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Healing wounds from the teen years
New role models and leaders are creating safer and healthier environments for students Education minister David Eggen recently took to Facebook and published an open letter to Alberta’s students. The letter addresses the LGBTQ policy changes that Eggen has been working to install across the province for the past year. In case you missed it, here’s the letter in its entirety: "A few weeks from now, you and thousands of other Alberta students will head back to class. And when you do, you have rights that your schools will respect. You have the right to feel safe and welcome at school. You have the right to create a Gay-Straight Alliance or a QueerStraight Alliance, and you have the right to name your clubs this way. You have the right to use the washroom that is consistent with your gender identity. I want you to know that I will support each and every one of you. Together, we will make sure that the rights you have,
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and the policies your school boards have worked on, are being lived out in your schools. As Minister of Education, I have been working with your school boards to make sure that our schools are welcoming and caring. All boards have created new policies to support LGBTQ students and they will now come to life in your schools. In the coming weeks, Alberta Education will be promoting new resources to make sure that schools are safe and welcoming. You can also reach out directly to my staff, who can help you ensure your rights are being respected, at studentsupport@gov.ab.ca.
As we stand together, let’s embrace the differences in one another. We will all be better for it in the long run. And remember: I’m with you one hundred per cent."
thing to say about this. I may have even become a bit teary-eyed. I don’t have kids and I’m a far distance away from being a highschooler so it took me a while to discern why I was so affected. Don’t get me wrong: this is the first time I have ever seen a politician pen a letter that not only addresses queer (and trans*!) youth, but one that treats youth as autonomous human beings worthy of dignity. While this letter isn’t going to stop any fists or a homophobic parent group, it’s still a big deal. But then I realized that my reaction to this letter wasn’t on behalf of
I thought of the 16-year-old me, who wandered her school hallways silently praying to a god she didn’t believe in not to make her a lesbian.
Wow. Just…wow. Read that one more time and I dare you not to feel a little stir in your heart. I am a deeply cynical person and even I can’t come up with one snarky
youth, it was on behalf of myself. I’m calling this the Ghostbusters effect. This summer, I was one of many adults who sat in a dark theatre and watched an obviously queer, non-femme woman kick ass in an action scene. It was like healing a piece of my heart I didn’t know I was missing: I retroactively gave my eight-year-old self a vision of a role model that could have shaped how I saw myself. I felt similarly upon reading this letter. I thought of the 16-year-old me, who wandered her school hallways silently praying to a god she didn’t believe in not to make her a lesbian. I can now re-imagine that school as a safe space. Progress isn’t just about creating new possibilities for the future, it’s also about healing past wounds. I’m thrilled that today’s genderqueer youth can read something like this. I hope that the ghosts of queer teenagers that still haunt our adult selves also find a little peace.
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Drug dealers face harsh punishments under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte
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odrigo Duterte, the new president of the Philippines, gives good copy. Here’s a quote from his final election rally: “Forget the laws on human rights. If I make it to the presidential palace, I will do just what I did as mayor. You drug pushers, hold-up men and do-nothings, you better go out. Because I'd kill you. I'll dump all of you into Manila Bay, and fatten all the fish there.” And here’s another, from last Sunday, after United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime condemned Mr Duterte's “apparent endorsement of extrajudicial killings.” “I do not want to insult you,” Duterte said. (He only called them “stupid”.) “But maybe we'll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations. If you are that rude, we might just as well leave. So take us out of your organisation. You have done nothing. Never. Except to criticise.” What upset Ban Ki-moon and the UNDOC is the fact that Duterte is having people murdered. Since he took office three months ago, some 900 “suspected drug-dealers” have been shot dead by police and civilian vigilantes acting in his name. None was found guilty by a court, and some, of course, were completely innocent.
Duterte is not denying it or apologizing. Before he leaves office, he says, he’ll just give himself an amnesty: “Pardon given to Rodrigo Duterte for the crime of multiple murder, signed Rodrigo Duterte.” “The Punisher”, as he was known when he was mayor of Davao, is very serious about his “war on drugs:” he recently said he would kill his own children if they took drugs. But crime is not the Philippines’ biggest problem, and it’s not clear what else he is serious about. He talks v a g u e l y about making the Philippines a federal country, but no details of his policies and plans have emerged. In fact, he has spent most of the time since his election down south in his Davao stronghold, not in Manila. But he does have a plan of sorts for what to do after he walks out of the United Nations. He says he may ask China and African countries to walk out too and form a
rival organization. He doesn’t know much about China or Africa, so maybe he thinks they would like to get together and defy the parts of the world where governments believe that killing people is wrong. “Duterte Harry” (another nickname) is very popular in the Philippines, but he is not really a threat to global order. The hundred mil-
in 1945, as the catastrophe of the Second World War was ending, its main goal was to prevent any more wars like that. The founders tried to give it the appearance of a broader moral force by signing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, but that was mainly window-dressing. The UN was created by the great powers to prevent any government from launching another war of international aggression, not to make governments treat their own citizens better. In fact, each major power was effectively guaranteed the right to do whatever it wanted to its own citizens, so long as it did not attack the neighbours. In this, the new UN was just recognizing reality, for every great power was determined to preserve its own “sovereignty”. Even for smaller powers, the great powers could rarely agree on what kind of intervention was desirable, and who should do it.
The UN has done well in its original task: it shares the credit with nuclear weapons for the fact that no great power has fought any other for the past 71 years.
lion Filpinos will have to live with him for the next six years, but the United Nations is not doomed. In fact, it is doing better than most people give it credit for. One proof of this is the fact that the Secretary General now has the right to criticise a member government merely for killing its own citizens. That’s not what it was designed for. When it was created
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The UN has done well in its original task: it shares the credit with nuclear weapons for the fact that no great power has fought any other for the past 71 years. It has gradually moved into other areas like peace-keeping and promoting the rule of law in the world, but it never interferes inside the territory of the great powers. Even in smaller countries it almost never intervenes without the invitation of the local government. So when Duterte called the UN useless because “if you are really true to your mandate, you could have stopped all these wars and killings," he was talking through his hat. Besides, he would never accept UN intervention in his own country to deal with an alleged crime wave. He’s just talking tough because he hates being criticized. It’s very unlikely that he will carry out his threat. The UN is the keystone in the structure of international law that, among many other things, deters China from settling its territorial dispute with the Philippines by force. Rodrigo Duterte is just a problem for the Philippines, not for the UN or the world.V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. UP FRONT 3
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ouring the city on a bike is not new: Harcourt House held two Art Bike Tours this summer where Edmontonians could visit art galleries by bicycle. Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society had hosted its first Public Art Ride last summer, which toured 12 public art destinations (including the Talus Dome, Borden
Park's Vaulted Willow) around the city also by bicycle. It's a trend that's commonplace all over Europe, but still relatively new in these parts (partially due to the ongoing problem of urban sprawl that makes it almost physically impossible to make it to the outskirts on bike). Now it seems we're seeing a shift
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where things are becoming more centralized allowing for more start-ups to explore the possibility of doing more tours by bike. Cue in Edmonton Food Bike Tour, a new initiative that gets people biking around the city to restaurants to sample popular menu items, while promoting a healthy lifestyle. "We're trying to promote local products, local people, local places," says Vanessa Ojeda, Edmonton Food Bike Tour President. "Anyone can come along and go on [our] tour. In addition to promoting local, Ojeda and company are trying to promote a healthier lifestyle by bringing people outdoors, while having the opportunity to network. Edmonton Food Bike Tour kicked off its first event on July 16 and there's five more dates—Aug 27, Aug 28, Sept 3, Sep 10 and Sept 17—planned for the year. The goal is to make EFBT
an annual summer event with the possibility of hosting something in the winter (if there's interest there, its something that Ojeda and company are open to explore, she says). The bike tour takes anywhere between six to eight hours with stops at five to seven establishments around the city. Participants will have the chance to taste food and beverages from each vendor, while also learning some histories of each food from the chefs and servers of said restaurants. In addition, the tour has introduced a "Foodie Bike Tour Passport" that encourages participants to collect stamps from each establishment on the tour. The objective is to collect 100 stamps, which then translates to a $100 gift certificate from one of the establishments on the tour. EFBT has partnerships with about 30 establishments in Edmonton such as Rosso, Sabor Divino, the Italian
Centre, Wild Earth Cafe, Woodrack Cafe, and more. "A lot of people don't know some of these smaller restaurants... and it helps to bring people to these places that they haven't been to before," she says. And, what about those people that might not have a bike? Ojeda notes that they've partnered up with River Valley Adventure to supply bikes for a fee ($50 plus GST for bike and helmet) for those individuals that don't own a bike, says Ojeda. "It's just about enjoying and having fun."
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In the gloaming he nice thing about camping is that after the third day of trail mix anything you eat tastes like heaven. Through my years of guiding hiking and canoe trips, I’ve learned the importance of food. Not the fact that it is a necessity, I mean, of course it is. But using it as extra motivation. To look forward to something tasty gives a person an extra push towards the next campsite. It also gets people out of their tent in the morning. Food is as psychological as it is biological. In my opinion, there are only three meals. Breakfast, supper, and campfire dessert. Lunch is basically a component of what wasn’t eaten from the previous day’s meals. If you do your job right, lunch will be just as tasty. Also, all meals must be interconnected. When meal planning, look for crossover ingredients. You don’t want your food to be too samey, but embrace the fact that using the same ingredients in several meals makes for less packing/carrying. Especially on those longer trips. Breakfast: Bannocakes Serves 6 normal humans or 3 super hungry monsters Ingredients: 3 cups sifted flour 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons baking powder water vegetable oil Choose your own fun or healthy things (dried apple, chocolate chips, crushed walnuts, dried strawberries, dried bananas, bacon bits...you see where I’m going with this). Directions: Take your dried fruits, throw them in a ziplock bag. Add some water. Shake the crap out of it. Mix half the flour with the salt and baking powder. Add water until the mixture has the consistency of glue. Keep adding bits of flour until the dough becomes malleable. Put the pan on the fire or the stove, add the oil. Heat until warm/hot. Make puck sized...pucks with the dough. Add some of your fun things to it. Turn the pucks until they are brown on the outside. Take them out and let them cool. Get your coffee or tea made during this time. Put the bannocakes into your face (that is how they work). Double the recipe (without fun things) if you want to use bannock with lunch. I would recommend it on longer trips.
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A Wake for the Dream by Laurel Deedrick-Mayne Laurel Deedrick-Mayne described her debut novel, A Wake for the Dreamland, as “the first-ever WWII-era novel set in Edmonton with an LGBTQ protagonist,” and it’s hard to argue with that. A Wake for the Dream is partially
told in letters between the characters. Deedrick-Mayne wrote dozens of these letters and had to whittle it down to just a handful.
