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Women Building Futures CEO Judy-Lynn Archer sees ‘pockets of work all over the place in Alberta.’ // 4

DISH

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Calle Mexico’s gourmet sandwich will not disappoint // 6

ARTS

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Paul Matwychuk’s Bloodhound hits Script Salon/ 8

POP

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MariNaomi’s graphic novel Turning Japanese is a bit overwhelming, but also fascinating // 10

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Mechanic: Resurrection reaches for Bond greatness, but does not deliver // 11

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The Naked and Famous make the trek from New Zealand for Sonic Boom // 13

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POLITICALINTERFERENCE

FRONT RICARDO ACUÑA // RICARDO@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Ideology by any other name

Right-wingers are just as motivated by their political perspective as the NDP

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he release of the Alberta government’s first quarter fiscal update last week resulted in the now predictable flood of press releases and editorials from the province’s right and the mainstream media.

As always, the various “sky is falling” messages from these sources have an aura of careful coordination and overlap among them. Both the Calgary Herald and the Wildrose Opposition, for example, reserved privileged status in their post-update missives for the assertion that yet-to-be-implemented carbon levy is in some way at least partly responsible for the state of the province’s finances.

Likewise, both also focused their attention on the province’s current spending on public services and the growing fiscal debt, most of which is being used to fund infrastructure investment. In a recent press release, Wildrose finance critic Derek Fildebrandt characterized it as the government being on a “spending binge using borrowed money,” and a Calgary Herald editorial suggested the problem is that Finance Minister Joe Ceci “refuses to make any spending

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reductions and insists on blithely following a path of reckless borrowing.”

The problem with phrases like “reckless borrowing”, however, is that a close look at the quarterly update and the 2016 budget reveal that they are simply not true.

For starters, the bottom line in the update was not particularly bleak or startling. It projects an overall deficit at year end that is $527 million dollars higher than what was in the budget.

That may sound like a big number to miss by, but when you factor in the fact that the Fort McMurray fires are responsible for about $500 million of that, it is actually not bad at all. Missing by $27 million on a $52 billion budget is, by anybody’s accounting, largely negligible—it equates to 0.05% of the overall budget. In other words, three months into the fiscal year, the government is still pretty much right on target in terms of its bottom line. By no means the “bad economic news” portrayed by the Herald or what Fildebrandt characterized as “a rude wakeup call”.

Suggestions that the government is flying blind, or being reckless, or on a

spending binge are equally questionable. Whether you agree with the government’s approach or not, they have actually been entirely consistent in their plan and vision for dealing with the economic downturn. They have identified their priorities, made their choices, and stuck with them. No flipflopping, no uncertainty, no increased volatility. And yes, those choices are based on the NDP’s ideology and vision of the economy just as the choices being promoted by the Wildrose and the Herald are reflective of their particular ideology and vision of the economy.

For example, both the Herald and Fildebrandt suggest that the government needs to engage in spending cuts. They don’t specify where or how, other than to repeat regularly that civil servants are over-paid, but they want to see cuts. Their suggestion is based on the oddly circular belief that cutting spending will reduce debt payments which will in term free up money that could be directed to public services, the public services they just advocated cutting.

The government, on the other hand, says that to cut peoples’ salaries and/or

put them out of work in the midst of a significant recession is counter-productive: it reduces the amount of money circulating in the economy and increases demands on public services thus further increasing costs. They reject the notion that just because the private sector is laying people off and cutting salaries that government should follow suit.

Likewise on the question of incurring debt to fund infrastructure. The right’s ideology suggests that any debt is bad, and that the government should delay infrastructure spending until it can afford to pay for it without incurring debt.

The government, for its part, believes that going into debt to pay for infrastructure now makes sense. Interest rates are lower, construction costs are lower, and building public infrastructure helps keep thousands of people working. We need the infrastructure, and delaying these projects would add to the record number of construction workers already out of work in the province.

In the end, neither the right’s portrayal of the quarterly update as shocking and dire nor their characterization of the NDP government as flailing and

reckless holds any water. The government has a plan and a vision. It is the same plan and vision they ran on, and it is the same plan and vision reflected in budget 2016, and the first quarter results show that the plan is thus far yielding the results they anticipated.

You don’t have to like their plan, and you may have other ideas and priorities for how to manage the province’s finances during this current recession, but to pretend that the government has been inconsistent or is out of control is disingenuous and not constructive. It is likewise disingenuous to pretend that the government’s vision is ideological but that no one else’s is. We are at our best when we focus on debating the ideas and visions than when we focus on building straw men to tear down. Let’s be at our best. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a nonpartisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

The views and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute.

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Expanding the definition of war crimes

Laying charges for 'destroying cultural heritage' is a first for the International Criminal Court

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obody got punished for blowing up the giant Buddhist statues in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley in 2001.

Nobody has been sent to jail for blowing up much of the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria after ISIS captured it in May 2015. (It was recaptured last March.)

But Ahmed al-Mahdi is going to jail for a long time for destroying the religious monuments of Timbuktu, and he even says he’s sorry.

Appearing before the International Criminal Court in The Hague on August 22, the former junior civil servant in Mali’s department of education said “All the charges brought against me are accurate and correct. I am really sorry, and I regret all the damage that my actions have caused.”

He caused a lot of damage. Timbuktu is a remote desert outpost now, with fewer residents than the 25,000 students who thronged its famous Islamic

university in its golden age in the 16th century. Its ancient mosques and monuments are of such historical value that they have earned Timbuktu a UNESCO designation as a World Heritage Site.

Timbuktu’s greatest treasure was its tens of thousands of manuscripts dating from the 12th to the 16th centuries, which dealt with topics as diverse as literature, women’s rights, music, philosophy, and good business practice.

When Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) stormed into Timbuktu in 2012, the heroic librarian Abdel Kader Haidara saved 95 percent of the city’s manuscripts by smuggling them out to Bamako, Mali’s capital, by car and boat. But the mosques and the mausoleums could not be moved, and Ahmed al-Mahdi was recruited to head the “morality police”.

One of his jobs was smashing the ones that were “idolatrous”.

Al-Mahdi, born near Timbuktu, was

already a follower of Wahhabism, an austere Islamic sect of Saudi Arabian origin that condemns ordinary people’s reverence for ancient mausoleums and religious shrines as idolatry.

AQIM, like ISIS and the Taliban, is “Salafi” in its beliefs, but Salafism is essentially an offspring of Wahhabism with added extremism. So Ahmed alMahdi was an obvious recruit for AQIM, and he threw himself into his new job with enthusiasm. He is charged with destroying nine mausoleums and part of one mosque, but he almost certainly vandalized many more.

Malian and French troops drove AQIM out of Timbuktu in 2013, and al-Mahdi was captured shortly afterwards. As head of the morality police he supervised the whipping of smokers, drinkers and “impure” women, the stoning of adulterers, and the execution of “apostates”—but the charge that the Inter-

national Criminal Court chose to bring against him was “destroying cultural heritage.”

This is a first for the ICC, the world’s permanent war crimes court. Its previous cases have all involved illegal violence against people. This case is about violence against things. Even if they are things sacred to many people, some critics worry that expanding the category of war crimes in this way undermines the unique status of torture, murder and genocide as crimes so terrible that they require international action if local courts cannot deal with them. Mali requested that the case against al-Mahdi be transferred to the ICC, but the question still begs an answer.

It’s a very old crime. Gangs of Christian monks hacked the noses off every “pagan” statue they could find in 4thcentury Egypt. Catholic missionaries in 16th century Mexico supervised the

burning of thousands of books containing the history and mythology of the pre-Columbian civilisations.

The Islamist vandals of today belong to a long tradition, and none of their predecessors were punished. So is the ICC of today just picking on Muslims?

No. Genocide was only defined and made illegal by the Nuremburg trials in 1945-46, although history is full of other genocides. But the world was not picking on Germans. We had just reached a point in our history when we could finally agree that genocide was always and everywhere a crime against humanity.

Making the act of deliberately “destroying cultural heritage” a crime is another, lesser step in the same process of building a body of international human rights law that applies to everybody. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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FRONT // LABOUR

Labour has its ups... and downs A friendlier government came in, but so did a much harsher economy

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his Labour Day, the labour movement has more than just historic progress to celebrate.

Whether it's increases in the minimum wage or an unwillingness to lay-off public sector workers during an economic downturn, there's a new kind of relationship between the provincial legislature and labour.

Deron Bilous, minister of economic development and trade, believes that the relationship between government and unions has an important role to play in economic recovery.

“Our government has a good relationship with unions, and there is a significant role for labour to play in terms of the diversification of this economy,” Bilous said in a phone interview.

He says that in the face of the “largest drop in the price of oil in Alberta's history,” it's extremely important to maintain this ongoing relationship.

It's a philosophy that's almost foreign to Alberta's unions, which

struggled to make their voice heard under decades of Progressive Conservative governments.

Guy Smith, president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees or AUPE, says the contempt and distrust that typically characterized the relationship between the labour movement and the Alberta government has significantly changed since the election of Rachel Notley and the NDP. “In my seven years as president of AUPE—I think I’ve seen about four to five premiers in my time—and I must say that I’m quite pleased with the tone and respect of this government,” he says.

“I know I can pick up the phone and dial a minister and get a response quickly… with that kind of dialogue and respect issues can be resolved.”

And there are plenty of issues to be faced. Alberta unemployment hit 8.6 percent as of July, and oil forecasts remain at a dismal range of $32.80 US

dollars per barrel as of last month.

“There are numerous concerns shared between industry workers and the government… if there’s a message here our government wants to work collaboratively not only with labour but all other types of workforces as well,” Bilous added.

Both Smith and Bilous focused on the need for diversification, and getting away from the province's traditional reliance on the oil and gas sector.

“We need to look at different opportunities to diversify our economy and build our strengths,” says Bilous.

However rosy the situation might be in terms of government relations, Smith is still concerned about public sector lay-offs, given the enormous pressure of falling revenue and the many conservative voices in the province.

“Notley is going to get a lot of pressure to make cuts,” he says.

Sheri Peel, Wright Auotomotive // Photo by Steve Teeuwsen

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'Busier than we've ever been' WBF CEO Judy-Lynn Archer sees the sunnier side of the economy

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Deron Bilous, minister of economic development and trade with Women Building Futures students // Photo supplied

n the wake of Alberta’s economic uncertainty, dire news seems almost expected. But for JudyLynn Archer, president and CEO of Women Building Futures (WBF), the situation isn't so scary.

“We’re actually busier than we’ve ever been… there are pockets of work all over the place in Alberta,” she says.

The social purpose organization

and registered charity has it's own workshops and housing, and takes an all encompassing approach to training women for traditionally male-dominated fields. This training ensures access to what can be higher paying and more stable jobs in construction and maintenance— “our favourite industry as a province,” Archer says.

And it's essentially business as

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usual, even in this rough economy.

WBF recently placed 11 ironworkers with the Northwest Redwater Partnership, at the Sturgeon Refinery, northeast of Edmonton. That was WBF's first cohort to complete the Iron Worker Readiness class.

Following the ebb and flow of industrial projects also helps keep tradespeople employed, Archer says.

“We as Albertans have become accustomed to waves of construction,” she says. As the construction subsides there will be a hole left in maintenance work. If a woman already has a trade under her belt, than transitioning to a maintenance position is much easier, she says.

WBF also works with industry and unions to keep abreast of changes.

“Unions are working with us and tapping into a underutilized work force,” Archer says. “As the industry evolves, so do we.”

