is selected by artistic director Dana Anderson, who introduces the film each week. Every month features a new line up of popular movies from the past. This month: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1968 (Aug 24), The Untouchables, 1987 (Aug 31) • Every Thu until Oct 19, 7:30pm • $10 +GST (adv, online), $11.43 +GST (door)

BOREALIS GALLERY • 9820-107 St • The Dream

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-

We Form By Being Together; Jun 29-Oct 1

Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • Give Up and Party: artwork by Morgan Wedderspoon; Aug 11-Sep 9 • Last Resort: artwork by Leanne Olson; Aug 11-Sep 9

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Road Less Travelled: artwork by Jane Everett; Sep 29-Oct 13

CaVa gallery • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • galeriecava.com • Fragile: artwork by various artists; Aug 18-Oct 14

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

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • The Arch: Plans For A Heterotopic Space Opera: artwork by Travis Mcewen; Sep 8-Oct 14

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St •

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • metrocinema.org • Visit metrocinema.org for daily listings • FaVa: Main Course (Aug 30)• StaFF PiCS: Lenny (Aug 28) • Strange Canada: Exotica (Aug 31)

FAB GALLERY • Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery. com • Excavating; Opening reception: Aug 24, 7-9pm; Artist Talk: Aug 26, 2pm

ACUA GALLERY & ARTISAN BOUTIQUE • 953487 St • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts.ca • acuarts. ca • Closing In: June Mielnichuk; Sep 8-28; Opening reception: Sep 8, 6:30-9pm ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Relocations: artwork by Sam Knopp; Jul 22-Sep 2 • Painted with Fire: artwork by Ken Lumbis; Jul 22-Sep 2 • Landmarks: artwork by Julia Reimer, Tyler Rock and Katherine Russell; Sep 2-Dec 24; Artist reception: Oct 21, 2-4 pm • Perch: artwork by Dena Seiferling, Stefanie Staples; Sep 9-Oct 14; Reception: Sep 9, 2-4pm ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34 St • 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends May 20-Sep 4, 10am-5pm • $7 (adult), $6 (senior/student), $3.50 (child 3-12)/child under 3 free; $5 (train rides), $3 (motor car rides)

ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Artwork by Donna Miller; Aug 21-Sep 9; Reception: Aug 26, 1-3pm

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • for the time being: 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art; May 27-Sep 10 • Cutline: From the Photography Archives of The Globe and Mail; Jul 1-Nov 12 • Zachary Ayotte + Nulle Part—Shelter; Jul 1-Oct 8 • Past Imperfect: A Canadian History Project; Jun 17-Oct 8 • Gretzky is Everywhere; Jun 10-Sep 24 • Community Tour: Aug 22, 6-7pm • WEEKLY DROP-IN ACTIVITIES: Tours for Tots, Every Wed, 10-11am • Youth Workshops, ages 13-17, Every Thu, 4-6pm • Kids’ Open Studio, Every Sat, 1-3pm • Summer ArtBreak Camp, Jul-Aug • Exhibition Tours; Every Sat-Sun, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm • Art for Lunch; 3rd Thu of the month, 12:10-12:50pm • VIBE; 3rd Fri of the month, 5-9pm

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19

(University of Alberta) • ualberta.ca/artshows • A Sculptor’s Life: artwork by Peter Hide; Aug 22-Sep 14 • Performative Documents and the Labouring Body: artwork by Michael Woolley; Aug 22-Sep 14

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Joe Fafard: Retailles: artwork by Joe Fafard; Jul 7-Aug 27

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Curious Things: artwork by Wei Li; Aug 10-Sep 22 • Substratae: artwork by Margie Kelk; Aug 10-Sep 22 LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • August Group Selling Exhibition; Aug 1-31 • September Group Selling Exhibition: artwork by various artists; Sep 1-30

LATITUDE 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St NW • latitude53.org • Catastrophe, Memory and Reconciliation: artwork by Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo; Jul 28-Sep 9 • Autospect: Kale Vandenbroek; Jul 28-Sep 9 • Visualeyez; Sep 17-23

LOFT ART GALLERY • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • artsoc@telus.net • artstrathcona.com • Open Fri-Sun, Sep 9-Dec, 10-4pm • Artwork from local artists of the Society

LOTUS ART GALLERY • 10321-124 St • lotusgallery.com • A Look Around Us: artwork by various artists; Jul 28-Aug 31 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112

Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Jennifer Berkenbosch; Sep 9-Oct 14

science Behind Pixar telus World of science runs until Jan 7 regular admission ($5.95-$7.95)

WOMEN'S ART MUSEUM OF CANADA • La Cité Francophone 2nd Pavillon, #200, 8627 Rue Marie-AnneGaboury (91 St) • 780.803.2016 • info@wamsoc.ca • wamsoc.ca • Nidificate: artwork by Monique Martin; Sep 9-Oct 7

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Shahla & Peter Nygaard "Decade of DIscovery" Book Launch; Aug 28 • Wade Sorochan "Fastest Tone Arm in the West" Book Launch; Aug 29

BOOK SIGNING: THE MORAL WORK OF NURSING: ASKING AND LIVING WITH THE QUESTIONS • Indigo Books, South Edmonton Common, 1837-99 St NW • hazelmagnussen.com • Written by Hazel Magnussen • Sep 2, 11am-4pm

DOWNTOWN EDMONTON BOOK CLUB • Downtown Edmonton Community League, 10042103 St • facebook.com/declorg • Open to anyone who lives, works, or plays downtown and wants to meet new people, have great conversations, and read cool stuff • Every 2nd Wed, 7-8:30pm NOVEL DEBUT: FIRE BORN (THE GUARDIAN SERIES, BOOK 1) • Studio 96, 10909-96 St • Written

by Rayanne Haines • Sep 13, 7pm

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper

5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • Take Your Best Shot: Youth Photo Exhibition; Jun 20-Sep 10 • Healing Process: artwork by various artists; Aug 3-Sep 2 • Dreaming of Canada: A Mail Art Project: artwork by various artists; Aug 12-Sep 30; Opening reception: Sep 7, 6-9

Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS •

BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 9132-118

WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Edmonton Gallery Walk; Sep 23-24

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place,

ARTWALK • Venues include WARES, Musée Héritage

St. Albert • The Happening: Art Show & Sale; Every Sat until Oct 7, 10am-4pm

Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Through The Paint: artwork by Cathy Bible, Miles Constable, Janet Sutano; Aug 1-Sep 2

ROUGE POETRY SLAM HOSTED BY BREATH IN POETRY COLLECTIVE • BLVD Supper x Club, 10765

MUTTART CONSERVATORY • 9626-96A St • True North: Celebrating Canada 150: artwork by Sculptors Association of Alberta; Jun 22-Sep 6

BIG PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY • 10 Sturgeon Rd,

telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments • The Science Behind Pixar Exhibition; Until Jan 7 • Free-$117.95

St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullen-gallery • Comfort: artwork by Kirsty Templeton Davidge and Anne Billy; Aug 14-Oct 1

Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert. ca • Healing Process: artwork by various artists; Aug 3-Sep 2 • Dreaming of Canada: A Mail Art Project: artwork by various; Aug 12-Sep 30; Opening reception: Sep 7, 6-9pm Museum, St Albert Library, A Boutique Gallery Bar By Gracie Jane, Art Gallery of St Albert, Bookstore on Perron, VASA • artwalkstalbert.com • The art hits the streets again! Discover a place to enjoy, view and buy art to suit all tastes and budgets. Featuring returning artists and new ones • Sep 7 (exhibits run all month)

9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@thenina.ca • Canada Interlude: artwork by the Nina Collective and the RBC Emerging Artists Project; Until Sep 8

PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: Toshiaki’s Art: Finding Expression in Time-Breeze; Aug 18-Oct 3 • artisaN Nook: Some Paintings of Me: artwork by Dean Welsh; Aug 18-Oct 3; Reception: Aug 24, 7-9 pm (artists in attendance)

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Summer Group Show: rotating exhibition of work by a selection of gallery-represented artists; Jul 13-Aug 31 • Summer Group Show; until Sep 19 • Artwork by Joseph Hartman; Sep 21-Oct 10 PICTURE THIS! FRAMING & GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • info@ picturethisgallery.com • picturethisgallery.com • Canada Scapes & Spaces: artwork by various artists; Jul 1-Aug 31

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly Tellaround: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series • Most Mon (except holidays), 7pm, Sep 18-Mar; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

THEATRE 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; Sep 10-Jun 9 • $15 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square)

DOWNTON ABBEY ROAD: SONGS OF THE BEATLES • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, West Edmonton Mall, #2061, 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • infoedmonton@jubilations.ca • edmonton.jubilations.ca • The Crawley family is abuzz with anticipation for Lady Mary’s birthday celebration, when a mysterious visitor claims they know a dark secret about someone in the house. The problem: everyone there has a dark secret • Aug 18-Oct 15 (Wed-Sun) • $33.25-$77.95

EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL • Throughout Old Strathcona • fringetheatre.ca • Featuring hundreds of plays, artists and more • Aug 17-27

BERTA • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.

OPEN JAM • Holy Trinity Church, 10037-84 Ave •

REYNOLDS-ALBERTA MUSEUM • 6426-40 Ave, Wetaskiwin • history. alberta.ca/reynolds • 780.312.2065 • The McLaughlin Story: Discover how the McLaughlin family of risk takers helped shape Canada’s auto industry; Until Oct 9

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery. com • Summer Show: artwork by various artists; Aug 8-Sep 11

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Jasper Ave • Every Tue

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta. ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Open Tue-Sat, 9am

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STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park •

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

Soul SiStaS • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave NW • Two incredible women. Two great stories.

Soul Sistas is a multi-part tribute to the iconic African American female singers of our time • Sep 5-Oct 29 SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • When William Shakespeare falls in love with an engaged woman, their forbidden romance inspires the playwright’s most famous tragedy • Sep 16-Oct 8

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep 9-Jun 8 • $15

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A LIKEABLE UNLIKELY ROMCOM The Big Sick finds hilarity in its unlikely situation

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ozy but not cloying; funny without trying too hard.

That may sound like faint praise, but it’s mucho kudos for a romantic-comedy nowadays. And while the brown guymeets-white girl story of The Big Sick isn’t as freshly American melting pot as it sounds, it does a sly job exploding a romcom cliché—meeting those relatives-by-marriage Malcolm X once called “outlaws”.

Kumail Nanjiani plays a same-

named version of himself—a Pakistani-American comic in Chicago who hooks up with Emily Gardner (Zoe Kazan) after she “woo-hoo!”s him during a set. Then, just after their relationship founders (she’s appalled that Kumail’s kept her a secret from his family, intent on an arranged marriage for him), she falls gravely ill.

Nanjiani and his wife, Emily V. Gordon (it’s odd she’s renamed here but he isn’t), co-wrote the picture, based on their relationship’s unusual beginning.

It doesn’t entirely capture their sparking in a bottle, though it avoids getting cutesily or cringingly deep into their couple-

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dom. Both Pakistani immigrant culture and Kumail’s family are left as background—usually as material for his standup or wince-inducing one-man show—although, in a meta nod to his Bollywood starness, Anupam Kher, as Kumail’s father, gets to sing, and there are two smart takes on post-9/11 antiMuslim prejudice.

What’s best is that usually flabby mid-section, where Kumail awkwardly befriends Emily’s parents, Beth (Holly Hunter) and Terry (Ray Romano, who gets the best lines—about tuna). It chummily, messily upends the typical meet-the-inlaws hokum. The eve of a major

operation on Emily becomes an urban all-nighter: Mom and Dad, frazzled and on edge with dread filled hope, attend one of Kumail’s gigs, order pizza, guzzle wine, and stress eat the early morning hours away. While The Big Sick doesn’t tackle its title (is Kumail’s dishonesty the real sickness?), there was no way the studio was going to green light a film dubbed My

(Only Recently Ex-) Girlfriend Is In A Coma And All I Got Was This Wacky Good Time With Her Parents. But that’s much of what we get. And that, plus the deep-down amiability, even near-Canadian decency, of this culture-mash comedy, proves to be, warm and fuzzily, enough.

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Tanna follows the story of Wawa, a Yakel girl who goes against tradition

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anna is one of the southernmost islands in the Y-shaped Pacific archipelago that is the nation of Vanuatu.

But it’s also the title of an ethnographic docudrama—“based on a true story and performed by the people of Yakel”, its preface declares.

And if, initially, it can seem more informative than narrative, more document than drama, Tanna grows compellingly urgent, its Romeo-and-Juliet story becoming the story of that people’s survival.

This tropical tale, replete with grass skirts, bamboo bows and arrows, and a scene-stealing volcano—showering sparks; spitting flame; its crater’s ash-

landscape—could be breezily summed up as illicit romance.

Wawa (Marie Wawa) loves Dain (Mungau Dain), the chief’s grandson, but she’s promised in bride-exchange with the rival Imedin as part of a newfound peace (the Imedin killed Dain’s parents and recently attacked the Yakel shaman).

But the twist is Wawa’s younger sister Selin (Marceline Rofit).

This imp, who even steals a young boy’s penis sheath and scampers off with it into a taboo patch of jungle, seems to have gained her mischievousness from her grandmother, a feisty soul. It’s through Selin’s eyes— stricken with the knowledge of what Wawa’s up to; wide as she listens to an elder—that we see how much the Yakel pass on wisdom, tolerance, and lessons about respect to their younger members. The film’s exposition (skirt-making for Wawa’s initia-

tion into womanhood; digging up kara plants) is often the tribe’s oral teaching of rituals and tradition (called kastom).

Wawa’s not just flouting tradition but imperilling her people when she refuses to be married off; the two tribes could topple back into a cycle of vengeancekillings, even warfare. But, here, the elders’ wisdom is questioned

by Wawa, boldly eloping with Dain (the true story, in 1987, led to a change in tribal customs).

The soundtrack can get precious and that active volcano, known as Yahul to the Yakel, is relied on too much to undercut the setting’s South Seas prettiness. But Tanna, pitting a lover’s self-preservation against her people’s self-protection, is a spirited saga that’s ultimately about what sort of small, rich world one young girl will inherit.

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Daryl Hooke’s The Ghosts of Sundown documents one teenage girl’s endurance in an uninhabited world

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magine waking up and realizing you are the last person on Earth. All of your friends, family, and community acquaintances are gone, having left no trace of existence. Soon enough, objects start to disappear and move on their own, leaving you to question your own sanity and get over the fear of being alone.

This is the premise of local author Daryl Hooke’s first novel The Ghosts of Sundown.

The young adult novel follows the story of Alexa Benjamin, a 14-year-old girl who lives in the community of Sundown and is

struggling with a school bully and her recent move.

Her worries are amplified when she awakens after an explosion at the local college that leaves the town of Sundown deserted and completely devoid of life.

Alexa must learn how to survive and begins a lonely journey as she traverses the barren planet. Her adventure puts her up against obstacles like a bloodthirsty assassin, a demented scientist, rabid animals, and the mysterious ‘Ghosts’ of Sundown.

Hooke arrived at the idea for

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the novel after reading an article about an 11-year-old girl who attracted the media’s attention for selling horses.

“Everybody thought it was so amazing, but the guy said ‘I never gave her limits,” Hooke says. “I started thinking about what it would be like for someone who was living in a world where there were no limits,” Hooke says.