Rumi and the Red Handbag by Shawn Lemay Rumi and the Red Handbag, by EPL librarian Shawn Lemay, is about “the secrets we hold, for ourselves, and for other people.” Lemay shared her particular interest in handbags, and how her research progressed from Google Street View stalking a handbag museum in Amsterdam, to actually visiting it. Most of the story takes place in a consignment shop that closely resembles one in the High Street shopping area, and the book has been praised for its poetic prose.
Birdie by Tracey Lindberg Law professor Tracey Lindberg said she couldn’t have written Birdie without knowing about Cree legal systems, and without knowing what it’s like to search the streets of Edmonton for a homeless relative. Twenty four years in the making, Birdie is the story of a Cree woman and her journey from a reserve to the streets of Edmonton to small town BC. Birdie was a contender on Canada Reads this year, and though it didn’t win, the exposure helped get Birdie into the hands of kids who don’t usually see their lives represented in literature. Lindberg hopes that “no one else has [to] wait 24 years to see a story like this.”
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The Battle of Alberta by Mark Spector Mark Spector is used to writing daily 1000-word sports columns. Sitting down to write his comprehensive tale of the Oilers/Flames rivalry was an entirely new experience, but one he hopes will help the next generation understand what it was like in the glory years. His insider status means he has stories to tell that even the most seasoned Oilers or Flames fan may not know. Road Trip Rwanda by Will Ferguson Will Ferguson was the most comfortable speaking about his book, likely because he’s the most experienced. He won the Giller Prize in 2012 for his novel 419, and has three Leacock Awards, most recently in 2010 for travel memoir Beyond Belfast. Road Trip Rwanda chronicles his trip to Rwanda with his son’s soccer coach, Jean-Claude, who narrowly escaped the 1994 genocide. Despite its horrific history, Ferguson wants to tell “a hopeful story” of Rwanda, and he wanted it to be funny. Rwandans he spoke to on his trip are eager for Westerners to understand that there’s more to their country than the events of 1994. No matter who wins, each book will find new readers for years to come. Birdie already has a staggering 166 holds on 31 copies at EPL, and even past winners get a bump. 2013 winner Fran Kimmel (The Shore Girl) says that “when the new ARCA shortlist is announced, readers find, borrow or buy past winning books.” Kimmel also acknowledges that there’s something special about an award that’s bestowed by readers, not by other writers—to know that something has resonated with an audience. “To know that people read and then voted for my book continues to lift me up on those inevitable bad writing days.” Readers, it’s up to you. Vote at epl. ca/arcavote until August 31. LAURA FREY
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n the preface to Paper Teeth, Lauralyn Chow describes the types of menus you might find in a Chinese restaurant. These menus hint at the complex themes that follow. First, the standard menu: “A multi-page English language menu (sometimes bilingual with Chinese writing), plastic laminated, offering forty-seven, eighty-eight, one hundred and twenty-nine, different Chinese dishes, all listed by number. Sometimes, one printed page in the menu for Western cuisine.” Then, a menu not everyone sees: “A Chinese language menu (never bilingual) written on pink paper, sometimes in a plastic pocket inside the English menu, sometimes in a plastic page protector given only to certain guests, listing at most seven dishes.” Finally, the hidden menu: “An unwritten menu of non-replicable Chinese dishes, food that no other
table is served, after Dad goes into the kitchen, only with his son, to visit with his friends, the cooks.” Paper Teeth presents a “menu” of ten connected but non-chronological stories to choose from, most about the Lee family, spanning from the 1920s to the present day. The Lees are: father Wing, who immigrated from China as a child; Calgary-born
ton. The Lees own a store on Rice Avenue (before it was Rice Howard Way), go to church in Chinatown, and have a memorable day at the races at Northlands. In the first story, the Lees drive over the Rat Hole, walk past the hardware store that became The Hardware Grill, and marvel at The Coffee Cup Inn, a mug-shaped cafe that sat where the Shaw Conference Centre sits now. A sense of place is important to Chow and the way she tells a story, but she doesn’t think the reader needs to know what the Rat Hole was to appreciate Paper Teeth. She expects that local readers may identify some places in the book with certain memories and experiences, but she hopes that “readers unfamiliar with Edmonton and Calgary in the times portrayed in the stories, can still identify with the sense of place, without knowing it personally.” Paper Teeth is more than a “local” book, though. The stories take on universal themes like race, language, and family, and Chow plays with form in a way that’s sure to interest readers who find traditional novels a bit boring. Consider the better-traveled routes Chow could have gone with the Lees’ story: Paper Teeth could have been a historical novel about early Chinese immigrants to the prairies. It could have been a coming of age story focused on baby Jane, who struggles to fit in, with a side plot about her favourite Auntie Moe’s interracial relationship. It could have been a quirky family comedy, full of misunderstandings fed by the intergenerational language barrier and culture clash. It could have been the story of Wing and Mumma’s marriage. Instead, Chow tells all of these stories and more in an economical 250 pages. Readers who balk at heavy themes and non-traditional formats will find plenty to enjoy in frequent funny moments and asides. Mumma’s misadventures with a rogue sanitary napkin will make any reader who’s dealt with the “capital C, Curse” wince in recognition. Auntie Li-Ting is everyone’s eccentric aunt, with her me-
dicinal-smelling homemade bandages, refusal to wear closed-toe shoes, and horror upon finding that her niece doesn’t own a proper tea ball. We only get one chapter with Uncle Malmo, but his quest to install an in-floor koi pond in the kitchen of his already over-the-top mod house (the clean lines and white fixtures remind him of living in a “goddamn toilet bowl”) make him one of the most memorable characters. When asked about Paper Teeth’s rejection of traditional forms of storytelling, Chow says it was important “to not freeze these characters into a nostalgic time capsule, or thaw them out gradually from the past into the present.” And it works. The Lees feel like a real family, because the way the story is told is probably the way the story of your own family is told: in memory and anecdote, in stories shouted across a big table laden with many dishes, and in whispered asides from the person sitting next to you. Whether you sample one or take in all ten courses, Paper Teeth is sure to satisfy.
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Paper Teeth is more than a ‘local’ book, though. The stories take on universal themes like race, language, and family, and Chow plays with form in a way that’s sure to interest readers who find traditional novels a bit boring.
Mumma; and their four children, Lizzie, Pen, Tom, and Jane. Wing and Mumma never taught the children to speak Chinese, only using it when they wish not to be understood. Apart from a few side trips to Calgary and Saskatchewan, most of the action takes place in Edmon-
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f you haven't been hiding under a rock for the last four decades, then you've come across the popular phrase "Stay Gold, Ponyboy" sometime during your lifetime. If you were like me, you probably first came across the aforementioned phrase in junior high school after an assigned reading of S E Hinton's The Outsiders (1967) for English class. Or, maybe, you heard "Stay Gold" come out of Ralph Macchio (Johnny) in Francis Ford Coppola's big screen adaptation in 1983, which featured a swoony cast of high-profile actors including: C Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez and Tom Cruise. I digress. The novel is a classic, having imprinted itself on the lives of young adults everywhere—Publisher's Weekly reported The Outsiders ranked second to E B White's Charlotte's Web on a list of all-time bestselling children's books in 2001—including this writer, which made me wonder whether those sentiments I felt reading it as a teen would still hold up as an adult? I revisited this novel again just recently—reading it on the plane during a weekend trip to Vegas, Nevada—to see whether I'd still get teary-eyed—spoiler alert—when
Johnny dies (I did) and if I could still sympathesize with the novel's preadolescent themes (I didn't). The novel is written like a diaryentry through a first-person account of Ponyboy, the novel's protoganist, for an English assignment. Ponyboy is 16 years old— the same age that Hinton penned The Outsiders, which is a feat in itself—so the writing reads as that: a young teen writing, so the technical components and diction that Hinton developed later on in her career is missing in this book. What's more, the book was hailed for breaking the young adult literature mold by depicting real accounts of what teenagers actually experienced, and that so much of its content is teenage-focused. While I could still shed a tear when sweet, young Johnny dies, I couldn't sympathize in the way I would have when I was a teen girl in regards to experiencing similar emotions and pressures that Ponyboy and Johnny would have felt hanging around older kids. Instead, my sympathy was replaced with feelings of empathy. I didn't get excited when the boys had
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their rumble like when I did on my initial read, instead I shook-my-head and cringed reading that bit. I used to consider this book as one of my favourites, but I'll have to reappraise that. Not because the book isn't good—it's still a classic for me—but my tastes in literature have changed. I've grown, just like Ponyboy did. JASMINE SALAZAR
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Lost in translation
Revisiting Agua Viva in the new translation Stream of Life
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e-reading is always an act of memory. Thus, perhaps ironically, my recent re-reading of the mid-century Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector’s most famous work, Agua Viva, took place as a result of a failure of memory, an embarrassing one, an 'I still own too many books and it’s the 21st century reason: I bought the new translation without realizing that I owned the old translation. Years ago, I somehow obtained a copy of Lispector’s The Stream of Life, a translation of Agua Viva, and fell flat in love. It’s a novel, but also hardly a novel, just under 100 pages of a narrator monologuing a love letter to the ungraspable and fleeting quality of human life. The narrator is obsessed with this “stream”, how language attempts to capture, but failing to capture, the joy and evanescence of experience. In the translation by Elizabeth Lowe and Earl Fitz, the language is delirious, bubbling, ebullient. For example: “Only in the act of love, the instant, an impersonal jewel, glitters in the air, a strange bodily glory, matter sensitized by the shiver of seconds—and what one feels at the same time is immaterial and so object that it happens as if it were outside the body, sparkling on high, happiness, happi-
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ness is the mother of time and the instant par excellence.” The first copy I bought dated from 1989, in an edition published by University of Minnesota Press, a publishing house more known at the time for putting out fat volumes of dense poststructuralist theory like that Deleuze and Guattari. Fittingly, The Stream of Life has a foreword by Hélène Cixous, herself a big shot of 20th century French feminist theory. Flash forward some 15 years as I am on a Clarice Lispector reading kick, spurred on by the 2015 biography by Benjamin Moser, Why This World. Instead of positioning her as a darling of French theory, Moser emphasizes Lispector’s Jewish heritage (she was born in Ukraine during the First World War, and her family fled persecution to emigrate to Brazil when she was an infant) and the element of religiosity in her writing. Moser had a hand in the series of four retranslations of Lispector’s works republished by New Directions in 2011 and 2012. I bought several of these online— the four retranslations with cover images together create an portrait of Lispector—and started reading Agua Viva forgetting that the 1989 translation had a different title and that I had already read it.