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STREETERS // LABOUR

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Thoughts on Labour Day Vue staff went to the streets of Edmonton to ask folks what Labour Day means for them. Do Albertans see it as a regular holiday to sleep in, or are they aware of the significance of the holiday? // Photos by Jasmine Salazar

Marc Gazelle

Robyn Noname

Vue Weekly: What does Labour Day mean to you?

Marc Gazelle: Labour Day means we all get a Monday off, and some of us who work for the government or social institutions get a paid leave. It’s really just an unmerited benefit that people think they deserve, because we’re all entitled to one long weekend a month.

VW: What do you think of the NDP government, and has the labour movement made progress?

MG: I’m familiar with the labour laws of the former government and it seems to me right now that nothing has changed. Whatever it is they have implemented hasn’t impacted society yet.

VW: Are you worried about Alberta’s economy?

MG: No, I am not worried about Alberta’s economy. I still think we have one of the strongest economies in the world. Our resources, our development, our employment rates are still above the standard.

Vue Weekly: What does Labour Day mean to you?

Robyn Noname: I work in the child and youth care field and already have a set work schedule.

While most people in the work force may get a long weekend for Labour Day, I don’t. Mainly because the day falls on one of the two days that I have off for the week, so it doesn’t really have huge significance to me.

VW: What do you think of the NDP government, and has the labour movement made progress?

RN: I think the NDP is striving to better the whole situation, but it’s all dependent on who you ask and the type of field they work in. If you ask someone in the oil industry, it’d be the complete opposite, because tons of people lost their jobs. But if you ask people like me who work in the human services field, we support it.

VW: Are you worried about Alberta’s economy?

RN: In the field that I work in, I’m not worried because I will always have a job. It’s concerning when other industries, like the oil industry, people are getting laid off. So, there’s a concern there because there is no consistency and a lot of people aren’t being looked after.

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FIELD SERVICE TECHNICIAN Vue Weekly: What does Laour Day mean to you?

Ralph Hughes: A lot of people died in order for me to have a decent job.

VW: What do you think of the NDP government, and has the labour movement made progress?

RH: The labour movement is in a better position, yes and no at the same time, because there are people who have lost their jobs. Can we blame this all on the NDP? No. Back 15 years ago or 20 years ago when Ralph Klein stepped in he kicked the living daylights out of the country to get rid of the deficit, and at the time people were very upset at it. Looking back, it was a good move. Today, Rachel Notley has done a lot of stuff we might not agree with, [but] in 20 years time we’ll look back and think it was probably a good idea. Can I say that everything she is doing I agree with?

No, but I’m not sitting in her job making those decisions.

VW: Are you worried about Alberta’s economy?

RH: No. If we look back over the last 100 years, we slowly get good [and] the economy has changed. In the early ‘50s and people were working out in the sticks and bush and making a living, things were not great.

Edmonton, Calgary, there were people who were unemployed but there were also people who were working. Canada in ’08 took a hit, but Alberta did not.

Alberta has taken a hit now and everyone’s [makes a gasp sound]. Yes, unemployment in Alberta is high, but there’s still work here in Alberta.

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Alvin Yu: For me, it’s a time to reflect on the achievements that workers have contributed to our overall economy and overall well-being.

VW: What do you think of the NDP government, and has the labour movement made progress?

AY: While I commend Notley and the NDPs for looking into labour laws, the most controversial issue as of late has been the increase minimum wage to $15 per hour. I would say that the labour movement has not changed much despite the NDPs boasting that the increase in minimum wage will provide a living wage for lowerincome Albertans. The reason for this

is that small business owners often have small operating margins and this increase will make it harder for them to make money. We may see some downsizing and layoffs, which don’t accomplish the original goal.

VW: Are you worried about Alberta’s economy?

AY: I am very worried for Alberta’s economy. As our deficit nears $11 billion with booming unemployment numbers and oil prices remaining in the tank, the provincial government needs to be careful with what they are spending money on and how we are being taxed for it. There are families who have been laid off and face the prospect of paying more taxes.

We are losing the Alberta Advantage.

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DISH

REVUE // FOOD TRUCK TO RESTAURANT

Mexican Indulgence

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Calle Mexico's sumtuous offerings will not disappoint

veryone is a critic these days– or maybe that’s all too obvious given our robust social media existences in which we can all have our say about everything all the time. It was refreshing, then, to be subjected recently to some strangers’ opinions without electronic mediation. By way of segue, both instances occurred in or near Calle Mexico, the south-of-the-border food truck gone bricks and mortar on 107 Avenue. (It’s also still a food truck.)

On my first trip to Calle Mexico’s tiny confines—we’re talking three

tables and some cramped counter seating—I forgot my glasses in the car. As I trooped out to get them, a guy possibly waiting for the bus called out, “Hey buddy, how did ya like yer Mexicana?” I told him I had only just ordered and hadn’t yet gotten to try it.

What he wanted me to know was that the place sucked, that it was way too fuckin’ expensive, and not even open half the time. The real issue, it turned out, was that he preferred Silina’s, the Lebanese operation that had preceded it, as they gave you lots of food—for

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cheap, eh?—and the woman at the counter knew his name. His female companion crouched against the adjacent pawn shop window confirmed this with a curt nod.

This unsolicited opinion may have actually coloured my first experience of Calle Mexico. I opted for the tacos al pastor ($12) and the friendly counter guy guided me to one of two tiny little Coke coolers just big enough to hold three squeeze bottles of hot sauce: avocado mild, tomatillo tangy and habanero angry. The food came out

much faster than any food truck meal I’ve ever had, a red plastic basket lined with wax paper and laden with three corn tortillas heaped with marinated pork, onions, cilantro and small shards of a pineapple. The pork was nicely crisped on the grill and dried chilies imparted both spicy kick and rich roastiness, but I’ve come to expect a saucier al pastor and maybe the portion size and price weren’t an improvement on more upscale taco shops closer to the downtown core. Wow, that guy had really gotten inside my head.

I returned a couple of days later determined to make up my own mind and explore the menu in more depth.

The friendly woman behind the counter suggested the torta milanesa ($12), a Mexican gourmet sandwich, and I indulged myself with a pineapple Jarritos, the only iridescent substance I’ll willingly drink.

The big stuffed, toasted bun practically filled the basket it came in and had been claimed with a tiny paper flag in the name of Mexico. A fried veal cutlet and a slice of grilled ham sizzled atop avocado, tomato, lettuce, a little feta and chipotle cream, but the magic ingredient was a fragrant seam of velvety refried pinto beans. I don’t usually eat veal, but this seemed a solid reason to eat veal as the very various crisp and creamy textures fought for command of my palate.

As I munched a woman who had just finished an order of the enchiladas verdes ($13) held forth to the woman behind the counter about how much better Calle Mexico’s food was than that of certain local poseurs who overcharge for fancy cocktails and ambiance and honestly the food isn’t even

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Calle Mexico 11128 — 107 Ave, 780-705-0901 www.callemexicofoodtruck.com really that authentic (the woman then admitted she’d never been to Mexico).

From my vantage it’s apples and oranges, but I vowed to try the enchiladas that had provoked such fierce loyalty.

The enchiladas—four flour tortillas wrapped around moist mouthfuls of shredded chicken—weren’t stuck to the plate with cheddar but instead sprinkled with feta and spattered with sour cream, with lots of shredded lettuce—does any other cuisine make iceberg seem so toothsome? — some chopped radish and slices of avocado.

But what made them sing was the moat of salsa verde all around, tangy green sauce made with tomatillos, jalapenos, onions and garlic to dredge every bite through. Not too spicy, but deliciously complex thanks to those enigmatic tomatillos, which are not tomatoes. I chased it with a cool glass of housemade horchata ($2.50), a surprisingly thirst-quenching concoction made from rice, almonds, cinnamon and vanilla. I was thus nicely slaked.

My mind and my stomach both tell me that Calle Mexico is a worthy contender in Edmonton's growing array of Mexican eateries (humble and authentic division), with the torta comprising a particularly crave-worthy item. But opinions, as the saying has it, are like a certain bodily orifice— everybody's got one. Feel free to air yours as you see fit.

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What's in a name?

Big corporations edging into the craft market

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elations between the big corporate brewers and craft brewers has never been particularly friendly.

Much of craft is defined by its rejection of the corporate brewers’ practices, like using up to 40 percent corn syrup in their pale lagers.

For most of the craft beer era, the big boys mostly ignored small craft brewers, much like mosquitoes to a horse. However, for years craft beer has been the only sector that has experienced sales growth, and craft is starting to take a noticeable bite out of the market. Think black flies. So a few years ago the corporate breweries changed strategies. They now have a two-part approach. First, they are buying up successful craft breweries across the continent, adding them to their growing portfolios. In Canada that includes Granville Island, Creemore, Mill Street, Okanagan Springs and Unibroue.

The second strategy has been to create their own craft-y brands and market them as if they were craft beer. I like to call these beer pseudocraft. They walk like craft and talk like craft but they don’t taste like craft. Worse, a key aspect of their marketing is to obscure or hide their corporate connections. Consumers think they are buying beer from a small, independent brewery. Rickard’s, Alexander Keith’s, and Shock Top are examples. Sure, you can find the corporate info on the label if you look closely enough, but tell me why they feel the need to sell the beer as a separate brand?

The beer that started all this fauxcraft stuff is Blue Moon in the US, created in 1995 in a small Coors brewery in Colorado. It is a Witbier, a Belgian-style wheat beer, and in its marketing it links to the brewing giant has always been downplayed (and at times erased). Craft beer advocates have been furious at this beer for years, especially since it is the biggest selling wheat beer in the US. I am telling you all this because Blue

Moon has slowly been infiltrating the Canadian market. It has been available on tap in Alberta since last fall and a couple of months ago starting popping up in liquor stores.

Except you won’t find a beer called Blue Moon anywhere in Canada because here it is called Belgian Moon.

The reason is quite convoluted and mostly due to corporate shenanigans, but Molson-Coors, who are producing it in Canada, do not own the trademark to that name. It is owned by Miller-Coors which, oddly, is a completely different company that had been in a legal dispute with Molson-Coors but now soon might be bought up by them. I told you it was convoluted.

Making things even weirder is that Blue Moon has been brewed in Montreal for years for US distribution, in the same brewery where they produce Rickard’s White for the Canadian market. There is a longstanding claim they are the same beer (something Molson-Coors didn’t deny when launching Rickards White in 2007).

Today Molson-Coors states the beer are different, and there may be some slight recipe differences, but to my palate they are a very similar beer.

The beer itself is a fairly pedestrian Wit, but a basically decent beer. It has an orange character, a soft body and a sharp finish. I find it fairly pleasant to sip, but would turn to other witbiers, such as Dieu Du Ciel’s Blanche du Paradis, as better examples of the style. Its significance lies not in its taste but in its status as the world’s premiere example of the corporate brewers’ fast and loose relationship with authenticity.

Blue Moon, Belgian Moon, Rickard’s White. No matter what they call it, it 's all pseudo-craft to me.

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Sometimes you end up with a real bitch

Paul Matwychuk’s Bloodhound explores how one man’s life gets taken over by a four-legged fur baby

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he theatre is a place for dramatic displays of emotion, and for Hamilton-born, Edmonton-raised playwright Paul Matwychuk, it’s a place for animal love.

Matwychuk’s Bloodhound explores the fierce and paranoid spiral of Raymond, a dull man whose life careens off the rails of matrimony. As usual, his invidious impulses come at the hand of a complete bitch, Delilah, one step ahead and always more than she seems.

The twist? This bitch comes with a

few blood-hungry passengers of her own—fleas.

When the actress playing Delilah, Lora Brovold, asked what kind of dog she was playing, Matwychuk had to think.

"I had always had a strong idea of her personality," Matwychuk explains.