The book is a coming of age story with aspects of adventure, mystery, and at the lead, science fiction.

“I’ve always been a huge fan of reading and writing science fiction so I guess it was just natural that my novel would take that direction,” Hooke says.

The novel is captivating at the turn of every page. Due to her situation, Alexa is forced to survive and grow exponentially while the world decays.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the book is Hooke’s use of perspective. While Alexa is the main character, the reader gets to see other character’s worlds through their own eyes.

Even though their stories may be short and a brief hiatus from the main plot, we truly get a sense of what these characters fears and desires are without being clubbed over the head with too much exposition.

“I don’t like to do the traditional introductions of the characters,” Hooke says. “ You know, like the classic ‘So and so stood six feet tall as his wavy hair fell down to his shoulders.’ To me, that always seemed contrived when people feel obligated to introduce a character and tell you everything about them. In real life, you don’t know everything about somebody you just meet.”

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Another curious element in the book is that Alexa’s actions in her world affect the other characters.

“I show it through her angle and then their’s, or the other way around. So, you know how it was happening in the real world, but also how it came across in her world,” Hooke says. “So, bumping into something can be quite terrifying for her and everyone else.”

Without revealing too much, this connection between two different worlds is due to the science fiction aspect of the novel. A machine called The Accelerator essentially changed her vibration, making her accelerate hundreds of times faster than any animate object on Earth. The result leaves Alexa trapped in a deserted limbo where things move and disappear by themselves.

“The only thing I picked up was that everything in the universe has a vibration,” Hooke says. “I found that very interesting and thought ‘What if my vibration is different from someone else’s?’”

That question lead Hooke to develop his own hypothetical take on the scientific law.

“It’s pretty much completely made up science,” Hooke laughs.

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“Like, when a car is parked with no one in it, it’s a stationary inanimate object, but if I get into it, then it has my vibration,” Hooke says. “So it would be out of synch with Alexa because she’s moving hundreds of times faster.”

Alexa’s days also last aggressively longer with a single day lasting 60 days and night lasting the same. This adds another hardship on Alexa when she has to make late night food runs from the grace of the library in an almost pitch-black environment.

“I thought of taking people’s natural fear of the dark and extend it to a 60 day night,” Hooke says. “So, Alexa is living in the sanctity of the library, but she has to make these hellish runs in the dark.”

The book is the first in a series, with Hooke already having the second book mapped out. Even though the novel is established in the young adult genre, anyone who appreciates a gratifying narrative flow will enjoy The Ghosts of Sundown.

“In my heart, I hope people enjoy it,” Hooke says. “I felt like I was writing this novel for anybody who like science fiction, but also enjoyed a good yarn.”

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Annie Muktuk and Other Stories by Norma Dunning

A new kind of ghost story, In Case I Go is about the many ways we’re haunted by the misdeeds of our ancestors.

Norma Dunning’s book was released in June but is launching in September. Each eye-opening narrative twist challenges the readers’ perceptions of who Inuit people are.

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Britt Daniel returns to his passion project, releasing the critically acclaimed Hot Thoughts Wed., Aug. 30 (8 pm) Spoon Winspear Centre Tickets at Ticketmaster.ca

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poon’s track record speaks for itself. The group has touched on almost every genre, continuing to push the limits of what’s possible for a five-piece rock outfit. From the classic 2007 release, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, to its newest album Hot Thoughts, Spoon’s mastermind Britt Daniel continues to blur the lines.

“We kind of get a lot done with the five people we have up there,” says Daniel. “I play guitar, sing and sometimes I play some percussion. We’ve got a couple guys that play everything.”

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Daniel is a man of variety.

His latest excursion with sideproject Divine Fits saw him collaborating with a cast of new band members, but the versatility helped inspire and progress the latest record. The build-up of musicianship gave him a number of options to choose from for Hot Thoughts.

“When you make a record, at this point you have limitless tracks,” Daniel says. “When you’re in the studio you can take all the time you want.

Then sometimes, some of those songs, it’s a bit of an endeavour to figure out how you’re going to pull them off with just five people on the stage. Some of them are an easy translation, some of them aren’t.”

Hot Thoughts is a versatile album, and features elements that may be unfamiliar to Spoon fans of old. The most difficult part may be conveying the songs appropriately on stage. Daniel has no qualms about this undertaking, and looks forward to the challenge of performing the new tracks.

He discussed one song that he was particularly passionate about off the new album, though, the new tracks do not come without adaptation.

“With the song “Pink Up,” we didn’t start playing that one until a month ago,” he says.

“That’s one of my favourites on the record. It’s going to take us a second to figure out which parts to leave on, which parts to not.”

Inspiration is never a problem for Daniel, as he is always writing and composing. Finding the down-time to re-assemble Spoon is another story. Daniel is continuously writing and pre-planning for the next project, even in his off-time. You could assume that would be an arduous process, but for Daniel, it’s just another day in the life.

“This year, that’s all I’ve been doing is working with Spoon. I’m blessed in many ways, it’s a great job. I get vacation time—when I’m off, I’m really off. But, when we’re on, we’re really working— it’s non-stop.

Spoon’s return is a mirror-image of that philosophy. Daniel and his cohorts are changing things up, but still keeping the familiar classic Spoon sound. It takes quite a

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lot of time and effort, but that’s the price that Daniel pays.

“It all boils down to having some kind of vision and your own style,” Daniel says. “You get your own style when you work really hard and you do it of thousands and thousands of hours, and know what you like. You listen to a lot of other music and study a lot of other music. At that point, you’re kind of an expert at what you do.”

Spoon’s tracks begin at Daniel’s “brainstem,” and flesh themselves out on the stage. No matter what project he’s working on, Daniel will always consider Spoon his soul passion.

“I don’t think anybody’s as focused on this as I am,” he says.

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she delivered her live audience. With her fans growing more and more rabid for something tangible to revisit, she started to feel some pressure to record.

Enter Craig Martell of Double Lunch Records. After many attempts he finally succeeded in getting Coyes to join his roster and on January 12, 2017 in a small basement venue in Edmonton a masterpiece was made. Recorded live at the Sewing Machine Factory, Coyes finally gave us a chance to hear her beautifully haunting voice at the push of a button.

Vocals and guitar are the only instruments you’ll hear on this album and that’s all that’s needed to turn a casual Sister Ray listen into an obsession.

Untitled Coyes’ voice is utterly captivating as it Double Lunch Records Ella Coyes started playing shows as Sis- trembles with intensity and raw powter Ray in 2016. She never intended to er over simple guitar, while working record anything, ever. In fact, the idea through thoughts and ideas that you behind the project was to use it as an ar- may never hear her speak (or sing) ever tistic release, a way to say some things again. Untitled is unrestrained, emothat were never meant to be written tional and immensely captivating and it down or said again. The problem with catapults Sister Ray up to being one of this concept was the sheer brilliance Alberta’s most exciting young acts.

Le Plaisir Le Plaisir Independent Le Plaisir is an Edmonton two-piece that consists of Amelia Aspen (Lad Mags) and Doug Organ (Edmontone Studio). The duo’s debut EP explores love during the end of human existence.

It was inspired by the couple’s experiences while living through the devastat-

ing 2015 attacks on Paris. Although the underlying theme of apocalypse exists through the EP, these songs have positive vibes hinting at a certain relief of the countdown finally being over.

The backbone of the EP is electro pop that relies on the crucial relationship between synthesizer and drum machine. Guitar and organ are layered overtop to give the EP a psychedelic sound that nods back to Aspen’s former band, The Lad Mags.