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Eventually I remembered, and remembered that I am a fool—the sort that buys multiple editions of the same book. But re-reading is always good: I love rediscovering in old, beloved books is the perspective it gives on my thoughts, myself. Revisiting Lispector’s book on language and evanescence (or, depending on your take, Jewish mysticism), now in a “new, improved” translation (translations are always new and improved) reminded me how impossible it is to recapture that first reading, its incarnation, the self that was the self once reading. Plus, the translation by Stafan Tobler, has odd emphases. Part of that previous passage now reads, “how during love the impersonal jewel of the moment glitters in the air, the strange glory of the body”, which makes Lispector seem altogether carnal. Wading through the new Agua Viva felt like the translation wanted to make sense of Lispector breathless turbulence, instead of letting flow what cannot be captured. But of course, for me, it was easy: I went to my bookshelf and plucked out the other edition, and started rereading.
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Bayley and The Beast Two very different stories at SummerSlam
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he dying days of August are a time of new beginnings and bittersweet ends. Springtime planted the seeds of hope and ambition, and while some of those seeds blossom into fantastic opportunities over the hot summer months, others languish and bear bitter-tasting fruits. For World Wrestling Entertainment, inc (WWE), SummerSlam weekend is the payoff to that summer season, when the seeds sowed at WrestleMania are harvested for the long winter ahead. At this year’s installment, two standout performers emphasized the gulf between the company’s old and new growth. Since returning to WWE in 2012, Brock Lesnar has been a staple of SummerSlam. For five years straight, his matches have been the big draw, four taking top billing in the main event. His match against Randy Orton on Sunday overshadowed both of the top-tier championship matches for the recently split Raw and Smackdown brands, and was backed by nearly two months of hype. The match itself lasted only 12 minutes—uncharacteristically brief for an exhausting six-hour show—and was stopped as a result of Lesnar splitting Orton’s forehead open, leaving him in a pool of blood that would have been excessive even before WWE started cracking down on such visceral displays of carnage. It’s a style that’s become par for the course in Lesnar’s matches. He often seems disinterested in setting the pace of a match if it gets in the way of pummelling his opponents. Two years ago, his systematic dismantling of the infallible John Cena gave Lesnar his fourth WWE Championship and had fans hoping that the tide was turning in WWE’s stale main event scene. Unfortunately, that hasn’t been the case. The one-sided beatdown was the beginning of Lesnar’s ubiquitous Suplex City gimmick, and his matches since have been less about wrestling and more about spamming German suplexes like a button-mashing amateur playing WWE 2K16. On Sunday, he’d hit nearly a dozen before the match was half over, and long before he’d considered anything resembling a compelling in-ring story. Until now, there’s been plenty of novelty to be found in Lesnar’s against-the-grain style. In the last five years, he’s been at the epicentre of some of the most unexpected wrestling angles, fuelled largely by his desire to set his own course—or more accurately, his unwillingness to take orders. He carries himself with the nonchalance of a man who doesn’t care for his boss’ rules, and knows he brings in enough money to ignore them. While most of his co-workers are barred from doing any work outside of WWE’s ecosystem, as a part-time attraction, Lesnar has filled his ample free time with regular freelance gigs, going so far as working a high-profile match earlier this month for UFC, one of WWE’s biggest competitors for market share. That he later failed an in-competition drug test on the night of the fight and faced no consequences from WWE shows just how long of a leash Lesnar’s been given by the hand that feeds him. (The UFC did temporarily suspend Lesnar. WWE fined him $500 earlier this week for his behaviour at SummerSlam.) Lesnar’s devil-may-care attitude has made him a standout in WWE’s often conservative main-event narratives, but this summer, the veneer of character is finally starting to chip away, revealing a selfimportant performer who doesn’t seem interested in telling a story, so long as he’s getting paid. The day before SummerSlam, WWE told a very different kind of story at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn. The women’s title match brought a definitive close to the feud between defending
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champion Asuka and perennial favourite Bayley, signalling an emotional end of an era for the company’s developmental branch, and a new beginning for Bayley herself. Bayley was signed to WWE the same year Lesnar returned, and while the two have never crossed paths, she’s become the antithesis of The Beast Incarnate. The neon-clad grappler with a penchant for hugs might be wrestling’s most pure embodiment of good and wholesomeness. The saga of Bayley has played out through her character as much as the performer. In an industry where characters settle feuds through treachery and backstabbing, and politicking can kill the careers of anyone not willing to play out those tactics backstage, Bayley represents the triumph of hope and idealism. Together with Charlotte, Sasha Banks, and Becky Lynch, she’s revolutionized and legitimized women’s wrestling. In what’s traditionally been a barren landscape of exploitative and shallow storytelling, The Four Horsewomen have helped transform the portrayal of WWE’s female performers from “Divas” into true athletes, demonstrating the demand for these stories from WWE audiences. Bayley secured her rank at the top of the women’s division at last year’s TakeOver: Brooklyn when she won the championship from Sasha Banks in one of the greatest matches in WWE history. Earlier that summer, her three companions were called up to the main roster—a promotion that means a wider audience, a bigger paycheque, and a grander platform to tell your stories. Meanwhile, Bayley remained in NXT— a development division for WWE—ostensibly serving as the anchor between her own generation and the class of newcomers. In the months that passed, Bayley lost the NXT Women’s Championship to Asuka, missed the big spring show due to injury, and proceeded to watch those newcomers surpass her in July’s WWE Draft. It’s been a grim second act for Bayley’s journey through NXT, but when she was finally granted a rematch against Asuka in Brooklyn this year, it seemed redemption was in her future. On Saturday, Bayley lost. Of course, any longtime follower of NXT has learned that redemption can manifest in the most painful form. Amidst the shock and tears washing over the faces of the children who idolize her, Bayley left the arena to cheers of thanks from the fans. Deep down, they seemed to realize that the best characters are those who suffer the hardest knocks before they reach the greatest heights. Two days later, when Bayley finally showed up on Monday Night Raw, she found that redemption. It’s a choice that’s both an emotional payoff and a logical next step for Bayley’s WWE career. While it’s the next step of her NXT story, the mainroster call-up has become a symbol of evolution for characters in WWE, and there are none more deserving of it than Bayley, whose hard work and determination were finally rewarded. With NXT regularly producing top-tier talent, WWE’s writers now have a powerful narrative device by treating the call-up as a character development tool. In a storytelling medium where the story never ends, NXT characters like Bayley are helping to revolutionize how these narratives play out, bringing emotional depth through hard work. While performers like Lesnar may have come to rely on guaranteed paydays that feed lazy writing, SummerSlam weekend has shown that there’s an entire garden of new talent in WWE ready to push up through the weeds and tell the stories that matter.
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PREVUE // SOCIAL JUSTICE
My Life I Don't Want explores gender issues in Myanmar // Photo supplied
Reel important films The Justice 4 Reel Film Fest supports young filmmakers
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ebuting this week, the Justice 4 Reel Film Festival at Metro Cinema will focus on aspiring young film makers. The events will explore social justice issues through film, visual art, and music. Festival director Maigan van der Giessen is the education programmer at the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights. Staff at the centre had been toying with the idea of a film festival for a while, and working with young people inspired them to focus on a newer cohort of filmmakers. “We wanted to hear their stories,” she says. “We also thought that commentary on social justice is something that is needed more.” The idea was sparked by young local documentarian, Solon Birch Hiro. “He was making a larger documentary on the topic of suicide and that just got us thinking ‘lets try to create an opportunity for these young people we’re working with.'” With the help of Hiro, the group eventually got a small grant from the Edmonton Community Foundation, and the idea of Justice 4 Reel became a reality. The festival will begin on Friday August 26 with seven youth submissions that touch on heavy topics such as poverty, suicide, and missing and murdered indigenous women.
The night will also feature a reception and a meet and greet with some of the filmmakers. One such notable film is My Life I Don’t Want, an animated film submitted by a young filmmaker in Myanmar, Nyan Kyal Say. “That one is awesome. It touches on gender and the different experiences of girls and boys who grow up in Myanmar and that part of the world,” van der Giessen says. “As far as I know this will be the only opportunity to see this in Canada. It’s very exciting.” Unlike the first night of Justice 4 Reel, the other two nights are not youth specific. Saturday night will focus on an international human rights issue with the 2014 locally made film Brothers in the Buddah. Directed by Beth Wishart McKenzie, the inspiring documentary follows the story of Michael, a 17-year-old VietnameseCanadian boy who was ordained as a Buddhist monk at one of Edmonton’s monasteries at the age of 10. The film highlights Michael’s challenges with self-identity in both the monastery and his community. The documentary The Tipping Point: Age of the Oilsands, a film about the health-risks faced by the people of Fort Chipewyan, by local filmmakers Tom Radford and Niobe Thompson, will be the highlight of Sunday night.