"She had to be sort of sweet and cuddly. She is kind of manipulating him all the way through. It’s a weird combination of manipulating him but she’s in love with him.”

“I suppose a golden retriever.”

If you haven’t figured it out yet, yes, Bloodhound is the story of a man who falls in love with a dog.

But cat lovers, Matwychuk assures, will also find their hearts at home.

Each passage, he said, is rife with cat and dog metaphors—a sumptuous, cold kitten of a wife; a loyal but bashfully murderous mistress; and poor Raymond caught in-between, each development leaves him torn and falling a little deeper in love, or at least certainly in trouble.

It’s small wonder Raymond gets his

wires crossed. Even Matwychuk professes the representations in Bloodhound walk a fine line between reality and fiction.

“Raymond is kind of more of a dog, metaphorically, although Delilah is literally a dog. His wife is metaphorically a cat,” Matwychuk clarified. “It’s kind of hard to explain.”

But in the end, everyone connects with their animal nature, and as Raymond chases the dog he loves, hair (and more than a little blood) will fly.

For Matwychuk, Bloodhound is a stab at something new and dialogue driven.

Foregoing the crutch of monologue, he says, was a liberation, helping to unlock new pace and movement.

“It was something constant, a change in my style,” he says.

That change has come to fruition in private, mental obsession, a narrative driven by animal love that shows Raymond, for better or worse, crashing headlong through each barrier he faces, mental and physical.

But Raymond isn’t the only one breaking new ground. For more than a decade, Bloodhound has driven Matwychuk on his own journey of obsession.

After the play won a 2004 Alberta Playwriting Competition, it sat largely untouched, peeking up periodically, to find the right mix of cast and company.

That mix, Matwychuk says, has finally arrived with the pitch from Script Salon. Exceptional performances from Garett Ross as the tantalizingly chauvinistic Raymond and Lora Brovold as the floppy-eared, seductive

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Delilah, have brought the work alive, he added.

The whole project began with a simple writing exercise, an exercise that helped Matwychuk learn to bare his own fangs for literary prowess.

“It was just a scene, this image of a guy trying to sleep, but there’s a dog barking next door, barking, barking, barking, and finally he’s frustrated and angry and he storms outside to bark back at it,” Matwychuk explained.

“In the cacophony, the dog starts to shout back at him and suddenly there’s this barrier broken.”

Whatever the barrier, both Matwychuk and Raymond blow through it precipitously and the effect is one that weaves through norms of gender, love, and all of wonderfully the murderous terrain between. “[Raymond’s] embracing his true nature. As the line goes, he is the underdog,” Matwychuk says, laughing.

“I guess I wound up in control of the situation in a way that poor Raymond doesn’t.”

The play will be read at this month's Edmonton Script Salon, put on by the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

Afterwards, audience members can offer feedback.

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Sun, Sept 4 (7:30) Script Salon Holy Trinity Anglican Church Free

Northern Light Theatre’s Battle for the Limelight / Sat, Sept 10 – Sun, Sept 11 Don’t be alarmed when you see over 100 theatre artists taking over the streets of Edmonton as they race, relay, riddle and raise funds as part of Northern Light Theatre’s

third annual arts community-wide fundraiser, Battle for the Limelight.

In this Amazing Race style scavenger hunt, theatre companies create teams, collect pledges and donations and spend a day completing challenges, finding clues, reading maps and more. A hot yoga class, busking on Whyte Avenue, duplicating dominatrix-style rope ties, and icing a dozen cupcakes are just some of the challenges you’ll be doing. You can still register your team (whether you’re a non-profit or not) at northernlighttheatre.com/events/ battle-limelight-2016.php (Northern Light Theatre) Strathern Art Walk / Sat, Sept 10 (12 pm) Strathern Art Walk is back for a fifth year to celebrate art and community in the neighbourhood of Strathern.

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DANCE BALLROOM DANCE SOCIAL • Central Lions Recreation Centre, 11113-113 St • Sep 3, 7:45pm (doors), 8pm-midnight (dance) • $15

DIRT BUFFET CABARET • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • milezerodance.com • Curated by impresario Ben Gorodetsky, this series is geared towards presenting emerging artists of various artistic backgrounds, in a variety show format, with an audience that expects experimentation and unusual juxtapositions. Each show contains six acts • Sep 15, 9pm • $10 or best offer at the door

EDMONTON BURLESQUE FESTIVAL • Royal Alberta Museum Theater, 12845-102 Ave • edmontonburlesquefest.com • Celebrating all things Burlesque, vaudeville and fabulous. Bringing together over 50 performers for three days • Sep 8-10

FLAMENCO DANCE CLASSES (BEGINNER OR ADVANCED) • Dance Code Studio, 10575-115 St NW #204 • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@gmail.com • Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm

THE MOSQUERS FILM FESTIVAL • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • themosquers. com • The Mosquers is a film festival that aims to educate, entertain and build bridges through showcasing the diverse Muslim experience. The festival pursues new ways to introduce both Muslims and nonMuslims to the most original and authentic storytelling • Sep 10, 6pm

SACRED CIRCLE DANCE • Riverdale Hall, 9231100 Ave • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music. No partner required • Every Wed, 7-9pm • $10

SOUL MOTION • Spirit Paths Studio, 10715-124 St NW, Lower Level • Conscious dance practice to drop tension, foster body awareness, and encourage authentic ways of relating to others. Taught by Soul Motion Teacher in Training • Sep 6, 6:30pm; Oct 4, 6:30pm; Nov 1, 6:30pm • Donation based 1 hour class

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

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

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Per-

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS •

ron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert. ca • Reconstructions: artwork by Brenda Danbrook; Sep 1-Oct 29; Opening reception: Sep 1, 6-9pm • Art Ventures: Image Transfers! (Sep 17), 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: Image Transfer (Sep 15), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Image Transfers!

(Sep 17); for 3-5 yrs; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

ARTWALK • Perron District, downtown St Albert.

Includes WARES (Hosting SAPVAC), Musée Héritage Museum, St Albert Library, Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA), Bookstore on Perron, VASA, Musée Héritage Museum, A Boutique Gallery Bar By Gracie Jane • artwalkstalbert.com • The art hits the streets again for its 15th year! Discover this art destination, a place to enjoy, view and buy art to suit all tastes and budgets.

See returning artists and new ones • Sep 1 (exhibits run all month)

Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Schedule: Arsenic and Old Lace (Sep 2), A Streetcar Named Desire (Sep 9), The Odd Couple (Sep 16), Glengarry GlenRoss (Sep 23), Frost/Nixon (Sep 30)

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • Music Doc: AC/DC: Let There Be Rock (Oct 4) • Quote-A-Long series 2016: Grease (Sep 10), Ghostbusters (Oct 29) • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Whale Rider (Sep 3), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Sep 10), My Neighbor Totoro (Sep 17, 19), Kubo and the Two Strings (Oct 1), Castle in the Sky (Oct 15-16), Young Frankenstein (Oct 29)

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Charis Ng; Aug 23-Sep 10

STRATHEARN ART WALK • Park along Strathearn Drive between 89 St 91 St • strathearnartwalk.com • Art show & sale, plus music, food, beer and kids' activities • Sep 10, 12-7pm TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments all summer • The International Exhibition Of Sherlock Holmes; Mar 25-Sep 5 • Wild Africa; opens in late Oct • Angry Birds Universe; opens on Oct 8

U OF A MUSEUMS GALLERIES AT ENTERPRISE SQUARE • Main floor, 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • My Heritage 2016 Exhibit: 78 competitive original fibre art entries; May until Aug

VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Cattle Call; Jun-Aug • Art +

St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullengallery • Jes McCoy; Featuring interactive work, the exhibition examines the effect that the presence of

10225-97 St NW • 780.691.1691 • There will be different themes each month. • Every 2nd Tue of month, 8:30-10:30pm • $20 (door); 18+ only

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com ROUGE POETRY SLAM HOSTED BY BREATH IN POETRY COLLECTIVE • BLVD Supper x Club, 10765 Jasper Ave • Every Tue

BIG BOOM THEORY 3 : THE EARLY YEARS

BOOK OF MORMON • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave NW • 780.427.2760 • jubileeauditorium.com • Follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word • Sep 13-18 CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE night-tiMe • Shoctor Theatre, Citadel Theatre, 9828 101 A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre. com • When a 15-year-old math genius with autism comes under suspicion for killing his neighbour’s dog, he decides to investigate the crime himself and makes some life-changing discoveries • Sep 17-Oct 9

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112

NAKED GIRLS READING • Brittany's Lounge,

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

gALLery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • The Wild Party: artwork by Jason Carter; Sep 1-Oct 23; Opening reception: Sep 1, 7pm; artist in attendance

Tremblay; Aug 4-Sep 10

• Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave NW • Celebrating he third and final arc of Roche Limit vol.3 : MONADIC • Sep 7, 4-7pm

24th AnnuAL Die-nAsty soAp-A-thon • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com • The Soap-a-thon is back! Join the whole DN gang and guests from all over the world for 50 straight hours and one phenomenally soapy story! • Sep 16-18

com • Summer Salon III: group art show; Through Aug • Artwork by Matt Petley Jones: A solo show featuring work by Matt Petley Jones, an established landscape artist who uses bright gestural paint-strokes to capture unique Canadian landscapes; Sep 15-Oct 7; Opening reception: Sep 8, 7-9pm

latitude53.org/patio • Mystic Places: artwork by Joani

in-store signing with KyLe chArLes

THEATRE

FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.

LATITUDE 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St NW •

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Mercury Room,10575-114 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • facebook.com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com

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

mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Suzanne Lamontagne "The Treasure" Signing and Meet & Greet; Sep 2, 12-1:30pm • Aviva Bel'Harold "Quista" Book Launch; Sep 7, 7pm • Pastor Robert Scott "Grace Revolution?"

Book Launch; Sep 15, 7pm • Billie Milholland "Living in the Shed" Book Launch; Sep 18, 2pm • Wade Sorochan "UnSocial Media" Book Launch; Sep 19, 7pm

TALES ALBERTA STORYTELLING RETREAT • Camp Kuriakos, Sylvan Lake • talesstorytelling.com • Professional development, discussions and readings • Sep 9-11

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.

JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave •

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright

galeriecava.com • Members Art Exhibition: artwork by Jeannette Ouellette, Marc Neal, Françoise Fiset, Sarah Tam, Doris Charest and Patricia Trudeau; Sep 16-Oct 4

St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Ambient Plagues: Artwork by Elaine Whittaker; Aug 4-Sep 23

LITERARY

St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

cAVA gALLery • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 •

Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl. ca/gallery-at-milner • On the Walls: Wallace Creations: Digital works by Elizabeth Wallace Reid; Sep 1-30 • In the Cases & cubes: Placement: Ceramic works by Terry Hildebrand; Sep 1-30

WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • 125 Years Of Ukrainian Culture: artwork by Peter Shostak; Sep 10-22

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Water Songs: artwork by Gisa Mayer; Sep 16-30; Artist reception: Sep 16, 6-9pm & Sep 17, 1-4pm

ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34 St

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • A

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

• assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/borealis/CD1.html • Canada: Day 1: Explore first steps, first impressions and first experiences as a newcomer to Canada; Aug 27-Dec 4

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir

Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • picturethisgallery. com • Terry Isaac; Sep 30-Oct 1

SPARK EVENT CENTRE • 2257 Premier Way,

BOREALIS GALLERY LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY VISITOR CENTRE • 9820-107 St • 780.427.7362

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Crafting Conscience; Jul 9-Oct 1 • Small Works: Paper Meets Cloth: artwork by Margie Davidson; Jul 30-Sep 3 • Get Lost: artwork by Ruth-Anne French; Jul 30-Sep 3 • Transformation: Hooked Sculptures by Rachelle LeBlanc; Sep 10-Oct 15 • 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends during the summer until Sep 2 • $5 (adult)/$3.50 (senior/student)/$2 (child 3-12)/child under 3 free; $4 (train rides)

PICTURE THIS GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd,

Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • The Garden of Earthly Delights: artwork by Juan Ortiz-Apuy; Aug 25-Oct 8 • Retrograde: artwork by Jill Ho-You; Aug 25-Oct 8 • A Modern Cult of Monuments: artwork by Colin Lyons; Oct 13-Nov 26 • To Do: artwork

by Graeme Dearden; Oct 13-Nov 26 • Snap Members Show & Sale: Dec 8-24

• dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Artwork by Brandon Atkinson; Sep 10-Oct 15 • Open Walls Two; Oct 29-Nov 26 • Carly Greene; Dec 3-Jan 21

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Storyland: artwork by Tammy Salzl; Sep-Oct • The Industry Show; Nov-Dec

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7

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

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-

BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 9132-118 Ave

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner

9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • cavalberta@gmail.com • galeriecava.com • Enjoy a repertoire of french movies • First two Wed each month

PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Naess Gallery: Emergent Life: paintings

by Twilla Coates & Ricardo Copado • Artisan Nook: Kaleidoscope: paintings by Sandie Kanak • Aug 30-Oct 11; Reception: Sep 1, 7-9pm; artists in attendance.