There are some incredible flourishes added throughout the EP such as the lovely trombone work at the end of “Never Gonna Cry Again” (an Eurythmics cover) or the wild synth explorations that could best be described as spacey or futuristic jazz. Perhaps the best addition to any of these tracks is the pedal steel on “Chilblains”, which Organ taught himself to play just for those blissful 30 seconds. Le Plaisir’s ear pleasing debut will have you hitting repeat until the button wears out.

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rolls forward with rich warmth leaving room for fuzzed out guitar and beautiful organ notes to blossom.

The restraint shown from the drums and bass allows the lead instruments to grow the songs into dreamscape memories. As each track finishes, you’re left pondering about them much like awakening from a blissful dream. This album builds off of the previous by adding interesting elements not commonly associated with psychedelic music, such as acoustic guitar and vibraphone.

Shelby Gaudet’s voice shines and is expertly enhanced by the guitar and organ on the album’s standout “Colours”.

Radiation Flowers Review Although a crucial element, her voice is Summer Loop used sparingly throughout the record Sunmask Writing slow burning psych songs with making her appearances truly poignant. summer vibes is a difficult feat that Sas- Summer Loop is an impressive album, katoon’s Radiation Flowers manage to one that can be adored by any music pull off with top marks on its latest al- fan, not just those that enjoy the psybum, Summer Loop. The rhythm section chedelic genre.

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here’s a relaxing, meditative warmth on Slow Leaves’ newest album Enough About Me. With hushed indie folk tones and a touch of ‘70s outlaw country, the album feels nostalgic and deeply personal.

Under the name Slow Leaves, Winnipeg’s Grant Davidson ponders the questions that constantly reverberate within his mind, and with his calming voice, he invites you to join the conversation.

“A lot of my songs in the last few years are trying to uncover some sort of truth, but the more and more I write, I’m realizing that there is no such thing as a concrete truth,” Davidson says. “It’s still hard to accept.

I have a lot of questions that don’t have answers.”

Having no answer is not necessarily a bad thing. For Davidson, it’s the exact opposite.

“It’s important to ask those

questions, but I think there’s a sort of wisdom that lays in the acceptance of not having the answers,” Davidson says. “Once you do that, I think that you can start to be a peace with things.”

Davidson began his Slow Leaves project with his 2014 album Beauty is So Common.

Before that, he released three other albums under his own name. The decision to continue his project under the name

Slow Leaves was somewhat of a reinvention for Davidson. His older material is sourced from the vein of folk outlaw country while his newer material is more of a laid back indie folk.

“My last few albums were sort of always made on a shoestring,” Davidson says. “I saw it as an opportunity to start new mentally for myself and separate my musical life from the personal facets.”

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The name Slow Leaves comes from a line in a poem by Argentina’s poetry hero Jorge Luis Borges.

“It just has a sort of poetic cadence and ambiguity to it which is the feeling I wanted,” Davidson says.

The moniker suits Davidson’s sound. Much like slow leaves fall from an autumn tree and for a brief moment, are caught frozen in time, so too is Davidson’s sound. His music is in a wistful tone with minimalist guitar in the back drop underneath his contemplative vocals.

“At the heart, it’s singer songwriter music,” Davidson says.

“My approach to songwriting is to dig out some quote unquote “inner truth.” I try to be very honest and personal. It’s kind of paradoxical because I’m trying to figure out who Grant Davidson is, but I’m doing it under a different name.”

That search for an inner truth is something that lingers in Davidson’s mind on a day to day basis. Sometimes, if he’s lucky, he can use that stream of consciousness to craft a song on the spot.

“I’m definitely a dweller and I live in emotion,” Davidson says.

“I’ll sit in the same emotion for a few days until I crawl out of it.

Part of it comes from wanting to explore every mindset that I come into. It’s not a good thing, but it’s just who I am I guess.”

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‘HOW BLUE CAN YOU GET’ Edmonton’s Jenie Thai mixes contemporary and traditional blues piano to create a hybrid sound Fri., Aug. 25 - Tue., Aug. 29 Jenie Thai Blue Chair Cafe, Edmonton International Blues Festival, Blues on Whyte Prices vary depending on venue

FIRSTS, LASTS & FAVOURITES First Album Big Shiny Tunes 2. It’s that rock compilation they always did. I was obsessed with it.

It was the first album I ever had and it had that Blur song that goes “Woo-hoo! I got my head checked.�

First Concert That’s a tough one. I guess my first memory would probably be just going to the Edmonton Folk Festival.

I was teaching piano and the mom gave me a pass to Folk Fest for payment. I think it was the first time I saw live music. It was insane.

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ith a combination of contemporary and traditional blues piano, and a fiery passionate voice, Jenie “Thai� Nolan has been making a name for herself across the country and the world.

The locally established musician, born in Chiang Mai, Thailand, got her roots in blues at a very young age while taking classical piano lessons in Edmonton. “At the end of the lesson I would get to play like, a fun song,� Nolan says. “I really loved the old jazz and blues arrangements of songs and I discovered I could make those same kind of sounds. It kind of got my ear going.�

Nolan also took delight in imitating whatever music her dad was listening to, like blues juggernaut BB King.

“I would get so excited when I heard the piano in a BB King song,� Nolan says. “I was drawn to the blues piano when I would hear that sound.�

After graduating from MacEwan’s music program, Nolan was accepted into the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, a music school started by the infamous Paul McCartney. “It was pretty crazy ‘cause I heard there was like a thousand applicants and only 45 made it,� Nolan says.

Still, she wanted to focus on playing her on music live without being a student so she declined the offer. “I remember the first month out I looked up every single live music place in Edmonton,� she says. “There were like hun-

dreds of places like this seafood shop. My first gig I got like a $50 gift card.�

Since then, Nolan has come along way, releasing two fulllength albums and representing Edmonton twice in the Memphis Blues Challenge, a world renowned blues competition that sees a diverse mix of famous blues musicians from all around the world. “The first time I went was in 2014 and it felt reassuring that there are so many musicians who love the same kind of music as me out in the world,� Nolan says. “So, to be amongst all these people from all around the world was really inspiring and encouraging. I felt like I belonged.�

Jenie Thai is in the process

of putting the final touches open her upcoming third album that, right now, remains untitled. She got help funding the album from PledgeMusic, a platform that allows fans to be part of the album making process.

It’s safe to say that she is ecstatic to release her new sound into the world. “My old album doesn’t represent what I sound like anymore, so It’s time to release something new,� Nolan says. “On this new album, it’s definitely more R&B. The last albums were piano, bass, drums, but this new one has the guitar on every track, horns, backup singers. It’s a way fuller sound.�

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Last Album Mostly podcasts like Marc Maron’s podcast, but music it would probably be this compilation of Aretha Franklin when she was like 17. She does a bunch of old R&B tunes and plays piano.

Last Concert I was just at the Moose N’ Fiddle Festival which is in Nestor Falls, Ontario. There was a bunch of good stuff there.

Favourite Album I guess off the top of my head it would have to be Mule Variations by Tom Waits. It’s such a great album.

Favourite Musical Guilty Pleasure Regina Spektor. Sometimes I wonder if what she does is for the sake of being weird than actually artistic, but despite that, I’ve always loved her music.

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CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO–EDMONTON 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT 24 Boudreau Rd, St. Albert, 780.460.8092 CHVRCH OF JOHN 10260-103 St, 780.884.8994, thechvrchofjohn. com COMMON 9910-109 St COMMONWEALTH STADIUM 11000 Stadium Rd DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall. com DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB 1111387 Ave NW, devaneyspub.com DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DV8/MAMA'S PIZZA 7317-101 Ave NW EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR 8230 Gateway Blvd, elcortezcantina.com EMPRESS ALE HOUSE 9912-82 Ave NW ENVY NIGHT CLUB West Edmonton Mall, 8882 170 St

REVEREND HORTON HEAT W/ MAD BOMBER SOCIETY & GUESTS

OCT/14 REVENGE W/ ANTICHRIST (CANADA), XUL,

CROWN OF VISERYS PRESENTS BLACK MOURNING LIGHT METAL FESTIVAL 2017

Karaoke; 9:30pm

FUNERAL OF GOD, SCYTHRA, GOATHAMMER

GRILL Karaoke;

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.