Fri, Aug 26 — Sun, Aug 28 Metro Cinema, $9 to $12 “It had originally aired on The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, but we’re airing a newer, updated version. I’m really excited for it.” For the first year, Justice 4 Reel starts out pretty small, but van der Giessen hopes that it will grow in future years. “I really hope Edmonton shows up to support our young film makers and show them that their art has value,” she says. “I really think viewers will be surprised and impressed with the level of skill these young people have with film.” STEPHAN BOISSONNEAULT FILM@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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fter bundling up an orphan boy with not-so-’orrible ogres and blundering Brit-twits in The Boxtrolls, Laika Studios sails to feudal Japan for a more melancholy, shape-shifting tale. Wrapping stories within stories, characters within characters, and personal memories within cross-cultural myths, Kubo and the Two Strings is a deft delight, strumming and thrumming out a bittersweet adventure-quest. Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson) has been raised in a cave atop a seaside cliff by his forlorn mother. He must return home before nightfall, or her father, the Moon King, will find them again; the Moon King and his other daughters already killed Kubo’s father Hanzo. But one night, returning late from the village below, where he tells tales to a rapt audience, Kubo is tracked down by his witch-like aunts; his mother’s last act of magic sends him to a wintry hinterland, with only
a snow monkey (Charlize Theron) and a samurai-like beetle (Matthew McConaughey) to help him find his father’s sword, breastplate, and helmet so he can vanquish the Moon King. The visuals enthrall, from the mother’s stricken sadness and the monkey’s severeness to a giant skeleton’s head pincushioned with swords and an autumnal sea-voyage. The dominant materials and textures seem paper-like— papier mâche-like—and clay-like. The stop-motion animation fuses sculpture with a flickering magic-lantern show (figures’ mouths flutter as if moving thanks to a shuttered light-source); indeed, the Japanese paper-lantern festival honouring souls of the dead, tōrō nagashi, is crucial to the story. The adventure-quest feels dreamlike and unreal, as if truly internal—Kubo battling his ancestors in a nightmarish unravelling of his psyche, grief and hardheartedness contending with
Now playing Directed by Travis Knight fondness and compassion. A sprightly sense of play predominates, though. Kubo’s both boy-bard and animator—his magic brings paper to puppet-like life as he plays out a story he tells with the help of his shamisen (a banjo-like instrument). But the story he’s cast into toys with so many other tales, reincarnated: Moses parting the sea; Jonah; Orpheus; Pinocchio; Kafka’s Metamorphosis; Robin Hood. And yet the spirited sumup—the message of Kubo and the Two Strings—is that memory, passed on and shared, becomes a story which binds and bonds and forges anew. BRIAN GIBSON
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REVUE // CRIME DRAMA
One trick Dogs
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ith its slick-dicks-making-madmoney-in-a-scuzzy-business storyline, War Dogs tries to be that much bigger, badder, better canine, The Wolf of Wall Street. But Todd Phillips’ alpha-packin’-’em flick can’t even figure out how to be itself—this tale of two “bros” gone wild in the arms trade shoots blank after blank. It’s 2006; Miami’s David Packouz (Miles Teller), running into childhood friend Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill), turns to him for work when he finds out his girlfriend Iz (Ana de Armas) is expecting. Efraim’s weapons-business AEY Inc.—picking up small-time contracts advertised on a government website in the wake of new Bush-Administration legislation—is booming, until it successfully bids on a huge Afghanistan contract. Soon David and Efraim are down an Albanian alley of darkness, deception, and backstabbing . . . David’s voiceover either boringly ed-
ucates or tells what any decent film would show—if it had characters with inner depth. These idiots (Efraim fires a new employee for being a “nerd”) remain undeveloped. Instead we get them, gung-ho for ammo, walking the walk in slo-mo strut shots, talking the talk in “That’s cool!” conversations, and rarely balking at any new, shady opportunity. Iz really is one of the weakest female characters on-screen this year, going from loyal dupe to moral scold. And the structure’s as self-involved and redundant as its zero-heroes—sections begin with a quote from the dialogue we’ll hear in a few minutes anyway. This blow-by-blow (cocaine; punches; Efraim repeatedly characterizing David’s former massage-therapist job as gay-sex-for-money) account— adapting a Rolling Stone article about the actual case—is never sad, pathetic, appalling, or particularly political. After David learns his Albania driver’s
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Now playing Directed by Todd Phillips gone missing, Phillips cuts to the plane on Tirana’s airport runway and our boy thinking only that he’s gotta leave and never return. This American selfishness jets on, from the Miami meatheads casually looking down on Jordan to Efraim declaring, after being saved near Fallujah on their gun-run by US soldiers, “Iraq is dope!” The only idiosyncratic element is Efraim’s laugh, a strangled chortle. If only War Dogs, more a bland weapons-biz infomercial (ending with the crimedoesn’t-pay fine print blown up to fill your widescreen) than a hard, sharp look at gunrunning or war-profiteering, were so distinctive. BRIAN GIBSON
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dmonton-based Jesse and the Dandelions will release their third album this week. True Blue is a thoughtful, evocative album that grows in appreciation on successive spins. In the simplest terms, it’s a dreamy pop record that ventures into the realm of the psychedelic. Highlighted by compelling, layered instrumentation, coded ethereal lyrics and the occasional jangly guitar— True Blue leaves a lingering effect that is challenging and satisfying. Elegant harmonies drift throughout the record, summoning memories of late Beatles records crossed with early '90s college-radio lyrics. “When I was writing these songs, I was really into [Dave Fridmann]” reflects Jesse Northey, lead singer, architect and the “Jesse” behind Jesse and the Dandelions. Fridmann is a producer and founding member of alt-rock royalty Mercury Rev. Widely thought of as 'the Phil Spector of the alt-rock era'—minus all the murder and wigs, Fridmann is the man behind classic releases from bands such as: the Flaming Lips, Weezer, Sleater-Kinney and more recently, MGMT, Neon Indian and Tame Impala. Northey is himself a working producer and sound engineer. After
speaking with him for only a few moments, it’s no surprise he lists Fridmann as an influence before any of the bands he produced. He was drawn to the psych-pop style that defines True Blue because of the freedom in these kinds of songs. “They’re usually pretty good pop songs and they’re allowed to do whatever they want with the production, any effect is fair-game as long as it’s tasteful”. The Dandelions previous two releases—2012’s Time and Space and Everything in Between and 2013’s A Mutual Understanding—punctuate this ethos, illustrating Northey’s malleable sensibility and willingness to let the talents of his band-mates drive production while he hammers down the studio work. “I write to the strengths of the people I’ve been playing with at the time,” he says, describing an iterative process of song writing in which he generates an initial concept and passes it on to his band to articulate in their own fashion. “Sometimes you know what you’re getting going in and other times you throw something at the wall and if it sticks, you build around that, if it doesn’t, that’s fine
and you move on,” he says. In the case of Time and Space and A Mutual Understanding this is best seen in the drumming of Nick Vedres, who employed a straightforward rock tenet capable of keeping even the most arrhythmic song on pace. The result of that partnership generated two great pop albums, but only dabbled with the more experimental elements that make up the focus of True Blue. Here, Northey has reformed the Dandelions completely. The in-studio and touring cast now include Tusy Hudson on drums, Dean Kheroufi on bass and Cayley Thomas on keyboards. Hudson’s influence is likely the most notable addition. Her drumming demonstrates a distinct jazz/ avant-garde tone, which has in turned pushed Northey’s sound design further into the otherworldly. “Tusy is really good at intricate, [subtle drumming] and subdivisions. On the newer songs there’s more high-hat and break beats—it’s groovier,” he says. While the sonic results of this process are profound, and in comparison to previously releases, significantly more mature and textured, Northey does acknowledge the obvious problem in heavily engineered record-
ings—mainly the difficulty in performing the songs on stage. Illustrating this point is True Blue’s opening track "In The Night," a fourminute song comprised of synth loops, voice effects, full band accompaniment and multiple violin layers composed by Nathan Wong of Edmonton’s Yes Nice. “I’m really happy with how it turned out, but I can’t imagine how I’m going to pull it off live,” he says. Unsurprisingly, the musical arrangements on True Blue are not the only aspect of Northey’s compositions that warrant unpacking. Lyrically, these songs offer a healthy dose of vague existentialism and metaphoric jaunts. Northey self describes his writing process as influenced by Dadaism, a nineteenth century art movement that sought to employ non sequiturs in an effort to develop a feeling around a topic rather than relate to it directly. “How many songs have been written about the heart?” he asks. “The heart is literally just a muscle that moves blood, there is nothing really romantic about that—it’s an extended metaphor, there are millions of songs about that extended metaphor.” While it might be tempting to ignore this approach as simple pseudo intel-
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Thurs, Sept, 1 (9:30pm) Album release show The Needle, $12 in advance, $15 at the door lectual posturing, it’s worth noting that Northey does an excellent job at not pushing the envelope too far, in fact at many points a real vulnerability is expressed through this style. “Sometimes I feel that in my vaguest songs, there are more clues about who I am than in the ones where I am quite literal,” he says. “If you could crack the egg of what I just said, then you would be able to see right through me”. True Blue is a reflective record. Northey is trying to make sense of his own journey against the backdrop of a complicated and possibly meaningless universe. On "Brother" he sings: “You can try to save yourself / but you’re becoming someone else / I asked you but you couldn’t tell me it is what is you do so well.” In jest, he concludes with a chuckle, “infinity equals nothing—this is the key to the universe and the key is there is no key.”
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Sensible Friends
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This multiple Juno Award-winner will be playing his unique repertoire of world beat, blues, cajun and folk at FARRM’s 2nd Annual Laughs for Lives fundraiser. In addition to the music, there will be a silent auction, cash bar and a vegan buffet. All proceeds will go towards the care of FARRM’s rescued animals. (Boyle Street Community Legue, $35)
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he modern incarnation of Canadian bands usually follows this recipe: garner local attention, make an EP, play gigs, make a video, make an album, broaden audience by touring the album, decide if being in a Canadian band is fiscally responsible, repeat. It seems that We Were Friends is reading out of a different cookbook. Started in 2013, the pop flavoured folk-rock quintet consists of Clay Swanson, MJ Cumine, Amanda Rene and Max Foerster. Their first EP, Let Them Howl, has been toured and complemented by a solid video for the song “Waves.” They will continue to thumb their nose at the ‘recipe’ by releasing their second EP on Saturday, Aug. 27 at the Mercury Room. “When you are a newer band you always want to be getting stuff out there, to give to people,” says Cumine. “An EP just works for us right now. We have five really good songs and we want to get them out and show them to the world.” Their second EP release, Little Infinity, just made sense for the band. They are not against revisiting these songs or maybe collecting them as part of a full album in the future, but for right now, the point is continuing to work together. Well, that and not going bankrupt. “Of course money becomes an issue when you are first starting out,” said Foerster. “But we feel like we’ve made great use of the resources we have and have allocated them properly.” Drummer Rene has somewhat taken on the role of business manager. "[She] has a great business sense and can help reign in all our crazy ideas and make this professional,”
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Sat, Aug 27 (8:00pm) Mercury Room, $12 in advance, $15 at the door Cumine adds. Rene attended business school, and she has been around the music scene enough to know the typical ups and downs from other band experiences. As it turns out, the band isn’t purposefully going out of their way to break the systematic mould of band-dome. They are just sensibly using the tools at their disposal. With Rene having booked tours before, she knows how far, or how short, the money can go. This leaves the band to do what they do best, focus on making music. “We’ve honed in on our roles within the band dynamic. Creatively and collaboratively,” said Swanson. “This album is more our sound compared to the first EP that was basically me bringing in songs I’d already written and thinking it would sound good with a band setting.” The band has more confidence in their identity and their direction now, says Cumine. And there are things outside of music and money that tests a group. For example, being asked to play a bit of a sketchy gig. Do it for ‘the press’ or ‘the recognition’ or whatever line the bar is selling, is something they've run into often. Unless the show supports a worthy cause or charity, the band is always wary of doing free shows. “I don’t think anyone should play those shows,” Cumine says. “It kind of depreciates everyone in the music industry.” TRENT WILKIE
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PREVUE // CLASSICAL
Edmonton orchestra goes casual
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t's my 11th year, which means I start going to Hogwarts," Bob Bernhardt says, and laughs. Bernhardt is not actually going to the fictional wizarding school, but is instead commenting on his 11th season conducting Symphony Under the Sky and
Symphony in the City with Edmonton Symphony Orchestra—though, we admit, we appreciate his Harry Potter reference. He makes the trek up (by plane, not the Hogwarts Express unfortunately) every year from his home in Chattanooga, Tennessee to be a part of
the outdoor performance, which swaps the Winspear Centre for Hawrelak Park (SUTS) and Churchill Square (SITC). "I look forward to it every year," he continues. "It's a lot of work in a short period of time, but it's always been great fun for me." Preparation for next year's concerts begins shortly after the year's assemblage, but rehearsals don't start until Bernhardt arrives in Edmonton one week before the concerts. "We—Rob McAlear who's the Artist Adminstrator of the orchestra and I— start planning for the next SUTS within a month of the previous one," Bernhardt explains during a telephone conversation. "We've been working on this for most of the year, but of course it gets much more involved probably three or four months [before] where we get everything finalized... Putting together
programs is one of the great, wonderful challenges of what I do for a living." The outdoor setting opens up the symphony to those who might not get the opportunity to go during the regular season when the ESO is indoors. That relaxed outdoor atmosphere pushes forward an inclusive, accessible experience for all: kids, teens, adults, and seniors. "[Outdoor symphonies] are immediately informal. When you're out there and outside as an audience, you breathe and get to relax. It's also very [spontaneous], you never know what's going to happen, which makes it kind of fun," Bernhardt says. "Sometimes in the softest moments, you'll hear geese honking along or a squirrel will run across the stage. We love it, though. It keeps it informal and human."