780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • Nurturing the Spirit: New works in soapstone by Leo Arcand and paintings by Jessica Desmoulin; Sep 24-Oct 6; Opening reception: Sep 24, 1-4pm • New Mixed Media Paintings by Aaron Paquette and new ceramic works by Dianne Meili; Oct 22-Nov 3 • New works by Jim Logan; Nov 5-17

com • Kids Art Exhibition; Aug 26-Sep 13

CINEMA CAVA • Centre des arts visuels de l'Alberta,

9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@thenina. ca • RBC Emerging Artists Exhibition; Aug 4-Sep 1 • Kaleido Family Arts Festival; Sep 9-12 • Yvonne DuBourdieu: Recent Work; Sep 13-15; Opening reception: Sep 15, 6-8pm • Corrections Show; Oct 15-31

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper

BEAR CLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St •

FILM Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free • Schedule: The Lobster (Sep 7), The Boy and the Beast (Sep 14), The Lady in the Van (Sep 21), How to Change the World (Sep 28)

communication and the way we communicate has on wellbeing; Jul 9-Sep 4

Parallel Excavation: artwork by Duane Linklater & Tanya Lukin Linklater; Apr 30-Sep 18 • The Unvarnished Truth: Exploring the Material History of Painting; Apr 30-Sep 18 • Beauty’s Awakening: Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection; Jul 23-Nov 13 • JASON DE HAAN: Grey to Pink: Jul 23-Nov 13 • BMO Children’s Gallery: Touch Lab: Leave your Mark: Opens Jul 24 • Every Story Has Two Sides: artwork by Damian Moppett and Ron Moppett; Sep 17-Dec 31 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm

MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Alberta Ballet & the Documentation of Performance: celebrating Alberta Ballet's 50th anniversary; Sep 1-Dec 17; Opening reception: Sep 7, 7pm

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

Activism: artwork by Mary Joyce, Paula Kirman and Juan Lopezdabdoub; Aug 31-Nov 26

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • New Pointillism and Retrospective Journey: artwork by Pat Trudeau; Aug 23-Sep 16

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

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Fire Theatre • Improv, a high-stakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door)

OPEN JAM • Holy Trinity Church, 10037-84 Ave • 780.907.2975 • grindstonetheatre.ca • Facilitated by Grindstone Theatre. Swap games and ideas and get an opportunity to play. For those of all levels • Last Tue of each month

SIMON AND GARFUNKEL STORY • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • The Simon & Garfunkel story tells the fascinating tale of how two young boys from Queens, New York went on to become the world’s most successful music duo of all time • Sep 6-Oct 30

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Turning MariNaomi

Turning Japanese is overwhelming but also fascinating “I’m turning Japanese / I think I’m turning Japanese / I really think so” —The Vapors

F

Meet Barb & Nancy (Shannon Purser & Natalia Dyer) from STRANGER THINGS. September 23-25, 2016 Edmonton EXPO Centre at Northlands

irst, there’s a two-page map of the Tokyo subway system. Thick lines—dark grey, grey, light grey, yellowish-orange, orange, faint orange—and thin lines—black, blackand-white, orange, orange-and-white—run and snake here, there, seemingly everywhere.

All at once, it’s overwhelming and confusing and alienating and fascinating . . . and the book’s barely begun.

Part diary-like memoir, part travelogue, MariNaomi’s Turning Japanese takes us to 1995 and her job as a 22-year-old hostess in a clandestine Japanese bar in San Jose, followed by her trip to Japan—working at a Tokyo hostess-bar; visiting her grandparents in Fukuoka—with her boyfriend.

The bar scenes and some vignettes (e.g., a woman in Tokyo feeding wild cats rice with chopsticks) build a sense of oddness and cultural difference. There are strange, strong moments of sudden attachment, too—Mari finds herself moved to tears by an old shrine and discovers a favourite pet shop in Tokyo. And then there are the characters ripped out of real life: the Chinese record producer carrying around a picture of him meeting Andy Warhol; the host-

POPCULTURE HAPPENINGS

Turning Japanese

By MariNaomi 2DCloud, $36.95, 217pp ess obliged to return to Hiroshima to help run the family business, though her parents abandoned her when she was young.

The art, while a little less punchy in the second half, can still pack a cartoonish wallop, as when Mari reluctantly takes a check-on-anapkin for $20,000 from a pushy, besotted frequenter of the bar: her eyes dilate, then her heart leaps out of her throat, taking her neck off and popping her eyeballs out . . . but “somehow I managed to keep it together.”

Sudden turns in health (a bout of salmonella poisoning) or fortune (mistakenly bringing an expired credit card overseas) can torquewrench the story, though it lacks ’90s details and a sense of Japan’s curious contradictions.

Some episodes are sharper and snappier than others; the narrative can be broken-up, even patchy. But the finale’s achingly bittersweet, as Mari feels two gulfs open up in her life, even as she seems to reconcile herself to never turning truly Japanese.

BRIAN GIBSON

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real-life interactive zombie apocalypse simulation event where you'll be forced to run, hide and fight for your life in order to beat the undead. The main event is 18-plus, but there will be family-friendly activities going on as well. Visit simulationevents.com for more info. (Silver Creek Paintball [south of Camrose, AB], $59) Geek Out: An Unforgivingly Nerdy Burlesque / Fri, Sept 23 (8 pm) It might be the unofficial Edmonton Expo kick off party, but that doesn't mean you can't nerd out. Your favourite comic book characters will hit the stage in this nerdy Burlesque piece hosted by LeTabby Lexington and Beau Creep featuring Kiki Quinn and more. Attendees are encouraged to dress up since there will be prizes for the best costume. (Chvrch of John, $5 in advance, $10 at the door)

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A postcard of heartbreak

The Light Between the Oceans is beautiful, but a bit hazily conceived

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he Great War has ended. Tom Sherbourne (Michael Fassbender), a veteran with haunted eyes and no family, takes a temporary gig minding a lighthouse on an otherwise uninhabited island some distance from Australia’s western coast. En route to the island he meets Isabel (Alicia Vikander). Eventually the temporary gig becomes permanent. Eventually Tom reunites with Isabel. She asks him on a date and on that date she asks him to marry her. Eventually they marry and Isabel moves to the island. Eventually they try to start a family but encoun-

ter some devastating setbacks. Eventually a small vessel drifts ashore with a dead man and a living baby in it—a baby Tom and Isabel are very tempted to appropriate and present to the world as their own. All of which is to say that eventually The Light Between Oceans completes its protracted setup, gets through at least a half-dozen postcard-worthy images of the sun looming over the sea, and actually begins to tell us a story. It is an interesting story, but I don’t know that story alone can sustain this film over its 132-minute running time.

The Light Between Oceans was adapted from M. L. Stedman’s novel by writer-director Derek Cianfrance, whose previous films include Blue Valentine and The Place Between the Pines. Cianfrance has a penchant for damaged men, and Fassbender, a disciplined and emotionally articulate actor, seems eager to fall in line. The reticence Tom displays in the opening job interview scene immediately conveys the sense that this guy is very traumatized. Unfortunately, following the scenes of accelerated romance between Tom and Isabel, Tom swiftly

and puzzlingly loses dimension. Love makes Tom happy, and all that trauma from war and from his upbringing magically disappears—leaving a space open for Isabel, who eclipses Tom as the more active, though not necessarily more interesting, protagonist. Grief-stricken after failing to bring two children to term, it is she who insists on the ruse involving the lost baby. As you might imagine, complications eventually ensue. That lost baby has a mother somewhere, guilt catches up with Tom and Isabel, and the film’s karmic calculus eventu-

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Opens Fri, Sept 2 Directed by Derek Cianfrance  ally plays itself out as its characters become more and more cypher-like.

This is a very pretty movie with a very compelling premise and very talented actors, but pacing, hazily conceived characters and a rather simplistic approach to psychology make it very hard to love.

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REVUE // DOCUMENTARY

Fiercely confident voguing

Sept 4 (9:30pm) Metro Cinema at the Garneau Directed by Jennie Livingston Originally released: 1990

Paris is Burning offers an intimate look at '80s drag queen culture I know a place where you can get away . . . Strike a pose —Madonna, “Vogue” (1990)

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ennie Livingston’s Paris is Burning, surveying the NYC ball competition scene of the late ’80s, whirls us in and around an outsider culture. One interviewee calls the house balls “through the looking-glass—you go in there and you feel 100 percent right, being gay.” The drag-queening and posestriking and voguing here, in the midst of America’s AIDS crisis, is being performed by blacks and Latinos and poor kids, stuck in a society still sneering at their sexuality, yet there they are, moving and strutting and turning, fiercely assured in their showy dream-role for the evening—a role their peers (judges and audience) affirm and approve.

Livingston slinks from outside-thehouse to floor to backstage dressing-

room, using voiceovers, handheld shots, and bold intertitles (white capitals announce, say, the lingo “shade” and “reading”) for a raw, vivacious immediacy. The system—family-like houses, with a mother who gives practical help just before a competition but also counsel beyond it—is explained; newcomers and diva-ish doyennes, like Pepper Labeija, offer anecdotes and insights.

PiB reminds us that ’80s music (see: Boy George, “Smalltown Boy,” etc.) could be far more sexually progressive than the dominant culture. Even this film was a success, making nearly $4-million, just as ball culture was being adopted or co-opted, briefly, by the mainstream—Madonna’s hit song was inspired by the Harlem House Ball, with two House of Xtravaganza voguers touring with her.

There’s a plethora of cultural codes;

contestants, some with avid aspirations, are coming out to haughtily pass for being in (one competition-category’s “Executive Realness”). The pageantry of this peacocking may seem so ’80s—like the queen in a gold lamé dress with huge, ruffled, detachable sleeves—but what the “small fame”

competitors strive for is shadow-lined by the repressive, stigmatizing, HIVplagued times. Dorian Corey wishes balls were more of an alternative to drugs; Octavia Saint Laurent’s idolizing of Paulina Porizkova becomes faintly sad; the ending for Venus Xtravaganza is dismal. And yet the directness and

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honesty of moment after moment strike back at peppily “cheerful” white America’s model-world. Paris is Burning blazes forth the importance, for a marginalized community, of adopting a fervid, fiery attitude all its own.