Every Tue-Wed

Alfie Zappacosta Cafe Blackbird Aug. 25, 8 pm $35

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 FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN 10200-102 Ave NW FIONN MACCOOL'S–MAYFIELD 10813-170 St NW FIONN MACCOOL'S–SKYVIEW 13580-137 Ave NW THE FORGE ON WHYTE 1054982 Ave (Whyte Ave) GAS PUMP NIGHT CLUB & BAR 10166-114 St HAVE MERCY SOUTHERN TABLE + BAR 8232 Gateway Blvd, havemercy.ca HAWRELAK PARK 9330 Groat Road HOWARD JOHNSON HOTEL 15540 Stony Plain Road JT'S BAR AND GRILL 1107 Knottwood Road East L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 THE LEAF 9016-132 Ave LEGISLATURE GROUNDS 10800-97 Ave NW MAMA'S GIN JOINT 11723 Jasper Ave, 780.705.0998, mamasginjoint.com

DAN DEACON W/ BORYS, THE WHITSUNDAYS, ARCHAICS

FORTRESS, SORGUINAZIA, ARES INFERNUS

LOWER HALL (BRIXX) / Supplied photo

MILL CREEK CAFE 9562-82 Ave NW MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524 Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 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 ORTONA ARMOURY 9722-102 St NW PINT–DOWNTOWN 10125-109 St NW THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE 9797 Jasper Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave SQUARE 1 COFFEE 15 Fairway Drive STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 11150-82 St, 780.436.1554 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WOODRACK CAFE 7603-109 St, 780. 757.0380, thewoodrackcafe. com Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com

ALL SHOWS 18+ ONLY

SEP/1

CONCERTWORKS & STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

SEP/2

SWEATY PALMS PRESENTS

SEP/8

INTRINSIC PRODUCTIONS & MARKED UP PRESENT

SEP/9

INTERPOLATIONS ARTS & MEDIA PRESENTS

VENUEGUIDE THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ARCADIA BAR 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com AUSSIE RULES KITCHEN & PIANO BAR #1638, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722, aussierulesedmonton.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne St, St Albert BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BLVD SUPPER X CLUB 10765 Jasper Ave BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park

DIIV W/ PROVINCIAL ARCHIVE AND GUESTS

CROWN OF VISERYS PRESENTS BLACK MOURNING LIGHT METAL FESTIVAL 2017

Floor: DJ Zyppy; Every Sun

GAS PUMP Kizomba-DJ; 8pm

MICKEY AVALON W/ GUESTS

OCT/13 BLASPHEMY W/ RITES OF THY DEGRINGOLADE,

JT'S BAR AND

DJs

ALL SHOWS 18+ UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED

SEP/15&16 BREAKOUT WEST

8pm; $45.20-$52.50

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

Thai; 9pm

WWW.STARLITEROOM.COM

WINSPEAR CENTRE Spoon;

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

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic

TICKETS FOR STARLITE ROOM SHOWS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT

JT'S BAR AND GRILL Karaoke;

Floor: Chris Bruce spins britpop/ punk/garage/indie; Every Tue

Pete Turland and the Rental Cats, The Danny Coady Band; 7:30pm; $8

NEWCASTLE PUB Sunday Soul

Friends Ukrainian Music Festival; 10am-5pm

Jamerama, with Tall Dark & Dirty; 7pm

10030 - 102 STREET

HOWARD JOHNSON HOTEL

LEAF BAR & GRILL Wang Dang

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

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Soul Sunday Brunch with Carrie Day; 11am; No cover

Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm

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

Dreamer Jam Featuring Madi Allen; 8pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

StarliteRoom Starliteroom starlitetoomyeg

HAVE MERCY Whiskey

Every Tue-Wed

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Substance with Eddie

GAS PUMP Karaoke; 9:30pm

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Big

WED AUG 30

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

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

SANDS INN & SUITES Open

with The Codeines and Feminal Fluids; 8pm

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild Rose Old Tyme

MOONSHINERS Sunday Noon Acoustic Jam; Every Sun, 12pm

9pm

MILL CREEK CAFE Shockload

with resident DJs

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

ON THE ROCKS The Unlisted;

MAMA'S GIN JOINT Tuesday Open Mic; Every Tue, 9pm; Starts Jan 3; Free

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Happy Hour featuring Sister Ray; 5:30pm

Lunchpail

Service: acoustic open stage; Every Sun, 3pm

LB'S PUB Tuesday Night Open Jam Hosted by Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge

ANGELMAKER W/ GUESTS BLACK THUNDER W/ CHUNDER BUFFET, DEAD FIBRES, MORALS JUNK OF STOMPDOWN KILLAZ W/ GUESTS THE FOREIGN RESORT W/ STRVNGERS

SEP/23 YAWNING MAN W/ ALEX PEREZ & THE RISING TIDE STARLITE ROOM & CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS

OCT/6

UP+DT PRESENTS

OCT/7

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

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MOLTEN LAVA W/ GARY DEBUSSY, PET BLESSINGS, HASHTEROID AGENT ORANGE W/ FLATFOOT 56 & GET DEAD

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EVENTS

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GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS ABSTRACTION IMAGES • Call Kashmir for location • 780.482.4279 (call in the morning) • If you like to work with abstract images, come share your work and related words • Last Thu of every month, 7:30pm • Free AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm

THE CARROT COFFEE FRIENDSHIP CLUB • Carrot Coffeehouse, 9351-118 Ave • Have a cup of coffee with 55+ individuals single, divorced, or widowed who are looking to make new friends with neighbours in our local communities of: Delton, Eastwood, Parkdale – Cromdale, Westwood, Spruce Ave, and Alberta Avenue • Every Wed, 11am

COFFEE WITH COPS • Carrot Coffeehouse,

9351-118 Ave • Edmonton Police Service invites the community to an open discussion • 1st Tue of every month, 10-11am

DeepSoul.ca • 780.217.2464; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Most Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins and Les Paul Standard; Pink Floydish originals plus great covers of classics: some free; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages

DROP-IN D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc. For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue & Wed, 7pm • $5 (with drink purchase) DROP-IN LARP • Jackie Parker Park • westernwinds.summerfrost.ca • Battle games and fighter practice using provided safe weapon boffer. An exciting way to get exercise while meeting new people with similar passions • Every Sat, 1:15pm • Free

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 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

FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group offering conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

LGNYEG • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave NW • happyharborcomics.com • Events may include guest speakers, movie nights, board game nights, video game nights and much more • First Thu of the month, 7-9pm • Free

MONTHLY MEDITATION AND VEGAN BRUNCH • Padmanadi Vegetarian Restaurant, 10740-101 St • info@vofa.ca • bit. ly/2hO97nq • First Sat of every month, 9am12pm • Free (confirm via Facebook or email)

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

OPEN DOOR COMIC CREATOR MEETINGS • 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 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

PAINTING FOR PLEASURE • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • karenbishopartist@gmail.com • mcdougallunited.com • A weekly group for those who like to paint, draw or otherwise be creative on paper • Every Thu, 10am-noon RODA DE CAPOEIRA • Capoeira Academy,

LOTUS QIGONG • SAGE downtown 15 Sir

#103-10324-82 Ave • capoeiraacademy.ca • Brazil's traditional game of agility and trickery • Every Sat, 2:30pm • Free • All ages

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

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP •

MONDAY MINGLE • Hexagon Board Game

Cheeky Monkeys edmonton valley Zoo aug. 27, 12 - 4 pm regular admission ($8.75-$11.75)

info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Meet new gamers. Go to the event solo or with a group • Every Mon, 5-11pm • $5 (one drink per person)

Cafe, 10123 Whyte

Ave • 780.757.3105 •

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

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave NW • 780.554.6133 • Instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light. Learn a simple technique that will lift you above life's stresses • Every Sun, 5pm • Free

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.4798667 (Bob) • bobmurra@telus.net • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm

VUECLASSIFIEDS 130.