Thu, Aug 25 – Sun, Aug 28 Symphony Under The Sky Hawrelak Amphitheatre, $45 (reserved), $25 (grass/day of) In addition, the four-concert formula spans four different themes—pop, classical, film, and an altering genre—that make the event extremely approachable. This year, Bernhardt and the ESO will be playing music from Simon & Garfunkel for the pop night; Mendelssohn, Straus & Rimsky-Korsakov for classical night; scores from Jurassic Park, ET, Far and Away, and more for Hollywood night; and, a “Heritage Celebration,” which brings together a repertoire of music from all over the world. "We're hopefully paying attention and learning what works and what doesn't," Bernhardt says. "It's a combination of giving our audience what it wants, as well as not repeating ourselves too much." Visit edmontonsymphony.com for more information.
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PREVUE // EXPERIMENTAL
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nnovative producer, composer, and keyboardist, Himiko, fits the definition of enigma perfectly. She's a kind and soft-spoken Japanese woman who wears a cat mask on stage and creates melodic tunes that can fall into the categories of ambient and jazz... But also noise rock, death metal, and black metal. “I started to play jazzy tunes and mix it with j-poppy stuff, but then, I don’t know how it happened or why, but it switched to more heavy stuff with guttural growls and pig squeals,” Himiko says, laughing. She can’t recall how or when, but after discovering bands like brutal death
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“I’m excited for the new album. It’s totally random with rhythm and has some nice hardcore stuff too,” she says. Himiko is adept at sampling musical bits. It’s how she crafts most of her songs. “Usually I start with a drum beat I like first and throw some distortion in and maybe find some guitar with some sampling software. Then maybe I throw in some keyboards and harsh vocals that I record myself and for lyrics, I just use what I am thinking about.” When she performs live, Himiko is usually seen wearing a cat mask. “I started wearing it to kind of
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ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE
Miss Understood; 9pm
House Function Thursdays; 9pm
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live
FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 GAS PUMP NIGHT CLUB & BAR 10166-114 St HAVE MERCY 2nd floor, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.760.0203 HAWRELAK PARK 9930 Groat Road HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW, 780.433.5530, holytrinity.ab.ca HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage.com HUMMINGBIRD BISTRO CAFE 8336-160 Ave, 780.401.3313, hummingbirdbistro.ca IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St NW, 780.451.8825, kellyspubedmonton.com LATITUDE 53 10242-106 St NW L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LIZARD LOUNGE 11827 St. Albert Tr, 780.451.9180, facebook.com/ The-Lizard-Lounge MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, mcdougallunited.com MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MOONSHINERS Stony Plain MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725
NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524 Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PALACE CASINO 8882-170 St NW, 780.444.2112, palacecasino. com PINT–DOWNTOWN 10125-109 St NW PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St REXALL PLACE 7424-118 Ave RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com SEWING MACHINE FACTORY 9562-82 Ave SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St, 780.431.0091, sherlockshospitality.com
Karaoke Thursdays with JR; Every Thu, 9pm-1am
featuring Freshlan & Shane; 5-9pm
& Roll Jam with Gator & Friends; 8-11pm
L.B.'S PUB Open Jam
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
No cover CAFE BLACKBIRD Land's CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK
music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)
(country/pop/rock); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Nevada Collins-Lee
(classical/country/theater); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
Stu Bendall; 9pm STARLITE ROOM SNFU with
guests LAMS, Tarantuja, Elder Abuse; 8pm (doors),
VENUEGUIDE
AUG 26 & 27 A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF THE BAND
FRIDAY AUGUST 26
LL I B LE B U SATURDAY SEPT 24 - DO COMING SOON: THE PROCLAIMERS, HONEYMOON SUITE, AND MORE!
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT CENTURY CASINO AND TICKETMASTER
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Fuqn’ Fridays
O'BYRNE'S IRISH PUB
FIDDLER'S ROOST Acoustic Circle Jam; 7:30-11:30pm
ROB PUE
Adam Holm (folk/pop); 9pm
featuring Breezy Brian Gregg with Geri Rae Harris; Every Fri, 5-9pm
Every Thu, 7pm
Call 780.481.YUKS FOR TICKETS & INFO .....................................................................
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY
nual Laughs For Lives Fundraiser Featuring Bill Bourne (adult contemporary/alternative/folk) with Simon Gorsak, Bardic Form and more; 7pm; $35 (adv)
EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE Karaoke;
COMEDY AT THE CENTURY CASINO
CENTURY CASINO The Last Waltz - A Musical Celebration of The Band; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $34.95; No minors
FIONN MACCOOL'S– DOWNTOWN Andrew Scott;
Thursdays: weekly punk, alternative and hardcore music; Every Thu, 8pm
KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE
Dahlia Wakefield (country rock); 9pm
BOYLE STREET COMMUNITY LEAGUE FARRM’S 2nd An-
DENIZEN HALL Taking Back
Thu, 7:30pm; Free
CASINO YELLOWHEAD
FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy
Thu; 7pm
HUMMINGBIRD BISTRO CAFE Bistro Jazz; Every
Pepperland (Beatles tribute); 9pm
each week with a different band each week; 8pm
CAFÉ HAVEN Music every
SEE MAG: Jan 3, 1c x 2”/ 28 AG RB: BLACKBYRD MYOOZIK SALES:Samantha H S01367
CASINO EDMONTON
9910 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALLENDALE COMMUNITY LEAGUE 6330-105a St NW THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ARCADIA BAR 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ARDEN THEATRE 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1542, stalbert.ca/ experience/arden-theatre ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com THE AVIARY 9314-111 Ave, 780.233.3635, facebook.com/ arteryyeg BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLVD SUPPER X CLUB 10765 Jasper Ave BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BOYLE STREET COMMUNITY LEAGUE 9538-103a Ave BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BRU COFFEE & BEER HOUSE 11965 Jasper Ave THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca
CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHVRCH OF JOHN 10260-103 St, 780.884.8994, thechvrchofjohn. com COMMON 9910-109 St CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta, music.ualberta.ca DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall. com DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DV8/MAMA'S PIZZA 7317-101 Ave NW EL CORTEZ 10322-83 Ave NW, elcortezcantina.com EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE 10220-103 St NW, 780. 424.0077, yourgaybar.com FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca
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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 ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch. com STUDIO 96 10909-96 St NW SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY 17118-90 Ave TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW, 780.433.1604, trinity-lutheran. ab.ca TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE 10324-82 Whyte Ave UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB 10746 Jasper Ave, 780.951.2705 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr
8:30pm (show); $20; 18+ only
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat
TIRAMISU BISTRO Live
CASINO EDMONTON
Open mic; 7pm; $2
music every Fri with local musicians
Pepperland (Beatles tribute); 9pm
UNION HALL Fitz & The
CASINO YELLOWHEAD
Tantrums - Get Right Back Summer Tour; 7:30pm; $45
Dahlia Wakefield (country rock); 9pm CASK AND BARREL Live
WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK Live Music
music; 4-6pm; No cover
Fridays; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation
Adam Holm (folk/pop); 9pm
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY GAS PUMP Saturday Jam;
Classical
3-7pm
HAWRELAK PARK
LB'S PUB Chronic Rock
Symphony Under The Sky; $135 (adult reserved seating), $75 (child reserved ticket); $75 (adult, grass), free (child, grass) WINSPEAR CENTRE
Mendelssohn, Strauss & Rimsky-Korsakov; 7pm; $25-45
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee; Every Fri; Wooftop: DJ Remo & Guests; Underdog:
Rap, House, Hip-Hop with DJ Babr; every Fri THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri THE COMMON Quality
Control Fridays with DJ Echo & Freshlan EL CORTEZ TEQUILA BAR AND KITCHEN Kys the Sky;
First Fri of every month, 9pm EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE
Flashback Friday; Every Fri MERCER TAVERN
Movement Fridays; 8pm NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN
Time Warp Late Night Throwback Dance Party with DJs Joses Martin & Thomas Culture VJ Owen; Every Fri, 11:30pm; $5 (door) THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday
Nights: Video Music DJ; 9pm-2am SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE
Artzy Flowz: featuring DJs and artists teaming up; 9pm VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB
Electric Fridays; Every Fri, 9pm; No minors Y AFTERHOURS Freedom
Fridays
SAT AUG 27
(rock/pop/indie); 9pm LEAF BAR AND GRILL Live
music; 9:30pm MERCURY ROOM We Were
Friends (alternative/rock) with The Ashley Hundred and Mohsin Zaman; 8pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door) MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands
every Sat; this week: Late Night Scene NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN
Bluegrass Brunch featuring Elliot Thomas; 12:30pm; No cover • Jenie Thai with Swear By The Moon, Braden Gates and Emcee Joe Nolan; 9pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Early:
Saturday Country Jam (country); Every Sat, 3pm • Later: Sonny & the Hurricanes; 9pm ON THE ROCKS Crazy
Dave's Renegades; 9pm RENDEZVOUS PUB Project
Uproar, Shocker; 9pm REXALL PLACE Volbeat;
8pm; $45-$80 RIVER CREE–The Venue
Sawyer Brown with special guest David Lee Murphy; 7pm (doors), 9pm (show); Tickets start at $59.50 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE Soul Safari
featuring Amy Van Keeken's Rock and Roll Sing-A-Long with DJ Modest Mike; 8pm; $10 (adv)
Underdog: Hip Hop open
Mic followed by DJ Marack THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat
(country/pop/rock); 9pm
KELLY'S PUB Open Stage: featuring host Naomi Carmack and guest; 9pm; No cover
EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN & TEQUILA BAR
MON AUG 29
Tonight We Dance with DJ Thomas Culture playing Classics, Hip-Hop, Dance and Indie Rock; Every Sat, 9pm; No cover
BAILEY THEATRE–CAMROSE
THE PROVINCIAL PUB
Saturday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice; 9pm-2am SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE
Psyturdays: various DJs; 9pm SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM
Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am
SHAKERS ROADHOUSE
Monday Jam with $4 Bill; Every Mon, 8-11pm
Gardens Presents: Hope House, End of the Summer Show with Friends; 7pm; $10; 18+ only THE BUCKINGHAM
Homeshake (alternative/ pop/R&B) with Maude and guests; 7pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door)
Flamenco Guitar Classes; Every Sun, 11:30am12:30pm DIVERSION LOUNGE Sunday
Night Live on the South Side: live bands; Free; All ages; 7-10:30pm DV8 The Golers with Kroovy Rookers; 8pm
BOURBON ROOM Live music
WINSPEAR CENTRE
each week with a different band each week; 9pm
Saturday Night in Hollywood; 7pm; $25-$45
BRIXX BAR Neck Of The
JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Brian
Woods with guests Bring Us Your Dead, Silence the Machine, Bury Me Jack; 8pm (doors); $10; 18+ only
Regan; 7:30pm; All ages
CAFE BLACKBIRD The
spins Britpop/Punk/Garage/ Indie; Every Sat; Wooftop: Sound It Up! with DJ Sonny Grimezz spinning classic Hip-Hop and Reggae;
Blanket Boys; 8pm; $10 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK