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FILM REVUE // ACTION

Reaching for Bond status, and failing

Mechanic: Resurrection offers only scene after scene of overwrought and weakly shot banality

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e-tinker, failure, soldier on, bad spy . . . unnecessary second-shot Mechanic: Resurrection, playing like a third-rate remake of Bond scenes, can’t resurrect the ghost of a thrilling action sequence, the spirit of a high-calibre assassin adventure, even the faintest whiff of originality. All it can flaunt, in one highrise high-dive death-scene, is the merest hint of watch-ability.

Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham), in hiding long enough from 2011’s The Mechanic that he can speak flawless Portuguese in Brazil, is somehow tracked down there by an old foe, Riah Crain (Sam Hazeldine). Crain kidnaps a young woman gone good, Cambodian orphanage worker Gina (Jessica Alba), to force Bishop to take out three nefarious criminals but, per his MO, make them look like accidents. So off our elite assassin goes, planning and executing sneaky little

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hits on bastardly men until he can finally turn his gunsights on his extorter, aim, and brain Crain.

Scene after scene’s overwrought and weakly shot—the look is usually somewhere between direct-to-video and oddly-framed camcorder-footage. The fight scenes and gunplay start off banal, get stupid and implausible fast, and end up bloody, as if trying to blot out how blah the finale is. The romance between Bishop and Gina (pathetically ogled in a swimsuit) is hokier and more wooden than a Thomas Kinkade mega-mural of a log cabin. And Bishop’s first target is one racist caricature of an African warlord.

The only thoughtful moment in this Mechanical Regurgitation of the assassin-action formula is Bishop’s ingenious (if overelaborate) down-undering of his second target, a Sydney snake of a businessman. Otherwise,

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all that’s keeping your brain’s gears from grinding to a halt during this doozy of a snoozefest is tracking all the obvious Bond retreads: Rio cable car (Moonraker); Thai islands setting (The Man with the Golden Gun); Her and Him sexily exiting or entering the ocean (Ursula Andress in Dr. No and Daniel Craig in Casino Royale); Action Man-with-jetpack underwater scenes (Thunderball); a submarine base gunfight and an escape pod (The Spy Who Loved Me). By Goldfinger, he may have gone through six reincarnations already, but at least 007 can still shake up the assassin-and-amour mix.

Make way for Welles

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t is no sin for a man to labour at his vocation.”

Those words are spoken by Orson Welles in the writer-director-costume designer-star’s woefully underseen Chimes at Midnight (1965). Welles plays Falstaff, one of Shakespeare’s foremost creations, affectionately embodied by Welles as a roguish boxcar bon vivant or giant bearded baby. With Falstaff Welles gave what was arguably his finest screen performance, not the least of reasons being that Welles was in many respects playing a variation on himself. Think of Falstaff always looking for funds and dodging creditors, telling tall tales, eating, drinking, ever pursuing the good life and accepting even a devastating betrayal with a wise man’s aching smile.

Released nearly a quarter-century after Welles’ legendary Citizen Kane (1941), Chimes, a Spanish-Swiss coproduction, is one of many examples of Welles stubbornly labouring at his vocation long after his cultural cur-

rency began to dwindle—the inverse trajectory of his infamous waistline.

Chimes was barely noticed in its day and would later be found only on negligently transferred home video releases. Thus it is very happy news that Chimes has been beautifully restored and will be released next week on DVD and Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection.

Drawing together elements from both Henry IV plays, along with Henry V, Richard II and The Merry Wives of Windsor, Welles once summarized Chimes as a love story about a boy torn between two father figures, the boy being Prince Hal (Keith Baxter) and the father figures being the noble King Henry IV (John Gielgud) and Welles’ naughty, lovably uncouth Falstaff. This masculine love triangle, building up to a poignant climax of self-actualization and disloyalty, forms the core of a narrative teeming with busyness, history and myth.

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or the Wars of the Roses you could be forgiven for not quite following all the political scheming that occupies much of Chimes, which is a very talky movie. But it’s also a beautiful movie, flush with charismatic performances—from Welles and Baxter most especially—endlessly inventive visual design and a stunningly smoky, muddy, bloody mid-point battle scene.

Great as Chimes is, however, I confess that I found Criterion’s supplements just as entertaining—we’re talking about Welles here, and I don’t know that any other figure in film history forged a career more complex and colourful. An interview with Baxter is a major highlight. He describes having left RADA to wash dishes when he heard Welles was holding auditions. The men hit it off and worked together on the commercially disastrous stage version of Chimes. Then Baxter was called to Spain to make the film of Chimes.

Except that the film turned out to be Treasure Island—until it became Chimes again. The story gets wilder as it goes, punctuated by numerous lunches that would go on for hours.

Welles’ daughter Beatrice, who plays a page in Chimes, is also interviewed, describing a childhood of no school, much caviar and encounters with Picasso. Welles scholars Simon Callow and Joseph McBride provide oodles of fascinating context for Chimes in separate interviews. McBride describes traveling from Wisconsin to Chicago to see Chimes during its paltry original US release. He watched it three times in a row in a theatre filled with academics and winos. It’s hard to imagine a more perfect audience. V

PREVUE // SYNTH POP

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The synth from Down under

The Naked and Famous make the trek from New Zealand for Sonic Boom

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hen band mates and co-founders of The Naked and Famous Alisa Xayalith and Thom Powers decided to split-up, the synth pop band almost ceased to exist.

“We kind of had to power through it.

Everyone was emotionally depleted and broken, but we put those feelings into our music,” Xayalith recalls.

The band took its cynical tonguein-cheek name from the well-known English trip hop artist, Tricky, while Xayalith and Powers were attending the Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand (MAINZ) in Auckland.

“We thought it was a pretty funny name. Being in New Zealand, we had no idea that we would ever be touring around the world and be this big, so at the time we went with a really sarcastic name.”

Their song “Young Blood,” from the debut album Passive Me, Aggressive You, debuted at number one on the New Zealand singles chart and eventually went viral around the world.

Teenagers all around the world now had a summer anthem for 2010 and it came from a little band from New Zealand.

“It’s funny because our only goal when we started the band was to reach the top 10 in New Zealand

with one of our songs. We had no idea or spirit that we would actually be able to have a career,” Xayalith says, laughing.

“Young Blood” gave The Naked and Famous the opportunity to move to Los Angeles where they now reside and make music full-time.

After releasing their sophomore album In Rolling Waves in 2013 and touring to support it, the band decided to take a much-needed break.

All of the relationships with the band were slightly fragmented when they came off tour. This eventually became a catalyst to Xayalith and Powers’ break up.

This may have seemed like the end for fans.

On the contrary, going through that experience inspired the creation of the bands upcoming album October 14 album Simple Forms.

“I think this is our most important record to date," Xayalith says. "We kind of took all of our favourite pop elements and put them in this album.

We also realized we can over come anything and that we all still love each other. We made it work and we made it happen.”

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Grimm and the Good Wolf

Our Good Wolf draws inspiration from folk tales in new release

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magine a band with just a guitar and a bass—well that's how Edmonton-based folk-pop quintet, Our Good Wolf, started initially with René Schumacher on guitar and Kevin Holowack on bass.

"The two of us had been playing music together for a while before and we were recording some really horrible demos in [Holowack's] garage," Schumacher explains, with a laugh. "So we thought it would probably sound a lot better if we had more people."

Over the course of 2012, Schumacher and Holowack worked towards rounding out their sound with more instrumention by placing an ad on Kijiji, which is how they landed drummer Josh Lehman. At that time, Schumacher was tackling the role of vocals, but wanted to hand it off to "someone who could really sing," adds Schumacher, so his girlfriend connected him to Jordana Hon (lead vocals). Shortly after that, Andrew Romero (piano/synth) joined, who Schumacher knew from school.

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kind of knew each other beforehand, so we ended up having really good chemistry," adds Holowack.

"That [chemistry] influences the way we compose and bounce ideas off each other."

Having that kind of chemistry right off the bat allowed the band to go straight into making music for its upcoming debut album, The Last We Heard From Him, which is set for a release on September 8 at the official release show at Mercury Room.

The Last We Heard From Him is a collection of songs rooted in the folk genre, but there's some innuendo to the band member's varying music influences (lo-fi rock, country, pop, and jazz) and personal interests that can be heard across the record.

"It's hard to put us in a single genre," says Holowack about the album's sound. "But indie is good."

Also evident on the debut album is a strong literary focus, which is brought forward by Holowack having an English degree that has given him leverage of lyric writing (though

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Thu, Sep 8 (7 pm) w/ Soap Box Duo Mercury Room, $8 in advance, $10 at the door the songs are all written collectively, Holowack, for the most part, provides the lyrics for the songs).

"A lot of it draws from non-musical things like poetry and novels... [The songs] have that literary bench to it," explains Holowack. "The songs follow that traditional folk song structure with verse, verse, verse, verse."

Continuing that literary theme is the track "The Last We Heard From Him," which is an adaptation from the Brother's Grimm fairytale, “The Town Musicians of Bremen.”

"We adapted it to change the subject matter, but a lot of the songs deal with either a sense of loss—a sense of losing something—or a dog running away," Holowack says. "Actually a lot of our songs are about a dog running away."

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For four months, this husband-wife duo embarked on a cross-country American tour, playing more than 40 shows in 13 states in their 1976 Winnebago. Their currently taking their roots and folk music to British Columbia and Alberta. (The Needle, free but gratuities accepted)

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Punk bands duke it out song for song. Anchoress versus Exits; Witch of Waste vs Cryptic; Hypertric vs Mr Guelph; and Paroxysm vs Gorgos. (Clint’s Haus [9922 – 79 Ave], $6)

BRING OUT YOUR DEAD! VINYL SALE AND SWAP / SUN, SEPT 4 (3 PM – 7 PM)

Cleaned your basement recently and came across your (or maybe your dad’s) old records? Bring those vinyls to the Empress Ale House for some selling and/or trading—or buying, to add more to your collection. All genres are welcome! (The Empress Ale House)

DEAD FIBRES / SUN, SEPT 4 (9 PM)

Some pschedelic rock from local acts Dead Fibres, Fever Feel (Calgary) and MS Dos. (The Common, $10)

THE RETURN OF THE RIVER BOAT QUEEN / SUN, SEPT 4 (3 PM)

The Edmonton’s Queen Riverboat was auctioned off to some rich folks, but it looks like it’ll have some public use as evident in this end of the summer party, which brings a diverse lineup of local and international acts—Tenement, Black Thumb, Altameda, Worst Days Down, Cham, Swear By The Moon, Bad Buddy and Grizzly Trail—floating down the North Saskatchewn river. (Edmonton Queen River Boat, $20)

VAN HALST / SUN, SEPT 4 (8 PM)

The hard rock metal outfit from Toronto is on tour for its latest album, World of Make Believe, which was recorded in Edmonton at Powersound Studios alongside producers Scott Greene (Blue Rodeo, Derina Harvey) and Phil Anderson (Dead Jesus, Social Code.) (Mercury Room, $10)

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FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 GAS PUMP NIGHT CLUB & BAR 10166-114 St 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 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 MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725

Mustakettu and Win The Day (metal/hard rock/ punk); 8pm; No minors

CHURCHILL SQUARE

Symphony in the City featuring Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (big band/classical); 5pm; No cover

VENUEGUIDE

SEP 2 & 3

LL I B LE B U SATURDAY SEPT 24 - DO A Tribute to the Music of Roy Orbison

FRIDAY SEPT 30 COMING SOON: THE PROCLAIMERS, DONNY EDWARDS–ELVIS TRIBUTE, AND MORE!