Coming Events

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

1600.

Volunteers Wanted

Become a Volunteer Advocate and provide assistance to victims of crime and trauma in Strathcona County! Call Teddi at (780) 449-0153.

Call for volunteers Edmonton International Film Festival The Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) is looking for volunteers to help make our festival success!

Please go to edmontonfilmfest.com/volunteer/ to download the application form and apply.

18 at the back

1600.

To Book Your Classifieds, Call 780.426.1996 or email classifieds@vueweekly.com

Volunteers Wanted

Can You Read This?

Help Someone Who Can’t!

Volunteer 2 hours a week and help someone improve their Reading, Writing, Math or English Speaking Skills.

Call Moncia at P.A.L.S. 780-424-5514 or email volunteers@palsedmonton.ca Looking for single or group volunteer opportunities for team and community building?

Kaleido is happening September 15-17, 2017 on Alberta Avenue! Come see us at Kaleidofest.ca/volunteer for more information.

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Artist to Artist

ART CLASSES FOR ADULTS, YOUTH, AND CHILDREN Check The Paint Spot’s website, paintspot.ca/events/workshops for up-to-date information on art classes for all ages, beginner and intermediate.

Register in person, by phone or online.

Contact: 780.432.0240 email: accounts@paintspot.ca Embellish the Lampposts of 118th Ave Fall In Love With Kaleido, and let your inner artist be inspired to create a 3D Lamppost installation in Deck Out A Lamppost!

Sept. 15-17 on 118ave (Between 90-94 Streets) www.kaleidofest.ca/lampost/ ENJOY ART ALWAYZ www.bdcdrawz.com Check the site every two weeks for new work!

2005.

Artist to Artist

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

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Music Instruction

Music Lessons $20 Hr Guitar - Bass guitar - Tenor Banjo - Ukele - Mandolin Call Tony 780.484.6806 30 yr exp

3100. Appliances/Furniture Old Appliance Removal Removal of unwanted appliances. Must be outside or in your garage.

Rates start as low as $30.

Call James @780.231.7511 for details

TOASTMASTERS • 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 • Generating Power Speakers: EPCOR Tower, 10423-101 St NW: Meeting will take place on the 8th floor, 780.392.5331 (Phil); 1st and 3rd Tue each month, 12:05-1:05pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact vpm@ norators.com, 780.807.4696, norators.com • Norwood Toastmasters: Legion, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm • TM4PM Toastmasters Club: Scotia Place Conference Centre, Meeting Room B, 10060 Jasper Ave; 1022113. toastmastersclubs.org; Every Tue, 6:107:30pm • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); 780.463.5331 (Antonio); yclubtoastmasters@gmail.com; Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month

WOMEN'S CRICKET • Coronation Park Cricket pitch (north part of park) • incogswomens@gmail.com • Learn the game of cricket.

The group plays for fun and no experience is necessary. Kids and men welcome • Every Fri, 6:15pm • $5 (drop-in fee, adult), free (kids)

YOGA, ART & WINE • 4 Points Health and Wellness, 12406-112 Ave • Gentle fusion flow yoga and painting • First Sat of each month, 7-10pm • $45 (available at Eventbrite) LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS IGNITE CHANGE 2017: A GLOBAL GATHERING FOR HUMAN RIGHTS • MacEwan University - Robbins Health Learning Centre, 10810-104 Ave NW • Held in commemoration of the 150th birthday of Canadian Federation and the 140th anniversary of Treaty 6. Meant to direct and inspire its audience to make changes in their communities while providing an opportunity to network and build a deepened collective impact • Aug 21-25

NERD NITE #36 • Needle Vinyl Tavern,

(24 and under) 3rd Mon of every month, for trans youth and supportive people in their lives • FierCe FuN: (24 and under) Alternating Tue, 7-9pm, games and activities for youth • JaMOuT: (12-24) Alternating Tue, 7-8:30pm, music mentorship and instruction for youth • TwO spiriT gaTheriNg: 4th Wedof every month, 6-8pm, gathering for First Nations Two Spirit people • MeDiTaTiON: (all ages) 3rd Thu of each month, 5:30-6:45pm • MeN’s sOCial CirCle: (18+) 1st and 3rd Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone masculine-identified • wOMeN’s sOCial CirCle: (18+) 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm, for anyone feminine-identified • MOvies & gaMes NighT: Alternating Fri, 6-8:30pm • arTs & iDeNTiTY: Alternating Fri, 6-8:30pm • MeN TalkiNg wiTh priDe: (18+) Sun, 7-9pm, group for gay or bisexual men • CreaTiNg saFer spaCes TraiNiNg: Interactive professional development workshops, with full or half-day options • Queer MeNTOrship prOgraM: (Youth: 12-24) (Adults-26+) Queer to Queer Mentoring TalkiNg:

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, 7:309pm • TaekwONDO: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • aBs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:15-8:15pm • DODgeBall: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • ruNNiNg: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • spiN: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• vOlleYBall: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • MeDiTaTiON: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:30-6:15pm • BOarD gaMes: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per month, 3-7pm • all BODies swiM: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8468-81 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm YOGA WITH JENNIFER • 780.439.6950 • ThreeBattles.com • A traditional approach with lots of individual attention. Free introductory classes • Tue evenings & Sat mornings SPECIAL EVENTS

10524 Jasper Ave • edmonton.nerdnite.com • Where drinking and lectures go hand in hand.

Featuring the following lectures: What can stem cells do for you? Like, Actually Do, Wormfood: death positivity vs our fear of death, Decolonizing science and technology • Sep 6, 8pm • $20 (adv), $25 (door, if available), $10 (peanut gallery) • 18+ only

DATE NIGHT–MOVIE NIGHT • University

QUEER

EDMONTON PAGAN PRIDE DAY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St • edmontonpaganpride@ hotmail.com • A festival that both educates and entertains, representing Pagans in Edmonton. Lectures, vendors, rituals, food, drumming and dancing • Aug 26, 10am-4pm • Free • All ages

AFFIRM GROUP • garysdeskcom@hotmail. com • mcdougallunited.com • Part of the United Church network supporting LGBTQ men and women • Meet monthly at State & Main (101 St and Jasper Ave) for coffee and conversation at 12:30pm; Special speaker events are held throughout the year over lunch at McDougall Church BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912-82 Ave • With DJ Jos • Last Thu of every month • Free • 18+ only EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Mon: Drag Race in the White Room; 7pm • Wed: Monthly games night/trivia • Thu: Happy hour, 6-8pm; Karaoke, 7-12:30am • Fri: Flashback Friday with your favourite hits of the 80s/90s/2000s; rotating drag and burlesque events • Sat: Rotating DJs Velix and Suco • Sun: Weekly drag show, 10:30pm G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, Or in confidence oneon-one in the Craft Room • 780.474.8240 • tuff69@telus.net • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance. Oneon-one meetings are also available in the craft room • Every Thu, 1-4pm PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • pridecentreofedmonton. org/calendar.html • DrOp iN hOurs: Mon-Fri 12-7pm; Closed Sat-Sun and holidays • YOga: (all ages), 4th Mon of every month, for any stage • TTiQ: (18+ Trans* Group) 2nd Mon of every month, 7-9pm • TraNs YOuTh