Miss Understood; 9pm
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Chris Bruce
jam every Tue; 9:30pm
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A
Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE RetroActive Radio: With LL
Cool Joe TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic
Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am
Crazy Dave's Rock & Roll Renegade Jam; 7:30pm
Classical
UBK PRESENTS
SEP/2
SUMMER WAVE
Main Floor: Chris Bruce
SEP/4
WED AUG 31
SEP/10 SEP/16
Zayas; 9pm
BRITTANY'S LOUNGE
Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm BRIXX BAR The Lazys with
guests Whale and The Wolf; 8pm (doors); $12; 18+ only
SEP/17
Cluckin’ Wednesdays GAS PUMP Karaoke;
BRITTANY'S LOUNGE
9:30pm
Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri,
KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE
PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION ONES TO WATCH PRESENTS
NOTHING BUT THIEVES TIMBRE CONCERTS AND STARLITE ROOM PRESENT
JUNIOR BOYS W/ EGYPTRIXX, BORYS
SEP/19
STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT
CASTLE W/ TEKARRA, & DEMISE
SEP/20
LIVE NATION.COM PRESENTS
THE DANDY WARHOLS W/ GUESTS
open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S Mother
STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS
W/ CIVIL TWILIGHT, THE WRECKS
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed
BLUES ON WHYTE Troy
DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT
W/ PUGNACIOUS, ETOWN BEATDOWN, SLUMLORD, CORVUS THE CROW, TYRANT
BLUES ON WHYTE Alex
singer songwriter jam; Every Wed, 8pm
MRG CONCERTS, FOURCE ENTERTAINMENT & MODIFIED GHOST PRESENT
W/ FALLUJAH & GUESTS
spins Britpop/Punk/Garage/ Indie; Every Tue ON THE ROCKS Turn't Up
HUGLIFE W/ YOUNG $TEELO, EVRLOVE MUSIC, MOURAINÉ & MOTO
Ruslana; 7:30-10pm; $30-$50
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
SNFU
AUG/27
JUBILEE AUDITORIUM
DJs
STARLITE IS PROUD TO PRESENT
W/ LAMS, TARANTUJA, ELDER ABUSE
SHAKERS ROADHOUSE
TUE AUG 30 Turner; 9pm
AUG/26
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.
Karaoke Kraziness with host Ryan Kasteel; 8pm2am
FILTHY MCNASTY'S
Chenoweth; 9pm; $5 NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN
Tribute to Joe Cocker, Keep It Greasy; 9pm; $5 (door)
RICHARD'S PUB Mark
Live music; Every Sat; Free
Mondays; 8-11pm
BOHEMIA Barbed Wire
HAWRELAK PARK
BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB
PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild
SUN AUG 28
ON THE ROCKS Andrew Scott & Desert Bar; 9pm
8:30pm; $15
ON THE ROCKS Killer Karaoke Monday
O’BYRNE’S Guinness Celtic
BOURBON ROOM Acoustic
Classical
BOHEMIA Notas De 4 +1;
NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny & the Hurricanes; 9pm Aug 22-Sep 3
NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny & the Hurricanes; 9pm Aug 22-Sep 3
RED PIANO BAR Swingin'
O’BYRNE’S Open mic every
Symphony Under The Sky; $135 (adult reserved seating), $75 (child reserved ticket); $75 (adult, grass), free (child, grass)
Happy Hour featuring Son Lion; 5:30pm; Gratuities accepted • Eva Foote with Lyra Brown and Bramwell Park; 9pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door)
Dreamer Jam featuring Stefan Kijek; 8pm
Saturdays
Mikey Wong and his lineup of guest DJs
BLUES ON WHYTE Toby;
NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN
NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Big
Y AFTERHOURS Release
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
9pm
Rock Monday
Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge
Tuesday
STARLITE ROOM Huglife; 9pm (doors); 18+ only
Hair of the Dog: Celeigh Cardinal (rock); 4-6pm; no cover
FIDDLER'S ROOST Open
L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety
Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Association: Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm
The Third Annual Rose City Rumble; 7:30pm; $25 (box office or online)
TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE
BLUES ON WHYTE Troy
FILTHY MCNASTY'S Classic
Wong every Sat
HAVE MERCY Michael
Sparks K-DJ Show; 9pm-1am
with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox
MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
Robison; 9pm
Wooftop: Metal Mondays
Stage; 7-11pm
APEX CASINO W.O.W. ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Duff
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
DJs Velix and Suco; every Sat
Sacrilege Sundays: All metal all day
SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder
Every Sun
Turner; 9pm
(classical/country/theater); 9pm Stu Bendall; 9pm
Main Floor: DJ Late Fee;
EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE Rotating
9910 Homeshake with The Velveteins & Maude; 9pm; $12 (adv)
(everything); 9pm
Bingo! Tuesdays GAS PUMP Karaoke;
9:30pm
DANCE CODE STUDIO
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Nevada Collins-Lee
FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
SHAKERS ROADHOUSE
SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Doug Stroud
Heritage Celebration; 7pm; $25-$45
FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle Jam Circle; 7:30-11:30pm
DJs
Justine Vandergrift with Eva Foote; 9pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door) Saturday Electric Blues Afternoon Chili Jam; 2-6pm • Gary Martin - The Prince of Blues (blues); 9pm; $10; No minors
WINSPEAR CENTRE
5-8pm
It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with Wright & Wong, Dane
THE COMMON Get Down
BRIXX BAR Supersuckers with guests The Devil's Sons & more; 8pm (doors), 8:30pm (show); $20; 18+ only
SEWING MACHINE FACTORY
reserved ticket); $75 (adult, grass), free (child, grass)
NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny & the Hurricanes; 9pm Aug 22-Sep 3
AUG/26
W/ CARMEN LUCIA, JASMINE SINGH
AUG/27 AUG/28
Ammar's Sunday Sessions Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE The
Sunday Happening Jam featuring The Todd James Band; 4pm
Classical
THE FORGE AND NEW GROUND AGENCY PROUDLY BRING TO YOU
NECK OF THE WOODS W/ BRING US YOUR DEAD, SILENCE THE MACHINE, BURY ME JACK
Sun; 9:30pm
SANDS INN & SUITES Open
SOPHIA DANAI STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT
SUPERSUCKERS W/ THE DEVIL’S SONS & MORE
AUG/31
STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT
THE LAZYS W/ WHALE & THE WOLF
SEP/9
ALLENDALE COMMUNITY LEAGUE HALL "20 Women"
STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS
CHIXDIGGIT
W/ THE OLD WIVES, THE REAL SICKIES, A GENTLEMANS PACT
Presented by Hope for Ethiopia YEG; 11am-4pm; $15 HAWRELAK PARK
Symphony Under The Sky; $135 (adult reserved seating), $75 (child
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EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM
COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • 10425-82 Ave • Underdog Comedy Show • Every Thu
Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm
COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Marvin Krawczyk; Aug 26-27 • Bob Angeli; Sep 2-3
Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Jamie Lissow; Aug 24-28 • Mike Dambra; Sep 1, Sep 4 • T.J. Miller; Sep 2-3
Connie's Comedy presents The Dating Game • On the Rocks, 11743 Jasper Ave • With host Sterling Scott also with the Nervous Flirts. Fun, prizes, and maybe love • Sep 4, 7:30pm
DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • Voted "Vue Weekly Best Comedy Night in Edmonton". Stand up comedy open mic hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm (8:30pm sign-up) Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free
Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm
Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue, Thu; 7-9pm Argentine Tango Dance at Foot Notes Studio • Foot Notes
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, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm
LGNYEG • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729104 Ave NW • happyharborcomics.com • Events may include guest speakers, movie nights, board game nights, video game nights and much more • 1st Thu of every month, 7-9pm
Lightsaber Training • Sir Winston Churchill Square • Celebrating all things Star Wars. Featuring lightsaber training for the young and young at heart. Guests must bring their own lightsabers (makeshift lightsabers are welcome) • Every Wed during the summer; 7-7:45pm for young padawans, 7-8:30pm for mature padawans • Free
Lotus Qigong • SAGE downtown 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.695.4588 • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every Fri, 2-3:30pm • Free
Monday Mingle • Hexagon Board Game Cafe, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Meet new gamers. Go to the event solo or with a group • Every Mon, 5-11pm • $5 (one drink per person)
Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm
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
Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15
Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey
Babes In Arms • The Carrot, 9351-
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
118 Ave • A casual parent group • Every Fri, 10am-12pm
DeepSoul.ca • 780.217.2464; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages
Drop-In D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • An epic adventure featuring a variety of pre-made characters, characters that guests can make on their own, or one that has already been started. Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc. For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue, 7pm • $5
EC (Infant Pottying) and Potty Training Support Meeting • Lendrum Community League Hall, 1133557 Ave • danielle@godiaperfree.com • facebook.com/groups/gdfedmonton • For anyone doing EC (elimination communication or infant pottying) or hoping to, or those looking for potty training support • 3rd Wed of every month, 10-11am • 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
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Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group •
Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm
Seventies Forever Music Society • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm
TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.479-8667 (Bob) • bobmurra@ telus.net • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm
Toastmasters 6th floor, World Trade Centre, 9990 Jasper Ave; Contact: 780.462.1878/RonChapman@ shaw.ca (Ron Chapman); 780.424.6364/ dkorpany@telusplanet.net (Darryl Korpany); Meet every Thu from Sep-Jun, 6-7:45pm
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Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm
• Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club:
2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook. com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact vpm@ norators.com, 780.807.4696, norators.com • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward. toastmastersclubs.org; reader1@shaw.ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue starting in Sep, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Mark 780.437.1136 or Antonio 780.463.5331 or email: yclubtoastmasters@gmail.com
LECTURES/Presentations Bonnie Doon Community League’s Seniors’ Program • Bonnie Doon Community League, 9240-93 St • 780.469.1179 • margaret.russell@ telus.net • National Film Board’s The Earle Birney Package: a retrospective on this Canadian poet’s life and work • Aug 25, 10:30am • Free; Everyone is welcome; Wheelchair accessible
Women Grow Networking Series • St. Albert Rugby Club, 51 Riel Dr • lisette.womengrow@gmail.com • universe. com/events/edmonton-women-grow-signature-networking-event-tickets-1FRCBS/ edit • Connecting aspiring and current professionals in the cannabis industry • Sep 8, 7-9pm • $25 (adv), $35 (standard), $40 (door)
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, #301,10534124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • Taekwondo: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • Abs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:15-8:15pm • Dodgeball: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • Running: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • Spin: Blitz Conditioning, 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 Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Massive Mondays features talented comedians • Tue: Domestic bottle beer special only $3.75 all night long • Wed: Jugs of Canadian and Kokanee for $13; Karaoke with Shirley from 7pm-12:30am • Thu: Highballs on special only $3.75 all night long; Karaoke with Bubbles 7pm-12:30am • Fri: Comming soon: DJ Arrow Chaser's new TGIF Party • Sat: Pool Tournement, 4pm; Jager shots on special only $4; Coming soon, DJ Jazzy