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT CENTURY CASINO AND TICKETMASTER

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Edmonton's best solo musicians

TIRAMISU BISTRO Live

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Wet

The Lonely

the Hurricanes; 9pm O'BYRNE'S IRISH PUB

Wave, Young $Teelo, Evrlove Music, Mourainé & Moto; 7:30pm (doors); $35-$45; 18+ only

Acoustic Circle Jam; 7:30-11:30pm

SHAWN GRAMIAK

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny &

STARLITE ROOM Summer

Every Thu, 7pm

Open stage with host Naomi Carmack; 8pm every Thu

Happy Hour featuring Winnie Brave; 5:30pm • Crooked I with K Blitz and JusJrdn and more; 9pm; $30-$35

Mike "The Party Hog" (blues/rock); 9pm

DENIZEN HALL Taking

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Thu; 7pm

FIDDLER'S ROOST

Call 780.481.YUKS FOR TICKETS & INFO .....................................................................

LEGISLATURE GROUNDS

Fridays at the Legislature: featuring Souls In Rhythm (alternative/R&B/rock); 12pm; No cover

country/folk); 9pm

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE Karaoke;

COMEDY AT THE CENTURY CASINO

LB'S PUB Abusin`The Blues (blues); 9pm; No minors

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Jake Buckley (blues/

CAFE BLACKBIRD Winnie

Rodriguez (folk); 8pm (show); $55-$100

featuring Breezy Brian Gregg with Geri Rae Harris; Every Fri, 5-9pm

9910 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALBERTA LEGISLATURE GROUNDS 10800-97 Ave 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 BORDEN PARK 7507 Borden Park Road BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca

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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 RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 ROCK 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 SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St, 780.431.0091, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752,

sherlockshospitality.com 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

DJs

$31-$35

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee; Every Fri; Wooftop: DJ Remo & Guests; Underdog:

GAS PUMP Saturday Jam;

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

3-7pm LB'S PUB The Carnival

Sons (rock/pop/indie); 9pm; No minors LEAF BAR AND GRILL Live

music; 9:30pm MERCURY ROOM

Apprentice (alternative/ metal) with Storm Horizon, Valyria and Tales Of The Tomb; 8pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door) MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local

Bands every Sat; this week: Campfire Hero's NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Soul Saturday Brunch: Souls in Rhythm; 12:30pm; No cover NEW WEST HOTEL Early:

Saturday Country Jam (country); Every Sat, 3pm • Later : Sonny & the Hurricanes; 9pm ON THE ROCKS Live

music; 9pm RENDEZVOUS PUB

Crashing Lights, Perception Of Pain; 8pm (doors) ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE East Coast

Artzy Flowz: featuring DJs and artists teaming up; 9pm

Kitchen Party featuring Derina Harvey (celtic/ folk/rock) with DJ Wicked Wayne; 6pm; $10 (show), $40 (dinner and show)

VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

Electric Fridays; Every Fri, 9pm; No minors Y AFTERHOURS Freedom

Fridays

SAT SEP 3 9910 Shout Out Out Out

Out Weekend with guests; 9pm; $20 (adv) THE ALMANAC Astral

Swans (alternative/folk/ pop) with guests; 9pm; $10 (adv) APEX CASINO The Red

Hotz; 9pm

Zayas; 9pm BOHEMIA Trizzy Artzy

presents Artz N Beatz; 9pm; $5; 18+ only BORDEN PARK Sonic Boom 2016: featuring Halsey, Vance Joy, The Royal Foundry, Wildlife, Wintersleep and many more; $99.50-$229.50 BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB Live music; Every

Sat; Free BOURBON ROOM Live

music each week with a different band each week; 9pm CAFE BLACKBIRD The Trio;

8pm; $10 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK

Live music; 9pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON The

Whiskey Boyz (rock); 9pm CASK AND BARREL Vissia;

4-6pm; Free DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY

Doug Stroud (country/ pop/rock); 9pm DV8 The Cadavor Dog

with Swill City and Suicide Helpline (metal/ hard rock/punk); 8pm; No minors FESTIVAL PLACE A Night

of Motown; 7:30-9:30pm;

Saturdays

SUN SEP 4 BLUES ON WHYTE Alex

Zayas; 9pm BORDEN PARK Sonic Boom 2016: featuring Halsey, Vance Joy, The Royal Foundry, Wildlife, Wintersleep and many more; $99.50-$229.50 DANCE CODE STUDIO

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 McGowan Family

Band with Weight (rock/ pop/indie); 8pm; $5 (door); No minors EDMONTON QUEEN RIVERBOAT Return of

with guests; 7pm; $10 (adv), $14 (door)

RED PIANO BAR Swingin'

BLUES ON WHYTE The Good The Bad The Blues; 9pm

Mondays; 8-11pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Monday Jam with $4 Bill; Every Mon, 8-11pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Open Mic Night hosted

SUMMER WAVE

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

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

SEP/4

MRG CONCERTS, FOURCE ENTERTAINMENT & MODIFIED GHOST PRESENT

TUE SEP 6

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Mother

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE RetroActive Radio: With LL

Cool Joe TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic

BLUES ON WHYTE Tia

Brazda; 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 TueFri, 5-8pm FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle

GAS PUMP Karaoke;

9:30pm KELLY'S PUB Open Stage: featuring host Naomi Carmack and guest; 9pm; No cover

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE

Mikey Wong and his lineup of guest DJs

Symphony in the City featuring Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (big band/classical); 5pm; No cover

every Sun; 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Live

music; 9pm RENDEZVOUS PUB

Absinthe From Society, On The Frontline, Beneath The HeadSpace; 8pm (doors) RICHARD'S PUB Mark Ammar's Sunday Sessions Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm SANDS INN & SUITES Open

DJs

Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE The

Main Floor: DJ Chris Bruce spins Britpop/Punk/ Garage/Indie; Every Sat; Wooftop: Sound It Up! with DJ Sonny Grimezz spinning classic Hip-Hop and Reggae; 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 THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with Wright & Wong, Dane EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN & TEQUILA BAR

Tonight We Dance with DJ Thomas Culture playing Classics, Hip-Hop, Dance and Indie Rock; Every Sat, 9pm; No cover

Sunday Happening Jam featuring The Todd James Band; 4pm STARLITE ROOM Devin Townsend Project with Fallujah and guests; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $29.50; 18+ only

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

Psyturdays: various DJs; 9pm

Celtic jam every Tue; 9:30pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

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

SEP/17 SEP/19

TAVERN ON WHYTE

Karaoke; 9pm TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY Live music

Wednesday's; Every Wed

DJs

SEP/20

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Chris Bruce spins Britpop/Punk/ Garage/Indie; Every Tue

ON THE ROCKS Turn't Up

Tuesday

WED SEP 7 THE ALMANAC Son Of

Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee;

Every Wed

NOTHING BUT THIEVES TIMBRE CONCERTS AND STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

JUNIOR BOYS STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

CASTLE LIVE NATION.COM PRESENTS

THE DANDY WARHOLS W/ GUESTS

SEP/23 SOLD OUT

THE STARLITE ROOM PRESENTS

SEP/24

UBK PRESENTS

BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

DJs

ONES TO WATCH PRESENTS

W/ TEKARRA, & DEMISE

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Rock n' Roll Jam with Gator & Friends; 7:30pm

PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION

W/ EGYPTRIXX, BORYS

Karaoke Wednesday RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

W/ CIVIL TWILIGHT, THE WRECKS

MILLENCOLIN W/ SUCH GOLD

ALL OUR BASS BELONG TO YOU FEATURING KRNE, IVY LAB, GREAZUS, DIV/DIV

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.

PINT DOWNTOWN Wild

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

Dave (alternative/blues)

SEP/9

Every Sun

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

CHIXDIGGIT

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

MON SEP 5

SEP/10

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop: Metal Mondays

with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

FORESTER CD RELEASE

W/ THE UNFORTUNATES, WORST DAYS DOWN, DUSTY TUCKER

BLUES ON WHYTE Tia

Brazda; 9pm

SEP/16

FIDDLER'S ROOST Open

Stage; 7-11pm

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET W/ THE BLAME ITS & MORE

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

Happy Hour featuring Elk Run Riot; 5:30pm

Saturday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice; 9pm-2am

music; 9pm O’BYRNE’S Guinness

SEP/16

THE PROVINCIAL PUB

Main Floor: DJ Late Fee;

DJs Velix and Suco; every Sat

THE PROVINCIAL PUB

NEW WEST HOTEL Live

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

DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT

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

music; 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Classic Rock Monday

Wong every Sat

Happy Hour featuring Dylan Greenhough; 5:30pm

DJs

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE Rotating

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

Happy Hour featuring Joe Nolan; 5:30pm • Big Dreamer Jam featuring Carrie Day; 8pm

SEP/10

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Bingo! Tuesdays

MERCURY ROOM Van Halst

Mike "The Party Hog" (blues/rock); 9pm

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

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Filthy

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Jake Buckley (blues/

O’BYRNE’S Open mic

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE

W/ YOUNG $TEELO, EVRLOVE MUSIC, MOURAINÉ & MOTO

W/ FALLUJAH & GUESTS

GAS PUMP Karaoke;

9:30pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Live

Sacrilege Sundays: All metal all day

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Cluckin’ Wednesdays

Jam Circle; 7:3011:30pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

country/folk); 9pm

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

SEP/2 ALL AGES

DJs

SHERLOCK HOLMES–

(hard rock/metal) with Six String Loaded and Juliet Ruin; 8pm; $10 (adv/door)

BOURBON ROOM Acoustic singer songwriter jam; Every Wed, 8pm

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

by Adam Holm; Every Mon

DOWNTOWN Adam Holm (folk/pop); 9pm

CHURCHILL SQUARE

BLUES ON WHYTE Alex

Y AFTERHOURS Release

Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge

Jason Greeley; 9pm

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Mallory Chipman Band; 8:3010:30pm; $15

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am

Alfie Zappacosta; 9pm; $20

Classical

Hair of the Dog: featuring Lonesome Dove (country/ rock); live acoustic music every Sat; 4-6pm; no cover

Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

the Edmonton Queen: Featuring Tenement (pop/ punk/rock) with Altameda, Black Thumb and more; 3pm; $20 (adv)

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

SEP/22

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

THE DIRTY NIL W/ GUESTS

NEW WEST HOTEL Live

music; 9pm

SEP/24

ON THE ROCKS Killer

Karaoke Monday PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild

STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS

THE BRAINS W/ KMAN & THE 45S

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

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

(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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS GREEN DRINKS: SUSTAINABILITY ON CAMPUS • Yellowhead Brewery, 10229-105 St NW • greendrinksyeg@gmail.com • Kicking off the Green Drinks season back-to-school style.