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of Alberta Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • botanicgarden.ualberta. ca • A perfect way to send out summer. Bring a blanket and settle under the stars for an outdoor big-screen, feel-good experience, featuring the fabulous Forrest Gump • Aug 24, 6-10pm • Reserve tickets online

FOOD TRUCKS ARE COMING • St. Albert Grain Elevator Park, 4 Meadowview Drive, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • artsandheritage.ca • An evening of the region’s best food trucks, a beer garden, local live music, pottery throwing demos with Art Gallery of St. Albert and much more • Aug 25, 5-9pm • Admission by donation LEBANSE FESTIVAL • Sir Winston Churchill Square • Experience authentic Mediterranean food, Mediterranean live music and dance, dancing and more • Aug 24-27 • Free

MILKY WAY DAYS • Elk Island National Park, 1- 54401 Range Road 203, Fort Saskatchewan • pc.gc.ca/en/pn-np/ab/elkisland/ activ/spec • Taking place over two days at two different locations, the Beaver Hills Milky Way Days will feature volunteer astronomers to help show attendees the stars with both solar and night sky viewing • Sep 2-3, 2-11pm • Free

PUBLIC ART PICNIC • Borden Park, 7703 Borden Park Road • bit.ly/2uWysT3 • Experience art al fresco in one of Edmonton’s loveliest parks • Aug 24, 5:30-8pm • Free VIVA ITALIA VIVA EDMONTON, THE ITALIAN FESTIVAL • Giovanni Caboto Park in Little Italy • 9425-109A Ave NW • Celebrating Italian cultural heritage with a full day of food, drinks, games, music, entertainment, and more • Aug 27, 12-9pm • All ages

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Matt Jones jonesincrosswords@vueweekly.com

“Evenly Spaced” -- it matches up.

Across

1 Prefix before “feasance” 4 Give a head signal to

9 Father of Beau and Jeff 14 Historical time period 15 Historical time period

16 Having a roof overhang 17 Colorado national park near the Four Corners region 19 Coeur d’___, Idaho 20 Where Starbucks stores used to pop up, hyperbolically 22 Dress seen in Bollywood movies 23 “___ Nutsy’s Clubhouse” (kids’ show in “UHF”) 25 Electrifying fish 28 Calgary’s prov.

30 Hamburger’s home?

32 Fictional TV locale you can actually visit in Mount Airy, N.C. 36 Bowler’s target 37 Like the river, in an Olivia Newton-John song title 38 Morgan Freeman, in “Bruce Almighty” 39 Business management plans involving Internet platforms, e.g.

42 Neck of the woods 43 Queen ___ (Jay-Z’s spouse, to fans) 44 Superman’s symbol, in crosswords 45 Tortilla chip condiment 47 Elton John/Tim Rice musical 51 Yellow, blue, and red national symbol flown over Quito 57 ___ Martin (British car company) 59 People, collectively 60 Granola bar variety 61 3501, to Nero 62 Imagine Peace Tower creator Yoko

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Welcome to Swami Moonflower’s Psychic Hygiene Hints. Ready for some mystical cleansing? Hint #1: To remove stains on your attitude, use a blend of chardonnay wine, tears from a cathartic crying session, and dew collected before dawn. Hint #2: To eliminate glitches in your love life, polish your erogenous zones with pomegranate juice while you visualize the goddess kissing your cheek. #3: To get rid of splotches on your halo, place angel food cake on your head for two minutes, then bury the cake in holy ground while chanting, “It’s not my fault! My evil twin’s a jerk!” #4: To banish the imaginary monkey on your back, whip your shoulders with a long silk ribbon until the monkey runs away. #5: To purge negative money karma, burn a dollar bill in the flame of a green candle.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A reader named Kameel Hawa writes that he “prefers pleasure to leisure and leisure to luxury.” That list of priorities would be excellent for you to adopt during the coming weeks. My analysis of the astrological omens suggests that you will be the recipient of extra amounts of permission, relief, approval, and ease. I won’t be surprised if you come into possession of a fresh X-factor or wild card. In my opinion, to seek luxury would be a banal waste of such precious blessings. You’ll get more healthgiving benefits that will last longer if you cultivate simple enjoyments and restorative tranquility.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming weeks will be an excellent time to cruise past the houses

where you grew up, the schools you used to attend, the hotspots where you and your old friends hung out, and the places where you first worked and had sex. In fact, I recommend a grand tour of your past. If you can’t literally visit the locations where you came of age, simply visualize them in detail.

In your imagination, take a leisurely excursion through your life story. Why do I advise this exercise?

Because you can help activate your future potentials by reconnecting with your roots.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): One of my favourite Cancerian artists is Penny Arcade, a New York performance artist, actress, and playwright. In this horoscope, I offer a testimonial in which she articulates the spirit you’d be wise to cultivate in the coming weeks. She says, “I am the person I know best, inside out, the one who best understands my motivations, my struggles, my triumphs. Despite occasionally betraying my best interests to keep the peace, to achieve goals, or for the sake of beloved friendships, I astound myself by my appetite for life, my unwavering curiosity into the human condition, my distrust of the status quo, my poetic soul and abiding love of beauty, my strength of character in the face of unfairness, and my optimism despite defeats and loss.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Witwatersrand is a series of cliffs in South Africa. It encompasses 217 square miles. From this area, which is a tiny fraction of the Earth’s total land surface, humans have extracted 50 percent of all the gold ever mined. I regard this

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fact as an apt metaphor for you to meditate on in the next 12 months, Leo. If you’re alert, you will find your soul’s equivalent of Witwatersrand. What I mean is that you’ll have a golden opportunity to discover emotional and spiritual riches that will nurture your soul as it has rarely been nurtured.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What I wish for you is a toasty coolness.

I pray that you will claim a messy gift. I want you to experience an empowering surrender and a calming climax. I very much hope, Virgo, that you will finally see an obvious secret and capitalize on some unruly wisdom and take an epic trip to an intimate turning point. I trust that you’ll find a barrier that draws people together instead of keeping them apart. These wonders may sound paradoxical, and yet they’re quite possible and exactly what you need.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Psychologist James Hansell stated his opinion of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud: “He was wrong about so many things. But he was wrong in such interesting ways. He pioneered a whole new way of looking at things.” That description should provide good raw material for you to consider as you play with your approach to life in the coming weeks, Libra. Being right won’t be half as important as being willing to gaze at the world from upsidedown, inside-out perspectives. So I urge you to put the emphasis on formulating experimental hypotheses, not on proving definitive theories. Be willing to ask naive questions and make educated guesses and escape your own certainties.

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35 Asks for table scraps, like Fido SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll be likely to receive gifts at a higher rate than usual. Some gifts could be big, complex, and catalytic, though others may be subtle, cryptic, or even covert. While some may be useful, others could be problematic. So I want to make sure you know how important it is to be discerning about these offerings. You probably shouldn’t blindly accept all of them. For instance, don’t rashly accept a “blessing” that would indebt or obligate you to someone in ways that feel uncomfortable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are currently under the influence of astrological conditions that have led to dramatic boosts of self-esteem in laboratory rats.