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G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, Or in confidence one-on-one in the Craft Room • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance. One-on-one meetings are also available in the craft room • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net
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Pride Centre of Edmonton • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Drop in hours: Mon, Wed 4-7pm; Fri 6-9pm; Closed Sat-Sun and Holidays • JamOUT: Music mentorship and instruction for youth aged 12-24; Every other Tue, 7-9pm • Equal Fierce Fit & Fabulous: recreational fitness program, ages 12-24; every other Tue, 6-8pm, every other Tue • Queer Lens: weekly education and discussion group open to everyone; every Wed, 7-8:30pm • Mindfulness Meditation: open to everyone; every Thu, 6-6:50pm • Men's Social Circle: A social support group for all male-identified persons over 18 years of age in the LGBT*Q community; 1st and 3rd Thu each month; 7-9pm • TTIQ (18+ Trans* Group): 2nd Mon of the month, 7-9pm • Art & Identity: exploring identity through the arts, a wellness initiative; Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Edmonton Illusions : cross-dressing and transgender group 18+; 2nd Fri of each month, 7-9pm • Movies & Games Night: Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Thought OUT: Altview’s all-ages discussion group; every Sat, 7-9pm • Seahorse Support Circle: facilitated meet up for families with trans and gender creative kids aged 5-14; 2nd Sun of the month, 3-5pm • Men Talking with Pride: Social discussion group for gay and bisexual men; Every Sun, 7-9pm
St Paul's United Church • 1152676 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)
Murphy Park Rd • info@icchange.ca • icchange.ca/9th-annual-kenya-run-water • A 5 or 10 km walk/run and a 100m water relay. Proceeds go to support the expansion of ICChange's Kenya Ceramic Project • Sep 11, 9am-12pm
25th Anniversary of Ukraine's Declaration of Independence • Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.479.3114 • bulba@telusplanet.net • facebook.com/Sviato25 • Featuring local performing groups, bands, singers, choral groups and dancers, SVIATO will feature vendors and artisans, special guest speakers and more • Aug 28, 1-10pm
40th Anniversary Celebration • John Janzen Nature Centre, 7000-143 St NW • 311• edmonton.ca • The Nature Centre invites you to come explore, learn and enjoy what all they have to offer. Exciting activities will be happening throughout the day – fun for the whole family • Aug 28, 11am-3pm • Regular admission
Date Night - Movie Night • Devonian Botanic Garden, Parkland County, 5 kms north of Devon on Hwy 60 • 780.987.3054 • devonian.ualberta.ca • The perfect way to send away summer! Settle under the stars for a big-screen, feel good time. Featuring the film: Mamma Mia • Aug 25, 6pm • $13.50 (adults), $9.75 (seniors 65+), $7 (student)
Easter Seals Drop Zone • The Sutton Place Hotel, 10235-101 St • 780.429.0137 ext. 308 • darla@easterseals.ab.ca • thedropzone.ca • Dress up as your favourite superhero and rappel down the 29-storeys of The Sutton Place Hotel to help provide services that foster inclusion, independence and recreation for individuals with disabilities and medical conditions • Aug 26, 7:30am-4:30pm
north of Devon on Hwy 60 • 780.987.3054 • devonian.ualberta.ca • Come for one of summer's purest and most classic pleasures - the family picnic. Pack up the kids and a blanket and claim a spot. Devonian will provide the games, crafts and natural fun • Aug 28, 11am-3pm • $13.50 (adults), $9.75 (seniors 65+), $7 (student)
Harvest Festival • Reynolds-Alberta Museum • history.alberta.ca/reynolds • The farm machinery is humming and the ovens are hot, so bring the whole family and celebrate the historic sights, sounds and smells of bringing in the harvest. Plowing, threshing and binding are just a few of the fieldwork demonstrations, along with other displays, such as stooking, grinding grain, flailing, and winnowing • Sep 3-4 • General admission
Kaleido Family Arts Festival • 118 Ave • kaleidofest.ca • Kaleido welcomes arts and cultural experiences with multi-arts collaborative performances in music, dance, theatre, film, literary and visual arts with performances on rooftops, sides of buildings, back alleys, parks and found spaces • Sep 9-11 • Free (donations accepted)
Laser Shows • Telus World of Science, 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca • Returning to the planetarium dome for a limited time • Every Fri-Sat until Sep 4, 8:15pm & 9:30pm
Night Market Edmonton • Beaverhill House Park, Jasper Ave & 105 St • nightmarketedmonton@gmail.com • 780.934.1568 • nightmarketedmonton. com • Watch an old movie, eat some food, or shop at the vendor’s stalls • Every Fri, 7-11pm, May 20-Aug • Free
Park After Dark • Northlands Park, 7410 Borden Park • 780.471.7210 • northlandspark.ca • Featuring thoroughbred horse racing meets one of Edmonton's largest patio parities • Every Fri, 6:30pm Sheep Leaving Parade • Legacy Park, 100 Ave and 101 Street, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.992.6261 (sheep hotline) • fortsask.ca • One sure sign that summer is coming to an end is the departure of Fort Saskatchewan’s sheep. The sheep will make their traditional walk from Legacy Park through downtown to the Fort Heritage Precinct. It is the final farewell to the sheep until next spring • Sep 5, 10am (crafts), 11am (parade) • Free Step 'n Stride • Rundle Park (ACT Centre), Entrance at 118 Ave & Abbottsfield Rd • 780.425.6400 • erae@ parkinsonalberta.ca • parkinsonalberta.ca • An annual fundraising effort to provide the support, services, education and essential funds for research that make every day better for those with Parkinson disease and the people who care for them • Sep 10, 9am-4pm • Register and collect pledges online or by using the Step 'n Stride form Sweet Corn Fest • Prairie Gardens, 56311 Lily Lake Road, Bon Accord; 25 Km north of Edmonton • prairiegardens.org • This corn festival is a family event with a cornucopia of corny activities including corn-eating contests, corn mazes, face painting, corny jokes, veggie art and more. The festival features the Kids Maze and Mindbender Kids Corn Mazes, folk music and hands-on corn craft activities for children • Sep 3-5, 10am-5pm • General admission The Food Trucks are Coming • St. Albert Grain Elevator • museeheritage. ca • Featuring food, beer gardens, and tours of historic grain elevators • Aug 26, 5-9pm
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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming weeks, I hope you won't scream curses at the rain, demanding that it stop falling on you. Similarly, I suggest you refrain from punching walls that seem to be hemming you in, and I beg you not to spit into the wind when it's blowing in your face. Here's an oracle about how to avoid counterproductive behavior like that: The near future will bring you useful challenges and uncanny blessings if you're willing to consider the possibility that everything coming your way will in some sense be an opportunity. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Oh how I wish you might receive the grace of being pampered and nurtured and entertained and prayed for. I'd love for you to assemble a throng of no-strings-attached caretakers who would devote themselves to stoking your healing and delight. Maybe they'd sing to you as they gave you a manicure and massaged your feet and paid your bills. Or perhaps they would cook you a gourmet meal and clean your house as they told you stories about how beautiful you are and all the great things you're going to do in the future. Is it possible to arrange something like that even on a modest scale, Taurus? You're in a phase of your astrological cycle when you most need this kind of doting attention -- and when you have the greatest power to make it happen. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I invite you to dream about your true home . . . your sweet, energizing, love-strong home . . . the home where you can be high and deep, robust and tender, flexible and rigorous . . . the home where you are the person that you promised yourself you could be. To stimulate and enhance your brainstorms about your true home, experiment with the following activities: Feed your roots . . . do maintenance work on your power spot . . . cherish and foster your sources . . . and refine the magic that makes you feel free. Can you handle one more set of tasks designed to enhance your domestic bliss? Tend to your web of close allies . . . take care of what takes care of you . . . and adore the intimate connections that serve as your foundation. CANCER (June 21-July 22): It'll be one of those rapid-fire, adjuston-the-fly, think-on-your-feet, gowith-your-gut times for you—a head-spinning, endorphin-generating, eye-pleasing, intelligenceboosting phase when you will have opportunities to relinquish your
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attachments to status quos that don't serve you. Got all that, Cancerian? There'll be a lot of stimuli to absorb and integrate—and luckily for you, absorbing and integrating a lot of stimuli will be your specialty. I'm confident of your ability to get the most of upcoming encounters with cute provocations, pleasant agitation, and useful unpredictability. One more tip: Be vigilant and amused as you follow the ever-shifting sweet spot. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): At the risk of asking too much and pushing too hard, my Guerrilla Prayer Warriors have been begging God to send you some major financial mojo. These fierce supplicants have even gone so far as to suggest to the Supreme Being that maybe She could help you win the lottery or find a roll of big bills lying in the gutter or be granted a magic wish by an unexpected benefactor. "Whatever works!" is their mantra. Looking at the astrological omens, I'm not sure that the Prayer Warriors' extreme attempts will be effective. But the possibility that they will be is definitely greater than usual. To boost your odds, I suggest you get more organized and better educated about your money matters. Set a clear intention about the changes you'd like to put in motion during the next ten months. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Suggested experiments: 1. Take a vow that from now on you won't hide your beauty. 2. Strike a deal with your inner king or inner queen, guaranteeing that this regal part of gets regular free expression. 3. Converse with your Future Self about how the two of you might collaborate to fully unleash the refined potency of your emotional intelligence. 4. In meditations and dreams, ask your ancestors how you can more completely access and activate your dormant potentials. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I hope you are not forlorn, shivery, puzzled, or obsessive right now -- unless being in such a state will mobilize you to instigate the overdue transformations you have been evading. If that's the case, I hope you are forlorn, shivery, puzzled, and obsessive. Feelings like those may be the perfect fuel -- the highoctane motivation that will launch your personal renaissance. I don't often offer this counsel, Libra, so I advise you to take full advantage: Now is one of the rare times when your so-called negative emotions can catalyze redemption.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): From what I can tell, your vigor is peaking. In recent weeks, you have been sturdy, hearty, stout, and substantial. I expect this surge of strength to intensify in the near future -even as it becomes more fluid and supple. In fact, I expect that your waxing power will teach you new secrets about how to wield your power intelligently. You may break your previous records for compassionate courage and sensitive toughness. Here's the best news of all: You're likely to be dynamic about bestowing practical love on the people and animal and things that are important to you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The odds are higher than usual that you will be offered a boost or promotion in the coming weeks. This development is especially likely to occur in the job you're doing or the career plans you've been pursuing. It could also be a factor at work in your spiritual life. You may discover a new teacher or teaching that could lift you to the next phase of your inner quest. There's even a chance that you'll get an upgrade on both fronts. So it's probably a good time to check on whether you're harboring any obstacles to success. If you find that you are, DESTROY THOSE RANCID OLD MENTAL BLOCKS WITH A BOLT OF PSYCHIC LIGHTNING. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The cosmos seems to be warming up to your charms. The stinginess it displayed toward you for a while is giving way to a more generous approach. To take advantage of this welcome development, you should shed any fear-based beliefs you may have adopted during the recent shrinkage. For instance, it's possible you've begun to entertain the theory that the game of life is rigged against you, or that it is inherently hard to play. Get rid of those ideas. They're not true, and clinging to them would limit the game of life's power to bring you new invitations. Open yourself up wherever you have closed down. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Are any of your allies acting like they've forgotten their true purpose? If so, you have the power to gently awaken them from their trances and help them re-focus. Is it possible you have become a bit too susceptible to the influences of people whose opinions shouldn't really matter that much to you? If so, now is a good time to correct that aberration. Are you aware