Featured guests include University of Alberta's Office of Sustainability, MacEwan University's Office of Sustainability, The Producer and Associate Producer of the hit Edmonton documentary series Sustainable Me and more • Sep 7, 7-10pm • Tickets available at Eventbrite

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, 10729-104 COMEDY AZUCAR SUPPER CLUB COMEDY NIGHT • 13062-50 St • With a comedian from LA as the headliner and Brent Ehtun opening • Sep 14, 7:30pm • $5

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

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

out what they never taught you in sex ed • Sep 14, 7-9pm • Free

LOTUS QIGONG • SAGE downtown 15 Sir Win-

NERD NITE #28 • The Needle Vinyl Tavern,

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

10524 Jasper Ave • edmonton.nerdnite.com • Featuring nerdy presentations with food and drinks. Lectures include: "Smart polymers & you: better sensors, stronger muscles, and more effective drugs" by Dr. Michael Serpe, "Culture, body mods, and the stories we inscribe into our flesh" by Dr. Katie Biittner, "‘Don’t be nervous, but the whole country is watching…’ Confessions of an Olympic Broadcaster" by Mark Connolly • Sep 21, 8pm (show), $20 (adv), $25 (door - if available); 18+ only

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)

Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Bob Angeli; Sep 2-3 • Danny Acappella; Sep 9-10

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM •

3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

780.483.5999 • Mike Dambra; Sep 1, Sep 4 • T.J. Miller; Sep 2-3 • Mike Dambra; Sep 4 • Quinn Dahle; Sep 7-11

INTRODUCTION TO FERTILITY AWARENESS • ASAC, 7219-106 St (Side Door) • Find

PAULA SIMONS: DIGITAL DISRUPTION AND THE DISCOURSE OF DEMOCRACY •

OPEN DOOR COMIC CREATOR MEETINGS

and show with Andrew Albert and Scott Belford co-headlining • Sep 23, 7pm (dinner), 9pm (show) • Tickets available at YEGLive

• 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

Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • epl.ca/speakerseries • With a knack for getting to the heart of the story, Paula will share how the world of journalism has and is evolving, especially in the midst of our social media revolution, and how these two worlds converge • Sep 15, 7-8:30pm

CONNIE'S COMEDY PRESENTS THE DATING GAME • On the Rocks, 11743 Jasper

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

WOMEN GROW NETWORKING SERIES

CONNIE'S COMEDY COMES TO MOONSHINERS • 5202-50 St, Stony Plain • Dinner

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 Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

BABES IN ARMS • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave

• A casual parent group • Every Fri, 10am-12pm

DEEPSOUL.CA • 780.217.2464; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages

DROP-IN D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • An epic adventure featuring a variety of pre-made characters, characters that guests can make on their own, or one that has already been started.

Each night will be a single campaign that fits in a larger story arc. For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue, 7pm • $5

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD • Avonmore United Church Bsmt, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue ea month, 7:30pm

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 10728-124 St • 780.718.7133

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

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 1022597 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

• St. Albert Rugby Club, 51 Riel Dr • lisette. womengrow@gmail.com • universe.com/events/ edmonton-women-grow-signature-networkingevent-tickets-1FRCBS/edit • Connecting aspiring and current professionals in the cannabis industry • Sep 8, 7-9pm • $25 (adv), $35 (standard), $40 (door)

QUEER EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103

St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Mon: Drag Race in the White Room; 7pm • Wed: Monthly games night/trivia • Thu: Happy hour, 6-8pm; Karaoke, 7-12:30am • Fri: Flashback Friday with your favourite hits of the 80s/90s/2000s; rotating drag and burlesque events • Sat: Rotating DJs Velix and Suco • Sun: Weekly drag show, 10:30pm

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

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

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TOASTMASTERS • Chamber Toastmasters Club: 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 • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact vpm@norators.com, 780.807.4696, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until Jun, 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo. com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • 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

10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • pridecentreofedmonton.org • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7-9pm

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 • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

TEAM EDMONTON • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • Swimming: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • Water Polo: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • Yoga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • Taekwondo: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • Abs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:15-8:15pm • Dodgeball: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • Running: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am • Spin: Blitz Conditioning, 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 •

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SPECIAL EVENTS 2016 HARVEST OF THE PAST & HARVEST FOOD FESTIVAL • Ukrainian Cultural Hertiage Village, located 25 minutes or 50 km (30 miles) east of Edmonton along Highway 16, just 3 km (1.8 miles) east of Elk Island National Park • history.alberta.ca/ukrainianvillage • See the Village one last time for the season and witness an old-fashioned threshing bee complete with vintage farm equipment and grain deliveries to the historic elevator • Sep 11, 9am-5pm • Regular admission

9TH ANNUAL KENYA RUN FOR WATER • Emily Murphy Park, 11904 Emily Murphy Park Rd • info@icchange.ca • icchange.ca/9th-annualkenya-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 CALLINGWOOD CORNFEST • Marketplace at Callingwood, 178 St & 69 Ave • info@callingwoodmarketplace.com • bit.ly/2b9MhST • A family event in Edmonton that raises funds for the Edmonton Firefighter’s Burn Treatment Society • Sep 10, 12-5pm • Free (corn is by donation and games, food and activities are ticketed. Tickets can be purchased at the ticket tent on-site)

DARK MATTERS • Telus World of Science, 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca • An 18+ event, where the science is served on the rocks & the adults come out to play. Exploring the science behind Science Fiction, fantasy, video games, & more • Sep 15, 7-10pm • $17 (adv), $23 (door + GST)

EDMONTON COMIC & ENTERTAINMENT EXPO • Edmonton Expo Centre, 7515-118 Ave • info@edmontonexpo.com • edmontonexpo.com • A three-day celebration of all things pop culture • Sep 23-25

EDMONTON PHOTO FAIR – PHOTOGRAPHIC SWAP MEET • Wingate Inn Edmonton West, 18220-110 Ave • Featuring a sale of camera equipment, both used and new.

Featuring film/digital camera, lenses, accessories, book, classic and antique camera • Sep 18, 10am-3pm • $3 (adult), free (kids)

FALL COMMUNITY CLOTHING SWAP 2016 • Variant Edition Comics & Culture, 10116-151 St NW • dleblanc@variantedmonton.com • An entire weekend of swapping. Attendees will donate items (CDs, DVDs, clothing, toys, etc) and find items for themselves • Sep 10-11

FALL FAMILY FESTIVAL • Devonian Botanical Garden • devonian.ualberta.ca • Fun, crafts and games for the whole family in the splendor of the fall Garden. Make your own fall-themed crafts together. Enjoy a beverage and bake a yummy apple by the Grebe Pond • Sep 11, 12:30-3:30pm • Regular admission

HARVEST FESTIVAL • Reynolds-Alberta Museum • history.alberta.ca/reynolds • The farm machinery is humming and the ovens are hot, so

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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

METAL ART SHOW AND SALE • ReynoldsAlberta Museum • history.alberta.ca/reynolds • Featuring artists who work primarily with metals.

The art will include: unique pieces composed primarily of carbon steel, stainless steel or Damascus steel, pieces created from recycled steel machinery, decorative yet functional tools (knives, etc.),novel toys and other whimsical items made primarily from steel • Sep 17-18

MULTI-CULTURAL CHILDREN'S FASHION SHOW (JOY OF MID-AUTUMN) • Castle Downs Par, 11520-153 Ave • 780.803.1678 • neba.ca • Reaching out to community and engaging families to participate in celebrating cultural diversity • Sep 4, 12-4pm • Free

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

STOP THE INJUSTICE DINNER AND AUCTION • Meridian Banquet Hall, 4820-76 Ave • 780.485.9995 • missionofmercy.ca/dinnerauction • Sep 9, 5:30-9:30pm • $45

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

TOUR OF ALBERTA • Various locations throughout Lethbridge to Edmonton • tourofalberta.ca • Sep 1-5

WESTERN CANADA FASHION WEEK • Arts Barns • sandrawcfw@gmail.com • westerncanadafashionweek.com • A nationally recognized fashion and design event • Sep 15-24

WHAT THE TRUCK?! • Churchill Square • team@whatthetruck.ca • whattheruck.ca • Sep 25, 2-7pm

YEG MARKET • 152 St and Stony Plain Road • yegmarket.com • Featuring a different theme each week. Included is fresh fruit, veggies, crafts and more • Ever Fri, 4-8pm, May 27-Sep 16 • Free

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Truth decay is in its early stages. If you take action soon, you can prevent a full-scale decomposition. But be forewarned: Things could get messy, especially if you intervene with the relentless candor and clarity that will be required for medicinal purification. So what do you think? Are you up for the struggle? I understand if you're not. I'll forgive you if you simply flee. But if you decide to work your cagey magic, here are some tips. 1. Compile your evidence with rigor. 2. As much as is humanly possible, put aside rancor.

Root your efforts in compassionate objectivity. 3. Even as you dig around in the unsightly facts, cherish the beautiful truths you'd like to replace them with.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you willing to lose at least some of your inhibitions? Are you curious to find out what it feels like to cavort like a wise wild child? If you want to fully cooperate with life's plans, you will need to consider those courses of action. I am hoping that you'll accept the dare, of course. I suspect you will thrive as you explore the pleasures of playful audacity and whimsical courage and effervescent experiments. So be blithe, Taurus! Be exuberant! Be open to the hypothesis that opening to jaunty and jovial possibilities is the single most intelligent thing you can do right now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What's the current status of your relationship with your feet? Have you been cultivating and cherishing your connection with the earth below you? The reason I ask, Gemini, is that right now it's especially important for you to enjoy intimacy with gravity, roots, and foundations. Whatever leads you down and deeper will be a source of good fortune. Feeling grounded will provide you with an aptitude for practical magic.

Consider the possibilities of going barefoot, getting a foot massage, or buying a new shoes that are both beautiful and comfortable.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A woman in the final stages of giving birth may experience acute discomfort. But once her infant spills out into the world, her distress can transform into bliss. I don't foresee quite so dramatic a shift for you, Cancerian. But the transition you undergo could have similar elements: from uncertainty to grace; from agitation to relief; from constriction to spaciousness. To take maximum advantage of this blessing, don't hold onto the state you're leaving behind -- or the feelings it aroused in you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In one of my dreams last night, a Leo sensualist I know advised me to take smart pills and eat an en-

tire chocolate cheesecake before writing my next Leo horoscope.

In another dream, my Leo friend Erica suggested that I compose your horoscope while attending an orgy where all the participants were brilliant physicists, musicians, and poets. In a third dream, my old teacher Rudolf (also a Leo) said I should create the Leo horoscope as I sunbathed on a beach in Maui while being massaged by two sexy geniuses.

Here's how I interpret my dreams: In the coming days, you can literally increase your intelligence by indulging in luxurious comforts and sensory delights.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Play a joke on your nervous anxiety.

Leap off the ground or whirl in a circle five times as you shout, "I am made of love!" Learn the words and melody to a new song that lifts your mood whenever you sing it. Visualize yourself going on an adventure that will amplify your courage and surprise your heart. Make a bold promise to yourself, and acquire an evocative object that will symbolize your intention to fulfill that promise. Ask yourself a soul-shaking question you haven't been wise enough to investigate before now.

Go to a wide-open space, spread your arms out in a greeting to the sky, and pray for a vision of your next big goal.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The Illuminati do not want you to receive the prophecy I have prepared for you. Nor do the Overlords of the New World Order, the Church of the SubGenius, the Fake God that masquerades as the Real God, or the nagging little voice in the back of your head. So why am I going ahead and divulging this oracle anyway? Because I love you. My loyalty is to you, not those shadowy powers. Therefore, I am pleased to inform you that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to evade, ignore, undermine, or rebel against controlling influences that aren't in alignment with your soul's goals.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The dictionary says that the verb "to schmooze" means to chat with people in order to promote oneself or make a social connection that may prove to be advantageous. But that definition puts a selfish spin on an activity that can, at least sometimes, be carried out with artful integrity.

Your assignment in the coming weeks is to perform this noble version of schmoozing. If you are offering a product or service that is beautiful or useful or both, I hope you will boost its presence and influence with the power of your good listening skills and smart conversations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you are attuned with the cosmic rhythms in the coming weeks, you

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will be a source of teaching and leadership. Allies will feel fertilized by your creative vigor. You'll stimulate team spirit with your savvy appeals to group solidarity.

If anyone can revive droopy procrastinators and demonstrate the catalytic power of gratitude, it'll be you. Have you heard enough good news, Sagittarius, or can you absorb more? I expect that you'll inspire interesting expressions of harmony that will replace contrived versions of togetherness.