To test the theory that this experimental evidence can be applied to humans, I authorize you to act like a charismatic egomaniac in the coming weeks. Just kidding. I lied about the lab rats. And I lied about you having the authorization to act like an egomaniac. But here are the true facts: The astrological omens suggest you can and should be a lyrical swaggerer and a sensitive swashbuckler.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I invite you to eliminate all of the following activities from your repertoire in the next three weeks: squabbling, hassling, feuding, confronting, scuffling, skirmishing, sparring, and brawling. Why is this my main message to you? Because the astrological omens tell me that everything important you need to accomplish will come from waging an intense crusade of peace, love, and understanding. The bickering and grappling stuff won’t help you

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40 Word in the seventh Harry Potter book title 41 “Wicked Game” singer Chris 46 Brand retired by Panasonic in 2012 48 Green Day’s “American ___” 49 Designer Karan 50 Fervor 52 George Takei exclamation 53 Be furious 54 Watson of “Beauty and the Beast” 55 Dishonorable scoundrels 56 College course division 57 Do something 58 “Homeland” network, for short ©2017 Jonesin’ Crosswords

achieve success even a little -- and would probably undermine it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Stockbrokers in Pakistan grew desperate when the Karachi Stock Exchange went into a tailspin. In an effort to reverse the negative trend, they performed a ritual sacrifice of ten goats in a parking lot. But their “magic” failed. Stocks continued to fade. Much later they recovered, but not in a timely manner that would suggest the sacrifice worked. I urge you to avoid their approach to fixing problems, especially now. Reliance on superstition and wishful thinking is guaranteed to keep you stuck. On the other hand, I’m happy to inform you that the coming weeks will be a highly favourable time to use disciplined research and rigorous logic to solve dilemmas.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming days, maybe you could work some lines from the Biblical “Song of Solomon” into your intimate exchanges. The moment is ripe for such extravagance. Can you imagine saying things like, “Your lips are honey,” or “You are a fountain in the garden, a well of living waters”? In my opinion, it wouldn’t even be too extreme for you to murmur, “May I find the scent of your breath like apricots, and your whispers like spiced wine flowing smoothly to welcome my caresses.” If those sentiments seem too flowery, you could pluck gems from Pablo Neruda’s love sonnets.

How about this one: “I want to do with you what spring does to the cherry trees.” Here’s another: “I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.” V at the back 19

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A few years ago, my dad was busted by the cops for using an online forum to solicit escorts. The arrest and infidelity destroyed his marriage to my mom. My brother and I were in our mid-teens at the time and were angry enough with him that we asked him to not seek custody. He obliged, and neither of us has seen him since.

I miss my dad—or the man I thought he was. I know part of my anger comes from how badly he hurt my mom. As I mature, I’m wondering if I was unfair to my dad by cutting off all contact. I don’t think sex work is immoral. I don’t think people who see sex workers are bad. But because my dad was involved in this bust, and because I had to become aware of the double life he led, I felt uncomfortable around him. It doesn’t help that some of the girls were not much older than I was at the time. I think I’d like to get to know my dad again, but I’m not sure what kind of relationship I’m ready to have.

He was a wonderful father— and on some level, I recognize I cut him off when he showed me he was human. How do I reach out to him?

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Each of us is a writhing mass of contradictions, PH. We all have public personas and private personas, and there are always gaps between the two.

And while those gaps, when exposed, can be mutually negating, that’s not always the case.

It is possible for someone to be a good dad and a shitty husband. The good dad you knew your dad to be? That wasn’t a lie. It was one of your father’s truths. That he failed as a husband and hurt your mom—with an assist from laws criminalizing sex work—is another of your father’s truths.

You don’t say why your dad was seeking sex outside the marriage, PH, and I can’t imagine that was a conversation you wanted to have with your dad in your midteens—and it may not be one you ever want to have. But it’s possible your parents’ marriage was more complicated than you know. (“The victim of an affair is not always the victim of the marriage,” as Esther Perel says.)

But you’re not an awful daughter for refusing to see your dad during a contentious, confusing, and most likely humiliating time.

(I imagine there was press).

As for how to reach out, I think email is the best way to reestablish contact after an estrangement. You can take your time crafting what you want to say, and your dad can take his time crafting a response. And you’ve already written a good opening line for your first email to your dad: “I’d like to get to know my dad again, but I’m VUEWEEKLY.com | AUG 24 – AUG 31, 2017

not sure what kind of relationship I’m ready to have. But I’d like to start talking—via email, for now.”

Give your mother a heads up, PH, so she doesn’t feel blindsided. Good luck.

DEATH WISH

I’m a female masochist and super subby—I see nothing wrong with that. For the last couple of months, I’ve been pursuing “death wish” fantasies.

When I start feeling low, I seek out guys on hookup sites who are sadistic enough that they might potentially help me carry it out. I’ve even gone so far as to put together a “blackmail package” for them, in case they start feeling like I might tell on them. I honestly wouldn’t want anyone to get in trouble just because I’m not thinking right.

My therapist knows about the masochist end of things, but I’m afraid to tell her this other part because I don’t want to be put on any crazy pills. Is there a way for me to switch my brain from thinking about this and somehow find my way back to normal BDSM or something else entirely without turning off my sexuality completely?

RATHER NOT SAY MY NAME There are fantasies that are simply too dangerous to realize, RNSMN, even with a willing victim/sub and a reckless perp/ Dom. And any person who pushes a woman’s “death wish” fantasy into potentially-carrying-itout territory deserves whatever trouble comes their way. Murder is wrong, even if the person wants it. And taking advantage of someone who clearly isn’t in their right mind doesn’t magically make manslaughter not criminal—“blackmail package” or no “blackmail package.”

You must open up to your therapist about the risks you’re taking, RNSMN. Some people with extreme and/or dangerous sexual obsessions have been successfully treated with talk therapy and low-dose antidepressants—meds, not “crazy pills.” A good therapist and/or the right low-dose medication could help you find your way back to safer and saner BDSM practices without shutting off your sexuality completely.

DON'T FUCK NAZIS

I’m a woman in my early 30s having sex with a guy in his early 20s. The sex is more than casual, and we really care about each other. My concern is this guy has some alt-right sympathies that reveal themselves in our political discussions. He’s a Trump guy, but hesitates to admit it because he knows I’m anti-Trump. He shares memes created by Mike Cernovich and Milo Yiannopoulos, he gets his news from hard-right publications, and his sister and broth-

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er-in-law are Holocaust deniers.

This concerns and confuses me because he’s such a sweet guy and, honestly, so goddamn good in bed. He might be the best lay I’ve ever had. I can’t reconcile these two sides of him, but I also can’t help trying to enlighten him a little bit.

One of his best features is his open-mindedness. He’s read books and watched documentaries I’ve recommended. I feel a responsibility to this young, confused, and frankly not-toobright person who’s surrounded by bad influences. I want to be understanding and gently guide him in a better direction, but sometimes his ignorance is aggravating. I can also sense that he’s beginning to feel a little judged, which can only make things worse. I keep thinking of your Campsite Rule, and I wonder at what point does one give up throwing logic and articles at someone who thought Hillary Clinton ran a child sex ring out of a pizza parlour? Can I continue to have sex with someone who thinks the left is conspiring to turn everyone communist?

CONFLICTED LOVER Don’t fuck Nazis.

If someone you just met tells you they’re a Nazi, don’t fuck that Nazi. If you’re already fucking someone and they reveal themselves to be a Nazi, stop fucking that Nazi. If someone tells you they’re a Nazi and you fuck that Nazi anyway and keep fucking that Nazi because they’re good at sex (for a Nazi), your effort to “gently guide” that Nazi away from being a Nazi doesn’t make it okay for you to fuck that Nazi.

Okay, okay: This guy might not be a Nazi at all—although it sure as fuck sounds like his family is, and they probably have more influence over him than you do. It’s possible this young, confused, and not-too-bright boy is merely a Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist and maybe I’m still too upset about Charlottesville to be impartial. Or, hey, maybe this guy is already a Nazi and hasn’t revealed the full extent of his odious political beliefs to you, CL, because the sex is good and he’s hoping to fuck the Nazi into you before you can fuck the Nazi out of him.

Finally, good people don’t worry about making Nazis “feel judged.” Nazis should be judged—à la Judgment at Nuremberg, an old film with a feel-good ending that’s worth watching right about now. Another thing good people don’t do? They don’t fuck Nazis.

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