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TAMI-LEE DUNCAN // TAMI-LEE@vueweekly.com
Like a virgin — all over again
A two-year dry spell has this wife feeling insecure about making a move Question: I’m 33 years old and my husband and I haven’t had sex in almost two years. We stopped having sex while we were going through an extremely difficult period financially and were staying at my parent’s house. It was a rough time for our relationship, we fought A LOT and we almost didn’t get through it- he even tried to leave at one point. But that was a long time ago and we’ve sorted our shit out and have been in a much better place emotionally since then. Yet, still no sex. We used to have an amazing sex life, but I feel like a virgin again. I’m not sure how to get things going - I feel like I forgot how all of this works. And he hasn’t even mentioned it, but he must be thinking the same thing. What do I do? Answer: My first concern is always whether or not both people feel
secure and connected. I am not interested in coaching people to have sex if either party isn’t in a position to provide full consent or doesn’t feel emotionally safe to do so. In a healthy relationship, sex provides an opportunity to reconnect and unify the team, and barring other libidinal issues, most people are mutually keen to do so. Even when not independently in the mood, people can be open to some sensual persuasion if they are feeling warmly towards their partner. But sex, even the passionate animalistic kind, requires a degree of vulnerability and an interest in mutual gratification. Resistance to intimacy is often the result of an emotional injury that divides a partnership into opposing sides. When the rift starts, the couple stops feeling as though they
are a part of the same team, but rather embattled rivals and both sides instinctively work to protect their own interests. It’s hard to feel intimate with someone that unconsciously feels like an enemy, and so sex becomes the proverbial no man’s land that divides two armies and what once was natural and instinctive, becomes minefield. I have to assume, given what you said about being in a better place, that you are feeling emotionally connected and that other relationship obstacles have been largely dealt with. But if they haven’t been, that’s honestly where you need to start. Examining your resistance and working through any lingering feelings of resentment or hostility may help you feel closer to your partner, which will perpetuate a desire for intimacy.
And you really need to talk to him about it. I get that after two years and a bunch of historical conflict, sex has become the unmentionable elephant in the room. I often hear people say they are afraid to talk about it because it always leads to a fight. If that’s the case, maybe find a couple’s therapist that can help you work through the trickier aspects of negotiating this détente. And much like I would tell any teenager, you shouldn’t have sex, if you aren’t even comfortable talking about it. If you are feeling genuinely good about where things are, and you’re both on the same page but just don’t know how to get things going again, well, that’s a different story. Seeing that a romantic opportunity hasn’t naturally presented itself in the past year or so, you might want to try a more pragmatic approach.
Forget the idea of it being romantic or waiting for the mood to strike. If you want to have sex, just do it. Get it over with. There will be plenty of opportunity for great, romantic, sexy sex in the future, but for now, sex is a hurdle that needs to be jumped, so jump it. It might be awkward and fumbly, most first times are, but it is instinctive and I promise you’ll get back in the groove soon enough. V Tami-lee Duncan is a Registered Psychologist in Edmonton, specializing in sexual health. Please note that the information and advice given above is not a substitute for therapeutic treatment with a licensed professional. For information or to submit a question, please contact tami-lee@vueweekly.com. Follow on Twitter @SexOlogyYEG. Dan savage savagelove@vueweekly.com
DEAR READERS: This is the final week of my summer vacation—but you’ve been getting a new column every week I’ve been gone, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me. Our final guest Dan Savage is an independent designer, illustrator, and animation director based in Brooklyn, New York. He created Yule Log 2.0 (watchyulelog.com), a collaborative art project where animators around the world reimagine the famous Yule log fireplace. He has worked with the New York Times, Herman Miller, and Google, he’s taught design and animation at NYU and SVA, and he’s won a bunch of design industry awards you probably haven’t heard of. “I was excited to do this, even though I have no authority on the topic,” said Daniel Savage, awardwinning independent designer. “But I surprisingly felt pretty confident in my answers, as ridiculous as they may be.”
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I’m a 41-year-old straight woman who stayed a virgin way longer than I should have (thank you, church and cultural slut shaming). I wasn’t 100 percent “good,” i.e., I was one of those “not PIV = not really sex” girls, so I indulged in outercourse and other “cheats.” When I finally realized that “not until marriage” wasn’t working for me and did the real thing, I discovered I loved it. Go me, right? Unfortunately, I’m not good at dating, so I usually go a long time between relationships. The relationship I’m in now is the first one I’ve had in two years. “Guy” is nice to me— calls me beautiful, sticks up for me, comes to watch me play with a community orchestra (my own family and friends don’t even come
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to my shows). But we don’t have much in common (hobbies, political outlook, religious beliefs) and sometimes our conversations feel labored. But that’s okay, right? At least I’m getting my sexual needs met, right? Well, no. Every single time we’ve tried to have sex, Guy either can’t get hard or stays hard for only a few minutes. I’ve tried going down on him, using my hands, different positions—nothing works. He’s never had an orgasm with me. We don’t even kiss that much. I don’t say anything because I don’t want to hurt his feelings and because I’m really grateful to him for wanting to be with me and being nice to me. He says sorry and that he’s asked the doctor about it, but we don’t get anywhere. It feels lonelier than when I was single. To be blunt, I don’t want to date him anymore. But I feel too guilty to break up with him. He really cares about me, and he didn’t do anything wrong. We’ve dated for four months, and I don’t know if I’m giving up too soon. Where would I be if previous boyfriends had ditched me for being inexperienced instead of showing me the ropes? Don’t I owe Guy the same thing? TOO DOWN TO BE WITTY
share. Having said that, TDTBW, four months is plenty of time to know if it’s working. He sounds super boring. The sooner you break it off with him the better. You don’t want to hurt him any more than you have to, especially if he’s really into you, and the longer you draw it out, the more it’s going to hurt. No amount of “training” is going to get this dude hard. The only rope being shown here is his flaccid ding-dong. It doesn’t seem like you even want to be his friend if you broke up. I wouldn’t feel guilty at all about dumping him. Sometimes you gotta think about number one.
rig? What is the equitable way of doing this? PURCHASING EROTIC GEAR GOOD ETIQUETTE, DAN? You’re 26 years old, PEGGED, buy the damn thing. How much could it possibly cost? I know if I were in your situation, I would want full control over what goes up my ass. If she owns it, would she use it while you weren’t around? With strangers? No thanks. Plus if you split the cost, who gets to keep it when you break up? Just buy it and enjoy. If you struggle with picking it out, might I suggest starting small?
It’s interesting that your problem isn’t the fact that she cheated on you, TG, or the relationship problems, or the constant fighting. No, it’s the lack of handjob enthusiasm.
First off, I think a long time between relationships is good. I also think not having things in common can be OK if you create new hobbies and experiences you can
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My girl and I are both 26, and we opened up our marriage. Now I’ve got a girlfriend with whom I am getting to have some of the kinky fun that was lacking at home. Here is my question: Things are really casual between me and this new girl. I want to do some pegging, but I don’t know who should buy the strap-on? Me, because it’s my ass and my idea? Or her, because she would wear it and would also think it was super hot? Should I buy the dildo and she buys the harness? Going halfsies on the whole
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I’ve always e n j o y e d reading your column— maybe I just get turned on by other people’s sexual endeavors or maybe reading about other people’s sexual frustrations makes my situation seem better in comparison. So what am I writing about? Well, I suppose the question is this: When does one just become blatantly ungrateful? I’ve been in a two-year mixed relationship (she’s Native and 24, I’m white and 29), and we fight a lot. She cheated on me a couple times early in the relationship. She says I pressured her into getting into a relationship when she wasn’t ready to “settle down,” which I suppose I could see. My problem is I have a handjob fetish and my girlfriend has a
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disinterest in it, to the point where she just won’t do it. But why am I bitching? I get laid every day for the most part, surprise blowjobs, 69ing, you name it. Should I accept this as fate? But just this morning, we went for round two, and I was having a hard time coming, and out of nowhere she pops up and jerks me off till climax. It really took me back. Would it be bad to fake having coming issues in hopes she does it again? Is that unfair? TUGBOAT CAPTAIN It’s interesting that your problem isn’t the fact that she cheated on you, TG, or the relationship problems, or the constant fighting. No, it’s the lack of handjob enthusiasm. Honestly, man, it seems like you have much deeper issues here—but the handjob problem is the only concrete thing you point to? The girlfriend you’ve got sounds super selfish, and finding a new girl—one who wouldn’t cheat on you and would be excited to jump into a relationship AND be down with a little tug—isn’t going to be that difficult of a task. I mean, your fetish seems like it’s an easy one to explore. But to answer your actual question: I would go ahead and fake it. Fuck it, lie to her. It seems like she has no issues lying to you! Follow Daniel Savage on Twitter at @somethingsavage and visit his website at somethingsavage.com. On the Lovecast, a special guest rant by writer Sherman Alexie: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter
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