And every blessing you bestow will expand your capacity for attracting favors you can really use.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The fictional character known as Superman has one prominent vulnerability: the mineral kryptonite. When he's near this stuff, it weakens his superpowers and may cause other problems. I think we all have our own versions of kryptonite, even if they're metaphorical. For instance, my own superpowers tend to decline when I come into the presence of bad architecture, cheesy poetry, and off-pitch singing. How about you, Capricorn? What's your version of kryptonite? Whatever it is, I'm happy to let you know that you are currently less susceptible to its debilitating influences than usual. Why? Well, you have a sixth sense about how to avoid it. And even if it does draw near, you have in your repertoire some new tricks to keep it from sapping your strength.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It's quite possible you will receive seductive proposals in the coming weeks. You may also be invited to join your fortunes with potential collaborators who have almost fully awakened to your charms. I won't be surprised if you receive requests to share your talents, offer your advice, or bestow your largesse. You're a hot prospect, my dear. You're an attractive candidate. You appear to be ripe for the plucking. How should you respond? My advice is to be flattered and gratified, but also discerning. Just because an inquiry is exciting doesn't mean it's good for you. Choose carefully.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you like to become a master of intimacy? Can you imagine yourself handling the challenges of togetherness with the skill of a great artist and the wisdom of a love genius? If that prospect appeals to you, now would be a favorable time to up your game.

Here's a hot tip on how to porceed: You must cultivate two seemingly contradictory skills.

The first is the capacity to identify and nurture the best qualities in your beloved friend. The second is the ability to thrive on the fact that healthy relationships require you to periodically wrestle with each other's ignorance and immaturity. V

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22 Biter on the bayou 24 Get out of debt 25 Three-dimensional figures 27 Competes on eBay 29 “A Boy Named Sue” songwriter Silverstein 30 “F�r ___” (Beethoven dedication) 32 Misfortune 35 Do some drastic wardrobe reduction?

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8 Chef on cans 9 Actor Peter and TV producer Chuck, for two 10 Ready to drink 11 Pebbles Flintstone’s mom 12 Oozing 15 K-O combination?

17 Carried a balance 21 Trips for Uranus, e.g.

23 Narc’s weight 25 Mach 2 fliers, once 26 “Fancy meeting you here!”

28 Somewhat, in suffixes 30 “The Final Countdown” band 31 British version of Inc. 32 Olympic team game with a goalkeeper 33 Granular pasta 34 “Voice of Israel” author Abba 36 Sounding like a ceiling fan 37 ___ in “Oscar” 38 Buckle under pressure 42 Look through a window, maybe 43 “Kick-Ass” star Chloe Grace ___ 44 Kitchen unit 45 Fits of pique 46 Quarterback known for his active knee 47 “___ wouldn’t do that!”

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Sex on the prairies

Prairie Confessions aims to provide both education and healing

D

o you have a confession to make? Dr. Kim Tallbear wants to hear it. Along with her University of Alberta colleagues Kirsten Lindquist and Tracy Bear, she's collecting them for their upcoming show Prairie Confessions: A Little Sex on the Prairies.

Tallbear found the inspiration for the show in Austin, where she was professor of Anthropology and Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Texas.

She was in Austin from 2012 to 2015, and attended a show called Bedpost Confessions. At that point, her research and writing related to Indigenous peoples science, technology and environmental issues.

She later became interested in sexual studies, she says via email.

“In particular, I think decolonizing sexuality, and sex positivity

seriously its mission to do sex positivity work in a place that has historically been very conservative and sex negative,” she says.

Tallbear notes the grassroots protest movement, Cocks not Glocks, in which students are strapping dildos to their backpacks to protest the open carry law. Yes, in Texas, you can bring a gun to class, but sex toys are prohibited.

She's relieved to have moved away from the gun culture of Texas but notes that her new home province also has a reputation for being socially and sexually conservative.

She hopes to bring the conversations that BedPost Confessions inspired in Austin, to Alberta. In December of last year she produced Tipi Confessions with Lingquist and Bear. That show featured stories

and healing more broadly is key to curbing violence in our society,” she says, “in both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.”

Tallbear watched BedPost Confessions grow into a massively popular forum for people to express their authentic sexualities and to learn from each other.

“Sex education and sexual healing happen,” she says. “Couples say they come away able to be more open with one another about their sexual desires, needs, and fears. You can see moving testimonies on the Bedpost website of how this show promotes healing and sex positivity.” She also saw the potential of this storytelling/performance art to go beyond the personal and actually transform culture.

“The show in Austin Texas takes

of the sexual lives, thoughts, and desires of Indigenous people in Alberta. The response was overwhelming. Now they want to open up that same experience to Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.

Rather than simply repeat what’s been done in Austin, Tallbear wants the Alberta version to reflect the environment and culture in which it is based, hence the name Prairie Confessions.

The first show will launch during the Prairie Sexualities symposium put on by the University of Alberta and the University of Saskatchewan.

The show will include a variety of performance art forms including spoken word, burlesque, and comedy. If you have a story you would like to share, you can submit a proposal to tallbear@ualberta.ca. The

deadline for submissions is September 1, but if you’re not ready, there’s still time. There are plans to make it a regular event, three times a year.

“We’re happy to see a submission to hold in reserve for later shows.” she says. “We’re also happy to work with performers to give them feedback and help them cultivate their piece.”

If you’d like to see the first Prairie Confessions performance, you can catch it at Westbury Theatre on October 1. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmontonbased, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

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HOW CAN I HELP?

I have been seeing sex workers for 30 years, and I shudder to think how shitty my life would have been without them. Some have become friends, but I’ve appreciated all of them. Negative stereotypes about guys like me are not fair, but sex work does have its problems. Some clients (including females) are difficult—difficult clients aren’t typically violent; more often they’re inconsiderate and demanding. Clients need to understand that all people have limits and feelings, and money doesn’t change that. But what can we clients do to fight stupid, regressive, repressive laws that harm sex workers? not a john You can speak up, NAJ. The current line from prohibitionists— people who want sex work to remain illegal—is that all women who sell sex are victims and all men who buy sex are monsters. But talk to actual sex workers and you hear about considerate, regular clients who are kind, respectful, and sometimes personally helpful in unexpected ways. (A sex worker friend had a regular client who was a dentist; he did some expensive dental work for my uninsured friend— and he did it for free, not for trade.)

You also hear about clients who are threatening or violent—and how laws against sex work make it impossible for them to go to the police, making them more vulnerable to violence, exploitation, and abuse, not less.

There is a large and growing sex workers’ rights movement, NAJ, which Emily Bazelon wrote about in a terrific cover story for the New York Times Magazine (“Should Prostitution Be a Crime?” May 5, 2016). Bazelon spoke with scores of sex workers active in the growing and increasingly effective decriminalization movement. Amnesty International recently called for the full decriminalization of sex work,

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joining Human Rights Watch, the World Health Organization, and other large, mainstream health and human rights groups.

But there’s something missing from the movement to decriminalize sex work: clients like you, NAJ. Maggie McNeill, a sex worker, activist, and writer, wrote a blistering piece on her blog (“The Honest Courtesan”) about a recent undercover police operation in Seattle. Scores of men seeking to hire sex workers—the men ranged from surgeons to bus drivers to journalists—were arrested and subjected to ritualized public humiliation designed to discourage other men from paying for sex.

“These crusades do nothing but hurt the most vulnerable individuals on both sides of the transaction,” McNeill wrote. “The only way to stop this [is for] all of you clients out there get off of your duffs and fight.

Regular clients outnumber full-time whores by at least 60 to 1; gentlemen, I suggest you rethink your current silence, unless you want to be the next one with your name and picture splashed across newspapers, TV screens and websites.”

The legal risks and social stigma attached to buying sex doubtless leave some clients feeling like they can’t speak up and join the fight, and the much-touted “Nordic Model” is upping the legal stakes for buyers of sex.

(The Nordic Model makes buying sex illegal, not selling it. In theory, only clients are supposed to suffer, but in practice, the women are punished, too. Bazelon unpacks the harms of the Nordic Model in her story—please go read it.) But sex workers today, like

gays and lesbians not too long ago, are coming out in ever-greater numbers to fight for their rights in the face of potentially dire legal and social consequences.

Clients need to join the fight—or perhaps I should say clients need to rejoin the fight.

In The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution, which I read while I was away on vacation, author Faramerz Dabhoiwala writes about “Societies of Virtue” formed all over England in the late 17th century. Adulterers, fornicators, and Sabbath-breakers were persecuted by these groups, NAJ, but their campaigns against prostitutes were particularly vicious and

Male followers of loose women, soldiers of the guard, mobs of seamen—not altruists, but likely clients of the women they fought to defend.

And thanks to their efforts and the efforts of 18th-century sex workers who lawyered up, marched into court, and sued the pants off Society of Virtue members, by the middle of the 18th century, women could walk the streets without being arrested or harassed—even women known to be prostitutes.

I’m not suggesting that today’s clients form mobs and attack prohibitionists, cops, prosecutors, and their enablers in the media. But clients can and should be out there speaking up in defense of sex workers and themselves.

Sex workers are speaking up and fighting back—on Twitter and other socialmedia platforms, sometimes anonymously, but increasingly under their own names—and they’re staring down the stigma, the shame, and the law on their own. It’s time for their clients to join them in the fight.

Male followers of loose women, soldiers of the guard, mobs of seamen—not altruists, but likely clients of the women they fought to defend. indiscriminate; women were thrown in jail or publicly whipped for the crime of having a “lewd” appearance. The persecution of streetwalkers, brothel owners, and women guilty of “[walking] quietly about the street” went on for decades.

Then a beautiful thing happened.

“In the spring of 1711, a drive against ‘loose women and their male followers’ in Covent Garden was foiled when ‘the constables were dreadfully maimed, and one mortally wounded, by ruffians aided by 40 soldiers of the guards, who entered into a combination to protect the women,’” writes Dabhoiwala. “On another occasion in the East End, a crowd of over a thousand seamen mobbed the local magistrates and forcibly released a group of convicted prostitutes being sent to a house of correction.”

PARENTING GOALS

I’m a 26-year-old gay male, and I like to explore my feminine side by wearing female clothes. I have a boyfriend who likes to do the same thing, but he doesn’t have the courage to tell his parents that he’s gay and explores his feminine side by wearing female clothes. I want to adopt early schoolage boys and teach them that they can explore their feminine side by wearing female clothes. My question has two parts. First, in regard to my boyfriend, how can I encourage him to tell his parents he’s gay and wants to explore his feminine side by wearing female

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clothes? Second, in regard to adopting early school-age boys, how do I teach an early school-age boy that it’s okay for them to explore their feminine side by wearing female clothes and also teach them that they don’t have to be gay at the same time? dressing A future together Wear whatever you like, DAFT, but please don’t adopt any children— boys or otherwise, early school-age or newborn, not now, probably not ever.

Because a father who pushes his son into a dress is just as abusive and unfit as one who forbids his son to wear a dress. You two don’t need kids, DAFT, you need a therapist who can help your boyfriend with his issues (the closet, not wearing female clothes) and help you with yours (your extremely odd and potentially damaging ideas about parenting, not wearing female clothes).

Before I sign off: a big thank you to the Dan Savages who filled in for me while I was on vacation—Dan Savage, Orlando-based sportswriter; Dan Savage, London-based theatrical marketing executive; and Dan Savage, Brooklyn-based designer. You guys did a great job!

And here’s something clients of sex workers can do without going public: The Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) is running a pilot program to help incarcerated sex workers. Send a book to an imprisoned sex worker, become a pen pal, or make a donation by going to SWOPbehindbars.org and clicking on “10 Ways to Help Incarcerated Sex Workers.” Non-clients are welcome to help, too!

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